S03:E23

Drop the beat - with guest John Park

Aug 4, 2025

• 32min 10s

Episode description

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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Show Notes

00:00 Intro

Joséphine Wolf Oberholtzer, creator and maintainer of Supriya

00:54 Floppy Disk Midi Boomboxes (John #1)

Vintage:
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

18:39 CyberBricks

24:28 KiCad cli and diff viewer

28:56 Commodore 64 Ultimate

31:48 Wrap-up

0:00Welcome

0:54Floppy Disk MIDI Boomboxes

https://www.patreon.com/posts/midi-blaster-v1-126826036

9:03AlgoRave

https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding

14:00The RP2350 Mini-computers are here

https://www.olimex.com/Products/RaspberryPi/PICO/RP2350pc/open-source-hardware

18:39CyberBricks

https://us.store.bambulab.com/collections/cyberbrick

24:24kicad-cli and diff viewer

https://docs.kicad.org/9.0/en/cli/cli.html

20:09Spintronics

https://upperstory.com/en/spintronics/

28:56Commodore 64 Ultimate

https://www.commodore.net

31:48Wrap-up

Drop the beat - with guest John Park

Episode description

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Persons

John Park

Funding links for The Bootloader