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Milkymist One

The Milkymist One is an experimental hardware appliance for live video effects.

The small 172x145x45mm device creates visualizations similar to those generated by the MilkDrop software, and enables you to mix them with live footage from a camera and interact using MIDI and DMX controllers.

The Milkymist One is programmable and customizable at many different levels.

The simplest way one can use a Milkymist One is by affecting MIDI controls to the existing snippets of code (called "patches") that create the effects. The Milkymist One ships with dozens of pre-existing patches.

Creating new patches can be done with a simple programming language based on the MilkDrop preset format. The Milkymist One device comes with a built-in editor.

Under the hood, the Milkymist One is like a mini-computer running our Flickernoise video synthesis software. It is open source and you are encouraged to improve it and submit your modifications.

But we are not stopping at open source software. As a matter of fact, when this project started in August 2007, one of the goals was to open up chip design. Inside the device, which was launched in September 2011, the Flickernoise software is actually running on an open source CPU part of our own system-on-chip. You are welcome to play with it.

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Unfortunately, Sharism has stopped operations, including manufacturing and selling Milkymist One. If you want one, you can:
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