Welcome, Becky Stern!
Becky is an artist and content producer who works electronics into projects using a wide variety of media and construction techniques. Becky also teaches a class on electronics at SVA in NYC. She is a product manager at Instructables.
Show Notes
- Her most recent project: Zodiac Embroidery
- Slack status updater
- Collaboration with Esetfanie and Naomi
- 13 ideas for LED diffusion
- Raspberry Pi peephole camera
- Becky’s recording setup
- Knitting
- How a sewing machine (bobbin) works
- Tools page
- Becky’s favoite knife
- All of the electronics posts on BeckyStern.com
- Becky Stern YouTube
Time tags:
- 0:00 Introduction
- 1:47 Becky Stern bio
- 3:34 Building out ideas
- 4:57 Learning new things
- 6:36 Collaborations
- 8:46 LEDs and light in projects
- 13:20 #SampleCode
- 14:30 What is a neopixel (WS2812)
- 16:15 Teaching students
- 19:55 Getting started programming
- 21:20 Higher level programming projects
- 24:20 Troubleshooting remotely
- 27:00 Best practices for documentation
- 29:20 Camera tips
- 33:10 Creating documentation from photos
- 36:30 Getting started crafting
- 40:05 “Getting to blinky” for crafts
- 42:15 Finishing projects
- 45:40 Setting a schedule for projects
- 48:30 Making things easy for your future self
- 49:30 Tools
- 53:25 Small workspaces
- 54:00 Future projects
- 58:40 Where to find Becky’s work
- 59:20 Wrap up
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