Green Opal I've been going to fosdem most years since 2022. On my first year there I made some friends who I joined in a game development team. The group was called Green-Opal Studio, (we got this neat little website here ). They took part in regular Ludum Dare game jams, two of which I took part in. The team hoped to make a full game at some point however, so we fell into having monthly meetings…
EPQ Project What it is This project was completed for my Extended Project Equalification (also known as EPQ). During the EPQ, a student will pick a subject of their choice, research it and then either write a paper or create a piece of media (an "artefact") based on what they have learnt. For my subject I originally chose physics simulation as at the time I lacked confidence in maths and wanted to…
External Recipes A collection of recipes I like and use. Recipes Great hummus Butternut Squash Mushroom And Pesto Pie Tomato Fried Rice , this works well with chinese cooking wine instead of fish cauce, add tempeh and tenderstem brocoli to fill it out! Pizza Dough , often results in a raw center to the pizza, make it as thin as you feasibly can, avoid thick sauce in the middle, cook on a pizza…
Game Jams I've taken part in game jams for many years now. It started out as something I would do to get more experience making games but its now just a genuinely fun past-time I fall into every few months. When I was at University I worked within its Computing Society to run them very regularly and they were always lovely. For a few years I was also in a game-jam team who took part in Ludum-Dare…
Simple Recipes A collection of recipes I like. Generally when cooking I try to cook using stuff I could concievably grow at home. I'm a big fan of us increasing our use of local small scale farms and this is me partially trying to prove thats viable. Almost everything here is vegan, some recipes will use non-local stuff but will try to suggest an alternative, I likely don't use that though :/…
About Me Who I am I'm Rosia Evans, I'm a programmer studying at a small university in Wales and soon to graduate! My work at university focuses on robotics but generally aims towards the lower level parts of programming. Previously this has involved topics around esoteric assembly languages or C/C++ programming. My experience in industry has revolved around testing, writing internal tooling or…
Friends IRL Friends I have friends with websites! You should become one of them! See them all below (they're cool as hell with unique interests and fun views) Wren! Megan (with an extremely cool website) Daisy A lot of us are on the AberWebRing Bob Edmil Lucas Ezra Oscar Cam People On The Indie-Web I've Chatted With Elle JPop Badges
Things For The Outside This is half written atm, expect missing images and half written paragrahps Tools Woodland Trust's Ancient Tree Index , find a really cool tree to sit under Falling Fruit, urban food scavenging map , forage for things Urbexology , explore some abandoned spaces (its cooler if you don't use this and instead you're just aware of your local spaces) Calendar Customs , go to…
CYD Hackathon Notes on a hackathon I did with my friend Bob . This blogpost was mostly written by them. On the 2nd and 3rd of May 2026 an Aberystwyth University Alumnus called Duncan Thomas was kind enough to put on a hackathon with the help of AberCompSoc. The theme being to design a conference badge, like those found at events such as DEFCON and EMF. I formed a team with Bob and together we…
Art And Blender Here's a little collection of some drawings and 3D modelling I've done in the past that I'm proud of! Heres a collection of general drawings I've done too :)
_ Hi, I'm Rosia I'm a student into computers and environmentalism. I spend my time programming, repairing things and trying to balance my overly active social life along with it. Things I'm proud of: Self-Built Laptop Camera Repair This Site My thoughts: Algorave Permacomputing More about me If you're not a fan of the colours of this site, or want a lower contrast version for accessibility, you…
Currently Reading - Eve I'm currently reading Eve by Cat Bohannon. It's an overview of the evolutionary history of mammals/humans through womens bodies. It picks various "Eve's", animals who were possibly the first women depending on different views of what makes a woman. As someone who hasn't read into biology or evolutionary history much since GCSE's, I'm finding this deeply interesting. At the…
Poems Trying to say nice things about you I want to write you a meaningful card. Something that proves I like you. I try to compare you to a tiny bird with a titans soul. I try to compare you to a bubbling liquid amber-stone. I try to compare you to an embossed, page stealing book. I doesn't work. But I give it to you, And it becomes your favourite thing anyway. Thunder storm The entirety of space…
AberRoboticsSoc The Aber Robotics Society is a small society of friends at my university who meet every Wednesday in a robotics lab and work on their projects. I originally joined to learn basic electronics but found a lot of good friends there and a really nice sense of community. While there I have learnt most of my knowledge of robotics and electronics and worked on a number of projects…
AberSailBot SailBot is a university society I joined in my first year. We built and raced self-driving robot sailboats. I joined the society as it seemed like a really interesting challenge to build robots that had to deal with the insane variety of variables the outside world offers. Especially in the ocean where you rely on those variables to perform even basic movement. It felt like a good…
