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I missed my monthly "don't buy a resin printer" meeting with @jumperless.org because I was hand-soldering a 3×2mm WS2811 IC to a flex PCB. If you want a Neopixel with colors other than RGB, turns out you can just make your own by having a long enough manic episode.

Petition to give the LA Metro A Line a secondary name, the "Jonathan Gold Memorial Line," so we can all go back to calling it the Gold Line and end this song-and-dance where I have to suss out how long you've lived in LA before I know which name to use around you

I made a box to keep my lead-tin solder isolated from the other gear in my traveling electronics kit, and uh,

Ok but seriously, what am I going to do with a nearly 4-foot-tall (114 cm) Cool S, I've run out of wall space for such a thing. Do I let it into the blank wall space I keep for professional video calls? Do I mount it on the ceiling over my bed??

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Putting on a hard hat and steel toed boots, consulting the cyanotype blueprints for this elaborate construction project

....oh right, I completely forgot about these until someone asked me about them at Supercon and then a lot of people asked for a set.

A silly idea that turned out well! Most flex PCBs are cut by laser, not milled, so you can make perforations by adding incomplete edge cuts. These disks are for cleanly joining LED strips at different angles and different radii, and they break apart with just my fingers, no other tools.

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.

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.

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?