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First run sold out and will ship on Monday. I'll do 12 more in a couple weeks when parts come in again.

Thanks everyone for helping me raise funds for the next synth project! I'll keep you posted when it comes to life.

Folks on a game console collector forum I visit use these:
http://www.ambery.com/nttopalvisyc.html
and they're cheaper on eBay and other places.

Obviously I've not tested it, but it's known to work on old consoles.

Sadly PAL is not a trivial code change for video programmers. We literally have to time every line of pixels against a master frequency, and squeeze the rest of the program in between the lines. (that space is called a "VBLANK" in coding by-the-way!).

As the timing is different for NTSC, PAL and SECAM, that means a microsecond will destroy alignment, color or sometime not even show a picture at all.
Note the dents in my forehead next time you see me at a show.

This kit is actually a modification of the MIDIo kit that converts midi to ANSI art characters. As it's a hardware mod, I won't sell the kit version, and I'm really just using it to raise money to develop the next kit.

So, the hardware will not be a limited run, but this particular modification and software combo will be less than 20 units total including customs. Obviously, anyone getting custom logos will have a unique version. I usually change-up the audio processing algorithms on those a bit to fit the artwork, and no artwork has been re-used.

Check the first post...Built Bliptronome is still available. Anyone make me an offer..
before it goes to epay.

Bliptronome for sale : check the first post : edited
make me an offer!

Already in there! There's a visualizer mode that can just blow midi characters on the screen in real time with optional mirroring effects controlled by CCs.

An ansi -> midi tool is possible and probably easily written in processing or some such language, but it's not a perfect correlation. I had to squeeze out some of the less used characters and marry the foreground/background palettes, as ANSI is a larger data set than midi. The way I set it up, you'll pretty quickly memorize the character sets which makes drawing on the fly a bit less about translation & more about drawing.

I draw my design on graph paper, and just type the midi into a tracker line by line, like reading a book.