The Personal Digital Assistant. A device type that has had a big impact on my life.
Another Pi related Kickstarter purchase and one that I’m looking forward to trying out soon. I’ll be getting to grips with it soon and seeing what I can use it for. I’m hoping that it’ll be like a little PDA but maybe a bit more up to date.
I got this last week, which was much sooner than I’d expected to see it. It is tiny. About the size of maybe 3 or 4 credit cards stacked on top of each other. That’s why I thought it would be interesting to see it with a Rex 6000. Of course the Rex has a lot more memory than an Arduino and is of course designed to be a PDA where the Arduino nor the Arduboy is. Even so, it’s an interesting comparison.
When I get some time I’m going to try and see what I can make with the Arduboy as you can code to it via Codebender. So that’s really the next step.
That and the Palmorama library which has a lot of good stuff in it too. Of course a lot of those apps have gone and a lot of links lead to non-existent web sites, but then it was made in 2007, so what can you expect?
I made this ages ago but realised that I hadn’t made it public in my SoundCloud account. It was made entirely using Bhajis Loops. So I thought I’d post it.
For me this was a great thing. Setting up the Handera 330 and the bC-16 together. That was so cool. Using apps like Theremini and BeatPad and Hedghog.
I’ve also got some stuff on bandcamp too. You can find it here. It’s from my original idea for an idea of tracks that were all a minute long. For the most part all the tracks were made with Bhajis Loops and other mobile music apps pre-iOS.
This is now a near complete collection! I do love these little PDAs. They’re so special.
It was great to get asked to be interviewed by Marc at Disquiet. It’s a site that I’ve read for a very long time and it’s awesome to be interviewed there.
I hadn’t seen these in a long time and when I did I thought I’d put them here so you could see the kinds of things I used to do with NinerPaint which was a great art app for Palm OS. So far I haven’t found anything similar in the iOS world. Or perhaps I just haven’t looked hard enough?
That could be it of course, and I should perhaps have another look at some point.
I posted this list over at Palmorama today and thought I’d at least share a link to it here too. It was a lot of fun to put together actually.
