Fun morning playing our virus outreach game #VirusCraft with local school children as part of @uniexecec.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk Festival of Science (organised by @cornishjackdaws.bsky.social) - game made by fantastic @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy

Bit of light virus maintenance this morning ready for @uniexecec.bsky.social festival of science in a couple of months with @thentrythis.social.thentrythis.org.ap.brid.gy #VirusCraft project thentrythis.org/projects/vir...

In a conversation with Maya Weeks, Dave Griffiths of Then Try This talks about everything from Sonic Kayaks to re-envisioning citizen science as a way to distribute research skills beyond academia and affect local policy.

https://fo.am/blog/2023/01/29/recovering-experts/

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#anarchiving #sonickayaks #Cornwall #citizenscience #viruscraft #accesslab #farmcrapapp #evidencesupportinitiative #thentrythis

Close up of the #viruscraft optical sensor board

The new #viruscraft PCBs arrived! Precision surface mount soldering to come next by @amberfirefly - to position the sensors and connector.

Got it working in the end, now switched to 3 multiplexers for the sensors - so we can use 3 pins to read 48 analogue photo interrupter signals for 16 virus capsid faces! #viruscraft

This morning: back to the breadboard #viruscraft

Realised I can debug the invisible with my rubbish phone camera - new IR photo interrupter sensors for #viruscraft There seems to be a lot more infrared than it looks, as this is the max voltage without getting saturation interference with the detectors next to them...

Finally dispatched to pcb fab, after about 15 revisions - the simpler they are the harder they seem to be to get right :) fingers crossed... #viruscraft

Viruscraft: tangible interface electronics - much learning building this prototype, diodes to the rescue! #viruscraft #wellcome https://fo.am/blog/2018/06/26/viruscraft-electronics/