https://mattturck.com/landscape/mad2024.pdf

*Of course blockchains had to put in an appearance — but where is the AI? https://wired.me/technology/parmesan-cheese-microchip/ (…) The traceable digital chip is created in collaboration with Kaasmerk Matec, a leading cheesemark producer, and p-Chip Corporation. The p-Chip is an innovative measure to ensure the quality and safety of its product. The microchip is planted inside […]

*Who needs this? https://www.pinmuseum.org/shop/ai-artist-patch

*This is IEEE at work rather than Arduino, but these very short videos are actually pretty good.

https://shareproject.cargo.site/SHARE-PRIZE-XVI-ENG

*It’s exceedingly rare for digital production methods to unite products like this, although the complexity should be relatively easy to program and share.

Threescore years and ten! It is the Scriptural statute of limitations. After that, you owe no active duties; for you the strenuous life is over. You are a time-expired man, to use Kipling’s military phrase: You have served your term, well or less well, and you are mustered out. You are become an honorary member […]

*More of an “hommage,” maybe, since this contraption is not very accurately made and no one would mistake it for an Alexander Calder duplicate. *However, it’s probably the first new, fully-functional one since at least 1952. https://medium.com/@bruces/the-homemade-limits-of-everyday-weirdness-0c7e6bb12abb

The “Tower of Saint Gregory” stood in downtown Turin since the 1300s, and was the grandest and tallest building in town for many centuries. It was demolished by Napoleon. I’m inclined to think that the tower ought to be restored — mostly for the sake of the Turinese heritage-tourism industry. It’s annoying that “heritage tourism” […]