Past Demo Nights

Documentation inspired by https://demos.club/.

Feb 2, 2025: Demo Night

• Leila - Tracking the lobster truck
• Katie - Improving NYT connections and p5.js
• Gavriel - Choosing a sword
• Clovis - LLMs asking about geospatial data
• Aayush - whatdidyoudo.dev
• Vincent - How to use polynomials
• Robert - tl;dr of biblical history
• Nate - Land map of the USA and the mysterious checkerboard
• Thomas - Live demo of ultrasound blood flow detection
• Kelsey - Vision zero analysis
• Raffi - Why neurons fire slowly

December 11, 2024: Chalk Talks and Hot Chocolate

• Harshu - vaccine that you apply on your skin
• Raffi - Where does the weight of an MRI come from?
• Adil - Crick’s original version of the central dogma
• Mehran - How much can you heat 1 ton of water with the energy of the earth?
• Will - Explorations into video models

December 10, 2023: Hardware Hack Day

• Jaguar and Kevin - Remote controlled rice cooker opens and closes
• Matthew - Vulfpeck’s Chrismas in LA with the audience as a choir
• Elo and Chris - A circuitboard to control a cockroach’s neurons
• Aayush and Florent - Understanding credit card signatures
• Liam - The end sum of surfaces
• David - Procedural Generation
• Max - A new model for chronic pain
• Marley - Neural reconstruction via fNIRS
• Raffi and Rishi - A water gun that can pivot on two axes and auto-fire
• Rona - Septogram word puzzles

December 5, 2023: Hardware Hack Night

• Jaguar and Kevin - SSH into a rice cooker to turn it on
• Raffi - Automatic empty cup detector for refill via water gun
• Vivek - Axiom V2
• Andrew - Jubmoji Cards
• Marcus - SIM Card Hacks
• Florent and Aayush - Proof of Passport for USA

October 17, 2023

• Everyone - Can you use smell to tell which book someone has touched, like Richard Feynman?

September 23, 2023: Neural Imagery Final Demos

• Everyone in Neural Imagery - End point demos for tomography, hardware, software, and machine learning

September 12, 2023

• Everyone in Neural Imagery - Halfway point demos for tomography, hardware, software, and machine learning

June 25, 2023: Light and Matter 1-Day Hackathon

• Marley and Daniel - Fog in a box (demo)
• Anna and Raffi - Piano synced to circle LED (demo)
• Aayush, Anna and Raffi - Piano synced to the literal cloud (demo)
• Marley and Aayush - A vantablack and whitest white moon-like LED fishbowl (demo)
• Steve - Lightning LEDs synced to the sound of lightning
• Vivek - Media Lab bike display prank (image)
• Vikram - Laser fog fluid dynamics (demo)

July 9, 2023

• Vivek - A guitar cover of "Sure Thing" by Miguel
• Marley - The neuralimagery.com flower animation
• Phil - The Book of John
• Achuta - A magnetic automatic chessboard
• Raffi - learnfromfriends.xyz, 1-1 learning experiment software
• Aayush - http://zinenight.lxm.house, second lxm zine night site built by Alicia
• Lloyd - How to fast for 5 days
• Laura - The sellout's dilemma
• Vikram - Game theory and the tragedy of the commons
• William - Machine learning evaluation and grokking
• Ellen - Kawasaki disease diagnosis

July 30, 2023

• Salad, set, a geometry problem and
• Anna on Networks
• Vic on his Android AR franken-glasses
• Rosie on her latest ML paper
• Steve on Barbie
• Katelina on kick boxing
• Max on tech economics and legislation