H=Host, X=Guest, Q=Quiz Master

Christmas lights

Thingiverse - Customizable everything box (waterproof)

Github - WLED

Aliexpress - WS2811 DC 5V/12V 12mm WS2811 LED Module , Black/Green/White/RWB Wire, IP68 waterproof Pixels string Christmas light

Electroplating, copper, gold, iron

Berlinclock Wikipedia - Berlin Clock

Tiny nixie with leds on one pcb - idea from Tindie - PIXIE - Chainable, Dual 5*7 Micro-LED Displays!

Holder for Tindie - Picoplanet (made by Bleeptrack) Available at Github - Bleeptrack/picoplanet

Ledmatrix pcb 22×9

Upgraded 3d printer to mk3

Designing a USB 2.0 hub - with headers for stacking, or a shield with functions

USB A and/or USB C ports.

By default USB standard power limits, or jumper to disabled spec and use more power. Autoswitch to external power.

More info in Youtube - Livestream: USB Hub Layout Part 1

Designing pcb art / badges

Hackaday

Simple add-ons

Decorate and organizing workshop, spiderman mask

Got the Holy book, Art of Electronics. Minimultimeter built on esp32-s2, usb-c, wifi, oled. Problem with a part on kicad.

Showed a animatronic skeletonhead, arduino nano, beagleboard ai pre-release, used facerecognition to look at people and tell Terminator quotes.

No butterfacts now!

Went to a rabbit hole with color blindness. Looked into image sensors without color filters. Showed prototype setup to examine light spectrum with diffraction filter.

Starts with some old projects.

Spiderrobot arduino-based. Legs included on the pcb (breakaway), and change to Adafruit Feather and 12 servos. Next version use 8 servos.

Gameconsole using CPython.

Tiny keyboard with rgb led under every key, 10 by 4 keys. (TwinkleTwinkle and Matou showed weird keyboards) Lowprofile key. Created lowest version with keyswitches sunken in the pcb. Dog-fooded the ergonomic keyboard since last week.

Made microkeyboard, 6 by 2 keys.

Keyboard kits/pcbs on tindie?

samd21 ? board feather compatible board, with only 5 components on the pcb, all pins connected, usb plug made with the pcb.

Find all designs on hackaday.io/deshipu

Wearable robots. Smart mechanical solutions for spider legs. Makes open source to give back to the community. Powered by Adafruit Trinket. About a month for this design.

Talked about designing companion robots.

Do things for fun. Trial by error

Showed 3d printed hydrophonic wateringpot, got inspired by bleeptrack and used a picoplanet.

German 3d printing challenge, got a Ender 3 to experiment with, generate 3d printed art sculpture, more at https://www.hnu.de/en/transfer/news/detail/2020/10/22/final-of-the-1st-south-german-3d-printing-challenge-team-bitart-from-ulm-takes-first-place

Showed projects from Blitz City DIY, Stephen Hawes, Brian Lough.

Miniquiz:

• Complete one project or start a dozen?

This Sunday at 4PM ET I'll be live hosting Maker Cast on my channel with guests @witnessmenow @davedarko @ecken @sophywong && @timonsku

Adafruit promoted todays Maker Cast thanks to @ecken shameless promotion

Woking with Adafruit since 2012

Doing lots with wood. Shelf for Liz (xylophone cabinett), Parametric Designs for crate. Fireplace made of wood with leds for effects. Use Arrange feature in Fusion 360 to make simple plans. Outdoor LED sign. Many future designs in wood.

Doing 3d printing, trying out organic shapes. Quick demo in Adobe Illustrator on iPad to create vector shapes with Apple pencil. 3d printing cupcake ornament. Candycanes failure Creating designs with filament change between layers

Made hairy furby, improved design and now have an army of small furbies. https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/44309-furrbie Jefferies tube Infinity mirror. https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/42639-jefferies-tube-for-infinity-mirror Hand solder https://www.tindie.com/products/connornishijima/pixie-chainable-dual-57-micro-led-displays/ ? More explanation about how to create the furby

Focus for camera via manual remote control. https://github.com/witnessmenow/C920-Arduino-Control Released D1 mini screen shield https://www.tindie.com/products/brianlough/d1-mini-tft-shield/ PCB Christmas tree http://blough.ie/pcb3/

Ported tetris to run on a matrix board

Nunchuck Breakout https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/OwGxGJVk https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/RcIxSx2D

CNC milled bottle opener Minimal Raspberry Pi CM 4 Carrier https://hackaday.io/project/175832-minimal-raspberry-pi-cm-4-carrier Showed a preview for a bigger Pi CM4 Carrier board

Magtag advent calendar

Use easybake oven for reflow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iopyx1IxjE

About 2020/2021

Bitluni asks: Best butter?
Liz answer: peanutbutter

Building 8bit cpu on breadboards and pcbs. Demotime a snake game, and audio system. Developes code via eprom.

