Sex and Blinky LEDs At Burning Man

[Bunnie] was at Burning Man this year, and to illuminate his camp members in the dark and dusty nights of the playa, he created a blinky badge. This isn’t just any badge stuffed with RGB LEDs; each of the badges were unique by the end of Burning Man. These badges were made unique not by twiddling dials or pressing buttons; all the color patterns were bred with badge sex.

This social experiment to replicate nature’s most popular means of creating more nature is built around a peer to peer radio. Each badge is equipped with a radio, a circle of …read more

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PODCAST EP. 2 – LIANNE LA HAVAS & SPONSOR THOUGHTS

Hello. Episode 2 of my podcast is more of a straightforward interview kind of situation and once again, it's something I recorded last year, when I was first thinking about getting a new podcast together.

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St Brides

I visited St Brides, East Kilbride earlier in July this year. I had planned to do some drawings or paintings of it but have never got round to it but thought i’d upload some of the photos I took in the meantime. It was just a off the cuff visit but John who helps look […]

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The Kindness of Strangers

And now for something completely different. Well, not completely different. I’d like to invite all of you, warmly and persuasively, to come to an event I’m speaking at in London on the 30th of September, to raise money (and collect winter clothing) for the refugees at Calais. Of all the talks I’ll give this year, […]

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NEW PODCAST

Hello. Well, it’s been over a year since my last post. I’m a disgrace. However, I have finally got it together to edit some of the conversations I taped with a handful of people last year and my plan is to put them out as podcasts over the next few weeks. This first one is ...

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The Corbyn factor: shocking the political system through sheer normality

A sense of political intoxication: the enthusiasm, the detail, the debate, and the understanding of the issues was unlike anything I had experienced.

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An Uber for bicycles? The grand ambitions of Danish startup AirDonkey

It aims to bring a network of instantly-available bicycles to cities around the world – if enough people want to rent out their spare bikes for cash.

When you’re launching a new business, having big aspirations is usually the done thing. For the distinctively-named AirDonkey the ambitions are bigger than most: to be something of a combination of Uber and Airbnb, but for bicycles.

If that wasn’t enough, the Copenhagen-based startup, which is soon to launch a Kickstarter appeal for about €100,000 of funds, hopes to be as much of what co-founder Erdem Ovacik calls “a movement” for more liveable, bike-filled cities as a commercial company.

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Transcontinental: On the right track

For the first twelve hours of the ride (race, it’s a race, Chappell), I barely stopped smiling. Because, after all, cycling along quiet roads through the cool night air, with no human company beyond some occasional twinkling red lights ahead of me, is one of the things I love most in the world. Excellent photograph by Schollaert Xavier […]

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Footprints

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Pre-order Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra’s new album Into Forever

Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra’s Into Forever album will be released on Gondwana Records on Friday 2nd October 2015 in CD / DL formats. The vinyl will be released in mid October. Pre-order the album via Bandcamp now.

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Sending Serial Data from… Excel?

When you think about serial communications, Microsoft Excel isn’t typically the first program that springs to mind. But this spreadsheet has a rather powerful scripting language hidden away inside it, which can, with a little coding, be used to send and receive data over your serial port. The scripting language is called Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and it has been a part of Microsoft’s Office suite since 1993. Since then, it has evolved into a powerful (if sometimes frustrating) language that offers a subset of the features from Visual Basic.

It can be a useful tool. Imagine, for instance, …read more

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