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the Doepfer A187 I returned immediately, it's barely usable. I got the OpenTheremin instead and I love it

https://vpme.de/zeroscope for the budget minded :) shameless plug, it's my product

and of course they couple could have shared access to each other's bank accounts

Nedit is still my go to text editor for programming

he did, at least a few years ago a former coworker worked with him in Paris at a French streaming provider or so

remember, with a broken camera mirror, you car won't even start ;)

BTW, the original motivation to write that code was a bug in an early version of the DSP chip, it would produce a loud "click" each time the MP3 data stream stopped or started. so …

MPEG layer 3 (MP3) differs from layers 1 and 2 in the fact that the frame data for a given audio frame can be spread out over several consecutive MP3 frames, that makes the stream …

nope, the MAS had MP3 decode fixed in ROM and while you could upload your own algo into the RAM and run it, that meant no MP3 decode at the same time :)

true, but as said below, I was a bit green at that time. what we did have was that we would remember a song not by its full path which could be like 256 bytes long, but by only 8 b…

I was more upset that Archos took our original design with a 4 line LCD and a rotary encoder and reduced it to a single line and U/D/L/R buttons - missing the whole point of "all" …

actually JB6000 was still USB 1.1 I think, only the JB Recorder would add USB2.0 speed

hey, that makes two of us :)

basically the "mp3 player engine" that was used by Archos (and a few other companies at that time, TerraTex M3PO, SSI NEO25/NEO35) was our first project out of high school, so the …

thanks :)

not in code, but I think I answered a few questions. there was also the fact that another MP3 player I was involved in, the Terratec M3PO had a feature to change the MP3 playback s…

the problem with global shuffle was that you could have a LOT of music on the device, thus for a global shuffle you would need to hold an index of ALL the music in memory, and I di…

I "caused" Rockbox, being the original firmware developer for the Archos Jukebox 6000. apparently the firmware I wrote was so bad around playlist handling and our CEO unwilling to …

because they are French. meaning that French patent laws allow for it.

a cheap dumbphone that retails for less than $20 has a BOM of around $5 and has CPU, battery and screen. so $20 retail for your cartridge is achievable in volume

what SF and bandwidth were you using for the range tests? what packet lengths?

868 MHz band in Europe

there will be also microcontrollers from ST incorporating LoRa soon

the overall verdict from Lora alliance members on Sigfox is that they are big on words but small on revenue or customers. add grain of salt