Optical sound decoder for 16mm filmstrip. Tricky to get the audio.

Made a 2020 candle with a hidden dumpster fire, using a 3d printed mold and paraffin wax. Part of a colab.

Built a glove to feel magnetic fields.

Designed procedurally generated snowflakes pcbs using inkskape and https://github.com/badgeek/svg2shenzhen to convert.

Designing procedurally generated snail-shell in blender

Talk about implanted rfid chip

Got 3d printer with pause function to change filament. Tried new stuff with SLA, 3d printed lenses, transparent heart, fresnel sheet

New year resolutions

Made workbench, leather glove to control a heard of robot unicorns. Resistor & harmonic wave tattoo. Recommends Kicad for pcb design. Showed a solder sucker. Have a new book coming about experimental music controllers.

Electroplating plastic, showed a nickel coated pickle. Goal is to electroplate a 3d printed Thor-hammer. Musical tesla-coil. Demo videos

Showing a manual PnP part dispenser.

Computer driven embroidery using processing, a Brother PE-770. Showed a birthday gift for Estefannie Tape measure antenna https://www.instagram.com/p/CKgyGx5r7FP​

(Having connection problems) Showing a tiny multimeter with wifi for breadboard use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kbc5S5ff98. A Egg shaped IOT board breadbord-friendly. A CNC controller with many features.

Zack is moving to Colorado and no current projects.

Next month, Matthias Matousek, @MatouMakes

Got tagged on twitter by @smartereveryday (Destin), about matrix display, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngrVccEU4e4 Support for emojis, scrolling text, countdowns, and progress bars

Automation for Tindie and local post office to easier send packages https://github.com/witnessmenow/an-post-pupeteer

Internet works, Clem shows stuff next

Shows pcb design for CNC controller with PI 2040 module, missing documentation for PI CM, dots go on the bottom.

Plans to open shop for more unusual stuff. Showed examples.

Vacumtubes! Dislikes high voltages, runs tubes on +-12V. Builds a 1-bit microcontroller, prototype design. 555 timer with tubes.

Talked about python and programming. Made a small shield in Adafruit Feather format, https://pewpew.readthedocs.io/ https://www.makerfabs.com/pewpew-standalone.html

Found RGB ring-lights on Aliexpress https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005001445143962.html twitter thread https://twitter.com/timonsku/status/1357681117395103746

Build a chess robot with a 3d printer https://github.com/matou/3d-printer-chess

https://sketchful.io/ with maker words

Episode delayed one week, but back with 2 new makers, Atomic14 and Simple Electronics.

Timon:

piunora opensource carrier board för Raspberry Pi 4, started company Diodes-Delight to sell electronics, logo design by Bleeptrack.

Liz:

16 key Midi keyboard, 3d printed eggs, sailormoon star locket, vhs case for raspberry, midi controlled recorder bot

Simple Electronics:

Shows Snow speeder

Atomic14(chris):

Made walkie-talkies with tinypicos

Deshipu:

Robots, needs googly-eyes, made lots of them.

Seon:

Mostly software stuff, tinys2

Timon host with guests are Debra (GeekMomProjects), bleeptrack, Emily, davedarko and Matou (MatouMakes).

(lost edit) Davedarko and Matou showed stuff

Emily showed Eye game, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7eNHkZovpQ A Simon Says game? Showed the garage

Bleeptrack

Oh my git, a game about git https://ohmygit.org/

https://fuck.bleeptrack.de/stickers/

New picoplanets https://www.tindie.com/products/bleeptrack/picoplanet/

GeekMomProjects (Debra)

Wearable board, https://www.evilgeniuslabs.org/fibonacci64 but smaller Using usbc connectors for mechanical fastener, and magnetic purse fasteners for power.

Infinitymirror cube formed, collar with a infinitymirror look, octahedron shape

Timon

See episode 27, still working on the board. Got first prototype board.

