Have just finished making up the prototype of the name badge for the Faire this weekend and all is working well!  The design ended up being completely different from the original proposal.  It started more like my Dot Matrix Business Card but I thought the crowd at Maker Faire would like to be able to repurpose their badges once they take them home.  Ever mindful of the iconic DEFCON designs by Joe Grand I thought I would design it to be hacked.  With the Maker crowd, what better starting point than an Arduino clone?  Then people can go home and convert their badge into just about anything else.

OK, I always knew this would be a hard vehicle to shift around, but didn't think it would be this hard!  I moved to where I am now living based on the fact that there was enough space to keep this thing, but it isn't a simple process moving it about... Time to create a 3D drivable simulator to allow me to have some practice!

Now this summer's camps are over, it's time to focus on the Tech Truck!  This is the empty shell of a trailer that will be converted into a mobile science & technology lab to go around schools, run events, after school clubs, go to science festivals around the UK, run birthday parties - any excuse to get kids making something!  Lynton Trailers made it up for me from some basic specs.