Music Thing Modular's Radio Music Mk2 rebuilds Tom Whitwell's Eurorack 'virtual radio' on an RP2040: 4HP and 25mm deep, microSD up to 2TB, WAV/AIFF/RAW to 24-bit/96kHz, better than −86dB noise floor, sub-2ms latency, up to 16 stations, plus a 90s-sampler lo-fi mode and V/oct pitch. £149–156 assembled or £115–125 DIY, shipping October 2026.
Editor's selection
The 16th Gwangju Biennale, September 5 – November 15, 2026, is led by artistic director Ho Tzu Nyen with curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee and Brian Kuan Wood. Titled 'You must change your life' after Rilke's Archaic Torso of Apollo, it presents 43 artists and groups — the smallest number in the biennale's history.
Noisebridge in San Francisco has been running since 2007: a 6,000 sq ft hackerspace at 272 Capp Street with woodworking, electronics, laser cutters and 3D printers, operating as a do-ocracy on consensus and donations. Classes and workshops are free and open to anyone — no membership or payment required — with regular weekly events including Circuit Hacking Monday and Gamebridge.
PrismML's Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B ships GGUF builds at roughly 1.72 bits per weight, putting a 27B model in 5.95GB against a ~54GB FP16 baseline — a 9x reduction while retaining a claimed 98.2% of FP16 benchmark performance. It entered our tracker at trending rank #4 with 405,609 downloads, and requires PrismML's llama.cpp fork.
Today in Creative Technology
Spotlight
Most art about quantum computing is art about the idea of quantum computing. Libby Heaney is the exception: she holds a PhD in quantum information science and executes work on actual quantum processors, across video, sculpture, watercolor, AR, and sound. Her 'Shadowscapes (Wilderness Within)' is showing at the Shenzhen Art and Technology Biennale through April 2027.
Read the story →Isabel + Helen, the studio behind a decade of large-scale kinetic sculpture and wearable mechanical invention, mark ten years of practice with Motion Sickness, a retrospective opening at The Conran Shop for London Design Festival (Sept 12-20). The show is the first time models, maquettes, and motion tests from their archive have gone on public view.
The Badge is MIT-licensed ESP32-S3 firmware for the Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.75C — a 466×466 round AMOLED display — adding a BLE trackpad and air mouse, clock and timer, games, a liquid simulation and up to 52 minutes of WAV recording. It also builds and runs on a PC.
Research Made Simple
Yootta and Shangpin Home Collection released WorldSimReady-Home: 500 household scenes, 4,462 rooms, 31,711 placed objects across 36,601 m², in OpenUSD with SimReady physics, plus 1,000 robot task episodes (1.3M RGB-D frames at 30Hz). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, so non-commercial only.
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What to install this week
Creative Coding
Browser-based livecoding video synth, now with WebGPU-backed rendering. Watch: Olivia Jack (Hydra’s creator) on live coding visuals.
AI & Creative Tools
Community node graphs for chained image-to-video generation workflows. Watch: a step-by-step ComfyUI walkthrough for beginners.
Creative Coding
Friendly machine-learning library for p5.js sketches, rebuilt on TensorFlow.js. Watch: The Coding Train’s beginner’s guide to ml5.js.
XR / Spatial Computing
Latest build adds native spatial output for Vision Pro and Quest. Watch: TouchDesigner for beginners in one hour.
Music Technology
Esoteric livecoding sequencer for procedural sequencers and mangled MIDI. Watch: a guided tour of ORCA’s rhythm and math.
Interactive Art
VJ and projection-mapping software for real-time visual performance. Watch: a beginner’s quick-start guide to VJing with Resolume.
From the editorial team
Testing MediaPipe hand tracking against an old webcam to drive a Hydra patch — more jank than expected.
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