I bought this on my last trip to the Science Museum as it looked really good. I was wrong, it was even better than I expected. All the templates are on the CD in printable and editable formats so you can do a lot with these robot models to really make them your own. I’m looking forward to making a few soon.
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Storyteller - Poet - Explorer
More Mixtikl
More messing around with Mixtikl again, and tweeting the odd mix too. Interesting to get back into this app and start to do a few things that are a little more complex. It’s the kind of music app that satisfies on all levels. You can generate something immediate using the random function, or spend as much time as you like to create something completely unique.
Pixilang 3.2 arrives
I haven’t used Pixilang for a long time and so it’s great to see a new version and one with some really interesting new features like:
- universal containers (pixi-container) for any type of data;
- dynamically typed variables (for integer or floating point numbers);
- functions for sound synthesis and recording;
- functions for block data processing;
- supported formats: WAV, PNG, JPG;
- MIDI In/Out.
Of course, or most interest is the functions for sound synthesis and recording and the MIDI in/out as well. Sadly it seems that there’s no Palm OS version though, so I’ll be using it on Windows Mobile.
ZX on 3G
Getting some music software running on my Jailbroken 3G. Not sounding great so far, but let’s see how it goes. More soon.
Processing Book
I had forgotten all about this book and found it this morning so it was my companion on the train this morning, and there’s good stuff on using text in there, so hopefully I’ll get a scene done in a few days.
This morning’s Music App (part 1)
Aurora Sound Studio has been around for a while. First on Windows Mobile and now on iOS. It’s a great music making app, and one that I’ve too long overlooked. So I went back to it this morning, albeit briefly, and was surprised to find some nice stuff in there that I must have made ages ago.
It’s always nice to get a little surprise like that and remember (or not remember) tracks partially made and sitting around just waiting for you to rediscover them.
Making stuff with Grid Music
I was playing with Grid Music this morning and what a great app it is. I’ll put up a little track I made soon.
Where’s that Thingamagoop? Oh yes, here it is!
I posted this to instagram earlier, but I liked it so much that I thought I’d put it here too.
And that’s on Android too
I meant to say that that processing sketch also works really well on my Android phone under 2.2. Nice to be able to run this stuff on Android too.
iDroid on my 3G, a bit of an update
So I’ve actually got an Android app running on my 3G under iDroid, and it actually works. It doesn’t work very well, but it does work. The app I managed to get running was Beat Dialer. The other app I tried to get to work was Tasker, but for reasons that I just don’t understand it will not install at all. Which is a shame really.
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