Oh, that's better

This is my third completed tesseract.  The second wasn't particularly successful, and not really worth talking about right now.

There are several changes from the previous one:

It's larger, to take the bulk of a rechargeable battery.

It's rechargeable.

I used a clear filament, so the whole thing glows with the LEDs, which is nice.

I added an ATTiny microcontroler to run RGB LEDs through the spectrum.

Man, am I happy with it.

Some process pics:

My first etched PCB!

Yes, it's small. Savvy observers will note that there are only three resistors for all eight LEDs; one each for red, green, and blue.  This isn't ideal, and the next will have each LED with its own resistor.

RGB LEDs wired in

The wires run up the spokes to the charging port and switch. They're fine enough that they more or less disappear inside the box.

I was constantly testing the LEDs to make sure wires hadn't wiggled themselves loose.

Craft room cleanup, and two-hour projects

My craft room has cluttered itself to unusability, so I'm cleaning and reorganizing.  The problem I have is that there's too much stuff.  There aren't enough places to put everything away.  So I need to do some stuff reduction, or at least consolidation, with a side of "why is that even in here, that doesn't belong here."

Along the way, I'm finding lots and lots of unfinished projects.  So for the next few weeks, I'm going to be focusing on little things that can be finished quickly. Garments that weren't *quite* ready for their event, and were abandoned at a late stage. Tiny alterations and mends. Briefly, projects that have less than two hours' work left in them.

If I can do just two "two hour" projects every day (with the understanding that some will inevitably turn out to be "Whoops! Six hours! Surprise!") I should be able to clear out my backlog in...oh...six and a half years.

But anything is better than nothing.

...right?

Today's two-hour project:
This pile of pieces

Holy terrible photo quality, Batman!

became this Jacobean jacket.

This was NOT a two-hour project.  Something like four? And I think there's about an hours' worth left, with sewing the lining in at the armscye, and hemming and cuffs.  And beyond that, it could really use some decorative stitching on the seams, but that can happen later.

And when I needed a break from purple wool, I worked a little on this corset I started for Dickens Faire, two(?) years ago.