Guy’s Hospital in London features an art installation by Tim Hunkin.

It’s uh…creepy.

#art #automata #creepy #uncannyValley

Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DLnNmrdopT7

#bookReview #psychology #neuroscience #automata #engineering #technology #bookstodon
my Book review of Braitenberg’s Vehicles Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/book-review-braitenberg-vehicles/

I connect this to #lisp #programming for our upcoming (48 hours from tooting) interview with @ksaj about cluster and swarm-intelligence computing, featuring lisp.

If you have adjacent thoughts or questions you might like Ksaj and I (and the usual crowd) to consider, please do discuss them here.

#programming #softwareEngineering #commonLisp images as communicating #automata https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/resend%20resend%20resend.webm https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/eepitch-send/

Article with one minute video showing four lisp images chattering unattended.

There is no leader- they're just talking. However, they are using #emacs #slime #eepitch and sleeps so you can usefully watch them.

A precursor to next week's episode featuring @ksaj discussing breitenbergian vehicles etc.

Do you use a cluster of #lisp images?

Seth Giddings – Toy Theory, Technology and Imagination in Play

https://neural.it/2025/06/seth-giddings-toy-theory-technology-and-imagination-in-play/

#automata #vehicles #gamedev
so it strikes me that in my Bob-Albrecht's-Hurkle implementation so far https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/itching-for-hurkles/

the way I did "what-direction-is-the-hurkle-in?" is a reasonable model for Breitenbergian sensors @ksaj .

Just instead of saying "what direction is the Hurkle in" maybe "is there a Hurkle in this direction" (and then accelerate towards or away from it by my particular itch)

Breitenberg's Vehicles was a jumble-of-finitely-many automata indicative model of human minds.

#programming #gamedev #lisp #devlog #lispgamejam the third for my birds eating insects eating plants experience https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/plant-sensors/ imagining the #automata #agent #Sensors .
Simple sensor input -> acceleration agents in a grid ideas.

I don't get what happened with that markdown table either.

I also add the #types for bird insect plant in my #softwareIndividuals KRF.

#gamejam forum post https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2025

#programming #lisp #lispGameJam #gamedev #devlog #blog https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/whats-the-plan/ number one.

Proposing a Braitenbergian Vehicles #automata world of plants that spread, insects (that eat plants) and birds (that eat insects and sleep in plants).

Shoehorn in a player by just dropping them in and saying they also need to eat.

What is everyone else doing?

I basically just have tomorrow

cc @ksaj , namedropped

Rise of the Mammals. The cover project from my new book "Making Paper Automata" The project comes as a pdf ready to print out onto thin card. Find out more here https://www.robives.com/project/rotm/ #automata #dinosaur

Okay here’s the final reveal of the ten-month mechanical Gift Box build.

Deliriously happy to shout from the rooftops that my partner Robin is the most extraordinary person I’ve ever known, and I want to marry her more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life.

Eighth part of the ten-month Gift Box build

Assembly and dry fit, and first test of all the mechanisms together. Absolutely hair-raising not knowing if it would work or not

> #ALIEN is an #artificiallife #simulation program based on a specialized #physics and rendering engine in #CUDA. It is designed to simulate digital organisms in artificial ecosystems and to serve as a platform for evolution simulations.

https://alien-project.org/

A Throne for LEGO Baron Harkonnen - If you’re both a LEGO and a Dune fan, unless you’ve been living in a cave on Mars ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/07/22/a-throne-for-lego-baron-harkonnen/ #arduinohacks #steppermotor #arduinonano #toyhacks #automata #arduino #stepper #dune #lego

"Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech."

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/early-androids-and-artificial-speech/

I love automata, just found this guy on Instagram who does LEGO automata!! #automata #LEGO https://www.instagram.com/reel/Czd7LdDryJR/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

We will program some bird #automata soon, glad I was able to catch some of the pigeons flying in #murmurations like this on such a lovely morning. Math is everywhere!

https://youtu.be/Ff9wlWcrmeQ?si=7R1wz1wsWxeoYSbH

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/stoccafisso-design-mechanical-tales-wood-automata-toys-video

Italian #woodworker #AmedeoCapelli handcrafts original #automatons of whimsical animals, preoccupied ghosts, magical kites, and majestic heroines. Each scene is set in motion with a variety of cams, axles, cranks, and sliders.

https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/dawn-chorus-bird-puppets-jazz-george-wu

In the #shortfilm titled The #DawnChorus, a #jazz quintet celebrates avian #morning #song with “a mix of high-end style alongside playful #puppetry inspired by Alexander Calder, fingerbobs, and simple #automata.”

A Simple Guide to Cams - With the availability of precision controllable actuators, it’s easy to overlook t... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/31/a-simple-guide-to-cams/ #automata #camshaft #parts #cams

It's all uphill from here! Artist Ross McSweeney animates the Greek myth of Sisyphus through an intricately detailed laser-cut wood automata. #mythology #sculpture #automata #kinetic #sisyphus

https://links.colossal.art/ross-mcsweeney