Hey everyone! Many of us have found ourselves with a lot more free time than we ever expected. It has been a great chance for personal growth and healing! Part of the process for me has involves trying out new things, or rediscovering with old hobbies.
When I was a student I use to oil paint every single day for like......
2020-07-25 19:14:54 +0000 UTC View Post
First, I hope everyone out there is doing well, and that your tribe is safe and healthy.
No matter what your take on things is, it's been a hell of a year so far. In many cases, an emotional rollercoaster of sorts.
Amidst the shit storm of social-unrest and disease... I have been on something of a healing jo...
2020-07-20 23:38:37 +0000 UTC View Post
It's Fall now! What is everyones favorite way to get into the season changing mood?
As a child, my mom use to take me to the local cider mill in Michigan to get a dozen fresh cinnamon donuts and unfiltered cider... SO - the tradition has since followed that on the first of October, I seek out some vestige of pumpkin-spi...
2019-10-05 18:45:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The Summer has not gone as I’ve expected so far. This is alright however, I welcome the change of pace.
The catalyst was an unplanned span of time where I was without my primary laptop for several weeks. I was not able to edit video, publish things in the wild, work on web-site stuff, or even draw with my tablet in Ph...
2019-07-05 18:46:26 +0000 UTC View PostAt the end of May I've decided to switch my focus from SHE BON and the augments I've been toiling away at, onto my two immobile robot offspring.
This is : "NoodleFeet" and the less known "Carl" <3
The two were technica...
2019-05-21 17:44:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I just want you to know that we are getting painfully close to mechanized neck sucking... and I'm really very excited about that O_o
I received the controller board for the Suck Choker from fab this Monday, and have since assembled and tested one with Mark. All that is left to do is connect the suckers to the motorized ...
2019-05-15 20:53:43 +0000 UTC View Post
If you ask me, I’ll tell you that the SHE BON project is a series of wearables that senses and indicates arousal. That’s the low impact description.
If I were to be completely honest though, I can admit that the project is an elaborate coping mechanism that has followed a period of self discovery prompted by unpacki...
2019-05-13 17:53:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I woke up today and prepared myself to do annoying CAD design.
One of the things I've been putting off is making a mounting plate for two different SHE BON augments that need to overlap and thus share space without inhibiting each others function.
The mounting plate will seat on top of my back and capture a ...
2019-04-30 23:40:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Suck Choker & Squeeze Choker
This month I began developing my first new SHE BON augment of the year! I haven’t really decided on a name for it yet, but for now I’ve been referring to it as the “Suck Choker”. As the title suggests, it is a device worn on the users neck which replicates the ex...
2019-04-29 18:58:52 +0000 UTC View Post
It's mid April-ish now already. This means two things:
By seeds... I mean, if I am to receive any of the grants and residencies I applied for earlier this year. It's like waiting to hear back from the colleges you ...
2019-04-10 21:22:54 +0000 UTC View Post
it's that time of year again where I sit on the couch and prepare proposals and submission materials for things, the likes of which will shape the months to come. My days are quiet and boring, so I've been keeping to myself as to get the practical part of my adult life handled and out of the way... then I can return to the fu...
2019-02-05 21:59:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! I hope you're all acclimating to the Fall/Winter season fairly well!
I just wanted to let you know how your support is fueling my madness this month... as I feel you have a right to know:
So I'm going to let you in on a little secret that I don't typically tell people unless I'm drinking and ranting about my...
2018-11-11 19:09:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I entered SHE BON into the HackaDay Prize in the Human-computer interface category. =O
I made it through the first round of submissions so I'm technically in the running for the Prize itself......... which is exciting. It however has also dropped a hefty todo list on my lap for this month so far.
Happily, I'm...
2018-10-19 21:24:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! I just ordered this thing last night (a nice mic!): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078RZZ927/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3SPLR0MSOYZ8O&psc=1
...with the intent of getting...
2018-10-12 05:16:18 +0000 UTC View Post
It's October 2nd (I missed the 1st).
I hope everything has been going well with you and that you've made your peace with summer. It already feels like Fall here in my part of the country; the kitty pool has been deflated and folded up, the weather is cooler, and I'm preparing for the talk I'll be giving at HackaDay's Sup...
