Join @helenleigh.bsky.social for a livestream! Teardown Session 55: Ultra Low-Latency Open Hardware E-Paper with @modostech.bsky.social August 28th, 12pm PT www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekIn...

going live in 20ish minutes with the wonderful @helenleigh.bsky.social to talk about anwaar! www.youtube.com/watch?v=50xd... hope to see you there!

Had a blast interviewing showrunner @helenleigh.bsky.social about this year's #Teardown2025 for this week's #HacksterCafe !! SO MUCH cool stuff in store. 🤩

Walking home from the mall in my surprisingly comfortable and practical (and dare I say cute??) open hardware bandana from @oshwassociation.bsky.social ✨

I just got keys to the ex-GAP we run Teardown in. Creepy dying mall vibes? Immaculate. Over the course of the next week this liminal space will fill up with soldering irons, machines, hacker art, projects, and four tracks of talks, workshops & panels. #teardown2025

I'm on my way to the UK for the Open Hardware Summit. I'll be hosting Hardware Happy Hours in London (Cat & Mutton, Weds 28th) and Edinburgh (Old Bell Inn, Thurs 29th) and I'd love to see some of you! Bring a hack to show off or just bring yourself :) www.eventbrite.com/e/hardware-h...

I'm on my way to Berlin for @hackadayofficial.bsky.social Europe. Who else??? On Friday from 6pm I'll be hosting the Bring a Hack pre-event party at Jockel Biergarten, just ten minutes walk from the venue. Bring a project to show, stickers to swap, or just bring yourself 💖

Going live in 15 minutes - join us!

Join @helenleigh for a livestream with Zeke Wheeler this Thurssday at noon PT www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqiI...

Hey #Portland! Hardware Happy Hour is tonight at the Bye and Bye on Alberta. Hosted by @helenleigh.bsky.social, It's an informal way to socialize, show off your projects, and talk about the world of hardware. From beginner to expert, all are welcome! www.meetup.com/hardware-hap... #PDX #PortlandPDX

Watch @helenleigh.bsky.social and I high five each other to make music in pure joy. youtu.be/L7at10FYFfg?...

Rounded out the weekend by doing an embroidery stitch sampler while watching some very good owls. This is destined to be a visual aid in a new e-textile workshop that I've been developing with @anu1905.bsky.social 🪡⚡

Spent this afternoon figuring out how to control a SUB 37 with my disco ball theremin. It's looking like my best option is to update the code and add in CV support. I've also added a MIDI cable in the hopes that I'll be able to use it to control Ableton Live as well.

I've been making devices that talk MIDI to Ableton Live for years but I somehow never learned how to use it to lay down a track. I signed up for a series of classes at an electronic music school in Portland. One workshop in & I already know that this will be a game changer. Weird noises incoming!

Welding class (TIG) started tonight. A fair amount of theory to start but we did also get to do some beading work towards the end. Making stuff out of metal is fun.

This weekend I learned how to cast bronze inside carved cuttlefish bone. This ancient metalworking technique has been around since the 6th century BCE (at least!) and produces objects with organic, unique features. Any weekend you get to play with fire is a good weekend 🔥

The best bit of buying yarn is when they make it into a ball for you

Bought this cool old purse with metal details in a vintage store at the Lloyd Center (the mall I run Teardown in). Gave it a tickle with my multimeter at home, and it turns out that the purse has good conductive properties. Hmm. My hobby: making things that shouldn't be buttons into buttons.

Going live now!

Open Hardware Summit is around the corner and it's IN EUROPE! Wohoo! So submit all your cool talks, art and everything else until Dec 22nd! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @oshwassociation.bsky.social

Last night's fit for the Hacker Holiday Party

Introducing my open source Skill Trees project! Have you ever wanted to learn a new skill in a gamified way? I've created a range of printable templates where you can color in the boxes of anything you've already done, visualise your progress and find your skill gaps. 50+ skills now covered!

Teardown is one of my top conferences to attend. If you enjoy art, hardware, and good folks I hope you will join me at this event.

It's official! @crowdsupply.bsky.social's Teardown will be returning to the mall in June 2025 and they are still letting me run it. Keynotes will be Cory Doctorow (author, journalist, activist), Kate Stewart (VP of Embedded at Linux, Zephyr, RTOS) and bunnie Huang (hardware hacker, author).

Hardware Happy Hour #Portland is tonight from 7pm at the Bye & Bye on Alberta St. Bring your projects or just bring yourself. #HHH meetu.ps/e/NDP83/bgyT...

The first musical instrument I ever made was with @phoenixperry.bsky.social. We made a wearable keyboard with an Arduino nano connected to conductive paint + vinyl stencil keys. We finished it just in time to do a chaotic (but hilarious) talk that included Phoenix running onstage to reboot me.

I haven't been on social media much lately but here's some proof I'm still alive and hacking! Lately I've been working on some fun projects that I might even share with the Internet at some point ✨🟪🎹🟪✨ Clip on ⚡ earring by @lasermistress.bsky.social

Fine, let's do this.