Blog posts

Blog post - If you want to charge your 3rd gen iPod...

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 23:18:01 GMT

We were bitten big time by an annoying technical detail: it turns out that third generation iPods will connect to a computer using either a USB or a FireWire cable BUT they will only charge from the FireWire, not from the USB. We thought we had a big bag of dead 3G iPods, but now that we got a “FW800…

Blog post - Who needs batteries?

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:10:05 GMT

Ipod battery replacements cost upwards of $80! 3rd party replacements are cheaper but still a hassle. So today we cast off the shackles of the Li-poly battery and used our own power supply: “

How did we do it? Every Li-poly battery has a small circuit wired into to i…

Blog post - WPFolio 1.0 Release!

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:34:54 GMT

Introducing WPFolio, the first WordPress theme (we know of) designed specifically for artists.

You can download the 1.0 release here and take a look at the detailed documentation.

Features includes:

automatic image excerpts for your posts
lightbox image viewer so your images are …

Blog post - intro and howto video

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:10:31 GMT

Thanks to the help of Albert Wilking of CrazyStudios we now have our first Reware HOWTO video, showing the basics of how to use a Reware disk image yourself, then it illustrates some of musical apps we’ve made using Pd

pick a site to watch the video: blip – vimeo – youtube...

Blog post - release for Beagleboard

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:52:10 GMT

The Beagleboard is an high end embedded board that can run a full OS. Think of it as the guts of an iPhone, it is the same hardware. Except this piece of hardware is wide open for hacking! :D Spencer Russell and Florian Hollerweger have been hacking on their new Beagleboards and Spencer got a Reware image running on his. So I thought I should post the file and his …

Blog post - I got a mic!

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:10:37 GMT

So thanks to some inspiration from this forum post with the very handy picture included here, I deciced to put an internal mic into my [[Palm TX]]. Raphael Abrams’s steady hand did the soldering, so I really just procured the parts…

Blog post - first release!

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:02:34 GMT

So the first stab at making some kind of usable release! I have created a bitbake recipe for creating a super minimal image that includes pd-anywhere in it. The idea it to make it really easy to run Pd patches on old devices, and to devote the whole device to the Pd patch.

If you have a Palm Tungsten, Treo or Zire, please give one of the alpha releases…

Blog post - What Would Sarah Palin Do?

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:54:37 GMT

A new site is up using the code. This one is from Liz Filardi and it’s called What Would Sarah Palin Do?

Blog post - stripping down a system to the bare minimum

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:21:04 GMT

For the current patches we are running, we want them to take over the whole machine, as much as possible. I have tried uninstalling things, but then there is always the brute-force method: killall. In particular, I am working right now with pdaXrom on my Sharp Zaurus SL-C860 and a very minimal GPE setup on the Palm Tungsten E2.

Basically, I just look through the l…

Blog post - the state of tethering in the world today

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:05:46 GMT

Jonathan Zittrain’s book The Future of the Internet has been getting quite a bit of attention for its discussion of “tethered” devices, or devices that are remotely controlled by someone besides the owner of the device. I have started reading the book myself, and it has some interesting analysis so far.

Richard Stallman responded to the book, in this article...