Posts in 2024
  • Supercon 2024

    Monday, December 02, 2024 in Episodes

    Welcome to the latest episode! Paul and Tod discuss the recent Hackaday Supercon, including talks they enjoyed, the Supercon badge, and add-ons for the badge. Join our newsletter! Find out what Tod and Paul are up to and they share links to stories …

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  • Welcome Kevin Santo Cappuccio

    Monday, November 04, 2024 in Episodes

    Welcome to the show Welcome to our second guest, Kevin Santo Cappuccio, the creator of Jumperless. Join our newsletter! Keep up with the show and what Paul and Tod are up to. Visit The Bootloader’s newsletter page to browse the archives or …

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  • Welcome Liz Clark

    Monday, October 07, 2024 in Episodes

    Welcome to the show Welcome to our first guest, Liz Clark aka BlitzCityDIY. Liz, Paul, and Tod chat about a new iOS app from Adafruit, the new Raspberry Pi AI camera, maker skill trees, and more. Join our newsletter! Keep up with the show and what …

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  • From Arcade to Synth

    Monday, September 02, 2024 in Episodes

    Welcome to the show Welcome to a new episode! Paul and Tod recap the recent CircuitPython Day, chat about a new synth Kickstarter, arcades, a bug in the Raspberry Pi 2350, and Bambu Lab gets sued. Join our new newsletter We’ve started a new …

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  • Teardown 2024 with Debra Ansell

    Monday, August 05, 2024 in Episodes

    Welcome to the show 00:28 Teardown 2024 recap with Debra Ansell aka geekmomprojects Debra attended Teardown 2024 hosted by Crowd Supply in Portland, Oregon, June 21 - 23, 2024. Debra shares highlights from the conference and what made it special. …

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  • Four Topics and an Interview

    Monday, July 01, 2024 in Episodes

    Welcome to the show Full transcript available here. Level up at CircuitPython (Paul #1) Professor John Gallaugher of Boston College recently released two videos related to CircuitPython: The first is for how to migrate from using Mu in CircuitPython …

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  • Beautiful Bezier Curves

    Monday, June 03, 2024 in Episodes

    Welcome to the show Full transcript available here. 00:20 M5Stack Cardputer (Tod #1) M5Stack Cardputer ESP32-S3-based (WiFi & BLE) little ‘portable computer’ w/ display and keyboard in a little case But it also has: microphone, …

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  • Episode 8: Built from the ground up

    Monday, April 29, 2024 in Episodes

    Welcome Welcome to The Bootloader. In episode 8, Paul and Tod discuss learn to solder kits from Carrie Sundra of Alpenglow Industries, building a synthesizer, the Microdot web framework,learning to program ARM Assembly, a follow-up from the very …

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  • Episode 7: The CircuitPython 9 Release Show

    Friday, March 22, 2024 in Episodes

    Welcome Welcome to The Bootloader. We’re excited to return after an extended break. For episode 7, we dive into the just released CircuitPython 9 and discuss what we’re excited about and some of the new features. Full transcript available …

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Posts in 2022
  • Episode 6: Supersized for Supercon

    Monday, December 05, 2022 in Episodes

    Welcome Welcome to The Bootloader! This week we are doing something a little different. Tod recently attended Supercon and shares some of his favorite talks and presentations. Paul and Tod also share one interesting thing. Full transcript available …

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