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Speaking of math, counting is hard. I had hoped to be done with the commercial project tonight, but I did 12 of a component instead of 20 like they wanted (I have no idea how I got that wrong), so I have like 4 more hours of machine running for this, and then I need to super clean the machine. I've been cutting what is essentially gym floor mat stuff, so it's not a hard material but the dust is super sticky.
I'm really quite excited about it, now it's just a matter of seeing how long i can make the cuff before I have to bindoff.
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I emailed the vendor and they said I could mail the inserts back to them
Hopefully they have something that fits
It's a perplexing situation
I should have put the inserts in the arrows before fletching them, I probably cannot return the arrows if the insert situation doesn't work out favorably
I wasn't very smart there
I was able to set the temperature and humidity stuff in the serial monitor (I even got it to display in F instead of C) but it would be cool to get it running off a battery if possible and just see it on a little screen.
The lcd screen seems complicated though. It's got a ton of data pins and apparently needs a potentiometer to adjust the brightness / contrast. Luckily the sensor only uses one data pin so it should be pretty simple once I figure out how to print things on the lcd.
I take a moment to breathe, look up and there the roll is, hung on the wall at eye level. Right where I last put it.
definitely replacing that. aside from that bit of bad comedy, it is solid and I love it
Previous one for comparison:
Today:
I really wanted to get that gap in the middle filled in, and for ages had exactly one stitch missing because I didn't have the right thread, but my last batch of colours arrived yesterday. Filling in the gaps is so satisfying.
You can see what I was saying about weird green bits along the top edge of the tail. I can deal with it there because the edge of the tail is kind of translucent so the green of the background shows through a bit, but that just doesn't convert very well to the chart so it looks strange. But I'm thinking for the green shadows over the rest of the horse I might use a dark grey instead. It still might look murky but I just think green is weird to see.
When I look at the picture I created the pattern from it doesn't look green to me but if I use a colour picker on those areas they actually are a very dark green. I guess it's reflected light from the grass? But in the original pic the colours are so blended I guess you can't actually see green, whereas in cross stitch it becomes really obvious.
It's described as an ever-growing forest of luminous trees in every color imaginable, every tree different, glowing fruit exploding into a shower of light every second. There is no sun or moon, so the whole forest is lit only by its own glow.
Any thoughts on how to make glowing trees?
Best idea I've had so far is transparent polymer clay with LEDSs inside.
Satans..... hints.....
and show us pictures
Basically, I need some foam to glue to the table and then some kind of covering, felt or velvet. I'll probably order a couple of different densities for the foam and I'm leaning towards billiard felt rather than velvet, velvet has a rather pronounced nap and I'd like to be able to slide things around without necessarily announcing to the world that I've done it.
Oh and I have never done anything like this before. So fun and educational, I'm sure.
It's so hard to motivate myself to do it though
Plus my depression brain has sapped what little imagination I had left at this point.
I just hooked my tablet back up and reinstalled corel painter 2020 so I can start practicing again.
Also would recommend the Bulbasaur one as well.
They start dying as soon as I bring them home and nothing I do seems to help
My aloe vera in the bathroom however, just keeps holding on no matter how I neglect it. I’ve gone six months without watering that thing and it just grows a bit then starts cannibalizing itself for water.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
now if I could figure out how to get the wheels off I could finish it =/
They're apparently used to pimp cars. 2.3 mm thickness. If only I could find one that wasn't a fixed color…
I'm thinking an infinity box to give the illusion of infinite size.
But drawing is hard still and I'm way out of practice.
I need reference material I think and I might do better.
But I'm really unorganized so looking up and organizing my own little library of reference images is gonna be tricky.
I don't think it's possible for those to change colors. The light comes from a chemical coating, not from LEDs
Is there a similar product that does change color? I could get those led strips; they can do anything.
But they're quite big (1 cm rather than 2.5 mm) and with discrete light sources.
In my language it's apparently called a "one-way mirror" ("enveisspeil") :P. Figuring that out made searching a bit easier.
Well, a booknook done, at least.
Done-ish, at least. The wiring is shit, though; 6 hours and no luck getting it hooked up properly. This was taken a split second before the amateurish electical connection gave up.
Made from some reaper bones figures, papier mache-covered tin foil, tea light leds, and mdf. There's actually blinking leds inside the statues, but they're hard to see. The box warped badly as the paper mache tried, but enough brute force got it passable.
I would think wiring up individual LED lights would be the better way to go as they are smaller than the actual strips.
They's only be one color, surely? (I'm also afraid it will look like a tree that's swallowed a light bulb rather than a glowing tree.)
They are actually red green and blue diodes in one package. The wiring will be a little different because each color has it's own lead and they share a common ground.
You can mix the color by changing the amount of power supplied to each lead, in my Arduino kit they demonstrate how to do that by using pulse width modulation to turn the pins on and off for certain durations to effect the apparent brightness of each color.
Also rgb leds can come in very small packages considering some are tiny surface mount ones. Let me look up a few.
Also you might have just burnt out your led if you weren't using a resistor. If you just put 5v over an led straight out you'll fry it pretty quick.
No resistors. But a big-ass piece of steel wire (which I'm awere functions as a resistor) that all the leds are wired up to (bare copper twiested around the wire. 6 hours with a soldering iron failed to yield any useful results). Problem is that the connection is shit (for so many obvious reasons). Leds work fine, just need to jiggle the wire a bit.
Real proud of my electrical work, there.
Whittling down the projects one by one!
My absolute favourite designer and one of my fave humane and mentors has turned out to be a huge antivax person with some QAnon curious tendencies. So I'm heartbroken and angry.
And now I need to find a way to extract myself from this part of the fibre world that has meant so much to me for the last five years while still holding onto my mental health.
Never meet your idols, folks. It never ever ever ends well.
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It sucks but at least you found out before giving them any more business
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I've been the moderator of their facebook group for almost 2 years now. and close with them for almost 5 years. She was part of how I got comfortable with knitting and with myself and has done MASSIVE amounts to help me boost my confidence.
It's not just about the money and business. this one was a deep and personal hurt.
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Well damn :sad:
Who was it, so I can avoid buying their designs?