Paul has mic issues and Tod has a cold, but they’re here to discuss building your own Steam Machine, learning to sew, circuits and synths, and more.

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0:00 Intro

00:20 Build your own Steam Machine

• Building my own Steam Machine with Bazzite

• Reddit Guide to turn your Steam Machine into a console

• Interview with Jorge Castro about Bazzite and more

4:56 Learning to sew

• Learn To Sew - Sewing 101

• The Surprising Genius of Sewing Machines

9:06 CAD Round-up

• BREP.io, browser based CAD

• BREP.io project page

• GitHub repository

• Microcad

• Codeberg repo

• CadQuest

• Reddit announcement

11:03 Learn analog electronics by building synths

• “This drum sequencer breaks all the rules“

• Moritz Klein’s “For Beginners” playlist

• Moritz Klein’s DIY Drum Series“ playlist

• Moritz Klein’s Youtube channel

• Erica Synths DIY kits

14:57 The Indie Beat Radio and Television

• Remembering RadioFreeFedi

• The Indie Beat Radio

• Ways to watch The Indie Beat Television

• Bandwagon.fm

• The Indie Beat - Fediverse Radio - GNOME Shell Extensions and GitHub repository

• Follow The Indie Beat Television on Mastodon: @TIBtv@tv.theindiebeat.fm

17:51 act

• act

• video demo

• github hosted runners

22:40 Wrap-up

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In this episode, Tod and Paul discuss the recent Hackaday Supercon, including a talk and a workshop, Microsoft open sources Zork, the return of 80s style computer magazines, and more.

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• Supercon 2025

• YouTube playlist

• Jeff Geerling’s video review

• Using arduino-app-cli on Uno Q by Shawn Hymel

• Uno Q user manual

• Radxa X4 SBD w/ RP2040 MCU

• Covert Regional Communication with Meshtastic by Daryll Strauss

• Supercon 2025 Badge

• Solder Party Keebdeck

• Makerfabs ESP32 UWB

• Getting started with ESP32 UWB

• Build UWB Position system w/ ESP32 & Qorvo DWM3000

• Microsoft announcement

• Andrew Blotkin’s blog: Zork is now open source

• GitHub repository with source code

• Z-Machine for CircuitPython Guide

• Let’s Design an RP2040 Devboard! by Kai

• project github repo

• Hackaday discussion

• DocType magazine

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Liz Clark joins the show for a second time. Liz, Paul, and Tod each share two things they found interesting including remoting in to a Raspberry Pi, code as PCB design, an open source ereader, and more.

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00:00 Welcome

00:20 Stickers!

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00:31 Welcome Liz Clark

00:53 Raspberry Pi Connect

• Raspberry Pi Connect Documentation
• Raspberry Pi Connect

4:24 The Open Book Touch

8:39 Atopile

• atopile homepage
• atopile package repo
• Vibe-coding a PCB
• KiCad schematic design blocks

16:32 Midi Baby Gen 4

18:44 GameTank

• GameTank.zone
• CrowdSupply campaign
• GitHub repository
• Emulator
• Discord Server

21:49 Tiles from Bergsonne Labs

• About Tiles
• Tile Reference Sets
• Tile library

25:32 Wrap-up

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