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.
Category: Tech
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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.
Interesting and useful if you’re doing hardware stuff
This is a really useful little diagram, so I thought I’d post it.
A simple IFTTT app arrives for Pebble
I noticed it on the Pebble Time store the other day and installed it. It seems easier to use than the other one I have, which only seems to work intermittently. Also, this one has three slots to trigger different recipes, all using the IFTTT maker channel, which is expected.
I haven’t had any time to try it out as yet, mainly because I have thought of three things I want to automate via the IFTTT maker channel. Perhaps I will, and then I’ll tell you how it works out.
So I watched “I dream of wires”
It was quite interesting actually. I filled a lot of gaps in my knowledge about modulars. However, it still hasn’t made me really want one. I can understand the ideas behind them and I can understand why they are popular, but I still don’t want to commit to getting one. Perhaps it’s because I’ve never actually got my hands on one so I’m not hooked as yet. Who knows.
Still, it was interesting to watch and hear some of the views of a few artists I really respect.
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