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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am running a SPOKE workshop in London on October 6th for anyone wanting to learn how easy it is to incorporate touch sensing interaction into your projects. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-intro-t...

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pimoroni @pimoroni.com · 22/09/2026

We've got a BRAND NEW LOOK! The website has lots of new features: better product categories, quicker search, local currency support, DDP shipping worldwide, and much, much more. Come take a look... 😉 shop.pimoroni.com

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Pimoroni Maker Store

We're a small crew in Sheffield making colourful electronics for curious people. We design and manufacture our own boards and kits, seek out the best bits from Raspberry Pi, Adafruit and friends, pack...

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

More press about my SPOKE board. This time I wrote about the development and use of the board for the Make substack. makezine.substack.com/p/spoke-buil...

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Where in the UK would you guess it takes the AA 9 hours to attend a broken down car?

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

No Spoilers but could someone please make a gif of the two children being greeted at the gate by Matt Smith in HoD. I teach one of them and want to include it in my teaching slides.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Dear American friends. There is a small stock of my boards in the US at PiShop here www.pishop.us/product/spok... The board turns anything conductive into any type of computer input. Helping you build all sorts of creative new interfaces for music, gaming, interactive artworks etc

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Finally. The album compilation I've been waiting for.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Materials you can use to control your computer. With a SPOKE board as the bit in the middle. www.spokeboard.com

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

In a Nick Drake sort of mood. I built this instrument using a spoke-mini, bamboo canes and little metal leaf decorations.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I built a capacitive touch instrument using pewter cast fungi embedded into a log. It uses a spoke-mini and runs Circuitpython to handle the MIDI. #CircuitPyhtonDay2026

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

announcing: picodevil, my new tool for livecoding visuals by chopping up video with patterns picodevil.com

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picodevil is here to help you livecode visuals! let's chop up some videos with patterns!

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I created a new free web tool for my SPOKE board that lets you configure exactly what each touch sensor does without the need to go near the code. Set individual pins to be midi notes or chords or cc inputs or have them be keyboard or mouse commands. www.spokeboard.com/play

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Seems like 2026 is the year the "Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it" post lands for everyone.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

SPOKE got a 9/10 review in the latest Official Raspberry Pi magazine! Plus they interviewed me about my work and projects. It's a massive honour to be recognised by them. SPOKE wouldn't even exist without their products and dedication to open source knowledge and hardware.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

An oldie, chopped into a mini. Trying that whole marketing scam of an enticing title that doesn't make sense unless you watch the whole clip. But also, I built SPOKE to make my own creative life easier. Then quickly decided everyone elses creative life should also be easier.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Count Binface has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Using SPOKE to turn the SPOKE artwork into a playable musical instrument.

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Les Pounder @biglesp.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I've just opened the box and plugged in SPOKE for the first time and somehow I made the beat from the Sega MegaDrive game Streets of Rage title screen. Anyway. I'm tinkering with this today, full write up will be on Pimoroni very soon. youtube.com/shorts/9APfa... shop.pimoroni.com/products/spo...

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Emily @mle.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This has been a quixotic quest for no reason other than to see if i could do it, but I did do it: I've created a ceramic circuit board with copper traces that I can solder components to. Here's a little astable multivibrator circuit running on stoneware.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

My SPOKE-mini solder yourself kit is now up at @pimoroni.com Use it to turn a rpi pico into a 26 pin capacitive touchboard and embed it inside projects, musical instruments, games controllers, interactive artworks, accessibility devices, all sorts! shop.pimoroni.com/products/spo...

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Built a transparent midi controller using the SPOKE-MINI to show off how to connect upholstery nails to the board. Super simple and reeeeaaaaally nice tactile touch sensors.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

seen it linked a few times, and finally read it. yes, this article is a good summary of where we're at with trans rights in the UK: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

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The End of Trans Rights in the UK Is the Start of Democratic Collapse

It's never just one minority.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Wishing my mate Sam all the luck in the world performing tonight at Eurovision! I'm not especially patriotic, but he's a great representative of proper British eccentrics.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Available only at Pimoroni shop.pimoroni.com/products/spo...

