Latest
Here are twenty of the latest tools and inspirations I have added to the site.
You should be able to open this up, figure out how it works and have fun with this. There are lots of online "toys" that are actually worth playing with just for the experience, they'll give you ideas.
This category is for things that may take a little learning but don't need lots of effort.
These items will require some studying but are worth the time. You can watch a few YouTube videos to get to grips with it, right?
These are complex tools for those who are more technically minded, or researchers or professionals. But hey, don't let that stop you.
AI Repository
Not a tool, but AIAAIC's independent, free, open library of 900+ incidents and controversies driven by and relating to AI, algorithms and automation.
Mindful Harmony
A tool to compose or arrange unusual chords - and you can then save it in midi (maybe importing it into Garageband or BespokeSynth).
A.I Chapbooks
The 18 chapbooks presented below were developed in Spring 2023 by first-year undergraduates from the CMU School of Art
Nothing, Forever
A.I generated sit-com endlessly spewing out hilarious scenes in realtime on Twitch.
Wonders of StreetView
The strange stuff found on Google Street View, including this brutalist treehouse.
School of Media Arts Projects
Honestly, some fabulously conceived projects here. Every one an inspiration.
New Educational Models
A collection of orgs that are pedagogically interesting and at time brilliant. Well worth exploring.
Old Operating Theatre
Probably not for the sqeamish (I am, so got to page two) but it's an interactive narrative about a victorian operating theatre.
Warning: This story is inspired by a real historical case and contains graphic descriptions of injury and surgery.
Sheffield Tape Archive
Archive of live music from Sheffield in mainly from the 1980s, so Crass, Fall, Eek-a-mouse and many others.
Fake Victoriana
Posted as genuine victorian early photographs, too many details smacked of A.I ... like horses with no legs
Bartosz Ciechanowski Explains Sound Waves
Incredible resource explaining how sound works, with lots of interactive widgets.
Collection of Equirectangular Images
A Flickr collection of equirectangular images, many of which are Creative Commons licenced for use in your own VR creations.
Lots more here.
Collection of Posters
Fabulous collection of posters from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the 1930s
A REVIEW OF NINE INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE SYSTEMS
An academic paper about interactive narrative systems.
MIT App Inventor Extensions
Thunkable is based on a very similar free tool call MIT App Inventor. Because lots of people create Extensions for it, that also work with Thunkable, you can find extra code, called Extensions which do everything from rotation detection, to sound analysis, to QR code recognition and connecting to other devices.
