It's only taken me two years to sew the LED noodle to the Brain Slug Hextension and it's amazing. #emfcamp26
Good news, Liverpool Makefest is back on the 13th September!!!
Car Tetris lll: New Beginnings, helping Bill move from Sheffield to Leicester before he starts his placement with Royal Enfield Motor cycles!
Looking forward to #emfcamp next week, got lots of prep to do, including about soldering up about 12 of my Space Unicorn Hextension. Also make up some Evil Henchman, guess I should also print some of the none evil Henchman as well
Nice, EMFcamp has a family film showings this camp :-) and there are some crackers
EMF Films | Home
Film programme for Electromagentic File 2024
films.emfcamp.org
New toy! Finally setup my new snapmaker U1, first print, I could watch this for hours the head changing is so cool! And almost no poop. I also have a Bambu A1, is two machines enough for a farm or is it more an allotment?
Quick impromptu May day sale 15% off from today till Tuesday. With the code "MayDay" at the checkout. Https://extkits.co.uk.
The @pimoroni.com Tufty 2350 Makes a nice compact tool, i2c scanner, needs tidying up the layout but not a bad start :-)
Been working on my Hacky Racers autonomous robot, been vibe coding with Claude. Experience has been very good so far, been able to improve my code and add lots of tests and enhancements including GUIs local/web for the robot, an app calibrating the camera to help with distortion at the edges.
Thank you to everyone who helped/attended yesterday at CamJam hosted at Makespace. It was a great day and sadly be the last time CamJam will be held in this location as CamJam will be relocating in the near future.
I should be at Cambridge's Makespace getting ready for Cam Jam however I at a gig waiting to see the Kaiser Chiefs 😁, their support band the Corella were good. #CamJam
Been playing with my @pimoroni.com Blinky 2350, this time ported a version of Conway's Game of Life. :-) #BadgeLife
I wrote an app for the @pimoroni.com Blinky 2350, it basically uses pirate example code, the menu image is my own work. :-) #BadgeLife
Parent tech support again, the normal complaint about it being too slow and nagging about not enough memory. login in from home and found about 5 Edge windows open and at lest 60+ tags, most them Facebook games! Wonder what the problem could be 🤔
This time next week, CamJam will done & dusted. Hopefully be in the pub, having a burger :-) Big thanks to @recantha.bsky.social for his support with words. random raspberry cake for your enjoyment
a chocolate cake with raspberries and chocolate frosting is on a wooden cutting board
ALT: a chocolate cake with raspberries and chocolate frosting is on a wooden cutting board
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This is a surprise! Look mum no computer is this year's UK Eurovision entry. An interesting and inspiring choice! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Eurovision 2026: Electronic artist and YouTuber Look Mum No Computer to represent UK in Vienna
The synth artist and Eurovision fan says he finds it
bbc.co.uk
Less than two weeks to CamJam hosted at Cambridge's Makespace, been catching up on some admin today. Tickets are going fast. We have interesting talks including one by Eben Upton. Over 15 'Show & Tell' including some by younger community members :-) camjam.me
Left my Colour picker running in Makespace, Cambridge on display with the Giant Unicorn Hat and other projects. It feels great when people interact with your projects :-)
Michael Horne's Raspberry Pi-Powered Portable Cyberdeck Boasts a Classic Psion Series 5 Keyboard - Hackster.io share.google/L59mcKNVKB5C... See it at CamJam!
Hackster.io - The community dedicated to learning hardware.
Hackster is a community dedicated to learning hardware, from beginner to pro. Share your projects and learn from other developers. Come build awesome hardware!
hackster.io
Date for the New Year, there's going to be a CamJam celebrating Raspberry Pi 14th birthday in Cambridge, UK hosted by Makespace, the community's workshop. Tickets will be released on Friday. mailchi.mp/9d1d55c5214f...
Raspberry Pi Birthday CamJam - 28th February 2026
mailchi.mp
I have a love/hate relationship with 3D printing. This is one of the things I love about it, was able to design and print new wall mounts for this coat stand. Saved it from being thrown away :-)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone. Jasper the Christmas Cat, lit by @pimoroni.com Plasma and old school Unicorn hat :-)
I have just created a 64 x 64 pixel USB C display, the HIB75 driver is a @pimoroni.com Interstate75 2350 W. I added an additional display type to @gadgetoid.com Galactic Unicorn: Multiverse library. Pygame is rendering the frame buffer being passed to the Matrix