Billie Ruben (new) Creates posters, 3d printing stuff and adult things. More info about Bille on Simple Electronics podcast episode 8 Talks about silicone casting with 3d printed molds.

chat question: How to stop snagging while 3d print on textiles hackaday - remoticon video how to 3d print onto fabric with billie ruben

Usagi Electric 555-timer with tubes v2, 12 tubes. Op-amp built with tubes on a upscaled version of a dip chip. Lots of talk about tubes.

chat question: How to solder aluminium

Intermit.Tech (Quindor) (new) Led driving modules, QuinLED

Brian Lough Using Youtube live chat api, chat controlled traffic light, traffic light for kids, ESP32 Trinity (for controlling matrix-led-boards)

bitluni vga madness - 6 vga ports from 1 esp32. RPoE Rpi 2040 with POE and usb-c

Quizmaster Angus Flash (davedarko) Questions about what was said during the makercast

Billie won

Quindor starts and talks about some new boards he made. booster for ledstrips, data and power.

Tom Clement, first time on makercast. Talks about electronic event badges. Showed https://pixel.curious.supplies/#discover

Clem/Mayermakes, a digital backpack for a analog filmcamera. Created a more sturdy resin for the project.

Deshipui, building connectors out of pcb

davedarko, built webcam out of raspberry pi. Build model out of leftover parts. Gametoy

atc1441 (Aaron Christophel), talks about e-ink display. Lots of talk about the SWD/Glitch tool

Quiz: https://www.investintech.com/resources/blog/tech-quiz/

Dave Darko, Matou, Bitluni, Mr Twinkle Twinkie, Timon and new guest Guy Dupont

Short introductions Guy: software dev by trade but trying more hardware.

Timon, updates on Piunora. Also showed a Leica camera clone that he plans to make digital with a raspberry pi camera.

Bitluni, updates on the RPoE board

Matou, 3d printed jewelry

TwinkleTwinke, pcb badges

Guy, “Key note visualizer” a board that shows notes played via midi. T9 keyboard.

Davedarko, sequencer

Hosted by Davedarko and Timonsku at xHain

Timonsku

deshipu

Robin Reiter - pixelpump https://twitter.com/robin7331 https://www.youtube.com/c/RobinReiter https://pixel-pump.com/ https://www.crowdsupply.com/robins-tools/pixel-pump

Deshipu: Showed his graveyard of robots

Davedarko: a mechanical calculator from deshipu donated to xHain ?

Robin Reiter: Showed the Pixel Pump - An open source manual pick and place machine

Davedarko: analog synth

Talk about a MS6205 screen - https://hackaday.io/project/179866/

Timonsku: piunora

Davedarko: Tour of xHain

Davedarko: The Pink armwatch

James Sharman: Showed his homebuilt cpu / gamesystem with vga output, many improvements since his last time on makecast.

brian: Pink pcbs, from pcbbuy, ESP32 Trinity have arrived, demos various functions

bitluni: projects from livestreams

Seon: vacumboard for stencil printer and some teasers (S3)

atomic14: asteroids game with laser projection, voice controlled robot

Quiztime

Stephen Hawes: Talked about the Index (Open PnP machine)

deshipu: keyboards and bots

Jason Coon: impressive led creations

Kyle - Microtype: talking about testing emc

atomic14: mp3 player, ulp processor on esp32

quiz: a hard quiz, the audience won!

Mayer Makes (clem): A engineering resin, gets clear when cured, can be milled. smander.com distribution company for makers

Becky Stern: Secret Santa project, miniature hotdog stand

The Electronic Engineer (mark): Spectrumanalyzer, Building lasercutter, Banana for scale

Timon: Piunora, arduino formfactor carrier board for Raspberry Pi CM4, now shipping!

Stargirl (thea): Started a new website, https://winterbloom.com/, demo Big Honking Button and Speak to Me. demo of testjig

atomic14: Own version of wireless leds

quiz

Tom Clement, Badges last time, this time security. Remotecontroll for key lights, tuya hacking (beken chip, arm)

Ian Charnas, pneumatic anklebreaker, or jump helper, project for Rotor Riot (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCemG3VoNCmjP8ucHR2YY7hw) Ion lifter drone , rocket triggerd lightning

Usagi Electric (David), cpu made by vacumtubes, demo

DaveDarko, led projects

bitluni, ultrasonic levitater, ultrasonic phase-array

2022 project: Tom Clement, hardware audiomixer. Usagi, spoiler audiodevice with tubes. ian, fruit ninja with robot arm

Guy Dupont host

Dave Darko, Mayer Makes, Timon, bitluni, The Electronic Engineer

Dave is not feeling well and is absent.

