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Blog, page 15

page 15 of 76

Continuing through the writing archive.

Development · 2 min

Website theme update

Why I rebuilt blog.abluestar.com on a fresh Jekyll theme, plus a 20-year history of my CMS choices from plain HTML to static sites.

#Jekyll#Markdown#Photo#Code#Web#PHP
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Media · 3 min

Podcasts 2019

My February 2019 podcast rotation, with a starter episode picked for each show from Reply All to 99 Percent Invisible.

#Tutorial#Review#Bookmark
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Bookmarks · 8 min

Feb 2019 brain dump

February 2019 links on Arduino LED projects, an Etch A Sketch CNC, a zombie ESP8266 game, and James Clar's neon art.

#Art#Arduino#LED#CNC#ESP8266#Code
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Tips · 3 min

Travel Tips

What worked and what didn't on a two-month trip through South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and China.

#Maps#Photo#Tutorial#Journal
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Travel · 2 min

Trip to Shenzhen 2018

Two days at the Huaqiang Road markets in Shenzhen and the pile of LED strips, switches, and Pi cases I came back with.

#JLCPCB#LED#WS2812#Sensor#Jewelry#Video
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Uncategorized · 4 min

Tools 2018

Snapshot of the software and hardware I leaned on in 2018, from VS Code and PlatformIO to a Surface Pro 3 and Sony WH-H900N.

#Paper#Arduino#Code#Review#Journal
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Bookmarks · 5 min

Nov 2018 brain dump

November 2018 bookmarks on Wobble Garden, PCB art, SI playing cards, sand tables, and Islamic geometric design books.

#Bookmark#Art#Video#PCB#Code#Maps
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Bookmarks · 3 min

May 2018 brain dump

May 2018 grab bag of links: pen plotters, ESPEasy firmware, the TWANG dungeon crawler, and a wooden lego planter.

#Robots#ESP8266#ESP32#Art#Wood#Code
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Projects · 3 min

Wood frames - Stained glass windows project

Building hexagonal baltic birch frames for the stained glass panels on the table saw, with a grooved channel holding the acrylic.

#Stained Glass#Wood#Plastic#Glass#LED#Furniture
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Projects · 1 min

Programing - Stained glass windows project

Writing the firmware for the stained glass panels with FastLED on an ESP8266, using LED offset sets to drive randomised patterns.

#Stained Glass#Glass#LED#Arduino#ESP8266#FastLED
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