Paul and Tod discuss drama in the world of 3D printing, oscilloscope music, inventory management for makers, and more.

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Show Notes

bamboozle: To deceive or dupe; hoodwink. synonym: deceive.

00:00 Welcome

00:14 Drama in the world of 3D printing

• Bambu Firmware Update Introducing New Authorization Control System
• The Verge coverage

8:36 Oscilloscope music

• Tutorials and how-to links
• Oscilloscope Music

13:00 ucritair

15:50 Buchla and friends

19:02 Inventory management for makers

22:14 Wrap-up

Happy New Year! Tod and Paul are back, each with three things to share. They discuss sunsetting a popular IDE, Tod’s favorite synth (which does so much more), 3D printing, pinball, and more.

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00:00 Welcome

00:19 Sunsetting Mu

3:23 The Synthstrom Deluge

9:11 Home Assistant Voice (Preview Edition)

12:13 The Sound of Logic: Klangorium

15:50 3D Printing News Round-up

• A 4D axis printer, where the nozzle can rotate.
• MobiPrint, a mobile 3D printer, without a bed. Hackaday YouTube
• Make a working PCB using a SLA printer’s UV light.
• The Lemontron 3D printer costs just over $400 to make yourself and is small enough to transport in an empty filament box. Hackaday and Tom’s Hardware
• PolyDye adds an ink jet toner cartridge to your 3D printer to allow printing in color. Hackaday
• PETFusion 2.0 launched a Kickstarter that fully funded in 3 hours to create a bottle recycler and custom 3D printer filament maker. It includes the STL files and bill of materials you need to build your own. STLs start at $39 up to $109 for a commercial license version.

19:18 Pinball!

• Pacific Pinball Museum
• Find machines near you with Pinballmap.com

23:01 Good-bye RadioFreeFedi.net

23:15 Wrap-up

Tod and Paul discuss the recent Hackaday Supercon. They share some of their favorite talks, the Supercon badge, and notable add-ons for the badge.

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00:00 Welcome

00:25 What is Supercon?

3:23 The Supercon badge

5:25 Supercon badge simple add-ons

6:44 The 2024 Supercon badge

7:16 Tod’s simple add-on, the touchwheel SAO

10:03 Conference talks overview

10:35 Giving Robotic Friends a Voice (Paul #1)

12:59 CircuitGraver (Tod #1)

15:17 Solving the Last Mile with 3D Printed Packaging (Paul #2)

18:10 In Living Color: A New World of Full Color PCBs (Tod #2)

19:27 Microcontrollers are Just Radios in Disguise

24:41 Notable Simple Add-Ons

29:28 Wrap-up