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Free Web Accessible Visual Regular Expression Generator

Mark is a programmer who hates writing regular expressions. So he wrote a kind of visual regular expression generator that starts with the string to be searched, identifies recognizable patterns in it, and lets you select those you want. Then it outputs a working (albeit probably inelegant) regular expression to get the job done. The commentariat over at txt2re.com is somewhat predictably divided between grateful regex amateurs and annoyed experts. [via Boing Boing]

Continue Reading April 15th, 2011 Sean Michael Ragan6

distellamap: Modern Visualizations of Atari 2600 code

Software is a mix of computer instructions and data, but rarely do you get to see how the two interact in memory. Ben Fry visualized the code of several classic video games, giving insight in to the complexity of the code and how the programmer arranged the graphical elements. It’s also amazing how little was […]

Continue Reading October 8th, 2010 John Maushammer

OpenSCAD: Constructive solid geometry CAD at long last

So I was really stoked this morning to read this post over on the Thingiverse Blog about the advent of OpenSCAD, which does for 3D CAD what POV-Ray did for raytracing. At long last, you can program your 3D CAD models instead of sculpting them. And it’s free! I can hardly wait to try it out.

Continue Reading November 25th, 2009 Sean Michael Ragan14

Automatic image index-maker software

As you can see, Montage takes all the work out of combining a bunch of individual images into an array of images, dealing automatically with all the resizing, cropping, arranging, and/or labeling headaches automatically.

Continue Reading October 22nd, 2009 Sean Michael Ragan6

FreeCAD open source design software

I don’t do CAD or 3D printing, but this software at least looks promising from my armchair. It’s an open source CAD/CAE app based on OpenCasCade, QT, and Python. It offers features like macro recording, the ability to run as a server and dynamically load application extensions, and it runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. […]

Continue Reading October 12th, 2009 Gareth Branwyn6

Adobe Illustrator 101

101: Adobe Illustrator Design dazzling invitations while learning how to use a crafter-friendly drawing program. By Stefanianna Moore Adobe Illustrator is an amazing drawing program because it helps you design almost anything two-dimensional: graphics for your website, wallpaper and fabric patterns, and just about any print piece imaginable. This project is a twofer: learn to […]

Continue Reading July 23rd, 2009April 20th, 2015 Goli Mohammadi8

New version of NETLab released

The New Ecology of Things Lab at Art Center’s graduate Media Design Program has released a new version of their NETLab Toolkit. This is a system for more easily connecting microcontrollers to computers, especially targeted at those who may be new to hardware and programming. In this video, Professor Philip van Allen of the Media […]

Continue Reading July 1st, 2009 Gareth Branwyn