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PO series files released from Teenage Engineering

Posted by ashleyelsdonon May 20, 2015May 16, 2015in Making thingsLeave a comment

As usual, something pretty interesting from Teenage Engineering in the form of a competition to make a new case for the lovely PO series. They’ve released all the files anyone could possibly need for such a thing. It’ll be interesting to see what people come up with.

Finally starting to do something with my TouchBoard

Posted by ashleyelsdonon May 18, 2015May 16, 2015in Making things, TechLeave a comment

TouchBoard up and running

TouchBoard battery

Back of the TouchBoard

TouchBoard in packaging

I backed the TouchBoard on kickstarter, but ever since I got it I haven’t either had the time to do anything proper with it, and haven’t had any ideas of projects to start with it either. But the other day I started having a few ideas of things I wanted to try out. So I got the box out and started to investigate what was in there as I hadn’t looked in ages.

It’s a nice kit, and everything works or at least seems to work just fine even though I haven’t touched it in ages. I’ll hopefully get to use it for a couple of projects soon enough.

A little development log of sorts

Posted by ashleyelsdonon March 9, 2015March 7, 2015in Making thingsLeave a comment

So as you know I’m always tinkering about with Palm OS stuff, and usually talking about it on Palmorama too. However, I thought it might be interesting to start off a little development blog of sorts for my latest creation, Seq1. I’ve started it off here as a page on the site, and I’ll be adding to it over the next few weeks and months.

Making up a lumiphone (a little video)

Posted by ashleyelsdonon March 3, 2015March 1, 2015in Making thingsLeave a comment

Making lumiphones …

Posted by ashleyelsdonon February 7, 2015February 1, 2015in Making things, Sounds, TechLeave a comment

I realised that I had another lumiphone kit from Technology will save us. So I thought I had to make it up. This one I’ve made exactly to the instructions, and it works perfectly.

Good to get soldering again.

Ok, it’s just a simple noise maker, it doesn’t do a huge amount, but it’s fun, and noisy.

Some more littleBits experimentation from me

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 31, 2015January 25, 2015in Creative Process, Making things, TechLeave a comment

It’s time that littleBits started to play nicely with others …

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 27, 2015January 25, 2015in Making things, RoboticsLeave a comment

So having carried out a number of experiments using the Romo I’ve decided that a more musical robot is needed, and that will require something more bespoke. So I’ve chosen Mindstorms as a starting place, but of course for the musical side, littleBits is ideal. Connecting the two will now be easy, because of the above.