Just finished reading the book… found myself not as into it as I remember being about GEB… though still bits of it really resonate, and I think something that it pulls at in me is amazement that somehow our universe is defined in such a way that it supports (encourages, in fact) constructs that climb [...]

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I decided to model this assignment after the movement of fleas fleas (see at about 1:00 for fleas jumping) The fleas respond to the camera; they will somewhat try to jump towards the brighter area of the screen, and will be able to land on any reasonably bright object. flea_main.pde: // Fleas (main program) // [...]

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build a PIC based USB keyboard emulator I got a PIC18f14k50 sample from Microchip a bit ago and wanted to make an easy control device prototype with it (similar to the i-PAC boards from Ultimarc, but with a much lesser feature set). Today ended up being just tons of soldering… I’d hoped to get the [...]

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On the Brooklyn side we decided to have our own play-along game with the 4-in-4 crew (will link when there’s somewhere to link to). But for numerous reasons, our version is much less ambitious. Sonaar and Rob came over and mostly we hung out, snacked, drank coffee and orange juice and watched a few videos [...]

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