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Tinkerer Maker Solderer Mom • lateral thinker • LEDs improve everything • she/her

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Sorry if you're tired of these, I'm having fun tweaking sound-reactive #PixelBlaze patterns. 😁
Get your own: lectronz.com/products/fib...

04.03.2026 00:46 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Fibonacci256 Expanding HDR is now available!
It's music-reactive & powered via #PixelBlaze by @bhencke.bsky.social so you can edit & write new patterns in a web app over wi-fi.
Get yours here: lectronz.com/products/fib...

03.03.2026 00:30 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Not my wheelhouse, but perhaps @alpenglow.bsky.social can help or provide resources here

02.03.2026 16:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Just registered for an @oshwassociation.bsky.social summit workshop. Very excited 🤩

Open Hardware Summit is in Berlin this year btw!

28.02.2026 21:23 👍 26 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Not so much, no. I guess "a picture is worth more words than a post" is closer.

26.02.2026 21:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A picture is worth 2000 words?

26.02.2026 20:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

24.02.2026 19:42 👍 8143 🔁 2120 💬 97 📌 265
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#wip #maker #robot

22.02.2026 04:16 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 4 📌 0
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Closing Sale Week 1, 02/14/26 - 02/20/26: 25% off all prices shown below!Discounts will be shown AFTER items are added to your cart. Also check out even bigger discounts on our remaining SOLDERING KITS. SkeinTwist...

Today is Week 2 of our closing sale, the website is 35% off (discount shown after items are added to your cart). We added stock status to our product thumbnails, so you can easily scroll through and see what we’ve still got. Soldering kits are 50% off!

www.alpenglowindustries.com/collections/...

21.02.2026 15:42 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 3
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Donate to Keep My Amazing Maker Rig Alive, organized by Claire Cassidy After my first Maker Rig and open source regenerative living space conversion on wheels… Claire Cassidy needs your support for Keep My Amazing Maker Rig Alive

My friend, @lasermistress.bsky.social, is constantly doing good for others and she needs us to do some good for her. Please, donate to her Go Fund Me ASAP so she can keep bringing us all impactful resistance art.

* clairecassidy.info
* www.gofundme.com/f/keep-my-am...

17.02.2026 00:14 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
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Closing Sale Week 1, 02/14/26 - 02/20/26: 25% off all prices shown below!Discounts will be shown AFTER items are added to your cart. Also check out even bigger discounts on our remaining SOLDERING KITS. SkeinTwist...

All of our electronics kits, boards, weird shit, & misc notions are on sale starting now. This week thru 02/20/26 everything is 25% off. Week 2 - 02/21/26 - 02/27/26 is 35% off, Week 3 - 02/28/26 - 03/08/26 is 50% off. Soldering kits are already 50% off. www.alpenglowindustries.com/collections/...

15.02.2026 20:37 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

OMG, I needed that

13.02.2026 21:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A friend picked some very spicy eggs that he's calling Eggs of Mass Destruction and asked me to design him a label for the jar, so here it is

13.02.2026 02:58 👍 19 🔁 2 💬 6 📌 1
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By request: Fibonacci256 Expanding HDR with circles instead of straight Voronoi grid lines. Both grids are 4mm thick with 1mm gap between the grid and LED PCB. Next I'll try both with thinner grids and larger gaps for a more diffused look.

10.02.2026 01:27 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

In gross terms, yes, tons. In relative terms, less than there has been

04.02.2026 00:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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ALASKAN BULL WORM! Jumperless V5 PSRAM Mod Kit 8 megabytes of extra room for activities! Do PCB assembly crimes in the process! The Jumperless V5's RP2350B has 520kB of RAM, which is pretty awesome for a microcontroller. But in the course of scope...

Woo! The ALASKAN BULL WORM! PSRAM Mod Kits are ordered, and I wrote a whole thing about them in my store.

jumperless.myshopify.com/products/ala...

03.02.2026 18:14 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
A penguin on a rocky shore facing the camera with its its wings extended and one leg raised

A penguin on a rocky shore facing the camera with its its wings extended and one leg raised

A penguin on a rocky shore with its back leg extended behind it and its head tilted at a rakish angle while looking at the camera

A penguin on a rocky shore with its back leg extended behind it and its head tilted at a rakish angle while looking at the camera

A parent penguin sitting on a rocky nest with two adorable fuzzy baby penguin chicks underneath it

A parent penguin sitting on a rocky nest with two adorable fuzzy baby penguin chicks underneath it

Two penguins who appear to be having a conversation on a rocky shore looking to each other while one has its beak wide open and appears to be shouting at the other

Two penguins who appear to be having a conversation on a rocky shore looking to each other while one has its beak wide open and appears to be shouting at the other

I recently returned from an incredible trip to Antarctica and need everyone to see these penguins.

