Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 12/01/2026A thread (ha!) about a knitting project. Back in October, I saw some people wearing hats that I clocked as frog-hats, green, with white discs on top with black spots in the center. Roughly similar to mickey mouse ear hats, but a different color scheme. 100
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 21/12/2025Made a #scarf on my #sentro #knittingmachine for Mom's birthday, in candy cane colors for the holidays. 230 rows, which turned out to be 44" in the finished scarf, a little short, but better than my previous scarf with 400 rows, something around 6 feet long. 000
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Holiday "Santa" hats, knitted on #sentro #knittingmachine #circularknittingmachine Using Wool-Ease yarn, which is maybe my new favorite, it has the feel of wool, a nice wooly texture and mottled appearance. 000
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Another hat experiment, a gift for my sister (don't tell her). I wanted to buy some nice yarn at a local yarn place, and I think I misread the yarn weight on the shelf - normally, I buy worsted, weight 4, and I think this might be weight 1 - I don't know a lot about yarn, but that seems significant. 110
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 30/11/2025I had a long holiday weekend, which I filled by visiting two yarn shops and making two hats. 110
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 23/11/2025When I set out to make my most recent scarf, I weighed the yarn I had purchased, did some math, made a design (of sorts) that I expected to approximately use all my yarn. The scarf ended up being 400 rows, 6 feet long, which is a little ridiculous, but it didn't use all the yarn I planned to use. 100
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Using the #sentro 48 needle circular knitting machine to make a scarf today - I had purchased 4 skeins of some nice wool yarn last spring, but I had avoided making this scarf for several months - in part due to season, in part due to not being satisfied with my skill to finish the ends. 120
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Continuing to get the (literal, figurative) dust off the hat-knitting pipeline. I was having difficulty with the Sentro knitting machine feeling "tight", and producing what I believe are called "tucked" stitches. I wasn't sure if this was a result of gunk accumulating inside. [thread] 110
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Today's knitting adventure - I disassembled, cleaned, lubed, and reassembled my Sentro 48 needle circular knitting machine and proceeded to attempt another experimental green hat (see previous post). This hat has 150 rows, which feels maybe a little longer than I was shooting for. 110
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 03/11/2025New hat for November 2025 - reacquainting myself with my Sentro 48 needle circular knitting machine, reminding myself the procedures for making a hat, remembering how many rows goes into a comfortable hat. 110
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Flow Field Half-Hexagon Quads Still, largely experimenting with pen swaps and flow fields. #iDraw #penplotter #flowfield #proceduralart 110
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Flow Field Chessboard I took my flow field code and generated two flow fields - one mostly horizontal, one mostly vertical, then clipped the resulting paths into individual squares. I collected the squares into two SVGs, plotted them with different pens #idraw #flowfield #procedural #penplotter 120
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 19/09/2025"Squared Circles" for 9/16/25 September 16 2025 was a "Pythagorean date", each element a square, the 2-digit year being the sum of the other two numbers. I nested a sequence of 4, 9, 16, 25 circles inside a square. #idraw #penplotter #circles #pythagoras #procedural 130
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 15/09/2025New Flow Field variation on a theme - constrained the flow field to a circle, constrained the vectors in the field between -35 and 75 degrees, for a more "river" flow visual. #iDraw #penplotter #generativeart #proceduralart #flowfield 120
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 15/09/2025Flow Field drawing Flow field, where the direction of the flow comes from simplex noise. Plotted using blue EnerGel gel pen with an iDraw H SE plotter. #iDraw #PenPlotter #ProceduralArt #GenerativeArt 130
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 03/09/2025A poster for "Math Jam", a get together of recreational math folks mathsjam.com using Hershey fonts, bridson blue noise, and line segment SDFs. #iDraw #penplotter #math #mathjam #mathsjam 020
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 01/09/2025#iDraw #penplotter #proceduralart an exercise in clipping shapes (circles) against other shapes (circles, half-planes) specified as SDFs. Reminds me a little of a guitar or a fried egg. 010
