A project that I did this summer. I hid medallions all over the city. When people found and scanned the medallions they unlocked a 50 chapter short story about a world where people could talk to mammals

Project notes
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#art #artprojects #interactiveArt

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.

Build a Piranha Plant themed camera using a Raspberry Pi 5 learn.adafruit.com/piranha-pi-cam #adafruit #3dprinting youtu.be/WBJ08su91dg

Counterproductive - Is an art project and a social experiment.

- Press the button to reset the 24-hour countdown timer
- If the timer ever reaches zero, the project ends and will be removed
- To keep this project alive—Press the button

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#art #projects #button

Pogo Pins on a rotating surface
www.reddit.com/r/PrintedCir...

I have always wanted to make a PCB version of the WW2 Enigma Machine, with rotating replicable disks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_...

I wonder if you could do it with these Pogo Pins?

#pcb #eletronics #cipher #projects

The London Metro #PCB maps arrived.
They look so pretty, but they do not work

After some debugging with @tomkeddie.bsky.social it looks like there is an issue with exporting the CAD files from #KiCad 9.0 to #JLCPCB components got rotated in the export but are fine in KiCad

$300 Pretty paperweight

New project: Cipher Decoder Ring #PCB
A modern 'decoder ring' using advanced stream #ciphers (ChaCha) github.com/funvill/ciph...

A #3DPrinted "safe" style dial will be added to the front. Stateless - The secret pass phrase and message is entered using the rotary dial. Lots of #LEDs, #RP2040 #PCBArt

New PCB Day. Fresh from JLCPCB.

Capacitive touch, synth, using a seeed studios Xiao board.

I have never panalized boards before. Good first impression. Considerably cheaper. 30x boards for $8 shipped.

#pcb #pcbart #projects #synth #electronics #silkscreen #jlcpcb #art

A Rhombic Dodecahedron panel for my 3rd shape in the #Polyhedron Mobile PCB Lamp project. 280 LEDs per panel, 12 panels, 3360 #LEDs... About 4.5 times more LEDs then I have ever used on a project. MORE LEDS

#led #ledart #mathart #glowing #dodecahedron #kicad #prototype #lightart #artwork #art

How do you convert a Fusion 360 DFX file (only export format it supports) to a KiCad footprint (.kicad_mod) file?

Normally I would use gingerbread (gingerbread.wntr.dev) but it only supports SVG.

#kicad #fusion360 #Questions #PCB

My Digital Stained Glass Windows project from 2018
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Each panel is made of black and sign acrylic cut on a laser cutter, then I used insulation foam for the dividers between each cell. I made 25 of these. Check out the video

#art #lightArt #ledArt #stainedGlass

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).

Failed prototype of a paper craft LED sculpture. It was suppose to be mounted on the wall and the LEDs would slowly run though different patterns
www.instagram.com/p/C4E-0Mirwl...

Never liked it. It never felt like it was ever done. tossed it out

#art #lightart #ledart #paper #papercraft #PaperArt

Washington DC Metro PCB Map created using PCB and LEDS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhUG...

The map is connected to the Metro API and can visualize the trains moving across the system live.

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#PCB #KiCad #Map #WMATA #PCBMap #Art #PCBArt #LEDArt #mapart

Tetragonal Trapezohedron LED lamp that is the 2nd shape in the Polyhedron Mobile project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTIY...

What went right and what went wrong
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#led #ledart #mathart #ledporn #glowing #dodecahedron #glowing #kicad #prototype #lightart #artwork #art

My Dodecahedron LED lamp. part of the Polyhedron Mobile project www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZIe...

Retrospective of what I got right, and what I got wrong
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#led #ledart #mathart #ledporn #glowing #dodecahedron #glowing #kicad #prototype #lightart #artwork #art

"Based on what you know about me, draw a picture of what you think my current life looks like" #ChatGPT

This is far too many manuals for my liking, and 13 monitors for super hacking.

Testing BlueSky and the AT protocol.

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