Last chance to sign up for tomorrow’s class on PHP and GD Image. Aside from being a fun way to draw and manipulate images in PHP, it’ll also get the rust off of the algebra gears in your brain. That’s right, it uses algebra. Or at least pre-algebra. It’s a good excuse to set up some equations… and then make PHP solve them for you.
The class is Sunday from 1 – 3 pm. Bring a laptop to work on!
I made a little hand made servo with a PID feedback loop. It’s really fast and snappy. And adorable!
Anamanaguchi makes some incredible guitar-infused NES based chiptune music, and is streaming their entire new album online along with some amazing 8-bit inspired visuals. You can experience the whole thing fullscreen at dawnmetropolis.com or check it out embedded below. Just click on a video stripe for the song and video.
With strong, catchy melodies, an excellent blend of chiptune and analog sounds, and an unrelentingly optimistic pace, Anamanaguchi definitely ranks among my new favorites artists. This is true musicianship using 8-bit tools.
Check out the videos here:
Or you can get the album from http://normative.com/#/anamanaguchi
What’s inside a capacitor? Watch this video to find out! (and then, go read the wikipedia entry for waaaay more info)
Credits: Zach Hoeken, Adam Mayer, Raphael Abrams, & Eric Skiff
Music: Ascending from: http://glitchnyc.com/music
Group photo!
The friendly scientists over at Thingiverse have posted an exciting new discovery on their blog. Basically, they’ve uncovered an entire galaxy composed entirely of tools that the denizens of Thingiverse can use to search, sort, and categorize the things that make up their universe. It doesn’t answer the eternal question of why are we here?, but it does answer the question of what can i make with a lasercutter?
So, there was discussion today around the tables at NYCResistor as people worked on their various projects regarding the ability to produce bots that “baited” people. Bre, remarked that designing a bot that sat around eliciting angry responses would be simple and very similar to simply capturing things I say and spraying them about.
This is when I was reminded of a project I wrote when I was in my first year of college. I was having some trouble showing up to classes, and I needed to ween myself off of IRC, so I basically wrote a bot that would take care of my IRC session for me while I was gone. It was like methadone for an IRC addiction. Sure I was still suffering withdrawal, but the channel was none the wiser and I suffered no ill effects from my repeated absences.
What’s really astounding is the simplicity of the code, and that it somehow lasted 3 weeks before someone realized it was a bot. Ultimately the zero delay responses are what got it caught.
Anyways here’s a blast from the past… one of my first perl scripts…
Full of early 2000 IRC goodness. Enjoy! Please don’t judge me.
