Food nice music sound - its produce harvesting time again - Steve Jevning from Studio Bricolage sent me this link to the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra as a reminder....

Core77 has a great series of 1 hour design challenges that really show the design process at work--and at high speeds.

Will Wright--the creator of the Sim City franchise--discusses the upcoming release of Spore.

This is more aligned with our vision than any other game, and it's gonna be *big*.

From the Wiki:

Anyone else want to become a Processing guru?

Here's a video of Processing playing with its bestest friend; the Arduino:

Reposted here by contractual obligations: New York Times article on "making things". I wonder what "tiny sensors" and "wacky motion games" he speaks of:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/technology/17ping.html

Bryan sent out this note about learning to program in JAVA. Nice Resources

Hey Guys,

Cheers,
bryan

I've been using the Notebook plugin in Firefox to assemble notes for a couple things:

Gathering resources on Libraries and Scratch

and for my presentation at the Scratch conference about Game Pad

It's awesome, lots of documentation on previous projects:

http://www.ideo.com/work/

We have a great group of 5 teachers now participating in our project and they're beginning to reflect on their ideas, practice, and our conversations about technology in the classroom.

I talked with Asia this morning about our Tuesday night cricket workshop - how it seemed that part of the issue in being a learner really was to get at overcoming the fear of trying something new, something unfamiliar, and that goes for us as we are building new programs, working with new partners, or looking at the new new...