Tod and Paul discuss a MIDI chip, an epic rant, a love letter, and more.
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00:00 Welcome
00:17 SAM2695 General MIDI chip
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.seeedstudio.com/XIAO-MIDI-Synthesizer-p-6462.html">Seeed XIAO MIDI</a></li>
<li><a href="https://shop.m5stack.com/products/midi-synthesizer-unit-sam2695">M5stack w/ speaker</a></li>
<li><a href="https://shop.m5stack.com/products/midi-unit-with-din-connector-sam2695">M5stack w/ MIDI in/out</a></li>
<li><a href="https://diyelectromusic.com/2025/06/26/xiao-esp32-c3-midi-synthesizer/">DIYElectroMusic articles</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.dream.fr/pdf/Serie2000/SAM_Datasheets/SAM2695.pdf">SAM2695 datahsheet</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/sQW1XVhu-iw?si=TsH9pujz_LLW6hGb&t=342">Tod demo on Adafruit Show-n-Tell</a></li>
</ul>
3:51 Supercollider and Supriya
<ul>
<li><a href="https://supercollider.github.io/">Supercollider synth engine</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dayunbao/supriya_demos">Supriya</a> Python API</li>
<li><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/supriya/">Supriya subreddit</a></li>
</ul>
5:47 The STM32 rant
12:18 A love letter to embedded engineering
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TFsfcIx04Q">Prof. V. Hunter Adams’ November 2023 lecture, “Why I love building things with microcontrollers.”</a></li>
</ul>
16:10 Alternate music keyboard layouts
20:09 <a href="https://upperstory.com/en/spintronics/">Spintronics</a>
22:47 Wrap-up

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