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

Welcome to a new episode! Tod and Paul chat about woodworking, MP3 players, a CircuitPython synthio tutorial, and more.

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00:00 Intro

00:12 Hyperwood

2:34 Synology NAS devices

7:27 TRMNL WiFi ePaper display

11:29 Rockbox 4.0

• Paul incorrectly stated 2022 as the year of the first Rockbox release. It’s 2002 and we regret the error.

13:02 CircuitPython synthio tutorial

16:05 mobygratis

18:13 Wrap-up

Andy Piper joins Tod and Paul and they discuss an open source laptop, 3D printing filament detection, synths, and more.

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00:00 Intro

00:59 Glance app

5:33 Soundfonts, General MIDI, and a ROMpler

11:55 OpenSpool and SpoolEase

15:39 MNT Pocket Reform

21:55 DIYR Design Lamps and Speaker

25:20 Podcast Later

28:22 Wrap-up

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Brent Rubell of Adafruit Industries joins Tod and Paul. They discuss the Wippersnapper IoT firmware, Arduino libraries, microcontrollers as mini-computers, and more.

00:00 Welcome

00:27 Wippersnapper’s new offline mode

• Wippersnapper Learn Guide

5:36 rp2040 speed update

• Hackster coverage

9:19 Microcontrollers as mini-computers

• [SlimeDeck[(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnwPmoWMGqk) *Adafruit Fruit Jam

14:14 Obsidian note taking app

17:44 Arduino library bots

• fosstodon.org/@arduinoLibs
• @ArduinoLibs.bsky.social
• Maintaner: @tobozo

20:48 3D Printed records

• Instructables page Amanda Ghassaei’s home page

26:01 Wrap-up

Paul and Tod discuss drama in the world of 3D printing, oscilloscope music, inventory management for makers, and more.

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Show Notes

bamboozle: To deceive or dupe; hoodwink. synonym: deceive.

00:00 Welcome

00:14 Drama in the world of 3D printing

• Bambu Firmware Update Introducing New Authorization Control System
• The Verge coverage

8:36 Oscilloscope music

• Tutorials and how-to links
• Oscilloscope Music

13:00 ucritair

15:50 Buchla and friends

19:02 Inventory management for makers

22:14 Wrap-up

Happy New Year! Tod and Paul are back, each with three things to share. They discuss sunsetting a popular IDE, Tod’s favorite synth (which does so much more), 3D printing, pinball, and more.

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00:00 Welcome

00:19 Sunsetting Mu

3:23 The Synthstrom Deluge

9:11 Home Assistant Voice (Preview Edition)

12:13 The Sound of Logic: Klangorium

15:50 3D Printing News Round-up

• A 4D axis printer, where the nozzle can rotate.
• MobiPrint, a mobile 3D printer, without a bed. Hackaday YouTube
• Make a working PCB using a SLA printer’s UV light.
• The Lemontron 3D printer costs just over $400 to make yourself and is small enough to transport in an empty filament box. Hackaday and Tom’s Hardware
• PolyDye adds an ink jet toner cartridge to your 3D printer to allow printing in color. Hackaday
• PETFusion 2.0 launched a Kickstarter that fully funded in 3 hours to create a bottle recycler and custom 3D printer filament maker. It includes the STL files and bill of materials you need to build your own. STLs start at $39 up to $109 for a commercial license version.

19:18 Pinball!

• Pacific Pinball Museum
• Find machines near you with Pinballmap.com

23:01 Good-bye RadioFreeFedi.net

23:15 Wrap-up