Dec 30, 2021Hand-Drawn Art on the AxiDrawFrom hand-drawn art on my iPad, to the AxiDraw XY pen plotter. I’ve made this year’s holiday cards on my AxiDraw pen plotter from Evil Mad Scientist. Here’s the original design, done on my iPad with an Apple Pencil 2:Axidraw3 min read
Oct 25, 2020Space Robot MusicData sonification with Sonic Pi + Planet (Labs) Oh, man! Last week was Planet Hack 2020, and it brought together several of my favorite things: Significant advancement in creating generative music with Sonic Pi! I love making music, and I want to produce license-free background tracks for my videos…Music5 min read
Mar 9, 20206 Badass Women Engineers to FollowInterviews from the past year at Hackster.io Allow me to present six of the most talented humans I’ve ever met. It’s been my immense pleasure to interview these people about their work over the past year; I hope you enjoy these just as much as I did. Presented in order…Women In Tech2 min read
Sep 26, 2019The Ghost DressMy retroreflective dress is a canvas for light art — and provides a bit of privacy, as well. A couple years ago, I was playing with some leftover retroreflective fabric with Andy Lee. He’d ordered it from Alibaba to make garments, and we also used some of it to…Fashion3 min read
Mar 14, 2019Apple Newtons for Pi DayThis totally counts as pie. We christened the Hackster.io Glowforge a year ago with Insta-Grahams, and we’re back with another terrible food idea!! INSTA-GRAHAMS! Groannnnn.blog.hackster.io This year, since Pi Day is also a Throwback Thursday, I decided to go old-school with a reference to the Apple Newton. …Pi Day2 min read
Jul 18, 2018🛠 Cool Tools Honorable Mentions 🛠Awesome maker tools and materials that didn’t fit in the podcast! — I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Mark Frauenfelder and Kevin Kelly on their podcast, Cool Tools — which is exactly what it says on the tin. …Makers4 min read
Apr 12, 2018What Are You doing for Yuri’s Night?International Space Party Time! — Yuri’s Night is the annual celebration of Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space! According to Adafruit, this is recognized by the UN as International Human Spaceflight Day, as established in 2011… but I have embarrassing pictures from a year before that.* …Space3 min read
Apr 10, 2018Sound Synthesis with Arduino // eTextile Spring BreakThis is part of a series about last week’s eTextile Spring Break, held in Wassaic, NY. I sponged up a ton of knowledge about integrating electronics and textiles, including thermochromic pigments, soft interfaces, radio technology, and more! Here are my notes from the first workshop I attended.Arduino4 min read
Mar 21, 2018INSTA-GRAHAMS!Groannnnn. We just got a Glowforge desktop laser cutter! (More specifically, I got a Glowforge and prayed to the gods of company reimbursement.) Someone was selling her Basic model locally, since she got a discount on a Pro. Both models will cut/etch the same materials — wood, fabric, leather, paper…Hardware4 min read
Dec 25, 2017Laser Wrapping Paper (and new card!)Out of wrapping paper for last-minute gifts? Use mine! I made this custom, snowflake-inspired design in OnShape. The DXF files below should be compatible with most laser cutters, but you can also export your own from OnShape (use the sketch, or the simpler drawing). Just set the laser to “etch”…Laser Cutting2 min read
