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blitzcitydiy

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She/her. Music technology, knitting, all forms of media and cats. Currently making, writing and videoing for Adafruit. It's possible that the average person would feel that I watch too much TV.

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blitzcitydiy, to modularsynth
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i edited together a video about the patch bay i built for my keystep pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWCxitBAL5U

blitzcitydiy, to random
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i've been working on a project with a Pico W and DVI output that includes weather data. we're having a thunderstorm so that means a rare appearance of the pixelated lightning bolt sprite

blitzcitydiy, to random
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i love love love this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqCVWZeIb5g

blitzcitydiy, to random
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I’ve had a cricut for about 2 years and the rubber rollers started to dry out and get super wonky. I’d been dreading opening it up to do the replacement but I finally did it and it worked great.

Dried up decrepit rubber rollers from a cricut machine. Behind them are new ones installed on the roller bar
A disassembled cricut machine. The housing is removed
The reassembled cricut machine with the new rubber rollers installed

blitzcitydiy, to knitting
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Finished a blanket block today

A close up corner of a knitted blanket block. There are textured seed, checkerboard and bobble stitches in ecru yarn with multi color flecks

blitzcitydiy, to random
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I used the scrollsaw to make some pawns with compound cuts. No sanding or finish yet. I’m hoping to make a full set eventually

A hand holding a wooden chess pawn piece

blitzcitydiy, to random
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I replaced the display in my mom’s stove this morning. It had been flashing and freezing randomly for about a year. This is apparently a fairly common problem with Samsung stoves based on what I found online.

An LED stove display that is blinking and acting glitchy

blitzcitydiy, to random
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I built a coffee and tea organizer with some scrap 1/4” plywood. I still need to add finish but for now the hot beverage accessories have been tamed so I feel a deep inner peace

A wooden organizer with compartments for storing coffee k cups and bags of tea inside of a kitchen cabinet. The drawer in the organizer is open showing tea bags

blitzcitydiy, to random
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the fact that my watch counts petting cats and knitting towards my stand goals is incredibly enabling to my lazy tendencies

blitzcitydiy, to random
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on one of my teardown videos on youtube, someone just commented that instead of a teardown it was "More like a pet dog destroying a shoe." and it may be the greatest comment i've ever received

blitzcitydiy, to random
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sometimes you just need a 2 ms delay between write commands for ✨magic✨

code is written with arduino. cat thermal printer connects over bluetooth. I’ll be writing it up this week

A memento esp32-s3 camera board takes grayscale/gameboy filter photos that are then printed to a thermal printer. The first photo is of a knitted snail and the 2nd is of the cat face on the thermal printer

blitzcitydiy, to random
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my best work 🍣 🍣

Two bar displays showing scrolling sushi conveyor belts. Both displays are housed in 3D printed nigiri sushi cases

blitzcitydiy, to random
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Used rit dye to dye wood today

blitzcitydiy, to random
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I’m working on a woodworking project that required cutting a lot of triangles. I came up with using a corner clamp with my miter gauge to make a little jig

A square piece of wood cornered between two pieces of wood acting as a corner fence jig
Two triangle pieces of wood that had been cut from a square
A pile of wooden triangles

blitzcitydiy, to random
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more sushi 🍣

A 320x820 RGB bar display showing randomized bitmaps of plates of sushi scrolling across the middle

blitzcitydiy, to random
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air guitar and air drums to dinosaur jr. is a great way to pass the time while code compiles

blitzcitydiy, to random
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i made a video for the first time in almost a year about the meowsic cat piano i found on the side of the road:

https://youtu.be/Vcm_i_ld56U

blitzcitydiy, to random
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i'm really proud of this compass project i just published: https://learn.adafruit.com/qualia-s3-compass

it's coded in and i put a lot of work into it to make sure it was functioning accurately while also looking nice with this round display. this required a lot of math and displayio graphics tricks that will hopefully be a helpful example for folks

blitzcitydiy, to random
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One more cat piano mod for meow- power indicator LED. 3D printed a mount for it to match the button color scheme

A slow change RGB LED mounted at the bottom of a toy cat piano. The on off switch is being toggled and when it is on the LED lights up

blitzcitydiy, to random
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I finally got around to doing some modifications to the trash cat piano I found a few weeks ago. The batteries and battery section were completely corroded so I changed up the power to be USB-C and 3D printed a new battery compartment cover. I also removed the built-in speaker and added line out. Next I want to add either MIDI or CV in but so far so good

The back of a toy cat piano with a replacement 3D printed battery cover opened showing the power wires running into a usb c pd breakout board for power
The inside of a toy cat piano with wires run for a line out audio circuit
The outside edge of a toy cat piano showing a 1/8” jack and potentiometer mounted to it

blitzcitydiy, to random
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puzzle time ♟️

A half assembled puzzle. The border is completed

blitzcitydiy, to random
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Doing some woodworking today

blitzcitydiy, to random
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it's @ecken 's first holiday season in massachusetts so yesterday we did a bunch of festive things around boston (most of which i had never done myself despite being here my whole life 😅). we brought the new @adafruit MEMENTO esp32-s3 camera to take some photos. it was super fun and i love how they came out. the process reminded me so much of using disposable cameras with my friends in high school and waiting to see the photos

a sepia tone photo of the frog pond ice skating in boston common, boston, MA
a blue tone filtered photo of a lobster mascot for a restaurant next to a christmas tree decorated with lobster claws. seaport district, boston, MA
the greenway carousel. in view is the eel/ship and butterfly seats. rose fitzgerald kennedy greenway, boston, MA

blitzcitydiy, to random
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🎄

An mjpeg file of the festive version of the lo-fi beats YouTube person looping on a circular display connected to a qualia esp32-s3 board

blitzcitydiy, to random
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🕎

A 3D printed electronic menorah with the center shamash candle lit yellow and the first night candle showing a rainbow swirl

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