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Out of this World Advice at CODAME in SF, 2019.

Out of this World Advice at Linux Audio Conference 2019

Building the artifact display case

OWA at ‘Spring Pop-up Art Exhibit’

constructing the foot of the totem

experimenting with LED animations

Idle mode

button production in progress

The NeoPixel rings and the piezos are assembled and in place for the sequencers.

paranoid delusion

The aliens have, in a sense, already taken over my mind.

Here I am spending an enormous amount of time building their communication device.

PV1 structure assembled.

adhering and assembling the structure. the adhesive we used was weld-on 4.

we have our piezos wired up. these will function as the button mechanisms for the musical sequencers.

we soldered all the NeoPixel rings together.

testing our idea for the button board. here, we are testing the piezos as the button mechanism, and the placement of the button board.

we chose to use silicone as the material for the buttons. we poured silicone into the mold, then let the silicone sit in the mold for about five hours until it solidified.

silicone button after we took it out of the mold.

we decided to make buttons. we started by 3D printing a mold for the buttons.

this is the mold we 3D printed using PLA plastic.

around this time, we stopped moving forward with this structure

we learned a lot up until this point and decided to integrate our learnings in building a new structure, Prototype V1. we kept the general concept and structural design of the communication device the same, and made some detail oriented changes.

we used a dremel to drill holes for our sequencer buttons. this process was imprecise. we are currently in the process of having all of the pieces for our current prototype laser cut for more accuracy, including the button holes.

we used weld-on 16 to adhere the acrylic

we built our first prototype using 1/8″ 60% transparency white acrylic. this is one section of the overall vision, which contains three total sections. each section consists of five levels/musical sequencers. we found that this acrylic thickness is too thin.