Interactive Medieval Manuscripts

A facsimile page from a medieval manuscript can be made interactive: laid flat on a table and wired underneath with conductive tape it can respond to touch. A visitor could press a line and hear the page read aloud in Latin, then in English. Press an illuminated initial and music starts underneath it. The program … Read more

Development environments for education

We are developing a web‐based system for Python programming (called “Pytch”) that targets beginning programmers (see the screenshot below). Because the system is web based a lot of the work will involve JavaScript, TypeScript and React but it’s not necessary to have experience of these at the outset. We have a number of ideas for … Read more