Me: [scrolling through posts in Monocle, the IndieWeb reader]

Monocle:

Me: I don't want to open up 8 tabs for Twitter. I'll just visit Tantek's homepage where I bet he shows these tweets in full context.

tantek.com:

😂

Great insights into how people, technologies, and entrenched power structures have been shaping one another in the era of the social network. Lots of hard work ahead for folks that don’t want a depressing future.

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Experimenting with laying out tweets on a sticky note. Thinking about some fun automated Unicorn plots.

Unfortunately, once again, I am not home to plot this. I will try to put up pictures later, but feel free to give this a shot in the meantime.

Feedback welcome!

Instructions

To Plot

Using the Unicorn Inkscape extension: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5986

1. Load tweet.svg in Inkscape
2. Save as G-Code
3. Plot

To Edit

1. Edit the user_card, text, and timestamp layers. You’ll want to break up the groups.
2. Use the Hershey Text extension for nice single-stroke text: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/hershey
3. Plot.

To Change the Icon

1. Grab your Twitter icon as a .JPG
2. Import it into Inkscape.
3. Select it and use the Path | Trace Bitmap option.
4. Choose “Brightness Steps” under “Multiple Scans” and set it to 8.
5. Select the result, remove the fill, and set the stroke to black. Tweak to your satisfaction.

This post used to be on Posterous. I rescued my posts before Posterous shut down and am now sharing them here.

I've been toying with the idea of cool automatically generated plots for the Unicorn pen plotter. This one is an experiment in laying out a tweet for plotting on a sticky note.

It should be possible, layer, to use this as a template for creating new plots! Could be kind of fun.

Feel free to grab the file on Thingiverse.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6425