Jonathan Sanderson
@jjsanderson.bsky.social
Family roboticist/STEM engagement academic/digital tinkerer/film maker/general-purpose geek. Enthusiastic about (but not necessarily good at): bicycles, photography, sustainability, kites, parenting. Newcastle, UK.
Unpacking boxes. FFS. #iykyk #makerfaireuk
January 1, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Unpacking boxes. FFS. #iykyk #makerfaireuk
Oh. Chances of this working? Verrrrrry close to zero. Besides, if I can even find my Jaz drive… it clicked. Sigh.
December 30, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Oh. Chances of this working? Verrrrrry close to zero. Besides, if I can even find my Jaz drive… it clicked. Sigh.
Collected this with @nustem.bsky.social colleagues last night, at the @iop.org awards dinner. Woop Woop! Very proud to add my name to the list of recipients, several of whom I worked with back in my formative days or have known since. Inspirations all.
Blog post & links: nustem.uk/blog/news/20...
Blog post & links: nustem.uk/blog/news/20...
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Collected this with @nustem.bsky.social colleagues last night, at the @iop.org awards dinner. Woop Woop! Very proud to add my name to the list of recipients, several of whom I worked with back in my formative days or have known since. Inspirations all.
Blog post & links: nustem.uk/blog/news/20...
Blog post & links: nustem.uk/blog/news/20...
Ghost biscuits! Made with my kids, just now.
Thanks @robives.bsky.social for the cookie cutter download. 👻👍
Thanks @robives.bsky.social for the cookie cutter download. 👻👍
October 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Ghost biscuits! Made with my kids, just now.
Thanks @robives.bsky.social for the cookie cutter download. 👻👍
Thanks @robives.bsky.social for the cookie cutter download. 👻👍
Certainly not!
![Snippet of dictionary text: “brace: two of a kind: pair. [eg] several brace of quail.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fifloas7iras6eqj6zbi5t7l/bafkreidjplhq22koefy5yfwgbokblccxbn5xtji7ygjv4iyf52oqcranya@jpeg)
October 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Certainly not!
Backstreet blues.
October 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Backstreet blues.
This shelving unit isn’t how I’d intended to spend my Saturday, but it’s quite satisfying and will solve several problems I hadn’t quite realised I had. Tomorrow I hope to fit wall mounts for bicycles, off the right of this shot.
October 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
This shelving unit isn’t how I’d intended to spend my Saturday, but it’s quite satisfying and will solve several problems I hadn’t quite realised I had. Tomorrow I hope to fit wall mounts for bicycles, off the right of this shot.
Every maker’s least favourite part of the process.
August 15, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Every maker’s least favourite part of the process.
Oh, you have to be kidding me. Moving house. Shifted a table that’s not been moved in 7 years, and this little git is revealed.
If you know, you know.
If you know, you know.
July 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Oh, you have to be kidding me. Moving house. Shifted a table that’s not been moved in 7 years, and this little git is revealed.
If you know, you know.
If you know, you know.
My first surface mount soldering. Woop
Woop! @prosquared.org
Woop! @prosquared.org
July 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
My first surface mount soldering. Woop
Woop! @prosquared.org
Woop! @prosquared.org
You know what doesn’t get sticky over time? Paper.
June 29, 2025 at 9:48 AM
You know what doesn’t get sticky over time? Paper.
You know that 90s soft-touch plastic that eventually goes all sticky?
Ew. Eeeeewwwwww!
Ew. Eeeeewwwwww!
June 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
You know that 90s soft-touch plastic that eventually goes all sticky?
Ew. Eeeeewwwwww!
Ew. Eeeeewwwwww!
Why does my pizza box have a terrible AI image of a seaplane on the back?
June 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Why does my pizza box have a terrible AI image of a seaplane on the back?
Day 2 of riding the new tyres. Figures.
June 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Day 2 of riding the new tyres. Figures.
Today’s plan: try to recapture that ‘early pandemic online meeting’ atmosphere by communicating only via cheap walkie-talkie.
June 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Today’s plan: try to recapture that ‘early pandemic online meeting’ atmosphere by communicating only via cheap walkie-talkie.
My first thought on this was “Can ChatGPT draw maps?” So I checked. Yes, it can.
June 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My first thought on this was “Can ChatGPT draw maps?” So I checked. Yes, it can.
Almost certainly the best photo I’ve ever take of a duck.
June 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Almost certainly the best photo I’ve ever take of a duck.
I bought these juggling clubs circa. 1991. They (and I) have seen better days. However, I did just manage a run of 24 catches. Not stylish, but I’ll take it.
May 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I bought these juggling clubs circa. 1991. They (and I) have seen better days. However, I did just manage a run of 24 catches. Not stylish, but I’ll take it.
Rather nice to have a Spitfire stooging around up and down the coast this afternoon. Somebody up there is having fun, and lovely Merlin sounds for me.
May 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Rather nice to have a Spitfire stooging around up and down the coast this afternoon. Somebody up there is having fun, and lovely Merlin sounds for me.
I never post on Facebook, which seems to play merry havok with their algorithms. Tonight, for example, I was offered this.
April 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I never post on Facebook, which seems to play merry havok with their algorithms. Tonight, for example, I was offered this.
March 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
There’s something right about a paper aeroplane stuck above a planetarium door.
March 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
There’s something right about a paper aeroplane stuck above a planetarium door.
Been doing some sorting out. 😳
February 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Been doing some sorting out. 😳
Pushing plain JPEGs to the device also means I can tinker with layouts with confidence, even though the physical device is now 300 miles away from me. The main observations screen now looks like this:
February 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Pushing plain JPEGs to the device also means I can tinker with layouts with confidence, even though the physical device is now 300 miles away from me. The main observations screen now looks like this: