3D Printing London

Digital Meetup: Sound Systems at the V&A

If you're interested in physical computing, creative electronics, and building interactive experiences with sound, you might enjoy this free event we're organising at the V&A on 17 July. Please note that this is a **drop in event**. Registering here helps us estimate numbers, but it **does not guarantee a place** in individual activities, which will be available on a **first come, first served** basis throughout the evening. **Digital Meetup: Sound Systems** brings together artists and creative technologists exploring physical computing, electronic textiles and livecoding. While this isn't an Arduino focused meetup, several of the activities explore physical computing through sound, including electronic textiles, capacitive touch sensing, interactive musical instruments and creative coding. The programme includes: • Building touch responsive instruments with Tom Fox using the new SPOKE board. • Making soft circuits and exploring Lia Mice's textile synthesiser *Soft Cymatics*. • Learning visual livecoding with Mike Cook using Magpie. • Creating algorithmic music with Nadezhda Khalid using Strudel, followed by an informal livecoding jam. There will also be an informal space for Show and Tell if you'd like to share a project you're working on, especially anything related to sound, music or interactive technology. Full information on the V&A event page here: https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/yA068beXnvA/digital-meetup-july-2026 It would be great to see a few members of the London Arduino community there.

3D London | 3D Networking Community

3D London, Wednesday 5th August @ Truckles Hosted by **[Nadia Monte](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadia-monte-57436571/)** & **[Ewan Couper](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewancouper/).** Details soon Thanks to our sponsors for supporting our monthly meetups. **[SiNi Software](https://www.sinisoftware.com/)** , **[Chaos](https://www.chaos.com/) , [NTI](https://www.nti-group.com/uk/) , [Itoosoft](https://www.itoosoft.com/) , [Heata](https://www.heata.co/)** #3dlondon #monthlymeetup

An Exploration of Human Expression and Its Future

What makes us human, and what do we risk losing when AI begin to mirror our most intimate forms of expression? As AI becomes woven into our everyday workflows, from vibe coding to documentation, it's easy to focus on efficiency. But what about the rest of our lives? This session invites you to slow down and turn your attention toward something deeper: the arts. Dancing, singing, drawing, making, not as hobbies, but as expressions of something fundamental about who we are and where we come from. Whether you're excited about what AI can create, cautious about what it might erode, or somewhere in between, this conversation is for you. We're not here to reach consensus. We're here to share our views and think together. **What we'll explore** Inspired by the [Centre for Humane Technology](https://www.humanetech.com/ai-and-humanity)'s report *Preserving What Makes Us Deeply Human in the Age of AI*, we'll explore questions around why we create. What role does art play in our lives, not just aesthetically, but psychologically, socially, and spiritually? And as AI enters these spaces, what questions should we be asking ourselves? **From reflection to practice** We won't leave it abstract. Towards the end of the session, we'll bring the conversation back to our work as UX Designers and Researchers, exploring how these reflections can meaningfully shape the way we design, research, and lead. *** **🎓 A moment of celebration** We'll close the evening by celebrating the nine fellows who have completed the third [Responsible Design for Change Fellowship](https://www.ux4change.org/responsible-design-for-change-fellowship/) cohort. Their dedication to advancing social impact at the East London Waterworks Park, while deepening their practice in regenerative design and leadership, is worth sharing with our UX for Change community. *** **🎟️ Free spots available** We believe access to these conversations matters. If you'd like to be considered for one of the 7 free tickets, please fill out this short form: 👉[https://forms.gle/YgPFKeSXtZDMVaVU9](https://forms.gle/YgPFKeSXtZDMVaVU9)

Screen Printing on Paper and Textiles

### Course Overview * Screen Print for Beginners is a practical **4-week course i**ntroducing the fundamentals of screen printing on paper and textiles. You’ll learn core screen printing techniques while creating your own original prints. * Explore image-making, stencil preparation, ink mixing, colour, pattern, text, monoprint and fabric printing techniques in a supportive studio environment. * Classes take place in our North London studio, a short distance from Crouch End, Finsbury Park, Archway, and Highgate. **Time** 10.00 – 13.00 studio 29 **Day** Wednesday **Course Duration** 4 weeks **Dates:** 29 July, 5 August, 12 August & 19 August 2026 **Tutor:** **[Raquel Amat](https://art-class-london.co.uk/team/raquel-amat-parra/)** email: artclasslondon.printmaking@gmail.com mobile (WhatsApp): 07933084754 ### Booking details Price: £195

