Hi! I'm Ashley, a penguin in disguise. I moved here from the Antarctic because of the Spheniscidae-Sapien Alliance: Grand Challenges for Penguins, which requires me to go and live in the world of the humans. There's also a human version of this, so yes, there is a human down in Antarctica living the life as a penguin, you know, catching fish, waddling with the penguinly swag and swimming in the antarctic waters and stuff. I'm studying at Duke University, majoring in Computer Science and Visual Arts!
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#Makerfaire was incredible!! So many cool projects and ridiculously well organized. I'm incredibly proud to be part of the maker community and movement. It's been such a blast!
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Even though there were a few bumps and bruises in the morning (my turtle plushie broke, and I didn't have an extension cord long enough to plug in both corgis and the octopus), today was fantastic! It was so great seeing the smiles on kids faces when they played with my stuffed animals! #Makerfaire
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Octopus ocarina complete!!!!! 💪🐙 Time to head over to #Makerfaire!! #makeymakey #plushie #fabrichacking #octopus
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Learning/epic fail moment #523. Do your research before you buy things. And even if you did your research, try to think 15 steps ahead and do even more research. I ended up using an Arduino nano, which isn't compatible with the Keyboard.h library. Which means that it just doesn't really work as a keyboard, period. Considering I found out about this last night, the only option to get a working octopus in time is to use a Makey Makey. Easy, but not nearly as exciting as using flex sensors (aka the crazy wire protoboard sensor monster I made) Alas! There's no use in despair when there's work to be done. 💪 #epicfail #arduino #octopus #plushie
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Octobuddies! Once Makerfaire is over, I'm thinking of doing a few alterations to octocat :)
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Worked a little on the software interface for my animal band! Still a work in progress. If you wanna check out what I have so far, go to: cranberryofdoom.github.io
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Oh hai! 👋🐙 #arduino #fabrichacking #octopus #plushie
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🎶The itsy bitsy octopus climbed up the chalky board.🎶 Hoping nothing catches on fire and all sensors work properly! 🤞
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Come see me at #Makerfaire this weekend! I'll be demoing my musical animal plush band and giving out these stickers :) I only have 50 of each, so first come first serve!
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More floating pieces of protoboard have been added in a desperate attempt to salvage the monster I've created. Kinda cool that the electronics portion looks like an abstract representation of an octopus. 🐙🐙🐙 #flexsensors #circuits
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Just tested the first flex sensor and saw a spark. 🔥⚡ There are probably about 38562 hazards here. Back to square one. 😭
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....I have created an abomination. Figuring out how to accommodate for 8 keys meant that I ran out of space on my biggest protoboard. Which led to this. The nasty part of this is that I wasn't really able to test any of the circuits until they were full soldered. Fingers crossed. 🤞 #circuits #arduino
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Turtle timpani complete! This was a ton of fun to make, and with only 8 days left till #Makerfaire, I'm well on my way. Up next, Octopus ocarina! #arduino #turtle #plushie #fabrichacking
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The lumpiest turtle there ever lived. Note to self: never assume threads should be equidistant, especially when your electonics are soldered on mostly one side of the board. #fabrichacking #arduino #turtle #plushie
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My nose was very itchy as I was playing. Here's the first part of "Wait For It" from Hamilton! #waitforit #hamilton #aaronburr
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