Webcasting the 10th Anniversary Stanford Newton User Group meeting in Palo Alto.
The Stanford Newton User Group held its 10th Anniversary meeting tonight at Printer's Inc. in Palo Alto. It's amazing that we've been convening here for 10 years now! The cafe has outlived the bookstore next door as well as the cafe across the street (La Dolce Vita is becoming a Harmony Bakery)!
I tried to webcast the event this evening using my PowerBook, iSight, and EvoCam. Using the wireless hot spot at Printer's Inc., I set up EvoCam to take a screenshot every 2-5 seconds and upload it to tow.com. There's no sound, but I think readers were able to get an impression of what the meeting was like.
Our Guest of Honor for the 10th Anniversary was Newton developer, Brian Parker of Sealie Computing. This 23-year old has developed some killer applications for the Newton -- and you thought that no one used these things anymore! He's already written an AOL Instant Messaging client called NewtChat, as well as Napalm, the Palm OS emulator for the Newton! He bought his first Newton back in high school, around the time of the Newton's demise (February 27, 1998 for those of you keeping track). He started developing games for it in college. Since then, he's gone overboard, writing some very useful tools for the handheld that just won't die. Perhaps one day, he and Paul Guyot will team up and write the Newton emulator for the rest of us. Where oh where can we get the Voyager chipset instructions?
After the meeting, Rosie let us ride his electric skateboard. It's a normal-looking skateboard with a motor underneath it. The control is a hand-grip looking wireless device with a trigger that you squeeze to accelerate. I once tried skateboarding as a kid and couldn't get the hang of it. This skateboard, on the other hand, was really easy to navigate!
And now for some photos from the event.
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Look, Brian is demoing his Palm emulator for the Newton!
--posted by Adam @ Wednesday, January 28 2004, 0:09 am EST
Smile Adam. :)
--posted by Alex @ Wednesday, January 28 2004, 0:17 am EST
Ok Adam.. I'm disapointed in you. You have this neat webcam refreshing through the meeting.. but no specs on how you are serving it. Don't Make me take away your Geek Badge :P
Oh, and Congradulations to the SNUG! Now onward to the next ten years!--posted by Steven S. @ Wednesday, January 28 2004, 0:19 am EST
Brian is also the author of nWarrior, NewtGlider, and Napalm. He started using the Newton in high school (an old MP120). He got started coding games for the Newton in college.
--posted by Adam @ Wednesday, January 28 2004, 0:30 am EST
Using an iSight with EvoCam, which is ftp'ing the files to tow.com.
--posted by Adam @ Wednesday, January 28 2004, 0:30 am EST
Brian has also thought about writing a newton emulator! Wouldn't that be cool!
--posted by Adam @ Wednesday, January 28 2004, 0:32 am EST
Eeks! Running out of battery life on my PowerBook, with no power outlet in sight!
--posted by Adam @ Wednesday, January 28 2004, 0:46 am EST
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr8 Meeting!
I had a blast, see ya next month.
MrNewt--posted by Greg Wayman @ Wednesday, January 28 2004, 2:28 am EST
You rock Adam! I see that the picture I took didn't come out that bad huh? I will see you at the next meeting. Eat your hearts out NTLK members!!!!!!
--posted by Robert Sernas @ Wednesday, January 28 2004, 21:02 pm EST
My newton reminded me several times about the meeting time and place. My original plan was to ride up on my big green motorcycle in honor of the occasion but weather and distance got it the way. Very cool event, sorry I missed it.
Next time!
Dale--posted by Dale Steele @ Friday, January 30 2004, 0:14 am EST
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