In this episode, Tod and Paul welcome John Park to the show. They discuss a floppy disk MIDI boombox, live-coding music, RP2350 as a mini-computer, and more.

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00:00 Intro

• Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer, creator and maintainer of Supriya

00:54 Floppy Disk Midi Boomboxes (John #1)

• Vintage:
  • Roland MT-80S
  • Roland MT-300S
  • Yamaha MDP-10
• DIY:
  • MIDI Blaster by Luke.the.maker and build instructions and pre-built
  • MT-420 by Jonas Bengtson

9:04 AlgoRave (Tod #1)

• DJ_Dave:
  • Instagram reels:
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/DL0P-2WusOO/
    • https://www.instagram.com/p/DIKC6D6SpQM/
  • TikTok
  • YouTube livestreams
• Strudel
  • Originally mentioned in Bootloader Episode 2 back in Oct 2022
• Awesome livecoding list

14:00 The RP2350 Mini-Computers are here

• Adafruit Fruit Jam
• Olimex RP2350pc

18:39 CyberBricks

24:28 KiCad cli and diff viewer

• kicad-cli
• Tod’s visual diff shell script

28:56 Commodore 64 Ultimate

31:48 Wrap-up

Tod and Paul discuss a MIDI chip, an epic rant, a love letter, and more.

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00:00 Welcome

00:17 SAM2695 General MIDI chip

• Seeed XIAO MIDI
• M5stack w/ speaker
• M5stack w/ MIDI in/out
• DIYElectroMusic articles
• SAM2695 datahsheet
• Tod demo on Adafruit Show-n-Tell

3:51 Supercollider and Supriya

• Supercollider synth engine
• Supriya Python API
• Supriya subreddit

5:47 The STM32 rant

12:18 A love letter to embedded engineering

• Prof. V. Hunter Adams’ November 2023 lecture, “Why I love building things with microcontrollers.”

16:10 Alternate music keyboard layouts

20:09 Spintronics

22:47 Wrap-up

Paul and Tod discuss tariffs, desoldering tricks, a classic arcade game, and more.

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00:00 Welcome

00:17 Tarriffs are Bullshit

6:00 Desoldering Tricks

10:21 Philips Fixables

12:45 Resurrecting Sinistar

15:36 Kiwix

17:56 Euroknob

21:40 Wrap-up