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Paul and Tod chat about Professor Gallaugher’s CircuitPython tutorial videos, Embedded Swift, a special interview with Justin Myers, the author of the new CircuitPython ConnectionManager library, and more.

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Show Notes:

00:21 CircuitPython videos by Professor John Gallaugher

4:58 Embedded Swift

8:53 Accessibility Matters

11:55 CadQuery

16:47 Interview with Justin Myers, author of CircuitPython’s ConnectionManager library

In episode 9, Paul and Tod chat about the M5Stack Cardputer, RadioFreeFedi, migrating to Kicad, the CircuitPython Online IDE, and more.

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00:00 Welcome

00:20 The M5Stack Cardputer - Tod #1

2:10 CircuitPython build for the Cardputer

2:40 Available from Electromaker.io

4:29 RadioFreeFedi.net - Paul #1

5:57 FediVision

6:20 Bandcamp Friday / Faircamp Friday

6:48 Faircamp static site generator

8:19 Moving from Eagle to Kicad - Tod #2

9:55 PlumPot YouTube channel with Kicad tutorials

11:16 What is the most challenging part of the transition to Kicad?

13:35 What was a surprise in using Kicad?

15:31 Meet the Maker: André Costa and the Pico W Air - Paul #2

18:09 Algorithm videos by Freya Holmér - Tod #3

22: 53 Circuitpython-staroids game by todbot

23:16 CircuitPython Online IDE by River Wang - Paul #3

In this episode, Paul and Tod each share three interesting things from learn to solder kits to programming ARM in assembly and more. Visit TheBootloader.net for more information including detailed show notes and transcripts.

00:22 Meet the Maker: Carrie Sundra of Alpenglow Industries. (Paul #1)

1:29 SMT Garden - surface mount soldering kit

3:51 Building a synthesizer with the Daisy Seed from Electrosmith (Tod #1)

5:56 synthUX Academy classes on YouTube

8:08 Microdot web framework for MicroPython (Paul #2)

9:08 Programming for both CPython and CircuitPython or MicroPython

10:25 ARM Assembly Deep-dives by Carlynorama (Tod #2)

16:52 ARM Simulator in the browser

18:50 gcc and Clang compilers for ARM

19:20 Bambu Labs 3D printer follow-up from Episode 1 (Paul #3)

20:35 Bambu extends firmware support until 2027 and security updates until 2029

23:08 Let’s talk about Capacitive Touch Sensors and Sliders (Tod #3)

29:00 Tod’s Tindie Store

29:31 Wrap-up and visit TheBootloader.net for detailed show notes and transcripts

00:00 Welcome to The Bootloader

00:22 What are we excited about in CircuitPython 9?

00:56 jpegio and the Memento Camera

2:12 The one downside of JPEG vs. BMP or PNG

3:03 How Adafruit is innovating around the hardware and software

3:57 bitmapfilter image effects

4:28 USB Host

5:07 Keyboards on USB Host

7:12 MicroPython and merging its changes into CircuitPython

9:55 paralleldisplaybus

12:13 CIRCUITPY on Android

13:28 ESP-IDF software development kit for Espressif microcontrollers

15:52 ConnectionManager and the CircuitPython community

18:04 Breaking changes in CircuitPython

20:10 Thank you to everyone in the CircuitPython community who contributed to CircuitPython 9.0

20:43 The CircuitPython Community Weekly Meeting every Monday at 2pm EST in the Adafruit Discord

21:33 Thanks for listening!

Memento photo used under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license

Tod shares some of his favorite talks from the recent Supercon  conference in Pasadena, CA.  Paul and Tod each share one thing they  found interesting.  

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Show Notes

0:00 Welcome to the Supersize Supercon episode

3:17 The Supercon badge

8:02 DIY Vacuum Tubes by Nick Pool

10:31 Personal Electric Vehicles by Bradley Gawthrop

13:00 Samy Kamkar’s Random Walk Exploration

15:45 How to Hang and Sell Your Blinky Goodness as Art byChris Combs

18:15 Back in person

19:40 Python in the browser

22:00 Tod’s PicoStepSeq

Tod and Paul share a few interesting things including virtual breadboards, Hey Github, and creating virtual synthesizers.

00:00 Welcome

00:26 MicroPython by Arduino Labs

6:15 Home Assistant

9:50 WithDiode.com and virtual breadboards

14:09 Hey, Github

17:40 Virtual Synthesizers - Turn Max patches into VST

22:48 Mastodon

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In episode 4, Tod and Paul discuss macOS Ventura, the Matter smart home specification, video synths and more.

Show Notes:

00:22 macOS Ventura cannot copy UF2 files

2:37 Matter smart home specification

7:00 3D printing for good causes

10:00 Video Synthesizers

13:10 IO Rodeo’s Open Colorimeter

15:40 ffmpeg.guide

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In episode 3, Paul and Tod share news about boards, code editors, sensors, and something fun at the end.

0:15 RISC-V Arduino Chip

04:28 Code editors and JetBrains Fleet

09:35 Person Sensor by Useful Sensors

13:38 GitHubCopilotInvestigation.com

19:18 CircuitPython’s ulab

23:57 MakerDeck

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In episode 2, Paul and Tod talk about some makers and their cool projects, including the Lux Lavalier and Pikon; creating music in a web browser, and more.

• Lux Lavalier
• Created by the team of Jason Coon, Debra Ansell, Ben Hencke

• Blog post, paper and Google Colab example linked from their GitHub repository
• From OpenAI, who developed Dall-E
• Machine learning to transcribe and / or translate audio files

• Tone.js in-browser synthesis (https://tonejs.github.io/), and examples using it, like:
• Acid Hit
• Strudel

• Poly Keyboard with OLED keycaps)
• Keycap demo on Twitter
• Blog and Ko-Fi

• Samplebrain Homepage
• Samplebrain manual
• Download page

• Pikon story on DigitalCameraWorld.com
• Kevin's HomepageKevin's YouTube Channel
  
• So many cool projects!Robots and more robots!
• Pomodoro Pico W Desk Robot
• Kevin's Pikon videoBlog post
• Raspberry Pi News Story
  

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In this first episode, Paul and Tod each share a few things they found interesting.  They discuss open source projects including tio and Belay, 3D printing, and a rock star's Python project.

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• 00:23: Fullcontrol.xyz
• 02:11: tio
• 04:14: Belay
• 06:36: Rivers Cuomo
• 08:57: CircuitPython Camera Support
• 11:36: Bambu Labs X1 Carbon 3D printer review

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