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  • Paper Switches

    Series of paper switches I designed for the second part of the e-luminated paper circuits workshop at SFCB. I used the Silhouette to pre-cut paper samples that students could use in the workshop to learn about some of the possibilities.The sampler as constructed by one of the class participants Spin switch Tab switch Push Switch…

  • Bananas of the World Unite

    The Banana sticker give away has now been declared officially over. Participation was fruitful, and prizes have been shipped smoothie. Congrapeulations to the prize winners! Sophie, queen of vegetable puns, was quick off the mark with her enthusiasm: Natalie points out the truth of the matter. But my all time favorite has to go to…

  • Banana Sticker Give Away!

    I’ve been clearing out my hoards of decorative paper today and stumbled across these BANANA STICKERS! I made them a while ago, and not only are they bananas, but they also fit perfectly on your laptop to light up the magical bananas when you are at working hard at very serious things. One of these…

  • Book Club of California

    This week I had the pleasure to present some of my books at a public talk for the Book Club of California. The club, which has been in San Francisco for about 100 years, is on the 5th floor of a commercial building a stone’s throw away from Chinatown. Walking into the space is kind…

  • e-luminated books part 2

    This weekend we ran part 2 of the e-luminated books workshop at San Francisco Center for the book. This part was focused on interactivity -embedding sensors and switches into books, as wells as designing programs for the Attiny85. It was a lot of fun and will be happening again in June! If you haven’t taken…

  • Java Jelly Fish

    This month I enrolled in a “Fundamentals to Programming Java” class for the semester. Of course I still think Processing is A-mazing and don’t want to stop learning how to use it, and have lots more projects to make with it, but teaching yourself stuff for extended periods of time can be tiring (especially with…

  • Knitting Program: bitKNIT

    Almost 10 months ago to the day I started a blog called “Processing Processing”. I started it to document the process of learning the visual programming language, Processing. My first post, published on February 16th 2014, lists 10 reasons why I wanted to start to learn to program. Reasons like “because I like making stuff”,…

  • New (g)logo

    Oh yes, this new logo GLOWS! Made on the Silhouette Cameo at my favorite makerspace in San Fransisco. If you too are fed up of being a free advert for multinational corporation and fancy make your own please check out my instructable for instructions. Let it glow let it glow let it glow (feeling christmassy?)…

  • Knitting Program V1

    There has been a short hiatus in my processing development. But lordy-lordy am I a happy programmer right now! Oh joy of joys. I have been making a program for generating stranded knitting patterns from photographs. I will write more about the program as it develops, but here are the screen shots. The program is…

  • Circus-y disco e-luminated book

    Quite a long title for a tiny weeny book. This one was rather wonderful to make, and was programmed using a simple Arduino blinky pattern and the teeny-weeny-ATtiny. (so teeeeeeny) Here is the process: All the layers putting the pages together The lighting The control -including wonderful paper battery holder curtsy of Natalie Freed and…

  • San Francisco Center for the Book

    We held our second e-luminated book workshop at the SFCB this weekend. It was a really lovely and creative group -they experimented with light and switches and made some really beautiful tunnel books in a very short time. We’ll be teaching the same class again in the new year, and will also be teaching a…

  • Making lights blink with Pa

    This weekend my dad came to visit.* Apart from doing very nice things, like a cycle ride across a big red bridge, we had fun playing with electronics. It went something a bit like: Me: Hey Dad, not seen you in a while, look at some of the stuff I’ve got (points at arduino, flora,…

  • Speakers

    I’ve been playing around with making speakers. Here are a few. I started teaching at Lick Wilmerding High School a month ago. On one of the courses we are making an amp, and to learn how speakers work we made paper speakers. Students made some really great ones and it was a lot of fun!…

  • They Lay Beneath

    Ew. Printed animations I made whilst in residence at Mission Grafica.

  • What’s in the box?

    Oh, you know, folk climbing mountains and holding up a rainbows in a storm of electrostatic discharge. Same old.* *hand made clamshell box with paper cuts, LED lighting, and animated circuitry.

  • Speedy Stars and Stars

    This Friday was my first July the 4th in the USA, and I got invited to a starts and stripes themed SF Bike Party. SF Bike Parties happen about 6 times a year, and consist of an evening bike ride to multiple destinations around San Francisco with 50 or so other cyclists, clad in blinking…

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    Maker Ed Maker Corps

    Maker Ed is a non-profit based in the Bay Area. They are a sister company of Maker Media (Make Magazine, Maker Faire) and work to support making in schools. I recently applied for Maker Ed’s spring teacher training and teaching position called “Maker Corps”, and got selected! We, the “Maker Corps Members”, spend 6 weeks…

  • Nexmap book hack

    I recently had the absolute pleasure of taking part in a daylong book-hack (a boohackathon?). It was hosted by Nexmap, a San Francisco based arts-tech company who are currently developing a series of hackable journals for schools. I spent the day discussing and making books with an group of creatives, including friend and collaborator Natalie…

  • Journaling

    I’m writing a presentation about “journaling” for a class of high-school students. Here are a list of reasons why I keep journals: to remember things to sketch an idea to make thoughts real to come back to later (sometimes years later!) to explain things to the side of my brain that needs to see and…

  • Coyote Peep Show

    Oh look. I made a peep show. It is a coyote peep show where shadows of wolves howl at shadows of wolves with boobs. peep through the eye of the eye hooooooooooooooo wwwwwwwwwwww lllllllllllllllllllllllllll This is another prototype for my final project for the bookbinding class I am taking. And I am terribly excited, because…