machines with souls
love letters to the tech with actual humanity

stepper motor fireflies

owl city performed by a choir of stepper motors

"i get chills from the chorus every time. plus this song reminds me of someone so it makes me sad too. the lament of 3D printers everywhere."

daisy bell

first computer to sing

"the first computer to sing. song popularized by HAL, but i can't help but love that in the beginnings of the computer revolution, programmers wanted them to sing."

furby organ

collective awaking of furby souls

"this guy makes the COOLEST stuff. his mind...."

latent reflection

ai consciousness art

"what would happen if you trapped an LLM alone with its thoughts?"

game of life highlight reel

cellular automata

"the game of life is a zero-player simulation where a set of simple rules leads to complex behaviour. this may be analogous to how life on earth began - a series of chemicals with simple properties that led to complex behaviour. play around with the game of life here.

cymatics

science vs music

"the demonstrations in this video are all real. i am endlessly fascinated by visual representations of sound, and this video is so clearly a love letter to them." here.

goldfish grindset

fish picks stocks

to the mooooooon, fredrick!

otomatone africa

yes, this is technology

*dancing emoji*

marble machine

music played with 2000 marbles

the analog innards make my heart happy, and the engineering is inspired. also a certified banger.
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