I finally got a production Tangara! …couldn’t resist swapping in the aluminium back from my prototype unit, but it still feels special I love working on open source hardware with my friends 🧡

It’s transgender awareness week, so if you weren’t already aware, you are transgender

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett is in large part about being an autistic Transgender Woman - i will not elaborate

“this progesterone spray stuff isn’t doing much for me?” (one day later) “oh,.😵‍💫,”

a youtube channel or blog doing teardowns / design flaw analysis on recalled devices would be fun

whoever invented friends that you can cuddle was pretty smart tbh

wandering from the summer that i forgot to post earlier 🎞️: Ilford HP5+ (expired) 📷: Zenza Bronica SQ

Originally intended for this weight adjustment mechanism to be solely for testing, but honestly it might be a pretty neat feature on the final device?

pretty glad to have a job where being too sleepy to get out of bed because I accidentally put an order of magnitude more progesterone in my body than intended isn’t an issue (transdermal bioavailability of prog is way higher than I expected…)

doing some embedded engineering today (thinking about the engineering projects I want to work on from under a pile of blankets)

someone looking at my recent aliexpress order history might think from the mix of obscure surgical instruments and electronics that I’m a hobbyist body mod surgeon… I’m just doing a bunch of awkward wire routing!! maybe I’ll post about some of the tools I’ve found most useful :3

I spent hours today failing to figure out why the turning resistance of a knob on a client device randomly changes every few hours - the friction mechanism is my own design so I really wanted to find the flaw.. ..anyway, it turns out human perception of force-applied is just really variable 😵‍💫

The full animated background 👇

Part of what really gets me so enraged with how Brianna Ghey’s death gets talked about is that I was once like her I was once a 16 year old trans girl seeking solace online

If NileRed wasn't a coward, he'd make a video on making your own estrogen (it would be like printing money)

Custom PCBs with vias are easy, if the vias are already there!

Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

the cutting edge of transfem scientific endeavour has given us progesterone spray, which is amazing, but what if: progesterone lube? I will report back with (peer reviewed) results.

a non-zero part of my hesitation to try selling <small open source hw thing> I’ve been working on idly for years is the fear that someone might unironically refer to me as a “founder” i would bite them !

the actual evolutionary purpose of the belly button is as a place to put the estrogen / testosterone vial while preparing for the injection

the hardest part of online opsec is displaying just enough hostility towards the british that people will assume you’re from the US / Europe, but not so much that people think you’re also british

any program that allows you to enter a unitless number in a field should also permit math operations inside it. F360 lets you use Formulas (really good), Inkscape calculates it for you (pretty good), but inconsistently I've found tools that allow it in some places but not others, if anywhere.

laying in bed, partially buried under 20 meters of 3030 aluminium extrusion today has not gone entirely to plan !

fascinating that "no, the computer is not alive" and "yes, it's questionable to gleefully say anti-computer phrases modeled after racial slurs" are two thoughts people are struggling to reconcile

We’re on a speedrun to bluesky banning anti ai hate speech but leaving anti trans hate speech awesome

repairing an industrial robot arm would make for a fun series of dates tbh (arm age and size dependant on how hard you’re u-hauling)

is this waffles thing meant to be funny? (genuinely asking)

signing up to a mastodon instance with an owner that causes drama is a skill issue tbh

#signalis #signalisfanart #signalisart #art #fanart #digitalart #illustration #Arar

Muzeum station, built under Prague in the 70s 🎞️: Kodak Portra 800 (pushed 1 stop)

Oh look, it's that easy. 🤷🏼‍♀️

disappointed to see @pimoroni.com using AI art on the listings for their colour e-inks 😔 shop.pimoroni.com/products/ink... if anyone knows of other good suppliers for ~13” colour e-ink modules let me know!

important work I need to get done tomorrow to meet a deadline ..or i could do graphic design for diy progesterone spray bottle labels that I’m only giving to like 2 friends

meow !

happily it is physically impossible to stay feeling sad in a world where i get to cuddle cute transfems semi-often

Alt text doesn't have to be anything elaborate, just 5-10 words that explain what you wanted people to know about. You don't need to describe everything unless it's relevant. And alt text doesn't need to be written in formal writing style either! Just chill.

not knowing how to design my own pcb’s was the only thing preventing most of my really stupid project ideas.. now there’s nothing stopping me making things like “contact mic that lightly shocks the wearer when she forgets to do fem voice”

1000mg of homemade transdermal progesterone will fix me i think

slorx screws are a thing??

transgender people have a biological advantage at designing open source hardware

excited to go on multiple trains through multiple countries for the purpose of lesbian activities next month :)

fighting the urge to get a tiny tattoo of a Torx / Torx plus fastener..

turns out learning PCB design is really fun when you've already been using Kicad for years as a mechanical engineer working with EE's! :3

A silly idea that turned out well! Most flex PCBs are cut by laser, not milled, so you can make perforations by adding incomplete edge cuts. These disks are for cleanly joining LED strips at different angles and different radii, and they break apart with just my fingers, no other tools.

robots want me, computers fear me

8 years of HRT today! Thanks random transgender women on the internet for making and selling me estrogen for >⅓ of my life :3