Welcome Kevin Santo Cappuccio
Welcome and thanks for listening to The Bootloader. We've got some behind the scenes news, a short recap of the latest episode, and what Tod and Paul are up to.
Show Highlights
It was great having Kevin Santo Cappuccio on the show. The Jumperless is something I've been following for months and it was great to have a chance to talk to Kevin about it. He also shared the Arduino Uno Plus+ and evolvable computing, Tod shared Quake running on a SparkFun Matter board and a new synth class and tool for a workshop at the Chicago makerspace, Pumping Station One, and Paul shared Manyfold, a Fediverse file sharing and management web app for 3D printing and a now cancelled Kickstarter.
Behind the Scenes
There was a small bit of panic in preparing the show. We use Streamyard to record the audio and I (Paul) get a separate track for each speaker. But this episode, the recording for my voice never finished processing. At this point I had two single tracks and one blended MP3 track that would have been extremely difficult to edit. Streamyard's documentation and support wasn't any help, but I eventually found a buried setting in an alternate view of my content that let me re-process the upload and the recording was saved. Disaster averted!
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Leftover Links
A few things we found interesting that didn't make it into the show:
- Les Pounder of Tom's Hardware announced MakerAdvent 2024. Each day of Advent starting December 1st, a new video is posted with a small activity for makers of all levels.
- Arduino released a browser based web app for its MicroPython Editor.
- Touchscreens are Out, and Tactile Controls are Back.
- BBC Sound Effects archive, free for non-commercial use – some of the best recorded sounds from all over.
- HOME - Resonance but on MeowSynth – The synthwave/chillwave track "HOME - Resonance" is one of my (Tod's) favorites. And I just learned of a version done entirely with MeowSynth!
From the hosts
Paul
What I'm working on: I got my start in contributing to open source projects by writing documentation. Every once in a while I'll get the itch and come across a project that needs help with their documentation and I'll lend a hand. I've spent the last few weeks writing a user guide for Castopod, the Fediverse connected open source podcasting platform that I use for my podcasts. What's even better is that it was merged in just days after I sent in the pull request.
What I'm watching: Agatha All Along on Disney+. It really worked for me, right up until it didn't. I thought the show was delightful with its mystery and callbacks, but the finale episode left me wanting.
Tod
What I'm working on: With the destruction of Twitter, I'm going through my (now deleted) Twitter account, looking for CircuitPython / Arduino / synth hacks I only blogged about on Twitter from between 2020-2022. I'm updating them where appropriate and posting them on Mastodon and Github gist. The latest: a simple physics system in CircuitPython. And even though it's difficult to work through all the disillusionment of last week, I've been getting back in to KiCad and getting my "eight_by" (8-pots/8-buttons/8-LEDs) board finished up.
What I'm watching Also Agatha All Along. As Paul mentioned, it was pretty great over all but definitely needs another season. Alongside that we've been re-watching Killjoys. It's a lot of fun. Sci-fi, sorta like Firefly, with great characters, crazy situations, yet still pretty grounded. It's comfort food, in a way.
Coming Next Episode
Tod is back from Supercon 2024 and Paul peppers him with questions.
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