https://deepai.org/definitions *You have to like the English language to appreciate what AI is doing to it, but AI jargon is quite poetic. This glossary not only lists some of the most weird and beautiful jargon terms, it also explains them. For instance: the wonderfully-named “Exploding Gradient Problem.” What is the Exploding Gradient Problem? In machine […]

*If you ever wondered what the offices of “Adafruit” looked like. https://twitter.com/ptorrone/status/1466949942082158593?s=20

*You’ll notice that the entire last half of this tool recommendation video is about making videos of your makerspace. *It’s part of the trend from old-school fab-lab to FX and video production unit.

*Those needle-nose pliers impress me. I like it that they have no branding. *Also the business about archival glue that doesn’t age and ruin everything with its acidity, that’s often overlooked in the heat of the moment.

*This seems like a very sensible idea, but it’s also alarming to see the European electronic-art world attempting to save the planet. It’s as if you’d recruited all the synthesizer-players and invited them to protect the national forests. *With that said, the volume of plastic on our planet’s land and seas is truly staggering, Maybe […]

*It’s a platform, it’s a magazine, it may be an NFT retail outlet, but whatever it is, it’s new and it’s remarkably interesting. https://outland.art/

*It’s interesting that they are taking the trouble to curate them. https://blog.arduino.cc/2021/11/29/our-12-favorite-arduino-uno-projects/ Our 12 favorite Arduino UNO projects ARDUINO TEAM — November 29th, 2021 The UNO wasn’t Arduino’s first board, and it won’t be its last. There have been many varieties of microcontroller and maker boards before and after the UNO, but none have been […]

*These sermons get a lot more convincing when people have been actually doing it for twenty years. https://medium.com/processing-foundation/making-p5-js-fd293ba91a32 They want us to think technology is a black box. Accept the terms of service. You can’t know what’s inside. You can’t modify it. You certainly can’t make your own.We didn’t believe it so we made p5.js. […]

*Jimmy DiResta really tearing it up with the professional Maker gear there. *It’s all about the plans, adhesives and belt-sanders.