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Excited to announce my solo LED art show! Celebrating Light: The Immersive LED Art of Janet Hansen, Nov 6 - Jan 3 at the Covet Art Gallery in Oceanside, CA. Full schedule of live events here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/celebrati...

oh shit! MAKE got 2025 talks edited and I didn't even realize. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ5X...

My "bedazzLED" denim jacket tutorial is up on Make magazines's site without a paywall now! It's a remarkably practical wearable project that's looks cute even when it's not illuminated. makezine.com/projects/bed...

Turns out you can get laser cut sheet metal ~10x cheaper by pretending it's a solder paste stencil and ordering from @jlcpcb.bsky.social. Suck it, SendCutSend!

Inspired by Mitxela's latest project, I added a FLIP fluid sim pattern to this little motion sensitive Fibonacci256, using code adapted from Ten Minute Physics: matthias-research.github.io/pages

This little motion-sensitive 75mm Fibonacci256 prototype might be my favorite new thing I've made in a while. This was totally inspired by @starduststorm.art's brilliant "The Hexagon" which you should definitely go buy instead of waiting for me to make more of these. 😁 www.tindie.com/products/sta...

They're beautiful @znjp.bsky.social! 🤩 uberflux.com/product/ZNJP...

New soft polyhedron. This rhombicuboctahedeon was a trial to see if I could sew a polyhedron that didn't totally deform to a sphere when stuffed, so each face is lined with thick fusible interfacing and the exterior fabric is heavy canvas. It's surprisingly heavy for being stuffed with polyfill.

Just finished these prototype LED hats. I'll be teaching workshops to make them at #EMF2026 and #Teardown2026. The next few weeks will be busy!

Introducing the EMF 2026 badge upgrade: Spaceagon. Oh and we made a keyboard too. Surprise! blog.emfcamp.org/2026/05/28/t...

Designed three interlocking squares that come together in an octahedron. LEDs will be involved at some point.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

I'm revisiting "Sol v2". I tore it down, rewired the 1,628 pixels into eight parallel channels, and went from 20 to 72 FPS. 😁 www.evilgeniuslabs.org/sol-v2

I've taken up an editing role over at OpenBoardsGuide.com. This is the first article I've had a hand in, and it would mean a lot to get your feedback. If you are afraid of being too mean publicly, roast me via whatever contact method you have for me. www.openboardsguide.com/pimoroni-bad...

I made this hyperboloid years ago when LED strings were only available with 10 cm spacing. The old LED string broke, so I restrung it with higher density pixels, and am playing with 3D patterns on the Pixelblaze controller.

Funk This! board progress in MakerSpace. Copper pads wired to cap touch board. Pulsing lights triggered. Sound plays. I still get hangs sometimes. Ordered a larger memory board so I can move away from Pico with Cowbell to see if avoiding SD card helps. And I’ll add audio meter panels. #CircuitPython

sick! www.opentools.studio

This Thursday: #DayGlowShow Ep. 9 – Pocket #Pentesting Platforms! Multi-hour live-build with @ishotjr.bsky.social & myself (plus some cool extras from guest Alex Lynd) 🛠️✨ Mar. 26, noon PDT / 8pm UTC: ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqbi... ▶️ www.linkedin.com/events/74423... ▶️ www.twitch.tv/glowascii

I am an orchid show taking a tour. The speaker, a lovely older lady, explained that growers are very generous in sharing cuttings freely and that their generosity "puts the 'whore' in 'horticulture!'" 😂

Monday, Mar. 16: #1 of 3 #ArduinoDays preview streams! A short, fun chat with Giovanni Bruno, who works on #robotics at #Arduino 🤖 Hosted by @ishotjr.bsky.social & myself 10:30am Pacific / 5:30pm UTC: ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNQ5... ▶️ www.linkedin.com/events/74386... ▶️ www.twitch.tv/glowascii

Happy π Day! To prep, feast on this article on a brand new discovery for the ancient constant. My latest slice for SciAm! It's irrationally enjoyable... 🥧 www.scientificamerican.com/article/math... #math #science #PiDay 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

Somehow I completely missed when #teardown2025 talks went live - here's mine on navigating battery regulations. Bonus butts in one of my slides. 😏 Also, the CFP for Teardown 2026 ends on the 15th so get your proposal in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwUG...

