Recently the bay area experienced a hard core heatwave. It was hot. No regular hot but “oh, my god make it stop, climate change aaaaahhhhhh” hot. This coincided to my wardrobe losing its luster. I needed clothes I liked that, that would feel good in the heat and be suitable for work. I also have …
I used about 440 WS2812b LEDs + one 100foot string of fairy lights to create this dress. I used a Flora Board to control it and 4 large batteries to power it. Not lite by any means but bright and pretty for a good long time. These are some quick pics from New Years Eve.
Welcome to my new comic strip. This is where one lady’s experiences in tech and hackerspaces are explored through cooking metaphors. Mainly because I love cooking and I spend all my time in tech and hacker spaces and I have been told you should write what you know. The first strip tells the story of …
This mural was done primarily on rough redwood fence board. and worked around existing plants and structures.
This project was of course for burning man. I was handed a chef’s coat and a handful of random fairy lights and EL Wire from Cool Neon and asked to “do something cool”. Because this was for burning man I wanted to be sure the design could be seen from all sides. and stand up …
So a good friend of mine loves dogs… and I had a gift giving occasion and this awesome cotton flannel with puppies printed all over it. Lounge wear was so the way to go. I used McCalls M6252 pattern but really didn’t follow the instructions ’cause well they were pj pants. Before I started I traced …
I like a good nerdy t-shirt. Unfortunately they are done usually with the graphic on the front in a really boxy format. Neither of which looks or feels good to wear. So I paired a R2 Shirt with a navy blue t-shirt of approximately the same weight to create a mash-up that was more fun …
When working with components on more than a 2D plane, I often need to sketch out my circuits and component orientation. I made myself a little Adobe Illustrator symbol library with a subset of the sewable components and common batteries from adafruit.com. These sketches are less about being spot on technical diagrams and more about being …
When I made this one it felt totally like cheating. I used the pre-shirred fabric from Joann’s I got on sale. I couldn’t find a snapshot on the site but basically it was this but in the black and white pattern. I used my dress dummy to fit the fabric creating the dress with …
Download PDF
A few weekends back a great crew showed up and we flung color about. Tonight the last of the furniture got put away.
I like to use hardcover books to make my tool kits. That leave me with the guts of books. Most of which have a great aged patina. I just didn’t have the heart to toss them in the recycling bin. The book guts stacked up but even so I hung on to those suckers …
This year I wanted to spice up the ornament project. And I was thinking Robots… I love robots. These robots needed to be able to work for kids as young as 8. They also needed to be affordable and cute. It was also important to include a good does of customizability to them. I started …
