Carrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024

A 🧵 about the last 2 days of @crowdsupply #Teardown2024 which was just ER. MEH. GERD. amounts of fun! Adding posts as quick as I can thumb-type. :)

First up - @charlyn ‘s amazing LED jewelry display. I think the whirling ring is my favorite. There were so many thoughtful details in both her designs and her displays, it was super cool to hear how she put it all together. Will post a video at the end, as those take a while to upload.

Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
Ayesha Iftiqhar @icymakes gave a great talk about why you should make Pretty Circuit Boards (PCBs). It was really inspiring to hear all the ways she does outreach to promote inclusion in STEM. My favorite part was her sly dig at the “get in the kitchen and me me a sandwich” attitude by saying that PCBs were about as easy to make as a sandwich and using that as the framework for explaining layer stackup. And check out her dress with LED constellations!
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
And now let’s talk about the knitting. Yes, the MINDBLOWING machine knitting and stitch visualization software by Hannah Twigg-Smith who is on instagram as branchwelder. She has managed to model slip-stitch patterns AND the way they compress by including a spring constant for the yarn. I totally thought her stitch pattern image was a photo until she explained it. 🤯🤯🤯 Check this out. I’ll include a video at the end of this thread as well.
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024

And saving one of the best for last, @wizard ‘s hilarious talk about switching to KiCad from Eagle was absolutely inspired. Shenanigans abounded and I even got to stand up and give a quick impromptu explanation of brick nogging. 😂 His meme game is so on point, but I wasn’t quick enough on the camera. This talk is equally relevant for anyone coming from Altium, there was nothing Eagle-specific to his workflow.

The last slide is the artwork for a PCB that he designed during his talk. 😂😂😂

Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024

And that was the end of #Teardown2024 , except it wasn’t! Queue the afterparty and extracurricular events!

Celebrating the end of responsibilities and a job terrifically well done by @helenleigh - thank you for heading up such a glorious event. @alexlynd and @bit_bash in supporting roles on the ice!

Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
And the afterparty at Ground Kontrol, an arcade bar! This is what it sounds like in my head (and um, in this case out loud) when I walk into a room with a bunch of pinball machines.
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
Ground Kontrol had the best tile work in a bathroom that I’ve ever seen in my life. And so many thanks to @LaserMistress for being like “Hey, want to play DDR?” and introducing me to the wild world of Dance Dance Revolution. @bit_bash
and @daniel also joined in!
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
And then today there was a Protopasta filament factory tour! Super cool, I had no idea how filament was made and it was neat to see their extrusion machines and all the custom work they’ve done. Bought some small packets of copper, iron, and conductive filament to play with.
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
Not pictured (because oops I forgot) was the cool tour of Corvallis3D, a small print farm that’s now in Beaverton. I’m so glad I can just have them print my production parts and not have to deal with the maintenance on multiple printers, making sure they all have enough filament, making sure the filament is dry, making sure there are UPSs in case there are power glitches, etc, etc, etcetera!
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
Overall, @crowdsupply #Teardown2024 takes the cake for best hacker con I’ve been to so far. It’s like all the best parts of my college experience packed into 3 days. The people I get to hang with and call friends are the very best, I haven’t stayed up laughing until 2am for a very long time. I already miss you all! Thx to @geekmomprojects and @jasoncoon for the photos, and everyone else for making it so much fun. @ishotjr @ArchiteuthisFlux @chipperdoodles @charlyn @icymakes @wizard
Eli SilverJun 25, 2024
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)

had to continue the epic tag list because i ran out of characters! How amazing that we all could make it to this event.
@LaserMistress @hannah
@straithe @joeycastillo @AlieGG
@daniel @bit_bash @alexlynd @highenergybeams
@clomads
Paul Beech

and others I am surely missing, pls don’t hesitate to comment if we chatted, so I can make sure I’m following you!

Jun 25, 2024 at 4:52amWeb
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
oh yeah i said i’d post a few more videos. Hannah’s knitted fabric visualizer. Keep watching the right stitch panel at the very end to see it magically squish like the real fabric would.
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
And coming full circle, a video of the magical @charlyn exhibit.
Show threadAnu ReddyJun 25, 2024
@alpenglow thanks a million for sharing Teardown highlights, Carrie! what a treat✨I’m dogearing the video uploads to savor them later yay
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
@anu1905 No problem, I’m glad I could share the experience, it was amazing!
Show threadÅsa Maria Hedberg - artistJun 25, 2024

@alpenglow So much in your posts that are fantastic, thanks!!

But this last one...!!!
I work as a #sloydteacher (very Swedish word, I know, but I teach textile/woodwork/metal work and more) and I would love to get in touch with Hannah about this knitting visualizer. Or if there's a link should it already exist online?

Would be super helpful for my school kids learning to knit!!

Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
@AasaMariaHedberg Right? I lost my shit when I saw that, there’s no doubting the utility of this. She’s branchwelder on instagram, I’d message her there! It’s still a WIP, so it may be just following her for now, but definitely comment on one of her posts or send her a nice dm.
Show threadÅsa Maria Hedberg - artistJun 25, 2024

@alpenglow yay! Just that I don't think I still get logged on to my Instagram, also rather trying to put my Meta-related accounts to death. Which is a problem as a working artist since not everyone moved over here yet...

If you want to, do give her my email contact: [email protected]
(Åsa Maria Hedberg)

(I'm also just now reworking someone else's code re knitting and crocheting - the page crochetPARADE)

Show threadMichael K JohnsonJun 25, 2024

@alpenglow @AasaMariaHedberg She's posted it online:

https://knitscape.net/

It works on Chrome, and there's a recent PR for fixing rendering on Firefox as well.

MIT-licensed source code is at https://github.com/machineagency/knitscape

Her website has some of the other projects she has worked on.

knitscape

Show threadÅsa Maria Hedberg - artistJun 25, 2024
@mcdanlj
Thank you so much!! ❤️
I will really look into this and I'm sure it will be of great use.
@alpenglow
Show threadCarrie (of Alpenglow)Jun 25, 2024
@mcdanlj @AasaMariaHedberg Thank you so much for the links!!! also tagging @ASemiTree
Show threadRay LeeJun 25, 2024
@alpenglow that’s delightful!