Drop the beat - with guest John Park

About this episode

Tod and Paul welcome John Park to discuss floppy disk MIDI boomboxes, live-coding music, and mini-computers.

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. Follow the show on Mastodon or Bluesky . Show Notes 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 Enjoying the show? You can now sponsor the show, learn more at www.circuitpythonshow.com . Thank you for your support!

People in this episode

Hosts: Paul Cutler, Tod Kurt

Guest: John Park

Topics covered

• MIDI music
• live coding
• mini-computers
• vintage technology
• DIY electronics

Keywords

• MIDI
• boombox
• live coding
• RP2350
• vintage technology
• DIY

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Adafruit

Products: RP2350, Commodore 64, MIDI Blaster, MT-420, Roland MT-80S, Roland MT-300S, Yamaha MDP-10

Books & works: Supriya

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