Dr Jon Durrant

Dr Jon Durrant

@drjonea.bsky.social

Creator, Maker, YouTuber, Tutor and Tinkerer. https://youtube.com/@drjonea

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Dr Jon Durrant
@drjonea.bsky.social

Four Halloweens, Four Creatures That Watch You: My Raspberry Pi Pico Halloween Builds Four years of Raspberry Pi Pico Halloween builds, from an ultrasound Guy Fawkes mask to a skull that tracks you with radar. What each one taught me, and which to build this weekend.

drjonea.co.ukFour Halloweens, Four Creatures That Watch You: My Raspberry Pi Pico Halloween BuildsFour years of Raspberry Pi Pico Halloween builds, from an ultrasound Guy Fawkes mask to a skull that tracks you with radar. What each one taught me, and which to build this weekend.
Dr Jon Durrant
@drjonea.bsky.social

How My Halloween Skull Hunts You: Predator Servos and a Radar Brain Part 2 of my Halloween animatronic skull: servo easing for predator-like motion on a Raspberry Pi RP2040, and a 24 GHz radar that sees through plastic to track you. Code on GitHub.

drjonea.co.ukHow My Halloween Skull Hunts You: Predator Servos and a Radar BrainPart 2 of my Halloween animatronic skull: servo easing for predator-like motion on a Raspberry Pi RP2040, and a 24 GHz radar that sees through plastic to track you. Code on GitHub.
Dr Jon Durrant
@drjonea.bsky.social

🌞 July Update — Recovering from Event Season Event season hit hard this year. Maker Central, Evolve26, Hardware Pioneers… all incredible, all exhausting, and all packed with inspiration. Add in a wave of new Pico ecosystem releases, and July arrived before I even noticed.

drjonea.co.uk🌞 July Update — Recovering from Event SeasonEvent season hit hard this year. Maker Central, Evolve26, Hardware Pioneers… all incredible, all exhausting, and all packed with inspiration. Add in a wave of new Pico ecosystem releases, and July arrived before I even noticed.
Dr Jon Durrant
@drjonea.bsky.social

One week until Maker Central (16-May-2026 NEC). I'm sharing some space on the Maker Station stand with my friend and amazing maker @danmakesthings. Hope to meet you at the event. Do say hi.

Dr Jon Durrant
@drjonea.bsky.social

🔢 Celebrating Pi Day With a Live Build! Saturday 14 March is, of course, Pi Day (3.14), and this year I’m doing something completely different on the livestream: a Live Build over on my channel. But this won’t be a Blue Peter–style “here’s one I made earlier” situation. It’s not even a rebuild of…

drjonea.co.uk🔢 Celebrating Pi Day With a Live Build!Saturday 14 March is, of course, Pi Day (3.14), and this year I’m doing something completely different on the livestream: a Live Build over on my channel. But this won’t be a Blue Peter–style “here’s one I made earlier” situation. It’s not even a rebuild of a project I’ve already done. This is going to be a start-with-an-idea-and-see-where-it-goes kind of day.