Martin Ellis

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Things I’ve built, organised, or stuck on a lamp post.

~/beg-button
The Beg Button on its stand outside our village at EMF, screen above the walk/stop lights

Beg Button

A pedestrian-crossing button with a screen in it, built for our village at EMF. Rewritten in Rust for 2026.

#emf camp#rust#raspberry pi
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~/dome-viewer
The Dome Viewer's 3D preview: a triangular wireframe mesh and coloured visibility zones over a starfield

Planetarium Dome Viewer

A web tool for putting your own visuals on our sister village’s planetarium dome.

#emf camp#three.js
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~/emailkb
The assembled six-key macro pad with lavender keycaps on a teal work mat

EmailKB and Case

A six-key Pico macro pad from a kit, plus a FreeCAD case printed until it fit.

#keyboard#3d-printing
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~/stickers
Three die-cut character stickers on a wooden table: two of me in dinosaur dungarees and one of my partner

Stickers and Badges

Die-cut “me” stickers for DEFCON, then a second run, then badges.

#stickers#badges#defcon
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barcamp.html
The BarCamp Canterbury talk schedule grid as a spreadsheet

BarCamp Canterbury

An unconference in Canterbury, Kent. Organising, and the odd talk.

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tinkersoc.html
The TinkerSoc logo: a gear wrapped around a transistor symbol

TinkerSoc

Kent’s maker society: coding, electronics, 3D printing, amateur radio and more. I was committee Secretary from 2010 to 2012.

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