jarkman
@jarkman.bsky.social
Roboticist, maker, software engineer. Making giant joyful soft robots with Air Giants (https://www.airgiants.co.uk/). Also @[email protected]
I'm looking for resources - ideally books/papers - on the ergonomics of furniture design.
I'm specifically interested in the squishy stuff. Sofas, couches, beds, that kind of thing, not desk chairs, which seem to be well-studied.
I can't find much, any pointers would be very welcome. Thanks!
I'm specifically interested in the squishy stuff. Sofas, couches, beds, that kind of thing, not desk chairs, which seem to be well-studied.
I can't find much, any pointers would be very welcome. Thanks!
February 8, 2026 at 11:09 AM
I'm looking for resources - ideally books/papers - on the ergonomics of furniture design.
I'm specifically interested in the squishy stuff. Sofas, couches, beds, that kind of thing, not desk chairs, which seem to be well-studied.
I can't find much, any pointers would be very welcome. Thanks!
I'm specifically interested in the squishy stuff. Sofas, couches, beds, that kind of thing, not desk chairs, which seem to be well-studied.
I can't find much, any pointers would be very welcome. Thanks!
Nottingham friends - we are bringing The Cat That Slept For A Thousand Years to Nottingham Light Night tomorrow and Saturday. If you like cats, especially enormous ones, you might enjoy this: www.itsinnottingham.com/news/notting...
Celebrating home at Nottingham Light Night 2026
🗓️ Dates: Friday 6 and Saturday 7 February 2026 ⏰ Time: From dusk till late 📍 Location: Across Nottingham city centre 🎟️ Admission: FREE This free,…
www.itsinnottingham.com
February 5, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Nottingham friends - we are bringing The Cat That Slept For A Thousand Years to Nottingham Light Night tomorrow and Saturday. If you like cats, especially enormous ones, you might enjoy this: www.itsinnottingham.com/news/notting...
London friends - a rare chance to see Funki Porcini's amazing Laserium is coming up:
January 20, 2026 at 2:55 PM
London friends - a rare chance to see Funki Porcini's amazing Laserium is coming up:
Lots of unpicking to do today.
January 20, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Lots of unpicking to do today.
Such lovely work.
Oh hey, it's #portfolioDay !
I'm bleeptrack, a Creative Technologist and Artist focusing on tangible/interactive #generative art.
I enjoy using all sorts of digital fabrication (pen plotter, lasercutter, CNC, you name it) and also open sourcing my projects.
#creativecoding #procedural
I'm bleeptrack, a Creative Technologist and Artist focusing on tangible/interactive #generative art.
I enjoy using all sorts of digital fabrication (pen plotter, lasercutter, CNC, you name it) and also open sourcing my projects.
#creativecoding #procedural
January 15, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Such lovely work.
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We're a few days in and pledges are healthy. Almost robust.
This is a call to our friends for amplification though. If you'd like to see what a Barnett-aligned immersive audio series, told over six weeks in late summer 2026 might look like, then, as they used to say:
RTs welcome..!
(thanks!)
This is a call to our friends for amplification though. If you'd like to see what a Barnett-aligned immersive audio series, told over six weeks in late summer 2026 might look like, then, as they used to say:
RTs welcome..!
(thanks!)
Have you backed THE DEVIL'S SOUND yet? The new immersive audio experience in the world of Withered Hill.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
The Devil’s Sound
A 6 episode immersive audio folk horror experience, set in David Barnett's Withered Hill universe.
www.kickstarter.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:19 PM
We're a few days in and pledges are healthy. Almost robust.
This is a call to our friends for amplification though. If you'd like to see what a Barnett-aligned immersive audio series, told over six weeks in late summer 2026 might look like, then, as they used to say:
RTs welcome..!
(thanks!)
This is a call to our friends for amplification though. If you'd like to see what a Barnett-aligned immersive audio series, told over six weeks in late summer 2026 might look like, then, as they used to say:
RTs welcome..!
(thanks!)
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Okay, hive mind! I'm doing a foresight review on the safe adoption of AI in engineering - am planning a research trip to the Bay Area in Feb, and am looking to speak to folk working on
- transparent approaches to the full AI supply chain, inc data, labour practices, environmental footprint (1/2)
- transparent approaches to the full AI supply chain, inc data, labour practices, environmental footprint (1/2)
December 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Okay, hive mind! I'm doing a foresight review on the safe adoption of AI in engineering - am planning a research trip to the Bay Area in Feb, and am looking to speak to folk working on
- transparent approaches to the full AI supply chain, inc data, labour practices, environmental footprint (1/2)
- transparent approaches to the full AI supply chain, inc data, labour practices, environmental footprint (1/2)
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Engineer Richard Sewell of Air Giants spoke to us about this challenge and the solutions he's found.
Learn more about Air Giants, a Bristol-based creative robotics studio: www.airgiants.co.uk
Find solutions to challenges in low-volume device production at www.prosquared.org
Learn more about Air Giants, a Bristol-based creative robotics studio: www.airgiants.co.uk
Find solutions to challenges in low-volume device production at www.prosquared.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Engineer Richard Sewell of Air Giants spoke to us about this challenge and the solutions he's found.
Learn more about Air Giants, a Bristol-based creative robotics studio: www.airgiants.co.uk
Find solutions to challenges in low-volume device production at www.prosquared.org
Learn more about Air Giants, a Bristol-based creative robotics studio: www.airgiants.co.uk
Find solutions to challenges in low-volume device production at www.prosquared.org
We have been having a delightful time in Osaka, showing Hothouse as part of Playable Cities. I will be sad to pack up at the end of today.
@playablecity @myworldcreates This showing of Hot House has been commissioned by Playable City a Watershed programme.
