“You can’t put new wine in old bottles” – so the saying goes. But you would if you’re a hacker stuck with a radio built in 2005, which looked like it was put together using technology from 1975.

Building radio receivers from scratch is still a popular project since it can be done largely with off-the-shelf discrete components and a wire long enough for the bands that the radio will receive.

Frédéric Meslin has created a new multitimbral FM Synthesiser Shield for Arduino that has been inspired by retro-consoles and has been designed for the creation of chiptune music, custom instruments ...