We got our new fiber lasercutter up and running finally! here it is making its first test cuts in stainless steel

We've just made our largest custom jigsaw puzzle yet with ~4000 wood pieces! This is going to be insanely difficult to assemble

This is how we assemble our metal sculptures from flat sheets without any forming or fixtures

There’s still time to order Nervous System jewelry (and puzzles!) for holiday delivery. My daily necklace is the Reaction Möbius Necklace in 3D-printed stainless steel. It's virtually indestructible and doesn't tarnish n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

Merry #Crustmas! I've added the new whimsies from our Ocean Tapestry and Bioluminescence puzzles to the custom puzzle app, including a crab and scorpion. I've also decreased our lead time so you can squeak in a custom puzzle order before Christmas. n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/customPuzzle/

We’re doing our first in person holiday event in years this Sunday at Art of Play in Brooklyn. Come say hi if you’re in the city www.artofplay.com/pages/brooklyn

Today, the children discovered the box of hundreds of “hat” tiles, the aperiodic monotile. Sometimes it’s nice to have your own puzzle factory.

Brooklyn friends: Nervous System is popping up this weekend at the Art of Play shop with 4 other NY makers from 11-7pm on Sunday. Come say hi and shop mathematical puzzles, sculptures and jewelry www.instagram.com/p/DR0a8Oljyr...

Of all my photos, this is easily my favourite I've ever taken. This amphipod is legitimately about 1mm in size. So small your eyes can't make out any details on it. They refuse to sit still. They run away from the light. It just looks like a grain of sand. Genuinely a 1 in a million shot.

Happy small biz Saturday! Consider gifting one of our mind bending wooden puzzles or intricate jewelry pieces n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop. Here's a thread of gift ideas

A fun finale for the #nudivember festivities! Isn't it pretty? And it does look just like it has a leaf for a cape! Alt text for article photo: A black sea slug has a flat deeply veined bright green leaf-like appendage unfurled along its back. #SeaSlugs #nudibranchs #CanadianCritters

ahah IT WORKS look it's a C² dual quaternion B-spline!! this is interpolating *poses* in dual quaternion form, coupling position and rotation, instead of treating them independently (this is a really neat thing!!)

I have no idea if anyone does these puzzles but we've been a bit delinquent on posting new Flummoxagon puzzles. I just posted 2. Please let me know if you try them n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/flummoxagon/

"dad why did you name me Lissa" "so that your life will be colorful like the decorator crab Lissa chiragra, darling" "why is my little sibling called Lybia" "so that they grow up cheerful like the pom pom crab Lybia tesselata" see, this conversation works

A neat project from John Hart. SLA printing with dissolvable supports using a resin with different properties when exposed to different wavelengths of light #scf

Radiolaria are microscopic unicellular sea creatures that create skeletons from silica. Their skeletons are among the most beautiful and complex natural microstructures, resembling elaborate filigree. blog post: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9861

Tomohiro Tachi presenting at SCF with his classic Origamizer

I just uploaded this week's Flummoxagon puzzles. I _may_ have made the expert level one a little too hard. Let me know! n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/flummoxagon/

I posted our second set of "weekly" Flummoxagon puzzles. For now, we're doing this completely manually. These 2 puzzles focus on the 2-hex piece. The small pieces tend to be tricky because they can fit anywhere, so we didn't include them in any of our initial puzzles n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/flummoxagon/

We have finally caught up on our initial Flummoxagon orders! The last ones are shipping today, and we have some in stock for immediate shipment. Has anyone received theirs yet? If so, how many scenarios have you done? n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

I'll be presenting at the Symposium for Computational Fabrication in Cambridge, MA November 20-21. If you're in town and want to meet up, let me know scf.acm.org/2025/ Oh hey, look what's that on the front page?

