Neil here and as I am here the least, let’s have some fun with the week notes and hope it doesn’t get spotted.

What have I been up to - mainly my job is about keeping an eye on things - answering a few emails to prospective clients of Museum in a Box, also seeing what our clients are shouting about on Social Media and working out ways to use those social media posts. I love it when they do, as it is really nice to see the projects our customers are creating or the awards they are winning - for instance, the British Library’s Beyond the Bassline touring show recently won an award at the Museum & Heritage awards.

There wasn’t much else of interest last week, so I was sharing our own hard work. Adrian and Chris had put a lot of work into preparing MCQN products, mounting them on board, etc. for their trip to the Open Source Hardware summit in Edinburgh. So I got to share the Hyperlapse on my phone:

Collecting information and editing it, is all in the game plan of every great comms professional, so I did a great interview session with Chris - who I now know used to work at CERN in Switzerland, but lived in France as it was cheaper. As a child he had a Sinclair Spectrum which he used to “invent” Karaoke and he knows more about Bluetooth than I do. I was advised it could do more complicated things than make my headphones work. Once I have a decent edit of the interview, I will be sharing it widely.

The most exciting thing about this week has been chatting to Adrian and giving him work to do….. actually, that is the worst part as he is always busy. But we have been discussing the website redevelopment and how to do it in small stages. This site MCQN.com is in Jekyll, which is a platform I am unfamiliar with or I would be doing the work myself, so I am having to hand off the manual work of creating the CSS files etc to Adrian. We both decided MCQN is a weird Frankenstein company, maybe that’s not the right phrase but we will stick to it for now.

Adrian said that last week felt rather bitty, but thought it was maybe the hangover from the travails of the failed trip to Edinburgh. It could just as easily have been sorting out the year-end company accounts.

Aside from that, it was taken up with client work: the regular routine of air-quality sensor development, topped off with some improvements to the signature plotter to correctly scale the output drawings.

He did sneak in a bit of development work looking at the Mastodon API. That’s revisiting an old project, but we’re not going to say which just now. Fingers crossed we’ll be able to reveal all in time for Liverpool Makefest.

Chris is continuing to look at 3d scanning methods for a future blog post. He also made a start on improvements to the Museum in a Box user interface.

That’s all folks… (We were discussing Taz from Loony Tunes earlier.)