439: Ditches and Psychology

Chris and Elecia talk about house maintenance, blinking LEDs, paper engineering and more. 

Cutting Mobius Strips Video: Tadashi Tokieda cuts various combinations of loops and Mobius loops - with surprising results.

festi.info/boxes.py generates boxes for laser cutting (or other SVG consuming device). Boxes.py is a python module that lets you programmatically generate the SVGs. (Github repo)

Amanda Ghassaei’s Sugarcube is a MIDI instrument using this SparkFun button pad. We also talked about the Mikroe 8800 Retro Click.

Elecia is taking Paper Engineering with Kelli Anderson. Chris is taking songwriting courses from School of Song.

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Jellyfish and snail shells designed by Elecia. Purple coral is based on Vincent Floderer’s crumpling method (via Eric Gjerde instruction). All folded by Elecia White.