Sex, Circuits, and Deep House
summary
An open hardware badge network built from a 40 MHz Cortex M0+ (120K flash, 16K RAM) running ChibiOS uses a 900 MHz radio plus OLED, capacitive touch and accelerometer to exchange light “genomes.” A diploid "blinko" genome encodes HSV-based LED patterns; breeding requires mutual consent, transmits a sperm packet, applies gray-code mutations (shake to increase rate) and yields new patterns. About 100 badges are produced via Crowd Supply for ~$6,000, with on-site firmware flasher and field repairs; the social breeding mechanic reliably seeds and spreads a 5% hotspot trait.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:36What is Burning Man?
- 1:03Burning Man For 7 Days a Year
- 1:25A lot of artwork
- 2:38A lot of hippies... doing hippy things...
- 2:56One of my favorite parts about Burning Man...
- 3:42Burning man at night (350 days a year)
- 3:55Thus, lights.
- 4:45Lots and lots of lights...
- 5:58Everyone has to help
- 6:26Blinkies of Phage Past
- 7:13Interactions
- 7:42Institute Blinky Badge Goals
- 8:31Interaction Focus: Sex
- 9:24Light Pattern Examples
- 9:51CPU Details
- 10:24Sex is not a Gimmic
- 12:02The Blinkome in C
- 12:18Phenotypes
- 13:43Expression Functions
- 14:58Mechanics of Sex
- 16:42Building the Badge
- 17:16Life Cycle Management
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