Christmas Hardware Meetup

Underneath the picture is a breadboard with a PICO and a very old led plugged into it.

We had a select gathering at the Hardware Meetup tonight, but it was no less fun. There were a few entries into the “Christmas Lights” competition. I think the best lights came from Ian, in the form of the above, which not only involved considerable reindeer research, but also proper operation of a hole punch. Ross had brought a set of led panels from his amazing self-playing piano project and spent a while getting AI to develop a nice range of displays.

Animated coloured raindrops version 1

What you get if the AI doesn’t know exactly how your leds are wired.

Lots of fun, plenty of tech talk and even a chocolate or two. We’ll not be having a Meetup in two weeks on 24th December, what with it being Christmas Eve. Wonderful though meetups are, it is very likely that folks will have better things to do at that time. At least, I really hope they do. The next meetup will be on 7th January in 2026.