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Aug 2010
Sun 1-Aug-2010 06:50
Sun 1-Aug-2010 21:19
Besides that... call me stupid, but what are the objects in the elevator next to the persons supposed to be? They look a bit like trashcans, but I'm not quite sure..
Cheers,
T
its a trashcan. In sweden there is a warning sign in elevators which is a pic of this dude strangled to dead by the trashcan.
Yeah, here's a pic of a typical "klämrisk" sign:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2987688664_e71bb18ea5.jpg
Sun 1-Aug-2010 23:31
Sun 1-Aug-2010 23:53
Mon 2-Aug-2010 01:33
Mon 2-Aug-2010 03:35
Mon 2-Aug-2010 07:04
Linus Åkesson
Mon 2-Aug-2010 15:42
Tommy-Cat wrote:
I have a few questions:-why didnt you used an already build atmega solution like CraftDuino/Arduino
I don't see the point of them. The bare ATmega88 (DIL package) is powerful and user friendly as it is.
Tommy-Cat wrote:
and is there any chance that someday you will make a pair of this retromachine for those who are in need?Currently, I don't have any plans to make another one. But I might change my mind.
Mon 2-Aug-2010 20:22
How can I restart it? I cannot reboot the machine. I can ssh into it from another machine.
Mon 2-Aug-2010 21:45
Instrumentet och dess skapare måste genast ut på sverigeturne!!!
Mon 2-Aug-2010 22:32
Mon 2-Aug-2010 22:58
Tue 3-Aug-2010 18:39
one of my fav. NES tunes.
now please hubbard - sanxion ;=)
Tue 3-Aug-2010 22:54
If you like this, check out this woman playing entire musical scores like Star Wars and Indiana Jones on an electone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16oaGSltUPE&feature=player_embedded
Wed 4-Aug-2010 12:17
Wed 4-Aug-2010 15:52
I also made some like this. Now I´m working
on a Hammond emulator based on a FPGA chip.
Regards
Sergio Bordini
Porto Alegre - Brazil
Wed 4-Aug-2010 16:57
Wed 4-Aug-2010 19:08
Linus Åkesson
Thu 5-Aug-2010 08:10
How can I restart it? I cannot reboot the machine. I can ssh into it from another machine.
I don't know what's wrong in your particular case, but it's init (pid 1) that's supposed to (re-)start the login program in each terminal. You can modify init's configuration at runtime by editing /etc/inittab and then doing "kill -HUP 1". But it's probably not an error in the configuration file, so use ps(1) to investigate what processes are running in the terminals.
Linus Åkesson
Thu 5-Aug-2010 08:19
If you like this, check out this woman playing entire musical scores like Star Wars and Indiana Jones on an electone. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16oaGSltUPE&feature=player_embedded
Yes, I agree. I'm aware of her work and she's an inspiration for sure.
Thu 5-Aug-2010 13:28
Thu 5-Aug-2010 20:43
I wish I still had the dedication to occupy myself with such pet-projects.
Guido
Fri 6-Aug-2010 00:00
Var nyss inne på Kossan.se och där hade du fått 1987 visningar. Stämmer hyfsat med spelets tillkomst :-)
Томас Игоревичь
Fri 6-Aug-2010 10:01
lft wrote:
Currently, I don't have any plans to make another one. But I might change my mind.Peter Knight
Fri 6-Aug-2010 16:05
How about an ATmega168?
http://code.google.com/p/tinkerit/wiki/Cantarino
(This was coded in a rush - most of the unvoiced phonemes are weak or missing)
Fri 6-Aug-2010 22:03
Ben, from Germany
Sat 7-Aug-2010 02:41
Mucho respect!
Sun 8-Aug-2010 07:52
Томас Игоревичь
Sun 8-Aug-2010 14:34
Sun 8-Aug-2010 19:51
holy crap! Awesome indeed
Ole Marius
Sun 8-Aug-2010 20:56
Mon 9-Aug-2010 12:45
The best I have seen so far video & audio with AVR with such minimal parts and no overclocking...
