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.

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 🎵

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.

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.

The pattern is adapted from this one at the Bouanania Madrasa in Meknes, Morocco: patterninislamicart.com/single-id/1468

More details about the geometry here: tilingsearch.mit.edu/HTML/data173...

I made some high-temp silicone molds out of Mold Max 60 and have begun casting Moroccan-style zellij tiles out of my years of accumulated PLA scrap. They are very fun to play with.

I was wandering around HQB with only a burner phone, so I couldn't do graphic design on-the-spot. Extra-special thanks @architeuthisflux.bsky.social who saw my DMs well past midnight & threw together some PNGs so I could WeChat them to the printer operator. Whole process was about 35 minutes.

It wasn't till after the event that inspiration struck and I made this spool holder. It's got a post in the middle to hold the Pathé-Baby center alignment holes and lets you tear the sheet at the right spot.

Our #makergiftexchange happened on Wednesday, another moment where I'm bowled over by just how creative my friends and colleagues can be. My contribution was an inside joke. Did you know that, in Shenzhen, they'll let you print whatever you want on those shiny holographic security stickers?

I almost called this model "oh look at the time, it's gender o'clock" but I went with a more clinical title in the end. But check it out, it's a fun print!

www.printables.com/model/585949...

NOOOOOO my favorite 8-bit microcontroller, the ATtiny20-UUR, is officially Not Recommended For New Designs 😭

1.4×1.6 mm of perfect adorable computation