I had a fantastic evening with a few friends of mine, we were invited to engineer and cartoonist Tim Hunkin’s workshop, just out near Southwold. He is a very inspiring man, full of fantastic ideas, his workshops are surrounded by carcasses of old video game machines, statues brought to life with LED lights and giant calculator which made me laugh.

We all agreed that the workshop was surprisingly tidy, and I think we were all expecting a chaotic mess. It was great, full of tiny little drawers with really specific labels and several pieces of projects in progress. It wasn’t just the things that were in the workshops but the crazy stories attached to things like the polygraph machine from an American police station and the dentist chair. Overall it was very much how I would imagine or hope my workshop to eventually evolve into.

Moving on from the workshop, we decided to head to the pub, I believe it was The White Hart Inn, in which we spent a few hours talking about our various endeavours. Tim Hunkin told of his meeting with Tony Sale if I remember correctly at the Science Museum in London during the rebuilding of the Pegasus and expressed an interest in visiting Bletchley Park. It was a good evening, and I will definitely head back out to Southwold to visit The Under The Pier Show.

I first met Tim Hunkin at Dorkbot in London in October 2007, when we both did talks on hacked computer / video games machines and hope to bump into him again on my various travels.