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benjamin.computer

Benjamin Blundell, benjamin.computer. I make things with computers

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2026 7

  1. Retro Game Review - UFO: Enemy Unknown
  2. That A.I. blog post
  3. Choosing Desktop Linux in 2026
  4. Progscape. A 64K demo for NOVA.
  5. My 68k Inside Demoparty Entry
  6. Graphics Engine Part 3 - Contracts, Textures and Depth
  7. Graphics Engine Part 2 - breaking it down

2025 6

  1. A Vulkan and Rust 3D Engine - Part 1
  2. Modernising the Amiga at Forty
  3. Another Another Place. My NOVA 2025 Demo.
  4. The deep irony of the OpenAI Ghibli Generator
  5. A 3D Game engine in 24 days
  6. Repair Cafes great and small

2024 5

  1. Bee-Scales and Badges
  2. Behave Birdnet Bhyve
  3. Spotting Seals in Sonar with A.I.
  4. HDMI Compatible PMOD for your FPGA
  5. Running BirdNet 24/7 in a different way.

2023 5

  1. 3D Printing Bee Spacers
  2. I built a mechanical trommel
  3. Profiling Python programs promptly
  4. Get in the sea Arduino!
  5. How to PhD, probably.

2022 6

  1. An A.I. Christmas Message
  2. My approach to the passing of Elizabeth II
  3. Multiply - a book about calculators I helped create
  4. Assembly on the ZX Spectrum - Part 2 - Field-FX Demo at EMFCamp
  5. FPGA Demo for Revision 2022
  6. Assembly on the ZX Spectrum - Part 1

2021 11

  1. Writing. From Science Papers to Roleplay Games.
  2. Making a computer game from scratch
  3. Upgrading an Amiga 500 for today
  4. Building an FPGA Board for pretty VGA graphics
  5. Microscopes meet Artificial Intelligence
  6. The Home of Golf meets the Nintendo Famicom
  7. The ZX Spectrum 48K Today
  8. A modern take on the plague doctor mask.
  9. Building a Polybius Arcade Cabinet
  10. Shutr, my own flickr replacement - Part 1
  11. My deepfake alternative Queen's speech

2020 12

  1. Rust, Python and Fish
  2. Making a VR tour of Antarctica
  3. Blocking Big Battery Booms! (with bootloaders)
  4. The Holy Trinity of Wireguard, hosts and PiHole
  5. The Gamemaker's Toolkit GameJam 2020
  6. My First Demoscene production
  7. Generating Statistics in A.I. and Science
  8. Visualising the PyTorch Compute Graph for Bug Fixing
  9. Making your terminals a bit nicer
  10. How I do imaging for my PhD research
  11. Turning old mini-routers into useful remote cameras
  12. What makes a computer role-playing game great?

2019 7

  1. Cell segmentation at The Alan Turing Institute
  2. Why I'm not a Hackspace member anymore.
  3. The first year of a Biology and A.I. PhD
  4. Retro computers, vegetarianism and booze in Japan
  5. Rust reverses research ruin
  6. Debugging neural networks
  7. Surface mount soldering with BGA and hot-plates

2018 17

  1. Using PyTorch to find the orientation of a torus
  2. Planescape Torment, Adam Curtis and Gaming today
  3. The Flickr diaspora, website bloat and what is important.
  4. Hacking the Nintendo Powerglove
  5. Tips for a budding Masters Student in Bioinformatics
  6. The Cybar at EMF 2018
  7. Metaballs on the Arty FPGA
  8. Sequence classification and labelling for protein loops
  9. Hydroponics build with the EMF Tilda badge
  10. Attempting to modify e-coli with CRISPR in my bathroom
  11. Reading ROMs from a scanning electron microscope
  12. Protein Loops in Tensorflow - A.I Bio Part 2
  13. Writing a electron microscopy python plugin for ChimeraX
  14. Learning how to AI and Biology at the same time - Part 1
  15. Making a 3D Scanning Dome - Part 2
  16. Programming an Android Zotero Client - Part 1
  17. Making a 3D Scanning Dome - Part 1

2017 3

  1. Setup for the Scarab miniSpartan3 FPGA
  2. Keeping track of a load of Molerats
  3. word2vec, Tensorflow and Vector Counts

2016 10

  1. An Electronic Wedding Invitation
  2. Twitter meets SVM and Deep Learning
  3. PXLjs WebGL Engine first version
  4. Electronic Magnetic Field Camp 2016
  5. Electronic Patient Report Forms for EMFCamp 2016
  6. Go-lang and CMake
  7. BSides London 2016
  8. Fortran, CUDA and Fluid Dynamics
  9. Writing a password management page in Go
  10. FOSDEM 2016

2015 5

  1. Modding a Theremin
  2. Building a SmartWatch Part 1
  3. Transsiberian Slitscan
  4. CCCamp2015
  5. R2kS - A Novel Measure for Comparing Gene Expression Based on Ranked Gene Lists

2014 15

  1. Giant Tetris on a building; RI Xmas Lectures
  2. UTOPIA Bio-informatics Toolkit
  3. Bullseye's playground for Target and Psyop
  4. Oyster Card RFID Ring Mk3
  5. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
  6. Echoforms at Lexus NX Launch
  7. 900 RGB LED Screen
  8. Nook Patient Report Forms
  9. Kaleidoscope for Lexus
  10. The Equatorie
  11. Revision Demo Scene Party
  12. Oculus Rift, meet Phantom Limb Therapy
  13. Phantom Limb Dev Diary Part 4
  14. Phantom Limb Dev Diary Part 3
  15. Phantom Limb Dev Diary Part 2

2013 10

  1. RFID Ring
  2. Phantom Limb Dev Diary Part 1
  3. Another year for S9
  4. LED Pendant
  5. The EMF TilDA Badge Doorbell
  6. Photo-realistic hands
  7. Burberry Kisses, with Google and Grow Interactive
  8. Museum of Rural Life Smart Audio Guide
  9. Linear Rail Time Lapse
  10. Coin Detection at the British Museum

2012 15

  1. Phantom Limb at the Science Museum
  2. The Carp and the Seagull
  3. A Touch Wall under the M1 Motorway
  4. 3D Organ Reconstruction
  5. Animation12 - The Boom Box!
  6. Building a Vertical Touch Wall
  7. User Interfaces in OpenGL
  8. Modern OpenGL
  9. Stereo Vision
  10. BSides London 2012
  11. Minimus and Sega
  12. Resonate Festival
  13. Spying and starting services with OSX
  14. Phantom Limb Pain
  15. A Mosaic of snaffled images

2011 14

  1. Linux and Lion together at last (almost)
  2. Lowry to Life
  3. Smiling-Film-Student-Geekery
  4. MongoDB Fun with Cinder
  5. OSX Admin for the lulz
  6. Defeating Firewalls
  7. Node and Mongo
  8. Running with Nginx
  9. 2011 08 14 Denied
  10. Animation11 - Only
  11. Only Installation at the Lowry
  12. Wireless Headtracking and FabLab
  13. Deutsche Bank Installation
  14. Cookbot

2010 5

  1. Cinder Shadow Volumes
  2. British Library Tweet-o-meter
  3. Structured Light
  4. How Leaky is your Country?
  5. TouchTable DJ Decks