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Tinkerer Maker Solderer Mom • lateral thinker • LEDs improve everything

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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.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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solder.party
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! ⌨️

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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. A photo of a device composed of two PCBs sandwiched together with a silicone keypad in the middle and poking through the front PCB. The keypad has an ortho layout with most keys of a PC keyboard. It also has some extra colorful macro keys at the top. There is a Solder Party logo on the Meta key as well as in the middle of the top row. The silkscreen reads "KeebDeck Basic, arturo182, Solder Party". The two PCBs are held together by four Phillips-head screws.
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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tschundler.leds.social.ap.brid.gy
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.
November 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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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
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Four ways (of many) recursively subdividing/tessellating a pentagon (made with https://thi.ng/geom-tessellate)...

#tilingtuesday #geometry #subdivision #thingumbrella
October 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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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 […]

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October 21, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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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
October 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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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.
September 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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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!
September 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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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.
September 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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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
September 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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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!
August 14, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Maker Tom Keddie remixed the Bendy SAO board for a Pride event, and
love how it turned out!
https://hackaday.io/project/203708-bendysao-went-to-pride
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.
August 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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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
August 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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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.
August 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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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 […]

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July 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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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 […]

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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
June 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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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 […]

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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.
June 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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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" A satire version of the Daily Bruin titled "The Westwood Enabler"
May 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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There will come a day when I finish an entire sewing pattern without installing a piece backwards. Today is not that day.
May 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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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
May 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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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 […]

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A hand holding a large bleached tibia bone
May 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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"
May 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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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
May 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This is fine...
A cascading series of lever wire connectors, joined to each other with hookup wire, start with a single barrel jack to wire connector and end by sending voltage/ground to 15 different power wires to power 15 PCBs from a single cable.
May 2, 2025 at 5:03 AM