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Drawing an Apollonian Gasket with a circle inversion on an UUNA Tek iDraw H A3 pen plotter #penplotter 010
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Has this happened to you? You have a less-than-perfect experience at a local business (e.g. a movie theater), you go to their website to inform them of what was less than ideal, provide a few suggestions of how to make it better next time, avoid the bad experience. 100
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Three color beanie in white, light green, dark green, on my Sentro 48-hook circular knitting machine. I've been having fun (literally) cranking out hats on this machine, but now and then, I'll get a yarn (or a particular skein) that feels tight on the machine. #sentro #knittingmachine 130
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 08/01/2025My current health care provider (in the US) provides "virtual" (i.e. Zoom) visits with my PCP, which is good. However, it seems like everything routes through one of the worst websites, I've had difficulty logging in, re-verifying my insurance coverage, my history of care has disappeared. 110
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 28/12/2024More #sentro #circularknittingmachine hats - using yarn I bought at Bayshore Yarns in Silverdale, WA. www.facebook.com/profile.php?... 130
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 24/12/2024"One for them, one for me" - I made a hat for my sister (shh, don't tell her, it's in the mail even now) using a speckly gray yarn and a turquoise blue yarn. I also made a black/white/gray hat for myself. I intend to add a pom pom to the top of my hat. 110
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Latest #sentro #circularknittingmachine #knittingmachine project - I made a yellow/orange/white hat as a late/very early Halloween project. 140
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I don't normally look to NPR as my curator of interactive entertainment, but there's some stuff here I'll take a closer look at. www.npr.org/2024/07/16/g...npr.orgThe best games of 2024, picked by NPR's staffNPR staff and contributors share their favorite video games of 2024 so far. 000
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 02/12/2024my polyhedral puzzle printing project (that's a mouthful!) yielded these two guys. These are after Stewart Coffin designs www.johnrausch.com/PuzzlingWorl... Figures 101 and 107, respectively - the second and third stellation of the rhombic dodecahedron. 031
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 02/12/2024New #sentro hat, reversible purple/pink or pink/purple 000
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Third project on the #Sentro, a hat in blue and white variegated yarn. The yarn is a lighter weight than my previous projects, which didn't work as well as I had hoped, including getting quite tangled around 2/3 of the way through the project. I gave it to Mom, and she seemed to enjoy it. 000
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Holiday themed hat, knit on the #sentro 48. This was my second project, and it turned out quite well. If I make another one, I'd probably make the white brim stripe a little wider, but it turned out well. 000
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Another 3d printed polyhedral puzzle, taken from Figure 100 from Stewart T. Coffin's "The Puzzling World of Polyhedral Dissections". I think Coffin shows this puzzle as a stepping stone to Figure 101, which is currently on the printer. #3dprinted #puzzle 010
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Day 1 with my new #Sentro Circular #KnittingMachine. I made a hat. ~120 rows, a few dropped stitches here and there. Good enough results to make me encouraged to try again. 050
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 17/11/2024With all the Laws and Orders and CSIs and NCISes and for that matter Perry Masons, Matlocks, and Hawaii 5-0s, you'd think that we could train up a generator that would spit out cop shows on demand. A procedural procedural, if you will. 000
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 16/11/2024programming languages I have liked: BASIC (Applesoft/Apple II Integer) GraForth Pascal Scheme / LISP C (K&R) Python Rust And I'll just mention emacs, which has been with me through most of that. 030
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Some computer games I have enjoyed: Miner 2049er (Apple II) Bill Budge's Pinball Construction Set (Apple II) Star Blazer (Apple II) Autoduel (Apple II) Bard's Tale I+II (Apple II) Airheart (Apple IIgs) Tass Times in Tonetown (Apple IIgs) Tradewars 2000 (BBS) Wing Commander (PC) X-Wing (PC) 010
Dave LeCompte (he/him) @bigdicedave.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Just 3d printing some polyhedral puzzles 010