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That first Pebble sync …
So the first step of getting the device sync’d up and updated is easy to do and all goes well. We’ll see how things pan out with the old Pebble. Or rather the new Pebble that is.
Thought for today …
Happy Birthday Magna Carter
Today marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta. I was going to say the signing of the Magna Carta, but as I learnt on Saturday, it wasn’t signed, it was sealed. With a royal seal.
Anyway, this is a big day for a very influential document that has quite literally changed the face of the world.
So my Pebble Time has arrived …
Pebble Time arrived
What’s in the box
Get ready …
After a not bad wait at all my new Pebble Time smartwatch has arrived. So now I’m experimenting with it to see what it can do and what I can get done with it. That’s going to take a little while I should think, but as I decided to go with the Pebble Time just before the Apple Watch was announced and took centre stage I want to see how much I can get done with the new Pebble.
So expect updates on this over the coming weeks …
I found two things
I’d been wondering for a while where these poetry cards had disappearted to, and then, when I found my little pencil box which also has an abacus inside it, there were the cards, all ready to use. I was really pleased to have found both again.
A first go at weaving with Conductive Threads
A little bit of TouchBoard
Weaving with Conductive Thread
A first attempt
Messy
I went to a workshop today on weaving with conductive thread. Not something I’ve done a lot of before, but something I’ve had a previous taste of when I did a workshop of making interactive clothes. However, I’ve never done anything with weaving at all, but it always seemed like a fun thing to try.
So the idea was to weave something small and introduce a couple of conductive thread elements in that could be attached to a microcontroller board like a TouchBoard. In fact, it was a TouchBoard in this instance and that was very straightforward to use as it is nice and easy to connect up.
Well the weaving was ok, in fact easier than I expected although I made a few mistakes. Introducing the conductive thread was simple enough, and as you can see I managed to create a little piece of stuff at the end of it. It worked too. I connected it up to the TouchBoard and it worked a treat. In fact, when I got home I connected it to my Ototo board and that was fine too.
So what’s next? I’m not sure actually. I don’t know quite how I’ll take this forward if at all. There are a few possible applications to it, a few ideas bubbling around, but I need to think about them a bit more first.
Let’s see what happens.
Goodbye Mr Lee
Sad, but of course not entirely unexpected to hear of Christopher Lee’s passing. He was great and his performances in Peter Jackson’s films were an excellent way to finish of a tremendous career. He will be sadly missed.
If you haven’t tried this then you don’t know what you’re missing
The SoundLab guide is now available
The new SoundLab site and guide is up now. It’s been a long time coming and it looks great. I hope that it will make a difference to organisations and groups and that it’ll be a useful resource. I can safely say that I had more fun from being a part of SoundLab than most other work I’ve been involved with.
I am Ashley Elsdon 