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Nick Reynolds

@ncmreynolds@hachyderm.io

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Onetime network admin, recreational technologist,
East Essex Hackspace Trustee, LARPer, TTRPGer, lapsed motorcyclist and overenthusiastic volunteer to make and fix stuff

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74 Followers

187 Following

7 Posts

Joined November 23, 2022

Blog:

https://blog.arcanium.london/

Stuff I remembered to share:

https://github.com/ncmreynolds

East Essex Hackspace:

https://wiki.eehack.space/index.php/Main_Page

LARP:

http://www.firefight.org.uk/

Nick Reynolds @ncmreynolds@hachyderm.io

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JennyList/116925302711084762 I'm a very boring straight cis white male in my mid-50s and I look around at what's happening in the UK and think "just why?". Intellectually I know it's all part of a well funded push from reactionary types that won't stop with trans people, but also it all just reeks of "hobbyless behaviour" done at the national level.

Quoting

Jenny List

@JennyList@mastodon.social

My country is fsck'd, on Jenny's Bench. https://ko-fi.com/post/Trying-To-Make-Sense-Of-A-Country-Thats-Gone-Wron-Y6X3239DE4 Support me if you can.

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Jenny List: "My country is fsck'd, on Jenny's Bench. https://…" - Mastodon

Nick Reynolds @ncmreynolds@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

This weekend was @uklta@mastodon.social first #LARP event of the year, Recon. It was an anthology made of multiple ~3 hour games.

We have a history of doing slightly silly games that's been neglected in recent years but there was a welcome return to silliness at Recon. I revel in silliness, when a game demands it.

@coreworlder@dice.camp ran a "Batman '66" themed game with all the players as GCPD officers facing a bad day at the opening of a grand exhibition at Gotham City Museum targeted by various classic villains.

For _reasons_ this also involved my reprising a character from a decade ago, Dave Smith legendary guitarist with world-conquering heavy metal band Imothep, as an NPC. Who also, secretly, fights crime.

So I got to go about being a naff Nigel Tufnel-esque bloke and asking about where my rider of "12 cans of good quality European lager" was while earnestly whispering to anybody I could about my second tier secret crime-fighting exploits.

Anyway, enjoy this Imothep poster for your teenage bedroom wall.

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UK Laser-Tag Association (@uklta@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

Nick Reynolds @ncmreynolds@hachyderm.io

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@andy_warb that's a nice build, the keyboard is a hard part and so many people go with those little bluetooth things from Aliexpress. I still need to come up with a keyboard solution myself for some Android tablet based things I built a while back. Maybe I'll give tactile switches a go again but make a custom PCB. When I tried ages ago 3D printing sucked for the keycaps but now with the improvements in detail printing it might work.

Nick Reynolds @ncmreynolds@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@concretedog you made me order one. Partly for the eReader functionality (I've never owned a Kindle) but also because it's a nice little ESP32-C3 E-Ink enabled object I can probably program to do other things with as well. If I don't well then it's still an eReader. Used a coupon so it was <£40 delivered.

Nick Reynolds @ncmreynolds@hachyderm.io

· 6mo ago

RE: @uklta@mastodon.social

We've held open early booking pricing for Dropzone over Easter and today's the last chance to get a ticket for £70. If you've not played with us before, UKLTA membership is free and we will loan you a set of Laser-Tag kit which we use for ranged #LARP combat.

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UK Laser-Tag Association: "Today's your last chance to bag an early-bird tic…" - Mastodon

Nick Reynolds @ncmreynolds@hachyderm.io

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@acb I always loved this style of interface. So much so I made a similar thing for use on Arduino/microcontrollers that targeted ANSI terminals. Never got around to making it work with Unicode though, which was vaguely on my to-do list.

Nick Reynolds @ncmreynolds@hachyderm.io

· 1w ago

Hi there folks, while I'm reluctant to spam the Fediverse about my hobbies I'm getting a bit desperate. @uklta@mastodon.social is running its event Cyberpunk: A Life on the Edge next weekend and we've been hit by some crew dropouts that are close to making it non-viable. So if anybody is interested in trying out something different for a weekend maybe come along and give it a try. #LARP crew generally play the 'supporting actor' and 'extra' roles in the game: everything from talkative characters to mooks who get mown down in a gunfight. We use Laser-Tag kit to simulate guns (there's no use of typical LARP weapons to hit each other), which we'll loan you, and we're a bit 'tech heavy' in an attempt to emulate what we can of the genre. All you need is some plain outdoor clothing you're happy to be active in outdoors. The game is at The Grange near Coventry, which makes it a camping event, but the site is surprisingly reachable by public transport for a LARP site. Sadly we can't feed you as the catering is sold separately by the site. Details here https://cyberpunk.larp.org.uk/

cyberpunk.larp.org.uk