Aprils Round up: Farewell Jon Conway

Farewell John Conway 

It is unfortunate when you have to start a post with an obituary. On the 11th April the Maths and Physics has lost a great. John Horton Conway passed away aged 82.

In 1970 Conway developed the 'Game of Life' one of the early cellular automatons which generates patterns to a known set of rules. which in the early days he would draw onto graph paper as it was well before the home computing revolution. This has spawned countless examples of his algorithm, and often used as an example on matrix displays. 

Credit: Thane Plambeck Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

This is still the same today with many people celebrating his life and achievements with examples of this.

John Conway tribute rendered on the Olivetti TE-318 teleprinter pic.twitter.com/o1vuovQLAV

— eric F. (@ef1j91) April 18, 2020

This above example by @ef1j91 on done on a TE-318 teleprinter wow!

RIP John Conway pic.twitter.com/gW8v5uwYf2

— Seth Pine (@sethlpine) April 11, 2020

And a very pretty example by @sethpine

Brian Corteil Looses His Beard

In the current climate of lock-down and social distancing Museums are being hit hard. Not being allowed to open their doors to paying customers while still have to fork out on rents and bills. Brian Corteil of Coretec Robots made the ultimate sacrifice by shaving his beard off. With this he raised £349 to help keep the light on.

So this is what I currently look like and when did it get so cold?

I did this so I can wear a mask correctly as a byproduct nearly £325 was raised by us for the @computermuseum in Cambridge. Thank you for being part of this! pic.twitter.com/ZNgb9MJln2

— Brian Corteil 🤖 (@CannonFodder) April 13, 2020

Nice one Brian 😀

New video from the 8-bit Guy

The 8-Bit guy is one of my favorite Youtube creators when id come down Retro computing. He upload an interesting video this month on different and obscure medias types, defiantly worth checking out.

I was hoping to share some more cool projects I had found but unfortunately time has run out so i'll leave it with these this month.