This one seemed to strike a chord back in January. An electrical engineer from Vancouver who licks live wire, puts his finger into power sockets and basically does all the things with electrical current that you MUST not do. Last time we checked (last week), he was still very much with us. If you were wondering, we cannot stress how much you should not try this at home.
We love your videos @ElectroBOOMGuy, but HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?https://t.co/pCX1I6mXjJ— Rapid Electronics (@Rapidonline) January 29, 2016
Continuing the theme of 'Doing Great Harm to Yourself with Electronics', there was more than an element of schadenfreude at work pointing out the mistakes in these 'stock shots'.
That's NOT the way to do it. pic.twitter.com/1GEkymJuYp— Rapid Electronics (@Rapidonline) March 18, 2016
We were a familiar sight at Raspberry Pi Jams this year, right across East Anglia.
— ItsAll_GeekToMe (@ItsAll_Geek2Me) March 5, 2016
All set up and ready to go for @SouthendRPiJams please come join us for chat, learning and fun pic.twitter.com/Utf4KjC7eD— Rapid Electronics (@Rapidonline) August 20, 2016
Pepper the robot was pretty much everywhere!
Great to open the new South Wing at Colchester Institute this morning assisted by Pepper the robot @ColchesterInst pic.twitter.com/WRBFhCAJzU— Will Quince MP (@willquince) September 16, 2016
Earlier this week @PepperTheRobot held the floor at a @UniversitiesUK event. Here is what she said ... #robotics https://t.co/hUtrxnOHOD— Rapid Education (@Rapid_Edu) September 9, 2016
A sugar-spinning robot called Shirley was one of the stars of the Big Bang Fair. It was made by our Education Manager Chris for TV's food and science showman Stefan Gates. From there Shirley went on to meet the BBC's Director General and appear on Channel 5's The Right Stuff.
Shirley, the sugar-spinning robot built by @Chris_Calver for @stefangates, hits the bigtimehttps://t.co/AKHFHUcU6T pic.twitter.com/uOo6NXOeXX— Rapid Education (@Rapid_Edu) May 26, 2016
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