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Maybe it is your first rodeo

RODEO is a carrier board for the Electrosmith Daisy and a chain of control satellites. Four ins, four outs, ten I/O connectors, and as many knobs as your panel has room for — without you drawing a single PCB. It runs on a battery and charges over USB-C, so what you build can leave the desk.

The first boards arrived on 28 October and they work: audio, MIDI, USB, the SD card and a satellite chain have all passed on real hardware since. Bring-up also found two faults, and they are written down beside the boards they are on — see the boards.

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Render of the Rodeo motherboard at an angle on a warm backdrop: a square black board with the empty Daisy Seed footprint across the middle, the boxed audio-interface ribbon header and a microSD slot on one edge, and rows of white connectors labelled GPIO TAPS, CHAIN, SPI, MIDI and SWITCH.
Rev-B— the motherboard · CAD render
  • Render of the Rev-B rodeo-pot-bank-4 at an angle: a narrow black strip with four potentiometers standing in a row on threaded bushings, the RODEO wordmark between them, and a four-pin header at one end.
    Rev-B — rodeo-pot-bank-4 · CAD render
  • Render of the Rev-B rodeo-encoder-bank-4 at an angle: a narrow black strip with four rotary encoders standing in a row, their shafts upright.
    Rev-B — rodeo-encoder-bank-4 · CAD render
  • Render of the Rev-B rodeo-audio-3.5mm at an angle: a black board with four 3.5 mm jacks along its front edge and a boxed 2×10 ribbon header behind them.
    Rev-B — rodeo-audio-3.5mm · CAD render

How does it work?

A motherboard and her satellites

Want in?

Rodeo goes to Kickstarter in January 2027. The waitlist hears first, and day-one backers are planned to get an early-bird price. One email to confirm, then nothing until there is news.

You will get one email asking you to confirm. Nothing else until there is something to say, and unsubscribe from any of it.