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Maker Faire 2025: SpaceframeSCAD: Large-scale light-up sculptures, 3D printed, portable in a ziploc bag 1 week ago
Appearing at the 2025 Bay Area Maker Faire Love, loss, and shiny silvery spandex Most of my projects end up having a weird story about love, loss, shiny silvery spandex, and unrequited dreams. We can start with the very bad and very forgettable 1986 movie SpaceCamp. Made before the Challenger…

OpenSauce 2025: My homebrew lightpainting hardware and how it's evolved over the years 2 months ago
Appearing at OpenSauce 2025 When I broke "the board" I’d always wanted to design my own circuit boards but I never got truly motivated until I broke “the board”. Let me explain... Normally when you have a birthday party and a friend brings some random junk from her husband’s work, you’d probably…

Switching power on and off 4 months ago
Physical power switches are easy. Except that good physical power switches that can handle real power aren't so easy. They tend to be big and clunky and expensive. If you appreciate good design, I guess you could say they are a real turn-off. If you are already setting up transistors to turn LEDs…

Literature review of NASA NTRS truss papers 4 months ago
Why do a review of NASA papers on trusses? Well, because trusses are cool, for a variety of reasons. In buildings, they became one of the trademarks of the late modernist architecture period, representing "cool" and making the prior brutalist or streamlined or art deco or merely modern buildings…

Step 7: Voron Print Farm 6 months ago
This update covers many months of using the printer, working on things, etc. Including a giant burst of printing to get everything together for the Maker Faire and also some periods where the printer sat idle and not-quite-functional because I had to go to funerals and things. General improvements…