Maker Cast is a monthly live show featuring a bunch of YouTube makers. Join us as we talk about making stuff, new trends, and our latest projects.
The show will be hosted on a different Maker’s channel each month, follow @TheMakerCast on twitter or join TinyLetter Makercast for announcements.
David Watts keeps a updated playlist with all episodes
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Christmas lights
Thingiverse - Customizable everything box (waterproof)
Aliexpress - WS2811 DC 5V/12V 12mm WS2811 LED Module , Black/Green/White/RWB Wire, IP68 waterproof Pixels string Christmas light
Electroplating, copper, gold, iron
Berlinclock Wikipedia - Berlin Clock
Tiny nixie with leds on one pcb - idea from Tindie - PIXIE - Chainable, Dual 5*7 Micro-LED Displays!
Holder for Tindie - Picoplanet (made by Bleeptrack) Available at Github - Bleeptrack/picoplanet
Ledmatrix pcb 22×9
Upgraded 3d printer to mk3
Designing a USB 2.0 hub - with headers for stacking, or a shield with functions
USB A and/or USB C ports.
By default USB standard power limits, or jumper to disabled spec and use more power. Autoswitch to external power.
More info in Youtube - Livestream: USB Hub Layout Part 1
Decorate and organizing workshop, spiderman mask
Got the Holy book, Art of Electronics. Minimultimeter built on esp32-s2, usb-c, wifi, oled. Problem with a part on kicad.
Showed a animatronic skeletonhead, arduino nano, beagleboard ai pre-release, used facerecognition to look at people and tell Terminator quotes.
No butterfacts now!
Went to a rabbit hole with color blindness. Looked into image sensors without color filters. Showed prototype setup to examine light spectrum with diffraction filter.
Starts with some old projects.
Spiderrobot arduino-based. Legs included on the pcb (breakaway), and change to Adafruit Feather and 12 servos. Next version use 8 servos.
Gameconsole using CPython.
Tiny keyboard with rgb led under every key, 10 by 4 keys. (TwinkleTwinkle and Matou showed weird keyboards) Lowprofile key. Created lowest version with keyswitches sunken in the pcb. Dog-fooded the ergonomic keyboard since last week.
Made microkeyboard, 6 by 2 keys.
Keyboard kits/pcbs on tindie?
samd21 ? board feather compatible board, with only 5 components on the pcb, all pins connected, usb plug made with the pcb.
Find all designs on hackaday.io/deshipu
Wearable robots. Smart mechanical solutions for spider legs. Makes open source to give back to the community. Powered by Adafruit Trinket. About a month for this design.
Talked about designing companion robots.
Do things for fun. Trial by error
Showed 3d printed hydrophonic wateringpot, got inspired by bleeptrack and used a picoplanet.
German 3d printing challenge, got a Ender 3 to experiment with, generate 3d printed art sculpture, more at https://www.hnu.de/en/transfer/news/detail/2020/10/22/final-of-the-1st-south-german-3d-printing-challenge-team-bitart-from-ulm-takes-first-place
Showed projects from Blitz City DIY, Stephen Hawes, Brian Lough.
Miniquiz:
This Sunday at 4PM ET I'll be live hosting Maker Cast on my channel with guests @witnessmenow @davedarko @ecken @sophywong && @timonsku
Adafruit promoted todays Maker Cast thanks to @ecken shameless promotion
Woking with Adafruit since 2012
Doing lots with wood. Shelf for Liz (xylophone cabinett), Parametric Designs for crate. Fireplace made of wood with leds for effects. Use Arrange feature in Fusion 360 to make simple plans. Outdoor LED sign. Many future designs in wood.
