Jonathan Venables · systems & infrastructure

off the clock

Curios.

The rest of this site is constraints, trade-offs and production systems. This page is the opposite: small things built purely for the fun of building them. No business case, no roadmap — just curiosity. It'll grow as I make more.

Musical toy · 2026

The Groovebox

Press play, pick a groove, and drag across a grid of glowing squares to make music. Every drum hit and every note is synthesised live in your browser with the Web Audio API — no libraries, no samples, nothing to install.

Go and make some noise →
Musical toy game · 2026

The PNGN‑1

A penguin lives inside an old sampler's oscilloscope screen, and the music is its weather. The machine plays by itself — warbly tape-worn ambient — and the desk of gear is yours to steer it, from deep drone to glitching chaos. Too still and its world freezes into stasis; too wild and the storm comes. Somewhere in between, the auroras.

Power it on →