Met Office Informatics Lab

The Met Office Informatics Lab combines scientists, technologists, and designers to make environmental science and data useful.  The Informatics Lab builds prototypes to try out new technologies and techniques to push the boundaries of science, technology and design. 

The Met Office Informatics Lab combines scientists, technologists, and designers to make environmental science and data useful. The Informatics Lab builds prototypes to try out new technologies and techniques to push the boundaries of science, technology and design.

2.Times do

2.times do was Simon Belshaw & Ian Woodbridge.  A community interest company that provided creative coding workshops aimed at making digital understanding fun while demystifying technology. They were particularly focused on physical computing; using Raspberry Pis, Arduinos and BBC Micro:bits and the programming languages Scratch, python and node-red amongst others.

Simon and Ian became involved with the BellHouse project initially in 2016, helping with the some of the coding for the servos on the sculpture and the operation of the servos and pi hardware as part of the Fab Lab at Exeter Library.

In 2017, the Informatics Lab began to step back from the BellHouse collaboration after the Met Office Installation in order to continue to work on new projects. Simon & Ian stepped in to become more involved with the BellHouse technological development in collaboration with Roop. They have worked on making the initial protoype software more robust, flexible and easier to use for non developers. Furthermore they have been making new interfaces based on ideas from roop and other collaborators for new ways to play. 

Simon is a musician and composer who works with technology in innovative and creative ways. His work can be seen here.