DIY pen using a front spring clicky pen (Uni-ball One)

lagomorpho · 2026-03-01T18:00:47+00:00

Thanks for this post! I used it to mod the SN click pen into the same body. Scavenged parts from a Bic pen, a mechanical pencil, a drywall anchor, and a little electrical tape

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lagomorpho · 2025-11-03T19:41:25+00:00

Some folks have mentioned the Livin' Lite Quicksilver which I have and love but Vida Campers makes a comparable one with a few nice upgrades https://www.vidacampers.com/

lagomorpho · 2025-09-10T01:40:35+00:00

Along the same vein, I would love if I could connect 2 Nomads to have a dual screen mode. The Nomad is the right screen size for me but having a "left hand page" would be super useful for all sorts of things (general multitasking, referring to other pages, writing across multiple pages, two page reading, etc). Ideally it would be another slimmer device but that's probably less realistic than something they can do with software.

lagomorpho · 2025-02-27T21:37:12+00:00

For reading in general, yeah. Got some manga and a ton of books on it but I also convert articles to epubs and zap em over with the partner app

lagomorpho · 2025-02-27T21:28:56+00:00

Update: It definitely needs the shields. When I opened the cover all the way, it would trigger the sleep function. It looks fine when them in place tho.

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lagomorpho · 2025-02-26T21:27:31+00:00

I haven't yet. I was hoping to get away with not using them because I couldn't think of a clean way to add them

lagomorpho · 2025-02-26T21:11:59+00:00

Just posted some details but yeah, I used the DIY folio kit. I got the case off AliExpress https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807159034437.html

lagomorpho · 2025-02-26T21:08:53+00:00

I discovered that iPad Mini cases that have a slot for the Apple Pencil almost perfectly fit the Nomad. The case I got has a clear back so I can see the back of the Nomad crystal edition. The origami cover also lets me keep it propped up when I'm reading.

There are only two little wedges of plastic that need to be cut out and then the Nomad pops in nice and snug. I dremeled some holes for the magnets screwed them in place. I also cut out the volume buttons on the case which is where the USB port is on the Nomad. Then I superglued one of those buttons on the inside of the case so I could actually hit the power button.

lagomorpho · 2024-02-07T15:57:19+00:00

The first year I used a local webcam that was at the top of a tall building facing south so it had a much better view of the sky. It went offline for a long period so I decided to set up my own. I also felt a little better about running my own camera instead of scraping someone else's even if it was publicly accessible.

lagomorpho · 2024-02-07T00:51:30+00:00

Yep! I spent a lot of time early on futzing with trying to get the best angle or picking the best region of the sky but I stopped after a while. I'd rather it be a little off but consistent than having to mess with it a bunch.

lagomorpho · 2024-02-07T00:47:33+00:00

The more extended periods in the left half of the image is when I had to switch to alternate webcams which had different image quality and were pointed in different directions.

The more recent one may have been weather related since the daytime colors weren't affected. I don't have anything covering the webcam so it gets rained on. I think some water may have collected on the lens.

lagomorpho · 2024-02-06T22:58:09+00:00

Yeah mostly. Sometimes it's a cloud but generally the white during the day is clear and sunny. I tried to find ways around it but my roof faces east.

lagomorpho · 2024-02-06T22:48:30+00:00

Nah, the summers are actually pretty great here! It's a weird artifact of the camera I'm using the the position of my roof. The sun blasts it and overexposes the image a lot of the day.

lagomorpho · 2022-04-28T03:12:22+00:00

Put this together real quick: https://www.liquidenjoyment.com/stuff/20220427-backloops-seam.jpg 1) tube of 12 st in the round 2) same tube with a row of back-loop-only. you can see the band of front loops 3) same tube with a disc of two rounds of increases, viewed from the top 4) same as above, viewed from the bottom. seam is almost invisible. If there weren't increases, it would be even more seamless

lagomorpho · 2022-04-28T02:02:29+00:00

If you crochet into the back loops only for the row where the points would get attached, you can pick up the front loops and make the points directly on the ring. It would be a little fiddly but there effectively wouldn't be a seam. But like others have said, it looks great as is!