Skipton Building Society Internship Overview During my gap-year I took an internship at Skipton Building Society as a software tester. Initially my job was to experiment with the use of automated testing however I eventually ended up presenting this software to groups of senior developers and working to integrate it into the society's general workflow, moving between teams helping them implement…
Dogtooth Robotics This is a direct copy of a post I did for Dogtooth on leaving you can find that one here! As I approach the end of my industry year at Dogtooth, I’ve been reflecting on everything I’ve experienced – from technical lessons to unexpected personal growth. I wanted to share my time here, both to document it for myself and to offer insight into what working at Dogtooth is really like.…
Linux Troubleshooting I've been using Linux for a while and I pretty regularly find myself hitting issues I know I've hit before but not remembering the solution and have to go slogging through stack-overflow to find it again. I now have this, this is a list of all the issues I hit and how I resolved them. For future me but also maybe you? :) Networking Unable to connect to internet but able to…
Notes On Vegan Cooking Protein Sources For a vegan you should try ensure your meal has protein, good sources are: tofu tempeh (my current favourite!) cashew nuts, pistachio nuts quorn peas chickpeas kidney beans pumpkin seeds lentils peanut putter quinoa buckwheat wild rice Cooking Without Eggs Eggs are a core part of baking, they provide 3 main purposes: moisture, binding and protein heavy bodies…
AardvarkXR Overview Aardvark was an open-source virtual reality project I joined and worked on for around 2 years between 2019 and 2021. I started out writing small add-ons for it and eventually ended up working with the main developer on creating core parts of the system. What is AardvarkXR? Aardvark is a framework that allows users to open small apps (known as gadgets) over the top of other…
Plant Watering System Summary This documents my attempts to build a smart system to maintain plants. This has mostly been a chance to develop skills with electronics whilst letting me experiment with concepts near automated farming in a small form-factor I can work on in my flat at home. It's being build almost entirely out of second-hand, reused parts from old electronics. The Ideas Behind This I…
The Archive Inhabited places, as they exist with their people - their friends - slowly develop an understanding of themselves and a strength to exist in a deeper fashion. The archive existed from will alone. A will of its own. Unlike a lot of places, it wasn't ancient, nor created by some modern mastermind. It simply appeared one day, not yet as an archive but as a small playful space, the odd…
Live-Coding I gave a talk at a Aber BCS Show And Tell event last year trying to introduce more people to the concept of algorave, live-coding and the ideas behind them. This post hopes to be a on-paper rewrite of that talk. This is a work in progress post, expect some spelling mistakes and an unfinished ending What is Algorave? Algorave is a form of live-coding where a performer writes code in…
Permacomputing My thoughts on permacomputing, the space its currently in and where it could go in the future Yo! Please note that the permacomputing community has changed and improved itself quite a bit since I last saw it! I'm intending to update this at somepoint when I have the time. Check their wiki out and have a look around the community, form your own opinions :) What is Permacomputing?…
AberCompSoc This year I have become president of my university's computing society or "aberCompSoc". The society has a rich history with a website from the early 2000's still being hosted. In recent years the group somewhat slowed and became mostly a drinking society. From this, the previous committee asked me to run for president and run some more topical activities. I was previously a member of…
Understanding Waveshare's E-Paper C Drivers Waveshare don't explain their drivers, and as far as I can tell no one online has either. The drivers themselves aren't too complicated, you could probably work them out within half an hour or so, but that's no reason not to explain it a bit and save someone that time. What are we given? The C drivers aren't too wild, every device has a similar set of…
Self-built Laptop How it started I have a small shoulder-bag I take everywhere. I often find myself wanting to take just that bag with me somewhere but also needing to take a laptop and having to take a whole backpack just for that laptop. Separately from this, during my summer last year, I often found myself sitting outside and programming. Sat on the grass outside my dormitory or on the local…
This Site This site is a small project I worked on over the course of a few weeks while first returning back to university during my second year. Its hosted on a small lighttpd server running on an old laptop from around 2003. I wrote a small C++ program that takes in MarkDown files and builds them into webpages. During start-up, or alternatively on request, the server pulls this code along with…
Camera Butchering/Revival A number of experiments that eventually lead to some cool photos and a neat camera. Note this page is a draft and definitely will contain spelling mistakes and general nonsense It begins In 2022 I found 640by480 , this (along with a very similar site ) is a website where people post photos taken using old digital cameras. I found the energy of these photos really…
Sonic-Pi and Algorave Sonic-Pi is a language built around live-coding and producing music algorithmically through code. Its based off Ruby and has a really nice twist that you see often in the live-coding community. This twist is that the code you write is constantly running and and being evaluated so as you write it the music being produced by it changes live. I find Sonic-Pi a really nice way to…