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…

• 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…

• 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…

• SquishBox Gets a PCB

  Dec. 9, 2020, 5:58 a.m.
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  I sold out of my first batch of SquishBoxes, which I built by hand using standard perfboard, so I decided it was time to get a little more serious about…

• Introducing FluidPatcher

  May 1, 2020, 9:32 p.m.
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  I've been gradually separating the SquishBox software from the SquishBox hardware, and I've decided to give the software its own name: FluidPatcher. The SquishBox is still the hardware interface, but…

• Refactoring SquishBox Software

  Jan. 19, 2020, 8:51 p.m.
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  As I'm thinking about more features to add to the SquishBox code, I'm realizing it's gotten to the point that I need to refactor in order to keep things sane.…

• Selling First SquishBoxes

  Jan. 16, 2019, 7:10 p.m.
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  The Geek Funk Labs Tindie store is now live! I've built five complete units. I plan to build more, but this first batch will let me gauge the overall interest…