[PD] it's alive! pdPod lives again

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 7, 2008, at 4:55 AM, simone-www.io-lab.org wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
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>> http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/reware/blog/40
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>> Despite many things trying to thwart us, Widget has just succeeded in
>> ressurecting pdPod, with help from Marius and me.  This is part of
>> the Reware project, where we are aiming to make simple, easy Pd
>> firmwares for a range of devices like iPods, PDAs, gumstix, etc.
> i happen to have a 4g iPod at home waiting for a better life.. is the
> firmware available? that s the perfect thig to toy around with while
> in the metro..

We don't have anything yet, but we will.  You can try and follow the  
ipodlinux.org instructions like we did, but that site is down, so you  
have to get it from archive.org

> how many possibilities to get some graphic stuff going on a 5g  
> video iPod?

If you mean showing graphics on 5G, yes, it's possible.  Doom runs on  
it, for example.  But don't expect much, is a 100Mhz CPU without a  
floating point unit or a graphics processor.

.hc

>>
>> If you are around NYC on Sept 25th, come to the opening of the  
>> exhibit:
>> http://eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=exhibitions&id=190
>>
>> Or come to the October 14th workshop to try installing Pd on your own
>> device!
>>
>> .hc
>>
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