Sir Clive Sinclair, dead at 81

*That was then, this is now. https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/16/sir_clive_sinclair/ Sir Clive Sinclair died on Thursday at home in London after a long illness, his family said today. He was 81. The British entrepreneur is perhaps best known for launching the ZX range of cheap microcomputers, which helped bring computing, games, and programming into UK homes in the […]

A Prehistory of DAOs

*I don’t know what to make of this, but Italians might find it simpatico; there’s something very Luther Blissett about it. https://gnosisguild.mirror.xyz/t4F5rItMw4-mlpLZf5JQhElbDfQ2JRVKAzEpanyxW1Q

H3K at Basel

*Nice to see both of these august enterprises showing some signs of life. Dear friends of HEK, Upcoming Tuesday HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel will celebrate its 10th anniversary. As part of this anniversary, we would like to invite you to a reception on the outdoor platform of HEK: Tuesday, September 21, 2021, […]

ISEA 2022 Barcelona

Betreff: ISEA2022 Datum: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:07:19 +0200 Von: Paloma González Díaz #ISEA2022BARCELONA https://isea2022.isea-international.org/ ISEA is one of the world’s most prominent international arts and technology events, bringing together scholarly, artistic, and scientific domains in an interdisciplinary discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in arts, interactivity, and electronic and digital media. […]

Neural Blender website

https://neuralblender.com/

The Arduino Portenta H7

*Oh dear, that device really looks big. Arduino Pro expands its industry-grade ecosystem with the Portenta H7 Lite _ A new board for industrial clients wanting to integrate the performance and power of the Portenta H7 into more targeted AI and edge computing applications Arduino PRO continues to invest in the diversification of its Portenta […]

Spatial-Temporal Motion Control via Composite Cam-follower Mechanisms (SIGGRAPH Asia 2021)

*Those are nice. https://sutd-cgl.github.io/supp/Publication/projects/2021-SIGAsia-3DCamMech/index.htm

Alexandra Daisy Ginsburg in “Scientific American”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/guerilla-artist-daisy-ginsberg-recreates-scent-of-extinct-flowers/ (…) Which were the three flowers you chose to resurrect? The Hibiscadelphus wilderianus Rock, or Maui hau kuahiwi, grew in ancient lava fields in Maui, Hawaii. It was decimated by colonial cattle ranching, and the last tree died in 1912. The Orbexilum stipulatum was last seen in Kentucky in 1881 before it went extinct […]