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More from Blog - Mac Pierce

Fort Emplacements and FDM: making Castle Doctrine

How I made Castle Doctrine, a 1:1 scale fully 3D-Printed American Revolutionary War era cannon.

over a year ago 65 votes
Back into the FE-AL: Iron Pour at Sculpture Trails Indiana

In which I detail the process of making a cannonball by participating at a very unique iron casting event.

over a year ago 34 votes
Sending a signal - DOGMAS, a project because of the RP2040

How and why I built the DOGMAS project, a self contained Morse code reader in the form of a candle.

over a year ago 39 votes
p5.js on Squarespace - The Basics

A quick guide on how to get p5.js guides working on Squarespace.

over a year ago 40 votes
Host Jumping, thinking about viruses and how they’re changing.

Thinking about the concepts and reasons behind the making of my work ‘Host Jump’.

over a year ago 62 votes

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Is human society natural?

On the human/nature divide and how to overcome it

14 hours ago 3 votes
Repeat happy accidents

Those three words unlock our understanding of innovation and of biological evolution. Successful outcomes often follow unpredicted actions. If we allow ourselves to do things that might not work, we’re far more likely to discover the things that do. And then we can repeat them.

19 hours ago 2 votes
Weekly Scroll: BookTok Perverts

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13 hours ago 2 votes
How Do You Use AI in Your Daily Life? Share the Applications That Have Made a Big Difference

Image by Jernej Furman, via Wikimedia Commons It would be difficult to imagine the last couple of years without artificial intelligence, even if you don’t use it. Can you recall the last day without some AI-related news item or social-media post — or indeed, a time when the hype didn’t slide into utopian or apocalyptic […]

2 days ago 4 votes
But what’s it really for?

An expensive watch isn’t purchased to tell time. We already know what time it is. The food at a wedding isn’t really there to keep guests from going hungry. A cookie could do that. Our focus, energy and money are often spent on transactions that are disguised as something else. What we’re really doing is […]

2 days ago 4 votes