I'd wait for this to download over 300bps, :P
Mon 9-Aug-2010 23:41
For another great source on TTY devices you can go to:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.genprogc/doc/genprogc/ttysys.htm
Enjoy,
Ori
Tue 10-Aug-2010 18:19
Tue 10-Aug-2010 19:24
Wed 11-Aug-2010 01:21
:) Fantastiskt bra spelat!
Wed 11-Aug-2010 03:58
Mycket bra jobbat! Vill ha en Chipophone i min studio. Nu!
/RobinTengvall.se
Wed 11-Aug-2010 07:15
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Wed 11-Aug-2010 17:34
Wed 11-Aug-2010 23:32
As I was on LCP 2009 I was totally amazed by your piece of music. Now that I, one year later, checked you up in more detail, I must say your work is brilliant.
Fri 13-Aug-2010 10:59
We want the part II were the concepts gets even closer to the Linux implementation...
just an example:
an xterm session under ssh when resized makes the TTY device to adjust the terminal size and generate SIGWINCH signal for the running app to know about the change...
but if the xterm is under a serial line when resize occurs NOTHING happens (not kernel side size update, not SIGWINCH signal)... I know under serial line xterm does not communicate the size change, well where is the the place to patch in order to solve this, from the xterm side it would be very easy to send a escape sequence telling the TTY driver the new size but this driver should be patched for catching it and react as in the ssh case....
Thanks for your out of ordinary (little or inexistant content + lot of google adds) article. I hope we can get a deeper version someday.
Pat
Mon 16-Aug-2010 05:45
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Mon 16-Aug-2010 15:11
A case against syntax highlighting
Mon 16-Aug-2010 17:03
Syntax highlighting is simply enhancing perceptible information. It redundantly presents essential information (i.e. the code). Syntax highlight does not *add* information, it enhances it.
It's one of the basic principles of design, and since you're into typography I kinda expected you to be familiar with this.
I always smile at hardcore coders with black&white screens, who think basic principles of cognitive psychology don't apply to them :)
Tue 17-Aug-2010 03:41
A case against syntax highlighting
Tue 17-Aug-2010 08:42
I also disagree with you. OTOH, I want to point out that there *are* sensible and stupid syntax highlighters and color schemes. The example that you provided is indeed a bad one: I don't need strings, numbers, and operators to be colored differently.
What I *do* need is indeed coloring of comments and high-level identifiers, i.e. function/class/method names.
That really enhances the perception when skimming through code.
Have a nice day,
Hans
PS: I am sorry, I have not read most of the anonymous comments yet, so maybe this has been pointed out earlier.
Tue 17-Aug-2010 09:16
But I'll settle with making you a challenge instead, can you pull of the Silver Surfer tune for NES?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNSHNf-nlU
Kind Regards,
Pontus
Wed 18-Aug-2010 15:15
Thu 19-Aug-2010 20:31
Thu 19-Aug-2010 20:37
har har just kidding its solvable just really strange :B
Fri 20-Aug-2010 02:03
great job on the instrument, very well done, excellent work, pure genius.
Seconded. Robocop 3 is completely awesome. Way better than boring non-arpeggiated NES tunes. :)
Fri 20-Aug-2010 03:04
Fri 20-Aug-2010 13:36
1 -- Speak hardcore nerd
2 -- tell you off.
So here goes. E = mc*mc. Pi = 3.14159265. There are four stages of matter. Yo momma. Gotcha yet? Good. There are basically 3 levels of nerd that come to this site. lvl 1 -- soft nerds, can only understand that this instrument makes cool sounds and are here to congratulate you/ask you to build one for them. 2 -- the middle class nerd, understands the things this machine does, but doesn't understand a single thing about how it's made. We need this midi file, or w/e it is that's missing and keeping us from making it. We've seen this thing, and we need this thing. This thing is the son of epic and uberleet, and yet, we can't reach it. The softies don't care enough, and lvl 3s know how you made it and are probably off making a prototype of their own. I don't care if you charge and make an instruction book or anything, that's on you. All i know is, I need this chipophone.
