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

Supersized for Supercon

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 [https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/11/10/micropython-officially-becomes-part-of-the-arduino-ecosystem/]

6:15 Home Assistant [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D936T1Ze8-4]

9:50 WithDiode.com [https://withdiode.com/] and virtual breadboards

14:09 Hey, Github [https://githubnext.com/projects/hey-github]

17:40 Virtual Synthesizers - Turn Max patches into VST [https://cycling74.com/products/rnbo]

22:48 Mastodon

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Pandas and Breadboards

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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What's the Matter?

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 [https://usefulsensors.com/person-sensor/]by Useful Sensors

13:38 GitHubCopilotInvestigation.com [https://GitHubCopilotInvestigation.com]

19:18 CircuitPython’s ulab

23:57 MakerDeck [https://twitch.tv/makerdeck]

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The Middle is a Pumpkin

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.

PixelBlaze expression language (Tod #1) 1:45

 * Lux Lavalier [https://luxlavalier.com/code]
 * Created by the team of Jason Coon [https://twitter.com/jasoncoon_], Debra Ansell [https://twitter.com/@GeekMomProjects], Ben Hencke [https://twitter.com/ledmage]



Whisper OpenAI (Paul #1) 5:50

 * Blog post, paper and Google Colab example linked from their GitHub repository [https://github.com/openai/whisper]
 * From OpenAI, who developed Dall-E
 * Machine learning to transcribe and / or translate audio files



Music generation in the browser (Tod #2) 11:03

 * Tone.js in-browser synthesis (https://tonejs.github.io/), and examples using it, like:
 * Acid Hit [https://cdm.link/2022/09/free-acid-303-browser]
 * Strudel [https://loophole-letters.vercel.app/strudel]



PolyKeyboard (Paul #2) 16:41 (Paul #2)

 * Poly Keyboard with OLED keycaps) [https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-keyboard-with-oled-keycaps]
 * Keycap demo on Twitter [https://twitter.com/thpoll2/status/1573260216426430465]
 * Blog and Ko-Fi [https://ko-fi.com/polykb]



Samplebrain by Aphex Twin & Dave Griffiths 21:27 (Tod #3)

 * Samplebrain Homepage [https://thentrythis.org/projects/samplebrain/]
 * Samplebrain manual [https://gitlab.com/then-try-this/samplebrain/-/blob/main/docs/manual.md]
 * Download page [https://cdm.link/2022/09/free-sample-mashing-with-samplebrain-by-aphex-twin-and-dave-griffiths/]



Kevin McAleer and the Pikon 23:48 (Paul #3)

 * Pikon story on DigitalCameraWorld.com [https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/news/robot-builder-shares-raspberry-pi-pikon-high-quality-camera-in-3d-printed-casing]
 * Kevin's Homepage [http://www.kevsrobots.com/]Kevin's YouTube Channel
   [https://www.youtube.com/c/kevinmcaleer28/]
 * So many cool projects!Robots and more robots!
 * Pomodoro Pico W Desk Robot [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWg1xdmgE04]
 * Kevin's Pikon video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BEjKUK8DSQ]Blog post [http://www.kevsrobots.com/blog/pikon-camera.html]
 * Raspberry Pi News Story
   [https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/3d-printed-pikon-camera/]

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M is for Makers, Music, and Machine Learning

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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Rock Stars Are Just Like Us

Paul and Tod preview The Bootloader and share a fun fact.  The Bootloader is coming September 26th.

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