Tom Granger

@tomgranger.bsky.social

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Maker of random things, co-maker of one person, Google Arts & Culture engineer. I like pixels. he/him.

Screenshot from an email from Framework, the text reads as follows: Update on your Framework Laptop 13 Pro pre-order We have an unfortunate update around LPCAMM2 that impacts your Framework Laptop 13 Pro pre-order: We’ve had to update your memory configuration from 64GB to 32GB, and have lowered the price on your pre-order as a result.
A still of Sam Neill from the trailer of John Carpenter‘s In the Mouth of Madness recent 4K remaster by Arrow Video
A founders edition SuperStation One and its SuperDock, in gorgeous Net Yaroze black, held up high against a sunny, heatwavey sky.
A custom text editor based on inkle's Inky showing the source script of The Intercept, with an eink display simulator running on the side.
A screenshot of the Selfig app suggesting a LEGO minifigure match for Aliya Elasra from Heaven's Vault. The matched LEGO parts are: Head: 6100203 — Head #1580 Headwear / Hair: 6550351 — HOOD FOR CLOAK Torso: 6554504 — Torso #7699 Legs: 6343796 — Legs #2096 Accessory 1: 6268828 — KNAPSACK Accessory 2: 6269999 — SEXTANT
Using the Selfig web app on a pedestrian crossing sign in the street gives out mostly white minifig body parts and some... creative yet color matched accessories (a racket and a fork).
A screen recording of a prototype web app called "Selfig" being demoed by uploading a picture of a famous tomb raiding adventurer and letting Gemini choose actual LEGO parts available on the LEGO online store to reproduce the character. The result is a hairpiece, head, torso, legs, and a couple of accessories (blaster and backpack), with a little blurb of text justifying each choice.
A screenshot of the new language selector in the settings panel, showing a choice of English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese.
A screenshot of the new Feeling Lucky mode, suggesting a random game and providing refinement options: "Shorter", "Different" (to change the game genre), or "Cheaper".
A screenshot of a game card showing the new GOG price next to the Steam price. Looks like Loretta is on sale on GOG!
Various wishlist stats and a handful of graphs such as duration and price distribution, wishlist additions per year and popular game genres.
Quick demo of the app, showing a games wishlist with category filtering and various sorting options like time to beat or discount
inkle's Game Narrative Kaleidoscope book held in front of a screen showing inkle's TR-49 game.
The digital frame displaying a photo of a random blue peacock I took a while ago, in an effort to demonstrate that the display is indeed color.
A close up shot of a laser cutter working on a piece of MDF, followed by a shot of the finished ePaper digital frame project. The display updates slowly to render a "how to draw an owl" meme.
Slop vs. Art If you can push a button and get content, then that content is a commodity. Its value is next to zero. Counterintuitively, that's my biggest reason to be optimistic about Al and creativity. When hard parts become easy, the differentiator becomes love.
LP vinyl of Clair Obscur playing the first track of the first side of the first disc, which is obviously Alicia.
An Amiga CD32 exhibited at the Science Museum in London. The game in it was Zool.
Amiga box of the original Monkey Island game, 2 floppy disks and the Dial-A-Pirate disk on display at the Pirates exhibition of the National Maritime Museum in London. I also have all of these at home, which is sadly not the case for the rest of the artifacts shown in this pretty cool exhibition.
A Tinytron mini TV playing a video from its microSD card
Random items scattered on a desk: a box of gums, a roll of tape, a pen, a miniature TV/VCR combo.
A screenshot from a Gemini chat. My prompt: Find what was redacted based on the character counts in the below paragraph. Something bad ███ ████████ ██ █████ ███ ███ ███ █████ ███████ ██████ ████. Some doors ████ ████ ███ ██████████. Some doors ████ ████ ██████████. ███ ███ ███ home? Gemini's response: Based on the character counts, the redacted paragraph is from the radio broadcast in the horror video game P.T. (the playable teaser for the cancelled game Silent Hills). Here is the full text: "Something bad has happened to Frank and his new family friends inside this home. Some doors will not be unlockable. Some doors will stay permanently. Are you two home?"