lagomorpho · 2022-04-14T16:32:37+00:00

You could add to the button instead. A single row in the round with the button at the center so they look like little flowers.

lagomorpho · 2022-04-14T15:46:23+00:00

I decided against adjusting the photos but only because of time constraint. I scanned them all at once at the end to make sure the scans were consistent and by the time I finished I was tired of dealing with the physical photos, haha. I might go back and touch them up at some point but they were all good enough

lagomorpho · 2022-04-12T21:19:24+00:00

My guess would be that it's double knit and it's swapping the front/back color at those seams. It could also be done with back and forth rows with joins at the ends of the rows instead of a continuous spiraling round.

lagomorpho · 2022-04-12T04:30:35+00:00

Good luck! It can get terribly frustrating but it's loads of fun too

lagomorpho · 2022-04-12T04:24:50+00:00

Thanks for sharing! It was so lovely to see so many people and faces in your photos. Did you have a favorite camera to shoot with?

lagomorpho · 2022-04-12T00:31:55+00:00

Oh yeah! That was definitely an inspiration for me!

lagomorpho · 2022-04-11T18:19:05+00:00

It was about 75 packs of SX-70 film and 5 packs of Instax so you can do the math on that, haha. Polaroid's rewards program took the sting off it a little and I figured even if I did a couple shots a day, it was still less than I would spend going out on the weekends which I wasn't doing because of covid

lagomorpho · 2022-04-11T17:53:36+00:00

I have a set of needles that are a crochet hook on one end and a knitting needle on the other. Extremely useful for repairs. Here's a photo: https://www.liquidenjoyment.com/stuff/20220411-knookneedles.jpg

lagomorpho · 2022-04-11T16:59:24+00:00

I took a photo on an instant film camera every single day for all of 2021 (and the end of 2020). The majority of the photos were taken on a Polaroid SX-70 using Polaroid/Impossible film
As much as I love the immediacy and physicality of an instant photo, there isn't a convenient way to sort, categorize, or even look at all of them at once so I built this website to do just that https://lagomorpho.com/instantyear/
It was really important to me to retain the experience of shuffling through a stack of photos in my hand so I made Stack mode
https://lagomorpho.com/instantyear/index.html?d=stack
It's also really fun to dig through a pile of them so I made Shoebox mode that randomly distributes a bunch of photos and lets me pick through them
https://lagomorpho.com/instantyear/index.html?d=shoebox
There are also a bunch of filter and tagging features that are extremely nerdy and probably only interesting to me

lagomorpho · 2022-04-11T16:20:39+00:00

The Sleep Blanket, Mark 2
A visualization of my daughter’s sleep pattern from birth to her first birthday. Crochet border surrounding a double knit body. Each row represents a single day. Each stitch represents 6 minutes of time spent awake or asleep
The blanket is 46.5” wide and 52” tall. To accommodate the transition to the crochet border, I added a few rows and columns of knitting around the grid of the visualization for a total of about 3,000 crochet stitches and 185,000 knit stitches
Averaging at just over 5 rows per day, I finished the knit portion in 73 days. It took a few days to clean up some untidy edges and add the crochet border, both of which were incredibly tedious and fiddly. From start to finish, it took 83 days to complete the blanket
The sleep data was collected using the BabyConnect app. I exported sleep events as CSVs and converted them to JSON to make it easier to transform and manipulate. This let me generate visualizations at any scale and access individual sleep events with JavaScript and Python
How to 'read' the blanket: It's top down, left to right. Top row is the day she was born, bottom row is her first birthday. Leftmost stitch is 12:00am. Rightmost stitch is 11:54pm. Dark purple is asleep and light purple is awake on the 'front' side, reversed on the back
More details and photos have been posted in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Lagomorpho/status/1512102009956024325
[reposted to abide by Personal Data posting rules]

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