Getting back into Rain World. Confession: I've unshaded the Citadel, as this gamer is now too tired and careworn to stumble in the dark for hours on end. Progress comes with a price however: no food, a gaggle of Miros Birds tumbling around, and an impending rainstorm - it's not looking good. #gaming

We are very happy to share the news: the full Open Access version of our book is now available! You can download the whole book, as well as individual 19 chapters as separate files from here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... Please feel free to download the book, chapters, and spread the word!

Cultural Game Studies | Critical Approaches | Frans Mäyrä, Raine Koski

Cultural Game Studies provides a comprehensive framework for understanding games and play as interconnected cultural phenomena, examining their roles as art,

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Still sifting through photos from the Kite Drone mini-photoshoot - wondering if to keep the shadows of the photographer (aka 'me') in them.

One of my admittedly arcane joys is the art/sciemce of interface pages and display layouts (always have done - often more interested in cockpits and control panels than the machinery they drive). Currently implementing GPS readouts for the geocamera box - here, fixed satellites, sky pos. and signal.

So looking forward to integrating this precarious pile into a proper enclosure next week. It's here, at this juncture, that the slightly messy RPi layout becomes a particular issue.

This show is another instance of the 'press release as a service' reporting that we see in other tech fields. Exotic tech gets the main focus, and 'vast' engineering / political challenges mainly ignored. Only at the end do we see gestures towards a critcal stance www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Documentary - The engineers: Flying at the edge - BBC Sounds

Engineers Kelly Latimer, Rob Miller, Daniel Moczydlower discuss their pioneering work

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Landed! It's been a while 🪽

Lovely to see so many thoughtful responses come through 😊 The survey is now available in 3 languages: English, Spanish and Japanese. Thanks to students/staff from the Department of Language and Linguistics (York) for facilitating this. Do complete it and share if you can: tinyurl.com/5579y76e

Mariana J López@marianajlopez.bsky.social · 7d ago

As part of my work on sound heritage, I'm running a short survey on sounds (not music) that are important personally/culturally to people from different parts of the world. Please do help if you can 🙏 (versions in other languages will be added soon) tinyurl.com/5579y76e

The turning of absolutely everything into a system for gaining continuous revenue, whether via adverts, subscriptions, dataveillance, or all 3, is one of the fundamental blights of the contemporary world (see re: subscriptions for accessing features & functions in a car that are already installed).

Arr David@arrdavid.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Your vehicle will start after 3 of 3 ads" "Journey will resume after ad break" www.autonocion.com/us/bmw-spide...

A vignette of calm for a Friday - "a house in the sky" asks you you to build a peaceful village atop a hill. That's it! jsmonzani.itch.io/a-house-in-t...

"Research databases are not preserved. There is no system in place in the UK (or anywhere else, so far as I know) to ensure that research outputs are officially preserved in perpetuity, as though they were books, when they are in the form of a database. " lukemckernan.com/2026/06/28/l...

Lost resources

To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…

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La encuesta sobre sonidos (sin incluir música) que son de importancia personal y cultural para personas de diferentes partes del mundo está ahora disponible en Español. Les agradecería muchísimo si pueden ayudar completando y distribuyendo la encuesta 🙏 tinyurl.com/5579y76e

Thanks to everyone who already completed the survey, it's been lovely to read the responses coming through 😊 Please do complete it if you have 5 minutes and if you are able to share it that would be great 😊 tinyurl.com/5579y76e #SoundHeritage #Soundscapes #Acoustics

Mariana J López@marianajlopez.bsky.social · 7d ago

As part of my work on sound heritage, I'm running a short survey on sounds (not music) that are important personally/culturally to people from different parts of the world. Please do help if you can 🙏 (versions in other languages will be added soon) tinyurl.com/5579y76e

Today has mainly been spent wrestling with this tiny little IMX219 camera. So much arcana needed to deal with its overlays, lens shading, distortion (160 FOV) and tendency to wildly over-expose. Exhausting, but learnt a lot. Tomorrow is the exciting stuff - real time gyroflow image stabilisation...

My typically energetic presentation style means it is almost impossible to get a good photo of me speaking. This is about as good as it got from the BCS EVA 2026 symposium in July.

I never thought my work would ever take me down the 3D printing route, but needs definitely must. One more test print, a toy boat, before all the art and design starts to happen.

As part of my work on sound heritage, I'm running a short survey on sounds (not music) that are important personally/culturally to people from different parts of the world. Please do help if you can 🙏 (versions in other languages will be added soon) tinyurl.com/5579y76e

Proper rain! Lightning! It'll all be over in 3 minutes but so good to see ⚡

That took a bit longer than planned, but first print done - a symbolic spanner!

Stuff is going to get *made* I remember our first Canon colour bubble jet printer in the early 1990s. Did feel a little bit magical, in our techno-naivety, that one could get images out of the system and onto the page. The idea that one could ever get "objects" - proper Y2K science fiction.

It's raining ☔

Willing these raindrops

UK Landclass and Elevation maps - Landclass is via ESA CCI LULC 2022 (300m), while Elevation is NASA HGT DEM (30m). Currently building the cross correlation script that can reference these alongside OSM data (e.g. 'what's within this bounding box? what heights? what landclasses?)

Enjoying querying my local download of UK OSM data via GeoFabrik - here is a sample of data from a 1.5km radius centred on Davidstoor Moor. Quite a lot of granular detail to work with.

While sorting out other kinds of data, I re-exported my ESA CCI Landcover set at the fullest resolution I can muster. It's only 558mb @ 129600 x 64800 pixels, but I admit it's still rather stunning to look through - the world as an illustration, made up of 22 landcover types.

Are there any recommended guides for filtering / extracting / formatting OpenStreetMap data?

Quick visual test of the BNO055 IMU chip in-action - responsiveness more than sharp enough for my purposes

Addendum - Pleased to offer content on here that has nothing to do with AI or the Odyssey.

Richard A Carter@richardacarter.bsky.social · last wk.

After taking it to the airfield today, I finally managed to get enough ephemerides data that the GPS quite quickly locks on, and stays on, despite the otherwise wretched signal quality in my area. I can now properly praise this unit as about the only one doing GPS/IMU/Baro in a single package.

After taking it to the airfield today, I finally managed to get enough ephemerides data that the GPS quite quickly locks on, and stays on, despite the otherwise wretched signal quality in my area. I can now properly praise this unit as about the only one doing GPS/IMU/Baro in a single package.

Posting as a point of ridiculous triumph that I did get that L80 GPS unit to lock on, in the end, after nearly an hour sat in the most open field I could find while flying the kite drone. Back home in my area, the thing failed miserably, even with the ephemerides data.