Episode 439 with Elecia and Chris, back from the holiday break!

Chris and Elecia talk?about house maintenance, blinking LEDs, paper engineering and more.?

Cutting Mobius Strips Video:?Tadashi Tokieda cuts various combinations of loops and Mobius loops - with surprising results.

festi.info/boxes.py?generates boxes for laser cutting (or other SVG consuming device).?Boxes.py?is a python module that lets you programmatically generate the SVGs. (Github repo)

Amanda Ghassaei’s?Sugarcube?is a MIDI instrument using this?SparkFun button pad. We also talked about the?Mikroe 8800 Retro Click.

Elecia is taking?Paper Engineering with Kelli Anderson. Chris is taking songwriting courses from?School of Song.

The?transcript?from the show is now available, feel free to read, search and repost at your leisure.

Items of Interest

Want to learn a little more about the hardware, firmware and the underside of software?Here are excellent games to make that process a little less painful:

• Turing Complete shows how logic gates build up into useful pieces of a circuit or processor (https://turingcomplete.game/)
• TIS-100 on how assembly works (https://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/)
• Shenzhen IO shows circuit level design (https://www.zachtronics.com/shenzhen-io/)
• Also from Zachtronics, Last?Call BBS?has a mini game where you're making logic gates using metal, N/P type silicon, and vias (https://www.zachtronics.com/last-call-bbs/)
• The Human Resource Machine is about how processors work (https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine)

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