It was a pleasure earlier this week to host an evening of tech talks at Canolfan Cefnfaes in Bethesda. Partneriaeth Ogwen allowed us to use their excellent community room and we were treated to a collection of great talks. Charles Gersholm from Reality Boffins got us started and spoke about how Godot has put the fun back into coding, not just for games, but for quick tools and applications also. Along the way he highlighted how Reality Boffins are paying it forward into their community running excellent tech help drop ins for anyone having problems or fed up with their tech to come and get some help and a cuppa. (I'll be blogging on that very soon)!
Chris Huffee, aided and abetted from the sidelines by Snoof Kattekop, spoke about their frankly brilliant work over at Steam Engineers. They work ceaselessly to make science and making and related topics fun and accessible with a brilliant focus and set of skills in working with neuro-divergent groups. Fabulous. Chris also brought some tantalising hardware that can be used as a controller for the TOUV project... but I'm going to post next week about that more properly!
Finally we had the fabulous Adrian McEwen talking about his company and what drives them to do both exciting commercial work, but also to work on fascinating slower burn projects that have garnered lots of support and use. He spoke about the amazing Museum in a Box which is in use widely in a broad collection of settings, from dementia care to schools. He then rounded out a motivating talk with some show and tell of the "My Bikes Got LED" project and how it has enabled a community bike joy riding group to operate more safely and crucially, have more fun! Thanks to everyone who turned out. Diolch pawb.
