More stuff that looks like a cassette. It just goes to show what a big impact tapes have had on our culture.
Cassette Store Day 2015: Yep, that’s a USB Hub, or is it a ….
Category: Tech
At times wonderful, and at times totally frustrating too. That’s technology, my experience of it anyway. I do a lot of stuff with technology and I suspect I will continue to do that.
Cassette Store Day 2015: Still Fresh!
Still in the wrappers and fresh as anything!
Side by Side, the Apple Watch and the Pebble Time
Before you ask, no, I don’t have one of each. I was having dinner with a friend and he had an Apple Watch. I really wanted to compare the two physically. The Apple Watch is bigger. It has a larger footprint, but, more importantly it is a thicker watch, and, whilst it is only a little thicker, I think it is just too much for my liking.
This just confirmed what I’d already thought about the Apple Watch. My view now is that I doubt I’d get one until the revise the hardware. I’ve no idea how long that might be, but I’m sure that this version won’t be the only one. I’m guessing that the Apple Watch 2 will be slimmer and it’ll do more etc.
I think I’ll wait for that.
BLOCKS Modular Smartwatch on Kickstarter
So, modular smartwatches are a thing now. They’re here on Kickstarter and doing well already. It’s very impressive. I’ll be interested to see how to does and, more importantly, when it delivers. The engineering for this is going to be very complex indeed.
My top ten PDAs
I posted this list over at Palmorama today and thought I’d at least share a link to it here too. It was a lot of fun to put together actually.
Waiting for the Patchblocks MIDI block
Just been taking a look at the Patchblocks MIDI block on their new site. It’s cheaper than I expected, although apparently when the final version becomes available it’ll be a bit more than the current £15. Even at a bit more than that I might pick one up. I think it’ll make my existing Patchblocks a lot more useful to me.
Hopefully it won’t be too long to wait though.
Good things coming in Day One version 2.0
I’m a big fan of the Day One journal app. I find it really useful. It seems that there’s a lot of new stuff coming in the next big iteration of the app. Here’s what’s coming:
- Multiple Journals— In Day One 2.0 you can create and name multiple journals
- Multiple Photos— A simple and elegant solution for adding multiple photos per entry
It looks like it’ll be really cool, but I hope they won’t mess up a load of other stuff at the same time.
Starting off the Olegtron page
So I’ve started off the page where I plan to keep some of my Olegtron patches. You can find the page here.
I’m impressed by Arpeggio
I think that this is a really amazing device and it’s doing so well on Kickstarter. I’ve posted about it a lot on PalmSounds, but was impressed and wanted to add it here too. Also, Tangible Instruments did a very nice thing. They included PalmSounds …
Processing 3 arrives
I do like Processing, although it’s been a while since I made anything with it. It looks like Processing is getting even better, with a new user interface which they’re continuing to develop post 3.0.
This comes on the heals of Codepoems, a new IDE for Processing, which I was considering trying out. I’ve no idea of whether or not Codepoems will work with Processing 3, that’s probably the next step for me.
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