Awareverse Support for Parents of Disabled and Neurodivergent Children

13/08/2026

🌒☀️ **Turning an Eclipse Into a Time Lapse — The Awareverse Way!** ☀️🌒

Yesterday we pointed our **DWARF 3 smart telescope at the partial solar eclipse** and left it recording.

The result?

Nearly **2 hours of footage**, more than **193,000 individual video frames** and around **6GB of raw recordings**! 🔭💻

Today we've been experimenting with what we can actually do with that data.

We combined the separate recordings into one continuous video, compressed nearly **1 hour 48 minutes into a 5 minute time lapse**, and then started experimenting with stabilisation to make the movement smoother.

And that's where it became even more interesting.

Normal video stabilisation wasn't really designed for something like this. So we tried writing our own software to detect the Sun and lock it into position automatically.

It worked... until the eclipse itself started confusing it! 😂

As the Moon covers the Sun, the visible shape of the Sun changes. The computer sees that changing shape and can mistakenly think the Sun has moved.

But that's exactly why I love projects like this.

It isn't about pressing a button and getting a perfect result.

It's about asking:

**Why didn't that work?
What is the computer actually seeing?
Can we try something different?
Can we build our own solution?**

That is a huge part of what **Awareverse** is about.

Not every child learns best sitting behind a desk working through worksheets.

Sometimes learning is pointing a telescope at the Sun, collecting 193,000 frames, opening PowerShell, experimenting with FFmpeg and Python, getting something completely wrong, understanding **why** it went wrong and trying again.

In one project we're touching astronomy, computing, photography, mathematics, problem solving, programming and engineering — without it feeling like a traditional lesson.

For children and young people who struggle in conventional education, finding **that one thing that makes them curious** can matter enormously.

Maybe it's space. 🌌
Maybe it's coding. 💻
Maybe it's animals. 🦎
Maybe it's science. 🔬
Maybe it's art, weather, radio, photography or something none of us have thought of yet.

Awareverse isn't only about SEND support.

It's about creating opportunities to **explore, experiment, make mistakes, discover interests and realise just how much you're capable of learning when something genuinely captures your imagination.**

And yes... we're still trying to make that eclipse smoother. 😂🔭

10/08/2026

Live from AwareSignal, Doncaster 🛰️

This is Meteor-M2-3, a Russian weather satellite orbiting roughly 800km above us, captured live as it passed almost directly overhead this morning.

Our home-built receiver — AwareSignal's ORBIT station — automatically predicts every satellite pass, tunes in on 137MHz, and decodes the raw radio signal straight into an image like this. No internet, no downloads — just picking a real signal out of the sky as it happens.

You can see the UK sitting right in the swath: coastline, cloud cover, weather fronts, all beamed down from a satellite travelling at about 17,000mph.

It's a great example of what makes AwareSignal special — real-time, verifiable, predictable systems, running quietly in the background 24/7. 🇬🇧✨

See it live: awareverse.co.uk/awaresignal/satellite/

08/08/2026

Sometimes the most useful support starts with plain words and no judgement.

Right to Choose (NHS autism/ADHD assessment)

This is part of the wider Awareverse aim to make support easier to find, easier to understand and more human.

https://awareverse.co.uk/support/without-diagnosis/right-to-choose/

Right to Choose (RTC) is an NHS legal right in England that allows patients to choose which qualified provider delivers their NHS-funded assessment. For autism and ADHD, this means your GP can refer you to an approved independent provider instead of — or as well as — waiting for an NHS trust ser...

06/08/2026

A new satellite image captured from space, received and processed from home through AwareSignal.

But why is this relevant to Awareverse?

Because Awareverse is not only about support when things are difficult. It is also about growth, curiosity and helping children discover the things that make them feel alive.

Not every child will thrive by sitting in a classroom, completing the same work in the same way as everyone else. For some children, learning begins when they are given the freedom to explore an interest, build something, investigate how the world works and realise that their ideas matter.

A satellite image like this can open the door to science, weather, geography, technology, engineering, coding, radio communication and space. One interest can become a skill. One skill can become confidence. Confidence can become a future that a child previously believed was impossible.

Our children should not grow up believing that their differences limit what they can achieve. They should grow up knowing that they can learn, create, explore and become anything they want to become.

The classroom may work for some children. It may not work for others. What matters is finding the environment, the interest and the opportunity that allows each child to grow.

I may not always have every answer, but I will continue trying to help, encourage and support children and families wherever I can.

That is what Awareverse is about. Not simply surviving the system, but discovering possibility beyond it.

03/08/2026

SEND families should not have to become lawyers, clinicians, investigators and campaigners just to secure the support their children need.

