Solar & battery / Real readings
A little sunshine, saved.
A day in every ray. Explore the electricity we use at home, what we share with the grid, and the footprint it leaves.
Illustrated preview · real readings inside
Follow the energyExperiments
Thinking through making
Some ideas only make sense once you can play with them. This is where I follow those ideas, build something, and see what happens.
Come and try a few things.
19 experiments · Everything
Physical → digital / A live experimentChecking the lamp…
The workbench lamp.
A press on my LaMetric desk device switches this lamp on or off for everyone watching. Keep this page open: when I press it, the light changes here too.
Connecting live updates…
One shared state, carried from a physical button to your browser by Laravel Pennant, Valkey and Reverb. No refresh and no polling.
A journey with Storyus
Hillfort to Hillfort.
From Blewburton to Wittenham Clumps. Follow a walk through photographs gathered in Storyus, with a map that moves as you read.
Walk the story
Photo365 / 2013 / With Storyus
The everyday, seen again.
A photograph is a reason to pause. To notice the light, the familiar, and the small things that might otherwise pass us by.
Look a little closerPanorama with Storyus
Pano above our Italian cottage
Surrounded by the vineyards near Nieve
Look aroundConnections / 2006–2026
People leave patterns.
Explore the shape of twenty years of connections.
4,358 connections
Explore my networkAround the table
Stay a little longer.
Questions for travel, gratitude, imagination—and each other.
Family conversation questionsPlaces / Family memories
Places we carry with us.
A few journeys, a few photographs. Find the memories behind the pins.
Unfold the travel mapMotion / A small solar system
A little perspective.
Pause, speed up and spend a moment with our planetary neighbours.
Explore the orreryGenerative poetry
Thinking in three lines.
Give a haiku a starting point and see where it goes.
Try a thought
Saved artwork & sonnet
A different view of Earth.
An early experiment bringing together art, language and a view from space.
See the original workGeography & weather
What’s on the other side?
Meet the weather at your antipode. You might need a boat.
The other side of the worldAn archive of the everyday
Small posts. A longer story.
Photographs, conversations and things I was learning. Browse the years or follow a remembered word.
Explore my Twitter archiveAn AI introduction
Meet BenBot.
Ask about my public work, projects and ideas, and follow a thread that interests you.
Talk to BenBotObservation / Weather data
Weather, wherever.
A forecast for a place you care about. Look ahead to the next few hours and days.
Find a forecastPlaying with images
One turtle. Many possibilities.
Change the colours, lift away the background, or find an illustration inside a photograph.
Try an image transformation
Words + place
A thought from Oxford.
Pair a few words with a familiar skyline. Make a little image to keep.
Make an Oxford cardA note from somewhere
Wish you were here.
A walk by the sea, a handwritten thought, and a postcard of your own.
Make a postcardAlso from my deskChecking the lights…
The fairy lights.
A second button on the same desk device switches the fairy lights behind me. Their own flag and their own plug, so they can be on while the lamp rests.
How the switches work