Sam Ettinger
@settinger.net
Formerly @dhammarskjold on the birdsite. Sorry for misleading everyone, I'm not actually a UN Secretary General with a posthumous Nobel Prize. Yet.
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Honeycomb pattern, one of the preloaded ones on a Pixelblaze LED controller by electromage @bhencke.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Honeycomb pattern, one of the preloaded ones on a Pixelblaze LED controller by electromage @bhencke.bsky.social
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)
(....ignore the Jokerman silkscreen, it's fine don't worry about it)
September 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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)
(....ignore the Jokerman silkscreen, it's fine don't worry about it)
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 🎵
February 26, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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'm so glad I'm not the only one!
February 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I'm so glad I'm not the only one!
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.
February 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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.
E Z Bake but the Z stands for "zellij"
February 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
E Z Bake but the Z stands for "zellij"
Yes!! That's what I've been imagining if I made a more dedicated device for this process!
February 21, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Yes!! That's what I've been imagining if I made a more dedicated device for this process!
It's one of these deathtraps, on a timer switch so I can't forget to turn it off:
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I put it in between two pie tins to keep more of the heat in. It's not the best, but one of the goals here was to do a project and *not* buy more things to complete it!
a.aliexpress.com/_m09dqcb
I put it in between two pie tins to keep more of the heat in. It's not the best, but one of the goals here was to do a project and *not* buy more things to complete it!
a.aliexpress.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It's one of these deathtraps, on a timer switch so I can't forget to turn it off:
a.aliexpress.com/_m09dqcb
I put it in between two pie tins to keep more of the heat in. It's not the best, but one of the goals here was to do a project and *not* buy more things to complete it!
a.aliexpress.com/_m09dqcb
I put it in between two pie tins to keep more of the heat in. It's not the best, but one of the goals here was to do a project and *not* buy more things to complete it!
I will send a photo of my setup after I've tidied up my balcony 😅 I'm using one of those "desoldering hot plates" that's just a PTC Thermistor plugged into mains. It gets up to around 220°C which is enough to slump-cast the scraps, though I have to coax it into the corners of the molds.
February 21, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I will send a photo of my setup after I've tidied up my balcony 😅 I'm using one of those "desoldering hot plates" that's just a PTC Thermistor plugged into mains. It gets up to around 220°C which is enough to slump-cast the scraps, though I have to coax it into the corners of the molds.
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...
More details about the geometry here: tilingsearch.mit.edu/HTML/data173...
February 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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...
More details about the geometry here: tilingsearch.mit.edu/HTML/data173...
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The stickers have arrived, thank you! #makergiftexchange They're even more shimmery in person - I look forward to using them to encourage people to "do it, coward!" (including myself)
January 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The stickers have arrived, thank you! #makergiftexchange They're even more shimmery in person - I look forward to using them to encourage people to "do it, coward!" (including myself)
#makergiftexchange update: these are now on their way to @flashingjanet.bsky.social, whose own contribution to the exchange was way, way more impressive! I'll leave it to her to describe that one, though 🎵
January 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#makergiftexchange update: these are now on their way to @flashingjanet.bsky.social, whose own contribution to the exchange was way, way more impressive! I'll leave it to her to describe that one, though 🎵
And thank you @lasermistress.bsky.social for making the PNG that got sent to me in the first place!! <3 <3 good teamwork everyone, it was SO HARD not to tell y'all about the sticker machine before the gift exchange
January 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
And thank you @lasermistress.bsky.social for making the PNG that got sent to me in the first place!! <3 <3 good teamwork everyone, it was SO HARD not to tell y'all about the sticker machine before the gift exchange