Jesse Andrews
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Jesse Andrews
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open source software hacker. dad. Retired contra dancer (but thinking about a return to service)
The pure and simple looks chaotic

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January 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
ahh... so this is how you connect the bottom of the seeedstudio xiao boards (battery / extra GPIO on certain boards) that aren't on the edges.

You have a via (I think they are called) and pcb cut!

I have hated soldering wires to this module to connect the LIPO battery...

Watched TOTEM build...
January 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
looking at the kicad of wiki.seeedstudio.com/XIAO_BLE/

looks like art
January 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
prepping for my #genuary tau design in #onshape

I'm thinking of getting phyllotactic
January 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
January 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
it is a single parameter "brush.bleed" in p5.brush - I seem to remember an article about it but couldn't find it

also updated to change the palette on each generation
January 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
January 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I kinda want to recreate using #p5js / p5-brush - like this demo but the basic forms...

editor.p5js.org/acamposuribe...

p5-brush.cargo.site/example-2-th...

but first minecraft with kiddos!
January 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Gertrud Arndt: Exercise on the Effects of Basic Forms in Black & White / Color from Wassily Kandinsky's Class

from the book: Bauhaus: 1919 - 1933
January 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Testing out various ways to design this "ribbed" side pattern in a curve-y shape in #onshape.

The left part was designed with the rib having the designed shape. The right was box-y until I chamfered at the end.

The end result looks the same!

one just had 3x the number of clicks to chamfer
January 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I have no idea what I'm doing here .. I hadn't even opened featurescript before today. and onshape before December.

But if you want to play, here is the code/doc:

cad.onshape.com/documents/70...
January 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Prompt: Vertical or horizontal lines only.

Coded in featurescript #onshape

#genuary #genuary2025 #genuary1

I have no clue what I'm doing - so it ends up with gridSize^2 unique parts...

Luckily printing on the Bambu doesn't care
January 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
toy hacking is awesome!

I love embedding little ESP devices in them .. and building my own little (local) IOT

anotherjesse.com/posts/progra...

(warning - I'm a software person - I have no clue what I'm doing with hardware)
December 31, 2024 at 7:53 PM
found it - I am using generic magnet USB cables to simplify the charging - the magnet had made it stick to metal leg of a table!

(I wonder how complex it is to add inductive recharge coil to the xiao seeed esp32s3 ... ugh .. not now jesse)
December 30, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Idea: #3dprint either generative patterns - or a city 3d map - as a diffuser wall!

Instead of just doing random heights like www.youtube.com/shorts/5a3__...

have a full 3d map! or art
December 29, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Realized it would fit on my thumb too.
December 29, 2024 at 1:07 PM
🤯 I’m wearing a prototype ring I designed and 3d printed that has a computer with wireless coms and more storage/processing speed than I had ever used until I was in college 🤯

No battery yet, so it will be a little bigger once I add the 100mAh battery - another 2.8 gram / 13mm x 19mm x 6mm
December 29, 2024 at 5:19 AM
let's see how annoying having a ring like this to hold the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 as a "press & hold to record / transcribe audio" is

lots of iterations to do - but if it is too bulky/annoying with a crude shape, then no reason to build something nice

learnings: pointer needs a ~22mm hole 😂
December 29, 2024 at 3:24 AM
I just got back from a week in iceland - felt techno and nature
December 27, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Asking #chatgpt “can you search” when asking a question I had expected it to use search result for

It searched for search related things. Not my original request:

www.seeedstudio.com/Seeed-Studio...
www.seeedstudio.com/Seeed-Studio...

Does this imply the ability to get unsoldered versions?
December 26, 2024 at 2:10 PM
We only give balls/hard rubber toys to our whippet

His favorite are these comically large squeaky tennis style balls

PetSport (3 Pack) Giant Tuff... www.amazon.com/dp/B01LYZ02H...
December 23, 2024 at 8:54 PM
I bought a cheap discrete audio recorder usb drive

Took it apart

Soldered on a press button (keycap linear brown)

3d print with Bambu marble filament

Add magnetic usb cable connector

Now I can press and hold to record time stamped audio

charging base is raspberry pi zero to sync to Tana.inc
December 18, 2024 at 2:02 PM
V1 of #axidraw vinyl blade cutter <-> pen holder #3dprint & installed

It works!

Barely (I was fast + loose with calculation of where to put the plug)

but I can re-print another "plug"/insert that is a few mm longer and it should fit perfect!

Previous iteration: bsky.app/profile/anot...
December 14, 2024 at 4:37 PM
It was too chonky to fit the pen holder

and print failed at 2/3

BUT - testing fit of cutter in the print, I realized a better design!

Don't enclose it entirely - embrace the fail! Then make a "plug" to rest against the top of #axidraw pen holder - holding in the perfectly vertical orientation
December 14, 2024 at 4:16 PM
heh

well, looking at the layer lines -- I'm not sure if it "works" (as there is only 2 at some points)

but I can at least test the fit with a print
December 14, 2024 at 2:20 PM