e470 — Two Marvelous Mini-Brains

3D printed brain with bunny from Spamalot in background

AI threads through a set of old and new games that span text based adventures from Infocom’s HHG2G to recent examples like Milton is Trapped, along with a conversation on FinalSpark’s Neuroplatform for biocomputing. Continue reading

Episode 211 – Ducking the Hurricane

Hurricane preparedness through mobile apps, Waffle House Index, avoiding unintentional foul language via autocorrect, simple games & arial drone acrobatics. Continue reading

Episode 172 – Shining a light on AR

Michael and Michael are back — and take a long careful look at the newest capabilities that Apple is bringing to light in augmented reality with the new iOS 11 operating system.  Michael R has already downloaded the development framework, and has started bringing into mixed reality the digital test objects, to great effect.  The pictures included in this post are from Michael R’s experiments with the framework thus far, and it is quite amazing to see the fidelity of the objects, as well as the recognition by the software of the planes, shadows & angles of placement.  There much … Continue reading