Tom Vulpes

Lomond Campbell is a brilliant musician and instrument maker. Definitely go see his work if you can!

New skill unlocked. Sorta. I worked out how to create a custom .uf2 file that includes all the example code and libraries needed to run SPOKE in circuitpython straight away. The only issue I have is that it's 4Mb large as picotools copies all the blank space on the chip too...

Thank yooooou!

We need to catch up at some point. I have a wonderful former pupil coming to study electrical engineering at Imperial next year (after a gap year) that I need to send your way.

You're welcome ;)

SPOKE

I submitted SPOKE for the MIDI awards. Public voting starts soon (now?). There's at least 4 other projects in the awards of people I know and who also deserve to be recognised. So, you know, vote for who you think should win :)

midi.org/innovation-a...

Making music from mud!

Blowing bubbles with a small air pump, and resonating the sound (from a hydrophone) in Ableton.

The packaging for my very soon to be released board is AMAZING. Artwork by the wonderful @jakeblanchard.bsky.social printed by uk company EcoCraft.

How exciting! I wonder if this is one I should actually try to attend...

Could you add a midi delay? so each single tap ends up with a double or tripple beat?

Recording lightning with my solar panel microphone. Dramatic cracks and pops!

Each flash of light generates an electrical output from the solar cell, which is connected directly to an audio output.

Working on a project that needs to use an i2c to spi bridge. Thinking of using the SC18IS606 so if anyone's got any advice/experience in using it please hurl your wisdom at me. thanks.

Guinea Big

A trio of new fungi themed t-shirts now available from my Teemill shop! Here’s the first! Various sizes and colours available. jakeblanchard.teemill.com What’s your favourite fungi?! #fungi #fungus #mycology #mycelium #mushrooms #tshirt

Wrote up some of my #hardware learning & career journey, thanks to a great question by @vogueandcode.bsky.social (and ty @annthurium.bsky.social for pulling me in!).

Drafting a more comprehensive write-up for the blog (glow-ahead.ghost.io#/portal) :)

Beyond thrilled with the artwork for SPOKE by Jake. Such a pleasure to work with too. Go buy his merch!

If you needed any proof at all that there was some shenanigans going on with the voting this year, the fact that Ireland even gave ANY points to Israel would be all the proof you'd need.

Well that final of eurovision was tense. Best songs didn't win, but thank fuck Israel didn't.

Did you have the pico 1 available at some point? I was looking for it not long ago as I thought it'd be worth buying considering how often I need to look at your site for pinout stuffs.

LGBTIQOutside are London based and seem to do excellent work. linktr.ee/LGBTIQOutside

Insane! I'll still continue to buy Adafruit products. Quality products and brilliant companies deserve the business...

Emergency motion on the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' from RDC conference 2025

Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.
Read the motion below 👇

BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.

Currently the pico2 doesn't support the touchio library that this uses from Circuitpython. So no, afraid not! But, in all fairness, it doesn't actually need all the power of the pico2. It works amazingly on the OG.

Super simple 26-pin capacitive touch board for a @raspberrypi.com Pico.

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There isn't a story on the BBC News site about today's trans rights rally at Parliament Square where it's estimated 20k attended. But they did have a story last week about the Let Women Speak transphobe rally in Bristol where 100 people attended.

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jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl.

yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.

no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.

BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway…

LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

One of my pupils received a Design Engineering and Technology scholarship to his next school for his project using a network of @pimoroni.com Badger Ws to communicate long distances as a type of free messaging service for areas with no signal.Distaster/war zones etc. Amazing stuff for a 13 year old!