well this is a new one... I got a lot of switches that the seller said were failed modchip installs, and I think that is putting it very kindly. all of them have horrible damage from drilling the PCB to access one of the data lines, including this one that you can see clean through the other side 💀

I'm honestly rather tempted to pick up the vixine avatar after testing out face tracking with it. it feels like it would be a good project for furality ultra in the same way my plush avatar was for somna, and I would get to wiggle around as a pretty cat-fox hehe 🐾😺

and here are some outtakes as well 🎬😸

I Tried Face Tracking in VRChat and Turned Into a Catgirl (REAL)

when I came back the next day, the bird was no longer there, and the water bottle cap that I had left it was nearly empty. I think it will be okay 🦊👍

I helped a bird today.. I saw it injured in the road, exactly in the middle so cars were driving over it. I gently moved it into a secluded area, and got it some water. I stayed with it a good while, and it seemed to pick up a bit and be able to move around. it will be alright, little bird 🦊🐦‍⬛

I figured out what was wrong with that valve index I got for repairs.. it seemed fine in seated vr, but once I got into full body for vrchat, it was extremely jittery and unstable. looking at the base station lasers, they are slightly more dim compared to my own.. I believe they are failing from use

an absolutely bonkers ebay day for a fix fox.. nearly 30 units worth of switches and components, as well as the first broken/affordable htc vive vr face tracker that I have seen since they were discontinued two years ago and skyrocketed to like $600 used

since the valve index I got in for repairs didn't actually need any repairs, here is a throwback to when I was working on playstation vr headsets and repaired one with cable damage that I got for $12 🦊👍

out on a lovely pokemon go walk.. and still technically working as I am field testing my repair hehe. it is nice to be a fix fox 🦊🌻

today's fox fix is.. already fixed! I caught a listing for a non-working valve index, but.. it works! I'm going to test it out and see how it performs compared to my quest 2 setup, namely if it resolves my unfixable microstuttering issue. maybe I will play fnaf security breach in vr again 🦊🥽

today's fox fix is a water damaged pokemon go plus+, with many of the vias for the main voltage lines corroded away. I restored them by threading copper wire and flowing solder into them, as well as repairing the 2.8v regulator with parts from a joy-con. now it's a pokeball instead of a dive ball 🦊👍

an easy, lucky fox fix for today.. this switch was intermittently crashing, accompanied by an awful screeching noise on the speakers. I poked around and found it would do it immediately if I touched this component, the crystal oscillator for the SoC. I replaced it and it seems to have worked 🦊👍

on my walk today I saw a butterfly on a leaf, bobbing around in the wind. hang in there, little butterfly 🦊🦋

this power saving mod of removing the vibration motor and wiring the LEDs to the 2.8V seems to have worked quite well; after tracking every night in pokemon sleep and walking about an hour a day in pokemon go, I am finally getting the low battery LED after three weeks of use. now that is a result 🦊👍

proud of today's fox fix; this poor unit had many issues, including a short on the RAM power rail.. I nosed around and found a single discolored capacitor, and removing that cleared the short! after replacing the RAM, charging IC, USB port, and docked video IC, I think I brought this one back 🦊👍

chased my tail with today's fox fix.. after replacing the charging IC for a power issue, this unit was hanging at the switch logo. I read that is often a failed wifi IC, so I replaced it, and while it worked in linux, the switch would still not boot. I then redid the charging IC.. and it worked 🦊👍

what if we went to the wiggle room...........

today's fox fix was an experience... this switch had a bad USB port which fried the charging chip, and I later found also permanently damaged the processor's USB 2.0 controller. after replacing those, I turned it on.. and was treated to a parental control lock. at least I got it working again 🦊👍

maybe my favorite bit of cosmetic damage I have had to document for a listing: "Rear housing exhibits minor wear from normal use, as well as shallow inscriptions of a child's name and a smiley face."

