[dorkbotpdx-blabber] cool chip for synth nerds

[jmejia at tffenterprises.com]

I just noticed that a once rare and sought after TI SN76477N 
synth/videogame soundfx chip is back on the market in case anyone is 
interested.

http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2008-12/complex-sound-generator-ic-back

The new datasheet has a lot of nice minimal examples for noisemaking 
stuff.

Aside from being a pretty easy to use synth on a chip, it's the core 
of some popular synth diy projects:
http://mypeoplepc.com/members/scottnoanh/birthofasynth/id22.html
http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32942

It's been used in some products like John Blacet's DSC synth module. 
(disco'd due to no chip avail.)
http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue7/chaos.html

Anyway I figured I'd share as there might be some on this list 
interested grabbing some of these things while they're available and 
$9 instead of however much they were on ebay for years. I don't know 
if it's back in production or if BCmicro just found a bunch.

If anyone else wants to order some let me know and we can split 
shipping.

-Jesse