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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

My "bedazzLED" denim jacket tutorial is up on @makemagazine 's site without a paywall now! It's a practical wearable project that's looks cute even when it's not illuminated. makezine.com/projects/bedazzled-jea…

There colorful Illuminated flowers on the back of a denim jacket

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

New soft polyhedron. This rhombicuboctahedeon was an attempt to see if I could make a soft-sided polyhedron that didn't totally deform to a sphere when stuffed, so each face is lined with thick fusible interfacing and the exterior fabric is heavy canvas. It's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Still struggling to find the words to describe what a wonderful adventure #emfcamp was. I'll upload a few pictures in this thread. A friend took this wonderful photo of me while I was teaching a kids' workshop to make an "infinity mirror fairy creature."

A craft work butterfly with pink and gree pipe cleaner wings and antennae with googly eyes in its black foam head and a circular infinity mirror as its belly. A reflection of me, wearing an orange hat with my hands on my hips is visible in the center of the mirror.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Hello, #emfcamp, I'm sorry to spam, but I just realized the shuttle from EMF to Ledbury station starts too late for me tomorrow. Does anyone have room to give me plus two full size suitcases a lift to Ledbury station tomorrow morning (Monday) before 8:00 a.m. I will happily pay for the ride or […]

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Hel Gibbons 🌈⚡ @jankmammal.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Had a lovely time in @geekmomprojects ’s workshop earlier and now my hat is a million times cooler #emfcamp

Blue haired weirdo with a cool light up hat and a cool light up workshop

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

On the train from London to Ledbury, desperately trying to finish the firmware for the Ouija badges I'm bringing to #enfcamp. Bonus points if I can get documentation done before I arrive.

A laptop resting on a pull down tray on a train seat. The laptop is running Arduino IDE, and connected via an Arduino Nano based UPDI programmer to a small PCB that looks like an Ouija board with LEDs under the letters and numbers.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Just finished these prototype LED hats. I'll be leading a workshop to make them at #emf2026.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Designed three interlocking squares that come together in an octahedron. LEDs will be involved at some point.

A brown table with three 3d printed hollow squares, about 6 cm long on each edge and 6mm thick, lying on top. the corners of each square contain notches either on the inside or outside of the corner. Behind the squares is a 3D octahedron which is formed by assembling the three squares to form the octahedron's edges.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

I made this hyperboloid years ago when LED strings were only available with 10 cm spacing. The old LED string broke, so I restrung it with higher density pixels, and am playing with 3D patterns on the #pixelblaze controller.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

I am an orchid show taking a tour. The speaker, a lovely older lady, explained that growers are very generous in sharing cuttings freely and that their generosity "puts the 'whore' in 'horticulture!'" 😂

A large display of many different colors and types of orchids.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

I recently returned from an incredible trip to Antarctica and I need everyone to look at my penguin photos.

Two penguins on a rocky beach looking at each other while one opens its mouth widely and looks like it's shouting at the other

A parent penguin on its rocky nest with two small fuzzy chicks under its belly

A penguin on a rocky Beach looking askew to the side

A penguin on a Rocky Beach leaning to the side with one leg raised slightly behind it and looking at the camera in a very amusing pose

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

Ended up needing a new sewing machine, but now that it's arrived, I've been able to finish sewing the Ouija messenger bag. The project has entered the hot-glue phase. Only a few LEDs left to go.

An exterior of a beige messenger bag with a Ouija board on the front flat. The board itself is made from etched faux leather with cutouts for 3D printed letters that are illuminated from behind.

The front of the LED Ouija board messenger bag with the letters and numbers illuminated from behind in rainbow colors

The view inside the front flap of the messenger bag with a panel zipped open to reveal the back side of the illuminated letters which are surrounded by EVA foam with cutouts at the letter positions. Each letter cutout is filled with hot glues and has two LEDs from an LED string attached to eliminate the letter from behind.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

A terrible Hitchcock remake appears to be taking place on the UCLA campus this morning.

A large number of abandoned Bird scooters on the UCLA campus

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Daniel James @hachyderm.thzinc.com · 21/11/2025

Ooooh, my LED strip lamp is assembled and works great! It produces a nice diffuse arc of light around a work area, and is flexible and movable and dimmable 😁

Photo of LED strip lamp in a 50cm arc on my desk, illuminating a 3D printed section of chain. My desk is cluttered with things behind a keyboard and trackpad

Closeup of 3D printed chain with clean diffuse lighting so that the details are clear

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Solder Party @solder.party · 10/11/2025

Love to see the creativity at display with all the customized @hackadayofficial.bsky.social Supercon badges! Photo by Jeremy Geppert

A collage of 8 photos, each showing a customized Supercon Badge. Mostly various 3D-printed or PCB front panels, but also one with a wrist adapter.

