Susquehanna River, Danville PA

Cable management is not my strength

Dusting off my Arduino bin for some students who are interested in "going there" with electronics & art. For a brief period I sort of knew what I was doing with the Arduino ecosystem, & had a lot of fun tinkering. It's exciting when students pursue things further than I might have the bandwidth for.

Clay printed vase by Brandon Berrett designed in our 'Digital Fabrication' course.

Left this cabinet lid open and now it is occupied.

Downloaded and printed a nice case for the Raspberry Pi 5 from: www.printables.com/model/742926...

Pleasantly surprised to see that PrusaSlicer runs really well on the Raspberry Pi 5

Happy about the computer to keyboard size and weight ratio here @duet3d.com

For one of my clay printers, moving from 24v to 36v and upgrading the control board from the Duet2 to the Duet 3, which will then connect to the RaspberryPi. Will allow more power to reach the clay pushing motor and will make it easier to connect, add features like camera, remote monitoring, etc.

Further accessorizing this Raspberry Pi

I think I'm flattered that AI suggested watching *my own video* to learn about some technical challenges I'm working with.

Working with a Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer, which will become part of my clay printer's brain. I'm enamored with it's various tiny accessories, like this active cooling unit, which is about the size of a matchbox (banana for scale)

"Stairs 02" stop motion animation, 13 frames, 2025

Stairs Test (reversed)

Stairs test

More blocks

Blocks

Stairs

More little glaze batches. The more you test, the more ideas for additional tests you can have

Updating my clay printer designs again for a new body of work

Moving toward more color and less control. 'Cascade', glazed ceramic

'Surface 01' (from 2021) Animated line drawing depicting a slightly vibrating surface. Hand drawn and animated in #blender 200 frames, 720x720 px.

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Taughannock Falls, Ulysses, New York

More glaze tests. Moving from more saturated color to more nuanced things

Polyphonic Architecture https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/17586/

Do not talk of him

Working on making gray and charcoal glaze colors. This one has cobalt, manganese, nickel, and tin as colorants

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social writes.

Chris Ware postage stamps are coming July 23rd

. . . lots of glaze tests

Ready to load kiln but turned around and the space was occupied

Happy to spend some time making this mess messier

I wish I had dozens of these bell jars for keeping works in progress from drying out. Many thanks to Andrew Castañeda, who gifted me this one

Some clay works in progress . . .

Spring 🌱🌼

A sketch of intersecting spheres as a printed clay object

Organized these glaze materials last weekend, hoping to start using them this week.

The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.

Since I was last on Bluesky we got a kitten. This is what he looks like.

Been gone for a year or so, but thought I'd try this app again. Teaching some animation rigging today

Tiles accumulating, for experiments in glazing and stop motion animation

Driving across the Midwest to visit family. Made a quick stop in Columbus, Ohio to see the strange & provocative Wexner Center fire the Arts

Printed clay blocks, to be assembled into a larger form

Stepped pattern block in printed & crafted clay. Unfired works in progress

Assembling clay blocks

Gustav Klimt, The Park, 1910 or earlier