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Alpenglow Industries (Carrie) @alpenglow.bsky.social · 1d

Honeycomb pattern, one of the preloaded ones on a Pixelblaze LED controller by electromage @bhencke.bsky.social

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Alpenglow Industries (Carrie) @alpenglow.bsky.social · 1d

I made a really cool LED wall project for my house last week - spruced up an ugly black fireplace with 1035 LEDs and a Pixelblaze LED controller. Check out the full story and project progress on mastodon:

mstdn.social/@alpenglow/1...

Alpenglow Industries (Carrie) (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Got an ugly-ass nonfunctional fireplace that someone painted black? I’ve got the solution! I’ve had the parts and custom flex boards for a while for this and just no time. Tonigh...

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Sam Ettinger @settinger.net · Sep 8

You can tear them at angles of 90°, 60°, 45°, 30°, 22.5°, 15°, or combinations thereof.

(....ignore the Jokerman silkscreen, it's fine don't worry about it)

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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Kevin Santo Cappuccio @architeuthisflux.bsky.social · Jul 7

I made this specifically for @settinger.net but felt I couldn't deprive the rest of the internet of this nonsense.

The one scene from Say Anything anyone would recognize, but with long arms. Imagine he's playing Longarm by Wall of Voodoo

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Sam Ettinger @settinger.net · Mar 7

The finished panel of recycled plastic tiles, framed in a shadow box

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Sam Ettinger @settinger.net · Feb 26

Taking a break here. One of the black-red-purple convex hexagons and one of the burnt-white concave hexagons had to be filed down a wee bit before I could slot them in. I love the 5' continuous glue stick 🎵

The canvas from the previous post, now fully tiled on the top half. A hot glue gun is lying on the empty bottom half. A 5-foot-long continuous coil of hot glue stick is spooling out the back of the glue gun.

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Sam Ettinger @settinger.net · Feb 26

I'm so glad I'm not the only one!

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Sam Ettinger @settinger.net · Feb 26

I have enough pieces to fill an 11×14" shadowbox now. It's all coming together 😁

I'm still a bit worried about fit and precision (or lack thereof) on these tiles, but gosh they fit nicely so far. Need to get more hot glue though.... So that's *two* things I had to buy in order to complete this.

A stretched canvas with some of the homemade melted plastic zellij tiles nestled in place, starting at the center and progressing to the top left.

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ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈 @lasermistress.bsky.social · Feb 26

"A small Guide to starting Community (and Mutual Aid.)"

I'm no specific expert for you and the people around you but I've been dedicated to this for quite a while and I write about it.

Everything I put in Patreon is open, free, always, and a stable link to share.

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A small Guide to starting Community (and Mutual Aid.) | Claire Danielle Cassidy

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Sam Ettinger @settinger.net · Feb 24

Here I'm re-melting a failed shirt button from my previous "what can I melt all this scrap PLA into" project. I'm "baking" each tile multiple times to make sure every corner of the moulds get filled in. If I did this again, I'd make another piece to help with that step.