Each week we round up what’s been happening in the tech world and share a few of the things we like.

This week features Lego Rubik’s Cube solving machines, learning to code, Hollywood movie datasets, creative technologist residencies and the dangers of fracking.

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Happenstance: a new residency programme for Creative Technologists

Each week we round up what’s been happening in the tech world and share a few of the things we like.

This is the first of our weekly round-ups, and features Rube Goldberg machines, ICT education reform, Raspberry Pis, realtime projection mapping, Kinects and Cut The Rope.

Launch of the Guardian’s Digital Literacy Campaign and reform of the ICT education curriculum

The recent ‘In Progress’ conference curated by ‘It’s Nice That’ held at the Barbican centre in London, was a great one-day event full of inspirational talks.

I've had a Kindle Fire for several weeks now.  In addition to being a soft southerner and an effete intellectual, I'm also a spoiled Apple user - so naturally I hate it.

These are tough time for museums, but often that's when the really innovative ideas happen – That was the flavour of the day at the Museum Computer Group annual conference, that @Gavssandwiches Mallory and I attended last week. There was an abundance of ideas and energy bouncing around the Imperial War Museum where it was held, which was the perfect venue for it not least because we could leave the conference space to be inspired by real users of a museum, alive in their native habitat. 

This article appeared in the Guardian's Voluntary Sector Network Blog on the 7th November 2011.

In September I had the good fortune to go to Culture 24's conference Let's Get Real. I say good fortune because, as a newcomer to the cultural sector, it gave me an insight into the state of digital in the sector, and some real food for thought about the similarities and differences to the world of charity, from which I have just come.

Today is ‘World Usability Day’ an annual and global celebration and promotion of how we can design products and services to be easier to access and simpler to use. The initiative is organised by the Usability Professionals’ Association and this year’s theme is ‘education’.

Guest blog by Patrick Sansom, UX designer at MakeMedia and co-organiser of DesignJam Brighton.

On the 5th of November 2011 Design Jam Brighton will be held at Cogapp. It is the first event of its kind to be put on in our city and we are anticipating an exciting day of creativity and design.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's mobile website

Mobile devices are all around us. With many countries now reporting over 100% handset penetration by population, mobile phones are now nothing if not ubiquitous. Following in their footsteps are tablet devices, which driven by the success of Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle are becoming a more and more common sight.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art on BBC Click

Last month we celebrated the launch of the new Metropolitan Museum of Art website - Cogapp's largest, most complex project and also possibly the largest digital media project yet undertaken by a museum.