Lego Meetup - July 2026 - Lego Football

Screen Printing as Protest

### Workshop Description ***Print as Protest*** is an accessible introduction to screen printing that explores the rich history of printmaking as a tool for activism, social movements, and political expression. Central to the workshop is an exploration of the power of text: how words, slogans, and statements can become images in their own right. Through typography, scale, repetition, and graphic composition, text can communicate urgency, solidarity, resistance, and hope. From protest placards and political posters to artist manifestos and public interventions, printed language has long been used to challenge authority, amplify marginalised voices, and mobilise communities. Participants will examine how artists, activists, and designers have transformed text into compelling visual forms, considering not only what messages are communicated but how they are seen, felt, and remembered. Through discussion and practical experimentation, participants will develop their own graphic responses to contemporary issues, translating words and ideas into bold printed works. From suffragette posters and labour movement graphics to contemporary climate activism and social justice campaigns, the workshop examines how printed images have long been used to communicate ideas, challenge power, and build collective voices. Beginners are warmly welcomed, and all technical processes will be demonstrated step-by-step. **Audience** This workshop is suitable for: * Complete beginners * Artists and makers interested in printmaking * Community activists and campaigners * Anyone interested in visual culture, social history, and creative expression **Learning Outcomes** By the end of the workshop, participants will: * Understand the basic principles and history of screen printing. * Explore examples of protest and activist printmaking. * Develop a simple graphic design or slogan suitable for screen printing. * Learn how to prepare artwork for a screen. * Gain hands-on experience in printing using screen printing techniques. * Produce a small edition of prints to take home. * Reflect on the role of printmaking as a form of communication and resistance. **Materials** All basic materials and equipment will be provided, including: * Screens and squeegees * Water-based inks * Printing paper * Design materials and reference images * Protective aprons and cleaning supplies Participants may bring sketches, photographs, slogans, or source material related to a cause or issue they would like to explore. **Accessibility** The workshop is designed to be welcoming and supportive for participants of all experience levels. Demonstrations will be broken down into clear stages, with individual guidance provided throughout the day. **Course Aim** To introduce participants to the creative and technical possibilities of screen printing while exploring its historical and contemporary role as a powerful medium for protest, ***Image as text,*** advocacy, and public expression.

INTRO TO WOODBLOCK PRINTING

**Bookable via our website ➡️** [https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/intro-to-woodblock-printing-3/](https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/intro-to-woodblock-printing-3/) **⋆⋆⋆** **Course:** Intro Wood Block Printing **Suitable for:** Suitable for beginners. No prior experience is required. **About:** Spend a day learning to cut a wood block to create layered relief prints. Printing onto paper. This one day course is a great introduction to the craft of reduction woodcut printing onto ‘Awagami’ paper. Even if you have never cut into a piece of wood or have any artistic experience, You will be able to explore your creativity and learn wood cutting methods to create prints. You will be guided through the techniques to carve your own woodblock, creating a layered image as the surface of the block is cut away at each stage, printing each new colour as you go. A single block will be carved and printed in layers, lightest to darkest, until a final unique piece reveals itself. You will learn to use different woodcarving tools to make various cuts into your woodblock taking inspiration from iconic Japanese woodcut prints (like The Great Wave of Kanagawa), well known artists, nature, and patterns to create your own design with guidance from tutor Ollie Norris, or perhaps you may already have your own designs in mind? The woodcuts are shallow and do not require great strength to make, so the workshop is open to all abilities. All use of tools and materials supplied Bring an apron or wear old clothes in case some of the paint jumps onto you.

