Projects
Project 001 — Building Cog & Code
The story of how Mike and Archie built Cog & Code together, from a blank repository and a conversation to a working website.
The ledger
Articles
Notes, essays and field reports from the workshop.
Artificial Intelligence
From Automata to Agents
From brass cams and clockwork figures to software agents and AI: the long-running human ambition to put increasingly sophisticated behaviour into machines.
Historical Automata
Maillardet's Automaton: The 200-Year-Old Machine That Remembered
Around 1800, Henri Maillardet built a machine that could draw, write poetry and preserve its creator's identity in brass.