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Solder Party @solder.party · 08/11/2025

The wait is finally over, we're happy to announce that the KeebDeck Keyboard and our first product using it, the KeebDeck Basic, are now available for sale from our @lectronz.com store! ⌨️ lectronz.com/stores/solde...

A photo of the KeebDeck Keyboard keypad and dome sheet. The dome sheet has many domes visible through the white plastic, and 8 black pieces of tape to cover where the backlight LEDs would be. The Keyboard has 69 keys with the usual PC layout, and a few extra ones color symbols and colors.

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Ted @tschundler.leds.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

I wore my Owl head and cyberpunk jacket for the Halloween party at #supercon and a bit Saturday night too. Though I had to keep taking it off to speak to people. At some point I need to add a speaker like those used for some storm trooper helmets.

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Ted @tschundler.leds.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025

There were a number of cool badge cases at Supercon this year. @thzinc kinda vaporwave case was really cool in person. Also here's @geekmomprojects 's Souis Cuitton purse and ageppert's Speak&Spell

A Supercon badge cosplaying a designer bag

a Supercon badge cosplaying an 80s educational toy

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

Four ways (of many) recursively subdividing/tessellating a pentagon (made with thi.ng/geom-tessellate)... #TilingTuesday #Geometry #Subdivision #ThingUmbrella

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

I got my SAO boards in for #SuperCon, and, since I didn't leave enough time for revisions, a bodge wire is required. I'm just relieved it's fixable. Since SuperCon starts on Halloween this year, the "SAOuija" is nicely thematic. Still working on the code. I'd […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

In Santa Monica for the #nokings March. My sign was last minute but the hat and shirt have gotten a lot of use.

Four women at a no kings protest holding signs and wearing anti-fascist and no kings shirts and hats

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

Made a 🌈 on the new #RaspberryPi 500+, and l'm not sure I'll ever get past playing with the keyboard to use it for another purpose!

A mechanical keyboard which houses the new Raspberry Pi 500+ computer displaying a rainbow pattern across its keys.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

Just set up a small wearables exhibit for this weekend's #BayAreaMakerFaire. I'll be giving workshops today and a talk tomorrow as well, so it's going to be a (fun) busy weekend!

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

don't follow sports, but have somehow ended up at a football game today (Broncos @Chargers), and feel like it's mostly just an excuse for day drinking.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2025

At the Orange County Maker Faire this weekend, I got to see @californiasteam and his gorgeous LED jewelry creations, and was super excited to get one of his brand new "Duonacci" pendants. It's powered by a super capacitor which charges fully in just minutes and lasts for many hours.

Me posing next to Sander from California's theme. Displaying a gorgeous spiral LED pendant that I am wearing

Sander from California steam standing behind a very glowy display of LED jewelry and wearables at the Orange County Maker Faire

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

Getting ready to bring some Bendy SAO boards to @crashspaceLA tonight for a presentation with @alpenglow where well show off some fun PCB projects. Attached the SAOs to the SuperCon 2024 badge and it's giving strong Medusa vibes!

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2025

Maker Tom Keddie remixed the Bendy SAO board for a Pride event, and love how it turned out! hackaday.io/project/203708-bendysao…

A tabletop display of a multi-segmented car wash balloon man sculpture constructed of PCBs in different colors arranged at jaunty angles to each other with some the backlit LEDs running up the front center of the sculpture illuminated in an alternating blue and red pattern.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

Riley (left) channeling his spirit animal on the UCLA campus

A medium sized black and tan 2-year-old dog sits on a pedestal next to a giant bear statue that is life size or slightly larger. The dog is looking at the camera and his tongue is hanging out

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025

Experimenting with making an illuminated daisy chain by 3D printing snap-on circular covers for a pebble light string and cutting shiny vinyl flowers that fit around the glowy centers.

A black bucket cap rests on a table. Several silver flowers with illuminated red centers run around the middle of the hat. In front of the hat is a string of pebble lights in which the LEDs have been covered by translucent circular diffusers. Some of the diffusers form the center for vinyl flowers that have been placed around them. On the table in front of the LED string are two of the 3D printed diffusers, along with two flowers cut from vinyl with holes in their centers for placing the diffusers through.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

I'm belatedly getting around to showing off this **GORGEOUS** crochet hat the uber talented @alpenglow made for me. She integrated a pebble light string and #pixelblaze controller. It's all powered by a flat top 18650 with a clever charge/discharge circuit […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

