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Some of our most popular workshops at the CERN Festival Programme involve soldering. A perennial favourite is our solar-powered mobile phone charger workshop, and even our youngest visitors get to have a go at soldering little LED badges. This one a…

You've probably seen the bell curve before. It's the smooth, rounded shape that often appears in graphs and charts, especially when people are trying to show what's "normal" or average. You might have come across it in news stories, surveys, or ev…

At the intersection of myth and modern technology lies MIMIR, a whimsical project I've been developing, inspired by the Norse figure renowned for his boundless wisdom. In legend, Odin carried Mímir’s severed head to receive secret counsel; in our ag…

In the last couple of years I've found myself changing how I use AI from what started as a somewhat novelty replacement for Google, to now treating it as a virtual colleague. Instead of simply using it to answer questions and look up (make up?) fact…

This is the first part of the BotSat flight hardware series. In this part, we will be discussing the hardware design of the BotSat flight hardware. We will start by looking at what we have inherited from the CanSat project, and what we want to achie…

Inspiration rarely arrives in a vacuum. Whether it's a young musician riffing on a jazz standard, a painter reinterpreting a classical motif, or a coder learning from open-source projects, creativity often begins with reuse. The act of drawing fro…

In recent years, AI has become a familiar tool in many workplaces, helping with tasks from drafting emails to writing code. This rapid progress raises an intriguing question for many of us: "Could AI eventually become better at our jobs than we are…

Ever found yourself needing to do a PowerPoint presentation but forgot your "clicker"? Of course, as all conversations go these days, we immediately turned to: "Can we hook it up to ChatGPT?". After all, all that is needed is an API. Well, staying s…

This is a tutorial where I'm going to run through a few very useful "next steps" to the Django Tutorial. The main purpose of this post is actually to provide a baseline for a few other tutorials I have in mind, but there should be some helpful infor…

If you're a cat owner, you may have faced the challenge of keeping your furry friends away from certain areas of your home. Whether it's the kitchen countertop, the delicate plants in your garden, or the laundry room, cats have a knack for getting i…

Embarking on a journey into the world of virtual reality, Julian and I decided to dive headfirst into a project that not only challenged us but also allowed us to explore the endless possibilities VR has to offer. Inspired by the immersive experienc…

So, I've been holding off creating a new website since the 90s. After all my old university page is still there and as relevant as ever (although they seem to have forgotten to renew the SSL certificate), so why would I need change?