how to reverse engineer the Xbox Kinect Motor (and usb devices in general)

programming cheat sheets

Doug Engelbart giving the "mother of all Demos" 1968

Zx Spectrum games on Vinyl !

"David Cope’s software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?"

a history of cybernetic animals and early robots

"Flyfire serves as an initial step to explore and imagine the possibilities of this free-form display: a swarm of pixels in a space."

"I wanted to imagine whether "CD culture" might also return in the future, and if so, what might drive it and what it might involve."

compares local last.fm stats

replace your GPS' voice with WHATEVER YOU WANT

So the Internet is going to be filled with dead people.

And their numbers will mount.

Interesting insight on today's music business, and its relationship with the internet, especially youtube !

turns videos into Ascii Art or retroish pixels

You can listen to the underwater sound of the Antarctic Ocean with a delay of a few seconds here.

"3D scanning with a plain webcam"

It's the story of the sysadmin charged with shutting down the first and only functional AI, which no one can figure out a reason to save -- and it's the story of the AI's bid to save its own life by fixing the Unix 32-bit rollover problem.

"LivingConcepts was written to enable students of the Algorithmic Art and Artificial Intelligence class given by Prof. Remko Scha at the University of Amsterdam to explore the often difficult concepts that are presented in the course. "

"“American History Reinvented” is primarily an arrangement, a reconstruction, of historical events, or, more accurately, a reconstruction of historical situations that we imagine as we do simply because they were handed down to us in a particular way in such testimonies as photographs, or through museum-like installations like the village reconstructions in which Neidich has photographed."

1. The goal is to make a nighttime cityscape that is mostly made of lights and suggestions rather than real detail.

2. The city will be entirely procedurally generated. That is, the program will contain no art assets. No textures. No models. Everything must be built from scratch at startup.

"aims to design the first every fully biological (no silicon components) amorphous massively-parallel robot"