I attended a silicone mould making workshop at the London Sculpture Workshop. I chose two objects to mould. A novelty coin I designed and 3D printed (1 part mould) and a lightbulb (2 part silicone mould with a plaster jacket). Making the coin mould was very easy. However when I made a wax cast there […]
Author: mariamkh
Making a table for my 3D printer
“Grinder and paint make me the welder I ain’t” A couple of weeks ago, I attended a MIG welding class at the London Sculpture Workshop. Wanting to put my new skills to use, I decided to make a new table for my 3D printer. The printer is currently perched (very precariously) across 2 tiny, rickety […]
Homemade LED Matrix TV Pop Up with ESP32 (Part 2)
Going from the Arduino to ESP32 The animations are essentially large 2D arrays of CRGB data, and even 1 animation of 5 frames was too large for the Arduino UNO (SRAM 2KB) so I switched to the ESP32 C6 Mini (SRAM 512 KB) – plenty of space for some small animations. I used the […]
Homemade LED Matrix TV Pop Up with ESP32 (Part 1)
In this blog I’m going to explain how I made a ‘pop-up’ TV with a functioning screen showing pixel animations. There is a ‘remote’ controlling the ‘channels’- so when a button is pressed a new animation is presented on the screen. Pop Up Design The design for my pop up went through several iterations. I […]
LED Choker using ATTiny85 and FastLED (Part 2)
Today I finished off my choker! Code There was an effect I wanted to add from Scott Marley’s FastLED effects page, the effect ‘twinkles’ the LEDS using colours from a user defined palette. The palette I used had blue green colours but when I uploaded the code, the LED looked like this: They were flashing […]
LED Choker using ATTiny85 and FastLED (Part 1)
I got a basic grounding in FastLED with this excellent set of tutorials by Scott Marley and knew I wanted to use Fastled in a project so decided to make a choker! Materials Collar from Amazon. To use as the actual choker itself I bought this dog collar – bit weird I know but the […]
10 Things I Learned as a TV Production Runner/Researcher
A list of top tricks and tips for being a TV production runner/researcher.