Dr Lorraine Underwood

I would pay for the self service! Human contact? No thank you 😀

A list of emails from hairdressers, travel company, hotel and airport asking for me to review their services.

I got a haircut, bought 2 dresses, some euros, flew to Ireland and stayed in a hotel. And every single company wants a review.
Nope! If they want my time - they can pay me for my time.

picture of some text, there's is an error where it says "dateTimeNow could be a perfect time..."

hehe, live in the {dateTimeNow}

Text on a yellow and navy blue background reads 'Wanted: Research Participants. Designing and Building Digital Devices'. Below the pro2 network+ and EPSRC logos are displayed against a white background.

Do you design and build prototypes of digital devices? If so, we want to hear from you!

Follow the link to complete a brief questionnaire about where you find help when encountering problems (takes just 5-10 mins): lnkd.in/euaprTfX

@lmcunderwood.bsky.social @bristolhci.bsky.social #prototyping

pro2 summer school attendees got a chance to show off their device prototypes today at @lancasteruni.bsky.social.

Ranging from health tech to digital musical instruments and more, learn all about them at prosquared.org

#pro2summerschool2025 #prototyping @lmcunderwood.bsky.social

Pete Lomas stands in front of a desk in a lecture theatre with a laptop before him, holding a Raspberry Pi and looking toward the camera.

What a great start to day three of the Device Prototyping Summer School! Absolutely fantastic talk by Pete Lomas of Norcott Technologies and co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Pete spoke on scaling the #RaspberryPi and the challenge of internet success.

#pro2summerschool2025

a clean basement with a desk and workbench. the colour scheme is rainbow

Wow, 5 years ago we finished our basement conversion! Look how clean it was, hehe

What a great night! The highlight of our summer school 🤘

No, I've done so much travelling this year! Pittsburgh, Berlin, and Malaysia! My feet are home in the UK for the next few months. Hope to see you soon though ❤️

WAVE (Webb-Inspired Actuated Visual Effects) in action earlier today at #LiverpoolMakefest

Charging arcade shields in my hotel room

The schedule for this trip is extremely full with workshops on Saturdays and whole day meetings and planning. Today Sunday is my day off, I slept the whole morning as I'm still jet lagged then got started on charging the devices. Foreign trips are a privilege but also hard work!

An amusement park below the walkway

A white tiger lying in the grass

I sent a photo of my walk between my hotel and the university in Kuala Lumpur to my family in Ireland and my brother asked if I was ever going to do work!

YouTube video by element14 presents Building an Autonomous LEGO Train with CircuitPython and LIDAR

My latest @e14community.bsky.social #element14 video is up! It's a #Lego train controlled by a @seeedstudio.com Xiao with #lidar and shiny lights! youtu.be/hgJ8ywYu6bY?...

Same!

10 days!

I'm off to Kuala Lumpur soon in #Malaysia. Anyone been in that part of the world before? Any advice?

Fame! ❤️❤️

Oh but it is very readable. My proof readers weren't experts in the field and praised it for that ❤️

A horror story that never ends 😂 Still doing corrections but finishing soon!

Bag 1 complete of the Lego set gringotts bank. In the background you can see another Lego set: mario kart

Gringott's bank from the other side. You can now see black and yellow Lego bricks belonging to another set in construction

We have a bit of a Lego addiction in our house... We need to find space for finished pieces! They keep appearing in the background of photos 😀

Sadly the switch 2 left with the boys' cousin. It's not far away though, just across the road!

A laptop full of cool stickers

I got a new laptop at work and I'm onto the very important task of putting stickers on it. What's your favourite one?? @pimoroni.com @microbit.org @e14community.bsky.social @kitronik.bsky.social

We're doing the same now!

Nooooo, the #lindor ball doesn't fit in the #lego gym ball machine ball! Surely a terrible design error

The natural history museum Lego set

The x mansion Lego set

Which Lego kit would you get? The x mansion or the natural history museum? 🤔

Join our research team! We have new funding to investigate the barriers and opportunities of repair of electricals and household appliances. It builds on our work on the Big Repair Project. A thread.....

Hehe

Large mario kart next to the small one

It looks awesome next to the little one!

Lego bowser holding Lego Mario's head

Lego Mario's body

Finishing off my #lego #mario kart...

Oooo! Always happy to take stickers 👍 and to say hello! (If I didn't already today 😀)