Doing 3d printing, trying out organic shapes. Quick demo in Adobe Illustrator on iPad to create vector shapes with Apple pencil. 3d printing cupcake ornament. Candycanes failure Creating designs with filament change between layers
Made hairy furby, improved design and now have an army of small furbies. https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/44309-furrbie Jefferies tube Infinity mirror. https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/42639-jefferies-tube-for-infinity-mirror Hand solder https://www.tindie.com/products/connornishijima/pixie-chainable-dual-57-micro-led-displays/ ? More explanation about how to create the furby
Focus for camera via manual remote control. https://github.com/witnessmenow/C920-Arduino-Control Released D1 mini screen shield https://www.tindie.com/products/brianlough/d1-mini-tft-shield/ PCB Christmas tree http://blough.ie/pcb3/
Ported tetris to run on a matrix board
Nunchuck Breakout https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/OwGxGJVk https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/RcIxSx2D
CNC milled bottle opener Minimal Raspberry Pi CM 4 Carrier https://hackaday.io/project/175832-minimal-raspberry-pi-cm-4-carrier Showed a preview for a bigger Pi CM4 Carrier board
Magtag advent calendar
Use easybake oven for reflow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iopyx1IxjE
About 2020/2021
Bitluni asks: Best butter? Liz answer: peanutbutter
Building 8bit cpu on breadboards and pcbs. Demotime a snake game, and audio system. Developes code via eprom.
Optical sound decoder for 16mm filmstrip. Tricky to get the audio.
Made a 2020 candle with a hidden dumpster fire, using a 3d printed mold and paraffin wax. Part of a colab.
Built a glove to feel magnetic fields.
Designed procedurally generated snowflakes pcbs using inkskape and https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen to convert.
Designing procedurally generated snail-shell in blender
Talk about implanted rfid chip
Got 3d printer with pause function to change filament. Tried new stuff with SLA, 3d printed lenses, transparent heart, fresnel sheet
New year resolutions
Made workbench, leather glove to control a heard of robot unicorns. Resistor & harmonic wave tattoo. Recommends Kicad for pcb design. Showed a solder sucker. Have a new book coming about experimental music controllers.
Electroplating plastic, showed a nickel coated pickle. Goal is to electroplate a 3d printed Thor-hammer. Musical tesla-coil. Demo videos
Showing a manual PnP part dispenser.
Computer driven embroidery using processing, a Brother PE-770. Showed a birthday gift for Estefannie Tape measure antenna https://www.instagram.com/p/CKgyGx5r7FP
(Having connection problems) Showing a tiny multimeter with wifi for breadboard use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kbc5S5ff98. A Egg shaped IOT board breadbord-friendly. A CNC controller with many features.
Zack is moving to Colorado and no current projects.
Next month, Matthias Matousek, @MatouMakes
bitluni
https://youtube.com/bitlunislab http://bitluni.net https://twitter.com/bitluni https://patreon.com/bitluni
Brian Lough
https://youtube.com/brianlough http://blough.ie https://twitter.com/witnessmenow https://instagram.com/brian_lough
Dave Darko
https://youtube.com/davedarko https://twitter.com/davedarko https://www.instagram.com/davedarkocom/
Seon (Unexpected Maker)
https://youtube.com/unexpectedmaker https://unexpectedmaker.com https://twitter.com/unexpectedmaker https://patreon.com/unexpectedmaker
Stephen Ludgate
https://www.youtube.com/c/StephenLudgate https://chunkymedia.co.uk https://twitter.com/ChunkySteveo https://instagram.com/ChunkySteveo
Liz Clark ( Blitz City DIY )
https://www.youtube.com/blitzcitydiy https://twitter.com/blitzcitydiy https://instagram.com/blitzcitydiy http://www.blitzcitydiy.com
David Watts
