Really, really, really still trying to find My People here on Mastodon. Am I on the wrong server or something? I'm a self-employed #artist / #maker / #writer ... I make #ceramics ( #pottery )... dye #yarn ... #knit ... read #sciencefiction ... have two #dogs and eleven #cats ... am a recent #widow who loves to talk about what a wild ride #grief is ... and I'm a #Floridian scared shitless for my #BiPOC and #lgbtqia friends and family. Is that enough tags? Hello? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
I’m doing a watercolour course where one of the challenges is to do a landscape painting in ten brushstrokes or less. This is the result and I honestly love it.
Binary test video, finally added the head to the body and love how it looks, I wanted Binary to be unique enough to stand out from Wall-E or Jonny-5 and I feel these wheels are definitely doing it. I still have to add more leds and and playe covering. #maker#wip#robot#Tech
Hey you! If you ever, ever, use #github, #gitlab (etc) you need to read this. Every #maker, and most everyone else, ESPECIALLY those of you who are NOT #developers. (Contributors/devs usually have local copies already.)
The first hour of my day was just wasted chasing down an error in #HACS that turns out to be "Dev deleted their repositories on github and now #homeassistant is mad"
#GIT ONLY WORKS IF YOU HAVE YOUR OWN COPY. The downloads and tarballs are not the same thing. They are partial copies at best. Even "forking" (on the same site) can be deleted at the original author's whim.
To actually have your own copy, it needs to be somewhere else. On a new site (if the original is on #github you can put your copy on #gitlab) or even your laptop. And when you can, use your copy instead.👿
A frog lives inside a red metal fencepost, so the video author decides to 3D print it a house. After lots of TikTok feedback a second version with a patio is built and the frog is named Frodrick. V3 included a pool with plants and a waterfall, and v4 an emergency cave after the visit of a possum. Now named Frod, it had a visit from several other frogs, as well as the possum, which turned out to be friendly and was named King Julien. Further additions included a spaceship-shaped bug-attractor and a pond. The frog then procreated, so a tadpole ramp was added, resulting in baby frogs, named Frods everywhere. The possum also had offspring with a female, named Queen Julia, which they named Mort and one last iteration to the frog house was made. (Alt text provided by @axwax ❤️🙏)
Can any of my #Maker / #3DPrinter friends help my sister create a medical item that would otherwise be expensive to replace?
Her life-limited foster child needs this plastic mouthpiece from a medical device but it's no longer available and alternatives are expensive.
We have no idea whether this is possible with medically safe material and, if so, how to go about it. #3DPrint#Help
Does anybody know if there’s a traditional composite material that behaves something like fibreglass? As in fibre/fabric laid up in a binder of some sort to make a stiff material in arbitrary forms.
Paper mache is one but it’s too weak (I think, maybe there's a super version?). I'm considering things like cotton or flax in casein glue or pine resin... but I doubt it will work.
(And my last casein glue experiment stunk like rotten milk for weeks!)
FREE 3D Printer! Any #UK#maker that wants this customised and upgraded Ender 2 #3dprinter just needs to come and collect it from J4/J5 M40 ASAP, ideally this weekend.
I gave about 20 of these away, back when I had a big following on the other site, before it became a festering shitpile and this is the last one I have left. It was the testbed for customisation, so it's fully loaded!
I remade a one day build bubble pipe, this time with a better setup to prevent leaks and leds. I forgot sometimes it's nice to just make for the sake of fun not views #maker#prop#toy
Trading the pen for the laser: I'm going to try some of my #PenPlotter designs on a laser cutter soon. I think something like differential growth would work well since it's a single path and should provide a very interesting positive and negative in the material.
Here's an animation of how I build (err, growth) them.
Differential growth, created in Python and laser cut from cardboard.
I had lots of fun today making variations of these. It’s quite something to hold this in my hand after only seeing it on the screen or paper. I love the semi transparent nature from the intricate branches.I hope to do some more iterations on these ideas.