Margaret Low

@megjlow.bsky.social

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Engineering and Computing Outreach with schools @wmgwarwick @megjlow@fosstodon.org Exploring creativity in Computing, Maths, Design and Technology with #TurtleStitch http://warwick.ac.uk/turtlestitch Compulsive knitter! All opinions are my own.

A locked train door with the sign 'Not for public use', and 'Stay Out: On-Board Whisky Distillery'.
Margaret is standing in front of the famous door at No 10 Downing Street.
Video shows the inside a wooden birdbox. A Blue Tit enters, pauses for a split second, and then quickly flies back out. A large bee then crawls out from under the nesting material and moves around the floor of the box.
A TurtleStitch pattern that is made of up zigzag stitches all coming from a central point to create a half circle pattern.
A red finger puppet, it has an owls ears, googly eyes and a shiny gem nose, it has arms coming out the sides of its body and has a tail. Its being held by a child.
Margaret standing in at the front of a classroom, beside a display screen, showing the title "Lets Code Trees Workshop"
Jens Moenig running a workshop at fosdem, he is standing to the side of a display in a classroom, where the screen shows snap with the text "Hi I'm Jens"
A small Christmas tree sitting on a window sill. On the tree is a star, two tiny knitted ganseys and beaded pie and dna helix.
Shows a sunrise taking place on Warwick Campus. The sunrise is seen through trees, and there is a path in the front of the trees. The sky has a range of colours from yellow, pink through to purple.
A poster showing Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock with a background showing space and stars. The text says its the Christmas Lectures from the Royal Institution, supported by CGI, and Paul Wilkinson Photography is credited.
Andrea and Joek standing in front of a screen giving a presentation at SnapCon. On the screen behind them is a slide entitled "Ten Years of TurtleStitch"
Jens Moenig standing at the front of the conference room using a computer connected to a presentation screen, demonstrating key functionality of scratch. The display shows the Snap software screen showing Snap code.
Joek van Montfort standing on a stage giving a presentation at SAP HQ in Heidelberg. Behind Joek is a large screen with the message "Hey Snap!ers, Welcome to SAP"
A collage of colourful squares with each square containing a stitched pattern. Each pattern is unique, there are some fractal patterns and circular patterns.
a pattern being stitched by a digital embroidery machine, it consists of multiple zigzag patterns making up a half circle.
a beautiful circular stitched pattern that consists of two circles with petals reaching from the inner circle to the outer circle.
A display from the Stitch in Time project in 2024. This is a wall in the Coventry Transport Museum. On the wall are a number of different displays, showing the work of primary school students. The displays have coloured felt patches, and on each patch is a stitched pattern.
A photo of Margaret Low with the text "I'm speaking at the UK Computing Summit 2025" organised y BCS, CPHC and UK Computing Research Committee.
One completed fairisle knitted tam. Another is on a circular needle. Next to them there is a collection of different colours of yarn still to be knitted.
A group of people standing together to take a selfie. The picture is of the workshop leaders.
Photograph shows childrens work on display at Coventry Transport Museum. On the wall are collages of work done by primary school children. Each collage is made up of a collection of patterns stitched onto brightly coloured felt.
Shows a partially knitted tam hat, consisting of bands of different colours of fairisle style patterns, which are knitted in two colours.
Academic staff from WMG, University of Warwick all standing together wearing bright academic gowns, standing getting their photo taken.
The video shows a simple flower pattern being stitched by a digital embroidery machine. There is no sound on the video.
Video is silent. It shows an embroidery machine stitching two trees.
A stitched representation of the Glasgow Rose, designed by Charles and Margaret Rennie Mackintosh. Its stitched onto white felt, with two colours of pink thread.
Margaret on stage giving a presentation at the ICT for Education conference. The slide being presented is the current demand for engineers on jobsites.
An image taken from TinkerCAD showing a grid with the letters WMG outreach extruded from the grid.
A person standing in front of a screen showing the text "A love letter to open source from the heart of a mechanical disco pigeon". In the corer of the room is a pigeon in decorated like a glitter ball, and its creating lots of swirly patterns around the room.
A stitched pattern made of up lines of triangles, where each triangle is is filled with a swirling pattern of smaller triangles. It uses variegated thread so the triangles appear in different colours.