I am partial to this raygun style approach to a sensor + USB cable that I designed. Hopefully the client approves.

Proof I can call my AI assistant an ass. Thanks for the long rabbit hole you mf.

This just destroyed me. "Switch between ESP32 or ESP32S3 through Type-C access in different directions" - Small note at the bottom of a tech doc. Days of pain.

This is a fascinating case study of Necto at the Venice Biennale 2025. From Rhino > UE > TouchDesigner > fabrication. benjaminbojko.com/project/nect...

There were more AI Notetakers than people in my last meeting. No longer authorizing my recording, this is bs.

Chatting with someone today and the conversation swung into territory that reminded me of Walter Kitundu's artworks. I take it as proof that the Eyeo Festival talks never age: vimeo.com/772227155?sh... This presentation, from the last day of Eyeo, is a gem.

Pedestrians are walking 15% faster and lingering less in public spaces in a study that compared 638 hours of video from 1980 to 2010. Social interactions down. www.dezeen.com/2025/07/31/w... For the experiential industry, studies like this could greatly inform the value of an installation.

Quick 3D Model generation with Hunyuan3D. Now to figure out how to rig this thing (can you rig in Comfy?).

youtu.be/_zBbiFohlC0 Rival Consoles - Soft Gradient Beckons A lovely film describing the creative process of this meditative piece.

Finally figured out how to perform real-time rigging of MediaPipe to TouchDesigner's skin deformation. The rigging of the default FBX humanoid doesn't match the MediaPipe control points so I may have to create a rigged humanoid in Blender. Paired with POPs I suspect I can animate real-time puppets.

A rather clear video of ball lightning? www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmOf...

Well, that's one for the books. My first implementation of a custom trained model in TouchDesigner. Now I need to figure out how to build my own Op.

Brought the car into the shop and they found an 8oz foam insert had come loose inside the tire which was causing a shake at highway speeds. Fixed, but now my wife is calling the the "Princess and the pea" of driving.

The CBCs coverage of Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb is the best coverage I've seen on the topic to date. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxNX...

Haven't heard the term "Cryptomnesia" before, "This is a psychological term referring to the phenomenon called unconscious plagiarism or latent memory." This article offers some interesting ideas to identify artistic research, especially by Daito Manabe (scrapbox.io/artresearch/)

The Global Bird Collision Mapper is a disturbing but fascinating data source for building strike data. It would be interesting to see this better utilized globally: www.birdmapper.org/pages/explor...

Favourite hack of the day? Replace the url of any papers you find on arxiv.org with alphaxiv.org and generate an AI companion that you can discuss the paper with! (Requires a Google Scholar or Orcid login)

Sudoku Bench is an evaluation platform to measure AI's ability to reason through a Sudoku problem. Should probably study this to see if I can learn some new techniques. The example prompts are interesting to read. pub.sakana.ai/sudoku/

I've been obsessed with this tech today. But unlike a factory deployment, I'd be interested in using this in an experiential use case: ceilix.com/infinitycran...

Marshmallow Laser Feast's You:Matter exhibit is just stunning. Visualizing the Day/Night cycle of carbon dioxide on a global scale: www.instagram.com/p/DJ4iG2CsmPX/

Shape the future of #openFrameworks! forum.openframeworks.cc/t/of-steerin...

Well, a week of failing trying to handle thermal printer drivers in Ubuntu. Rebuild a new machine with Windows and the same thermal printer and everything just works. Time to swap machines in the field.

Edible batteries, pneumatic gelatin (soft) robotics. The future looks tasty! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTRO...

This biodegradable PCB substrate could be game changing for consumer products with regular upgrade cycles. 10-15% premium over FR4 and can support through hole process. www.jivamaterials.com

Subsurface Scattering in Gaussian Splats: sss.jdihlmann.com

I attended an Agentic AI meetup on Friday and I can't seem to shake some feelings about the tech. Kudos to the presenters, but the tech just plain failed in one instance, and in another just wasn't interesting.

First posthumous AI victim statement used in court: www.abc15.com/news/region-...

PlatformIO's handling of environment variables is problematic. Couldn't get them to reliably import without hacks. Not a common request? I wonder how many secrets are stored in PIO Github repos out there? (Imported a secrets.h file to keep it out of the repo)

Photonic computing is shown to be 295 times faster than an NVIDIA A100 GPU.

"U.S. stands to lose $21 billion in travel-related exports." At what point does the current administration hit a tripwire and change it's outlook? What are the limits the economy will withstand? www.ustravel.org/us-travel-sn...

Raytraced audio tech dev: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Eu... I'd be curious to see how this stacks up to Valve's Steam Audio engine. But the accessibility options towards the end of the video are fascinating. I wonder if accessibility features will allow players to supplement their gameplay?

May have spent way too long looking for this 3 year old post. Makes me happy to have found it, but buying a gimbal to repeat this experiment should probably be out of my budget. I do want to do it though. www.reddit.com/r/Filmmakers...

Fleuron (on right now) looks like an interesting conference about flowers/tech/design/illustration. fleuron.tf ($33)

Philomena Cunk as the protagonist of a Black Mirror episode would be so much fun. (@netflix.com you can make this happen, right?)

Now this is a cool drone concept: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tckI...

Don't let Big AI take the Fish Doorbell away: visdeurbel.nl/en/

Launched a new portfolio site today. This time it features an LLM fine tuned on my projects, so you can chat with it about something you want to build, and it will return a project that I've worked on that may have some similarities. brentmarshall.tech

This is my last US purchase for the next four years. #FuckTrump

The past little while I've been getting more and more interested in different spinning interfaces. Adding this to the list. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzqJ...

Otto – Robotic choreographies (2025) by Gentle Systems www.creativeapplications.net/project/otto...

Breakdown video of the Severence S02 intro sequence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kal1...

Saul Williams on the origin of Wall St. in NY, and so many other impactful insights. Presented 5 months ago, but more prescient now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOEI...

Latest inclusion to a Kickstarter campaign: "outside of the U.S.? You can safely ignore this, as you will not be affected by these tariffs." "the de minimus exception, where deliveries under $800 of value were not affected by tariffs. Unfortunately the de minimus exception has now been revoked."

Very strong desire to buy some coaxial hollow shaft stepper motors but I don't know what I'll do with them. Could be a good opportunity to build a walking robot while keeping the gears central to the body. www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008...

I don't usually comment on US Politics as I'm not from that nation, but @booker.senate.gov accomplishment is astonishing.

Really excited to have the chance to be part of the Collaborative Robot Drawing workshop at Interaccess! Don't know how many tickets are left, but you can find details here: interaccess.org/event/2025/c...

Fish tail palm: Generative plant controlled by hand movement. Plotted with a micron pen and water colored by hand. 22x30in #plotter #genart #openframeworks

Google acquiring Waterloo based MEMS Eyetracking firm AdHawk this week? (h/t Computerworld) www.adhawkmicrosystems.com/products I wonder how much crossover there is to North/Thalmic?