https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidWatts/ https://twitter.com/mrdavidjwatts https://www.instagram.com/davidjwatts/ https://www.tindie.com/stores/mrdavidjwatts/
Jon Oxer
https://youtube.com/SuperHouseTV https://www.superhouse.tv https://www.freetronics.com.au/ https://twitter.com/jonoxer https://twitter.com/superhousetv https://www.facebook.com/jonoxer https://www.facebook.com/superhousetv https://www.patreon.com/superhouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Oxer
Aaron Christophel
https://www.youtube.com/user/12002230
Jeri Ellsworth
https://www.youtube.com/c/jeriellsworth/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiltfive/holographic-tabletop-gaming https://twitter.com/jeriellsworth
Arturo182
https://twitter.com/arturo182 https://www.youtube.com/arturo182
Emily Velasco
https://www.youtube.com/emilyselectricoddities https://www.instagram.com/mle_makes/ https://twitter.com/MLE_Online
James Sharman
https://www.youtube.com/user/weirdboyjim https://twitter.com/WeirdBoyJim
Timon
https://www.youtube.com/ProfSparkles https://twitter.com/timonsku https://hackaday.io/professor
Mayer Makes (Clem)
https://mayermakes.com/ https://Element14.com/presents https://instagram.com/mayermakes/ https://twitter.com/mayermakes/
bleeptrack (Sabine)
http://www.bleeptrack.de/ https://www.youtube.com/user/BleeptrackPodcast https://www.instagram.com/bleeptrack/ https://chaos.social/@bleeptrack https://twitter.com/Bleeptrack https://github.com/bleeptrack
Becky Stern
https://www.youtube.com/bekathwia https://beckystern.com/ https://twitter.com/bekathwia https://www.instagram.com/bekathwia/
Stephen Hawes
https://www.youtube.com/stephentherobot http://stephenhawes.com/ https://twitter.com/stephentherobot https://www.instagram.com/stephenther...
Adam Welch
https://youtube.com/AdamWelchUK https://twitter.com/AdmW_
Applied Procrastination
https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedProcrastination https://twitter.com/AppliedProc https://twitter.com/SimenZhor https://www.facebook.com/AppliedProc https://github.com/appliedprocrastination
Mr. Twinkle Twinkie
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf8oXAT1uUzen6A57bwsudg https://www.twitch.tv/mrtwinkletwinkie https://www.tindie.com/stores/twinkletwinkie/ https://twitter.com/mrtwinkletwink
Alex (tinyledmatrix)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqgAUNEj6AJagz1gycIDdTA https://twitter.com/tinyledmatrix https://instagram.com/tinyledmatrix https://hackaday.io/tinyledmatrix/
deshipu (Radomir Dopieralski)
https://twitter.com/deshipu http://sheep.art.pl/ https://github.com/deshipu https://hackaday.io/deshipu https://www.tindie.com/stores/deshipu/
Matou (Matthias Matousek)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0RQHXbdN4mvQSznPQ5hLhA https://twitter.com/m_matou
Odd_Jay (Jorvon Moss)
https://twitter.com/Odd_Jayy https://www.hackster.io/Odd_Jayy https://www.instagram.com/odd_jayy/
Noé Ruiz (@ecken)
https://twitter.com/ecken https://noeruiz.me/ https://www.instagram.com/ecken/
sophy wong (@sophywong)
https://twitter.com/sophywong/ https://www.youtube.com/sophywongmakes http://houseoflulu.tumblr.com/ https://www.instagram.com/sophywongmakes/ https://sophywong.com/
Zack Freedman (@ZackFreedman) aka Voidstar Lab
https://www.youtube.com/user/ZackFreedman https://twitter.com/zackfreedman https://www.patreon.com/zackfreedman https://www.instagram.com/zackfreedman/ https://github.com/zackfreedman
Helen Leigh
https://www.youtube.com/user/helenlsteer https://twitter.com/helenleigh https://www.instagram.com/helenleigh_makes https://github.com/helenleigh https://hackaday.io/helenleigh https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Leigh/e/B07JGHGDN9
Ian Charnas
https://www.youtube.com/user/iancharnas https://twitter.com/iancharnas https://www.patreon.com/iancharnas https://instagram.com/iancharnas