Sam Ettinger

@settinger.net

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Formerly @dhammarskjold on the birdsite. Sorry for misleading everyone, I'm not actually a UN Secretary General with a posthumous Nobel Prize. Yet.

A small white box with heavy-duty-looking latches and text that reads "PROP 65 WARNING WARNING: this product contains lead, which is known to the state of California to cause Prop 65 Warnings"
Several addressable LED strips in the shape of a Cool S, mounted on a large piece of posterboard of the same shape. The S is leaning against a window while several colorful patterns run on the LED strips. It is night time and if you listen closely you can hear car noise outside and the incidental music from the Strip in Fallout: New Vegas.
I hold a dimensioned drawing of a Cool S in front of the camera then pull it away to reveal a 1.1 meter high Cool S made of LED strips that is running a rhythmic chasing rainbow pattern.
A photo of a connector PCB joining two strips cleanly at a 135° angle
A poster board with a meter-long cool S marked out with blue tape and addressable LED strips
One 90° connector PCB soldered cleanly to two LED strips
One end of an LED strip and a 90° corner bracket on a Hakko B2300 Heat Resistant Pad
The Cool S diagram from the last post, with gold corner bracket pieces laid out around some straight sections of addressable LED strips.
A hand holding a printed out diagram of the Cool S shape, with distances and angles dimensioned. It is not a cyanotype blueprint despite what the post says.
A flex PCB with concentric copper rings and perforations so it can be torn into smaller arcs and wedges.
The finished panel of recycled plastic tiles, framed in a shadow box
The canvas from the previous post, now fully tiled on the top half. A hot glue gun is lying on the empty bottom half. A 5-foot-long continuous coil of hot glue stick is spooling out the back of the glue gun.
A stretched canvas with some of the homemade melted plastic zellij tiles nestled in place, starting at the center and progressing to the top left.
A hand holding a brick-red rubber mould filled with irregular chunks of plastic, one of which looks like a grey shirt button.
A computer graphic of the tiling pattern in question, with certain shapes highlighted in green or blue to add contrast and definition.
A photo of a hand holding two brick-red rubber molds, about 5mm deep and 40mm across, in two geometric shapes common to Moroccan zellij tiles. In the background are more rubber molds, still encased in the black plastic forms that they were poured in.
A Discord screenshot of settinger (me) saying "Thank you for moving at Shenzhen speed lmao" and then Kevin replying "Shenzhen almost moves at Kevin speed"
A side view of the sticker spool holder showing a very full reel of the "Do it you Coward" stickers waiting to be dispensed.
A roll of stickers in a black plastic dispenser. Each sticker is a silver holographic circle, about 1 inch diameter, with "Do it you Coward" written in the Jokerman typeface.
Two side by side images of a person wearing a white-and-violet pendant made of gears. In the left photo, the dials on the gears form the male/Mars astrological symbol; in the right photo, the dials have been turned and the gears shifted to form the female/Venus astrological symbol.
A 5mm LED held in a pair of tweezers. Under the lens is a tiny, tiny PCB with a tiny microcontroller and a programmable shunt IC.