03.02.2026 17:21 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

20.01.2026 01:57 👍 21487 🔁 5121 💬 15 📌 3555
3 Jumperless V5 rev 7s

3 Jumperless V5 rev 7s

Quark sniffing some boxes of Jumperlesses

Quark sniffing some boxes of Jumperlesses

Woo! Just got a box of 200 more Jumperless V5s.
These are rev 7, the only real difference is they have 2 friction-fit OLED headers on the main board, so it can sit in that crevice between the Nano headers (or scoot it over to the right if you have something in there that would cover it.)

10.01.2026 18:24 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

02.01.2026 02:26 👍 11741 🔁 5193 💬 277 📌 362
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Trying to upload more here since a friend of mine seems to like it very much. Here is a test video of my latest robotic project #maker #robot

02.01.2026 00:53 👍 62 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 1
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Video of the illumination so far with a dumb LED controller. The plan is to program it to display messages.

27.12.2025 22:55 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
An exterior of a beige messenger bag with a Ouija board on the front flat. The board itself is made from etched faux leather with cutouts for 3D printed letters that are illuminated from behind.

An exterior of a beige messenger bag with a Ouija board on the front flat. The board itself is made from etched faux leather with cutouts for 3D printed letters that are illuminated from behind.

The view inside the front flap of the messenger bag with a panel zipped open to reveal the back side of the illuminated letters which are surrounded by EVA foam with cutouts at the letter positions. Each letter cutout is filled with hot glues and has two LEDs from an LED string attached to eliminate the letter from behind.

The view inside the front flap of the messenger bag with a panel zipped open to reveal the back side of the illuminated letters which are surrounded by EVA foam with cutouts at the letter positions. Each letter cutout is filled with hot glues and has two LEDs from an LED string attached to eliminate the letter from behind.

The front of the LED Ouija board messenger bag with the letters and numbers illuminated from behind in rainbow colors

The front of the LED Ouija board messenger bag with the letters and numbers illuminated from behind in rainbow colors

Ended up needing a new sewing machine, but now that it's arrived, I've been able to finish sewing the Ouija messenger bag. The project has entered the hot-glue phase. Only a few LEDs left to go.

27.12.2025 22:53 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hanukkah (2019) ⭐ 3.4 | Horror 1h 46m

There is a horror movie titled "Hannukah" with the tagline "Festival of Frights." Perhaps this could be a sequel. (m.imdb.com/title/tt2562...)

26.12.2025 23:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A Cool-S illuminated by LEDs in the white portions in one half pink and one half blue. It is worn around the neck with a golden necklace.

A Cool-S illuminated by LEDs in the white portions in one half pink and one half blue. It is worn around the neck with a golden necklace.

A white PCB in the shape of the Cool-S. It has a string of SMD LEDs following the shape of the S on the middle portion.
On each flat side sits a right angle button.

A white PCB in the shape of the Cool-S. It has a string of SMD LEDs following the shape of the S on the middle portion. On each flat side sits a right angle button.

#39C3 is about to be very.. Cool

22.12.2025 23:35 👍 90 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0

LOL!

19.12.2025 08:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A sewing machine opened up so the two halves are separated and the interior machinery is accessible.

A sewing machine opened up so the two halves are separated and the interior machinery is accessible.

It's one of those days... Before I can start sewing, I need to find and re-seat the foot petal plug which has disappeared inside the machine.

18.12.2025 21:02 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 7 📌 0
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10 Things I Wish I Knew Before Learning Embedded Systems - Shawn Hymel As I reflect back on my embedded systems journey for the past 20 years, I'd like to share some of the insights along the way. I figured a "10 things I wish I

After 20 years in embedded systems, here are the 10 things I wish I knew when I started (#Arduino, hardware, debugging, timing, RTOS, and real projects).
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shawnhymel.com/3100/10-thin...

#embedded #programming #microcontroller #rtos

16.12.2025 16:43 👍 41 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 3
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Wow, JLCPCB are now selling framed and frameless manual stencil printers. They offer them below the stencil area on the ordering page.

Cool move JLC!

15.12.2025 21:04 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Thank you!!!

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