The Meat Synth

I built body-horror Croenberg inspired modular synthesizer for the October 2025 edition of AVJam Berlin!

I wanted to make something I could use as a movie-prop style synth to announce the industrial-hardcore band Batchass to the stage, with a “fake surgery” gag and weird animatronics.

Thanks to @steadycraftin @dan_does_craft @billmakingstuff and especially Ikkalebob for the inspiration! I used an existing eye movement animatronic walkthru from Instructables for the heavy lifting of animatronic design and some of the basic code stubs.

I demo’d this at the latest @avjamberlin at MotionLab Berlin, and there’s a link to the ESP32 joystick tutorial here: https://www.electronicwings.com/esp32/analog-joystick-interfacing-with-esp32