[HN Gopher] Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth
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Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth
 
Author : MaximilianEmel
Score  : 32 points
Date   : 2023-12-15 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago)
 
web link (mitxela.com)
w3m dump (mitxela.com)
 
| MuffinFlavored wrote:
| Does this guy make a living doing this kind of stuff? His results
| are always so high-level/unique. It feels like he puts 100s of
| hours into the results.
| 
| I'm always so worried like "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".
| 
| I can't imagine just being "free" and getting to do what I
| want/when I want/at my own pace/investing this level of time +
| effort + resources into passion projects...
| 
| I guess it'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/night on average after work? For...
| years?
 
  | NotSammyHagar wrote:
  | I'm not a hardware person, but I'd say he's living the dream
  | life. Hacking on stuff that he is having fun doing. Not many
  | people could get time off to do it, make a plan and execute it.
  | I love his snarky comments and that he's apparently running
  | some software tool from 1998 in wine on linux.
 
| ipalreadytaken wrote:
| There is something very humorous about seeing these plugged into
| a hub that has each port labeled 10 Gig.
 
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