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Technologist, designer, and researcher of frugal education. Loves chocolate, music, Japan, and cats. Charlie Brooker is my spirit animal. Hellthread survivor. https://frugal.education
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Google engineers prototype shared document editing. #SixWordStory #Writing #Prompt

right wingers in 2020: remote learning is a joke, reopen the schools right wingers in 2025: just ChatGPT it bro

Excellent last minute Valentine’s Day card, thanks. It worked a treat 😂

"I felt a slimy texture brush my face" Man recalls being eaten by whale. I mean, how do I NOT post this. 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

GameChangers are delighted to be hosting Angelina Bong for an Art for Conservation Workshop at Coventry University on Feb 26th! Part of the FAiR: Frugal Artist in Residence research project. Info 👉 gchangers.org/art-for-cons... #PlayfulLearning #FrugalEducation #Sustainability #Malaysia #GChangers

Based on what is currently happening in the US right now, and is slowly creeping its way across the world, I couldn't be happier that government's cannot access the data of Apple customers. #Apple #Encryption #UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Current mood. #Architects

We were just playing around with DeepSeek R1 and the first question we asked was "Don't you have a nickname?" and it referred to itself as ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI, in the reasoning and then officially called itself ChatGPT in the answer. 😂 #DeepSeek #Awkward #OpenAI

Deepseek on a Raspberry Pi 5 with no additional hardware, this is amazing. Add an AI module on the top and you could get ChatGPT o1 level models (or better) running on your desk - even powered by a solar panel. 🤯 I think we should try this in house @simonxix.com 😆 #DeepSeek #RaspberryPi #RasPi5

Big Tech scrapes world's data without consent, sells LLMs back to us via subscription. Big Tech says relax, suck it up. It's for good of humanity. Fuck you, pay us. Big Tech's expensive models used to build competitive, free, open source LLMs by Chinese researchers. Big Tech shits bed. #DeepSeek

the entire internet to Silicon Valley VCs:

i think if any of these AI bros were remotely serious about using this technology to improve society they'd be excited at the idea of someone managing to run laps around them for 1/10th the computing power but instead they are seething, sinophobically

Blog post: Learning Python and Swift to programme microcontrollers with the aid of ChatGPT. This has been fascinating, challenging, and a LOT of fun. 😁 #FrugalEducation #Research #AI #Python #RaspberryPi #Pico #PracticeBasedResearch #Maker frugal.education/creative-col...

It’s too good 😂

Japanese blue ray packaging for 'My Neighbor Totoro' 📽️

Yes!

Stage two of assembly, Picos now have RGB status LEDs all ready for testing. Trusty blue tack holding everything in place. #FrugalEducation #Maker #Pico #RaspberryPi #PracticeBasedResearch

Assembling my motion capture distance broadcasting prototypes yesterday. Stage one complete. Making the most of our new Hack Labs in Coventry University’s College of Arts and Society 🤘 👨‍🔬 @covuni.bsky.social #FrugalEducation #RaspberryPi #Pico2W #Maker

AT Protocol #devs Mark Cuban wants to fund your TikTok replacement so get on this today, like right now.

I've been sitting manually deleting a majority of my old tweets while watching TV this evening. There's no easy and free way to do it now the API is closed off but I'm not letting that stop me.

Time to bring a single friend over to Bluesky to keep this momentum going. The alternative is awful.

Delicious homemade Ramen this evening. I take absolutely no credit for this, it’s all my better half’s work. Although I do have excellent taste in Ramen bowls. 🍜 😁

Some quick and dirty soldering and the Pico sensors modules are up and running, time for some prototype testing. #FrugalEducation #Maker #Pico2W #RaspberryPi

Live footage of the computer that zips files for download on Google Drive

Bought some extra fancy sensor modules to give me options to expand a project in the future. Spent hours struggling to get them to do the basics, they failed dismally to meet expectations, and now I’m ordering the simpler reliable versions I should have started with. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Simple is best.

Reinforcements have arrived from the @pimoroni.com folks. Ready for some Pico 2W prototyping before the festive season distracts me with chocolate! 🫠 #FrugalEducation #Maker #RaspberryPi #Pico2W #PacticeBasedResearch

Dad of the year.🤘

From the library to the church. A stellar performance tonight from the #Idles boys. #Birmingham #LiveMusic

Remote working in the epic Birmingham library today, really like this building.

Happy Thanksgiving American Bluesky peeps! May all your conversations be civil 😁

Came for the 16K display (amazing), Stayed for the jokes (amazinger). This guy is funny as. Instant subscribe. 😂