Rory Steel (JerseyITguy)
@jerseyitguy
Head of Digital & Adoption - BDO. #EdTech. Apple Distinguished Educator, Google Certified Innovator, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert & Microbit Champion.
My son wants to try photography. Motor function #disability? Challenge accepted—time to make it #accessible! 📸 Built a wireless rig using hoarded tech & AI. It made mistakes, but saved weeks of research. Proof AI is a human partner, not a replacement. Never throw tech away! 🤣
It's normal to have a @raspberrypi.com rack of custom home automation helpers, media server, IP KVM and Retro Gaming library isn't it.... 🤓
I'm not often staggered by tech. My son's smart telescope Xmas present (standard 11yo space phase), we got these last night 🤯. 5hrs of images stacked as the telescope 🔭 tracks the image. The star ✨ removal tool is amazing. We are two happy boys, the phase doesn't end at 11 🤣
New skill unlocked! Gone are the days of wiring my prototypes like a noob 😂. PCBs forever now, even though it takes 20 days and A LOT of connections, it's totally worth it! Wouldn't have tried if I hadn't seen it done over and over by @kevsmac.bsky.social Thanks for the inspiration Kevin!
My very first PCB is on its way via the slow boat from China. I hope it works 😬
Which makes sense as we say a few smaller lights in a line in front of it which must have been the satellites
What was this in the sky tonight? A comet? It took minutes to go across the nights sky...
My son's #disability means he struggles to press the spacebar twice quickly enought to fly in #Minecraft. No problem, made a £10 MacroPad with the @raspberrypi.com Pico. Fully designed with @lightburn.bsky.social He's back in the game! #accessibility #accessibletech #rpi #pico #lasercut
Moved to @elegoo.bsky.social ABS Like Resin 3.0 from 2.0. Having problems now. Def settings as everything else is the same. Here's a testing print. Struggling with the fine detail & the tear is new. Sometimes sticking to FEP. Any ideas #3Dprinting peeps? Using Elegoo settings.
As the world enjoys significant #ChatGPT image generation improvement, it turns out millions of social media users private photos have been stolen to train them. YOU could be in AI photos! Check the link to search if yours has been used!!! I found mine!!! news.rr.nihalnavath.com/posts/Images...
Salvaging a decade+ old Hexapod. Was old #Python code now updated to Python3. Gutted the original hardware, now @raspberrypi.com Zero & @adafruit-playground.com servo hats. A few gammy legs due to worn cogs & rechargeable Lipo batteries installed. That how you unwind at the weekend isn't it? 👀🤓
Lemon & Sugar or Maple Syrup, the age old question... #PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday
Expect a flood 🌊 of #sora videos 📽️ in the UK 🇬🇧. Impressive but is it really useful? What's the ROI? Generic unpersonalised #Marketing content? I'm talking about this on Tuesday (Full) & the 25th March (Running out) at Digital Jersey Academy, book now lnkd.in/ejvS7F28
The @Digital.je school #BattleBot army is growing, ready for coding on Wednesday. Will do an #instructables build & share the lasercutting + 3Dprint models. Fair bit of multi discipline effort this one. @microbit.org #dfrobot @lightburnsoftware.bsky.social @elegoo.bsky.social @autocad.bsky.social
Been too long since I've got the Resin #3Dprinter out. Forgot how much I enjoy the design and production process. @elegoo.bsky.social
My wife was surprised by this little fella defending her bath. She asks if I'll ever grow up? I said I'm just making a schools robotics project fun for the kids... 👀 The boy is in hysterics 😂. The comedy hands get him. @microbit.org #tinkercad #dfrobot @lightburnsoftware.bsky.social
Happy with that, a VERY economical @lightburnsoftware.bsky.social #lasercut @microbit.org robot for a @digital.je Schools #Robotics/#Coding session after half term. Made easy with #dfrobot Motor Driver. Only 15more to build 🥵. Might add some @elegoo.bsky.social #3Dprinted hulk hands! #STEM
Savoury panchetta and egg pancakes with a touch of maple sauce was requested by her highness... it was delivered promptly to a massive smile 😁 🤤 I was yet again masterfully manipulated by a professional Daddy's girl.
This arrived in the post yesterday! For the love of God why isn't this done automatically via email and/or SMS!!! The date set on the letter was the 22nd! Which I also am suspicious of. Doesn't take a week locally. It's a mess however you look at it! 🤬
Version 1.0 is very very ugly but it works and now I can make it pretty. @microbit.org
Sunday #Making job this week. #Recycling the scurge of the environment. Single use vapes, the li-ion batteries now being used for a @DigitalJersey schools @microbit_edu project. Converting to usbc power at the same time as making recharge stations. Ominously only 66.6p per unit.
How do I buy this sound investment that definitely isn't a pump and dump way to fund him while in office and work around the law. I see big rises and drops in this coins future... 🧐 The T's & C's say it all, how is this even legal?
Late night making. The @microbit.org modular kits are coming together for another #Coding through #Robotics session on Wednesday. Only 120 modules to make... 😭
Back to my teaching roots this week. Trialing a #coding through #robotics programme at #belroyalschool for 6 weeks. All part of the @Digital.je Academy's 2025 focus on #Education & Industry #Productivity through #DigitalSkills. The videos & lesson plans will live. @microbit.org
One for the teachers to show their students... 😂 Or maybe the adults too... 👀 #HomeworkForYourCountry
When graphics departments are bored and just want to have a bit of fun... 😂
Testing the correct ring size out for the @sumsung.bsky.social #GalaxyRing but will hold out to see if the 2 is announced later this month...