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We will be privileged to have a preview presentation from Cedric Honnet of his forthcoming paper “PolySense: Augmenting Textiles with Electrical Functionality using In-Situ Polymerization”

During the Hackjam on Tuesday the 21st of January, Cedric will be presenting an accessible method for enhancing textiles with custom piezo-resistive properties: In-situ polymerization supports integration of piezo-resistive properties at the material level, preserving a textile’s haptic and mechanical…

Today during the Raspberry Jam, I had time to work on two different projects – One blinky LED and one invisible wireless.

We had a Pimoroni Unicorn Hat that needed testing, so I worked through the installing the libraries and showing off the examples (From their github repository)

The documentation has three main ways to install the library – As I like to check my software supply-chain, I initially wanted to install directly from the github source, but those instructions have some missing…

Fun and productive Rasbperry Jam today. As it was the last jam of the year, we didnt have a huge number of people, but we still had plenty of projects to show off and work on – including some surprise yak shaving.

I was showing off my relatively rare “red” raspberry pi (The red color means it was a Pi made in China, specifically for the China market – so probably not so rare if you are popping over to Shenzhen)

We had a space member show up with her blinkenrobot kit to solder – This is a…

As usual, I went to the space for our weekly social night last night and helped show three new visitors around the space. We were also lucky to have Mitch Altman drop in – On his way home from the most recent Hacker Tour To China.

Some of the conversations from the night:

• Some people were talking about their plans to meet up for a visit to the SZ Maker faire this weekend.
• One of our members was building and showing off his new PC Engines apu4
• We started looking at getting a dev env for a Re…