Recorded Live: 26th May, 2012

Ludum Dare (from Latin "to give a game") is a game development competition where the participants have 48 hours to create a game. All of the code and content must be created during the 48 hours, each entry must be created by a single person and source code must be shown.

This year's theme was "Tiny World" and had 1402 submissions. Phew! But there can only be one winner, "Fracuum" by TylerGlaiel.

Some runner-ups, worth looking at titles are Inside My Radio, Super Strict Farmer and Extensionism.

Kenji Ishida of Japan's JS Robotics has posted a video of his "Transformer Version 8," a radio-controlled robot that can not only transform between humanoid and car-shaped forms, but can also perform a variety of actions in both forms.

Recorded Live: 29th April, 2012

Check out this cool iOS (iPhone) music creation app called Figure by Propellerheads.

Very easy to use and get going, in fact, I downloaded it on the train this morning and started making beats straight away. It's an initial release so it can be forgiven for missing a few things I'd like to see such as export/save for the songs you've created and more sequencing.

Still at $0.99 AU, it's a bargain and another tool to add to my music creation arsenal.