Blog, page 15
page 15 of 76Continuing through the writing archive.
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.
Read postPodcasts 2019
My February 2019 podcast rotation, with a starter episode picked for each show from Reply All to 99 Percent Invisible.
Read postFeb 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.
Read postTravel Tips
What worked and what didn't on a two-month trip through South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and China.
Read postTrip 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.
Read postTools 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.
Read postNov 2018 brain dump
November 2018 bookmarks on Wobble Garden, PCB art, SI playing cards, sand tables, and Islamic geometric design books.
Read postMay 2018 brain dump
May 2018 grab bag of links: pen plotters, ESPEasy firmware, the TWANG dungeon crawler, and a wooden lego planter.
Read postWood 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.
Read postPrograming - 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.
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