So, having got my VL-1 and located my VL-1 MIDI kit, I suddenly realise that I don’t have any instructions to go with it!
I’ve asked highly-liquid for some help as they made the kit.
Tag: Geekery
Yeah, you know, just your regular geeking out with stuff.
App revisit: Star6
It was only through going over my old apps in iTunes that I actually remembered this one. Really quite innovative when it came out, and a lot of fun to play with now. I got it running again on my 3G and it works fine, so much so that I found myself playing around with it for a lot longer than I’d expected to. So it will stay!
App Revisits
It seems strange to be ‘revisiting’ apps in an app economy that’s not even 4 years old as yet, but a lot has happened in the iOS and the mobile world in general in the last 3 and a bit years and I realised the other day that there were loads of apps I didn’t use anymore at all.
Not because they were bad, not because they didn’t serve a purpose, but just because I’d moved on. So I decided to load a whole bunch of them to my older iPhone 3G and see if I could really make it a dedicated music making machine. As I’m writing this I’ve loaded on about 100 ‘old’ apps and I plan to go through them a few at a time, or maybe just one at a time to see if they’re still useful and have a purpose on this device.
So expect to see a stream of posts about these old apps over the next however long it takes.
VL-1 Arrived
I had a VL-1 when they first came out, but I got rid of them. I wish I hadn’t. So I’ve finally got around to getting a new one, or rather a second hand one that is. It’s a little grubby but I think it’ll be quite easy to get cleaned up. Once that’s done, my plan is to MIDIfy it. I’ll let you know how that goes.
Solar Theremin
I decided to build this kit after having it for ages and ages. So I made the whole thing and put it all together and it doesn’t work. I’ve checked every connection, and I can’t find anything wrong with it at all. Except that it doesn’t work. Which is a real shame.
I actually thought I did a really good job of soldering it, which makes it a little worse in a way. Anyway, I think I’ll leave it for a while and go back to it to see if I can work out what’s wrong with it.
Palm DOSBox
I found this from one of the very early posts on Palm Sounds and after a bit of searching around I found a PRC file for it (that’s a Palm OS executable file). So I’m going to give it a go and see what can be done with it. That’s if it works at all.
Arduino experiments restart
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.
Raspberry Pi announcement due tomorrow
So the Raspberry Pi foundation have a big announcement coming up tomorrow morning, and sadly I think I might well get up a bit early to find out what it is. I’m pretty sure I’ll be ordering a raspberry pi when they’re available.
Next project
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?
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.
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