Board Thread:Suggestions and Ideas/@comment-24006222-20150315033040

I wrote what I thought was a really cool program, a metronome. Much to my horror after posting it here. I found out that Nintendo has one for download, and they are charging money for it. It looks nicer than mine, too.

So what is needed here in the Petit Computer Wiki is for us to write programs that are NOT available for download from Nintendo. Music editor? They got one, more than one. Clock? yep. Calculator? Of course.

What they DO NOT have are also my proudest achievments: Spreadsheet - MILOCALC (I'm still improving it); and kitchen timer - COOKTMR1

Now I'm working on a new idea: GIZMOPAD. The GIZMOPAD will be a program that takes the BEEP sounds and makes them available on a "keyboard". Really the touch screen on the smaller 3DS and 2DS can't handle more than 9 buttons, 3 x 3, so a selection of sounds must be programmed in for GIZMOPAD to use. Thus the program I'm really putting the effort into is the setup program, GIZMOSET. It's beginning to take shape and should be done in a few weeks.

When complete, here's what GIZMOPAD can do: Hook the audio output of a 3DS/2DS up to an amplifier or computer sound input. Run GIZMOPAD. Now the 3DS/2DS becomes a musical instrument that plays whatever sounds you've put in when you hit the soft-buttons on the touch screen.

Further ideas are up to you, but, try to think 'out of the box'. How do you know when you are out of the box? When your box doesn't look like any of the other boxes around. See what you can do to come up with an idea for an application that ISN'T already available. 'Nuff said. 