PERCEPTOR

Perceptor is a design studio with a broad outlook.
We think, design, develop and play with technology.
Let’s make apps, games, websites and what not.

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august 17, 2012 – casper

This is week 106.

This wonderful tile flooring from 1889 decorated my short vacation in Northern France last week. Although this was a very welcome break from the storm, it's good to be back.

We have been kicking off two extremly exciting projects. Unfortunately, we cannot give away too much information about these at this point. One of the projects is about time. After I turned thirty years old a couple of weeks ago, Bastiaan told me to forget about the idea of time as a whole, since it's really just an empty concept. However, the project we're working on right now is setting time into stone: it doesn't get much more concrete.

Hopefully, time is on our side.

august 10, 2012 – bastiaan

This is week 105.

And we're back! Unavoidable circumstances (i.e. summer) caused a one-week hiatus in our weekly notes. Alas.

This week, work continued on Dimencer (hit me up if you'd like to be a beta tester – we're almost there) and we wrapped up Project NN. A launch is imminent. We also kicked off something new which will add a fourth dimension to our favourite list-making tool. Lastly, there is some experimental hardware hacking going with the amazing $25 Raspberry PI board (pictured), combining optics and sound.

Next week, our focus will shift a little as we approach the tornado.

july 20, 2012 – bastiaan

This is week 102.

After all the excitement of our Dutch Design Awards nomination, we're back at work.

Dunya has immersed himself in Game Kit and is finishing up something very nice (hint: it's not a spreadsheet). I've been working on Untime 3 and a fun new project for a new client involving diamonds, rubies and Paper.js. Casper drew the shortest straw this week. He is working on proposals, doing our taxes and making sure our to-do list doesn't grow to insurmountable lengths.

july 13, 2012 – bastiaan

This is week 101.

Wowzers, we're a Dutch Design Awards finalist with MENDO!

july 6, 2012 – casper

This is week 100!

To celebrate, we bought ourselves a coffee grinder (that makes a hell of a lot of noise) and we will be creating our very own game (that will be almost impossible to play).

Need we say more? Both things have been on the top of our wish list for like ever, so we're quite excited.

june 30, 2012 – bastiaan

This is week 99.

There's been a lot to celebrate lately. Many things we cannot talk about (yet), but one of the things we can talk about is this: starting next week, Perceptor will be +1.

Dünya Kirkali will be joining us full-time as a software engineer. When Dünya isn't working his magic with languages – computerized and not – you can find him rolling sushi or solving wooden puzzle boxes.

june 22, 2012 – bastiaan

This is week 98.

We have an interesting chart for you. It graphs the relative amount of sentences containing statements about policy in Queen's speeches between 1945 and 2010. Higher bars mean more policy sentences. The width of the bars is determined by the relative length of the speech. Shorter speeches get thinner bars.

The point here is that since Beatrix became queen, speeches have become much longer, while the percentage of policy-containing sentences has dropped a little. In short: she likes to talk.

june 15, 2012 – casper

This is week 97.

Five star accomodation.
Five star weather.
Five star host.
Five star experience.
(Who cares about football?)

june 8, 2012 – bastiaan

This is week 96.

We’ve given our best at proposing, now if she’d only answer “yes”…

may 18, 2012 – bastiaan

This is week 93.

Between writing proposals, tracking manure transportations and mining airplane callsigns, we've been working with artist Navid Nuur to create some pretty glitches. More on that soon.

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