Production today starts with a dip in conformal coat to insulate the exposed wires and pads. #glowies #alpenglowies #ledjewelry

I don't follow sports, but have somehow ended up at a football game today (Broncos @Chargers), and I feel like it's mostly just an excuse for day drinking.

they should invent a potato peeler you can find

I just canceled my Disney+ and Hulu subscription, and cited ABC's decision to censor @jimmykimmel.com as the reason. Will resubscribe when ABC's parent company shows that they are willing to resist Trump's fascist regime #CancelDisney #CancelHulu

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

At the Orange County Maker Faire this weekend I got to see @californiasteam.bsky.social and his gorgeous LED jewelry creations, and was super excited to get one of his brand new "Duonacci" pendants. It's powered by a super capacitor which charges fully in just minutes and lasts for many hours.

Another @[email protected] #Pixelblaze lesson I've created for my class - this one showing how to identify the wiring pattern of LED Matricies & modify the Multiple Panel Matrix mapper to work with the identified setup. Comments welcome (be kind): youtu.be/WLiloSgWp2g

Behold: the 18650 Battery Bandolier!!!! I have limited PwrTop 18s left and will be offering them with a battery at Maker Faire on a donation basis.

WE'RE LIVE!!! *airhorns* www.crowdsupply.com/chipperdoodl...

A silly idea that turned out well! Most flex PCBs are cut by laser, not milled, so you can make perforations by adding incomplete edge cuts. These disks are for cleanly joining LED strips at different angles and different radii, and they break apart with just my fingers, no other tools.

While right-wing Republican operatives like Amy Coney Barrett in judicial robes have no shame at this point - it is still worth it engage in massive, peaceful protests - making it clear how folks feel about this MAGA #SCOTUS So with that heads up to folks in LA who want to protest peacefully.

Light yourself up at Maker Faire Bay Area and Lambtown this year - we’ve got some fun new LED wearables in the works! #mfba2025 #wearables #ledjewelry #lambtownfestival2025

Anyone interested in ~hexagonal Fibonacci LED tiles? Each tile would be unique, but could be combined together to form large displays of various shapes and sizes. These would be ~20cm tiles with ~200 SK9822 LEDs each. Six rings would be 91 tiles, 2.2m wide, 18k pixels, and could draw up to 2.7kW. 😁

A rare practical project from me. I live in a building with ~16 units and we all share 2 washers/2 dryers. Very annoying to go all the way down to basement just to find out they're in use. So I'm putting together a low maintenance, non-invasive monitoring setup we can all use 🧵

@jlcpcb.bsky.social has a new desktop app, and when you first log in, you get $104 in coupons 😄 jlcpcb.com/download

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

This Tuesday’s #HacksterCafe guest is @clomads.bsky.social ! She’s launching the PwrTool 500 – a high-capacity power & battery monitor for #HomeAssistant – on @crowdsupply.bsky.social soon. Join us live on Aug. 28 at 10:30am Pacific, on @hacksterio.bsky.social : ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_r8...

White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

My CircuitPython students struggle w NeoPixels. They have strips & matrices w/different wire colors, & some with JST SM connectors using opposite ends for input. I made this lesson to help them identify input ends, & to solder their own breadboard-friendly JST-SM connector. youtu.be/-PV8b-Niv6o?...

Getting ready to bring some Bendy SAO boards to @crashspacela.bsky.social tonight for a presentation with @alpenglow.bsky.social on fun PCB projects. Attached the SAOs to the SuperCon 2024 badge and it's giving strong Medusa vibes!

Maker Tom Keddie remixed the Bendy SAO board for a Pride event, and I love how it turned out! hackaday.io/project/2037...

Riley (left) channeling his spirit animal on the UCLA campus.

Experimenting with making an illuminated daisy chain by 3D printing snap-on circular covers for a pebble light string and cutting shiny vinyl flowers that fit around the glowy centers.

Looking for a place to chill this hot August? Come hang out at local makerspace CRASH Space LA for LED projects, wine, new friends, and amazing speakers @geekmomprojects.com and @alpenglow.bsky.social Learn more at blog.crashspace.org!

Attend Open Healthware (an @oshwassociation.bsky.social conference) for free on Aug. 1-2! As a preview, I chat with Herine Palacios and Avinash Baskaran on #HacksterCafe, today at 10:30am PDT 😄 Watch on @hacksterio.bsky.social : ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8zy... ▶️ www.linkedin.com/events/73556...

