The Chestnut Hill Space Agency is ready to take flight. Today’s image from The Hatchery Makerspaces at @bostoncollege.bsky.social

“Noah, ya gotta funk?” Students in the MakerSoace building a CircuitPython Raspberry Pi Pico DJ board with Adafruit Adalogger Cowbell, DAC, and 12 pad cap touch breakout. Learn at bit.ly/pico-school

After much hard work and determination with wiring... @gallaugher.bsky.social #BuiltWithProfG

This week in class, students learned to use HUB75 displays with Raspberry Pi Picos and to gamma-correct images for improved color. Looking forward to seeing a very glowy maker space tomorrow.

The @mbta express d-lines are so bad. There are people in head phones who don’t hear that standard announcement. Many of us were tapping passengers. Please stop this and do a better job scheduling. A full train shouldn’t have to be expressed when most need to get off and on again.

Mar 10, Happy Mario Day to all who celebrate. A Primer: mastodon.social/@PavelASamso...

"Blueskee"

A student’s new Xcode 26.3 projects don’t preview. Old ones do. Tried deleting derived data, simple default project. Adding a new scheme. All report: "Cannot preview in this file: Active Scheme does not build this file" Any ideas? #swift #swiftui

That rare day where it’s nearing 70° yet there is still a foot of snow in the yard.

YouTube watch time is dropping in the age of AI, but nice to know some still like what they find. Making content is never a smart financial decision but as an educator it’s great reaching more students & teachers. Hack on!

A brief lesson series w/challenges & solutions so students can test understanding of several Swift & SwiftUI concepts, incl. enums, structs, struct arrays, ScrollViews, LazyGrids, refactoring views, & more. Presented as challenges followed by solutions. If useful, have at it! bit.ly/swift-card-g...

Builds iOS apps from Windows or Linux via GitHub Actions

Very very very slowly trying to get some fitness back. This was from the year of the bombing when I made it to mile 22 before it was shut down. Finished with the “BC Bandit” marathon the next year & ran Gold Coast in Oz after that. That was my last one. No where near able to do that today… yet.

Diplo on your Pico! Build a polyphonic multi-sound DJ board on a sheet of paper using CircuitPython and a RaspberryPi Pico! bit.ly/pico-dj-board a super fun classroom build for the #CSed fam.

Yeah this is a really terrible list. Rutgers? BU? The those are fine institutions. I’ve spent quite a bit of time at each. But “most beautiful”? apple.news/APvmKjyd-RPe...

Iceland, the Nordic nation, has prevailed over Iceland, the British supermarket chain specializing in frozen foods, ending a decadelong legal dispute over the supermarket’s exclusive rights to the “Iceland” name.

I was forced to watch TV news when I had breakfast in a diner recently and I strongly resonated with the sentiment that being an intelligent person in America today is like being awake during a surgery.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

I was going to message @gadgetoid.com to see if there is anything special one needs to do to get into the MicroPython feed since I haven’t see my CircuitPython posts go through but they don’t have messages open. Ideas?

Latest CircuitPython Raspberry Pi Pico DJ board. Some crashes (30 sec) but watchdog restarts & more reliable. Repo has current code, files, wiring diagram. Would love feedback especially. if you have improvement/fix ideas #CSed : www.youtube.com/shorts/b_Bwa... Repo: github.com/gallaugher/p...

I had not expected an iPhone and MacBook Pro announcement BEFORE the special event in Wed. #Apple arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Trying something new today. Don’t tell my wife - it’ll be a Mother’s Day gift. Good thing I’m an undesirable troll man, or coming home with my wedding ring off and jumping right in the shower would be sketchy.

New & seeking knit fix advice: ~6 stitches slipped off my blanket & my working yarn looked about 6 stitches in. I put those stitches on the right needle and continued knitting. Now that I turned around I can see that those stitches (now on the left) are one row lower than the ones on the right. 1/3

Fun lesson - Build a @raspberrypi.com pico DJ board while learning to use the @adafruit.com $8 Adalogger Cowbell to expand file storage to 32GB, & add a STEMMA-QT port with no wiring! My students built this in the MakerSpace last class & it was a blast! youtu.be/yZdR7oGbTX8?... #CircuitPython #CSEd

Looks like AirDrop broke with the latest macOS upgrade. I'd never used the Image Capture app on the Mac to drag & drop files from my iPhone to my Mac, but this is a temporary quick fix when attaching a USB-C cable.

