I am Ashley Elsdon

Now that’s a good idea for reusing bits of a modular phone

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 26, 2015in TechLeave a comment

I’d never heard of this modular phone platform before today. It sounds awesome, not least because of the whole idea of being able to move bits of phone into my own super computer. That would be very cool.

Just loving the coffee from Taylor Street Baristas

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 26, 2015January 25, 2015in StuffLeave a comment

It’s very fine coffee indeed. So glad I found it at last. Loving how they do things too.

Handera videos

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 24, 2015January 16, 2015in Mobile Applications, Music, Tech

I thought I’d post these as I’d not got around to putting them here.

Another mention over at littleBits

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 23, 2015January 16, 2015in Creative Process, TechLeave a comment

Those lovely people over at littleBits have been kind enough to give me another feature as well, on their maker’s page. You can view it here.

I wish I could’ve been there for this

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 22, 2015January 16, 2015in Events, MusicLeave a comment

Since I first heard Martyn Bennett’s Grit I’ve been a fan, and so sad to know that his untimely departure means we will never hear anything new from his amazing musical talent. Even so, it’s good to know that his musical legacy lives on.

I wish I could’ve been there for this, but even though I can’t I’m just glad that it’s going on.

I always wanted to be Jim Rockford

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 20, 2015January 20, 2015in TVLeave a comment

I did. I mean, who didn’t? He was just so cool. Never really phased by anything. The Rockford files is still awesome to this day. I’m slowly making my way through season 1 and will then pick up season 2 immediately afterwards.

And I’m enjoying every episode too, especially the phone messages at the start of every episode!

littleBits SoundLab and me

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 20, 2015January 16, 2015in Creative ProcessLeave a comment

This was really nice of littleBits. They put up a page about me and SoundLab on their site. You can see it here.

William Morris at the National Portrait Gallery

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 19, 2015January 16, 2015in ExhibitionsLeave a comment

I visited this exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery a couple of weeks ago. Whilst I don’t know a lot about Morris I do like the work I’ve seen so I was really looking forward to seeing something more and learning about him. However, I was a bit disappointed really. Firstly it was quite a small exhibition, and for £12 I did expect a bit more. Secondly, the exhibition was much more about his influence in political and artistic circles rather than being about him.

Don’t get me wrong, it was good, for what it was, but it wasn’t really what I had expected or envisaged. A bit of a shame really.

Pictures of my Olegtron 4060

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

Box

More experiments with Romo

Posted by ashleyelsdonon January 17, 2015January 16, 2015in RoboticsLeave a comment

Romo and Lumiphone

Lumiphone

Romo and Lumiphone

Experimenting with attaching other devices to the Romo. The idea was to use a simple velcro patch to attach a little light sensitive instrument to the front of the Romo. That way it could make a noise depending on how much light was going into it.

It did work. It was ok, but not that interesting. However, it means I can attach other stuff to Romo and do some more experiments at some point. Which I will do.