Notices by GeekMomProjects (geekmomprojects@mastodon.social)

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

I recently returned from an incredible trip to Antarctica and I need everyone to look at my penguin photos.

In Santa Monica for the #nokings March. My sign was last minute but the hat and shirt have gotten a lot of use.

My favorite sign so far

The prize for winning a top spot at the Hackaday SuperCon SAO challenge with my Bendy SAO design was getting 100 copies of it produced and assembled. These bendy boys just arrived this week. They're getting flashed and paired with 3D printed stands, so now I have a cool giveaway for #teardown2025 next week!

There will come a day when I finish an entire sewing pattern without installing a piece backwards. Today is not that day.

Gotta say, the percussion is pretty on point #teslatakedown

Another small but mighty protest outside the Milken conference in Beverly Hills where Musk is speaking #teslatakedown

Pretty good turnout - well over 300 protesters - at the Santa Barbara Tesla dealership today.

Headed out to my weekly Tesla protest

It's been a fun morning. I'm helping a Los Angeles STEM education nonprofit prepare a kids' event, and I got to build and play with this vertical wind tube. (Remarkably simple instructions here: https://gooddayswithkids.com/2015/02/08/build-wind-tube/)

Finished V2 of the truncated icosahedron, and I'm very happy with how it turned out. The sides are 32 hexagonal and pentagonal PCBs, joined by 3D printed corner connectors and covered with 3D printed diffusers. The pixels are mapped and it's running 3D animation patterns on a #pixelblaze.

Headed out to the Portland Winter Lights festival. I have adopted a "more is more" aesthetic for the evening.

@fabrixxm it would have been easier to assemble if it were!

I made a PCB icosahedron for a #makergiftexchange, learning a lot in the process. I wanted it to be see-through, so the sides have triangular holes containing etched acrylic pieces illuminated at the corners. Laser cut faux leather covers the outside. A #Pixelblaze controls the patterns.

Found a 2.7mm thin Neopixel strip with a silicone coating and decided to cram as many rows as would fit ( turned out to be 5) onto a headband. Added a #Pixelblaze Pico controller and an off the shelf holder for an AA-sized Li-Ion battery. I intend to be "light headed" for the holidays!

Finally got around to Pixel mapping my friend's Pixelblaze-controlled Christmas tree using @themariday 's video pixel mapping tool (https://github.com/TheMariday/marimapper), and it was fantastic! I could never have mapped the 600 LEDs on this tree without it.

Found a magnet-activated, battery powered LED board+controller on AliExpress (https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNudMLl) and turned it into a (chunky) ring with a quick 3D print:

In-depth article about the best competitive Scrabble player of all time. Nigel Richards spent six weeks memorizing the French dictionary to win the French tournament, despite not actually speaking French. He's currently trying to repeat the feat in Spanish.
https://defector.com/scrabbles-best-player-knows-no-limits

Getting a little artistic in my photoshoot for an upcoming Make Magazine article. I call it "(Not So) Still Life With Orbs"