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Android Camera Problems
The DORIS marine mapping platform is taking shape. For this project, touch screens are not great for people wearing gloves in small fishing boats – so one of the things the android app needs to do is make use of physical keys. In order to do that for taking pictures, I’ve had to write my…
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Al Jazari 2 – minecraft meets fluxus
Some screenshots of the in-progress next generation Al Jazari livecoding world. This is a voxel rendered world, inspired in part by Minecraft but with an emphasis on coding robots in scheme bricks who construct artefacts from the materials around them. The robot language is still to be designed, but will probably resemble Scratch. You can…
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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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Codeclub and Bioinformatics
I’m swatting up on my scratch skills for the first codeclub at Troon Primary School in Cambourne tomorrow afternoon! It’s exciting to finally head to the frontlines of algorithmic literacy in education. Also on Wednesday I present at talk about FoAM and cross-disciplinary working at Exeter University’s Biomedical Informatics Hub, I’ll be talking about Borrowed…
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Fluxus on the Raspberry Pi
After getting acquainted with the BeagleBoard while working on the Swamp bike opera I decided to have a look at the similar Raspberry Pi, and particularly it’s graphics systems. The Android/PS2 version of fluxus, called nomadic is ported after a bit of fiddling, but no mouse or keyboard input yet (build it with ‘scons TARGET=RPI’).…
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Spork Factory: Amorphous Computing
Departing in a new direction after evolved light follower robots, take 500 processor cores spread out in space. Give them a simple instruction set which includes a instruction to copy (DMA) 8 bytes of their code/data to nearby cores (with an error rate of 0.5%). Fill the cores with random junk and set them running.…
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Spork Factory: evolving a light follower robot
Continuing with the structured procrastination R&D project on evolvable hardware, I’m proud to report a pretty decent light following robot – this is a video of the first real-world test, with a program grown from primordial soup chasing me around: After creating a software model simulation of the robot in the last post, I added…
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Re-interpreting history
A script for sniffing bits of supercollider code being broadcast as livecoding history over a network and re-interpreting them as objects in fluxus, written during an excellent workshop by Alberto de Campo and Julian Rohrhuber at /*VIVO*/ Mexico City. (osc-source “57120”) (define (stringle str) (map char->integer (string->list str))) ;;(osc-destination “osc.udp:255.255.255.255:57120”) ;;(osc-send “/vivo” “s” ‘(“fluxus:hola”)) (define…
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Doris: Lobster mapping
A new project, coming from Borrowed Scenery’s Zizim project, converted into a scientific research tool in collaboration with the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at Exeter University and Helsinki University. Doris is named after the sea nymph from Greek mythology, and will be used for mapping Lobster catches on fishing boats so researchers working…
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slub at /* vivo */
My last /* vivo */ Mexico post, some data from our livecoding performance on the final day. This was one of those performances where we had a rough plan and got a bit too carried away by the crowd to follow it (I guess one of the great things about improvisation!). Also to a great…