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Blogging continues elsewhere…
All blogging will continue principally on the foam website blog section as well as on project specific blogs such as the Penelope site.
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Penelopean robotics – radio transmissions (part 3)
On the Penelope project, our plan was to develop technologies that could be useful in constructing a swarm of robots which could be livecoded by using the pattern matrix – a general purpose tangible programming system based on the Raspberry Pi. In order to make communication possible remotely, radio is the most obvious approach to…
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Further attempts at untangling tablet weave
One of the great unknowns following the first weavecoding project was the nature of tablet weave. Other than a few primitive attempts that didn’t work in all cases and lead us to further questions, modelling tablet weave fully was left as an undeciphered mystery. Tablet weave is a complex and particularly ancient form of weaving,…
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slub Penryn->NYC live stream 25-03-02016
A streamed slub livecoding performance from FoAM Kernow, Penryn to source2016 at NYU, 35 w4th st, Manhattan.
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Quipu sonification experiments
Following on from our session last week on Quipu sonification, Julian and I wrote a blog article with some audio on the weavecodes project site about trying to understand these undeciphered Inca hard drives with sound.
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Ellen Harlizius-Klück – Textile MATRIX
Next week the weaving codes project assembles in the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke in Munich. We’ll be working for a few days surrounded by these characters to get us in a classical mood: The museum is hosting Ellen’s ‘Textile Matrix’ exhibition, a crossbreeding of logical science, religion, crafts and visual arts. The word ‘matrix’…
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An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction
Compilers are perceived to be magical artifacts, carefully crafted by the wizards, and unfathomable by the mere mortals. This is from a great paper by Abdulaziz Ghuloum on how compilers are made. It, along with a timely email from Julian Rohrhuber inspired me to have a go at making a tiny one for compiling scheme…
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Spork factory
A system for creating an abundance of useless software for tiny devices. Spork Factory evolves programs that run on Atmel processors – the same make as found on the Arduino, in this case the ATtiny85 – a £2.50 8 pin 8bit CPU. I’m currently simply using a piezo speaker as an output and evolving programs…
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Germination X focus group/game testing in UK
The first UK focus group/game testing session for Germination X will take place at the “Loading” gaming cafe in Falmouth, Cornwall on the 28th March at 18.00!
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Thursday with Tangible Auditory Interfaces
I spent thursday afternoon in the tangible auditory interfaces studio at the Helsinki Media Lab with Till Bovermann and Erich Berger. Till has a report on our investigations of taking the Betablocker virtual machine into new noisemaking territories. Here is an example of a betablocker program written without the help of the graphical programming interface,…