Sat 21-Aug-2010 03:00
A very interesting article. I have just published a related article on the terminals in French : http://www.etud.insa-toulouse.fr/~mcheramy/wordpress/?p=198
(And if you don't understand french, there are few interesting links in english at the end)
Thanks.
Max.
Linus Åkesson
Tue 24-Aug-2010 17:43
Hi! No, presently there's no way to use custom waveforms. For one thing, there's no intuitive way of mapping waveform design onto the physical controls available on the organ.
Linus Åkesson
Tue 24-Aug-2010 17:48
Not yet. =) It's a fascinating subject, but I've only read a basic overview so far.
Linus Åkesson
Tue 24-Aug-2010 17:50
Cathedrow wrote:
Did someone say "Daisy Bell" on a minimalist platform?How about an ATmega168?
http://code.google.com/p/tinkerit/wiki/Cantarino
(This was coded in a rush - most of the unvoiced phonemes are weak or missing)
Cool!
Linus Åkesson
Tue 24-Aug-2010 18:00
It's a valid point, but I'd have to reverse engineer the entire power supply, because I don't want to meddle with a 230 Volt circuit unless I understand it. Thus, using an off-the-shelf power supply is quicker and safer, apart from being more efficient.
A case against syntax highlighting
Linus Åkesson
Tue 24-Aug-2010 18:06
Syntax highlighting is simply enhancing perceptible information. It redundantly presents essential information (i.e. the code). Syntax highlight does not *add* information, it enhances it.
Do you also consider the prose example to be enhanced? My point is that enhancing and distracting are two sides of the same coin.
On the contrary, a basic rule of thumb of typography is to stick to a single font. SOME people use CAPS to indicate EMPHASIS, thus BREAKING this rule. I find that it makes the text less readable.
I'm happy to have made you smile.
Tue 24-Aug-2010 21:06
Greetings !
Tue 24-Aug-2010 22:07
You mentioned that the synth takes MIDI input, could you actually just hook up any MIDI controller and control the synth with that? Or are there some other special instructions that you've created which are Chipophone specific?
I love the sound of the synth, you're simply amazing as a programmer and composer.
I know many people have asked, and you seem reluctant, but everyone would greatly appreciate it if you released the source for the synth, even if you didn't clean it up. If you don't want to release it, I know that I would even love the opprotunity to buy a preprogrammed ATmega88 from you and I'm sure others would, too.
Well, for now I guess I'll have to look into trying to duplicate your programming achievement on my own ATmega88. Thanks for the inspiration!
Linus Åkesson
Wed 25-Aug-2010 15:54
1 -- Speak hardcore nerd
2 -- tell you off.
So here goes. E = mc*mc. Pi = 3.14159265. There are four stages of matter. Yo momma. Gotcha yet? Good.
Yes, well, I read all comments and appreciate all the feedback (here and through other channels). A part of me wants each and everyone of my fans to get an individual reply. But if I were to spend all my time on internet forums, I wouldn't have enough time to create new, interesting stuff for your enjoyment.
In that case, all you have to do is to level up. =)
Thu 26-Aug-2010 14:11
Cheers!
/Henrik
A case against syntax highlighting
Thu 26-Aug-2010 16:13
lft wrote:
Syntax highlighting is simply enhancing perceptible information. It redundantly presents essential information (i.e. the code). Syntax highlight does not *add* information, it enhances it.
Do you also consider the prose example to be enhanced? My point is that enhancing and distracting are two sides of the same coin.
The prose is not enhanced because the colors don't enhance essential information. In your example, you emphasize verbs and nouns. These are an important property of linguistics, but it is not essential to recognize these words as nouns, verbs or adjectives to comprehend the story. I have no idea what "type" of words you used in all the sentences of your article, but I understood it perfectly well anyway.
