James Brown is back with another three-dimensional volumetric display, only this time there are no terrifying rapidly-spinning LED arrays in sight thanks to a new and considerably quieter solid-state approach.

The process of making them.

Youtube commenter claiming I'm an influence op created in Britain in the early 70s, and I mean, it's not *un* true.

I dunno, it was pretty life-changingly magical for young me.

There must be a better way for me to spend my time than building completely unfilmable display devices and then making a youtube video about them.

Latest voxels! Flickery when filmed ✓ Distracting reflections ✓ You kind of have to be there ✓

If you print a label to show which way you need to rotate a dial to move something up or down, and it says “up<- ->dn” then it doesn’t matter which way up you stick it. That is all.

Having fun with lasers and I think I've invented Tron?

Spooky projection mapping

If you're in Melbourne, you can currently see Doom-on-a-Lego-brick up close at ACMI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U... www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam...

Watching Suspiria on the BFI Player it asks, "Are you over 18?" No, I'm a ten-year-old with a subscription to the BFI Player.

I was so invested in this video I wondered whether it was engagement farming. Part way through he reattaches a potentiometer on the wrong side of the board, and you just have to watch helpless and crying like the square hole meme girl while he finishes up the work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbH...

I lost all my pre-2013 photos in a hard drive failure some years ago (irreplaceable baby pics etc), and chalked it up as a lesson to always make backups. But it turns out the *actual* lesson is to always remember that you did make a backup you idiot, it's in the garage under a pile of crap.

Just spent some time digging through old Maxar/DigitalGlobe blogs to find a reference image and found this incredible capture of Mt Fuji. Incredible. The satellite was only three degrees above the horizon when it captured this image. blog.maxar.com/earth-intell...

Browsing AliExpress, I found a 0.42" colour TFT, 96x54 that comes in the same form factor and pinout as my favourite 72x40 mono oled (as used in the lego brick, wearable ring, keyboard o'screens etc). Clearly designed as a drop in replacement. www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007...

Flesh Brick!

Internet is out because a Wētā chewed through our fibre.

In 1999/2000 I wrote a WWI aerial combat game, along with an artist and a game designer. The artist I worked with was fresh out of a BA in Fine Art, and he wasn't very used to Photoshop, so he did a bunch of the textures in watercolor and scanned them in. Anthony Callaghan, you mad glorious bastard.

I'm getting better at remembering to video things as I do them. This one turned out not to be useful, but it is pretty.

I've blogged -- maybe this is one time a "per capita" / "punching above our weight" story really does make sense... excursionset.com/blog/2025/07...

YouTube comments.

I made a new mouth mechanism. I'm calling it Selectramatronics.

Are there any movies where a nerd is struggling to fix a complex piece of equipment and someone simply gives it a thump, where that ends up breaking it even worse?

Good to see this article about the financial costs of standing up for important principles against institutions with very deep pockets who in my experience will exploit that to their advantage

DynaMight built a Dreamcast VMU that can run “real” games — including Doom, of course.

Spruce Booster

How much energy is used when you say "thank you" to an AI? (Not intending to stop saying thank you, just want to calibrate my guilt level.)

I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.

I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...

They've fixed it online, but honestly, it was right the first time.

Artificial intelligence when I was a kid

If you see this post your getaway vehicle

It's always a joy finding a chaotic online store that's clearly been set up to handle the overflow from somebody's hobbies. Lovely one today that caters to all your model trains, greenhouses, CO2 lasers and goldfish needs.

Filming my resin printer I've discovered that there's what my camera sees as a line of bright blue light and my eyes see as nothing at all leaking out through a gap in the case.

This has to fit inside another part which rotates on two axes, and I find the resulting shape almost unreasonably satisfying. It’s what’s left when you sweep away the parts that don’t fit.

I plugged this in for a soak test a week ago and forgot about it, so I guess it's soaked. The UI is randomly generated, and I love what it came up with here.

Resin prints are crazy. You can see every polygon.

Youtube commenters turning up under my videos saying they’re just VFX when honestly it would be more effort to fake them than film them for real.

Did you know you can download the whole of wikipedia and put it on an SD card in a cheap e-reader?

One of the reasons I haven't been in any hurry to release the code for my voxel displays is that I suspect the number of people who will actually find it useful is in the low single digits. I've now added a simulator, so you can at least play with the toys.

I made this lens a while ago, but didn't shoot any good footage of it. I'm all set up for parallax wobbles now.

I’ve been disappointed with previously advertised comets and wasn’t expecting to see much, but there it was.

I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...

I uploaded another video of the GTA port because angry internet people were complaining about the lack of camera motion in the previous one. youtu.be/onYH5gvlnzE

I have finally got the first prototype of the Tim Aidley PicoMachine up and running - a very heavy, crappy laptop designed explicitly for running @lexaloffle.bsky.social 's Pico-8 and Picotron on. It even has built-in storage and a floppy drive!

My new favourite DOOM mod.

Importing level models from various games to see what would work in *3D*. Minecraft was disappointing (unrecognisable at any playable scale). Liberty City from GTA 3 looks really good, and I think it's worth getting some vehicle physics going.

Better footage of Voxel Lander: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILNb...