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Blinking LED enthusiast. Lover of old technology. Won't leave anything with electronics alone. Tinkered enough with the Raspberry Pi Pico and the ISA bus to happen to make a retro sound card emulator (https://github.com/polpo/picogus).

Located in Colorado, USA

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Anyone into nuclear safety should listen to the last segment of Well There's Your Problem: a listener wrote in with a story of a minor safety incident at a nuclear plant, which resulted in a about 50 angry naked men trapped in a lunchroom, while a secretary makes an emergency trip to the Walmart to buy "all the underpants they have". 10 out of 10, no notes.

https://youtu.be/K4yCXIZ32lk

polpo ,
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@foone ahh I need to listen to this. It's my favorite podcast (with slides)!

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It'd be kinda fun to go dig into my endless camera roll of PCB pictures and build a random IC bot

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@foone my two most searched terms in my camera roll are "circuit board" and "cat"

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Happy Pride! Semi related, here is the giant Ikea rainbow pride bag that I’ve used to take all PicoGUS orders over to the post office.

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@foone that’s RIGHT

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In my abundant free time, I want to make a phone app optimized for taking photo or video of CRTs, with quick access to shutter speeds of 1/25, 1/29.97, 1/30, 1/50, 1/59.94, and 1/60 of a second. I've tried so many camera apps with manual settings and each one has annoyances or too many settings.

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I love 3D printing 🥰

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For the latest issue of Make Magazine, I wrote a feature article about #PicoGUS! The online version of the article is now up. Come read about my beginnings as a teenage #demoscene fan, how I was introduced to the GUS and how I decided to make an emulator for it so many years later. https://makezine.com/article/technology/computers-mobile/democratizing-the-demoscene-picogus-brings-the-90s-tracker-sound-to-the-masses/

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And I gotta say they did a great job making it look good in print.

The next page of the article.
The cover of the magazine, with the headline “Retro Tech: nee thrills from classic games & gear”. I’m pointing to the fallout for my article “Pi Pico PC Sound Card”. The cover has a clear Game Boy and tiny arcade machine.

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@foone and @h0ffman get shoutouts for inspiration in the article. And big thanks to @ishotjr for editing and sheperding my way, and @inversephase for making the all important social connection. 😁

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Hey. Do you want to order a #PicoGUS? Like RIGHT NOW? Joe's Computer Museum now has them in stock! https://jcm-1.com/product/picogus-v2/

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Why is the Bart diesel? Do they not have electricity in the bay area?

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@foone I think it’s funny that eBART is the part that is not electric despite the “e” prefix

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