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Back to Basics with Technology - a talk I gave at the Future of Coding London Meetup. It goes through some of my recent explorations in electronics, crochet and light + a bunch of ideas I’ve been mulling over: youtu.be/Q-rvkIQ0lu8?si=Yyzr…
Also in blog form: forestinthetree.com/blog/bac…
I made a Lego music cube to play Spotify songs using NFC tags. The original aim was just to quickly play Elizabeth Mitchell’s cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Sleep Eye” - a magical song that does wonders when in need of a soothed baby.
youtube.com/shorts/-XKlTQrxi…
A Miffy night light I made for my niece's 5th birthday.
See it in action, set to ROSÉ + Bruno Mars’ APT (which I’ve since learnt is best heard at a 5yr old girl’s bday party): youtube.com/shorts/FehDmZGz2…
Or, for the techie internals: youtube.com/shorts/aR67FlX1_…
Circular light - pink/green, blue/red, various colours, and trying to touch the colours 🌈
#ledlights #ledlightstrip #experiment #colourful
A bendy crocheted light strip.
Made from a warm white light strip, hot glued into a plastic clear tube, and wrapped in a crocheted tube.
Kintsugi. Mistakes along the way, but I think that is part of the point.
ALT A plate, a cup and a coaster repaired using kintsugi
Version 2 of my DIY battery holder for my LED noodles. This one has a toggle switch to turn on/off and a switch to limit current for higher voltage (3.7v) button cells.
Circuit diagram here: falstad.com/circuit/circuitj…
Bought some more LED noodles to play with, from China.
Turns out it's called something along the lines of 线性灯橡皮筋灯丝 (xiànxìng dēng xiàngpí jīn dēngsī) - translates to linear light rubber band filament.
Making a simple light connector to help me prototype quicker with LED noodles. Soldered the LED noodles and battery holders to wires and then used crimping pliers to add pin connectors.
Open to turn on, close to turn off, using a transistor. Didn't know how transistors worked until this, and still learning...
youtube.com/shorts/B7NfqP4Ad…
Wrapping up my experiments with MIDI by doing a refactor, extracting the useful bits into a repo and writing a proper README: github.com/forestinthetree/m…
To be continued...
ALT MIDI playground webapp used with an InTech EN16 MIDI controller
My crochet leaf light 🍃=> Freeform electronic design
"playful and creative approach to electronics design... Requiring no printed circuit boards or pre-drawn designs, this technique encourages sculptural intuition rather than functional efficiency." ada-x.org/en/activities/conc… ❤️
Thanks @Mappletons for organising and letting me speak. Sorry for becoming one of the speakers who go over time 😅
A crocheted leaf light
Hand made pressure sensor connected to a led noodle, sewn onto a crocheted leaf, connected to simple electronic circuitry on a protoboard, powered by a coin cell battery.
More tech experiments on youtube.com/@forestinthetree
Playing with LEDs using a screen-less interface - made with @intechstudio EN16 + @Raspberry_Pi pico w + Web #Midi
youtube.com/shorts/YFvK7kcCo…