Still from the 1995 movie City of Lost Children, showing Irvin, a brain in a vat fitted with extremely steampunk looking input/output interfaces.
The stage of Rock en Seine music festival in Paris, with Vampire Weekend performing in front of a giant display showing the 1993 Drive Composer C64 program.
A classic picture frame with a paper-like display showing a color screenshot from A Highland Song and then refreshing to reveal another colorful screenshot from Céleste.
Day 2 in Blue Prince, and the map shows there's no way to progress past row 2 out of 9 because the room draw never provided an option to continue up north, so the run is blocked. No new room discovered either, just a waste of time hence the frustration.
A satisfying screenshot crop that reads: "The End Created by William Rous"
Gemini screenshot. User input says "the end" and the response reads "It seems our journey has taken an unexpected turn! We've moved from the cold, abandoned outpost in Antarctica to a surreal landscape of rubber chickens and otherworldly skies. Perhaps this is the true mystery the outpost was hiding, a gateway to a reality beyond our wildest imaginations. Thank you for exploring with me. It's been quite an adventure!"
Hundreds of rubber poultry, big and small, scattered across a rocky plain, under a dramatically kitsch sky with galaxy-like twirling red and green lights (or clouds?).
This is still a laboratory room of some kind but a large toroidal shape is emerging from a corner. At its center a warm light is glowing with both greenish and red hues.
Close-up of a metallic plaque screwed on the rusty machine, the torchlight pointed at it. The text reads "CACHR BOLABER A NEAS PST SYGIA STRIEPUIS CAZY BILLYSMETAT, IST N..."
A close up on a mid 20th century style industrial machine, with gauges and buttons. One single dial is lit up, and a red light is glowing. It's quite pretty.
Inside a dark room with cables, shelves and crates, a torchlight points at a large and mysterious contraption.
Isometric view of the "ASTANCTUE & OUTPOST", showing a number of living quarters, technical looking rooms and beds with orange sheets scattered randomly.
A decrepit room with metallic walls and ceilings, a couple of doors. The back wall is missing entirely, showing an Antarctica landscape.
View from what looks like the inside of a cargo container. There's snow outside, basked in golden hour light.
Rear view of the outpost. The sun is very low. Not fully consistent architecturally with the previous image but this makes the experience even more dream-like.
An outpost photograph marching what Gemini defined as the general structure of the abandoned outpost: with a rusty satellite dish and frozen wind turbine.
Screenshot from the game with the instructions: "Mutter under your breath then laugh quietly."
Tapping a Bowser Amiibo on top of the Jackal triggers a custom playlist and colorful UI mode, thanks to the NFC reader concealed inside the device, and local SD storage.
Demo of player mode, listening to the audio clip we recorded in the previous post.
Demoing recorder mode using a voice that is definitely not mine.
Quick demo of the radio mode, seeking for a few stations, playing with the bitcrusher effect, loading a favorite station with a push of the orange button.
Check out the captions for the director's commentary :p
Setting date and time on the Jackal after boot up, by rotating a dial and pressing a push button to confirm each step.
The open Jackal with FM module upright in bottom left corner, amp module behind it, Arduino nano in bottom right, teensy and audio board in the back, and a gazillion wires.
Europeean version of Anarchy Pancakes on the shelf of a Fnac store in France.
Arduino Nano clone installed on a perfboard in the Jackal with a bunch of terminals and labeled wires going to all the various inputs of the device.
Animated boot animation displaying a fictional company's logo
The cover of the ebook Make it Yourself
A screen recording of the flashing tool in action. Easy!
Wordclock PCB made by nodo-shop.nl
Tapping the logo on the web interface a few times makes a little character show up !
Demo of scrolling text on the Wordclock