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I was approached to produce another icosahedron, with a few small alterations. This one was to be larger – just under 2m tall at the top nodes – than the prototype, but the same in as many other ways as possible. This greater size meant… Read More »Laban Dance Icosahedron – bigger and better

SSH into a raspberry pi – why bother? I am interested in learning how to upload to, run programmes on, and download files from other computers – it is a common situation at work that long analyses are run, clogging up a computer that could… Read More »Offloading computing tasks to another computer with SSH – getting started using a raspberry pi

Getting to hello world – a video that dims live We had a previous example of a processing script that took the brightest pixel from a video (reliable and known frame rates etc) – the next challenge was to make sure that this could be… Read More »LightTraceMemory part 2 – steps and missteps

Image from: http://lightmemory.net/About   Image from: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1188160556/tracing-the-future-we-shape LightTraceMemory was an event that took place as part of the London Festival of Architecture 2017 (LFA). The event used a spherical pendulum, which was attached to a pulley so its radius could be changed by the users, coupled… Read More »LightTraceMemory – a write up part 1: the code used on the day

Peter Rice is possibly the best known structural engineer of the 20th century – projects he worked on are some of the best known today: the Sydney Opera House, Beauborg (Pompidou Centre, Paris), Pavilion of the Future at the Seville Expo, Lloyds of London. It… Read More »Peter Rice: An Engineer Imagines

If you ever want to send me some information in confidence (not sure why this would happen, but maybe one day it will be useful) or would like to send me bitcoin (even less idea why this would happen… but always appreciated!) , then my… Read More »PGP communications: public key