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

• Seeed XIAO MIDI
• M5stack w/ speaker
• M5stack w/ MIDI in/out
• DIYElectroMusic articles
• SAM2695 datahsheet
• Tod demo on Adafruit Show-n-Tell

3:51 Supercollider and Supriya

• Supercollider synth engine
• Supriya Python API
• Supriya subreddit

5:47 The STM32 rant

12:18 A love letter to embedded engineering

• Prof. V. Hunter Adams’ November 2023 lecture, “Why I love building things with microcontrollers.”

16:10 Alternate music keyboard layouts

20:09 Spintronics

22:47 Wrap-up