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Odd_Jayy @oddjayy.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Alpenglow Industries (Carrie) @alpenglow.bsky.social · 9d

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!

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 11d

It was my pleasure. I look forward to seeing what your students create with LEDs and Pixelblaze boards!

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TinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 11d

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…

floorplan of the latest TT ASIC multi project chip

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 13d

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!

A mechanical keyboard which houses the new Raspberry Pi 500+ computer displaying a rainbow pattern across its keys.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 16d

Thank you! I wore it for a talk at Bay Area Maker Faire in 2019. I'm dressed less formally this time around.

GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 16d

Thank you!!!

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 16d

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!

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 21d

They are wonderful!!!

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 21d

For athletes who spend so much time practicing, they sure seem to have a lot of trouble catching the ball.

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Alpenglow Industries (Carrie) @alpenglow.bsky.social · 21d

Production today starts with a dip in conformal coat to insulate the exposed wires and pads. #glowies #alpenglowies #ledjewelry

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 21d

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.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 22d

they should invent a potato peeler you can find

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 25d

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

Disney+ cancellation success form. Reason for cancellation is Other, with text that reads, "ABC, which is owned by Disney, censored Jimmy Kimmel"

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 26d

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 27d

We will both be there, and I believe that @californiasteam.bsky.social will be selling his gorgeous PCB based jewelry there. I will be giving a talk about LED wearables on Saturday there.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 27d

Video of the stunning pendant in action:

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.com · 27d

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.

A selfie of me with Sander Van de Bowen and I am wearing a circular LED pendant.

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gallaugher @gallaugher.bsky.social · 28d

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

Mapping Multiple LED Matricies for Pixelblaze Animations

YouTube video by Build With Prof. G.

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acab.yaml @clomads.bsky.social · Sep 13

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.

A long haired red head taking a selfie wearing a bandolier for shotgun shells but it’s instead 18650/ in alternating red pink and green. She is wearing a cropped rainbow Jumperless shirt and there’s a dog in the background peeking around the bathroom door.

The bandolier hanging on a doorknob. There are 55 18650s on it and 4 of them are modded with PwrTop 18

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بلبل يوسف @chipperdoodles.bsky.social · Sep 11

WE'RE LIVE!!! *airhorns*
www.crowdsupply.com/chipperdoodl...

Anwaar (أنوار)

A platform for personalized portable PCB tokens

www.crowdsupply.com

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Sam Ettinger @settinger.net · Sep 8

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.

A flex PCB with concentric copper rings and perforations so it can be torn into smaller arcs and wedges.

The same flex PCB with one quarter of it torn out and turned into three curved connector pieces of different radii. The remaining board has a silkscreen that says "Do it [...] coward" in Jokerman font.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · Sep 8

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.

Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

In L.A. tomorrow, protest Amy Coney Barrett who today joined in licensing ICE to stop brown and Spanish speaking people and demand their papers simply because of those attributes. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/837659/

Demonstration to greet THE LYING JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT · Mobilize

Amy Coney Barrett is coming to the Reagan Library to sell her book. Let's greet her with some signage and BOOING. September 9th at the corner of Olsen and Presidential Drive. Parking is ample across the street in the Woodranch Shopping Center. 4:30-6 p.m.

www.mobilize.us

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Alpenglow Industries (Carrie) @alpenglow.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

A bright star is held in a hand with a circuit board in back of it, suspended from magnetic jewelry findings.

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Jason Coon @evilgeniuslabs.org · Sep 3

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. 😁

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