Blair Neal
@laserpilot.bsky.social
Brooklyn NY - Creative Technologist/Artist working in experiential design and beyond
www.ablairneal.com
www.ablairneal.com
I also have a method that thickens based on line length - thicker lines are longer.
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I also have a method that thickens based on line length - thicker lines are longer.
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
October 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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
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)
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)
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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)
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)
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?
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?
August 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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?
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?
Great ad timing on this DC tourism ad in your app @nytimes.com food! History! Raids!
August 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Great ad timing on this DC tourism ad in your app @nytimes.com food! History! Raids!
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
August 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
Wow - someone in my neighborhood doing a real deep clean this morning
August 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Wow - someone in my neighborhood doing a real deep clean this morning
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!
August 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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!
Response to the photochromic+UV laser has been awesome - thanks for everyone's support. I didn't get to share this bonkers bit of footage where the laser and camera shutter sync up briefly and it looks like the image is just drawing itself for a moment. (extra footage here youtu.be/xEo0MRYg4SY )
June 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Response to the photochromic+UV laser has been awesome - thanks for everyone's support. I didn't get to share this bonkers bit of footage where the laser and camera shutter sync up briefly and it looks like the image is just drawing itself for a moment. (extra footage here youtu.be/xEo0MRYg4SY )
Wow - taking a look at my ancient "How to keep an installation up 4evr" guide in 2025 with an AI lens and asking it if it can update everything and automate some stuff.
New installation tools incoming soon i guess??
(link to old guide for those unfamiliar github.com/laserpilot/I... )
New installation tools incoming soon i guess??
(link to old guide for those unfamiliar github.com/laserpilot/I... )
June 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Wow - taking a look at my ancient "How to keep an installation up 4evr" guide in 2025 with an AI lens and asking it if it can update everything and automate some stuff.
New installation tools incoming soon i guess??
(link to old guide for those unfamiliar github.com/laserpilot/I... )
New installation tools incoming soon i guess??
(link to old guide for those unfamiliar github.com/laserpilot/I... )
Sharing some WIP footage for a new experiment that uses photochromic pigment and a custom UV laser projector. The images fade over time, allowing for an evolving canvas.
More info here ablairneal.com/project/forg...
More info here ablairneal.com/project/forg...
June 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Sharing some WIP footage for a new experiment that uses photochromic pigment and a custom UV laser projector. The images fade over time, allowing for an evolving canvas.
More info here ablairneal.com/project/forg...
More info here ablairneal.com/project/forg...
Successful test composite fft plot of Ok Computer (blue=bass/green=mid/red=high). Super fun comparing whole albums like this - now just need to make the time text bigger and the plots less tedious to make
June 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Successful test composite fft plot of Ok Computer (blue=bass/green=mid/red=high). Super fun comparing whole albums like this - now just need to make the time text bigger and the plots less tedious to make
Working on some time series song visualizations that I can then pen plot. It’s wild how much Claude Code can help on this kind of thing - an idea I’ve had for a long while and finally got to do it
June 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Working on some time series song visualizations that I can then pen plot. It’s wild how much Claude Code can help on this kind of thing - an idea I’ve had for a long while and finally got to do it
Excited to share a new update to my Creative Tech Taxonomy - I added a tab that attempts to categorize various types of interactions how they can be enabled by a sensor. It's still missing some stuff, but I've wanted to share it for a while: laserpilot.github.io/Creative_Tec...
June 9, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Excited to share a new update to my Creative Tech Taxonomy - I added a tab that attempts to categorize various types of interactions how they can be enabled by a sensor. It's still missing some stuff, but I've wanted to share it for a while: laserpilot.github.io/Creative_Tec...
Showed my 5yr old the wonders of physical media this morning and discovered that there is fungus eating one of my favorite 21yr old CDs
June 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Showed my 5yr old the wonders of physical media this morning and discovered that there is fungus eating one of my favorite 21yr old CDs
Vibe coding is cool, but people are really missing the untapped potential to screenshot the code shown on tv shows like Digimon, and have AI attempt to implement it
May 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Vibe coding is cool, but people are really missing the untapped potential to screenshot the code shown on tv shows like Digimon, and have AI attempt to implement it
Obviously would round the edges to be like cards but...would totally wear these on a job site
April 11, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Obviously would round the edges to be like cards but...would totally wear these on a job site
Sometimes I forget how truly dumb middle schoolers can be and then this morning I walk by a playground full of dozens of them throwing a giant compressed air tank around and hearing it clatter on the ground
April 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sometimes I forget how truly dumb middle schoolers can be and then this morning I walk by a playground full of dozens of them throwing a giant compressed air tank around and hearing it clatter on the ground
Wooo. First boxes of final print Post Mortem cards came in and they look great. Going to start shipping them out to folks who ordered in the next couple days. 🙏
April 2, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Wooo. First boxes of final print Post Mortem cards came in and they look great. Going to start shipping them out to folks who ordered in the next couple days. 🙏
New digital drawing to pen plotter drawing (a couple variations and the original with the black background)- open to title ideas…can’t decide #axidraw #plotterart
March 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New digital drawing to pen plotter drawing (a couple variations and the original with the black background)- open to title ideas…can’t decide #axidraw #plotterart
Just pulled these cards for today’s video calls. Ominous 👻
If you want your own deck, you can pre-order them from me here 🧙♂️ postmortemtarot.store 🔮
If you want your own deck, you can pre-order them from me here 🧙♂️ postmortemtarot.store 🔮
February 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Just pulled these cards for today’s video calls. Ominous 👻
If you want your own deck, you can pre-order them from me here 🧙♂️ postmortemtarot.store 🔮
If you want your own deck, you can pre-order them from me here 🧙♂️ postmortemtarot.store 🔮
Experimenting with converting some digitally drawn wimmelbilder worlds to plotter drawings
February 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Experimenting with converting some digitally drawn wimmelbilder worlds to plotter drawings
It’s really coming down out there
February 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It’s really coming down out there
And thanks to @makeitdoathing.com for help with additional videos!
February 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
And thanks to @makeitdoathing.com for help with additional videos!