The Bootloader Paul Cutler and Tod Kurt

In this episode, Paul and Tod each share three interesting things from learn to solder kits to programming ARM in assembly and more. Visit TheBootloader.net for more information including detailed show notes and transcripts.

00:22 Meet the Maker: Carrie Sundra of Alpenglow Industries. (Paul #1)

1:29 SMT Garden - surface mount soldering kit

3:51 Building a synthesizer with the Daisy Seed from Electrosmith (Tod #1)

5:56 synthUX Academy classes on YouTube

8:08 Microdot web framework for MicroPython (Paul #2)

9:08 Programming for both CPython and CircuitPython or MicroPython

10:25 ARM Assembly Deep-dives by Carlynorama (Tod #2)

16:52 ARM Simulator in the browser

18:50 gcc and Clang compilers for ARM

19:20 Bambu Labs 3D printer follow-up from Episode 1 (Paul #3)

20:35 Bambu extends firmware support until 2027 and security updates until 2029

23:08 Let’s talk about Capacitive Touch Sensors and Sliders (Tod #3)

29:00 Tod’s Tindie Store

29:31 Wrap-up and visit TheBootloader.net for detailed show notes and transcripts

00:00 Welcome to The Bootloader

00:22 What are we excited about in CircuitPython 9?

00:56 jpegio and the Memento Camera



AdaBox 21 Unboxing Video


2:12 The one downside of JPEG vs. BMP or PNG

3:03 How Adafruit is innovating around the hardware and software

3:57 bitmapfilter image effects

4:28 USB Host

5:07 Keyboards on USB Host



Scott’s CircuitPython2024 blog post


7:12 MicroPython and merging its changes into CircuitPython


Split heap memory management

9:55 paralleldisplaybus


LilyGO microcontrollers
8x faster display using paralleldisplaybus for ESP32

12:13 CIRCUITPY on Android

13:28 ESP-IDF software development kit for Espressif microcontrollers


CircuitPython 9.0 moves from IDF v4.x to IDF v5
Potential for Bluetooth for ESP32-S3 chips

15:52 ConnectionManager and the CircuitPython community

18:04 Breaking changes in CircuitPython



display.show() deprecated
Mounting a filesystem requires an existing directory
CircuitPython now requires explicit socket port re-use. Use socket.setsockopt(pool.SOL_SOCKET, pool.SO_REUSEADDR, 1), as in CPython.

20:10 Thank you to everyone in the CircuitPython community who contributed to CircuitPython 9.0

20:43 The CircuitPython Community Weekly Meeting every Monday at 2pm EST in the Adafruit Discord

21:33 Thanks for listening!

Memento photo used under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license

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

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
6:15 Home Assistant
9:50 WithDiode.com and virtual breadboards
14:09 Hey, Github
17:40 Virtual Synthesizers - Turn Max patches into VST
22:48 Mastodon
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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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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 by Useful Sensors
13:38 GitHubCopilotInvestigation.com
19:18 CircuitPython’s ulab
23:57 MakerDeck
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