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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

3D Hangouts Today with @ecken @videopixil

Hey folks, we’re doing this today. Hope to see ya’ll in the Discord chat!

Livestream starts at 11am today, Wednesday May 25 2022

3D Hangouts – Lego Tripod, Mini TFTs and Retro VGA Cables

This week @adafruit we’re 3D printing Lego compatible tripods adapters for mobile phones! Learn how to use your mobile phone’s camera as a webcam. Prototyping a mini TV set with a Feather RP2040 and updates to the mini nintendo switch / steam deck. Timelapse this week featuring retro VGA cable shells for USB-C cables, tubular!

Learn Guide –
https://learn.adafruit.com/lego-phone-holder/

YouTube Video
https://youtu.be/uvmoAoaQeD0

Timelapse Tuesday

VGA to USB C Shell – Jesse Banks
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5379323
https://youtu.be/tZCXmtR8K4A

https://www.printables.com/model/32718-raspberry-pi-hq-camera-case/comments#comment-253730

Spreadsheet for Resin Printer Settings

By way of Donald Bell‘s Maker Update comes this really useful tool.

As someone relatively new to resin printing, I’ve come to realize just how important printer settings are for successful prints. Layer height, exposure time, base exposure time, and light-off times can all impact your print success. And all of these values can be different for different resin brands.

This spreadsheet on Maker Trainer shows the optimal settings for all the common (and not so common) resin brands.

Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Debbie Long Turns RVs Into Vessels of Light #ArtTuesday

Debbie Longs Light ships transport people literally and maybe metaphysically. Inside each RV is a surreal light experience. From Hyperallergic:

Over the past decade, the Taos-based Long has outfitted two vintage RVs with hundreds of cast glass pieces that collect light from the sky via a transparent ceiling. Inside the pristine white chamber of “Willa,” stationed outside the Harwood Museum of Art, viewers lounge in cream-colored beanbag chairs for a one-hour immersive viewing experience (no phones or recording devices are allowed). Clouds pass overhead, light trickles from sunrise to sunset to twilight to moonlight, and every movement of the sky orchestra flickers in the handmade glass pieces. Like many of the most successful Light and Space pieces, “Willa” and her predecessor, a trailer called “Naima,” rely on the simplest of gimmicks: light collection.

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Every Tuesday is Art Tuesday here at Adafruit! Today we celebrate artists and makers from around the world who are designing innovative and creative works using technology, science, electronics and more. You can start your own career as an artist today with Adafruit’s conductive paints, art-related electronics kits, LEDs, wearables, 3D printers and more! Make your most imaginative designs come to life with our helpful tutorials from the Adafruit Learning System. And don’t forget to check in every Art Tuesday for more artistic inspiration here on the Adafruit Blog!

Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love #ArtTuesday

Sai Mokhtari takes Gothamist readers behind the scenes of artist-designed tables for the upcoming Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love, opening June 4th at the New York Botanical Garden:

“It feels like culturally we’ve separated from our food sources over the last few generations: eating more and more processed, delivered or ready made food, and spending less time growing and preparing our food ourselves,” she said. “I’m excited about a meditation on gardens as a source of food and as an expression of art…”

Le Nid enchanté by François Junod

Wonderful creation from artist and maker François Junod, via YouTube. Hackaday published a piece on Junod and his work last year – check it out to learn more!

Scenec from the North West Walls Festival #ArtTuesday

Images from a street are festival in Belgium. Here’s more from Street Art Bio:

North West Walls is a street art project on the site of the Rock Werchter music festival in Belgium. The project has been curated by Arne Quinze for three years now, a Belgian artist who began his carreer as a graffiti artist in the mid 1980s. This is a highly unusual and impressive project as Arne Quinze set the artists the challenge of painting on towers of shipping containers.

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Hundreds of Melting Ice Figures in Néle Azevedo’s Public Works #ArtTuesday

https://youtu.be/ATjpjiQBWhw

Watch heat at work in the art of Néle Azevedo. Here’s more from COLOSSAL:

Ephemerality has always been at the center of Néle Azevedo’s practice. The Brazilian artist is known globally for “Minimum Monument,” a collection of small ice figures that melt in situ.

First exhibited in Campinas, Brazil, in 2001, the installation, which Azevedo dubs an “urban art action,” has found its way to cities like Paris, Belfast, Lima, and Porto. In each iteration, the artist carves hundreds of 20-centimeter-tall figures seated with their ankles crossed and places them atop outdoor steps and in public spaces. The faceless sculptures drip and pool into small puddles as time passes, which initially was Azevedo’s way of critiquing public monuments and taking “into account the history of the defeated, the anonymous, to bring to light our mortal condition.” The impermanence of the frozen substance directly contrasts the enduring nature of bronze, stone, and other materials typically used for statues and commemorative works.

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