someone who's doing some things
As I was getting hold of PDAs at the weekend I remembered that I had this Stylophone Beatbox. So I put some batteries in it and got it working again.
I shouldn’t have bothered. It really wasn’t worth it at all. The sounds are awful and it’s really hard to get it to do anything very musical.
I think it’s something I need to bend
This is another kit I’ve had for ages and haven’t gotten around to, so it’s next on my list of things to make.
It’s a solar theremin kit, we’ll see how this one goes at the weekend.
The other day I was messing around with my Thingamagoop and 2 monotrons, and of course recorded the output. I then tried working with it as sample data in Jasuto Pro, which I think worked quite well.
What I might do is put together all of the different treatments of this recording in a single soundcloud set at some point this week(-ish).
And more to the point, what does it do? Good question. Well it was a demo app from what was to be a replacement OS for the Palm PDA. Sadly it never came to anything, but I still have the demo apps/applets that were around and every now and then I get one of them going to try and remember what it is that they actually do.
Baby hedgehog is a lot like that. Every time I come to use it I can’t really remember what it is that is does.
I still wish that there had been a replacement OS for Palm which was just for music, but that’s never going to happen now sadly. But if you want to know more about Capers, look here.
I’d all but forgotten that these older PDAs could do this.
When looking back at the Capers applets I found details of this project I wrote about at Palm Sounds in 2006, and it made me wonder if I should give it another go, and that means I probably will.
I’m not sure if I’ll use the same PDA, the clie T425. I might use something different. We’ll see.
I’d been waiting to see the remake of True Grit for a long time, and last night I finally got round to it. Sadly it was a big disappointment. Or that is to say that it was a big disappointment for me. I didn’t like the changes to the story and the way the ending was changed.
Overall it seemed to be a darker story than the original, with less hope in it, and I think that’s a mistake. Still, it’s just my opinion, and most of all it made me want to see the original again, which I really should own.
When I was moving files from one old Palm OS PDA to another the other day I beamed them, over infrared! I have not done that for years! What a very simple way of getting things moved.
I only went back to this app as I’d seen a photo of the screen on instagram! Ok, not a great reason to return to an app, but nevertheless I did, and I’m glad I did too. Very nice for making ambient things and passing the time on the train.
One of the things I wanted to do a lot more of this year was make stuff, kits, gadgets, whatever, and I’ve got started at last. I made my lumiphone kit. I soldered it all up and it works!
So far so good, I’ll be moving on to my next project in a week.
I am Ashley Elsdon 