Punkwell Particle is a design for a mini keyboard and programming dock for use with the Waldorf Blofeld.
Originally designed as a miniture keyboard for use with laptops ( thanks to korg again for putting one into production hoho :) ) this design has been expanded specifically to the size of the blofeld, but can also be pulled out to use on any midi keyboard or rack.
Not entirely designed for performance use, the particle is ideally suited to programming sounds where you just want a few keys and pitch/modulations to test but without having to fire up a computer or hook up a larger keyboard, and would equally be useful to those programming sequencers non real time. The keys will also double up as an alphabetic keypad to help naming patches faster.

The Blofeld is funhouse of a synthesizer and is made by Waldorf Music GmbH - http://www.waldorfmusic.de

Beat Flare is design for a 16 step beat/noise sequencer based on the arduino and so is expandable into many forms. The unit will include a microphone and have basic 4 part pattern sequencing to allow instant composing of loops from captured audio or some basic built in waves. With midi output it will also double up as a useful step sequencer. At the moment I am weighing up the pro's and cons between tactile feedback using button switches and the speed of programming with touch sensitive input devices. Both would heavily influence the shape of the design ergonomics, which originally was going to be a simple stick with 8 or 16 rotatable edges running down it, and not at all like the mockup shown here.