HULL CS50 Postponed until later in the year

It’s a good thing we didn’t put the date of the event on the logo..

We’ve been forced to postpone our anniversary event. It has not proved possible to get everything in place for the date in May. Some things take longer than you expect, even if you plan for this.

The good news is that the event will be going ahead later in the year, with a date to be announced very soon. If you want to get the earliest notifications, and take part in the conversation, head over to the Discord channel for the event.

Racing Cubes with a PlayStation 2

All I need now is 15,000 credits…

Today we got our PlayStation 2 down from the loft to see if it still works. We’ve not had much luck with the PlayStation 1 - that had succumbed to a malaise that seems to have broken the CD player - but the PS2 works fine. We popped in a copy of Gran Turismo 3 and discovered that not only does the game work fine (and is still great fun to play) but you can also buy a Nissan Cube to “race”. As Cube driver (although not the model above unfortunately) this was all rather exciting. We were using a really fancy device that takes low resolution video signals and turns them into clean looking HDMI video. We are getting our retro games consoles together for the Hull CS50 celebrations and we should now have Gran Turismo 3 - with force feedback steering wheel…

HullCS50 Coaster

Shown with mug for scale..

If you fancy making your own drinks coaster to celebrate fifty years of Computer Science at Hull I’ve put the design on the web site here. It will print directly on a Bambu device. I've put filament changes in the file so that you can get a nice contrast.

You can find out more about our celebration plans here.

HULL CS50 Car Fixed

The spare part for our Scalextric car arrived today. This means we should be back up to six car racing for the Hull Computer Science 50th Anniversary Celebrations in May. You can find out more here.

All ready for a few more laps.

Scalectrics at the Hull CS50

Just needs a new rear axle…..

Had another planning meeting today for the Hull University Computer Science 50th Anniversary Celebrations. It was the best kind of meeting. We set up a tiny track and tested some of the Scalectrics cars we used to use for our welcome parties. The good news is that 5 of the 6 cars work OK (although they’ll need a bit of tidying up). So we’re going to set up the big track and having it running during the event. If you’ve been to Hull as student or staff in the last fifty years we’d love to see you. Find out more here.

Hullcs50.com is live

..hence the need for some of my old pictures…

Spent a big chunk of today wrangling with HTML. As a result the website for the Hull Computer Science 50th Anniversary Celebrations is now live. We’ve not set up registration just yet, but at least this will let you clear space in your diaries and get an idea of what is going on.

It’s going to be awesome.