'The Raspberry Pi Zero series is the smallest version of the popular
single-board computer that most people have experience with, but
there's one Pi that's even smaller: the Raspberry Pi Pico. Launched in
January of 2021 for just $4, the Pico's RP2040 microcontroller
incorporates a pair of 133MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ CPU cores and 264
kilobytes (not megabytes) of memory. The low specs and low price make
it well-suited for single-purpose devices that don't need much
processing power instead of running general-purpose software like the
larger Pi boards.
To help support companies who want to use the Pico as a basis for
Internet-connected smart devices, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is
introducing a few new variants of the Pico today. The most notable,
the Raspberry Pi Pico W, adds built-in Wi-Fi connectivity to the board
while increasing the price from $4 to $6.'
-- source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/the-tiniest-raspberry-pi-gets-a-new…
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174 (office)
+64 (7) 577-5304 (home office)
https://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
Music/audio production tools commonly support plugins to augment their
capabilities. However, well-supported plugin architectures have mostly
been proprietary. For example, Steinberg’s VST2 is strictly controlled
via a proprietary licence. They are now promoting VST3, which is being
made available under the GPL, but their (mis)handling of the VST2→VST3
transition has left a bad taste in many developers’ mouths.
On Linux, you will likely heard of open-source plugin systems like
LADSPA, DSSI and LV2. And also JUCE and GMPI. Of these, LV2 seems like
the most popular, but developers report that it can be hard to get to
grips with.
Here is a backgrounder <https://lwn.net/Articles/890272/> by Alexandre
Prokoudine on the current state of play, leading up to the introduction
of Yet Another Plugin Standard, the “Clever Audio Plugin”, or “CLAP”
(fnarr-fnarr). He goes into more detail in the followup
<https://lwn.net/Articles/893048/>. And he has a bunch of more info on
his own site <https://librearts.org/2022/06/introducing-clap/>.
