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Learn Electronics with Arduino

Post author By jodyc
Post date November 25, 2017

The book Eric Hagan and I have been working on for a while was published by Make. The book is in some brick and mortar stores, here is a link on Maker Shed.

Our book is for beginners, we wrote it for people with no background in electronics or in programming. It has lots of images. A shout out to our editor and publisher, Roger Stewart, and the production team from Happenstance Type-O-Rama, Liz Welch and Maureen Forys.

A few illustrations from the book and the cover. A lot of the content is also on arduinotogo.com, our site

Tags arduino, electronics, eric hagan, physical computing

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How to Use a Breadboard Comic Published

Post author By jodyc
Post date August 25, 2017

The How to Use a Breadboard comic I illustrated that was written by Sean Michael Ragan was published by Make this summer. I was very happy to receive this stack of books from Roger Stewart, our editor and publisher, this summer. You can buy it as a book or as part of a kit.

And here are a few pages.

Tags breadboard, drawing, illustration, teaching

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Maker Faire 2016 with Marianne Petit

Post author By jodyc
Post date October 22, 2016

Marianne Petit and I shared a table at World Maker Faire, called Fairy Tales, Science Fiction and Freud. Gareth Branwyn wrote a lovely piece about our work on Make. Here are a few pictures.

Tags cardboard, harriet hosmer, papercraft, Sigmund Freud, tunnel books

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Time to update!

Post author By jodyc
Post date October 16, 2016

I have been sadly negligent in updating this for a while. I didn’t want to add a lot of content until I made this responsive. Well, just updated the theme, and now I’m going to update my content. So stay tuned…

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A Book About Colab (and Related Activities)

Post author By jodyc
Post date February 25, 2016

Max Schumann, Director of Printed Matter, edited a book about Colab: A Book About Colab (and Related Activities). There’s a foreword and afterword by Walter Robinson. I was a member of Colab back in the day and was very happy to be included in this book.

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Stop Motion Test

Post author By jodyc
Post date July 24, 2015

I did a short stop motion test with a Raspberry Pi using cut-outs based on work on Freud and St. Augustine. Fun

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Dreams and Stories from Freud and Augustine

Post author By jodyc
Post date July 12, 2015

I have been working on short animated pieces based on City of God by Augustine and dream interpretation material of Sigmund Freud. I decided to make physical objects using some of the same imagery and texts, combining digital fabrication techniques with hand building and embroidery.

The imagery from these texts, (from Freud, small children as vermin, the human body as a house; from Augustine, Rome burning, seven headed beasts, generals eating entrails) was both inspirational and somewhat disturbing.

I have laser etched on a variety of materials, usually recycled fabrics, such as old towels and sweatshirts. I have also created cardboard automata using some of the images from the stories. Additionally, I have created a hand-sewn and embroidered book with text and images from Freud that uses a potentiometer and servo motors to turn its pages.

Here’s a video of one of the automata.

Rat Automaton from jody culkin on Vimeo.

And here are a few images of the laser etched towels, automata, and books.

Tags Augustine City of God, automata, Freud dream interpretation, laser cut, laser etched

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Maker Faire, Brooklyn Book Festival, Peoples Climate March

Post author By jodyc
Post date September 23, 2014

This was a busy weekend, World Maker Faire on Saturday and Sunday, always wonderful. Sunday was the Brooklyn Book Festival, where Calvin was the MC for the Quick Draw Panel, where cartoonists draw whatever wacky suggestion kids in the audience come up with. Also, the Peoples Climate March, which was inspiring. And then back to the Rockaways.

A few pictures.

Young entrepreneur at Gigabryte at Maker Faire

Tags brooklyn book festival, maker faire, peoples climate march, rockaway beach, world maker faire