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Formal, dated updates on current work — what was made, how, and what the record shows. Every entry carries its sources.
November 5, 2026
Make Your Own: Hairclip Display
A round touch screen on a hair clip — moods, a name badge, an 8 Ball, an ASCII koi pond, a blinking eye. Communicating is hard sometimes, so I made a screen that says it for me. With a working demo of the tap ring, right in the post.
MAKE YOUR OWN · WEARABLES
November 3, 2026
Make Your Own: ASCII Weather
The view from my terrace, redrawn in characters and driven by the real weather outside it. One photograph, one traced landscape, one free weather feed — a live demo that will wear your town's sky, and a converter that turns your own photo into characters.
HOUSE SCREENS · MAKE YOUR OWN
November 2, 2026
Make Your Own: Flights Overhead
Every airplane overhead is already broadcasting where it is. One free web page, one tiny server, and a TV: a live radar scope for your own house, drawn from the planes' own transponder data.
HOUSE SCREENS · MAKE YOUR OWN
November 1, 2026
The House Screens Project
The screens in my house used to run the manufacturers' ambient loops. Now they run my own pages — a morning newspaper, the state of the house, a tank of moon jellies — served by one Raspberry Pi and kept going by a set of small automations.
HOUSE SCREENS
October 27, 2026
Moon Flowers
Two RGB LEDs in tissue-paper diffusers on an Arduino Uno, breathing through cyan, azure, violet and magenta — then taught to answer hand gestures, with the same tracking stack as Sunday's projects.
ARDUINO · LIGHT · GESTURES
October 25, 2026
I Taught My Laptop to Watch My Hands
A parts box and a webcam became four working programs in one morning — LEDs on an Arduino that obey a hand, a two-hand effects portal, gesture-moved cards, and the real Mac conducted without touching it.
GESTURE PROGRAMS