On Sat, 2014-07-26 at 07:09 +0000, Kaza Kore wrote:
I believe MIDIbox/UCapps was the first open source DIY
MIDI controller
project I knew about personally anyway :)
http://www.ucapps.de/midibox_sid.html
MIDIbox SID V1
Created 2002/2003
So no, there were projects 20 years earlier. There was no Internet
available that time, so we payed for print media, but sharing free
circuit layouts and free open source code for MIDI projects was already
done when MIDI was introduced.