To put it another way: it's not essential to know if the word "was" is a noun or a verb in the sentence "Alice was not a bit hurt", whether it is highlighted or not. But it *is* essential to know that "char" indicates a data type, whether it is highlighted or not.
lft wrote:
On the contrary, a basic rule of thumb of typography is to stick to a single font. SOME people use CAPS to indicate EMPHASIS, thus BREAKING this rule. I find that it makes the text less readable.
I think you might have misunderstood my point. Contrast most definitely is one of the basic principles of design. It is brought to code in the form of syntax highlighting through colors, and brought to written language in the form of a change in size, weight, style, spacing or orientation of the typeface.
You use it on your site too: headings and subheading are written with a larger and bolder font, quoted text is encapsulated in a container that separates it from the normal text, links are underlined and have a different color than the normal text.
Your "PEOPLE WHO USE CAPS"-example is simply an example of improper use of emphasis, not a case *against* emphasis. It's like putting green text on a purple background and saying "see, syntax highlighting is evil because this particular example is unreadable!"
lft wrote:
I'm happy to have made you smile.
This was not meant to come across as a sneer at you. I enjoyed reading the article, the comments and your reply. I think it's an interesting discussion and I'm simply trying to understand your point of view. To be honest, your rebuttals are not really convincing and often contradictory.
Thu 26-Aug-2010 16:42
Thu 26-Aug-2010 22:26
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Fri 27-Aug-2010 12:22
Sat 28-Aug-2010 07:47
I've would like to run this demo on my propeller demo board. Can you indicate me what should I do to load the eeprom with the binary you provide ?
Thanks
Laurent
Sat 28-Aug-2010 16:34
Andreas Pedersen ( www.dpadhero.com )
Sun 29-Aug-2010 03:54
A case against syntax highlighting
Linus Åkesson
Sun 29-Aug-2010 19:45
lft wrote:
Do you also consider the prose example to be enhanced? My point is that enhancing and distracting are two sides of the same coin.The prose is not enhanced because the colors don't enhance essential information. In your example, you emphasize verbs and nouns. These are an important property of linguistics, but it is not essential to recognize these words as nouns, verbs or adjectives to comprehend the story. I have no idea what "type" of words you used in all the sentences of your article, but I understood it perfectly well anyway.
To put it another way: it's not essential to know if the word "was" is a noun or a verb in the sentence "Alice was not a bit hurt", whether it is highlighted or not. But it *is* essential to know that "char" indicates a data type, whether it is highlighted or not.
Oh, but it is quite essential to know what the word "was" means in order to comprehend the sentence. Part of this knowledge is the fact that the word is a verb -- although it's not essential to know that "verb" is the common terminology for this property.
Likewise, it is essential to know that "char" (or, perhaps more to the point, "person" in a piece of software where it has been declared as such) is a type. Without this knowledge, comprehension and ability to modify the code without introducing bugs would be all but impossible.
But this academic grouping has no business being at the front of the mind during programming; the programmer should be as familiar with the fundamental meaning of the word "char" as he is with the word "was". The fact that "was" and "running" have the same colour is uninteresting when reading a text, since they mean different things, and in a similar vein "char" and "person" are two different types, and it makes more sense to think of them as two separate entities in their own right, than as two instances of "type".
You use it on your site too: headings and subheading are written with a larger and bolder font, quoted text is encapsulated in a container that separates it from the normal text, links are underlined and have a different color than the normal text.
Your "PEOPLE WHO USE CAPS"-example is simply an example of improper use of emphasis, not a case *against* emphasis. It's like putting green text on a purple background and saying "see, syntax highlighting is evil because this particular example is unreadable!"
Good point. I see the problems with my example. Nevertheless, I maintain that while some typographic highlighting makes sense (such as indentation and extra whitespace, where it clarifies the intention of the code), automatic highlighting based on syntax is distracting because it emphasizes the shallow syntactic level of the code, rather than the deep semantic level.
I apologize for jumping to that conclusion.