This is pretty cool. The temperature changes due to whether the color is “warm” or “cold” when you touch the surface of the piece. ~evan behmer, AD406 Browning

Oh, this is just fun. The LEDs in this table react to motion and shadows, lighting up, blinking, and dimming in reaction to movement. Make your next dinner party a real party! There’s also a PDF outlining the construction of the table, and the design is being given away for free if you want your…

Though the concept has a ways to go, it’s pretty impressive to see this in any sort of usable implementation. The article explains it in more detail, but basically the idea is that you can use a live camera connected to the internet to access info on whatever it sees and project relative information about…

A robot controlled wireless by a rat’s brain cells.

A robot controlled wireless by a rat’s brain cells.

recursion: mathematics, programmingWhen a function (or procedure) calls itself. Such a function is called “recursive”. If the call is via one or more other functions then this group of functions are called “mutually recursive”.If a function will always call itself, however it is called, then it will never terminate. Usually however, it first performs some…

I thought this one is pretty cool. I’m a big fan of Ipods, and I think there the best mp3 player on the market. Even though this was an older generation of Ipod, I would love to learn how to do my own homebrew using pd on my ipod. I just think it’s really creative…

I thought this was a pretty cool Christmas decoration scene. Using pure data it made Christmas characters peak out and wave. It seems like every time you look at a different patch or structure, you learn something new that pure data can do. To me, it just seems pretty interesting.

The exhibit “Protect, Protect” by Jenny Holzer impacted me profoundly and illustrated how an artist can make a work of art from something as simple as an email while providing a powerful message about America’s Capitalist Imperialism. The first pieces that I saw were the painted emails in the main hallway, but I did not…

Pleo was engineered by a group of scientists, biologists, programmers, animators, specialists and technologists. The design combines sensory, articulation, and neuronetics to create lifelike appearance with organic movement and adaptable behavior. It was designed by Caleb Chung, the co-creator of the Furby. It is software-upgradable, and modifications to it’s firmware is also encouraged. There will be an…

This video incorporates the Nintendo Wii remotes with a program written with the help of PD to make a drum sample. It also mentions that the “drancer” is wearing a sensor suit. It’s interesting to see PD incorporated with something most of us are familiar with (the Wii). There’s more information on the drancing software…