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2024-01-15

Pen Plotter Art

I’ve been experimenting with art created by code, and drawn in physical form with an AxiDraw pen plotter, and I’m not sure if it’s the ideal melding of technology and...

Tools

2018-03-12

HELPR — Part 0: Research on a new 3D printer design

I’ve been gearing up to make some more cosplay elements and props recently, so I’ve been tying to get my old 3D printer working, and it’s… not going well. What...

Tiki Mugs

2017-11-13

Kilauea Cocktail

The Pele tiki mug kickstarter was a success, and the production of mugs is still ongoing, after a lot of trial and error getting the glaze to come out the...

Tiki Mugs

2017-06-27

Pele Tiki Mug – Back the Kickstarter!

I just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the production of the Pele Tiki Mug for Kilauea Cove! Kilauea Cove is my home tiki bar with the erupting volcano, and...

circuit diagram for the volcano controller

Props

2017-02-24

Kilauea Cove Build — Part 5: Smoke & Lights

Back to the good stuff — smoke and lights! Now that I have (almost) all of the decor in place, I can see how the lights will play off of...

Props

2017-02-22

Kilauea Cove Build — Part 4: Shelves, Trim & Decor

Now that the walls are covered, the next step is the shelves and trim. There’s already some bamboo molding, but we’ve also got some carved tiki trim in store. Bottle...

three rows of bamboo trim covering the brown walls in the entire space

Props

2017-02-20

Kilauea Cove Build — Part 3: Paint, Reed & Bamboo

As noted in the last update, I got the NeoPixel RGB LEDs working with the Raspberry Pi. I then cut the long NeoPixel strand into strips and glued them to...

Animated colored LEDs illuminate smoke coming from a volcano-shaped tiki mug

Featured / Props

2017-02-18

Kilauea Cove: Raspberry Pi-controlled Active Volcano!

Since the last Kilauea Cove update, there have been a lot of updates to the Cove, and the Raspberry Pi-controlled volcano feature is now active in my basement tiki nook....

Uncategorized

2017-02-04

Emerald City Comicon

I will be appearing on a panel at Emerald City Comicon, Sarcastic Voyage: Comedy for Nerds, on Thursday, March 2nd at 5:15pm, in room WSCC 617, the “Podcast Zone Stage”:...

Borg prosthetic appliances made of foam latex.

Makeup

2017-01-10

Production Methods for Borg Prosthetics

I’m working on a project — one, to learn more about effects makeup and prosthetics, and two, to make a set of Borg prosthetics for my friend’s cosplay for Emerald...