Tak Tran

Humanist Technologist exploring socio-technical ideas, making things into existence and providing Fullstack JavaScript expertise at

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Back to Basics with Technology - a talk I gave at the Future of Coding London Meetup. It goes through some of my recent explorations in electronics, crochet and light + a bunch of ideas I’ve been mulling over: https://t.co/WVV3Fsq5qI
Also in blog form: https://t.co/CL993H4zvZ

[Tak Tran @zlog]

I made a Lego music cube to play Spotify songs using NFC tags. The original aim was just to quickly play Elizabeth Mitchell’s cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Sleep Eye” - a magical song that does wonders when in need of a soothed baby.

https://t.co/i9MgKaJNMJ

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A Miffy night light I made for my niece's 5th birthday.

See it in action, set to ROSÉ + Bruno Mars’ APT (which I’ve since learnt is best heard at a 5yr old girl’s bday party): https://t.co/eV9Ijt31uj

Or, for the techie internals: https://t.co/Mjro7uuWMh

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Circular light - pink/green, blue/red, various colours, and trying to touch the colours 🌈

#ledlights #ledlightstrip #experiment #colourful

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A bendy crocheted light strip.

Made from a warm white light strip, hot glued into a plastic clear tube, and wrapped in a crocheted tube.

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Flickering light

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Kintsugi. Mistakes along the way, but I think that is part of the point.

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Version 2 of my DIY battery holder for my LED noodles. This one has a toggle switch to turn on/off and a switch to limit current for higher voltage (3.7v) button cells.

Circuit diagram here: https://t.co/3x3022EPLm

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@eyko The problem is when you search and get LED signs of noodles 😅

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Bought some more LED noodles to play with, from China.

Turns out it's called something along the lines of 线性灯橡皮筋灯丝 (xiànxìng dēng xiàngpí jīn dēngsī) - translates to linear light rubber band filament.

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Making a simple light connector to help me prototype quicker with LED noodles. Soldered the LED noodles and battery holders to wires and then used crimping pliers to add pin connectors.

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Open to turn on, close to turn off, using a transistor. Didn't know how transistors worked until this, and still learning...

https://t.co/Y9J1zblDjD

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Miffy mint tin + crochet + led light

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Currently only working @intechstudio's EN16, but maybe I'll add more devices in future

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Wrapping up my experiments with MIDI by doing a refactor, extracting the useful bits into a repo and writing a proper README: https://t.co/cbI1Xt9ZXU

To be continued...

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Looks like Google lens thinks the pixel 9 is an iPhone 15 😂 Gets it right on the back tho

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My crochet leaf light 🍃=> Freeform electronic design
"playful and creative approach to electronics design... Requiring no printed circuit boards or pre-drawn designs, this technique encourages sculptural intuition rather than functional efficiency." https://t.co/HIjQvILyTS ❤️

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Thanks @Mappletons for organising and letting me speak. Sorry for becoming one of the speakers who go over time 😅

[Tak Tran @zlog]

Back to Basics with Technology - a talk I gave at the Future of Coding London Meetup. It goes through some of my recent explorations in electronics, crochet and light + a bunch of ideas I’ve been mulling over: https://t.co/WVV3Fsq5qI
Also in blog form: https://t.co/CL993H4zvZ

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Thanks @kylerjphillips for filming!

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A crocheted leaf light

Hand made pressure sensor connected to a led noodle, sewn onto a crocheted leaf, connected to simple electronic circuitry on a protoboard, powered by a coin cell battery.

More tech experiments on https://t.co/04et3iw8OU