An empty Halloween skull that turns to follow you round the room, with glowing eyes that redden as you get closer. No camera, no PIR. Part 1: how I built the eyes on a Raspberry Pi RP2040.

Event season hit hard this year. Maker Central, Evolve26, Hardware Pioneers… all incredible, all exhausting, and all packed with inspiration. Add in a wave of new Pico ecosystem releases, and July arrived before I even noticed.

I tried to let AI do the maths… it couldn’t. So I built a 3‑DoF Stewart Platform myself — and it works beautifully. Full story inside.

A new Droid project always means chaos — the good kind.

ReXP1, my Star‑Wars‑inspired droid, has been one of the most fun builds I’ve ever tackled — but one capability has driven me up the wall: tilt.

Saturday 14 March is, of course, Pi Day (3.14), and this year I’m doing something completely different on the livestream: a Live Build over on my channel. But this won’t be a Blue Peter–style “here’s one I made earlier” situation. It’s not even a rebuild of a project I’ve already done. This is going to be a start-with-an-idea-and-see-where-it-goes kind of day.