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russo4225

6 years ago

Bored Artists?

Here's an idea:

Get a friend who also loves art and a sketchbook, notepad, portfolio, folder, USB (for digital artists, anything that you can store art in.

Then, create prompts passing this item back and forth.

Person A says a prompt, both persons draw it in the notebook/item/etc. both of you draw the prompt and, when you're both done, reveal you're drawings to one another, see what you did differently. Then repeat with Person B's prompt.

You can even do it online via social media.

The point is, it keeps you drawing and makes you try new things. If it's not perfect than oh well, only your friend will see it unless you show someone else. You can cretic each other's art too, help each other grow as artists.

Me and my friend have been doing it for about a month now and he's been doing it with his mom for years.

Here's the prompts we've used so far;

•Butterfly Man

•Dead Leather

•redisign one of each other's OCs

•Draw in your favorite artists style

•Robot Lord

•Zero Gravity

If you use one of ours feel free to let me see, I wanna know what you come up with. Actually, post any you want, I wanna see them all.

(And I may steal a prompt or two if I like them)

Project time!

So for some time now I've had an idea of an usb extension that lets you choose between two usb ports using a switch.

So I started taking measurements and making the design:

Then I actually made the thing, I would have loved to make it on a PCB for it to be more sturdy and reliable but that’s not suitable for me at the moment, so I just soldered some cables (what a mess) and now it’s time to test it.

After some adjustments a resoldering it works just fine and I have a functional prototype that I hope does not burn my computer.

So, the switch selects which USB port receives power. That way, when on the left it activates the left port:

And when in the right it reads the right port:

The Usb on the left has a solid black image and the one on the right a solid white.

It works so only the selected Usb port is the one that works.