If you didn't catch Panda, Hamster, and me last year for "Color Blasted PCBs" they you didn't experience some of the most fun 3 speakers can have on stage 🫣 This year it's Panda, MakeItHackin, and me for another panel which will pull back the curtain on the chaos of badge making 🤭

I'm belatedly posting this **GORGEOUS** crochet hat from the uber-talented @alpenglow.bsky.social. She integrated a light string and Pixelblaze controller. It's powered by a 18650 cell through a clever charge/discharge circuit from @clomads.bsky.social that snaps over the positive terminal. 😍🧢😍

It's been a while since I promoted my own and others' Maker/Electronics Starter Packs! bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack... bsky.app/starter-pack...

w00p! @pimoroni have my new Series[D] boards in stock, as well as a bunch of other UM products! shop.pimoroni.com/collections/... Please support them (and me) by plundering (legally) some of kit from them - thanks! #maker #makershelpingmakers #electronics

Finally revisiting "Fibonacci256 Expanding"! I found a few working LED PCBs in my stash, finished the #lasercut acrylic enclosure, got it working with #PixelBlaze by @bhencke.bsky.social, submitted for approval on Lectronz, and up for sale soon! www.evilgeniuslabs.org/fibonacci256...

Jason’s work is spectacular (& EvilGeniusLabs is a great name). If you’re a maker or just love LED art, I encourage you to explore his store - even if just to marvel but I’m sure he’d love your biz. Also, folks like @geekmomprojects.com have turned his smaller pieces into wearable jewelry.

If you increment N in small fractional steps instead of integers, you get a smooth transition between the spiral patterns. lectronz.com/products/fib...

In disc phyllotaxis, like Fibonacci256, lighting every N LEDs from the center produces a pattern. If N is from the Fibonacci sequence a spiral (or mesh of spirals) is produced because the divergence (angle of succession in a single spiral arrangement) approaches the golden ratio. evlgeni.us/f256hdr

The Clean Air Necklace is back and it's got upgrades! 🤩 It's coming with me to @opensaucelive.bsky.social next week, so make sure to come find me if you're going to be there! See how good (or bad!) the air quality REALLY is in San Mateo. 😉

I haven't ordered new PCBs lately because tariffsarebullshit.com so I tackled my rework pile. I had enough to build a Fibonacci1024 but one needed rework. I used a thin wire to jump the first dead LED, which didn't light the rest. So I jumped the last lit LED which ended up being the culprit.

Carrie gave an awesome talk at Teardown on the travails of designing and selling battery-powered products. It's definitely worth a watch.

Unboxed my Jumperless from @architeuthisflux.bsky.social recently. It's absolutely beautiful and packaged so well. You can read about my unboxing experience on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/132126.... (The article is open-access) #opensourcehardware #jumperless

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Almost all consumer electronics is neither manufactured nor fully designed by the company that sells them. That includes the largest brands out there with very few exceptions. All or at least the final design is done by an OEM/ODM.

Join me today for another #opensource #silicon #stream! I plan to look at Vincent Fusco's 555 timer on TT06 and use an SDR to see what kind of radio signals I can get out of a TT07 or TT06 #ASIC. www.youtube.com/live/Xs4UHDy...

My prize from the Hackaday SuperCon SAO challenge just arrived! It is 100 copies of the Bendy SAO produced and assembled by SupplyFrame. They're getting flashed and paired with 3D printed stands, so now I have a cool giveaway for #teardown2025  next week!

I am in downtown Los Angeles right now and it is completely surreal to hear that Trump is sending Marines here. We are listening to mariachi music. People have dogs. There are teenagers here. It is utterly and completely peaceful. Please tell your friends.

Our CRASHer @alicenlewis.bsky.social has created these pride packages for June! Stop by CRASH Space to solder your very own rainbow light-up badge, open to both members of the LGBTQ+ and supportive allies who make the CRASH family what it is 🌈💜🌈 blog.crashspace.org #Makerspace #Pride #PrideMonth

Our “It’s Raining Coin Cells” LED art display for @crowdsupply.bsky.social #Teardown2025 is coming along! We wanted it to be instructional too so we’ve left connections and some wiring visible and will have signs with more info on how it was constructed. Plus maybe some freebies to grab!

Here are some lighted pride flags I made for Coldplay, demonstrating just how durable this work can be! The lights are revealed near the end of the song, before the flag is spun around and tossed into the air. Happy Pride! ❤️💛💚💙💜 #pride2025 #pride #coldplay #peopleofthepride

I'm revisiting the months of research, development, and testing I did around using digital fabrication techniques like 3D printing to make exciting ceramic pieces ahead of my @oshwassociation.bsky.social workshop this weekend in preparation! If it looks a bit like magic here, it's because it is! 😍

Walking in the UCLA campus today, I grabbed what I thought was a copy of the "Daily Bruin" student newspaper. Turns out it's a (quite good!) lookalike satire in the vein of @theonion.com Worth zooming in on the images to read the headlines.

Hello world! We are a community makerspace for artists, hackers, programmers, and builders. Come visit us in LA or check out blog.crashspace.org to learn more.

There will come a day when I finish an entire sewing pattern without installing a piece backwards. Today is not that day.

New comit crawler v2, took me 7 days to put this together. It's mostly an ego build, aka I wanted to test if I could make a new crawling system within a week. I did it 😄 small wins. #maker #robot