Howard Rheingold
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I am on the hunt for people who make things. Physical things. Physical things in a workshop. Or at home. Or in a studio. Or outside. But they have to be physical things. And you make them. Handmade or with machines.
I’d like to follow you and see what you make.
Please can you boost this post so that I get some reach on this post.
Many thanks.
#maker #crafting #crafts #workshop #handmade #woodworking #metalwork #paper #fabric
@BOOKHOUSE I post things with tags #making #repair #MenzShed
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Good morning! Kicking off the Finish-Or-Frog-Along - welcoming crafters and makers of all kinds. We’ll be supporting each other as we work to finish projects or mindfully let go of them. Expect Q&A, polls, and posts of projects in progress, killed, or finished! Runs through September with moderation and October for those with energy! Tag your posts #FinishorFrogAlong and follow the hashtag.
#knitting #crochet#CrossStitch#LeatherCraft #sewing #quilting #fiberarts #writing #crafting #making
Good morning! Kicking off the Finish-Or-Frog-Along - welcoming crafters and makers of all kinds. We’ll be supporting each other as we work to finish projects or mindfully let go of them. Expect Q&A, polls, and posts of projects in progress, killed, or finished! Runs through September with moderation and October for those with energy! Tag your posts #FinishorFrogAlong and follow the hashtag.
#knitting #crochet#CrossStitch#LeatherCraft #sewing #quilting #fiberarts #writing #crafting #making
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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It is done \o/
This is a goodbye present for my friend and colleague, who will resign her job next week. She is a huge #Minecraft fan, so I made her an #axolotl out of epoxy resin, put it in a fancy resin cube and lit the whole thing up with addressable LEDs. I would have used simple fairy lights, but I didn't have any 🙈 ... So I used what I found in my cupboard, which was WS2812B's and an Arduino Nano.
Making the axolotl was a bit of an experimental adventure, but it worked well.
I call it cute-alotl, because it turned out way too cute 🙈
It has two USB ports at the back, one for programming the Arduino and the other for power. Unfortunately the Arduino cannot power the required 1.5A for the LEDs.
It also has glow in the dark powder mixed into two back walls, so it will continue to glow when powered off.
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front view of the axolotl in a light environment. the purple axolotl is clearly visible and the sea floor is glowing green yellow
top down view of the cube showing a grid of LEDs glowing green, red, pink and purple and the axolotl swimming above it
front view of the cube, LEDs glowing pink and blue with the axolotl looking at the camera
a green and blue glowing epoxy resin cube in the dark with a Minecraft axolotl inside
I promise there's lots of shiny stuff and glitter in there, but the camera doesn't catch it well 🙈
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angled view, the face of the Axolotl is visible on all three surfaces
Top down view on the cube. some glittery blue and some more sea shells are visible
front view of the powered off cube with the purple axolotl looking at the camera. it swims in a sea of glittery blue above a greenish pearly sea bed with reflective sea weeds and sea shells. the very bottom layer is a pearly dark blue.
This is what the bottom looks like. I tried to make the resin as pigmented as possible to hide the electronics. When lit up and looked at in the dark, the electronics become somewhat visible as a silhouette.
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Foto taken with surrounding lights on and the cube powered off. the Arduino is barely visible inside the blue resin. the resin has a blue hue with a greenish tint and pearly reflective texture.
top down view of the upside down cube. the bottom of the cube shows dark strips of LEDs in the background, while some cables and the Arduino are visible as a black silhouette in the foreground. behind all this is blue LED light shining from below. the surroundings are dark.
I promise there's lots of shiny stuff and glitter in there, but the camera doesn't catch it well 🙈
4/
angled view, the face of the Axolotl is visible on all three surfaces
Top down view on the cube. some glittery blue and some more sea shells are visible
front view of the powered off cube with the purple axolotl looking at the camera. it swims in a sea of glittery blue above a greenish pearly sea bed with reflective sea weeds and sea shells. the very bottom layer is a pearly dark blue.
Here's what the back looks like with the glow in the dark walls.
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the same view without cables and powered off. two USB ports are visible and several slightly different colour layers of green and blue
the back side with a USB C cable plugged in, the very bottom electronics layer is dark, above is a small layer with colourful LEDs, above that is an opaque blue layer of glow in the dark resin with some decorative reflective seaweed on the walls
the transparent front wall with the axolotl is visible on the left, the main focus is on an opaque back wall which is lit up from below with colourful LEDs
This is what the bottom looks like. I tried to make the resin as pigmented as possible to hide the electronics. When lit up and looked at in the dark, the electronics become somewhat visible as a silhouette.
3/
Foto taken with surrounding lights on and the cube powered off. the Arduino is barely visible inside the blue resin. the resin has a blue hue with a greenish tint and pearly reflective texture.
top down view of the upside down cube. the bottom of the cube shows dark strips of LEDs in the background, while some cables and the Arduino are visible as a black silhouette in the foreground. behind all this is blue LED light shining from below. the surroundings are dark.
Here's what the back looks like with the glow in the dark walls.
2/
the same view without cables and powered off. two USB ports are visible and several slightly different colour layers of green and blue
the back side with a USB C cable plugged in, the very bottom electronics layer is dark, above is a small layer with colourful LEDs, above that is an opaque blue layer of glow in the dark resin with some decorative reflective seaweed on the walls
the transparent front wall with the axolotl is visible on the left, the main focus is on an opaque back wall which is lit up from below with colourful LEDs
It is done \o/
This is a goodbye present for my friend and colleague, who will resign her job next week. She is a huge #Minecraft fan, so I made her an #axolotl out of epoxy resin, put it in a fancy resin cube and lit the whole thing up with addressable LEDs. I would have used simple fairy lights, but I didn't have any 🙈 ... So I used what I found in my cupboard, which was WS2812B's and an Arduino Nano.
Making the axolotl was a bit of an experimental adventure, but it worked well.
I call it cute-alotl, because it turned out way too cute 🙈
It has two USB ports at the back, one for programming the Arduino and the other for power. Unfortunately the Arduino cannot power the required 1.5A for the LEDs.
It also has glow in the dark powder mixed into two back walls, so it will continue to glow when powered off.
1/
front view of the axolotl in a light environment. the purple axolotl is clearly visible and the sea floor is glowing green yellow
top down view of the cube showing a grid of LEDs glowing green, red, pink and purple and the axolotl swimming above it
front view of the cube, LEDs glowing pink and blue with the axolotl looking at the camera
a green and blue glowing epoxy resin cube in the dark with a Minecraft axolotl inside
Aral Balkan
boosted
Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.
When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.
#AI#VibeCoding #design #development #making #creation #artiface #craft #coding #programming #technology #humanity
jaz :twt: :wales_flag:
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Strypey
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Makers of the fediverse. What are the options on the market for a #3DPrinter as a replacement (or complement) to a Bambu P1S? It needs to do multi material support (i.e. like the Bambu AMS), as well as the more advanced filaments like TPU. Quality needs to be as good as a Bambu printer. Bonus if the build plate is big enough for a 300mm x 300mm print.
What printers should we be looking at with these requirements?
Makers of the fediverse. What are the options on the market for a #3DPrinter as a replacement (or complement) to a Bambu P1S? It needs to do multi material support (i.e. like the Bambu AMS), as well as the more advanced filaments like TPU. Quality needs to be as good as a Bambu printer. Bonus if the build plate is big enough for a 300mm x 300mm print.
What printers should we be looking at with these requirements?
Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.
When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.
#AI#VibeCoding #design #development #making #creation #artiface #craft #coding #programming #technology #humanity