The Electronic Engineer (Mark): Shows pcb, flyback transformer/driver for plasma. Simple teslacoil, restroom timer, game, diploma display

Mayer Makes (Clem): First batch of resin sold out, new batch on sale. Rover robot with raspberry pi and claw. Walking robot

bitluni: phase-array transducer, sonar, AI learning. Chat control, TTS, IP sniffer printer

timon: swd/jtag connect board

Guy Dupont: hitclip

Clem (Mayer Makes): USBitch power and/or data blocker, testing glitter in his resin, works fine. Demonstration of how durable his resin is.

Dave Darko: Scout Oskitone, building stuff for music-rack, led-dockahedron

Matt Venn: Making computer chips, chip displaying a clock on a screen, very low level

bitluni: miniprinter via node-red, vga osciloscope, phased-array sonar, fake rfid tag

deshipu:

The Electronic Engineer (Mark): quiz, Dave is winner!

Host Dave Darko

Guests, Brian Lough, , enwi , Guy Dupont

New guest Christian Walther

Brian: Demo flash ESP over web, automatic grenhouse window opener, mini hotplate

Christian: led board, marble run, interactive installation photo booth

Guy Dupont: Simon Says game controller, T9 predictive typing

enwi: workrelated stuff, solar tower powerplant

Dave: Blueshark glasses attachment, Star Trek costume, musicbox, tiny gameboy

Host: atomic14

Guests: Bradán Lane, The Electronic Engineer, Dave Darko

The Electronic Engineer: “Nixie” tubes created by leds and test-tubes

Dave: Currently in USA, and only brought a few project, a small robot bug. New board for GoodFET42C

Bradán: Designed a clock running circutpython, using 310 leds, 2x2mm https://www.tindie.com/products/bradanlane/lumosring-circuitpython-led-ring-block/

Joypad controller, https://www.tindie.com/products/bradanlane/joypad-circuitpython-macro-keypad-with-joystick/

atomic14: big 7-segment leds, using ledstrips.

Quiz: Bradan and Dave shared the win

bitluni

https://youtube.com/bitlunislab
http://bitluni.net
https://twitter.com/bitluni
https://patreon.com/bitluni

Brian Lough

https://youtube.com/brianlough
http://blough.ie
https://twitter.com/witnessmenow
https://instagram.com/brian_lough

Dave Darko

YouTube: https://youtube.com/davedarko
Twitter: https://twitter.com/davedarko
Instagram: https://instagram.com/davedarkocom
Website: http://davedarko.com/
Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/stores/davedarko/
Github: https://github.com/davedarko/

Seon (Unexpected Maker)

https://youtube.com/unexpectedmaker
https://unexpectedmaker.com
https://twitter.com/unexpectedmaker
https://patreon.com/unexpectedmaker

Stephen Ludgate

https://www.youtube.com/c/StephenLudgate
https://chunkymedia.co.uk
https://twitter.com/ChunkySteveo
https://instagram.com/ChunkySteveo

Liz Clark ( Blitz City DIY )

https://www.youtube.com/blitzcitydiy
https://twitter.com/blitzcitydiy
https://instagram.com/blitzcitydiy
http://www.blitzcitydiy.com

David Watts

https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidWatts/
https://twitter.com/mrdavidjwatts
https://www.instagram.com/davidjwatts/
https://www.tindie.com/stores/mrdavidjwatts/

Jon Oxer

https://youtube.com/SuperHouseTV
https://www.superhouse.tv
https://www.freetronics.com.au/
https://twitter.com/jonoxer
https://twitter.com/superhousetv
https://www.facebook.com/jonoxer
https://www.facebook.com/superhousetv
https://www.patreon.com/superhouse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Oxer

Aaron Christophel

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/12002230
Twitter: https://twitter.com/atc1441
Website: http://atcnetz.de/
Discord: https://discord.gg/w6XDaVUcKN
Github: https://github.com/atc1441

Jeri Ellsworth

https://www.youtube.com/c/jeriellsworth/
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiltfive/holographic-tabletop-gaming
https://twitter.com/jeriellsworth

Arturo182

https://twitter.com/arturo182
https://www.youtube.com/arturo182

Emily Velasco

https://www.youtube.com/emilyselectricoddities
https://www.instagram.com/mle_makes/
https://twitter.com/MLE_Online

James Sharman

https://www.youtube.com/user/weirdboyjim
https://twitter.com/WeirdBoyJim

Timon

https://www.youtube.com/ProfSparkles
https://twitter.com/timonsku
https://hackaday.io/professor

Mayer Makes (Clem)

https://mayermakes.com/
https://Element14.com/presents
https://instagram.com/mayermakes/
https://twitter.com/mayermakes/

bleeptrack (Sabine)

http://www.bleeptrack.de/
https://www.youtube.com/user/BleeptrackPodcast
https://www.instagram.com/bleeptrack/
https://chaos.social/@bleeptrack
https://twitter.com/Bleeptrack
https://github.com/bleeptrack

Becky Stern

https://www.youtube.com/bekathwia
https://beckystern.com/
https://twitter.com/bekathwia
https://www.instagram.com/bekathwia/

Stephen Hawes

https://www.youtube.com/stephentherobot
http://stephenhawes.com/
https://twitter.com/stephentherobot
https://www.instagram.com/stephenther...

