Yeah but is anyone there

this dynamic also plays out within Scandinavia. there's a hilarious thing in Sweden where people say things like "well, you know in Stockholm you don't *really* get winter"

It is definitely an American English thing but it is not new! It’s the past participle of ”get”. It’s from Middle English, but it got dropped in (most) British English some time ago. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gotten

this is almost as good as the Dutch word for "baseball", which I am overjoyed to reveal is "honkbal"

I posted this on /r/synthesizers, and hooo boy that was a treat

Performative now just means “doing something in public” and “liminal” is an empty swimming pool or something

yes I am an academic and this is what as known as "research"

In conclusion: my plan is to make one more iteration with a good PCB and enclosure for myself. I'll have to order a minimum number of PCBs, so that could be a chance to make some for sale. I'll need to track down more Gametraks though...and price is a whole other thread, I think!

but MOST important is the string controller. It is a salvaged thing, and Gametraks are increasingly difficult to find, especially the rev2 that are easier to hack. So any batch I make for sale would have to be *extremely* limited, which is too bad for both financial and gatekeeping reasons

Also, what about power sockets? Or USB power? I'm using barrel socket now, mainly because I feel like the little USB socket on the microcontroller is fairly fragile. But maybe USB is more standard nowadays, who knows. This kind of project forces me to think about what *other* people want 😅