20110811 Android’s SoundPool.play is broken on the Xperia PLAY

Whenever you try to play a sound with a rate other than 1.0f, the sound will simply not play at all on the Xperia “PLAY”. You get nothing. Not even the sound at the original 1.0 rate. Silence. Void. Vacuum. Zeroes. What an ironic, unfortunate coincidence–maybe we should retitle the phone as Xperia NOT PLAY. [...]

20110612 Honeycomb, MTP and Linux

TL;DR If you want to transfer files between your computer and your tablet, get aafm, an application I’ve written to work around MTP issues with Linux. Honeycomb ends with the tradition of allowing users to mount the phone’s SD card as an USB mass storage device, and replaces that with MTP. Or, in other words, [...]

20110408 DIY: Replacing a Sony DSC T1 CCD sensor

This was an “old” pocket camera mrdoob bought back in 2004. I quite liked it, but one day we went on holidays, found out we had forgotten to bring the camera with us, and I ended up buying another pocket camera, thus relegating the T1 to perpetual oblivion. Which was a bit of a shame, [...]

20101111 Marcan strikes back (re: Open Kinect / freenect)

I was happily in my happy world, when mrdoob mentioned that someone had hacked the Kinect and thus won the $3000 that were offered for the first person who did it. And he added: isn’t this the same guy that wrote the laser demo? Indeed, he’s the same 20 year genius! Whenever I see news [...]

20101011 LASE by marcan & thePope

It seems Marcan managed to rebuild his DIY laser projector (which incidentally burnt out right after we saw it in action for its last public broadcast :D) and he’s recorded a new, crisp and clean video of the output: I hadn’t noticed some of the details when I watched it at the party, such as [...]