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@grajohnt @concretedog @lpoolmakefest
They're definitely still manufactured for rocket science..

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A decade ago I was totally inspired by Barry from Dark Water Foundation who ran a supercool workshop at @lpoolmakefest where you could build a tiny little underwater #ROV with Lego. Just this week the synapses have fired to recreate it in a 3D printable version! Early testing is good! #3Dprint #MadeWithFreeCAD #mayke

A small green frame with 3 motors and propellors and 2 35mm plastic film cans attached.

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Much fun in the office this afternoon poking around this online asteroid tracker from NASA.

Looking at the 3D visualisations of the asteroids and wondering if we can 3D print them and build a Museum in a Box asteroids collection...

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/asteroids/#/home

h/t @amberfirefly for alerting us to it!

#NASA #asteroids #NotTheComputerGame #weeknotes

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Kicking off another round of weeknotes now that we're 1024 weeks old! Featuring LEDs, bikes, @museuminabox, 3D scanning, and marketing.

Week 1024 - a Kiloweek of MCQN

https://mcqn.com/posts/week-1024-kiloweek-of-mcqn/

#weeknotes #ESP32 #LED #photogrammetry #3Dscanning #marketing

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So good to see these all packed and ready to go - 5 more boxes on their way to their new owners in the US and Germany.

All over the world..... We sell Museum in a Box all over the world, except Antarctica as the penguins find it hard to turn the box on with their flippers.

We love that so many of you are right behind our little project that started 10 years ago. - History that speaks for itself!

#iot #multisensory #stories #histories #Glam

Visible are 3 Museums in a Box sitting quietly in small carboard boxes. The lids of the boxes are open to show the Museums in a Box sitting snuggly, before the boxes are a series of postcards and a booklet with Boop on the front. The postcards that are visible show the Apollo 11 launch, Billy Holiday and a Get Started with MiaB card.

3 stacked labeled boxes awaiting pick up in DoES Liverpool. In the background can be seen part of a wing from a small plane and small laser cut wooden trees on a blue carpet.

The feeling when there's only 30cm of fillament left on the roll at the end of the job, but your Bowden tube is 50cm long and yet you managed to save the print by loading another spool mid print and shunting plastic.
#weeknotes

Green cutting mat with a white circular 3d model, and empty spool and a short curve of filament together making a smiley face.

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I wrote something!

"AI, Authenticity, & the Future of 3D Cultural Heritage"

As Meta promotes its latest generative 3D solution with quasi-cultural 3D assets dreamed up by AI, I couldn’t stop thinking about why this is a slippery slope for audiences and creators—and why the cultural heritage sector is perfectly placed to demonstrate the benefits of authentic 3D data in the age of so-called metaverse platforms.

Take a read 🔗 https://nebulousflynn.substack.com/p/ai-authenticity-and-the-future-of

#GLAM3D

Three 3D figures generated by Meta's new generative AI 'AssetGen 2.0' on display: an Egyptian pharaoh's bust, a Moai statue head, and a small astronaut figure, each on a separate grey circular stand against a plain light grey background.

Followed by three 3D scanned heritage collection digital models against a dark background: a sarcophagus with a golden face and Egyptian headdress from National Museums Scotland, a full-body Moai statue from the British Museum, and an astronaut in a white spacesuit with a yellow-tinted helmet from the Smithsonian Institution.

Reading up on CUDA on the Nvidia website and was subjected to this;

"The CPU (central processing unit) has been called the brains of a PC.
The GPU its soul."

To paraphrase Jeremy Hardy, what they are forgetting is they're our souls...

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We were out yesterday at Wirral Makefest and having a lovely day telling everyone about how MiaB works. We're featured on the @DoESLiverpool stand, which is where we have our office.

#Glam #museum #library #iot #weeknotes

A child places a 3D printed object onto a transparent Museum in a Box.

Two young women place a 3D printed object onto Museum in a Box at Wirral Makefest.

Two young volunteers in green t-shirts place a 3D printed heart onto Museum in a Box. One leans forward to photograph it with her Phone. In the back ground people are milling around and chatting.