We have finally released our new puzzle, the Flummoxagon! We've done more tweaking and playtesting on this than any other puzzle, and I think we've managed to make a unique and addictive game. It's turned into something completely different from our original idea n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827

We have finally released our new puzzle, the Flummoxagon! We've done more tweaking and playtesting on this than any other puzzle, and I think we've managed to make a unique and addictive game. It's turned into something completely different from our original idea n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827

Meet the Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexagon frame but there’s a twist, pieces of the same color can’t touch. n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9827

Younger daughter & I are sorting our fossil collection with a late breakfast of ammonite pancakes 🐚🌀

Join us tonight for a unique puzzle stream at 8:30 EST where we will be introducing our new puzzle, the Flummoxagon twitch.tv/nervousPuzzles

Join us tonight for a unique puzzle stream at 8:30 EST where we will be introducing our new puzzle, the Flummoxagon twitch.tv/nervousPuzzles

We just added a puzzle frame option to our website for folks who want to preserve and showcase their puzzles n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...

🦠Watch Peter Whidden's first public talk on Mote: an interactive ecosystem simulation! Mote uses a custom GPU-based physics engine to model hundreds of thousands of organisms, leading to fascinating emergent phenomena: a sandbox that is part game, part research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hju0...

Tonight starting around 8:30pm EST we'll be streaming our new Flummoxagon puzzle! join us on Twitch as explore strategies for solving these puzzles www.twitch.tv/nervouspuzzles

I realized we hadn't updated our headshots in over a decade. It felt fitting to take new photos inside our own work (also featuring @nervousjesse.bsky.social @nervo.us)

We had a wonderful workshop building gyroids with students at Auburn University. It turns out the desire to wear a gyroid is universal

Reminds me of the murmuration of starlings.

Always gratifying to see my art at the airport. Off to speak at Auburn University for the Day of Design

I have been play testing our new puzzle which is _NOT_ a jigsaw puzzle. It’s been super fun. How long do you think should an easy puzzle take? What should each one of these sets of tiles be called? Internally we’ve been calling them scenarios but also considered “board” or just “puzzle”

Word of the day: boletinoid Mushrooms having a structure intermediate between gills and pores. As seen in this ash-tree bolete. (I love these) #fungifriends

Our Hyphae lamps are inspired by mycelial networks. Each lamp is unique. We grow them using an algorithm based on how veins form in leaves. We have a few in stock now: n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/generat... #sciart

Reminder: open studio tomorrow from 10 to 4 PM at our workshop in Palenville. Look for the nervous system sign at the top of our driveway n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9816

ASK AN ENGINEER 8/13/2025 LIVE! youtu.be/C-6sr1VylhU

Visit Nervous System this weekend for our first ever open studio! 8/16 10am-4pm in Palenville, NY (near Catskill) n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=9816

We’re headed to Seattle for a week. Going to see friends, go tidepooling, maybe Chihuly

The Hyphae Lantern is done! Next step is crating it for shipment

I feel like I already knew this, but if you naively run PBD in parallel without accounting for overlapping constraints, it’s only stable with a stiffness <= 0.5

I've been implementing a limited version of Position Based Dynamics in CUDA for our latest sculpture project. I'm always surprised how inflexible most APIs are making them completely unusable when deviating slightly from the intended use case (I'm looking at you NVIDIA)

It’s been awhile but puzzle stream is back tonight in about 15 minutes twitch.tv/nervousPuzzles

My new automatic rivet loader isn’t very efficient but it is very cute

The Hyphae lantern is taking shape #sciart

We’re opening up our studio to visitors on August 16th. Mark your calendars! We will have demos, you can shop our jewelry + puzzles, and also get sneak peaks of various sculpture projects we’re working on (in Catskill, NY)

Logarithmic maps are incredibly useful for algorithms on surfaces--they're local 2D coordinates centered at a given source. Yousuf Soliman and I found a better way to compute log maps w/ fast short-time heat flow in "The Affine Heat Method" presented @ SGP2025 today! 🧵