Adam Welch

https://youtube.com/AdamWelchUK
https://twitter.com/AdmW_

Applied Procrastination

https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedProcrastination
https://twitter.com/AppliedProc
https://twitter.com/SimenZhor
https://www.facebook.com/AppliedProc
https://github.com/appliedprocrastination

Mr. Twinkle Twinkie

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf8oXAT1uUzen6A57bwsudg
https://www.twitch.tv/mrtwinkletwinkie
https://www.tindie.com/stores/twinkletwinkie/
https://twitter.com/mrtwinkletwink

Alex (tinyledmatrix)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqgAUNEj6AJagz1gycIDdTA
https://twitter.com/tinyledmatrix
https://instagram.com/tinyledmatrix
https://hackaday.io/tinyledmatrix/

deshipu (Radomir Dopieralski)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/deshipu
Website: http://sheep.art.pl/
Github: https://github.com/deshipu
Hackaday.io: https://hackaday.io/deshipu
Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/stores/deshipu/

Matou (Matthias Matousek)

https://youtube.com/MatouMakes
https://twitter.com/MatouMakes

Odd_Jay (Jorvon Moss)

https://twitter.com/Odd_Jayy
https://www.hackster.io/Odd_Jayy
https://www.instagram.com/odd_jayy/

Noé Ruiz (@ecken)

https://twitter.com/ecken
https://noeruiz.me/
https://www.instagram.com/ecken/

sophy wong (@sophywong)

https://twitter.com/sophywong/
https://www.youtube.com/sophywongmakes
http://houseoflulu.tumblr.com/
https://www.instagram.com/sophywongmakes/
https://sophywong.com/

Zack Freedman (@ZackFreedman) aka Voidstar Lab

https://www.youtube.com/user/ZackFreedman
https://twitter.com/zackfreedman
https://www.patreon.com/zackfreedman
https://www.instagram.com/zackfreedman/
https://github.com/zackfreedman

Helen Leigh

https://www.youtube.com/user/helenlsteer
https://twitter.com/helenleigh
https://www.instagram.com/helenleigh_makes
https://github.com/helenleigh
https://hackaday.io/helenleigh
https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Leigh/e/B07JGHGDN9

Ian Charnas

https://www.youtube.com/user/iancharnas
https://twitter.com/iancharnas
https://www.patreon.com/iancharnas
https://instagram.com/iancharnas

Usagi Electric (David)

https://www.youtube.com/user/Nakazoto​
https://twitter.com/UsagiElectric​
https://discord.gg/p7UsfHD​​

Atomic14 (Chris Greening)

https://www.youtube.com/atomic14​
https://twitter.com/MrBananas

Simple Electronics

https://www.youtube.com/simpleelectronics
https://www.patreon.com/simpleelectronics

Stargirl

https://twitter.com/theavalkyrie​
https://blog.thea.codes​
https://winterbloom.com

GeekMomProjects (Debra)

https://twitter.com/GeekMomProjects​
https://www.instagram.com/GeekMomProjects/
https://www.geekmomprojects.com/​
https://www.brightwearables.com/shop/

Billie Ruben

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BillieRuben
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillieRubenMake
Discord: https://discord.gg/WpGdD3f
Website: https://www.billieruben.info
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BillieRuben

Intermit.Tech (Quindor)

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/IntermitTech
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IntermitTech
Website: https://quinled.info/
Blog: https://blog.quindorian.org/
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/WdbAauG

Curious Supplies (Tom Clement)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Tom_Clement
Website: https://pixel.curious.supplies/
Blog: https://pixel.curious.supplies/blog/
Tindie: https://www.tindie.com/stores/curioussuplies/
Github: https://github.com/tjclement
Discord: https://discord.gg/w9k9nkB3as

Guy Dupont

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/GuyDupont
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gvy_dvpont
hackaday.io: https://hackaday.io/dupontgu
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/EsotericGadgetsByGuy