starduststorm

mesmerizing 😍

source for the hexa and penta now have basic readmes! fresh clones should build correctly (after a submodule init)
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thank you for making this possible, Sequoia ✨💜

271 pixels in 3.9mm hexagonal lattice, self-contained logic and power

many updates to come for project writeups and future work

wow thank you everyone for such a great maker faire!! it was a delight to show you what I’ve been working on and to meet so many wonderful makers and participants!

“exceptional hexagon behavior”

you know, if you give it enough current, an LED bulb can be briefly used as an incandescent bulb

programming in C means you will want to put unsigned types in your code because you know when a thing should always be non-negative but then you will regret doing that

must be a morning, i'm so ready for the faire (not ready at all)

ahhhhh these are sick

gosh thanks!!

yes I hope to have them on my online store soon after! I’ll do another set if I’m lucky enough to run out.

271 pixels! the tenth centered hexagonal number:)

a collection of dozens of circuit boards to be assembled into complete working parts

ten days to makerfaire let’s goooo

big oof. good luck with the last push!

Official RFC 527.

it turns out doing a this amount of floating point math on rp2040 is fine actually (>200fps)

antialiased line drawing by adapting Wu’s algorithm to the hex grid

A book cover saying "I'll write the code while I wait for the PCBs And Other Hilarious Jokes You Can Tell Yourself, Volume II"

🤡

things are coming together

PCBs shipped notification 🥰

born to pcb
impedance is a fuck
route em all 1989
I am schematic man
410,757,864,530 design rule violations

hmm bsky compression certainly does things to the color saturation and clipping

a little more of the hexagon in motion

a cropped screenshot of an electrical schematic, with a text block saying life changed when i put another regulator in my schematic

A signal still from an anime depicting a man with black hair and glasses. He’s labelled “WS2812”. He gestures to a butterfly labelled “random noise” and asks “is this signal?” If you’ve used WS2812 LEDs you’ll know a good sneeze can light them up 🤣

i am always learning about parts

👁️🍠🅰️🔺‼️

I recently revamped this art project for a festival that happened a few weeks back. My friends made the structure and interactivity and I did the lights! I really like these aquarium crystals as refracting diffusers!