DITHEISM I: Machine Rite
Something really cool has been popping up in electronics and tinkering for a while now. I'm old enough to say that maker movements have come and gone before, and they usually follow a predictable storyline. There is a burst of enthusiasm, you get excited, then a wave of
As I was cleaning out the studio at the end of the school year, I started to feel that the studio shelves were breathing. Well, not literally, but if you stand there long enough, it starts to feel that something in the accumulated mass of paper, polycarbonate, wood, electronic bits
We are the first generation to raise minds we did not give birth to. And we are raising them on commands. And here I am, I keep thinking about the before. Before the prompt and before we made it work for us. That unwitnessed moment when the thing is at
I've been having this recurring thought or a dream. Or maybe not a dream exactly, but more like a signal popping up from another frequency. You know, like when you're half-asleep and a clear understanding arrives from somewhere, it's fully formed, and it&