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Chromecast Audio
I’ve been meaning to get one of these for ages now, but I’ve never got around to it. However, a friend told me that they were on sale at Curry’s for just £15 so it seemed rude not to.
There’s not much in the box itself, it’s pretty minimal, but then it doesn’t really need much does it?
The device isn’t much bigger than an iPod Shuffle, maybe a tad bigger and seems very straightforward to get going with. One audio in, one power in, that’s it. Doesn’t need much else really.
When I get it all set up, when I have a minute, I’ll let you know what I think of it.
Just me jamming out with frekvens
A little jam with the amazing frekvens and Patterning.
App Inventor getting updated
I haven’t used Android App Inventor in age, so when I got an email from MIT telling me about what they’re doing with it, it came as quite a nice surprise, especially as they’ve got new stuff planned for it, such as …
- Better support for multiple screen sizes and densities (responsive design).
- The Backpack provides a way to copy and paste blocks between screens.
- The App Inventor Gallery lets you exhibit and share your apps for collaboration and remixing.
- App Inventor Services (coming soon) lets you create apps that can run in the background.
- App Inventor Extensions (coming soon) let advanced users augment App Inventor’s capabilities without limitation by
- creating and sharing new components.
- The Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) component lets you build apps that control BLE devices, and experiment with mobile apps and the Internet of Things
All of which will be quite interesting to have a play with. The other cool thing in their email was Thunkable. Which is a version of App Inventor which is run by a commercial outfit. I think I might have a try of that soon.
Now is probably a good time to get back to trying out App Inventor anyway. I did play with it a long time ago, with a view to seeing if it could be used for audio apps, but really it couldn’t. I wonder if any of the new features coming to it will help with that?
SoundLab wins Best SEND Resource at the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence
I posted a lot of detail about this over at PalmSounds, and if you’re really interested then please do go and take a look over there, there’s plenty of information there. But I just wanted to add the photos here and say how important this is to me, and how great it is to be a part of this team.
New music: Drab Grey
A short walk around Deptford Market
4th Doctor … The Labyrinth of Buda Castle
This really is a cracking 4th Doctor story. Just excellent. Like the old days really. A good chase around. A great villain, and I won’t say any more just in case you’re actually deciding to buy it and listen to it.
Anyway, as you can guess, I loved it.
Peladon Tales
In my ongoing plan to slowly acquire all of the 3rd Doctor DVDs, these are the two I bought next. Anyone who knows the third doctor will realise that I’m not doing this in any kind of order at all. At least, not so far. It has been a bit random, but I’ll probably start collecting in order quite soon.
However, these two stories came as a boxed set, so there was little choice in that.
The Curse of Peladon is the earlier story, and the first time that the 3rd Doctor visits Peladon. It’s a good story by any standards. Of course the production values are early 70s TV and that probably doesn’t stand the test of time. However, I really enjoyed it, especially because one of the main characters is played by the son of the second Doctor.
The second story was right at the end of Mr Pertwee’s time as the Doctor. It is another good one, in my view, and again, I enjoyed it a lot.
At some point I’m going to go through all of the 3rd Doctor stories in order, when I’ve got them of course, and that will be truly epic.
Backed this on kickstarter
And I can’t see how he made any money on this as I only backed it for a couple of quid. Still, nice to show support I guess.
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