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What can you do with a Raspberry Pi?

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I co-authored a post on the MMT Digital blog a few months ago, and I thought it was time to give it another little boost. Here’s the intro, to tease you:

On January 29th, 2013 it was announced via the BBC that Google was partnering with the Raspberry Pi Foundation to make 15,000 Raspberry Pi microcomputers available to UK schools in the hope that the free devices will inspire children to take up coding.

Raspberry Pi

Computer geeks that we are, many of us at MMT Digital love what the Raspberry Pi represents, and a fair few of us have got involved, set up our own Raspberry Pi’s and can be caught discussing them during lunch breaks. With this latest announcement, what better excuse is needed to talk about them some more?

And you can read the full blog post on the MMT Digital blog.

Link: Value Object Class generator for ActionScript 3

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A bit specialist perhaps, and the need for such a tool might become redundant if the Flash Builder hype is to be believed, but I found this quite useful for speeding up the process of writing a value-object class in AS3.

http://projects.stroep.nl/ValueObjectGenerator/

What is a value object anyway?

For the uninitiated, a value object class is essentially a class with very little or no application logic inside it.

Instead of being a file that actually does something, it’s more of a class for just storing data.  What makes it special is that AS3 classes are not all dynamic, so you have to plan what data you need to store and how you’ll store it; and you can achieve a vast majority of that with value object classes.

If you’re coming from an AS2 or Flash IDE background you might think it’s a bit unnecessary or even frustrating, but when you plug value object classes into a development environment like Flex Builder you see where it comes in useful, when it can actually gives you useful autocomplete suggestions, and warns you if you’re passing the wrong type of data into your classes.

Link: ToneMatrix

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ToneMatrix

ToneMatrix, a labs experiment from one of the guys behind the Hobnox Audio Tool is… mesmirizing. The concept is simple – there’s a grid, and each block in the grid represents a specific tone.  An invisible playhead constantly loops across the grid and triggers the tones.  You toggle the blocks ‘on’ and ‘off’ with a mouse click.

Create your own patterns and fine-tune your melody, or draw pictures and see what they sound like – ToneMatrix can keep you occupied for quite a while.  Check it out!