someone who's doing some things
I enjoy making things a lot. I don’t get enough time to do it though. When I do make stuff it takes all sorts of different forms, like electronics, fixing stuff (with Sugru etc), using conductive ink, conductive textiles, and the list goes on.
I’ve been thinking about what else to put on my old Dell Axim. Emulation seems obvious, well to me it does anyway. I still have a Mac System 7 emulation app somewhere around the place, so I may try that.
The other thing I’d like to do is to populate it with a bunch of my own ‘mini’ apps made with Basic4ppc. That might take a bit longer though.
I’ve started messing about with Basic4PPC again. I know that Windows Mobile is totally dead now, but I like to mess about with stuff like this to see what I can make it do, and it is quite good fun too!
The new version of Pixilang is already looking pretty amazing. I tried out a few of the examples last night and they were very promising. So I guess I might try my hand at some Pixilang soon!
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Messing around with stuff is great fun, and if there’s an iOS app that is superb fun, then it’s Jasuto Pro Modular. I haven’t played with this app for ages, and so it’s great to get back into it and discover stuff that I’d started but not done anything with.
The patch, or sketch, or whatever the proper name is, that you can see above uses a sample file that was recorded using RJDJ on a journey home one day. The idea was to record a week of travel sounds using RJDJ and then create patches for it in apps like Jasuto Pro.
I must work out how to get the audio out on this track, but perhaps on another day.
I am Ashley Elsdon 