[PD] libpd and BUG Labs

[Simon Wise]

On 21/04/11 16:47, errordeveloper at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:15:29PM -0400, Andrew Turley wrote:

>> Nothing revolutionary, but I thought people might enjoy seeing Pure
>> Data on yet another platform (in this case, running in OSGi on ARM).

>
> That's great, nevertheless your company's product or too expensive
> for what they are! May be if you were to come up with something like
> Panda or Beagle board, but more pro-audio oriented (i.e. with ballanced
> mic input and good 96Hz converters) - many people here would be
> intereseted :) It doesn't have to be OMAP (in fact better not OMAP), but
> any other multicore ARM with VPF, e.g. Marvell ARMADA. Contact me if you
> do need more information on this .. And certainly a cheaper enclosure ..
> I see that your company make these nice and expensive eclosures ..which
> would rather be optional, from my point of view!

Clearly then these devices are not for you (and audio isn't their focus) but 
there is surely a place for a modular system like this ... clearly a lot of 
effort has gone into creating a slick set of units. Why not sell them if there 
are people who want them?

If you are wanting to do similar yourself .. their software development is open 
source, downloadable from the site and the work they have done is available for 
you to use in any other open source project.

I have only just looked over the site, but if the internals have had similar 
care and attention as the design and exterior it would be a nice kit to work 
with, and because of the nice exterior etc it would be more attractive to some 
kinds of clients. I'd say how expensive the kits seem depends on how much you 
put a $ value on your own development time .. if you develop stuff for your own 
pleasure/learning/satisfaction/whatever then maybe it isn't for you. If you 
don't have the cash it isn't for you either, but the work put into the code has 
been paid for by their customers, and that code is free for you to use (in FLOSS 
projects of course).

It's nice to see Pd have a wide range of uses.

Simon