John Park joins the show and shares how he started hosting shows, his pre-show preparation, some of his favorite memories and projects, and more.

00:00 Welcome

00:36 JP’s start with computers and electronics

3:59 MAKE: Television

• Make: Television - Complete Series : Make : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

10:47 Preparing for a show

• JP’s Workshop YouTube Playlist

16:54 Favorite CircuitPython memories

20:09 Favorite projects over the years

25:55 Favorite synthesizer

• Mutable Instruments: a (Brief) Retrospective
• MicroFreak

29:20 Which board?

30:36 Wrap-up

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Paul welcomes Michelle Hui and Reitwiec Shandilya, master’s students at Cornell Tech. They discuss their project, an open source medical device that helps mastectomy patients, that runs CircuitPython.

00:00 Intro

00:46 The Open Pressure Sensor Device

2:05 Overcoming the problem gaps

2:58 Partnering with clinicians

5:26 The hardware and firmware

8:13 Reverse engineering the proprietary device

13:48 The Open Source Hardware Association

20:09 What’s next for OpenPSD?

21:42 Wrap-up

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In this episode, Paul is joined by Sean Carolan. Sean shares how he used CoPilot with Claude Opus to create a Pac-Man clone in CircuitPython in just one day.

00:00 Intro

00:32 Sean’s start with computers

1:34 Choosing Pac-Man

2:30 Seeed Wio Terminal

4:04 Coding Pac-Man in CircuitPython

5:17 The game’s art assets

• The Spriters Resource
• Assets · Kenney

6:51 Re-creating the sounds of Pac-Man

8:29 Pac-Man on the Fruit Jam

• Port to Adafruit Fruit jam by relic-se · Pull Request #1 · scarolan/pac-wio

9:51 What worked well when using Claude Opus for Ai

12:50 The challenges in using AI

14:14 Recommendations for someone just starting to use AI to code

16:38 Learn more about Sean

• Sean Carolan’s Github Site
• Sean on LinkedIn

17:01 Which board?

18:36 Wrap-up

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