Month: February 2012

Cricket-Driven Art Bot

Harvey Moon wrote in with an update to his Drawing Machine art bot: It is titled “Bugs Draw For Me” and it combines my Drawing Machine with some code I wrote that tracks a bug’s movement. Using two custom Processing programs, an Arduino, a camera and a cricket, I was able to make unique artworks […]

The World’s First Helicopters

This is a wonderful collection of black-and-white newsreel footage, assembled by the company that invented the newsreel, showing a montage of early helicopter prototypes in all their wacky and frequently-terrifying glory. It’s a highlight reel, about two minutes long, and the various clips that went into it are indexed, annotated, and available for watching in […]