Tom Lauerman

Susquehanna River, Danville PA

Cable management is not my strength

Dusting off my Arduino bin for some students who are interested in "going there" with electronics & art. For a brief period I sort of knew what I was doing with the Arduino ecosystem, & had a lot of fun tinkering. It's exciting when students pursue things further than I might have the bandwidth for.

Clay printed vase by Brandon Berrett designed in our 'Digital Fabrication' course.

Left this cabinet lid open and now it is occupied.

Downloaded and printed a nice case for the Raspberry Pi 5 from: www.printables.com/model/742926...

Pleasantly surprised to see that PrusaSlicer runs really well on the Raspberry Pi 5

Happy about the computer to keyboard size and weight ratio here @duet3d.com

Thank you so much, I love those blocks!

For one of my clay printers, moving from 24v to 36v and upgrading the control board from the Duet2 to the Duet 3, which will then connect to the RaspberryPi. Will allow more power to reach the clay pushing motor and will make it easier to connect, add features like camera, remote monitoring, etc.

Further accessorizing this Raspberry Pi

I think I'm flattered that AI suggested watching *my own video* to learn about some technical challenges I'm working with.

Working with a Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer, which will become part of my clay printer's brain. I'm enamored with it's various tiny accessories, like this active cooling unit, which is about the size of a matchbox (banana for scale)

"Stairs 02" stop motion animation, 13 frames, 2025

Why Leaving the Leaves Is Better for Your Yard

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/r...

I use Rhino 3D for design, and Blender for art projects

Stairs Test (reversed)

Stairs test

More blocks

Blocks

Stairs

More little glaze batches. The more you test, the more ideas for additional tests you can have

Updating my clay printer designs again for a new body of work

Moving toward more color and less control. 'Cascade', glazed ceramic

'Surface 01' (from 2021) Animated line drawing depicting a slightly vibrating surface. Hand drawn and animated in #blender 200 frames, 720x720 px.

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

This feels like a spot of good news

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Taughannock Falls, Ulysses, New York

More glaze tests. Moving from more saturated color to more nuanced things

Polyphonic Architecture

Polyphonic Architecture https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/17586/