Museum in a Box on a large table display at the DoES Liverpool stand at Wirral Makefest. To one side stands a volunteer for DoES Liverpool, looking away from the camera smiling.

@museuminabox so that's why you tied me to a stake.

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This morning I had a look at the boop stats for the @museuminabox we had at Wirral Makefest on Saturday.

There were 195 boops (objects placed onto the box) over the day.

The top three objects were:
1. the heart (32 boops)
2. the prosthetic hand (23 boops)
3. assistive tech pen holder (20 boops)

#GLAM #Wirral #weeknotes #ibal151 #museum #WirralMakefest2025

A 3D print of a human heart, printed in red plastic, sits on a green cutting mat

A 3D print of an E-nabling the Future open-source prosthetic hand, printed in blue plastic. The small metal NFC sticker for Museum in a Box to recognise can be seen on the back of the hand.

What looks like a pink cordless computer mouse, but is actually a 3D print of a pen holder, where a pen can be clamped between the "mouse buttons" and when they're pressed the pen would make contact with the surface the pen holder is placed on.

It makes it easier for people who have trouble gripping a pen to be able to use one.

Early experiments of Meshroom photogrammetry for @museuminabox

Somehow I must have enabled the post apocalyptic filter..

Textured 3d render of a photogrammetry experiment. The idea was to make a 3d model of a pink Museum in a box with a white Lion of Knidos model on top. The reality is a melted, hole filled pink box with the Old English sheepdog of Knidos. Needs work in other words...

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We are so, extremely excited to announce that this year at #OHS2025 we will have e-textile badges made by the incredible Rodney Trusty ! For years we have been dreaming of an e-textile badge...

the OHS2025 badge in alternate colour way pink and green with one of the 2025 'little guys' embroidered on it with OHS2025 embroidered below. the badge has an SAO pin and two leds

OHS2025 badges fanned out on a table, on the left is the pink and green version and the right the yellow and pink version. in the centre is a pink and green version with an SAO pin and two leds lit up

@amcewen with a gentle reminder to the community.

Post it note saying. Do not stop.
The handwriting suggests the person who wrote it really meant it

@amcewen ...or maybe it will take ten days. Came in this morning to find it stopped. Have kicked it off again.

White 3d print of the St John's beacon sat on blue tape.

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Now this is how you detect whether an election was stolen. Humans choose rounder numbers.

by @TheEconomist

A scatter plot titled "Fair and square? Russian federal elections, 2000-21" which visualizes the results of Russian federal elections. The x-axis represents voter turnout in percentage, ranging from 0 to 100%. The y-axis represents the percentage of votes for Putin, Medvedev, or the United Russia party, also ranging from 0 to 100%. Each dot on the plot represents a polling station. A cluster of dots appears in the upper right corner, indicating high voter turnout and a high percentage of votes for the specified candidates. A dashed rectangle highlights a grid-like pattern of dots at numbers ending in zero and five, with an annotation suggesting this pattern indicates potential foul play. The source is cited as Kobak and Shpilkin (2021).

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Check out three certifications we think are super rad! We've got Magne Lauritzen's Mathpad, Erfan sotoodeh nia Line Follower and Vittorio Lumare's Rebelia Hand, all of whom will also be on our Show & Tell livestream this month on May 15th at 1pm EST! https://makezine.com/article/technology/open-source/open-source-hardware-certifications-for-april-2025/

Lithophane lampshade in situ at Howmore hostel, South Uist.
Let's pretend I knew my white filament had a delicate heather hue.

https://gatliff.org.uk/?page_id=10

I table lamp with a lithophane lampshade depicting a watercolour of the Hebredian hostel it is inside.
On the shelf behind it is a large collection of board games for days when it is wet. Did I mention it's in the Hebredies?

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Thanks to @huffeec our website now has a write-up of the Bluetooth LED bike game we built with #PelotonLiv

https://mcqn.com/ibal251/

#ibal251 #weeknotes #esp32c3 #BBCmicrobit #BikeTooter #LED #Bluetooth

@welshpixie
Perhaps they were using standard comparative news measurements?
An axolotl is about 1/100th the size of some whales, or 1e-6 the size of Wales..

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