The Commodordion

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people recommend it as the work of an unusually creative artist-engineer whose whole channel is worth exploring.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

lftkryo

Topic

c64 musical instruments

Format

demo

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This dude's work is incredible. His entire YouTube channel is amazing. My personal recent favorite, The Commodordion: "A fully functional 8-bit accordion with bellows made out of floppy disks." Legend. [VIDEO]

• Always in awe of process people even when insolent. ;) In my experience, people who throw around the H word these days are the same lamers you get stuck beside in a plane for 8 hours... talking at you about bitcoin. Talented artists can learn …

• I've kind of done this, just without the actual "build" part—I instead use a Wooting computer keyboard (which has the hall effect switches you're referring to), and I've written some program to emit MIDI based on key velocity. I've been using it very frequently for …