Tabs is enjoying the big fluffy snowflakes this Boston Sunday AM.

Kitty’s gonna nap. ‘Specially on #Caturday.

Working on a pico dj board using CircuitPython and the Adalogger CowBell. 128bpm wav files are mixing without crashing. DJs & beat-bosses, point me to a slot of 12 beats that mix well & get students slappin’! Will post code & build vid when thoroughly texted.

“Low key” is the new “like”. It’s in almost every sentence a person under 20 says. If I had a transcript of conversations I overheard in the lab this week and had to black out every sentence with “low key” or “bro” it would look like an Epstein file.

Spent the day prepping a dozen kits for our MakerSpace CircuitPython on the Raspberry Pi Pico workshops. In 90 mins we’ll copy & paste then describe code as we wire & run NeoPixels, sound, a potentiometer, and servo.

I neither drive nor partake in “the herb” but am shocked at how many toke drivers there are. Every time I walk down Hammond Street there are one to five cars that absolutely reek. Makes me wonder how many are driving drunk. I know it’s not the same thing, but it’s clearly not ideal public safety.

Yell-mumbled at by the neighborhood wanderer again. Only thing I could make out was “…on vacation from the North Pole!” He remains committed to the idea that I look like Santa. He’s sad, harmless, and I must admit this is weirdly flattering, as being mistaken for Santa carries a bit of cachet.

Put my mod of @blitzcitydiy’s ESPN sports tracker peeking through the MakerSpace window in hopes of drumming up more interest in Fall’s Physical Computing course.

Is there something wrong with the MicroPython feed here? Are these things curated? It seems many CircuitPython posts aren’t appearing. Is there an alternative where we can get things to work more reliably? #micropython

#CSed w/AI is *so* different than what we'd previously done. We had taught techniques with mostly right and wrong implementations. Now it's: you've got this skilled and flawed partner who will give you different answers than your peers. Build skills to manage & critique this partner.

It’s 12:35AM and the city of Newton has a series of incredibly loud snow removal machines running across the street. I have a white noise machine on high and can’t mask the beeping and scraping. No one can sleep through this. Whole family is up. The road has been cleared two days so what is this?

View from home lab window. Plow mountain is “stop sign” high.

After shoveling today my body is screaming at me: "Dude, don't you know how old we are?!? Get a damn snow blower ffs!"

Admiral Grace on her throne by the fire. #cats on a snow day.

Doorbell cam pic at the end of the storm. Plow got stuck outside our house this AM and they just started running again at 8pm. Just outside Boston. Looks like about a foot and a half on top of what was already there - maybe a foot left from last week.

Current blizzard status: plows not in the neighborhood yet. Worm snowed under. Bird feeder is less inviting.

BC ran its first ever Spiritual Hackathon thx to the leadership of Prof. Marina Bers. Stopped by for some quick inspiration & nudged along a CircuitPython build. As Batman’s sidekick might say “Holy Hacking!” Love it!

Red boy stocking up before Boston snow hits.

Knitting my first cat bed. Tabs seems to approve. Just a 2” ring for now but it’s on. And double-stranded.

“You just stay right here” #Caturday.

Want to get a IR Break Beam sensor working with a @raspberrypi.com Pico using @circuitpython.org? My brilliant student @eshapatel.bsky.social has put together this great tutorial.

Hey! Apple is looking for first-gen college students majoring in Finance, Business, Data Science, Economics, Math, Statistics etc. with a Winter 2028 or Spring 2029 graduation date. Reach out if you or someone you know is interested and fits all the criteria!

Megan Keller - Boston College alumna. Woot!

Updated CircuitPython School lesson: Adding a STEMMA-QT/Qwiic port to a Raspberry Pi Pico. Demo using the @adafruit.com MCP9808 temp sensor. Print formatting & more! youtu.be/TmNrhaeMJ0Q

Maker friends, does anyone have recs for cheap breadboard friendly buttons? These standards always get broken legs and are hard to push in. Two leg ones are too small. Thx! #Arduino #RaspberryPi #MicroPython #CircuitPython