Coming Monday on a new episode of The CircuitPython Show: Meet John Romkey, author of circremote, an innovative Python app to push and run code on a microcontroller running #CircuitPython. Find the show wherever you get your podcasts.

SAO wall at Hackaday SuperCon is so fun. And now @crashspacela.bsky.social has an SAO! #supercon2025

Glowies are now available online! This is our new line of rechargeable jewelry made out of fun LED shapes. We can make any as a necklace, earrings, or lobster claws for clipping onto hoops (great for folks who put hoops thru their gauges). www.alpenglowindustries.com/collections/...

If you’re a California resident, be sure to vote in the upcoming special election! If you need a little bling to get you motivated, we’ve got you covered with both ready-to-go small pins and solder-it-yourself kits! Kits are 50% off and assembled pins are 25% off. Happy voting!

I got my SAO boards in for #SuperCon. I didn't leave enough time for revisions, so bodge wire is required. I'm just relieved it's fixable. Since SuperCon starts on Halloween this year, the "SAOuija" is nicely thematic. Still working on code to make messages settable through I2C or push buttons.

Made a Slack-o-lantern that hits you with the Slack notification sound and logo when you walk by. 👻 now baAAck toOOO WooOOrk 👻

Santa Monica #NoKings protest just started and the crowd is growing quickly.

#NoKings with awesome people in Santa Monica this morning.

testing out a new electrolyte

I am currently working on controlling my robot with my brain aka EEG. Its a lot tougher then I thought #maker #wip

Here’s a tour of our booth at Lambtown Festival, tomorrow and Sunday! We’ve got lots of yarn swifts, ✨NEW✨ Glow Gauges, ⭐️NEW⭐️ Glowie jewelry, and some favorites - Card Gauges, StitchFishes, and Knitting Rulers! If you’re near the Bay Area or Sacramento, it’s near both in Dixon, CA, check it out!

We just packed 237 of your projects into our most packed ASIC to date and submitted it for manufacture. Let’s take a look inside…

Made a 🌈 on the new #RaspberryPi 500+, and I'm not sure if ever I'll get past playing with the keyboard so I can use it for another purpose!

Just set up a small wearables exhibit for this weekend's #BayAreaMakerFaire. I'll be giving workshops today and a talk tomorrow as well, so it's going to be a (fun) busy weekend!

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.