Red faces at the hardware meetup

We had our first in-person hardware meetup of the year tonight and it was a roaring success. The theme for the evening was “Thermal cameras” and Brian had brought along his thermal camera equipped Pi which has a really nifty screen. You can see it action above. Faces show up as bright red, with windows and other cold things dark blue.

Pretty much everyone had brought along some stuff to talk about. Ion had brought along some amazing creations, including a super accurate crystal controlled clock which he had built from scratch, including a custom designed four-layer printed circuit board.

Richard had brought his beautifully built “Completely Useless Machine”. To find out what it does you have to flick the switch.

I was going around making tiny printed portraits of people using the Kidizoom camera. You can just see one of Richard underneath his device above. It turns out that if you take a photo with the camera and then convert it in to a “colouring in” picture you get some nice looking line art printed out.

We’re going to try and meet up in person once a month from now on. If you’re in Hull and you fancy coming along it would be lovely to see you. I’ll be posting the details of the next meetup soon.