Slow turn, big charm! One gear rotation for every twenty four cranks. This updated worm gear #EssentialMechanism is a quiet celebration of paper movement. Perfect for curious makers, educators and anyone who loves paper engineering! #automata #paperengineering #cardboardcrafts https://www.robives.com/project/wormgear2025/

Von Neumann points out that automata are essentially an alternative formalization of constructive logic. (Probabilistic Logics, in Shannon/McCarthy Automata.).
#automata #logic #computing

#bookReview #psychology #neuroscience #automata #engineering #technology #bookstodon
my Book review of Braitenberg’s Vehicles Experiments in Synthetic Psychology
https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/book-review-braitenberg-vehicles/

I connect this to #lisp #programming for our upcoming (48 hours from tooting) interview with @ksaj about cluster and swarm-intelligence computing, featuring lisp.

If you have adjacent thoughts or questions you might like Ksaj and I (and the usual crowd) to consider, please do discuss them here.

#STEAMjunk Parasol. A bead and wire project to download and make! #maker #automata
https://www.robives.com/project/parasol/

#programming #softwareEngineering #commonLisp images as communicating #automata https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/resend%20resend%20resend.webm https://screwlisp.small-web.org/complex/eepitch-send/

Article with one minute video showing four lisp images chattering unattended.

There is no leader- they're just talking. However, they are using #emacs #slime #eepitch and sleeps so you can usefully watch them.

A precursor to next week's episode featuring @ksaj discussing breitenbergian vehicles etc.

Do you use a cluster of #lisp images?

Seth Giddings – Toy Theory, Technology and Imagination in Play

https://neural.it/2025/06/seth-giddings-toy-theory-technology-and-imagination-in-play/

#automata #vehicles #gamedev
so it strikes me that in my Bob-Albrecht's-Hurkle implementation so far https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/itching-for-hurkles/

the way I did "what-direction-is-the-hurkle-in?" is a reasonable model for Breitenbergian sensors @ksaj .

Just instead of saying "what direction is the Hurkle in" maybe "is there a Hurkle in this direction" (and then accelerate towards or away from it by my particular itch)

Breitenberg's Vehicles was a jumble-of-finitely-many automata indicative model of human minds.

#STEAMjunk Busy Bee project for you to make on International Bee Day! #internationalbeeday #maker #automata https://www.robives.com/project/busybee/

#programming #lisp #lispGameJam #gamedev #devlog #blog https://screwlisp.small-web.org/lispgames/whats-the-plan/ number one.

Proposing a Braitenbergian Vehicles #automata world of plants that spread, insects (that eat plants) and birds (that eat insects and sleep in plants).

Shoehorn in a player by just dropping them in and saying they also need to eat.

What is everyone else doing?

I basically just have tomorrow

cc @ksaj , namedropped

Rise of the Mammals. The cover project from my new book "Making Paper Automata" The project comes as a pdf ready to print out onto thin card. Find out more here https://www.robives.com/project/rotm/ #automata #dinosaur

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

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

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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Polar Bear paper automata project to download and make. Crank the handle and bring the cute animal to life!
Find out more at www.robives.com/project/polarbear
#paperautomata #paperengineering #paperanimation #automata #maker

Squeeze the peg to make the Dipper bird dip! The spring in the peg returns it to its upright position.
www.robives.com/project/peg-dipper/
#clothespin #clothespeg #automata #dipper #bird #maker #fromTheArchives