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Vector Snowflake Application
A new application to draw your own snowflakes and save them in PDF format. Clean, cross-platform, open-source, and able to generate closed-polygon vector shape output. Oh yeah. If you look around on...
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SymmetriSketch: A simple app for playing with symmetry
We were recently contacted by a mathematics instructor, who suggested that it might be interesting to have a program like Snowflake, but with the option of picking and choosing different symmetry...
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PeggyDraw 2
We are pleased to finally release PeggyDraw 2, a little bit of long-delayed software. It’s a Processing application that you can use to draw simple 1-bit animations on a 25×25 grid. The neat bit, of...
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StippleGen: Weighted Voronoi stippling and TSP paths in Processing
One of the perennial problems that we come across in a variety of contexts, including CNC artwork and producing artwork for the Egg-Bot, is the difficulty of creating good-quality toolpaths– i.e.,...
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Modkit Micro on Kickstarter
Our friends at Modkit are running a new Kickstarter campaign for their excellent Modkit Micro software. [... ] Microcontrollers are no longer just for engineers — anyone can now pick up an Arduino...
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StippleGen 2
Two months ago, we introduced StippleGen, a program that can generate stipple diagrams and “TSP path” art from images, using Adrian Secord’s algorithm of weighted Voronoi stippling. It’s a great (and...
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StippleGen and a low-power DIY laser cutter
Jens demonstrates using StippleGen2 with his low-power (300 mW!) DIY laser cutter and a classic image of Louis Armstrong. After letting StippleGen2 crunch the numbers for a while I imported the...
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A WaterColorBot Water Clock
We built a evaporating-hand water clock using a WaterColorBot fitted with a Buddha Board. The Buddha Board is a black board with a gray ceramic coating that becomes transparent when wet, so you can...
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Hershey Text JS
James “techninja” Todd has just released Hershey Text JS, a port of the Hershey fonts to JSON, capable of being rendered quickly via JavaScript & SVG. The Hershey fonts a classic set of...
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The Incredible Computer-Controlled … Computer!
A guest post by Daniel Gentleman About a year ago, I started working on a project that used robotics to control a Surface Pro tablet. Not long after I started, I got my first glimpse at the the...
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DIY Snowflake Chocolate Molds with the Othermill
Our friends at Other Machine Co. have put out a mold making kit for the Othermill and posted an instructable for making snowflake chocolates using the online Snowflake Generator that Paul Kaplan of...
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YouTube user Richard Lewis built a working replica of the Digi-Comp II mechanical computer in the sandbox video game Terraria. The replica makes extensive use of the so-called “Hoik glitch” in the...
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Inkscape version 0.91
A new version of our favorite vector graphics software, Inkscape, was just released! It’s faster and better than ever. We’re particularly excited because Windell’s Hershey Text extension for rendering...
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More CNC Stipple Art
Mikkel posted on Twitter: A CNC piece of the lovely @tweetsbyallie using @EMSL ‘s Stipplegen.
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Meggy Jr RGB + WaterColorBot
Our friend Schuyler hooked up our Meggy Jr RGB hand-held video game platform up to control the WaterColorBot. He wrote on twitter: I got the @EMSL Meggy Jr RGB working with the @MakerSylvia...
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Politicians To Poop: A Chrome extension
Politicians To Poop is a new extension for the Chrome web browser that replaces the names of presidential candidates (US, 2016) with the “pile-of-poo” emoji. Options allow you to “poopify” the names...
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Game of Life at the Hill Country Science Mill
The Hill Country Science Mill just posted a photo that Sean Ragan took of the Interactive Game of Life display we made for them. It’s awesome to see it in action!
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Hilbert Curve Cat
Shy wrote in to tell us about a tool he created to generate Hilbert curves from images for plotting called Image2Hilbert. (Main GitHub project link, here: ) Shy says: I added a calculation in the...
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Holiday Cards with AxiDraw
Pitch Interactive, a data visualization studio, sent out “Happy Holidata” cards made using the AxiDraw. This year’s card features a snowflake that uses two data points in its generation: how long...
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Stippled Ceramics
HEXceramic posted examples of using StippleGen to create lasered molds for making ceramic tiles. Very cool!
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