Jaco’s Random Writings

Ahoy folks!
Been a while. I’ve been a busy man. So here is the progress report. On the side of the circuit, I have the chip reading the input (though it is still a little low). It outputs to Serial a string that says “NoteOn” followed by the velocity (how hard I struck the prong) when [...]

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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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Ahoy, everyone!
Here I have some new pictures of a new circuit I’ve just gotten to work. Instead of using a transistor, I’m now using an OpAmp to boost the signal. It works quite nicely, may I say so myself.

These are the pictures of the circuits. Just to clarify, I marked up the close-up to show [...]

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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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