Play

Stuff that’s hard to cluster.

Sketches

WhiteBox

Answer sources →

Pick a question about a made-up device manual. See which passages were retrieved, how they relate, and which ones each sentence of the answer cites.

3 questions · 11 passages · Why it exists

Hi-Five

Match rankings →

Eighteen made-up people, shown as dots. Answer three prompts to place yourself, then change what the matching compares and see your top five change.

18 made-up people · Why it exists

Buycott

Product owners →

Pick one of three made-up products. Follow the chain of companies that own the brand, then read the events matched to them. It gives no verdict.

3 made-up products · Why it exists

Memento

Journal search →

The Memento app as it was designed, on a phone, with nine entries from one made-up week. Add an entry, then ask about it in Chat. The answer shows which entries it came from.

9 entries · one made-up week · Why it exists

SignLink

Hand angles

Move the fingers of a drawn hand. Its joint angles are matched against a small dictionary of letters. The camera is optional, and its frames stay in your browser.

Explorations

Other Minds →

WIP · mostly AI-generated proof of concept

An alien test of whether you are conscious, then a map of how you draw distinctions, set beside eight philosophers read from their own texts.

Philosophy · began as a class project

G-Code Assembler →

The G-Code Assembler, running in your browser. Load a G-code file or one from the Kinetic Vision challenge, and get back an STL: a closed solid made of the printed beads, or the box mesh built at the hackathon.

Files stay in your browser · Bambu, Orca, Prusa, Cura, ideaMaker and Simplify3D G-code · Why it exists

KUKA arm →

A KUKA LBR iiwa robot arm, drawn from the 3D models in Kinetic Vision's challenge. Play back one of Kinetic Vision's ten recorded pick-and-place runs with every joint's angle, speed and torque, turn the joints yourself, or drag a target and let the arm reach for it.

Recorded at 100 Hz · drag to turn the view · Why it exists

Window seat →

A live map of what's out the plane window: which side to look, and the history of what's down there.

Map · uses the airline feed, your location, or a click · Why it exists

In Futures, with their field notes: Friction · Gyrus · DreamStreamHer · Viate

Tools

Postcards →

Make a postcard with my photos or yours.

Photos stay in your browser

Wordwell →

Start from a word, follow associations, and keep words and images in your well.

External image search

Dead Air →

Record or import audio, twist it with EQ and effects, and save it to the soundboard. Song credits and cue notes for questionable radio.

Recordings stay in your browser · 250 built-in sounds

Tune →

Find a song on other music services.

QR code →

Turn a link into a QR code that points straight at it. Optional PNG in the center.

Made in your browser

G-Code Assembler →

Turn a G-code file back into an STL. It runs in your browser, so the file never leaves your computer.