Jaco’s Random Writings

My thoughts, my projects, and all sorts of other stuff

Entries Tagged as 'Cool Stuff'

Auduino

December 9th, 2008 · No Comments · Cool Stuff, Project Work

I found this super awesome project while trolling the Arduino Playground site. This is a small little barebones grain synthesizer made using an Arduino, 5 pots, and a mono audio jack. I think they explain it better than I can on their site: Click Me! Anyways, I have a video of it in action here [...]

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NES Color Palette and Pixels

October 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Cool Stuff

Ahoy, everyone! I have a treat for you all today. I found a picture of the NES’ color palette. The NES had a color palette of 52 possible colors. From that palette, I have created a Photoshop swatch palette. This means that by setting your image to “Indexed Color” and using this swatch palette, you [...]

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Songbird 0.7 BETA

October 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Cool Stuff

So I downloaded the new 0.7 BETA version of Songbird. They’re actually in BETA now. As Version 1 gets closer and closer to completion, I took a gander at 0.7. I have to say, I’m liking the direction this program is going in. It looks spiffy. It didn’t take very long to import my iTunes [...]

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