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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

More Kinect 360’s spotted in the wild again. Check out this amazing wiring job at a large Manhattan museum 😂

Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Sharing a new project - a creative tech timeline: laserpilot.github.io/creative-tec... The history of this space is captured in many different places, but some of the information disappears or gets lost. This isn't meant to be complete, but more of a conversation starter. Additions welcome!

laserpilot.github.io

Creative Technology Timeline

A timeline of creative technology tools, set against the hardware, web standards, AI, artworks, and institutions that shaped the field.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Spotted an Xbox 360 Kinect still in use in the wild

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Woww this is awesome. I wish I still had mine - ours was a loan or something. Curious if anyone is still playing in this space

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

haha yeah Spacepilot was taken on aol in 1995 so i went with Laserpilot instead and here we are. im also not sure what games influenced - i definitely played Myst and there are a couple "puzzles" in this one. otherwise played a lot of Earthbound and n64

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've had backups of a hyperstudio "game" i made in 1997 for forever but havent been able to open them. The other night I had claude fix the files so I could open them in a macOS9 emulator and I was not prepared for the level of peak 13yr old nerd I was about to witness.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Taking requests for weird AV equipment to make out of polymer clay. This is my first attempt at a little midi synth

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 24/06/2026

It would be pretty cute if I got to 300 pre orders this week, just saying

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I have to do a lot of napkin math for interactive installations and just realized i could make a multitool for common things. Welcoming comments! laserpilot.github.io/interactive-... -Monitor placement, LED simulation, projector, sensor, speaker positioning

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Interactive Installation Multitool

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If anyone in NY-10 hasnt voted in the primary today - please vote for @bradlander.bsky.social and oust that phony Dan Goldman

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

IMDB but for creative tech project credits "oh shit, you were tech director bystander #3 on that project? that role was life changing"

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I made a fake experiential agency site, processing over a decade of working in real ones. Case studies are fictional, but feel too real at the same time. palatable.work

palatable.work

Palatable — Experiential Agency

For ambitious brands seeking Spatial Narrative & Consumer Truth.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Photochromic dye and UV laser projector experiments continue - now on a much larger canvas

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

These cowards should have owned their choice and made their URL takeawhizz.biz - you don’t merely get a whizz, you take one

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Plotting some of my generative trees from a tool I’ve been working on. Lots to do but I like what I’m getting so far!

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

6-ish weeks off and on of progress working with Claude Code to make a tool to make pen plottable trees/svgs. Tried like 3 or 4 different approaches and ive finally landed on manual branch placement and auto twig/leaf placement

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A little video of it in action

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Working on making a happy little tree generator for pen plotting a forest, but not with pure L-systems, just a little SVG tree builder tool with manual adjustments and then going to make it more procedural later

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Now on to some generative pipes…

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Braaaaids! 🧟‍♂️ BRAAAIDS! 🧟‍♂️

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

That feeling when someone sends you an Alibaba Express link they found because they think the trusted hardware you recommended is too expensive

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Still dipping into some time to mess with generative braids - tried a new technique of having the strands "break" to simulate a highlight and i love how it is looking even more natural in spots. fixing those tight foldover curves is my white whale though...

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Hell yeah @bradlander.bsky.social - excited to see he’s running for congress in my district youtu.be/qmoyCPtPSTw?... (Obligatory fuck my current rep, @repdangoldman.bsky.social )

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Brad Lander for Congress

YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Pen plotter results of some of the generative braid work I was doing a week ago. Still have some work to do to make it feel more organic but I’m encouraged by the results so far #plotter #penplotter

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Trying to vibe code a generative braid that i can eventually pen plot has been quite a journey in trying to break down the problem well enough for AI to get what I'm trying to do. I've still got a little ways to go to fix edge cases, but im very pleased with what i've got so far.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Actually - @nick-hardeman.bsky.social after I made this I looked around and saw you had some lovely rope/braid experiments from a few years ago - nickhardeman.com/718/pen-plot... really lovely process!

nickhardeman.com

Pen Plotter Portrait “Bruce” – Breakdown | Nick Hardeman

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

ive been trying to figure out 2D braids/barber poles for pen plotting/faking occlusion and this took so long to get to but im so satisfied (havent worked out whats going on with the phase glitch in the middle, but whatevs)

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I also have a method that thickens based on line length - thicker lines are longer.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I’ve been trying to find a good way of making thicker pen plotter lines for years and finally cracked a way with some new code. This is originally a drawing I made, converted to vector and then an attractor laid on top to thicken lines within an influence field #plotterart #bantamtools

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Ooh cc @bantamtools.bsky.social as well. Although I’m guessing something like this already existed and I didn’t find it haha

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Sharing a little pen plotter calibration tool made with Claude laserpilot.github.io/Pen-Plotter-... Code on GitHub. Meant to let me figure out just how close and fine I can get certain pen tips for fine drawings. (Cc @golan.bsky.social if this is useful for any students)

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Oops missed this - the guide is actually getting a little out of date and needs another update pass but latest is here github.com/laserpilot/G... - I will say that 1080p projectors are probably still in the good enough for 99% of use cases especially over the increased 4K cost

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GitHub - laserpilot/Guide_To_Projectors_For_Interactive_Installations: Article Repo for a Guide to Projectors

Article Repo for a Guide to Projectors. Contribute to laserpilot/Guide_To_Projectors_For_Interactive_Installations development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Another great move from the Adams team, our embarassing mayor who can't be out of office soon enough. Sidenote - is $100 considered a decent bribe? was it jsut like a balled up pile of 20's, 5's and 1's? what were they trying to cover up with so little money? an ill timed fart?

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Great ad timing on this DC tourism ad in your app @nytimes.com food! History! Raids!

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

What hope do we all have if Waldo can’t even find himself?

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Shout out to that time in 2016 where i chopped up images of a Where's Waldo book and had @genekogan.bsky.social 's amazing ofxTSNE sort them by similarity to make a hellish Where's Waldo

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I’ll be sharing it soon! Will be open source. Just working through some fps challenges and trying to get macOS working too. Definitely not something I would have attempted outside of AI tools

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Wow - someone in my neighborhood doing a real deep clean this morning

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Used Claude Code/Gemini to help me make a CEF browser->Spout2 simple app for Windows that ill release soon. Going to do the same for Syphon on MacOS because why not. There were old implementations of this, but most were abandoned. Let me know if this sounds useful!

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Damn - Gemini Code Assist CLI is really not performing well on most coding tasks. So many syntax errors and oddball solutions. I like it as a big picture view/project manager when im out of tokens on Claude Code, but I've barely had success with it implementing working code

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Ah thank you! p5.plotsvg was great to use on another open tool that I’m going to share out this week - a little song visualizer -> plot toy

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Sharing a new niche tool I made - Font Ozempic laserpilot.github.io/font-ozempic/ it is specifically for taking SVGs with text objects and replacing the text with a single line font (or hershey text) and letting you re-position and save the file. Meant for pen plotters #penplotter #plotterart

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Awesome projection technique i havent seen done this cleanly before, or only really with LCD's with polarizers removed: www.nendo.jp/en/works/unc... - they remove the polarizers from LCD projectors and then put circular polarizers on the umbrella. so nice

nendo.jp

uncovered skies

A multimedia installation designed for the “information or inspiration?” exhibition held at the Suntory Museum […]

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A regular reminder to please donate what you can/join as a member to CAN - it is a vital resource for the global media arts community and is such a special space.

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Blair Neal @laserpilot.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I feel like all these things need to do is mention a specific artwork/project or two and many of us would be cooked.

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