riban
November 22, 2021, 8:10pm
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What a wonderful evening / afternoon / morning that was. We heard (a lot) from our very own Spanish correspondent on CNC adventures as well as…
Miles and pints may be the most (only?) important imperial measurements
CNC is tricky - maybe laser cutting is simpler
You can build things with CNC from Blender
How long is a piece of wire and how long does it take to turn on a light bulb? Apparently, energy doesn’t flow in wires
Keeping digital speakers awake - JV/C* Sin - Sine wave generator - only goes up to 20kHz but seems to do the job
How many people’s jobs are their hobbies?
Gliders just need a bit of string to fly them
Zynthian on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 seems okay without VNC - with VNC it ginds to a halt
We should embrace PEP8 - Black seems to help
Be more Pythonic - what does that even mean?
If you have to learn how to program Python properly then you may as well learn to program a proper programming language
Analogue is cool according to some people - are they deluded?
Work on a new Zynthian audio player is in progress but it is not a DAW - you can use a DAW on Zynthian with VNC if you want
The new (still in development) Zynthian mixer is intuitive according to some disinterested users
A Binatone game controller is being integrated in a modular rack:
Light pens were cool - if rather lame
Ornament and crime is some cool analogue thingy
You can get panels made for your Euro-rack modules at what some feel is quite acceptable price
Clandestine colluding can cause collective cancellation creating cracked coverage - there are no notes from last week’s meeting.
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le51
November 23, 2021, 8:46pm
564
Caution:
yeah ! and some talent too:
Look at this flight from France to Corsica and Italy and fly back through the Alps !
From the link above:
for those who are really interested, the pilot talk from that unbelievable flight here:
/offTopic
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wyleu
November 23, 2021, 11:53pm
565
You see, just a bit of string…
I heard some rumors in fact that rust was to be the chosen one for the API, It might just been the ravens outside my dungeon tho
riban
December 3, 2021, 7:55am
567
I think the rook soup has addled your mind. Either that or I have been excluded from those discussions! Still working on the high-level design of API. Implementation technology yet to be chosen.
riban
December 3, 2021, 10:23am
568
And talking of Zynth Club, what about a meeting next week? Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday would suit me.
Monday or Wednesday for me
riban
December 6, 2021, 3:39pm
570
Not many takers yet… Let’s make it Wednesday 8th December 2021 at 19:00 UTC.
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Last night, in the zynthclub, for reasons that are better left unexplained, I asked if there were any songs about Dunstable.
This morning, I found myself tidying a few things up and I came across a record I bought at a gig a few weeks before the pandemic kicked in.
And what do you know, one of the tunes on the record is called “Dunstable downs”
Now I realize that this isn’t necessarily the kind of edgy progressive synthesized EDM / bell ringing that normally appeals to the zynthclub crew, but the serendipity and the low number of YouTube views made me decide to share it with you anyway… I hope you enjoy “Dunstable downs”
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riban
December 9, 2021, 11:02am
572
Being stuck here without a hire vehicle, I have the “Dunstable Downs”!
wyleu
December 9, 2021, 11:20am
573
More importantly why and where are you standing in front of an organ type device that we need to see all the details of, or is this just evidence of Subtle Bedfordshire cross marketing…?
@riban a transport vulture has been sent . . . .
I wouldn’t trust it thou’
Nothing to do with Bedfordshire, I’m afraid…
It is a giant print of a photo I took, that hangs on my home office wall. The organ is in Tooting Granada Cinema, which is now a Bingo hall. (Better than a 'spoons)
Wurlitzer (Opus 1523)
It’s a hell of a device!
More details here :-
https://www.cinema-organs.org.uk/venues/granada-tooting/
If ever Zynthian needed a screen saver. I would submit this as one of the pictures
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Zynthclub Christmas party?
Monday 20th at 19:00 UTC?
@wyleu in a Christmas jumper?@riban dressed as an elf?
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riban
December 18, 2021, 6:47pm
576
Sounds bad for my 'elf
Let’s meet with a suitable tipple and nibble in our hands. Newcomers welcome - please DM me for details. Party dress optional.
riban
December 20, 2021, 3:58pm
577
Tonight’s the night… DM me if you want to join us and need details.
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riban
December 21, 2021, 7:09am
578
Festive felicitations from a fun-filled fantasia - at least that is how I remember it.
ZynthBox was discussed - some had tried it, others wanted some more visual temptation, e.g. pictures or videos to show what it is
More door bell news and other security tips like raining down rook soup from the ramparts onto suspected thieves
We have a picture of an umbrella thief - could this be the same person who made off with a micro SD card?
How do they fit more inside the same size SD cards and why didn’t they do it before?
What is a fader and what is volume?
We heard of a DIY Sampler based on ESP32
We heard of an ESP32 outputting video
If you have a M1 Apple device and some case burning a hole in your pocket you may like to look at a looper
If you need a framebuffer graphics toolkit then write your own .
Java vulnerability is spoiling some people’s Christmas
How interested will AI be in humans? (As interested as humans are with ants?)
South Park talks to Alexa - a memorable out-of-box experience
John Cleese guide to Alexa - I am going to give you a good thrashing!
If IT support refer to you as a, “power user” then you know they have had enough
How many parallel paths are required in a chain? We struggled to think of use case for more than 2
Physical acoustics design is an artform
How many floppy disks for an OS?
At least we don’t need to recompile the kernel each week
Black MIDI is a thing (sounds noisy to this old man)
Micro tuning is not playing out of tune
Which side of the Wallace Line are you?
Merry Christmas
[Edit] Ah yes! We also discussed using Oracle’s free tier to run your own Minecraft server .
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Ok, slight curve ball to start the new year… Tuesday 4th Jan at 19:00 UTC ?
I was going to say Monday, but I miss @Baggypants and @freeKey joining us and they don’t seem to on Mondays!!
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Correct. I don’t to on Mondays.
riban
December 30, 2021, 7:48pm
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Sure but I may be a little late - commuting.
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