Brian Corteil

Rainbow time! #GiganticUnicorn

Doom running on an #EMFcamp badge on a Monitor!

I was lucky to be gifted this hexpanson over the weekend by @notenoughtech.bsky.social I have not been able to find any information about it.

It's only taken me two years to sew the LED noodle to the Brain Slug Hextension and it's amazing. #emfcamp26

#emfcamp26 was great, building my Hextension collection 40 plus, not including my own designs.

Good news, Liverpool Makefest is back on the 13th September!!!

Looking forward to #emfcamp next week, got lots of prep to do, including about soldering up about 12 of my Space Unicorn Hextension. Also make up some Evil Henchman, guess I should also print some of the none evil Henchman as well

Nice, EMFcamp has a family film showings this camp :-) and there are some crackers

New toy! Finally setup my new snapmaker U1, first print, I could watch this for hours the head changing is so cool! And almost no poop. I also have a Bambu A1, is two machines enough for a farm or is it more an allotment?

Quick impromptu May day sale 15% off from today till Tuesday. With the code "MayDay" at the checkout. Https://extkits.co.uk.

The @pimoroni.com Tufty 2350 Makes a nice compact tool, i2c scanner, needs tidying up the layout but not a bad start :-)

Been working on my Hacky Racers autonomous robot, been vibe coding with Claude. Experience has been very good so far, been able to improve my code and add lots of tests and enhancements including GUIs local/web for the robot, an app calibrating the camera to help with distortion at the edges.

#Camjam

For the day walkers :-)

Been playing with my @pimoroni.com Blinky 2350, this time ported a version of Conway's Game of Life. :-) #BadgeLife

Parent tech support again, the normal complaint about it being too slow and nagging about not enough memory. login in from home and found about 5 Edge windows open and at lest 60+ tags, most them Facebook games! Wonder what the problem could be 🤔

CamJam is sold out!

This time next week, CamJam will done & dusted. Hopefully be in the pub, having a burger :-) Big thanks to @recantha.bsky.social for his support with words. random raspberry cake for your enjoyment

This is a surprise! Look mum no computer is this year's UK Eurovision entry. An interesting and inspiring choice! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Less than two weeks to CamJam hosted at Cambridge's Makespace, been catching up on some admin today. Tickets are going fast. We have interesting talks including one by Eben Upton. Over 15 'Show & Tell' including some by younger community members :-) camjam.me

The deep joy of fighting a printer and windows!

Nice picture of a naughty cat :-)

Left my Colour picker running in Makespace, Cambridge on display with the Giant Unicorn Hat and other projects. It feels great when people interact with your projects :-)

Michael Horne's Raspberry Pi-Powered Portable Cyberdeck Boasts a Classic Psion Series 5 Keyboard - Hackster.io share.google/L59mcKNVKB5C... See it at CamJam!

Date for the New Year, there's going to be a CamJam celebrating Raspberry Pi 14th birthday in Cambridge, UK hosted by Makespace, the community's workshop. Tickets will be released on Friday. mailchi.mp/9d1d55c5214f...

I have a love/hate relationship with 3D printing. This is one of the things I love about it, was able to design and print new wall mounts for this coat stand. Saved it from being thrown away :-)

Oh to be a spoiled cat.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone. Jasper the Christmas Cat, lit by @pimoroni.com Plasma and old school Unicorn hat :-)

I have just created a 64 x 64 pixel USB C display, the HIB75 driver is a @pimoroni.com Interstate75 2350 W. I added an additional display type to @gadgetoid.com Galactic Unicorn: Multiverse library. Pygame is rendering the frame buffer being passed to the Matrix

Also works with 2040 Plasma :-)

I have converted the @pimoroni.com Python Unicorn hat library to MicroPython for the Pimoroni Plasma 2540 W using Pirate MicroPython, almost 100% compatibility. You can find my efforts here. github.com/Corteil/Plas...

It's a trap!

I have just finished making a badge for Potton Pi & Pints from an old School @pimoroni.com Unicorn hat, the brains 🧟 is a Raspberry Pi PicoW. The Pico is hosting a web site to select the current pattern display and brightness of the LEDs. Always forget how bright an Unicorn hat is when unleashed! 😎

Yes, it's now my box. Move on!

At Assemble :-)

Self portrait in 64 x 64 pixels displayed on my Giant Unicorn.

Finally tidying up the bird's nest of cables and floating PCBs before Assemble Darby tomorrow, the Colour Pixel Picker is hardware complete, just need to finish the software 😂 Part of my #GiganticUnicorn project.