Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth

Does this guy make a living doing this kind of stuff? His results are always so high-level&#x2F;unique. It feels like he puts 100s of hours into the results.<p>I&#x27;m always so worried like &quot;corporate has their foot on my neck, I need to make sure I logged enough work to Jira and am showing enough sprint points worth of delivery week after week&quot;.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine just being &quot;free&quot; and getting to do what I want&#x2F;when I want&#x2F;at my own pace&#x2F;investing this level of time + effort + resources into passion projects...<p>I guess it&#x27;s not a super big investment money wise. Probably $100-$200 in prototyping materials. But how much time are we talking? A few hours a day&#x2F;night on average after work? For... years?

His volumetric candle is AMAZING <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitxela.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;candle" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mitxela.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;candle</a>

There is something very humorous about seeing these plugged into a hub that has each port labeled 10 Gig.

The macro zoom on the pads of his fingertips is so high that this video might be considered a security breach of his fingerprints! This could be worse than when people accidentally share a photo containing their house key!

The photo where you can see his fingerprint in high-resolution gave me a little pause.

So extensively detailed for a build report, but only very short sound demo? I also read it is basically producing a square wave only, so i&#x27;m having trouble recognizing this as a synthesizer, with no real synthesis, modulation, filter going on at all. More appropriately called a &quot;greeting card sound chip with USB-MIDI&quot;, won&#x27;t even categorize (as low-complexity as these are) as PSG.

Funny, but it&#x27;s not actually a synthesizer; or can it do something else than playing a square wave?

&gt; <i>I have one that only works in certain orientations, which is just so distressing and the opposite of what USB-C was supposed to be</i><p>The Nokia 2780 Flip has a USB-C charging port (… even though the box says Micro-USB) and it only works in one orientation.

I recommend red thermoset chip-glue for keeping those SMT connectors in place during double-sided reflow.

What a beautiful demo, very reminiscent of the sounds of the 8-bit microcomputer era.

&gt; USB-C extension cables are technically against the spec, but that doesn&#x27;t mean you can&#x27;t buy them and all kinds of other nonsensical cables and connectors. I have one that only works in certain orientations, which is just so distressing and the opposite of what USB-C was supposed to be, but it&#x27;ll do to give us power while I poke that SWIO pin with a probe<p>I loled so much there!!<p>Funny parts aside, that&#x27;s a wonderful design!<p>I wonder if it would be possible to do the same but with a small SoC running Linux, with wifi and&#x2F;or bluetooth, a LED and a buzzer so a bit like a smaller and simpler Pi Zero W that would fit inside a regular USB A? (like sandisk thumbdrive or some bluetooth dongles)<p>Oh and it would use usb-gadget to enumerate as a USB serial so you could either connect to it with picocom to actuate the LED and buzzer with AT commands <i>OR</i> through bluetooth SPP or ping!<p>Then you could have a wireless orchestra!