I hacked a dmx stage light with a #microbit! Sooo shiny
Dr Lorraine Underwood
@lmcunderwood.bsky.social
Maker, Author, Senior RA at Lancaster University, UK. Ireland born, Yorkshire living. I wrote a book! https://tinyurl.com/bdfr2ava My interest is in physical computing and data science for children, especially anything micro:bit
Wooo, the hubby's talk was accepted to Hackaday Europe! Who else is coming to Italy in May? #Hackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social
Remember these books as a child?? They're free to download! #coding #basic usborne.com/gb/books/com...
Really need to bring coloured pens with me 😃 In #Barcelona at #microbitlive #microbit @microbit-mirl.bsky.social @microbit.org
wooo, can't wait! I'll be at Hackaday Europe again this year. This time, I'm bringing the husband
Hackaday@hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 6mo ago2026 Hackaday Europe Call for Participation: We Want You!
I'm running the social media account for MIRL below, for my day job. It's a more casual account of our work with microbit. If you want the official updates, follow our linkedin www.linkedin.com/company/micr... or website lancaster.ac.uk/mirl #microbit
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Micro:bit Innovation and Research Lab@microbit-mirl.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe whole gang is in London receiving the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education at St James Palace this morning. We've got undergraduates, graduates, postdocs, lecturers and professors all excited to dress up in our fancy frocks! Photos imminent!
The #RaspberryPi roller coaster share price, #AI and what the future may hold. The Raspberry Pi share price has soared this week, buoyed by #OpenClaw and many, many transactions on the London Stock Exchange. bigl.es/pi-stocks/
Is there a prize for fancy boxes?? Cause @pimoroni.com should win it. Also loooook at my shiny badge! Can't wait to boot it up and bring it to @fosdem.org in Brussels this weekend! #making #makers
Is the barefoot website down at the moment? The resources aren't loading on this page... www.barefootcomputing.org/primary-comp... @computingatschool.bsky.social @wearebcs.bsky.social
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EXPLORE creative, high quality resources for primary school teachers to help teach computing to children supported by Barefoot Computing.
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In Malaysia again for a research trip with work. I haven't had pringles in a while but have they shrunk?? Or are Malaysian pringles just built different??
Can anyone recommend a small portable electric screwdriver? I need to disassemble 50 things quickly and they have 4 screws each.
Whose going to Bromsgrove tonight for the @computingatschool.bsky.social conference social? I'll be there! And I'll have #microbit toys.
I was able to run the PixelBlaze Panama Hat with 150 LEDs for over 5 hrs, looking great at 20% brightness, using this small battery that fit under the hat & at 2.2oz, wasn't noticeable: a.co/d/bbhObkk youtube.com/shorts/TZBFV...
PixelBlaze Panama Hat - for tutorials see my channel. NeoPixel LEDs arranged in a matrix. #wearables
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This is really interesting. A new TV series on #Netflix about the #Guinness family advertised with #Irish subtitles! A nice way to read Irish if you're a bit rusty (like me) @netflix.com #HouseOfGuinness
I recently bought a car and it's new new 😍 It has all the safety features including lane assist. Unfortunately where I live lane assist isn't very useful and somewhat dangerous. For example this is a two way road! When lane assist doesn't see a line it keeps trying to pull me into oncoming traffic
Missed our 2025 Summer School at @lancasteruni.bsky.social? Highlights included: 🍎 expert instruction 💰 prizes! 💡 world-class talks by speakers like Pete Lomas, co-founder of Raspberry Pi Foundation & author Simon Monk Learn more: lnkd.in/ewrEVrmC #pro2summerschool2025 @lmcunderwood.bsky.social
I'm back! And I have two robot arms from waveshare, but what should I do with them? Give me your best ideas and tune in tonight at 7pm BST youtube.com/live/DQPC1Ev...
2 Robot Arms - what should I do?
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Looking forward to the @computingatschool.bsky.social conference in October! So many great workshops to choose from, I panicked! Luckily me and two colleagues from the School of Computing and Communications at @lancasteruni.bsky.social are going so we're going to divide and conquer! Who's coming??
Look at this cool thing by @roboticalltd.bsky.social It's called cog. It has RGB LEDs, several tilt sensors, light sensor, a speaker and you can code it in blocks!
The end of a PhD is full of these weird anti-climatic but somehow still exciting and celebration worthy moments. You have: thesis submission moment, viva passing (that's a big one), corrections submission, library submission then finally (I think!) graduation 🎓 All this will take me 11 months!
Dr Lorraine Underwood@lmcunderwood.bsky.social · last yr.This week my PhD thesis corrections were accepted and I uploaded it to my university library. You can read it for free, but only if you really really want to (and let me know!) www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/files...
This week my PhD thesis corrections were accepted and I uploaded it to my university library. You can read it for free, but only if you really really want to (and let me know!) www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/files...
I also ran for the first time in over a year yesterday morning 💪 I'm doing a challenge at work: whoever doesn't make 10k steps the day before buys lunch 😀
I have the pleasure of working from home 2 days a week in the summer holidays. I worked late on a piece of work yesterday so I'm taking some time today to blow off some cobwebs.
