[Brad] just acquired a 32×32 RGB LED matrix and he jumped right into the deep end with his first project. To try out his skills on the device he used an Arduino to drive a slew of pixels with bouncing ...

The list of informal, weird AI benchmarks keeps growing. Well, simulating a bouncing ball is a classic programming challenge. Accurate simulations incorporate collision detection algorithms, which try ...

Back in the fall of 1989, I was a freshman at Williams College, and one Monday night that fall there was some sort of problem with the cable TV in our dorm, so a bunch of us went next door to watch ...

When the iconic “Boing Ball” first debuted 40 years ago, it was a wonder to behold. There was nothing like it in the home compuing world upto that time, and it showed that Commodore’s new “Amiga” was ...