Has anyone seen one of these before? Does anyone have a clue on how to build one?
http://www.gearlog.com/2008/11/hands_on_buddha_machine_2.php
The original box was made by the band FM3 who actually used them as their only instruments when they performed. I saw them once a couple of years ago in Copenhagen.
The used to sell the box from this web site :
http://www.fm3buddhamachine.com/
An alternative is the ones you can buy at dealextreme :
http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.jukebox
But the sound quality in those are not near the quality of the original FM3 box.
Building one your self would be rather difficult i think, but it coyuld maybe be done with some of the voice recorder IC's availabe. for instance: http://www.winbond.com/hq/enu
Playing detective here, without knowing anything about FM3... so the FM3 stands for "father mother 3"? The Chinese characters on the side of the box ([ch24859][ch29238][ch24859][ch27597][ch19977]) represent "love father love mother three."
That's interesting. I didn't know that.
Lots of info on this box here:-
http://createdigitalmusic.com/index.php?s=Buddha