someone who's doing some things
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.
I like the idea of this, especially the web app part too, but I might need to investigate it a bit more before I commit to it on Kickstarter.
I love this book. I have the paperback edition somewhere but I can’t find it right now, so I decided to buy the iBooks version as part of a plan to be able to make some of the circuits using iCircuit on my iPhone.
I realise that this sort of defeats the object, but when you’re on a train it isn’t easy (or advisable) to start soldering. There would be unpleasant consequences I should imagine.
Anyway, that’s my plan, and we’ll see how it works out, but if you don’t know this book, then it is excellent if you want to get into DIY electronics.
I am really looking forward to getting this little device in the not too distant future. Only have to wait until Feb. It feels like ages though!
I’m hoping that I might be able to use it with some older devices too, but I guess I’ll have to wait and see how that goes.
I’ve been messing around with Dashcode for a few days, and I have a few ideas and plans of things I might make, so you may see a few things crop up over the coming weeks which will add a little bit more fun to the site.
http://e.gamesalad.com/play/49739
I’ve been playing in GameSalad which lets you use it’s interface to make HTML5 games or any other kind of application for that matter. I made this drum ‘thing’ and thought I’d show it off. It isn’t finished, and I don’t know if I will finish it for that matter, but it is kind of fun to muck about with.
Because he said he would make capers open source and he didn’t. I emailed him for ages and he never got back to me, so I’m annoyed. I’m still annoyed.
If you didn’t know capers was going to be a replacement operating system for Palm devices. An operating system for music and only for music. How awesome would that be?
But even back when it was being developed it never really saw the light of day, and then many years later he said he’d make it open source. But still we wait …
It really is time that I got back to actual making of things, be they physical or digital. Going back to processing has a nice feel to it. I like to make stuff, and processing is easy, or at least a lot easier than other languages I’ve tried.
I’ve got a few new ideas I want to try out and a lot of old sketches that never got finished or that don’t work anymore for one reason or another. I also want to dabble with processing for Android and see what I can do with that. I did get a few small sketches running on my underpowered Android phone, but I want to see if I can do anything musical with it.
I’ll post them again when I’ve got something done.
Ever since I first saw this on kickstarter I knew I had to have one, so I finally decided to fund it. I’m so looking forward to getting it in Feb next year!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peterseid/romo-the-smartphone-robot
I bought the latest copy of FM to read about their thoughts on the OP-1. Sadly, now I want one even more!
When I was at the V&A Digital Design Weekend I picked up this kit as it looked like quite a lot of fun. I probably won’t get a chance to do much with it until November at the earliest, but hopefully it’ll get made soon.
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