@playablecity @myworldcreates This showing of Hot House has been commissioned by Playable City a Watershed programme.
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
We have been having a delightful time in Osaka, showing Hothouse as part of Playable Cities. I will be sad to pack up at the end of today.
@playablecity @myworldcreates This showing of Hot House has been commissioned by Playable City a Watershed programme.
@playablecity @myworldcreates This showing of Hot House has been commissioned by Playable City a Watershed programme.
Fun!
2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group!
Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks),
Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)
Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks),
Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)
!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!!
Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students.
We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept…...
!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!!
Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students.
We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept ...
www.linkedin.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Fun!
Fun!
Today, two years on from the illegal felling of the Sycamore Gap tree, we're announcing a new, major creative commission.
We're looking for ideas on how to breathe new life into the wood saved from the felled tree, and you can get involved. Learn more here: buff.ly/RBYUuRY
Photo: John Millar
We're looking for ideas on how to breathe new life into the wood saved from the felled tree, and you can get involved. Learn more here: buff.ly/RBYUuRY
Photo: John Millar
September 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Just in case you want to push it over two million...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
September 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Just in case you want to push it over two million...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives.
Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
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#booksky
We only need to sell 19 more copies of "Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion 1" to have sold a THOUSAND copies, which for a small press anthology is really really good! So if this is the sort of thing that floats your paddle steamer....
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...
We only need to sell 19 more copies of "Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion 1" to have sold a THOUSAND copies, which for a small press anthology is really really good! So if this is the sort of thing that floats your paddle steamer....
wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/anth...
Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion
ISBNs Paperback: 978-1-908039-29-3 Harcover: 978-1-908039-34-7 EPUB: 978-1-908039-27-9 MOBI: 978-1-908039-28-6
wizardstowerpress.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Fun!
I have no local audience here but hey, if you're in Bristol on the 31st of August with nothing to do, consider coming to have a look around the Hackspace! It's super cool I promise. If you like making anything at all you'll find something for you! bristolhackspace.org/open-day
Open Day - Bristol Hackspace
Bristol Hackspace is a community of people who run a workshop and creative space together. We are a place for people to share ideas, knowledge, and tools, and to work on projects in a collaborative an...
bristolhackspace.org
August 18, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Fun!
We're getting Undershed ready and huggable for you ahead of our latest exhibition! 💚
August 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Well, I never expected to see this for an Innovate UK application. Thanks!
August 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Well, I never expected to see this for an Innovate UK application. Thanks!
Bristol friends:
We want everyone to enjoy our new exhibition in Undershed with Air Giants, which is why we're introducing pay what you can ticket pricing...
August 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bristol friends:
Fun!
Alpaca - Festival of Algorithmic Patterns in the Creative Arts happening 12-14th September, Sheffield UK!
If you're curious about patterns in music, visual art, juggling, weaving, braiding etc then come and enjoy concerts, talks and workshops and an algorave:
2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/
If you're curious about patterns in music, visual art, juggling, weaving, braiding etc then come and enjoy concerts, talks and workshops and an algorave:
2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/
July 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Who do I know that's going to WHY2025 and might want to meet up for a chitchat?
July 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Who do I know that's going to WHY2025 and might want to meet up for a chitchat?
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Bluesky, are there services out there for people who are needlephobic to get blood samples taken or to get vaccines? I have a very needlephobic teenager. Is there something similar to courses for fear of flying, or spiders? (Therapy is not hugely helping; we're talking full-blown panic attacks.)
July 23, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Bluesky, are there services out there for people who are needlephobic to get blood samples taken or to get vaccines? I have a very needlephobic teenager. Is there something similar to courses for fear of flying, or spiders? (Therapy is not hugely helping; we're talking full-blown panic attacks.)
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We're excited to announce our next exhibition in Undershed - The Hothouse Laboratory! 🌴
Come discover Fri 8 Aug - Mon 1 Sept.
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1348...
Come discover Fri 8 Aug - Mon 1 Sept.
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1348...
The Hothouse Laboratory
An explosion of movement, air, light, sound and colour – the HotHouse Laboratory lands in Undershed.
www.watershed.co.uk
July 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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In 2017, these were all jokes. Now half of them seem dangerously plausible.
www.tumblr.com/10-ideas/162...
www.tumblr.com/10-ideas/162...
Post by @10-ideas
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · 10 singularities that are no less likely than the usual one · 1 - Global finance becomes intractably complex, can only be managed by AIs, turns out they enjoy poker more than they…
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June 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In 2017, these were all jokes. Now half of them seem dangerously plausible.
www.tumblr.com/10-ideas/162...
www.tumblr.com/10-ideas/162...
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The Undershed team are inviting submissions of finished immersive or interactive artworks to be exhibited in the gallery this Autumn/Winter. Head to our website to find out how to submit. www.watershed.co.uk/jobs-opportu...
Undershed: Call for Immersive Artwork
The Undershed team are inviting submissions of finished immersive or interactive artworks. In Autumn/Winter 2025, as part of our year-long theme of Home, there will be an exhibition themed around the...
www.watershed.co.uk
June 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Those of you in London today: This is TONIGHT! Drinks at 6:15pm, panel at 7pm, free to attend but please do sign up via the link below. Trump is taking a stand against ‘woke’ in the US — but what’s happening in the UK? And does technology help or hinder it?
WOKE?! Come to our panel on Digital Futures of Diversity on 23 June at King's College London as part of @kings-dfi.bsky.social 'Living Well with Technology' series, with @birgitneunews.bsky.social , @lewisiwu.bsky.social, & @nessakeddo.bsky.social and Elisabeth Kelan.
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...
June 23, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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