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Continuing through the writing archive.

Bookmarks · 4 min

Jun 2019 brain dump

June 2019 bookmarks: a Casper nightlight teardown, the Etch-A-Snap Pi camera, SVG Nest, and stacked paper stained glass.

#Laser Cut#Art#Web#Paper#Glass#CNC
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Reviews · 1 min

ESP8266 + Neopixel + FastLED - Workshop slides

Slides from the March 2019 ESP8266, NeoPixel, and FastLED workshop I taught at Maker Labs.

#LED#FastLED#Arduino#ESP8266#WS2812#Review
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Projects · 1 min

Costs - Stained glass windows project

Bill of materials for one stained glass panel: pixels, acrylic, plywood, and laser time totalling about $156 CAD.

#Wood#Plastic#Glass#Stained Glass#Furniture
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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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