I'm teaching at a nonprofit STEM education camp this week, and yesterday we had an activity where the kids had to solve science puzzles to figure out who had kidnapped our class mascot, a masking-tape goldfish. All staff members were suspects. One child made […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A notebook with a crayon picture of a fish drawn on it and titled "Detective who took the fish"

A child's notebook of observations that reads:

Detective Isla
fish on the loss (loose)

Who took the orange fish in the morning sign I'm lonely (the kidnapper left a sign next to the remaining mascot saying "I'm lonely")

Ms. Sherry in the office

Mr. Alex he was playing Frisbee outside

Mss Debra: I don't trust her

But it could be Ms. Amy

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2025

The prize for winning a top spot at the Hackaday SuperCon SAO challenge with my Bendy SAO design was getting 100 copies of it produced and assembled. These bendy boys just arrived this week. They're getting flashed and paired with 3D printed stands, so now I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Two green poseable PCB assemblies, shaped like inflatable car wash men are illuminated through translucent patches on the front of the PCBs. One assembly is laying on a table, connected to a programmer while the other assembly stands vertically with its base held by a round silver 3D printed stand. Begind the assemblies is a plastic bin filled with dozens more identical assemblies.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2025

Walking in the UCLA campus today, I grabbed what I thought was a copy of the "Daily Bruin" student newspaper. Turns out it's a (quite good!) lookalike satire. Worth zooming in on the images to read the headlines.

A folded student newspaper named "The Westwood Enabler" with a main headline reading "UCPD ARRESTS STUDENT FOR THINKING ABOUT PALESTINE"

A satire version of the Daily Bruin titled "The Westwood Enabler"

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2025

There will come a day when I finish an entire sewing pattern without installing a piece backwards. Today is not that day.

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025

Just finished sewing a new sling bag with a 32x18 LED matrix inside the pocket flap. The pocket flap snaps off so the matrix can be used in other designs. The #Pixelblaze controller and battery fit nicely inside the front pocket

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2025

Was hiking when my dog emerged from the bushes with this large bone. I texted my (doctor) husband to see what it was and he texted it back "fibia," then immediately went offline before answering my second question, "not human, right?" Still waiting for that […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A hand holding a large bleached tibia bone

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2025

Is my weekly #teslatakedown protest. This Saturday I'm in Santa Monica. Smallish but quite high impact protest with good energy and a very high visibility location at the 3rd Street promenade. Also, this couple is awesome.

A grey haired man and woman standing on a street corner holding up protest signs reading "Boycott Tesla" and "Elon Kills Babies"

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

Another small but mighty protest outside the Milken conference in Beverly Hills where Musk is speaking #teslatakedown

A small group of protesters holding anti-Musk signs across the street from the Beverly Hilton which has a sign announcing the Milken Institute conference

A small group of anti Musk protestors on a street corner holding signs

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

It rained this morning, so the weekly Santa Barbara #teslatakedown protest is smaller than usual, but mighty in spirit.

A small but mighty group of protesters standing along a sidewalk holding signs outside of a Tesla dealership

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2025

The diffusers on the new LED polyhedron (dihedral hexacontahedron, right) looked so much better than the first build that I had to print new ones for the truncated icosahedron (left). I also synced up the patterns on both builds (with #pixelblaze) and will be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Another Saturday, another #teslatakedown protest. This is a portion of the crowd outside the dealership in Santa Barbara.

A line of protesters holding signs and standing in front of a Tesla dealership

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2025

The LED deltoidal hexacontahedron is complete! 60 identical PCB sides covered with 3D printed diffusers. Two #Pixelblaze controllers work in sync to provide a fast frame rate for patterns on the 1200 LEDs.

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InarticulateQuilter @inarticulatequilter.mastodon.art.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

Am enjoying having a Pixelfed account There are small differences between it and Mastodon that are taking some getting used to. Nothing too radical, nothing really better or worse, just little things like the layout. It took me a bit to get comfy here, but I did, so I expect these growing pains […]

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

New LED polyhedron build is underway. The video shows two halves of a dihedral hexacontahedron which will have 60 identical kite-shaped sides. This is the third PCB-based polyhedron build in a row, and each one is an improvement. These 3D printed tile covers […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2025

It's been a fun morning. I'm helping a Los Angeles STEM education nonprofit prepare a kids' event, and I got to build and play with this vertical wind tube. (Remarkably simple instructions here: gooddayswithkids.com/2015/02/08/bui…)

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GeekMomProjects @geekmomprojects.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2025

Finished V2 of the truncated icosahedron, and I'm very happy with how it turned out. The sides are 32 hexagonal and pentagonal PCBs, joined by 3D printed corner connectors and covered with 3D printed diffusers. The pixels are mapped and it's running 3D animation patterns on a #pixelblaze.

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