If you want to charge your 3rd gen iPod...

Posted by Hans-Christoph Steiner on December 18, 2008 | | 0 comments

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-to-iPod cable for $5, the first “dead” 3G iPod we tried started right up! So we found this out the hard way, we’d been banging our hea…

release for Beagleboard

Posted by Hans-Christoph Steiner on December 02, 2008 | | 3 comments

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 instructions so that others could try too.

http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/reware/wiki/Releases

intro and howto video

Posted by Hans-Christoph Steiner on December 01, 2008 | | 2 comments

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

You can get the releases here: http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/reware/wiki/Releases