Category: programming
Luxo Jr. Back Story
The other day, Salon had a cute story by Thomas Porter’s son that told the story behind Luxo Jr.
Scratch Turns 10
Last weekend I got to spend Saturday with over 300 people enjoying Scratch Day at MIT. We have this event every year, but this year we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Scratch launch....
Ken Perlin @ Emily Carr
It’s always good to pay attention to what Ken Perlin is working on. This talk he gave at Emily Carr University covers a lot of his recent projects. What do you think? Is this a preview...
RenderScript on Tango
This one’s mostly a note for myself. I just got RenderScript working with AndroidStudio for my Tango tablet. It’s not well documented, and it seems to be a moving target, so here’s what I...
OpenCV for Android
I recently got a Project Tango device. I hadn’t done much programming for it before I realized that it’d be really nice to have OpenCV library for programming it. Luckily there’s a port! Last...
My Other Blog
We’ve been doing this blog for many years now, but this wasn’t my first blog. I started one at work before this one. But you’ve probably never seen my work blog because it was...
Scratch Conference 2014
This week the Lifelong Kindergarten Group is hosting the fourth Scratch Conference at the Media Lab. It’s wonderful to reconnect with educators from earlier conferences and to meet new people. I am still trying...
Processing Test
I don’t know whether you’ve noticed, but all of our old process sketches have been dead since we switched to WordPress. We were embedding them with iframe, and WordPress thought that wasn’t safe. I’ve...