Testing my robots arm #maker #wip #robot

Sorry if you're tired of these, I'm having fun tweaking sound-reactive #PixelBlaze patterns. 😁 Get your own: lectronz.com/products/fib...

Fibonacci256 Expanding HDR is now available! It's music-reactive & powered via #PixelBlaze by @bhencke.bsky.social so you can edit & write new patterns in a web app over wi-fi. Get yours here: lectronz.com/products/fib...

Just registered for an @oshwassociation.bsky.social summit workshop. Very excited 🤩 Open Hardware Summit is in Berlin this year btw!

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

#wip #maker #robot

Today is Week 2 of our closing sale, the website is 35% off (discount shown after items are added to your cart). We added stock status to our product thumbnails, so you can easily scroll through and see what we’ve still got. Soldering kits are 50% off! www.alpenglowindustries.com/collections/...

My friend, @lasermistress.bsky.social, is constantly doing good for others and she needs us to do some good for her. Please, donate to her Go Fund Me ASAP so she can keep bringing us all impactful resistance art. * clairecassidy.info * www.gofundme.com/f/keep-my-am...

All of our electronics kits, boards, weird shit, & misc notions are on sale starting now. This week thru 02/20/26 everything is 25% off. Week 2 - 02/21/26 - 02/27/26 is 35% off, Week 3 - 02/28/26 - 03/08/26 is 50% off. Soldering kits are already 50% off. www.alpenglowindustries.com/collections/...

A friend picked some very spicy eggs that he's calling Eggs of Mass Destruction and asked me to design him a label for the jar, so here it is

By request: Fibonacci256 Expanding HDR with circles instead of straight Voronoi grid lines. Both grids are 4mm thick with 1mm gap between the grid and LED PCB. Next I'll try both with thinner grids and larger gaps for a more diffused look.

Woo! The ALASKAN BULL WORM! PSRAM Mod Kits are ordered, and I wrote a whole thing about them in my store. jumperless.myshopify.com/products/ala...

I recently returned from an incredible trip to Antarctica and need everyone to see these penguins.

Woo! Just got a box of 200 more Jumperless V5s. These are rev 7, the only real difference is they have 2 friction-fit OLED headers on the main board, so it can sit in that crevice between the Nano headers (or scoot it over to the right if you have something in there that would cover it.)

Trying to upload more here since a friend of mine seems to like it very much. Here is a test video of my latest robotic project #maker #robot

#39C3 is about to be very.. Cool

It's one of those days... Before I can start sewing, I need to find and re-seat the foot petal plug which has disappeared inside the machine.

After 20 years in embedded systems, here are the 10 things I wish I knew when I started (#Arduino, hardware, debugging, timing, RTOS, and real projects). 👇 shawnhymel.com/3100/10-thin... #embedded #programming #microcontroller #rtos

Wow, JLCPCB are now selling framed and frameless manual stencil printers. They offer them below the stencil area on the ordering page. Cool move JLC!

In my house it's the festival of LEDs

Assembled another star from a-star.bleeptrack.de/ Had a last one cut out luckily. My Lasercutter is currently waiting for it's anti freeze. #generative #procedural #lasercutter

Pixel mapped my friends Christmas tree last night using an awesome video mapping tool by @themariday.bsky.social and set it up with a Pixelblaze controller.

It's the time of year where I get to show off all the cool things our friends make! Check out the 2025 Alpenglow Gift Guide and find something fun for that electronics nerd in your life (and maybe that's you!) www.alpenglowindustries.com/pages/2025-g...

I can't decide which 1" (25.4mm) Fibonacci128 diffuser I prefer, so I've just been shipping both. 😁 Get yours: lectronz.com/products/inc...