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

These are just some of the things already built with the SPOKE board. Super easy touch sensing for creative projects. www.spokeboard.com

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

SPOKE can easily be coded to work in a bunch of different modes. Or a combination of different ones. Or completely new ones we hadn't thought about yet as it's all run in #Circuitpython www.spokeboard.com for more info!

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Paul Cutler @paulcutler.org · 01/05/2026

Catch Tom on this coming Monday's episode of The CircuitPython Show!

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

SPOKE is now available to purchase through @pimoroni.com !

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circuitpythonshow.com @circuitpythonshow.com · 30/04/2026

Coming Monday on a new episode of The CircuitPython Show: Meet Tom Fox (@vulpeslabs.bsky.social), creator of the SPOKE board. He shares what the SPOKE board is, how it works, its Online Editor, and more. Find the show wherever you get your podcasts.

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Straithe @straithe.com · 24/04/2026

I've taken up an editing role over at OpenBoardsGuide.com. This is the first article I've had a hand in, and it would mean a lot to get your feedback. If you are afraid of being too mean publicly, roast me via whatever contact method you have for me. www.openboardsguide.com/pimoroni-bad...

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Pimoroni Badgeware Tufty

The Pimoroni Badgeware Tufty proffers a low-barrier event badge, desktop companion, DIY gaming console, and MicroPython learning platform all in one polished polycarbonate package.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Added some new Visualisers for the SPOKE midi pages. This will work with any MIDI controller, OR just tap the screen to get randomised notes! www.spokeboard.com

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Sams enamel pins work great as a touch sensors on SPOKE boards. Anyone else excited for his EuroVision act?

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I'm super excited about some of the web-based tools I've come up with for SPOKE. Here is a video demonstrating the Web-Based IDE where you can find, edit and download #Circuitpython templates and examples straight to the SPOKE. It even handles serial messaging for debugging! youtu.be/P2Z3_H5RIxA

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Spoke Code Playground

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 30/03/2026

I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I have a new page for SPOKE that allows you to edit the circuitpython code on the board directly from the browser. With a bunch of templates for different modes and tools like a scale-builder that lets you choose exactly what midi note is mapped to each pin. tom-vulpes.github.io/SpokeWebMidi...

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Small preview of a web based interface for my SPOKE board where you can search for sounds, load them onto the webpage and then use the board to trigger them. I already have a million ideas for lessons/workshops/installations.

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The Beating Birch – Kora Had a Plan Forward-looking art/post rock album with strong songs and an incredible grasp of atmosphere and dynamics. thebeatingbirch.bandcamp.com/album/kora-h... @vulpeslabs.bsky.social www.etherdiver.com/2026/02/27/o... #ArtRock #PostRock

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Kora had a Plan, by The Beating Birch

8 track album

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Ether Diver @etherdiver.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Fellow dwellers of the skyline @eldritch48.bsky.social, @vulpeslabs.bsky.social & @d3lahoz.bsky.social are featured in this week's Other People's Music! Derelict industrial, masterful post/art rock, delirious mutant funk/R&B + more! www.etherdiver.com/2026/02/27/o... #musicsky #MusicDiscovery

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OPM: The Freaks Are Alright – Ether Diver

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thank you for the kind review of our The Beating Birch album! There's a word limit to posts here so I'll quote a few bits: 'songs' 'listening' 'something' 'weirder stuff' 'Recommended'. You'll have to click the link to fill in the gaps yourself.

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I got to explain what CEEFAX was to a young one today and it's easy to forget how far ahead that was. We had interactive TV in 1974 with the latest news and weather and sports results. I vaguely remember it having games? Or was it jokes/quizzes?

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Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I am also curious as to who is reviewing albums nowadays as its been so long since I released anything worthwhile that I'm very out of the loop. thebeatingbirch.bandcamp.com/album/kora-h...

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Kora had a Plan, by The Beating Birch

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