July 27 - London AI, ML, and Computer Vision Meetup

Join our in-person meetup to hear talks from experts on cutting-edge topics across AI, ML, and computer vision. **[Register to reserve your seat!](https://voxel51.com/events/london-ai-ml-and-computer-vision-meetup-july-27-2026)** **Date, Time and Location** Jul 27, 2026 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM BST Imperial College London, Skempton Building (LT201), South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ **UniLight: Unified Multi-Modal Lighting Representation** Lighting has a strong influence on visual appearance, yet understanding and representing lighting in images remains notoriously difficult. UniLight introduces a joint latent space to unify previously incompatible lighting representation - environment maps, images, irradiance and text descriptions. Modality-specific encoders are trained contrastively to align their representations, with an auxiliary spherical-harmonics prediction task reinforcing directional understanding. Our joint lighting embedding enables applications such as retrieval, example-based light control during image generation, and environment map generation from various modalities. *About the Speaker* [Zitian Zhang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ztzhang76) \- is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Université Laval\, and a research scientist intern in Adobe Research London\. He focuses on image understanding\, generation\, and lighting representations through foundation models\. **LoST: Level of Semantics Tokenization for 3D Shapes** Tokenization is fundamental to generative modeling and especially important for autoregressive 3D generation. However, current 3D shape tokenizers rely on geometric level-of-detail hierarchies that are token-inefficient and poorly aligned with semantic structure. We propose Level-of-Semantics Tokenization (LoST), which orders tokens by semantic salience so early tokens produce complete, plausible shapes and later tokens refine detailed geometry and semantics. LoST is trained with Relational Inter-Distance Alignment (RIDA), a semantic alignment loss that matches relationships in 3D shape latent space to those in DINO feature space. Experiments show that LoST achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction and efficient high-quality AR 3D generation while using only 0.1%–10% of the tokens required by prior methods. *About the Speaker* [Niladri Dutt](https://www.linkedin.com/in/niladridutt) \- is an ELLIS PhD student at University College London \(UCL\)\, sponsored by Adobe Research\. He is advised by Prof Niloy Mitra \(UCL\) and Duygu Ceylan \(Adobe\)\. **Material selection in 2D and beyond - methods, tricks and applications** In this talk, we'll explore reasoning about images from a material-centric perspective, namely through the lens of material understanding. Materials distinguish themselves by their response to light, which is governed and modelled through physical properties like roughness or gloss - however, understanding such properties is a non-trivial task for current algorithms and models. We'll see how we can select materials similar to a given query material, significantly improve selection fidelity and eventually even venture beyond 2D, to enable selection in the 3D domain. *About the Speaker* [Michael Fischer](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-fischer-32b43b1a4/) \- is a research scientist at Adobe research London\. He obtained his PhD from University College London \(UCL\)\, advised by Niloy Mitra and Tobias Ritschel\. Michael has authored several top\-tier publications \(CVPR\, ICCV\, SIGGRAPH\, \.\.\.\) and is a recipient of both the Meta PhD scholarship and the Rabin Ezra scholarship as well as the Eurographics PhD Thesis award 2026\. **Lessons from the Trenches of Agentic Engineering** A candid lessons-learned from running an agentic engineering consultancy with clients ranging from federal governments to early-stage AI startups. I'll cover what's held up under real production pressure, what I tried and abandoned, and the approaches that are quietly dead but still being sold. Expect specifics, opinions, and a few uncomfortable conclusions. *About the Speaker* [John Adeojo](https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-adeojo/) \- runs Brainqub3 an agentic engineering consultancy serving clients from federal governments to early\-stage AI startups\, and recently served briefly as CTO of a pre\-seed AI startup\. He previously led the data science function at RBS International and held senior IC roles at HSBC\, NatWest Group\, and Shawbrook Bank\. **Building Real-World Computer Vision Systems** This talk will explore practical workflows for building, evaluating, and improving modern computer vision systems. We’ll dive into real-world approaches to dataset curation, model analysis, multimodal AI workflows, and production-ready vision pipelines using open-source technologies. The session is designed for engineers, researchers, and AI practitioners looking to better understand how teams are developing and scaling computer vision applications today. Expect practical demos, technical insights, and discussions around the evolving AI tooling ecosystem. *About the Speaker* [Harpreet Sahota](https://www.linkedin.com/in/harpreetsahota204/) \- is a hacker\-in\-residence and machine learning engineer with a passion for deep learning and generative AI\. He’s got a deep interest in RAG\, Agents\, and Multimodal AI\.

