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James is keeping weeknotes on designing a product based around an EFM32 microcontroller – I enjoyed this first installment; it's nice to see how other people think about projects.
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"HTML goes in, games come out. HTMLE is a project template and a set of scripts that take care of a lot of the work involved in setting up these tools and simplifying everything." Might well be useful for things that aren't games, too…
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Utterly lovely writing about music – and playing in Holy Trinity, Blythburgh – from Laura Cannell.
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"From 1950 to 1990, Tinsley had been the world champion of checkers whenever he wanted to be. He’d occasionally retire to work on mathematics or devote himself to religious study, but he’d eventually return, beat everyone and become champion again. In that 40-year span, he lost five total games and never once dropped a match." Brilliant article from Alexis Madrigal on the race to solve draughts/checkers, one man and his computer, and another man and his faith.
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Sure, it's just a Max4Live device to map a monome Arc to parameters. But I love the detail and thoroughness in the implementation, and how tactile it seems – the varibright LEDs, and the number of them, help a lot there, as does the bidirectional feedback.
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A Tumblr full of cutaways.
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Latest OSXs only but: this does – with a nice template, and JSON options – what a pile of terrible Ruby I regularly update also does. I'd go with this over my terrible Ruby any day.