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Joe Button
Personal blog · joebutton.co.uk/blog · on HN as Joeboyhardwareprogramming
Joe Button's personal blog at joebutton.co.uk covers hardware and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Baremetal MIDI file player / LV2 synth host for the Raspberry Pi”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked once as an example of someone running "bare metal MIDI" on a Raspberry Pi, with LV2 plugins. The comment itself gives no judgment of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Website of Joe Button
Most-linked posts?
- Baremetal MIDI file player / LV2 synth host for the Raspberry Pi3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-01-22
What Hacker News says?
Since there's a nerdy rPi post at the top of HN, I'm going to take the opportunity to plug my new baremetal midi file player / lv2 audio plugin host: http://www.joebutton.co.uk/blog/baremetal-midi-lv2-raspberry... When I get time I want to connect up a MIDI keyboard and audio input, so it becomes a synth / guitar stompbox that'll use an open audio plugin format.
Comment linking /blog/baremetal-midi-lv2-raspberrypi/
on “Turning the Raspberry Pi Into an FM Transmitter”Submitted Baremetal MIDI file player / LV2 synth host for the Raspberry Pi as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Looking forward to your Show HN :) I can show you my latest forever project distraction / music-player project, which I just blogged this morning and am feeling quite pleased with: http://www.joebutton.co.uk/blog/baremetal-midi-lv2-raspberry... It's probably not the same kind of music player as graue's though.
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on “The joys of having a Forever Project”Submitted Baremetal MIDI file player / LV2 synth host for the Raspberry Pi as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: London, UK Remote: A mix of remote + onsite would be nice, could potentially settle for either Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Mostly Python, Django, Postgres, Git, Linux, bits of lots of other things including AWS (/CDK), JS, C, C++ etc. Also some video production, VFX, editing etc, DaVinci Resolve, Blender. Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joebutton/ Website: http://joebutton.co.uk Email: who…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2022)”Here's someone doing "bare metal MIDI" on their Pi. ( http://www.joebutton.co.uk/blog/baremetal-midi-lv2-raspberry... )
Comment linking /blog/baremetal-midi-lv2-raspberrypi/
on “What people use their Raspberry Pi's for”Here's my embedded MIDI/audio platform on the (ARM based) Raspberry Pi: http://www.joebutton.co.uk/blog/tags/baremetal-pi-audio/ I've neglected it lately but I'm currently picking it up again.
Comment linking /blog/tags/baremetal-pi-audio/
on “The stealthy industrial revolution already underway in open source hardware”