Okay here’s the final reveal of the ten-month mechanical Gift Box build.

Deliriously happy to shout from the rooftops that my partner Robin is the most extraordinary person I’ve ever known, and I want to marry her more than I’ve ever wanted anything in my life.

Eighth part of the ten-month Gift Box build

Assembly and dry fit, and first test of all the mechanisms together. Absolutely hair-raising not knowing if it would work or not

Second part of the ten-month Gift Box build

Solved the most complicated engineering part of the build here with the two clutched gears driving the sector gear

Dissolving patterns

Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude in Nivelles, Belgium

The patron saint of cats founded this stunning Romanesque church in the 7th century.#automata #medieval #crypts #cats #catholic #saints #romanesque #churches #section-Atlas
Collegiate Church of St. Gertrude

PegBot #STEAMjunk project to download and make. Full instructions for construction at www.robives.com/project/PegBot #clothespeg #clothespin #automata #maker

#AUTOMATA X #HITOMEZASHI / work in progress / A #rug of mixed patterns, fed from each other

AUTOMATA has launched a survey on the use, perception & future expectations of 3D modelling, non-destructive archaeometry, AI and robotics in archaeology to guide ECCCH tool development.

Access the survey on the AUTOMATA website: https://automata-eccch.eu/news-events/survey/

#AUTOMATA X #HITOMEZASHI / work in progress / building a grid of mixed connecting patterns. Step 1 : some random rule automatas, fed from tile above. Step 2 : hitomezashi pattern fed from above (x) and left (y) tiles.

Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata — https://google-research.github.io/self-organising-systems/difflogic-ca/?hn
#HackerNews #Differentiable #Logic #Cellular #Automata #research #AI #machinelearning #selforganizing-systems

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Cellular automata with random rules on Y.

> #ALIEN is an #artificiallife #simulation program based on a specialized #physics and rendering engine in #CUDA. It is designed to simulate digital organisms in artificial ecosystems and to serve as a platform for evolution simulations.

https://alien-project.org/

some more cellular automata experiments

"Centuries before audio deepfakes and text-to-speech software, inventors in the eighteenth century constructed androids with swelling lungs, flexible lips, and moving tongues to simulate human speech."

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/early-androids-and-artificial-speech/

Amazing automata fascinate Cornwall museum visitors
A collection of automata have been drawing in visitors to the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.
Those behind the Marvellous Mechanical Museum exhibition said it was a blend of art and science, and full of fun.
The automata, plural of automaton - a small, mechanical figure that can move automatically - are helping those who visit learn about mechanics, engineering and construction as well as art.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-68768588 #automata #museums #BBC

Still looking for a second reviewer for @pyOpenSci

Package: automata
review: https://github.com/pyOpenSci/software-submission/issues/152
repo: https://github.com/caleb531/automata
description: A Python library for simulating finite automata, pushdown automata, and Turing machines.

Open reviews are a great way to learn by teaching, see what other people are up to, and make software development a valued and creditable part of academic work. Anyone with familiarity with Python is welcome as a reviewer, experience in the topic domain is a bonus but not required. DM me or reply on the above issue, it's fun, i promise! :)

edit: reviewer found! thank you @iris <3