[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)
        
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       | 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.
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       | 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".
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       | 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...
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       | 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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