Exquisite Corpus is a bot that generates illustrations of /r/TwoSentenceHorror's daily top story during the witching hour (3AM) every day and posts the results to Twitter.

This bot's name comes from the popular 19th century parlor game...

and is also a fun linguistics pun!

Dungalaba was built to provide companionship at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

She is an animatronic conversational chat bot named for the Larrakian word for crocodile .

Touch her boulder and she goes into an "angry mode" which can only be ended by apologizing!

Some individuals have increased difficulty with face classification, however, advances in computer vision research have resulted in the possibility of neural network driven perceptual assistance!

This tech demo demonstrates how such methods could be harnessed to assist in emotion perception using a model trained on stock photos!
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Four times a day Rorschach InkBot algorithmically generates an ink blot and submits it to an image classification algorithm in order to "psychoanalyze" it.

Image classification algorithms include XCeption, DenseNet, and VGG19.

These algorithms make up the "id", "ego", and "super-ego" which drive the interpretation of the generated blot.

Vaporwave is a genre of electronic music defined by a specific visual aesthetic.

@AestheticRender procedurally generates new artwork conforming to this style and posts twice daily!

Everything but meme images are procedurally generated - even the faces!
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Deep Lore is a python program named after a fictional android that trains and uses a recurrent neural network to generate novel screenplays of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The results are eerily effective!
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RBM Toadofsky is a python program named after a fictional uninspired composer that trains and uses a neural network to generate music after training on a dataset of provided MIDI files.

Such a tool would have been invaluable to the fictional Toadofsky!
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The Angriest Dog in the World was one of the first popular constrained comic strip.

This strip is marked by the absurdist humor of its creator, film director David Lynch.

@MostAngryDog uses a Markov chain to generate new comic strips every six hours!
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In the event that an intelligent extraterrestrial being ever comes across either of the two Voyager probes, they'll be able to learn a lot about humanity from the encoded image files stored within the record's audio! Linked here are programs used to both extract the image files stored on the golden records and also create new encoded signals given a set of images!
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A close friend of mine has the most adorable cat that needed both a workout, as this feline is plump, and psychological enrichment to keep her from getting bored. Therefore, I created this special cat toy - an arduino controlled laser toy with randomized x- and y- axis movement. I'm told that this cat gets frequent exercise chasing the uncatchable red dot!
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I've been fascinated with cellular automata for some time and I decided to take my cellular automata music to the logical next step. After placing some structured musical rules, in this case a blues bar, more melodic tunes can be generated.
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The repeating patterns found within cellular automata have a potential application in the world of generative music. Here I demonstrate a proof of concept using two well-known one dimensional rules.
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I was able to purchase four brushless model airplane propellers for an extremely low price and decided to use these powerful motors to construct a drone that could be used for filming video as well as lifting a payload. Up to 2.5kg can be safely lifted to 6 meters but more extreme testing has not been conducted.

Inspired by a conference poster on the neuroscience of music, I decided to take some of the MEG data that I was analyzing and use it to drive algorithmic music. This was my first foray into the world of doing unconventional things with data.
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