Yet every day, families are forced to fight through delayed assessments, inaccessible services, unsuitable education, confusing paperwork and systems that focus more on process than the person.

Awareverse exists because behind every diagnosis, EHCP, referral, complaint and support plan is a real human being.

A child trying to communicate.

A parent trying to hold everything together.

A family asking to be heard.

We are building a growing ecosystem of practical tools, accessible information, educational resources, wellbeing support, apps, guides and lived-experience content designed to help families understand their options and feel less alone.

We do not believe people should have to prove their struggles repeatedly before anyone listens.

We believe support should be compassionate, accessible and built around the individual.

See the person.

Understand the need.

Make a change.

awareverse.co.uk

01/08/2026

some pics just captured from space

31/07/2026

Looks a bit different at 41000 ft and a sun rise (airplane window) Awareverse Support for Parents of Disabled and Neurodivergent Children

26/07/2026

Love it Awareverse Support for Parents of Disabled and Neurodivergent Children

25/07/2026

I've been a little quiet recently because I'm currently out of the country with my family, taking some much-needed time away.

That doesn't mean Awareverse has stopped. Quite the opposite.

Behind the scenes, ideas are still growing, plans are still being developed, and exciting new projects are taking shape. Sometimes the biggest progress happens away from the keyboard, when you have the chance to step back, think differently, and look at the bigger picture.

There are some exciting things to come across Awareverse, and I can't wait to share them with you over the coming weeks.

Thank you to everyone who continues to support, follow, and believe in what we're building. Your encouragement means more than you know.

The journey continues. Awareverse Support for Parents of Disabled and Neurodivergent Children

13/07/2026

🌍 **I built the website I wish had existed when my family needed help.**

Awareverse began with lived experience.

It came from being a neurodivergent parent, raising neurodivergent children, trying to understand complicated systems and repeatedly discovering that the information, support and practical tools families need are scattered everywhere.

Some are hidden behind paywalls.
Some are written in language ordinary families cannot understand.
Some simply do not exist.

So I started building them.

What began as one idea has now grown into an entire connected ecosystem for neurodivergent people, disabled people, children, parents, carers, learners and anyone who sees or experiences the world differently.

💜 **Support and wellbeing**

Awareverse includes calming and grounding tools, trauma support, decompression resources, sensory activities, a self-understanding book creator, AwareSound, AwareMove, AwareCub and dedicated support for veterans.

📚 **SEND, education and everyday life**

Families can access EHCP guidance, SEND law information, complaints support, Right to Choose guidance, DLA and PIP resources, help understanding professional reports and practical tools for appointments, forms, phone calls, housing, money and meal planning.

AwareHomeEd provides free learning across maths, English, science, history and geography, alongside profiles and dashboards that allow learning to be approached differently.

📜 **History and understanding**

AwareChronicles explores the history of education, disability law, mental health, childhood, the NHS and social care.

The Big Timeline and Story of Everything connect billions of years of science, human history and discovery in one continuous journey.

🔬 **Science, technology and discovery**

AwareSTEM now includes:

🧬 A Species Explorer containing more than **2.4 million real species**

🫀 A Human Body Lab

🪐 A Solar System Explorer and Space Atlas

🚀 A space Mission Builder

🤖 Artificial intelligence activities and an AI Vision Lab

🧪 Interactive science simulations

💎 Our live Crystal Cam experiment

🌦️ Data from our own MAST weather station

📡 Real satellite reception and imagery from our own ground station

AwareSignal allows people to explore radio, satellites, live aircraft signals, SDR technology and upcoming satellite passes.

AwarePy teaches Python and coding from the beginning, while AwareRobotics and AwareBuild turn those skills into real projects.

📖 **Books, stories and lived experience**

AwarePublishing includes children’s stories, family guides and fiction created to help people feel represented rather than judged.

AwareCommunity gives people a place to learn, share experiences and contribute their own knowledge.

AwareTruth preserves public records and experiences that must not simply be forgotten.

📱 **Apps and accessible technology**

We are also developing a growing family of Android apps covering communication, wellbeing, education, daily routines, accessibility and independent living.

Some are already available. Others are being tested or actively built.

This is not a large company with a huge development team.

It is being built by one family, from lived experience, often late at night, one page, tool, experiment, book and application at a time.

Everything connects because the principle behind it is the same:

**See the person. Understand the need. Remove the barrier.**

Awareverse is not about forcing people to fit into systems that were never designed for them.

It is about building something better around them.

The website and its core resources are free to access, and it will continue growing as quickly as I can build it.

Please take a look. Explore it. Test it. Tell me what is missing.

Most importantly, please share it.

There may be a parent, child, adult, carer, teacher or family in this group who needs one small part of it today.

🌐 **awareverse.co.uk**

**Aware. Understand. Connect.**