2018-10-03 00:08:57 +0000 UTC View Post
...He can see everything, accept his pizza. O_o weird as hell, cause it seems like a triangle with big red spots on it would be pretty easy to identify. Guess not.
Since Noodle will need to recognize not only my face, but also the faces of potential onlookers in the gallery space, I may need to add either some false positives ...
2018-08-18 22:57:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It wasn't my intention to attend DEFCON. I had consciously decided to boycott it in fact.
This being said, I still wanted to see my friends who would be visiting for the conference, so I planned to bring my own cool-aide to the party and hold the loose and impromptu "noodleCON".
2018-08-15 20:37:24 +0000 UTC
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It's about mid August: the time of year I start to feel this special anxiety.
I'm not certain whether the feeling is caused by approaching deadlines, the social expectations of Defcon, or the cabin fever brought on by locking myself indoors for weeks at a time while avoiding the desert heat... but whatever the cause, I'm a bit...
2018-08-08 21:49:27 +0000 UTC View Post
First. To those of you who are my newest patrons: thank you. Your support makes my rocking world go 'round, and is appreciated more than you know!!
It's an intense summer so far. Every year I anticipate the disappointment of a lull relative to the previous one... but this hasn't happened yet (and this is of course very good!)....
2018-07-18 18:28:04 +0000 UTC View Post
...So, Mark and I finally got the first classifier to compute for a sample of 200 or so images of NoodleFeet's favorite stuffed animal, "Fisty", posed in various positions. It ran for a minute and ended for some unexplained reason. When we opened a test image, this is what noodle saw.
=) Noodle is either experiencing confusion...
2018-07-05 01:41:02 +0000 UTC View Post
May into June seems to be the point where the rest of my years takes shape and I am on a committed path with set goals deep into Fall. (this is what adulthood as an "artist" has become for this girl)
As it goes, I am splitting my attention amongst three or so different tasks a week, trying to get larger projects underway so th...
2018-06-27 19:38:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm already working on the masks, and with all of my other backlogged stuff it seems like I've got enough on my plate. BUT this project that I started brainstorming back in February is my passion right now, and the thing I enjoy developing the most... therefore important =P
Hopefully the sexual nature of "SHE BON" doesn't turn...
2018-05-03 23:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I totally felt like Krieger on Friday night, rushing around the house preparing my mad tea party for all of my friends... fitting them for harnesses one by one as they arrived... feeding them alcohol so they wouldn't grow tired of me collec...
2018-04-23 23:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello everybody!
It seems that I'll be sticking around Vegas this Spring-Summer, which means I'll have quality time to work on fresh new projects to my heart's content. :)
I announced a couple of weeks ago that I'm working on a series of reactive masks that will respond to the wearer's facial expressions by animating fea...
2018-04-18 21:28:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I finished the base instructions for the Anthropomorph-EYES this morning and also got the product approved and listed on Tindie!
Spread the word! There needs to be more emotional appliances in the world. Noodle needs friends! <3
I had a lovely package delivered from China on Friday evening; the new circuit boards for my latest project and product that I'll be adding to my line on Tindie, the "Anthropomorph-EYES"!
As I mentioned, I'm trying to create another revenue stream for myself by offering the circuit boards I've designed from some of my past pro...
2018-03-08 17:17:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Things have been shipped! Deadlines have been met! Stuff has been applied for! I can now go back to the finer things in life...
...Like playing with this box of shiny new sensors. I bought three different kinds, for three separate projects that I'll be taking on this spring:
This week will be somewhat uneventful. I am putting my oil painting, the jelly spawn dev, noodle's walking endeavors, my comic, and my social life on hold so that I can finish off some things that have now been on the back burner for quite some time.
I probably won't do any streaming, but I intend to make up for it in a big wa...
2018-02-20 00:23:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Your support has allowed me to order some extra goodies for R&D this month! Thank you <3
After I finish wrapping up my residency from last year (I'm still tying up some loose ends from the end of summer!!!) I intend to dive into several new projects this spring that will all be in the same vein: extending personal e...
2018-02-15 05:56:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Starting in mid December, I decided to live stream a work day here and there for the sake of conversation, feedback, and defeating that lonely fog that often rolls in during the "work at home" experience.
So far, I'm loving it! I realize I'm quite awkward attempting to focus on what I'm making while holding multiple conversati...
2018-01-20 07:15:11 +0000 UTC View Post
