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• Post #3934860

  Our cloud chamber project is now on display in the Arts tent. #EMFCamp

• Post #3909572

  Another day at #EMFCamp means another radioactivity detection project. Testing our cloud chamber installation piece to see if we can get it cold enough in this heat to detect ionising radiation.

• Post #3840129

  Actually really pleased with how the finished packaged up Geiger Counters turned out. Will be selling the very limited quantity I’ve made in the Night Market on Friday at #EMFCamp

• Post #2448078

  RE: https://3dp.chat/@manyfold/116526501497827553 This looks like a great #Fediverse project. I have registered and plan to upload my own created models here. #3dprinting

• Post #2007682

  Nice little @freecad@social.freecad.org project this morning. I designed an end plug for the greenhouse gutters. Now printing in TPU to test for fit. #CAD #3dprinting

• Post #1799814

  No crimp connector is out of my reach now! I just did my first JST 1.25mm connectors with the new ratchet crimping tool I bought since I’ve misplaced my other crimping tool. Really pleased with this tool purchase. #Maker #electronics #MakersHour #MakerMonday

• Post #1520862

  Having a great time hosting the Hacky Racers robotic series event this weekend. #HackyRacers

• Post #1502036

  Amazing UI design here from Apple. Totally clear what is going on.

• Post #943720

  Cat ball. #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

• Post #910780

  MS Word informs me I don’t have auto-save turned on. Something that used to just be a background feature in all the versions of Office I’ve used over the years. So I find the option and select it. “You need an Office365 cloud subscription to use that feature.” So no, my files are not going to be auto-saved.

• Post #910779

  Windows Explorer, you have one job. How can we be on version 11 of the OS the file explorer regularly crashes when you try to do something way out there like opening a folder?

• Post #910778

  Pleased with today's work. I designed a mounting system for QR codes to be used as gates for the #HackyRacers autonomous robotics racing event in a few weeks time. We need around 50 of these gates, so the design needed to be weather proof, low cost, low effort and possible to make from scratch on site in case any gates have 'accidents' during the racing.

• Post #910777

  @_thegeoff Initially I thought I was watching some sort of giant ballon being inflated. Then I began to see animalistic forms emerge and then dissolve back into the amorphous mass. I was watching on a small phone screen so my imagination was filling in what it thought it might be seeing and I suspect in person this aspect would be quite different. Ultimately it went from captivating to a bit repetitive and I fast forwarded a bit to confirm it wasn’t going anywhere new.

• Post #824082

  It's a good job I am doing this for a hobby. If I charged myself my hourly wage for building my #Voron Trident and #ERCFv3 auto filament changer and getting it working (mostly) then it would have cost me around £30,000 to date. #3dprinting

• Post #630586

  The Fediverse is (I hope) somewhere we can all feel free to be our whole self. As part of MHFA Whole Self day (https://mhfaengland.org/mhfa-centre/campaigns/My-Whole-Self-2026/ ) we are posting 'My Whole Self' selfies at work today. Here is mine. #MyWholeSelf

• Post #401468

  My 15 year old mentioned that Roblox had required him to complete a face recognition age verification test this week. I asked how it went and he said it concluded he was between 18 and 21 years old. So this is how the UK legally required child protection policy is working in the field folks!

• Post #401466

  Progress with my Quectel GNSS RTK board finally. After I got fed up having to input cryptic serial commands and interpret NMEA messages in serial consoles, I wrote a Python script which wraps the things I was interested in and translates the messages (after turning on the ones I want to see). My base station is now running a survey after my script configured it, and it is showing status information that is human readable.

• Post #401465

  This is huge! This took a massive debugging effort to work out why RTK corrections were not being received on the ESP32 board. Finally the bug is squashed and RTK corrections are actually being applied.

• Post #401463

  Printing the first real parts I designed myself in multi colour on the #ERCFv3 #3dprinting

• Post #401462

  The cloud chamber is assembled with a proper display installed. Now testing how cold we can get the temperature plate. Nat and I will be showing this project at the #RaspberryPi Birthday this coming Saturday at #Makespace in Cambridge. #CloudChamber

• Post #355782

  @lpoolmakefest MakeFest 2025 was such a great day. So many lovely people exhibiting their projects and creations, and interested members of the public asking about the 3D printers and robots. Here are some of my exhibits. Great to have Nat helping again. They were so good with the younger kids wanting to drive robots and play with the 3D prints.

• Post #355778

  @lpoolmakefest did me a world of good. 1st time I've been able to put thoughts of the problems life has recently thrown our way to the back of my mind and enjoy the company of others properly since my kid's emergency hospital admission in May, and my father's rapidly declining health in June. Still another week until my father's funeral, but I felt ready to tackle work and the Makespace Directors meeting today. So thank you to the #LivMakeFest crew, my Maker frien...

• Post #242851

  Delivery for #Caturday