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(Reposted from my tumblr account) Conway’s Game of Life on an 8×8 LED Matrix (powered by Processing, Arduinos and the good old serial connection Processing code: ================================ /* 1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by underpopulation. 2. Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, […]
September 27, 2010
(Reposted from my ex-tumblr account) The lightboard from the Forum of Infomatics at Edinburgh. Most natives, when asked, replied that the dots and gaps were the sponsor names rendered in ASCII or some varient. I have yet to crack this or see how to read in numbers from the board such that I get sensible […]
April 25, 2010
Making the Physical from the Digital Talk given at the Open Knowledge Conference, ULU, 2010 – (NB wording may differ from actual talk given. Actually, I guarantee that what I write here won’t quite match what I spoke, but will match in terms of tone and meaning. I hope.) “Hi, my name is Ben O’Steen […]
March 3, 2010
Oooo Face-recognition – iPhoto and all the cool kids are doing it, but how is it done? I thought I’d find out. I thought it might take a long time. I found the OpenCV project. I stopped looking. Turns out that many of the algorithms and techniques for working with computer vision have already been […]
March 2, 2010
What happens if you take something that is ‘born digital’ – that is – something that has only existed digitally in its finished form, and attempt to print it? I decided to try to print my blog as an experiment to see what the issues might be, and aesthetically, what the finished book might be […]
February 27, 2010
Talking one night about printing with receipt printers, Dave Challis said that it would be interesting to print out a receipt for the MPs expenses the next day. So we did. We grabbed the google spreadsheet that contained the results of the Guardian’s crowd-sourced data, parsed it up using python and then spent an hour […]
October 15, 2009
(Thanks to @anarchivist for the title – I’ll let him take all the ‘credit’) “Pairtree? huh, what’s that?” – in a nutshell it’s ‘just enough veneer on top of a conventional filesystem’ for it to be able to store objects sensibly; a way of storing objects by id on a normal hierarchical filesystem in a […]
June 19, 2009
There exists technology now, available in bookshops and certain forward-thinking libraries, to print a book in 5 minutes from pressing Go, to getting the book into your hands. This excites me a lot. Yes, that does imply I am a geek, but whatever. So, what would I want to do with one? well, printing books […]
September 27, 2010
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