I intentionally refer to this as "Technological crafting" not being a "Maker" because all which I am doing descends from the emotional state of crafting.
Soldering your own recreational electronics has more in common with sewing your own clothes or other such crafts than it does being a professional electronics engineer.
Thus, this is my rambly set of screwing around, because I like woodworking and plastic fabrication and welding and electronics and sculpture. And the times I've sewn things, it's been pretty damn fun. So I guess technological crafting is all about that eccentric mis-mash of bizarre interests.
Project Builds
The M4 Feather LED strip driver I set up my M4 Feather board previously using CircuitPython. But I ran out of RAM on the M4, so I went for a Teensy 4.1 instead for driving LED strips with CircuitPython. This is my revisited build using the M4 in the Arduino environment.
I'm doing AdaFruit's light painting tutorial... but I haven't a CLUE. AdaFruit has done a series of light painting tutorials. First, they did a tutorial with the NeoPixel strips and an Arduino . Then they upgraded it to the DotStar LEDs and used a Raspberry Pi . Then they downgraded the LEDs to the NeoPixels and switched to CircuitPython . And most recently…
6502 Hack Day Build I always wanted to build a 6502 based computer. The 6502 is the chip used in all sorts of computers throughout history, ranging from the Apple II, the NES, and the Commodore 64... all of the way through to the Terminator and Bender. I've drawn a bunch of attempted schematics, never really bothered…
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Gen3 Lightpainting boards I do light painting and I ended up wanting some customized lighting implements. gen3piano 8 buttons, 8 LEDs, constant current LED drivers, all through-hole Schematic and PCB available , PCB orderable from DirtyPCBs gen3basic 3 x 5mm LEDs, 3x APA102 5050 LEDs, 3 buttons, some surface mount…
6502 Stuff The famous CPU series for the Apple II series, the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit series, NES, Bender, and the Terminator My project stuff The 6502 Hack Day build A 6502 SBC built in a day-ish. Other eccentric and interesting stuff Dirk Grappendorf's really quite nice 6502 build Daryl's SBC2 - A fairly…
Ender 3v2 with a Bondtech DDX and a Slice Mosquito. After a bit of an incident with some black PETG and the hard discovery that some PETG formulations will work with a PTFE-tube hotend but not others, I resorted to a printer upgrade. I figured it would be a relatively fast upgrade but it turned out that my printer was either fully out of commission…
Ender 3v2 from July to October tl;dr: Auto-leveling is great, Silky PLA is great and PETG is annoying, vase mode and fat nozzles are great, and prints are mostly turning out right without pain and suffering. So far, I got a printer, managed to actually print things other than calibration pieces and printer mods, and then the…
My particular implementation of the Rubbermaid 21 Cup and Sterilite 20 qt dryboxes I started out without a drybox or dehydrator with my printer. I got one roll of PLA and one roll of PETG and I figured that I'd use my time on the PLA roll to determine what I was going to do with the PETG roll. About two weeks in, I'd used maybe half of the spool of PET so I decided that it was…
My Ender 3v2's failed motherboard, the repair work, and the new BLTouch Just outside of the Amazon return window but before the actual warranty went out, my printer's motherboard failed, which triggered some maintenance and upgrades. Walking away from the printer and a Spaghetti Detective After getting the printer, I've been printing like mad. A lot of other people's…
First few non-calibration prints, mostly not printer mods even The joke is that what do you do with a 3D printer other than print your next printer mod. Or calibration prints. Either way, the entire purpose behind buying a 3D printer was because I'd be a lot more free with printing organizers and stuff, especially rando models on sites like Prusaprinters or…
