Tag: Geekery

Yeah, you know, just your regular geeking out with stuff.

Arduino experiments restart

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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.

Next project

Posted by on in Making things

This is another kit I’ve had for ages and haven’t gotten around to, so it’s next on my list of things to make.

It’s a solar theremin kit, we’ll see how this one goes at the weekend.

Why is there a baby hedgehog in this PDA?

Posted by on in Mobile Applications, Music

And more to the point, what does it do? Good question. Well it was a demo app from what was to be a replacement OS for the Palm PDA. Sadly it never came to anything, but I still have the demo apps/applets that were around and every now and then I get one of them going to try and remember what it is that they actually do.

Baby hedgehog is a lot like that. Every time I come to use it I can’t really remember what it is that is does.

I still wish that there had been a replacement OS for Palm which was just for music, but that’s never going to happen now sadly. But if you want to know more about Capers, look here.

The old beam

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When I was moving files from one old Palm OS PDA to another the other day I beamed them, over infrared! I have not done that for years! What a very simple way of getting things moved.

Now there’s a Romo community

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Which is great news of course. I’m still really looking forward to getting mine and trying it out. I hope it won’t be too much longer to wait.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, then you can find out what Romo is about here.

Well that didn’t work then did it

Posted by on in Stuff, Tech

I thought it would a great idea to get an old bluetooth keyboard running on my Axim, but this one doesn’t seem to want to even switch on as yet! Just my luck. Trying to get text into a windows mobile keyboard using a stylus is no fun at all!

Starting Basic 4 PPC

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I’ve started messing about with Basic4PPC again. I know that Windows Mobile is totally dead now, but I like to mess about with stuff like this to see what I can make it do, and it is quite good fun too!

ZX on 3G

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Getting some music software running on my Jailbroken 3G. Not sounding great so far, but let’s see how it goes. More soon.

Hello Einstein

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Einstein running on Android. So far I haven’t been able to do much with it as it’s so slow, but I’ll keep at it and see how I get on with it.