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Seems that my BW16-Open-AT project was featured in the latest #hackerboxes!

Even electrical engineers need copyeditors #HackerBoxes

🔈 Badge just audibly rickrolled me 🎤Activated with an #esp8266 D1 mini.

Anti-#silentsunday #badgelife #hackerboxes

Something fun - #hackerboxes this month has a different form factor. Just-received box on the bottom and the usual size box on the top.

What could possibly be inside?

Every other box we've received has the dimensions of the one on top. The one on the bottom is the one received today - much shorter, much longer, slightly narrower. Unique art of a hoodie wearing hacker with their back towards us looking at a screen.

I've spent the last few months canvassing residential neighborhoods in #Boulder for petition signatures for various candidates I support. But because I am an inveterate #hacker I quickly realized I could bump up my #WiGLE #wwwd rank if I engaged in a little complementary war-walking.

The #HackerBoxes "wispy" kit (https://hackerboxes.com/collections/past-hackerboxes/products/hackerbox-0089-wispy) is a pair of ESP-32 WROOM dev boards, a GPS receiver and a daughterboard with an OLED display and two antenna mounts. It tracks wifi and Bluetooth/BLE and fits inside a clipboard! #ElectMoreHackers

A Hackerboxes wifi "wispy" kit clipped into the inside of a clipboard attached to a large capacity USB battery

Display from the Hackerboxes wispy kit https://hackerboxes.com/collections/past-hackerboxes/products/hackerbox-0089-wispy

All tiles in place! Had to use the seam ripper a couple of times. Don't get your pattern accidentally turned upside down :)

Time for #Tessellation with #Hackerboxes #sewing project. This is a prototype for a larger #quilt and shows circle of fifths concepts.

Prototype of quilt on left, pattern above, and edge of sewing machine on right. Table is maple block, and is handmade also by me.

A more prosaic part of the pattern: attaching the #hackerboxes LED panels with buttonhole stitching. First one went down without incident. Soldering will be done with a shield protecting the fabric.

Time for #Tessellation!

Time for #Tessellation prototype gets black and white checkered #quilt binding. Not a bad effect - reminds me of NASA rockets.

We are going with the #arduino IDE because it looks like all the needed libraries are there, and the circle of fifths demo running on the #hackerboxes parts will fit.

All code will be #opensource.

My cutting table and both Time for Tessellation projects laid out. The prototype has the black and white binding and is laying on top the full quilt to, as yet unquilted. There are tools: fabric weights, fabric scissors, paper scissors,chalk liners, steel pins, binding folders, exacto kit, iron, tabletop ironing board, washi tape, coaster (yes fir drinks, I'm a risk taker), and the hackerboxes parts collected for the project.

The prototype with the black and white binding. Only the controller board is attached so far.

Time for Tessellation #quilt prototype tile layout below. This is an exploded #tessellation, and so far, it's my favorite, because it shows more of the quilt top. #hackerboxes control tile goes in the center.

I am going to do the anchor points for the control tile now. I'm using a historical sail eyelet model and built-in stitches on the #sewing machine to achieve the reinforced holes. Need a good thread to suspend the control tile and provide strain relief for the flexible wire that will route through these holes. Something neutral is what I am looking for.

The control tile will be able to move, therefore utilizing the #accelerometer to change the pattern of the circle of fifths #music #theory theme.

Time for Tessellation quilt top with light emitting diode display printed printed boards laid out like a clock face.

Old sail corner showing the reinforcement stitching techniques I'm going to use to suspend the control tile.

Quilting the #prototype with #embroidery attachment is complete. Two goofs happened but got them fixed. One broken needle because the embroidery foot got hung up on the edge and dragged it under and sewed itself into a nice little cocoon. I backed that out and repaired it. Then, I finished the parts that the pattern didn't reach with a sewing foot.

Good quilt pattern? Time to weigh and consider. I'll be sending out the bigger quilt to someone with a longarm machine. I can do small stuff but a pro will really help here with the larger #quilt. This is commonly done in quilting.

Next: attach the #electronics and start #coding the #esp32 in the #hackerboxes #tessellate boards.

Time for Tessellation!

Maze quilting pattern on tesselated quilt top. Concerned it's too fussy. It's 35cm square.

Put together this simple blinky badge from a #hackerboxes kit this afternoon -- first time I've picked up a soldering iron in decades. That was fun!

Four groups of three black tiles are placed on the smaller prototype 35 cm #quilt square in #tesselated groupings.

Thanks to Frank Brickle for helping develop the theory here. We are tessellating the twelve note octave with #trichordal #generators of the aggregate. This concept will be reinforced with the LEDs and MIDI sound, triggered by the accelerometer in the white tile.

"Time for Tessellation" is powered by #HackerBoxes and explores GF 2^12 music theory concepts.

Four groups of three black tiles are placed on the smaller prototype 35 cm #quilt square in tesselated groupings.

The solidly packed groups of three are at the compass point positions. This smaller prototype will resemble the controller board clock face on the full size quilt panel.

I have one 35 by 35 cm square left over. I am going to use it to prototype the support structure (quilting layers) and the attachment of the #hackerboxes tiles.

For a stationary object like what I’m anticipating doing here (a wall quilt) the accelerometers on the controller tiles are largely wasted. However, ambient light sensing might be useful, as well as proximity detection. Making and sensing sound is, ironically, not something I’ve thought a lot about for this music-theory-oriented design.

Laid out the material sets for Time for Tessellation. We have 56 tiles, and 32 7-by-7 inch fabric blocks,

#quilting with #hackerboxes

Are we going to need more fabric? Let's do some math. I think it's a 5:4 ratio of tiles to fabric blocks, but that just brings us to 40 tiles with the proposed layout. We are going to need more fabric or drop to 40 or less tiles for this particular design.

"Time to Tessellate" square production continues.

A #hackerboxes #sewing project.

Iron seams flat to whatever side you prefer.

Cut the lines perpendicular at midline side.

Cut the diagonal line on the chalk line.

Sew the diagonal lines on either side of the chalk line.

"Time to Tessellate" electronic quilting project powered by #hackerboxes.

Triangle hackerboxes Tessellation PCBs, with LEDs, will go on a quilt backing, as a wall hanging. Pictured is the cutting table with the piecing laid out and three of the PCBs shown.

I heard a rumor that #hackerboxes might have something really neat at #defcon this year for #radio folks.

Last year at #defcon I was a little ashamed of my lack of soldering and electronics knowledge in a couple situations. Especially seeing all the cool things everyone else was doing. I also learned about #hackerboxes there and was pretty interested in their projects. I got a subscription, but they started piling up month after month and unfortunately I had to cancel. Glad to finally have some time to get around to them.

Electronics components laid out on a desk

Going slow to go fast -- #warwalk!

Another segment of a well worn path my wife and I have been walking for 20+ years netted 82 new APs with the #hackerBoxes #WiSpy. After picking up 32 new ones just a couple days ago.

I think I bent the case a bit more, as it was 84 degrees out :)

#wardrive #alwaysBeWardriving #dotsOnMaps

#hackerboxes has arrived :D

#hackerboxes

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