The summer of 2026 has come with it a number of MAJOR upgrades to CircuitPython which make it finally possible to play with POWER! Most important of those are bidirectional I2S audio, live audio streaming and USB audio. Thanks Tim! With the powers of a Pico, audio codec and preamp combined, we can finally use… Continue reading It’s finally time for the CircuitPython Guitar Pedal!
Category: Compooterz
Power, Preamps, Codecs, Oh My!
I’ve been doing a lot of work on the audio-side of things lately. I hope y’all don’t mind if I just dump some of that out here! A lot of this stems on my work on the Zero Stomp. I got pretty far with that concept, but I kept running into pitfalls caused by the… Continue reading Power, Preamps, Codecs, Oh My!
Fruitris! Tetris on the Adafruit Fruit Jam
I’ve been dearly enjoying my new Adafruit Fruit Jam CircuitPython-based mini computer running on the Raspberry Pi RP2350b. It’s been such a thrill to play around with all of the great tools out there on CircuitPython within a fully-featured device with a bunch of features. On top of that, it comes ready to support Fruit… Continue reading Fruitris! Tetris on the Adafruit Fruit Jam
Bluetooth Unicomp Model M
Sick of wires? Me too! I love my funky Unicomp Model M keyboard which I picked up at the closing sale of a Bed, Bath, & Beyond of all places. Even got a kitty cat and green keys to boot! After reorganizing my desk, the only thing holding me back was the PS/2 cable for… Continue reading Bluetooth Unicomp Model M
Interview with Paul Cutler
Woah! I was asked to talk with Paul Cutler of the CircuitPython Show about my experiences with electronics, music, and CircuitPython. It came out much better than I anticipated! Hope y’all enjoy. 🙂
The CircuitPython Show Discussion
I recently had the pleasure of being featured on the CircuitPython Show podcast, hosted by Paul Cutler. It was a pretty relaxing roundtable discussion with fellow pythonistas, Todd Kurt, Mark gambler, and Jeff epler. If you’re interested in the recent work I’ve been doing in that universe, take a listen!
Atari 2600 EEPROM Cartridge
Back at it again with all the EEPROM-related goofin’! I needed to order up a new batch of cartridges for Spider Web, the game I wrote for the Atari 2600. In the past, I had just used the standard Pixels Past cartridge but with hand soldered modifications to make it work for the EEPROM chips… Continue reading Atari 2600 EEPROM Cartridge
PicoPROM! A small, low-cost DIP-EEPROM programmer
New batch of nano SwinSIDb-Piggybacks available!
I’ve been bad, it’s true. I’ve had a load of extra bits floating around just waiting to built into cute little SID chips for what? Like over a year now?? It was finally time to fix this grave error. Using some new techniques I’ve picked up over the past few months, I buckled down and… Continue reading New batch of nano SwinSIDb-Piggybacks available!
C64 EEPROM Adapter
Recently got my hands on an old Commodore 64 with bad mask ROMs (kernal, basic, character, etc). Luckily, I’ve got a huge stash of AT28C64B EEPROMs from back when I was working on Atari cartridges! After some side-by-side comparisons with the original mask ROM pinouts (2364 & 2332), I decided it was best to create… Continue reading C64 EEPROM Adapter