Month: December 2015
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Syncing your Korg Littlebits to external trig
Syncing your Korg Littlebits sequencer can be a bit tricky unless you have the official break-out bits, or a SQ1 sequencer too hook it up to. I multimetered the cables between the breakout bits: Red = DC current. Orange = trig. White = ground. Turns out the kit actually speaks normal trig signal, and the internal trig is about the same as the trig…
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Self-generating recursive art using Amazon Mechanical Turk
Amazon Mechanical Turk is an amazing API. It’s an API to humans, and yup that sounds super weird. I programmatically create a HIT – a Human Intelligence Task, using their API. Typical HIT’s are “sort these files by cuteness”, “listen to these audio files for NSFW material” and other things a computer can’t do well (yet).…
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Making a silly game using Google Cloud Vision and Instagram
I was recently invited to the first alpha release of Google Cloud Vision, which is a game changing new API from Google. I can programmatically upload any picture and get this kind of stuff back: Face detection, with pixel annotations of the corner of the mouth etc, plus unexpected values like sorrowLikelihood Landmark detection, with LatLon polygon boundaries…