This is a list of my favorite LED diffusion ideas, which I hope will provide you with some sparks of inspiration for creating your own next-level illumination.
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Hard Drive Shelf
A shelf for my drives! Take a peek behind my computer, and you’ll find a stack of external hard drives and a mess of cables. I keep a piece of fabric in front of this area to help keep dust out, but it’s far from perfect and takes up a lot of horizontal desk space.
My goal with this project is to free up this space while creating a new safe home for my drives, where they could get fresh air without clogging up their fans with sawdust or anything else.
Appearance on the Cool Tools Podcast
Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder interviewed me for their Cool Tools podcast.
Baguette Wobbler Bot
I made a simple wobbling robot inside a loaf of bread. It’s based on Randy Sarafan’s wobbler bot design.
This and more bread bots will be exhibited at NYC Resistor’s Interactive Show Saturday 6/16, come check it out!
Appearance on Make (Break) Podcast
Brandon interviewed me for his Make (Break) podcast.
Tumor Louver Hat for Simone Giertz 💩🤖
Created in collaboration with Leslie Birch! The golf-ball sized “tumor” is ejected from the derby hat with a 3D printed scissor snake driven by a micro servo motor and trinket microcontroller.
Leather Wallet
A simple leather wallet is the first thing I ever made from leather. Sadly the original was lost but that gave me the opportunity to make it again, better, and film it!
3D Printed Glowing Flower
Create a fun light-up flower using 3D printing and Tinkercad! Optionally add some needle felting to diffuse the light from the LED at the center of the flower. The special Glow circuit assembly in Tinkercad makes it easy to put an LED and battery circuit into your 3D prints.