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.
Tag: Geekery
Yeah, you know, just your regular geeking out with stuff.
MIDI experiments
For some reason I got it into my head that I should attempt to get a old Palm OS PDA to output MIDI into my Yamaha MU15 tone module and then record that using an iPhone 3G and Line 6 MIDI Mobilizer.
Well first off it didn’t work at all. I tried multiple Palm cradles, MIDI cables and was about to give up until I decided to try a different old PDA. Guess what? It worked first time. That is to say that it worked in terms of getting MIDI out of the PDA and into the MU15. After that the iPhone/MIDI mobilizer combo didn’t want to record from the MIDI out. The MU15 doesn’t have a thru port so I doubt I can get around that.
Anyway, the 2nd PDA was a success, but I still don’t know what the first one (a TRG Pro) stubbornly refuses to put MIDI through it’s serial port. I guess I’ll just have to do some research on it, but it’s not like it’s something I can contact the manufacturer about is it!
Just so you know, the TRG Pro is the grey device and the black one is the IIIxe which actually works.
Now there’s a Romo community
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.
2 x Monotrons
My Monotron collection so far. I do really like the new Monotron Delay, and I hope to have a Duo as well in the not too distant future.
What I’m really looking forward to is being able to hook them together with some other mobile bits and see where we go from there.
More work on beepLAB
Don’t get too excited, this isn’t going going to be some amazing new Palm OS music app any time soon, and quite possibly not ever in fact. At the moment it is just some experimentation on my part and that’s about all.
Having said that, I’ve managed to get a few little things working in it, like a menu bar, and a little keyboard thing going. I will tinker with it some more as and when I have new ideas, and I’ll post up the results here too.
Ninja Cloud, another interesting Kickstarter project I might fund
Although it does make me think of Twine quite a lot.
Java on StyleTap on 3G
Another small step forward is getting Java working on the StyleTap Palm OS emulator running on a jailbroken iPhone 3G. It should be said that it isn’t particularly useful although it is an interesting thing to do just to see if it works.
Romo on the way
I got an email from the lovely people who are making Romo to tell me that I should expect my kit in the next few weeks. Really can’t wait to get my hands on it at last. You can expect lots of pictures and probably videos too once it arrives.
Getting the Tungsten C up and running
I remembered that I still had an old Palm Tungsten C which I’d bought from a friend ages ago, and I thought I’d see if it still worked. Of course it did, with one caveat, but I’ll come back to that.
The Tungsten C was an interesting device, with a full keyboard and large screen it is a very easy to use device, and it supports WIFI and bluetooth. However, the WIFI doesn’t support WPA security which makes it kind of useless now. However, it is still on the face of it a very handy device. That is until I decided to see if I could run linux on it, and then as you can see from the picture with the stripey lines, it didn’t really like it.
It restored ok, and seems to be working fine now. All I need to do is to work out what to do with it next!
Getting apps into iDroid (2)
This wasn’t something I thought would run under iDroid. It is a very simple app. All that happens is some balls float around the screen. The significant thing is that I made it in Processing, so I didn’t think it would work at all on the emulated version of iDroid, but it did!
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