My first daughter born last sunday at 8 am GMT+1.
Her name is Bruna, this is the catalan word for brunette.
We are very happy with her arrival and the new vital experience that we are living.

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Wow, about 9 months without posts on the blog. I've been busy on my job and enjoying on other matters.

The greatest news are that our family will have a new member on March.
We are waiting a daughter and alot of arrangements had to be done on our flat. During last 5 weeks I've been painting a room for her as you can see on the picture.

Now there's a new device and a new version of Internet Tablet OS, so it's time to rebuild my maemo projects.
Tuner tool and nethack are ready for the IT2008, you can find the download links on the sideboard.

Note: to install the tuner tool on the tablet you need to install by hand gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-extra from maemo repository.

Hi all,

I don't know when I will find time to finish a new release of the tuner tool. I've some new features partly written.

I tried the current build today in my N800 and seems to work as expected.

Chris Jones noticed me that there's a problem with the audiotestsrc gstreamer element which is not provided by default on N800. To solve this issue you should install the gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-extra package manually.

Hi all,

Finally I managed to fix the feature related to context menu and the inventory dialog. Now works fine with Nokia 770 (tested on mistral and scirocco) and with Nokia N800 (tested on bora).

Thanks to Tilman Vogel, he sent me a patch with some more features. Mainly sumarized as:

- Toolbar expand/unexpand depending on full screen state
- On toolbar added new commands "What's here?" (:) and "What's there?" (;)
- Fixed endless loop asking for "more details?" when using the central minipad button with the "identify a map symbol" command
- Changed search button icon.

Enjoy with this new release.

Hello all,

I uploaded a new build of the nethack game for Internet Tablet.

Now the segfault on N800 related to inventory+context menu feature should be fixed.

Enjoy again :)

Hello all.

A lot of changes in my life since my last post in this blog.
Now I have a new job, I'm working at Fluendo since September that's the reason why I've been really busy last months. Now I've to drive a pair of hours each day moving me from Igualada to Barcelona, less time for personal projects :(.
The new job is really interesting. Improve gstreamer and codecs for embedded and desktop platforms are mainly my tasks at Fluendo.

My first Nokia 770 is one year old and I want celebrate it with you, a new release of Nethack is an appropriate present. This was my first developing project for that toy.

Some promised features are now in Nethack, but I haven't tested it completely. Who can play games when is more interesting write the code :).

New features (look at the screenshots):

- Finally I finished the pad whit a nice look thanks to Christophe Dumas.
- Context menu for actions on objects at inventory dialog.
- Different flavours of nethack, now you can choose between graphical or ascii views.
- Some minor fixes.

That's all, thanks to everybody that does maemo an amusing experience every day.

Hi friends,

I'm on holidays this days and I've restricted access to my computer, my wife don't let me play on it until September :)

During first week on September I believe that I'll be able to do some improvements on the tuner tool that has been suggested to me on comments and by mail.

This is a summary about the changes that I plan to do:

- Enlarge the text that reports the tone played as Tor-björn asked for.
- Add an autoplay func for guitar notes: "Play the six guitar strings in sequence, allow each string/tone to play for a configurable length of time, then play the next string/tone, ie: e-e-e-e-e a-a-a-a-a d-d-d-d-d g-g-g-g b-b-b-b-b e-e-e-e repeat" as Chris Warren-Smith suggested.
- Add a pair of buttons to let change octaves on the piano func.

About how improve the FFT and add better sensivity under 400 hz frequencies, I'm reallyy novice in this area and mainly I began this project as way to learn about gstreamer and N770 multimedia API. I chosen KISS FFT lib because it's easy to use and fourier transform can be calculated using fixed point integers, that's good for N770 which haven't FPU. If someone has a good idea about which improvements can be done on this area I'm able to write the code and testing it but by now I have a lack of info about what should be done.

Sometimes I'm in IRC channels at freenode, #maemo and #gstreamer, with nick ArthurDentN770 we can talk about if you want.

Hi friends,

This is a new version of my tuner tool project for Nokia 770. As you can see on the screenshoot I added a piano keyboard to generate reference tones.

I want to thanks people on IRC channel #gstreamer who helped me with this project. In particular to ensonic for their ideas about how solve some bugs.

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This is a new tool for our versatile Nokia 770. I wrote this artifact mainly as an introductory mini project to GStreamer.

Basically it consists on a GStreamer plugin based on KISS FFT library to perform a fourier transform on a signal and extract fundamental frequency.

On top of the plugin I wrote this small GUI for Nokia 770 that build a GStreamer pipeline between microphone and gstkissfft component.

I'm spending holiday on the beach these days and I couldn't test it with a real instrument, any comment will be appreciated.

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Hi nethackers,

Another version of my nethack port is available, now I added a minipad widget to main screen. It's functional but a nice artwork needs to be done, probably something like a compass or a wind rose.

Future improvement could be contextual menus for actions on the inventory list, now I have an idea about how to do it.

Good gaming