Chris Huffee

@huffeec@does.social
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Physicist, trying to do epic shit in Liverpool with DoES, MCQN and STEAM Engineers, and anyone else who wants to teach tech to kids.
After the Kennedy Centre, how long before Washington gets renamed as Trumpton?

Has the goat burned?

No! The Gävle goat is going into week three of Advent looking sharp! Not long till Yule now!

Live stream
https://www.youtube.com/live/IhU2MIUaFlg
Official website
https://www.visitgavle.se/en/gavle-goat

#GävleGoat #Gävlebocken #Goatwatch2025

Just one final thing - someone filmed some of my departure speech after Monkey Cage last night (I should make it clear no one knew I was going to do it) and it has been put up here - i cannot deny i was very emotional #science #comedy

https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12/13/59644/robin_ince_forced_to_quit_radio_4_over_pro-trans_views

Robin Ince forced to quit Radio 4 over pro-trans views : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide

Robin Ince forced to quit Radio 4 over pro-trans views - Comic leaves Infinite Monkey Cage after pressure from bosses

I've got a new #KiCad plugin out in the KiCad plugin manager:

KiCoil generates "twisted" planar inductors. You can make it do one- or two-layer spiral inductors, toroid inductors, and many intermediate, hybrid variants in between spiral and toroid inductors.

These hybrid types have wider traces than a single-layer spiral, and have better high-frequency behavior (parasitic capacitance and self-resonant frequency) compared to two-layer spiral inductors. And they look really pretty!

#electronics

The #GardenLights #Cheerlights box is now screwed to the garden wall and operational :)

So #ESP8266 D1 Mini board in there with a 20Ah battery, running #MicroBlocks script publishing using #MQTT to my broker cymplecy.uk on topic gardenlights. This received by #NodeRED on Pi in my house which uses UDP to update colour of the #Wiz lights and also toots out to cheerlights

As seasons become less predictable we're seeing some @museuminabox boxes nest very early this year.
#weeknotes

Noodling with noodles; playing with projectors; confusion with codes... the latest #weeknotes

https://mcqn.com/posts/week-1052-little-bit-of-politics/

Week 1052 - A Little Bit of Politics

Adrian’s turn this week, but I’m continuing the trend of 90s UK comedy TV references for the title.

mcqn.com
If you ever wondered if it was worth paying the extra for first class uk mail...
Any fellow Liverpool Makefest exhibitors or attendees: Do any of you have any blog posts or pictures from Liverpool Makefest that we could share with the library?

Denise, the person who has championed it from the library side until this year has retired, and the new organising crew are trying to pull together some evidence to show that it's A Good Thing to the new library team as we try to gear up for running it next year.

Alternatively if you have a nice word to say about the event or its impact that we could share that we could forward, that'd also potentially help!

Cc @drfootleg @solderandchaos @concretedog
@ExtKits @andypiper @rc2014

Updating the @DoESLiverpool "Cost of Doing Epic" poster, so I've fired up our big poster printer!

As you can see, the red bar of expenses is still higher than the green bar of income 💔 They're closer than last time I ran it, but still the wrong way round.

It hasn't printed the URL at the bottom yet, which points to ways people can help: https://doesliverpool.com/help/

#weeknotes