Projects
CUSTARD CREAM CAMERA
Take pictures, print them, and manipulate them using a voice controlled editor. With a camera which looks a bit like a custard cream biscuit.
3D PRINTED INSTAX HOLDERS
Bring an 150 year old camera back to life by 3D printing light-tight film holders that hold sheets of Instax Instant film.
Pomodoro timer
Want to set aside some time for a task? Want to hear my dulcet tones announcing how much time you have left? Build my Pomodoro Timer.
PICO MIDI Cheesebox
Make music of sorts using a 12 button keyboard and a three track sequencer. Sends MIDI to anything that makes a sound.
Trombone Controller
Lets you play any mouse controlled trombone game with a real trombone action and laser led accuracy.
Bluetooth Light Control
Remote control a camera light. Any amount of red, blue or green. And you don’t need to use a milkshake box.
Talking Telephone
Dial a number and it might call you back with a spooky message. Or you can control it over the web. Pi powered
Connected Little Boxes
Little boxes you can control to make them do wonderful things. Now with added backend server.
CUSTARD CREAM SERVER
A server for the Custard Cream Camera. The camera can upload the pictures, you can view them in a lovely cascading display.
WORDSEARCH CLOCK
Display the time as a coloured wordsearch. You can design your clock search to be unique, and add words of your own.
Chord keyboard
Learn to type using chords and light-up keys. Works as a keyboard and also includes chord training and even a game.
Crackers Controller
Acts as a 16 channel MIDI controller. Press an encoder to select the four channels to send on, and then spin the knobs to select the settings you want.
3D Printed Camera
Print your own large format film camera with amazing image quality and loads of presence.
Agile Octopus Display
View the live price of your electricity on the Octopus Agile tariff. E-ink and LCD versions.
The Exchange
A Large Language Model running on a Pi 5. You can call it from the red phone and ask it questions.
Tag Jousts
3D print a game of cunning, strategy and bluff. Then have all your friends beat you at it.
GENERATIVE PICTURE SERVER
Use the power of a Large Language Model to create ever changing, themed pictures on an e-ink display. The pictures are created locally.
CABLE CAMERA REMOTE
Servo powered cable remote timer. with enough power to both cock the shutter and fire it. You can set the exposure time and self timer delay.
Printing Camera
Stand in front of the camera and it notices you. Press the button, strike a pose and it sends a picture to a nearby 3D printer. Great fun at parties. Like me.
Chocolate Synthbox
Another food themed music product. This time a complete synthesizer with speakers and a light display synchronised to the music playback
Camera Light
A camera light you can control from your phone via a browser. It sounds like magic but actually it uses a PICO.
Hull Pixelbot
A tiny robot designed in Hull that you can program in Python-Ish. Arduino, ESP32 and PICO versions.
Light Leak Polaroid Camera
Take an old Polaroid camera and make it much more interesting by adding coloured lights.
RFID Drinks Manager
Keep a check on your generosity using RFID tags to track how many of your chums have had their free drink.