Geek Funk Labs

This is a space for news about projects, ideas for future development, information that doesn't fit easily into documentation, and thoughts on technology, music, science, or whatever else I'm thinking about.

• Shipping the SquishBox

  March 30, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
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  SquishBox has an installation system now! It's a combination of Python packages for most of the actual software, Debian packages for system-level dependencies and configuration, and a shell script that…

• SquishBox Becomes a Platform

  Oct. 3, 2025, 11:13 p.m.
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  I've finished the main development phase of the new SquishBox Python package and its collection of apps, and I'm pretty happy with where it landed. The biggest goal of this…

• FluidPatcher Things

  April 7, 2025, 2:12 p.m.
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  I've started the software redesign by going in the opposite direction from SquishBox: instead of adding things, I'm taking things away. The first step has been to make FluidPatcher into…

• SquishBox Isn't a Synth

  March 17, 2025, 2:03 p.m.
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  As I tinker with the new PCB and tweak the code to get everything working with it, I've been thinking a lot about what the SquishBox actually is. For a…

• SquishBox Major Hardware Redesign

  Oct. 24, 2024, 7:55 p.m.
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  I've been working on another SquishBox PCB revision that's been cooking in my mind for a while. The basic idea started with something pretty mundane: I got tired of connecting…

• SquishBox Goes SMT

  May 7, 2023, 11:17 p.m.
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  I'm making another substantial revision to the SquishBox hardware, and this time I'm taking the opportunity to move from through-hole components to surface-mount technology. All of my SquishBox boards so…

• Taking Apart the Vortex

  Oct. 16, 2022, 10:46 p.m.
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  I decided to open up my Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 - partly because it needed cleaning, but mostly because I've been curious about what kind of hardware is actually inside…

• Knobcon 10

  Sept. 8, 2022, 5:01 p.m.
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  I'm heading to Knobcon for the first time this weekend, right next door in Chicago. No booth or anything (maybe next year?), just out to meet people, sit in some…

• FluidPatcher Lesson Videos

  Aug. 17, 2022, 11:08 p.m.
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  I've been posting a series of FluidPatcher tutorial videos on YouTube. They each cover different aspects of bank files, with lots of examples and explanations of FluidSynth and MIDI principles.…

• SquishBox Gets a New Body

  Dec. 15, 2021, 2:32 a.m.
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  The SquishBox is starting to evolve a little beyond its original guitar-stompbox-inspired design. The latest hardware revision makes a couple of changes that seem small individually, but together make the…