{"$schema":"https://ejfox.com/schema/page-twin@1.json","kind":"project","url":"https://ejfox.com/projects/amen-slicer","json_url":"https://ejfox.com/projects/amen-slicer.json","generator":"ejfox.com/json-twin@1","data":{"cacheVersion":"2026-10-11-drop-title-heading","sourceHash":"7652e227ac66606151a47e2a8195aa57f5fbed93472688f3f2b274bdb0bb9124","html":"<figure role=\"figure\" aria-label=\"Amen Slicer — running on the Game Boy Advance\" class=\"\">\n<img src=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/ejf/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto:good,w_1280/projects/amen-slicer/gameboy.png\" alt=\"Amen Slicer — running on the Game Boy Advance\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https://res.cloudinary.com/ejf/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto:good,w_640/projects/amen-slicer/gameboy.png 640w, https://res.cloudinary.com/ejf/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto:good,w_960/projects/amen-slicer/gameboy.png 960w, https://res.cloudinary.com/ejf/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto:good,w_1280/projects/amen-slicer/gameboy.png 1280w, https://res.cloudinary.com/ejf/image/upload/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto:good,w_1920/projects/amen-slicer/gameboy.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 92vw, (max-width: 768px) 85vw, 900px\" title=\"Amen Slicer — running on the Game Boy Advance\" width=\"1842\" height=\"1728\" style=\"--splay-rot:-0.6deg;\" data-dimensions=\"1842×1728\" class=\"img-full my-8 rounded-sm img-splay aspect-square w-full mx-auto py-4\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\">\n<figcaption class=\"\">Amen Slicer — running on the Game Boy Advance</figcaption>\n</figure>\n<p class=\"\">A breakbeat slicer / performance instrument for the Game Boy Advance — 13 amen flavors, sync-locked clock, live stutters/FX/crush, and a reactive generative visualizer. Butano/C++</p>\n<p class=\"\">I am SO stoked about this one. This is basically because I am getting my music table set up again — I have a Maschine+ and an FM synthesizer, and I just need a device that makes it easy to drop in, beat sync, and chop up amen breaks in time with the other music hardware.</p>\n<p class=\"\">I made one for the Game Boy (Miyoo Mini, really) to experiment with making my own Game Boy game utilities — or really, shaping the Miyoo Mini into my own dream piece of hacker music gear.</p>\n<p class=\"\">Plug in the Game Boy — the headphone port is a little janky but you can get it — then sync up the 1 from the Game Boy, pick a sample, chop it around while the other instruments happen.</p>\n<p class=\"\">I also made a Rust macOS amen slice breaker app that works with the 64-pad grid controller over MIDI, called amen-grid.</p>","title":"Amen Slicer","metadata":{"title":"Amen Slicer","date":"2026-07-28T05:00:00.000Z","category":"Hardware","featured":false,"draft":false,"url":"https://github.com/ejfox/amen-slicer","tech":["C++","Makefile","Python"],"tags":["hardware"],"words":186,"images":1,"imageDetails":{"total":1,"cloudinary":1,"withDimensions":0},"links":0,"codeBlocks":0,"headers":{},"toc":[],"type":"post"}},"_links":{"self":"https://ejfox.com/projects/amen-slicer.json","html":"https://ejfox.com/projects/amen-slicer","index":"/projects.json"}}