I had a VL-1 when they first came out, but I got rid of them. I wish I hadn’t. So I’ve finally got around to getting a new one, or rather a second hand one that is. It’s a little grubby but I think it’ll be quite easy to get cleaned up. Once that’s done, my plan is to MIDIfy it. I’ll let you know how that goes.
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.
New section on hard to find Palm OS music apps added
Of interest to very few people I know, but even so I’ve decided to put it up here in case anyone is desperate for these things. It seems that now I’ve started to look for these things I keep remembering and finding more things that I think would be useful for this section.
So I’ll add more as a little archive of Palm OS music making history.
Having fun with Android App Inventor
I have to say that this time around I’m really enjoying messing about with App Inventor again, even though I’m just making some simple stuff at the moment. I’m hoping to get a couple of apps tested up soon and see how they run on a real Android device soon.
New Toy, sort of
I’ve thought about getting a Tapwave Zodiac for a long time, but never bothered, but I saw this one on eBay, and even though it didn’t have a cradle or cable for charging I decided to go for it, and for £4 (just over) it’s not bad going.
Having said that, I thought I could pick up a charger or cradle quite easily. Sadly, that hasn’t been the case so far, but I’m on the look out. Until then it’ll sit around sadly doing nothing until I can get it up and running again.
Thinking about Spotify again
I saw the presentation from Spotify at the AppSide event on Tuesday and it got me thinking about trying out Spotify again, but something keeps me sitting on the fence and I don’t know why. Maybe I should just try it out for a month or two and see if it works for me or not.
So, the iPad 3 arrives, but it isn’t the iPad 3
In many ways I’m pleased. It is after all, just a speed bump. They’ve upgraded a bunch of stuff, it’s faster, more memory etc etc. Nice. But nothing revolutionary in this iteration, and that’s fine with me. I think it is like the 3GS was to the 3G. The next iPad will be a significant upgrade. I hope to anyway. For now, I’ll try to order this one if I can even get onto the Apple store.
MIT Brings Android Inventor back
Great news! MIT has put Android Inventor into public beta. All you need to do to get in is to have a Google account like a gmail account and you can take it for a spin. It’s nice that it’s back and I’m really hopeful that MIT will take in some interesting new directions.
Arduino experiments restart
Finally I got back to my Arduino this weekend. It took a while to get it going again, but finally it is. My real aim is to get Android and Arduino working together and I’d found a site that explains how to do it. However, once I was quite a way through I realised that it required an Arduino Mega ADK and not the older model I had.
So now I’m wondering about getting an ADK model for £60 to continue this project. Perhaps a more sensible thing would be to get some stuff done with what I’ve got first and see where I get to with that before moving on.
Not sure.
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Raspberry Pi announcement due tomorrow
So the Raspberry Pi foundation have a big announcement coming up tomorrow morning, and sadly I think I might well get up a bit early to find out what it is. I’m pretty sure I’ll be ordering a raspberry pi when they’re available.
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