Debra Ansell joined us to talk about finding friends and exchanging neat gifts, accidentally tricking people into making unmanufacutable boards, and happy, blinking lights.

Debra is usually known by the moniker GeekMomProjects (also her website is geekmomprojects.com). She has been writing for Make Magazine. 

Debra won one of the SuperCon badge add-on awards so her poseable Bendy SAO will be available at SuperCon Europe. 

Some other things we mentioned:

• Seeed Studio XIAO board

• Adafruit QT Py

• Debra’s Remoticon talk about PCB structures

• Martin Oehler is Maketvee on YouTube and Mastodon

• Janet Hansen is on Mastodon and has an incredible Enlightened Designs wearables website.

• #makergiftexchange on your favorite social media platform

And some upcoming events that promise to have lots of LEDs:

• Teardown 2025 | Crowd Supply (Jun ‘25)

• Portland Winter Light Festival (Feb ‘25)

Transcript

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