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It’s now possible to run Nintendo emulation without ‘classic’ emulator on Palm WebOS. In just ten easy steps, provided by the kind folks at pre web wiki, you, too, could be shooting up the baddies in the Central American jungles of Contra.
RocketJohn rigged up his motorcycle and iPhone together to keep his phone charging while being able to listen to music (with a Bluetooth headset, I’m guessing), via @joepemberton.
CDM points out this vid from m~fischer exploring sounds created from varying pieces of a sample – the strange agency made this great little granular synthesis iphone application called curtis. it’s named for composer, author, granular synth advocate curtis roads. this is just a quick little thing i recorded using a captured bit of sound […]
Media player, mobile phone, Internet device, gaming console… sketch pad? It would seem that not only is the iPhone up-ending the mobile and gaming industries, but it seems to be making inroads into fine art as well.
Pure Data, or Pd as it’s known, is an open source, visually oriented programming environment similar to the popular MAX/MSP software. One of the only issues with going with free Pd is the scant amount of formal documentation available to newcomers. Thankfully, Johannes Kreidler’s loadbang Programming Electronic Music in Pd provides a bookfull of tutorials […]
Ah, the gay (19)90s: before Y2K, 9/11, Gitmo, CDOs, and all kinds of other depressing modern acronyms. Venture capital fell from the sky like manna, and everyone was getting rich on the Internet, even though nobody knew exactly how. Enter, into that milieu, the following brilliant idea, courtesy of the wunderkinder at MIT’s then-ascendant Media […]
One of the most important functions of an embedded system is the ability to connect to a variety of external signals. For my smart home energy efficiency dashboard, the signals come from a variety of sensors and use a range of different protocols. Ideally, I’d like to handle these signals in software by creating a […]
