Archive for January, 2009
I am convinced that everything Apple develops fits in to one of two categories: awesome or suck. In the awesome category you have stuff like the iPod, iPhone, and OS X. In the suck category, iTunes, iPhotos, and *ahem* their font management. Many years ago, when Apple started putting an ‘i’ in front of anything [...]
A friend of the band recently had a problem with his Maestro PS-1B, a phase shifter from the early 70’s designed by the famous Tom Oberheim, and asked me to take a look at it. Based on the problem, a loud humming at the output with no sign of any other signal, I figured [...]
In the last post I wrapped up all of the prep work on the bike frame. It was taken apart completely, sandblasted to remove rust and sanded from top to bottom. Now it’s time for painting!
Most of the tools I got to use on this project belong to my father-in-law. In the past he has [...]
Mac users pointed out some problems with 01, so I fixed the following:
When dragging notes, the note would only sound once until the mouse was released.
The software would not start up automatically on many Macs unless the java version was set to 6
Unreported: Notes would only sustain as long as the mouse button was held. [...]
UPDATE: This is no longer the latest version, I fixed some bugs for Mac users and reposted. To get the latest version click here.
Since I don’t have a touchscreen to test this with, I’m releasing the 01 version with mouse functionality, along with a few GUI functions to change the midi out port and the [...]
Cycling might be the perfect sport for an engineer. The mechanics of a bicycle are beautifully simple, and the gear porn aspect of owning and operating a performance machine may be paramount to the health benefits of actually riding. Data is key as a cyclist as well. Altitudes, cadences, heart rates and watts determine my [...]