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For the first two EMF Camps I attended, I gave talks on interesting and exciting pieces of work that I’ve been involved in: Automated Science at Sea - The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (2022) and The Tech behind the Tennis (2024), however for 2026 I wanted to do something different from a talk - I wanted to make something. Installations of all kinds dot the landscape of Eastnor Castle Deer park every two years for a weekend, ranging from noisy, bright, colourful, bizarre, fast, fun and sometimes on fire. They’re always interesting to look at / play with or just experience and you can tell that those who built them did it for the love of the craft and the festival. I really wanted to be a part of that this year, and so when the official theme was announced: Space, I started thinking about what I could build that might work with that theme. ...

How to render your own images on the Pimoroni Pico Display Pack and the Raspberry Pi Pico.

We have children in the family learning both English and Cantonese simultaneously, a great way to help support this will be to show them films that they will love in their mother tongue, and what better films to show children but films by Studio Ghibli? But here’s the problem: Studio Ghibli films are in Japanese (naturally), but fortunately they’ve been translated into many languages and distributed world wide. Even better, they’re now even available on Netflix. However, for simplicities sake, you tend to only be able to get the translated version for the country or region that you’re living in, so for the UK… English. ...

We had a request to get something printing on our 3D printer as a demonstration for an event a few weeks back, and separately had a request to print a lamp shade for another project. I’d been wanting to print the amazingly detailed 3D moon available on Thingiverse for a while, so this seemed like the perfect opportunity to do a small test print before committing to a day long full size print. The question was, what to do with it once complete? The answer? An intelligent light of course! ...

Building an interactive glowing dragon egg prop.

This year, I wanted to build a connected Christmas Ornament for each of my family members. The aim was to build a light that looked nice, but also allowed us to feel connected even if we weren’t together..

Modifying a Fujifilm Instax SP-2 Printer so that it can be powered on and off by a Raspberry Pi.

A new Python API and Command line tool that lets you print photos from your computer, using the Fujifilm Instax SP-2

In this post, I built a physical status display using a Pimoroni Inky pHAT, MQTT, Python and Javascript

In this post, I take a minimalistic Cuckoo clock and for better or for worse connect it to the internet.