Category Archives: art

circuit bending, er, doodling?

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todays experiment

Draw on a circuit board kit, etch with gnarly solvent, rinse. I think I need to work on my circuit etching skills a bit. I think I could of gotten more detail if I tried, and probably better coverage. Wonder what it costs to get something done professionally.

The logical next step would be to do it with a real working circuit. Maybe something that makes an obnoxious amount of noise.

laptop

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I got bored and decorated one of my laptops.

Process was:
– doodle onto paper with pen
– scan paper with scanner
– clean up scan with gimp
– import scan into inkscape
– autotrace doodle into a vector image
– resize as needed
– print onto “window decal” inkjet paper
– apply

Of course, for those images, some of those steps were separated by years.

inkscape tracing

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I finally decided to give inkscape a try at importing and vectorizing some of my doodles.

It did a much better job than I expected. It choked on some of the larger doodles, but then, I can’t really blame it for choking on say, doodle31.

Take a look at some of the example traced svgs. That just includes the SVG’s that do not crash firefox ;->

Which reminds me that I need to catch up on the doodle scanning. I think I’m one or two dozen behind.

BarCampRDU

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I’ve signed up for BarCampRDU.

I’m not exactly a local tech celebrity, and I don’t really do anything interesting with technology, but what the heck.

There are certainly topics I would be interested in participating in, but not that much I would consider myself an expert in. Could talk about work stuff, but *yawn* system management *yawn*.

I see Jay claimed the last open spot before the waiting list ;->