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CEP012 – Mixed Media with Becky Stern

EPISODE · Mar 3, 2021

CEP012 – Mixed Media with Becky Stern

from The Contextual Electronics Podcast

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 Instagram 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 Thank you for supporting The Contextual Electronics Podcast! Here’s how you can follow and help us grow: Please follow us on social media: @ContextualElec on Twitter Contextual Electronics on Facebook Contextual Electronics on LinkedIn @Chris_Gammell on Twitter Please consider leaving us a review iTunes page for subscribing and reviewing   Video version of the podcast: Audio version

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