Sam Ettinger

The one scene from Say Anything anyone would recognize, but with long arms. Imagine he's playing Longarm by Wall of Voodoo

I made this specifically for @settinger.net but felt I couldn't deprive the rest of the internet of this nonsense.

The finished panel of recycled plastic tiles, framed in a shadow box

The canvas from the previous post, now fully tiled on the top half. A hot glue gun is lying on the empty bottom half. A 5-foot-long continuous coil of hot glue stick is spooling out the back of the glue gun.

Taking a break here. One of the black-red-purple convex hexagons and one of the burnt-white concave hexagons had to be filed down a wee bit before I could slot them in. I love the 5' continuous glue stick 🎵

I'm so glad I'm not the only one!

A stretched canvas with some of the homemade melted plastic zellij tiles nestled in place, starting at the center and progressing to the top left.

I have enough pieces to fill an 11×14" shadowbox now. It's all coming together 😁

I'm still a bit worried about fit and precision (or lack thereof) on these tiles, but gosh they fit nicely so far. Need to get more hot glue though.... So that's *two* things I had to buy in order to complete this.

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"A small Guide to starting Community (and Mutual Aid.)"

I'm no specific expert for you and the people around you but I've been dedicated to this for quite a while and I write about it.

Everything I put in Patreon is open, free, always, and a stable link to share.

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A hand holding a brick-red rubber mould filled with irregular chunks of plastic, one of which looks like a grey shirt button.

A photo of the same mould after all the pieces have been melted and fused together.

Here I'm re-melting a failed shirt button from my previous "what can I melt all this scrap PLA into" project. I'm "baking" each tile multiple times to make sure every corner of the moulds get filled in. If I did this again, I'd make another piece to help with that step.

E Z Bake but the Z stands for "zellij"

Yes!! That's what I've been imagining if I made a more dedicated device for this process!

Precisely

It's one of these deathtraps, on a timer switch so I can't forget to turn it off:
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I put it in between two pie tins to keep more of the heat in. It's not the best, but one of the goals here was to do a project and *not* buy more things to complete it!

I will send a photo of my setup after I've tidied up my balcony 😅 I'm using one of those "desoldering hot plates" that's just a PTC Thermistor plugged into mains. It gets up to around 220°C which is enough to slump-cast the scraps, though I have to coax it into the corners of the molds.

A computer graphic of the tiling pattern in question, with certain shapes highlighted in green or blue to add contrast and definition.

The pattern is adapted from this one at the Bouanania Madrasa in Meknes, Morocco: patterninislamicart.com/single-id/1468

More details about the geometry here: tilingsearch.mit.edu/HTML/data173...

A photo of a hand holding two brick-red rubber molds, about 5mm deep and 40mm across, in two geometric shapes common to Moroccan zellij tiles. In the background are more rubber molds, still encased in the black plastic forms that they were poured in.

A photo of a canvas board partly covered in zellij tiles. The 8-pointed star pieces are solid blue or solid orange color, and the rest of the tiles are messy tie-dye colors. More tiles sit on a piece of paper next to the canvas, waiting to be placed.

I made some high-temp silicone molds out of Mold Max 60 and have begun casting Moroccan-style zellij tiles out of my years of accumulated PLA scrap. They are very fun to play with.

Another pillow demo, running different patterns (there are 20 options), with different music. This was part of the #makergiftexchange that I did with some friends, and the first sample is shipping out today to @geekmomprojects.com

The stickers have arrived, thank you! #makergiftexchange They're even more shimmery in person - I look forward to using them to encourage people to "do it, coward!" (including myself)

Video demo of my lighted pillow

throw pillow with rainbow colored lights

light up pillow on a couch in a room with lava lamps and other artistic lighting

Introducing my new light up pillow ...

#makergiftexchange update: these are now on their way to @flashingjanet.bsky.social, whose own contribution to the exchange was way, way more impressive! I'll leave it to her to describe that one, though 🎵

And thank you @lasermistress.bsky.social for making the PNG that got sent to me in the first place!! <3 <3 good teamwork everyone, it was SO HARD not to tell y'all about the sticker machine before the gift exchange

A Discord screenshot of settinger (me) saying "Thank you for moving at Shenzhen speed lmao" and then Kevin replying "Shenzhen almost moves at Kevin speed"

I was wandering around HQB with only a burner phone, so I couldn't do graphic design on-the-spot. Extra-special thanks @architeuthisflux.bsky.social who saw my DMs well past midnight & threw together some PNGs so I could WeChat them to the printer operator. Whole process was about 35 minutes.

A side view of the sticker spool holder showing a very full reel of the "Do it you Coward" stickers waiting to be dispensed.

A close-up of the center alignment post on the dispenser that the sticker sheet lines up with.

It wasn't till after the event that inspiration struck and I made this spool holder. It's got a post in the middle to hold the Pathé-Baby center alignment holes and lets you tear the sheet at the right spot.

A roll of stickers in a black plastic dispenser. Each sticker is a silver holographic circle, about 1 inch diameter, with "Do it you Coward" written in the Jokerman typeface.

Our #makergiftexchange happened on Wednesday, another moment where I'm bowled over by just how creative my friends and colleagues can be. My contribution was an inside joke. Did you know that, in Shenzhen, they'll let you print whatever you want on those shiny holographic security stickers?

SO. I’m developing a kit because I have a feeling that maybe other people might like to add LEDs to their crochetwear? What do you think, would you crochet with LEDs? I’ll do another post soon showing you the inside, maybe another little vid.

More shout-outs to my electronics homies -

I’m so excited that I can finally show this to you all! I’ve been working on it for a while, as part of an annual white elephant #makergiftexchange that I do with some friends every year. This time I went for the full cross-over and made a #crochet LED hat.

YouTube video by Secret Base The history of slipping on banana peels | Pretty Good, episode 14

my first new episode of pretty good in seven years, now free to watch for everybody:

THE HISTORY OF SLIPPING ON BANANA PEELS

IT'S THE BEST, RIGHT

I don't know why but in my head you were low on the list of people who I thought might make a Boat Drinks joke

Nice!!

@slugworlds.bsky.social holy shit, how do you already have over a thousand posts here, how did I miss this