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Livecoding at Foam Kernow
Clip of a small and extremely fun livecoding jam at foam kernow alongside Federico Reuben and Francesca Sargent:
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Pattern Matrix hardware build
More photos from the Makernow fablab, the pattern matrix weavingcoding device is starting to take shape! All schematics, 3d printing shapes and plans will be released soon as open source hardware on the weavecoding repo.
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Yeastogram workshop
Last week we had our first biohacking workshop at foam kernow with the London Biohackspace. We had a great turnout and an interesting mix of people. Amber has written a more complete overview of the event. For more information on yeastograms and how to make your own there is more info here. One of the…
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Screenless music livecoding
Programming music with flotsam – for the first time, it’s truly screen-less livecoding. All the synthesis is done on the Raspberry Pi too (raspbian release in the works). One of the surprising things I find with tangible programming is the enforced scarcity of tokens, having to move them around provides a situation that is good…
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Organisation hacking (part 2)
Time for the next installment in my attempt to document the sometimes opaque world of setting up a company, based on experiences founding Foam Kernow. As before ‘I Am Not A Lawyer’, as they say – so no substitute for proper legal advice here, and any corrections would be most welcome. See part 1 about…
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Foam Kernow mini update
A short update on the things currently going on at Foam Kernow alongside the stuff I’ve been blogging about lately. We are near completion of a new version of the butterfly hunting game – this time being developed for the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, where it will be a citizen science exhibit…
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New tangible weavecoding device – pattern matrix
We’re starting construction of version 2 of the flotsam tangible programming device, specialised to weaving – and henceforth known as the ‘pattern matrix’. This will be tested during May at our upcoming performance/workshop/residency at Munich’s Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke (Museum of Casts of Classical Sculpture) with the Coding weaves project, and then for later…
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Organisation hacking (part 1)
Over the last six months I’ve been taking a crash course in company formation, treating it like any other investigation into a strange and esoteric technology. Last year I registered FoAM Kernow as a UK non profit organisation in the mould of FoAM Brussels. Starting off with absolutely no knowledge at all (but with a…
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Test flight day!
View of ground control from a OnePlus phone mounted on a Y6 UAV: A report from the first flight test of the new UAV android software with the Exeter University UAV science group. We had two aircraft, a nice battle hardened fixed wing RC plane and a very futuristic 3D robotics RTF Y6. We also…
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Livecoding UAVs for environmental research
Some screenshots of the UAV livecoding visual programming language. Weather being on our side, we’re planning some test flights later this week! The first program uses GPS to take photos with an overlap of 50% at 300 metres altitude, based on the vertical camera angle as reported from the device. It assumes the the flight…