Rockin' out with Alan Alda
I watched a PBS show last night that made me wish I went to MIT. Some of it was about student "cyborgs" who make their own wearable computers. Another segment was about a class building robots for a competition. (Lots of robots and lots of drama.) The part that interested me most was about new toys and software that make it easy for kids to write their own music. They talked about a program called Hyperscore that lets users compose music by painting on the screen. Download it here for free. I would like Hyperscore better if it let me export midi files, but I think I'll have to wait for a more advanced version. If you missed the show and like this kind of thing, watch the segments online.