WHITTLE A SPOON

**Bookable via our website ➡️** [https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/whittle-a-spoon-9/](https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/whittle-a-spoon-9/) **⋆⋆⋆** Like spoons? You’ll love this. If the idea of carving a spoon appeals to you, but setting out into a muddy wood and starting your learning by wielding an axe seems somewhat daunting, join us for a one-day course that will bypass all that and yet give you the immense satisfaction of watching a fully-fledged spoon emerge from your handiwork. Each spoon will be carved using seasoned wood and we will use Lime – a light, silky smooth and close-grained wood- used by great master carvers in St Paul Cathedral and stately homes. In one day, you will learn how to create a spoon from Lime wood- a traditional seasoned hardwood that holds detail and is a pleasure to carve with a cutout decoration detail in the handle. This can be a straight handle or a heart, but if you have an idea for a simple design, we can try and make this possible too. Your spoon will be a gift to keep for yourself or give to your loved one. This course is taught by Jon Hall, a talented professional City and Guild trained carver who teaches our one-day ‘Intro to Woodcarving’. We supply all the tools and materials and can advise you on which simple tools to buy to carry on this fascinating hobby. Love Spoons. In folk museums and heritage craft collections throughout Europe and the UK, you can sometimes see versions of these charming ‘Lovespoons’- some with one or two hearts carved out of their handles. The traditional lovespoon was made by a man who gave it to his beloved in order to show his skills and commitment. Her father would also have been able to see the man’s craftsmanship. Some of them are full of complex symbolism. A lock denoting security, a cross for faith, horseshoes for luck, bells for marriage and some including interlinked chains. As a ‘pastime’, many hours were spent on them and sailors passed their free time embellishing them with mermaids and anchors. One-day course 10.00 – 5.00pm.

WOODTURNING – PEPPERMILL

**Bookable via our website ➡️** [https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/woodturning-peppermill-4/](https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/events/woodturning-peppermill-4/) **⋆⋆⋆** This one day woodturning workshop will further your learning journey in woodturning techniques used in the pen and bowl turning workshop. During this one-day woodturning workshop you will learn the ’Headstock method’ ‘Spindle turning,’ accurate drilling, fitting two parts together and decorative tips, to make a Peppermill. Discover the parts of the lathe and understand how to safely secure your work, the methods to use with each chisel and how to sand and finish your projects. You will start by turning a practice piece before moving onto the peppermill, using spindle turning techniques, learning to drill accurately and introducing the use of a woodwork chisel and tenon saw in the process. Making the peppermill will teach you how to make and fit two parts together. By creating a ‘spigot’ on the head of the mill to fit nicely into the body of the Peppermill. Suitable for those who have attended our pen and bowl making workshop however confident beginners are also welcome. For more information, check out our website: [https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/woodturning-make-a-peppermill-whistle/](https://www.thegoodlifecentre.co.uk/woodturning-make-a-peppermill-whistle/)

London Internet of Things Meetup No.156

We're back to our usual format of 3 speakers + Q&A followed by networking. 18:30: Doors open 19:00 Welcome by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (organiser since 2011) 19:10 Speaker 1 (TBA) 19:30 Speaker 2 (TBA) 19:50 Speaker 3 (TBA) 20:10 Networking 21:00 End of event and move to a nearby pub There will be drinks (including non-alcoholic) and nibbles. **About our sponsors:** [Green Custard](https://www.green-custard.com/) is an award-winning AWS IoT specialist consultancy that helps organisations design, build, and scale secure cloud-connected products and solutions. With deep expertise across IoT architectures, data lakes, ML and agentic AI our IoT expertise spans from product innovation to smart factory innovation. We have full stack capability from embedded & mobile to cloud-native development. Green Custard partners with clients to deliver on their business outcomes whether modernising legacy devices, unlocking new value from existing data, or accelerating the delivery of production-ready solutions. Customers trust Green Custard for its technical excellence, pragmatic delivery, and we are proud of our customer success. [Aqua Libra](https://aqualibra.com/pages/flavour-tap) is redefining sustainable hydration through innovative, low-impact dispensing technology. Beyond its zero-sugar infused drinks, the brand has pioneered solutions such as the Aqua Libra Flavour Tap, a digitally controlled dispensing system that delivers chilled, filtered water with natural flavours on demand. By removing the need for single-use bottles and reducing transport emissions, the Flavour Tap enables offices, venues, and public spaces to offer great-tasting drinks with a dramatically smaller environmental footprint. Aqua Libra’s approach blends sustainability, smart technology, and convenience to meet the growing demand for healthier, greener beverage options.

Unreal Engine Workshop: FREE Game Design Meetup | GameCamp

***Enter the live meeting room here: [https://discord.gg/5wgxtr4c2u](https://discord.gg/5wgxtr4c2u)*** ***Download the engine here: [https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/download](https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/download)*** Welcome to the **Unreal Engine Workshop!** In each session we'll tackle essential game design discussions, then transition into hands-on project creation. Participants will build and expand their skills continuously as we explore every aspect of game development. From basic blueprints and interactive mechanics, to advanced rigging, animation, environment design, and lighting, we'll work our way up to creating small complete games. We encourage experimentation and peer teaching, so whether you're a beginner or experienced developer looking to deepen your expertise, our sessions provide a supportive environment to learn, create, and innovate together in Unreal Engine 5.