I recently swapped my personal OLED switch's motherboard into a different housing, but a few days later noticed severely reduced bluetooth range for the joy-con. so I disassembled it again, and.. silly foxes make silly mistakes 😵‍💫

キツネポケモンでお祝い！ #ポケモン30周年

what a blessed fix fox day ✨🦊✨ just as I was winding down for the night, I checked my parts/repair ebay searches and caught an absolutely unreal pair of "don't want to bother testing, selling as is" listings

sure enough, the via that was responsible for carrying that enable signal to the 1.7v regulator had been eaten away by liquid damage. one tidy jumper wire and it is ready to (pokemon) go again 🦊👍

a video for today's fox fix! another fun little repair on a pokemon go plus+ 🦊👍

the box of these is now empty! I was able to fully repair 39 of them so far, with a few being unrepairable, and the rest going in the "later" drawer, either having much deeper/more time consuming issues, or being banned. all in all I think that is one fine lot of fox fixing 🦊👍

fortnite cooked with this one.. quite like this guy's stylized design and little animation nuances 🐭 also cool to have a furry rat skin aside from camille (and skillet but he is an opossum)

today's fox fix is an OLED switch that.. had nothing wrong with it..?? I bought it as no power with a description of "shocked me and then turned off", so I assumed a faulty charger and shorted charging IC, but it just.. turned on?? I will put it through stress testing, but I guess that is a fix 🦊👍

today's fox fix was a ride.. this switch had a black screen after the nintendo logo. the voltage regulator for the GPU was getting boiling hot, so I replaced it, but no change.. I then noticed a nearby filter capacitor was shorted to ground. I popped it off with my tweezers, and.. it booted up 🦊👍

shoutout to the girl I met in a dream last night at a house party who was showing off her hacked playstation vita (OLED, she pointed out) with episodes of regular show on it. you were awesome

today's fox fix is a switch that had shorted USB C configuration channels due to a faulty charging IC, and a missing pin on the SD card reader connector. I replaced the pin and reflowed the connector to align it better, and replaced the charging IC. no more boot errors, and no USB or SD issues 🦊👍

did I just get hit on in the eBay DMs

I love how I am taking nice photos for my ebay listings and foxy the pirate fox is peeking out like 🦊

repair work is full of little surprises 😊

rough day for fox fixing.. the first two switch repairs in a row ended up both being banned units somehow.. I took a long walk and a long bath to clear my head, and then repaired two more that fortunately were not banned 🦊👍

the switch I fixed today had a copy of super mario odyssey on it, and I found I can still do frog skip 🦊👍 I absolutely adore the movement in this game

on a nice spring walk and just saw my first dragonfly of the year.. this rejuvenates the step 🦊🌻

a bit of fox craftiness today; I needed to restock on soldering flux, and could get a 10g syringe for $15, or a 100g tub for $30.. I went for the tub and put it in warm water until the flux was liquid and could be drawn into an empty thermal paste syringe. now I have easy flux whenever I need 🦊👍

bonus fox fix for today, this switch could only boot through custom firmware, which made me suspect a corrupt bootloader. I rebuilt a clean copy of the OS, but no change. I then noticed that it had no sound output at all, so I swapped the audio IC.. and that fixed the boot issue 🦊👍(???)

today's fox fix is a switch that had corrosion buildup from water damage, particularly on the internal system storage. I reballed and reflowed the chip on the emmc module, as well as one of the voltage regulators for the cpu for good measure. now it is back to life 🦊👍

bonus fox fix for today: another pokemon go plus+! it had no power and a lot of corrosion on the 5V regulator for the LEDs. I had already devised a mod to use the vibration motor's 2.8V instead to lower brightness and save power, so I just removed it and added my switchless autocatch mod as well 🦊👍

today's fox fix was a switch that had lost docked video; I replaced the port with no change, so I turned a spare USB C cable into a tool that shorts every pin to ground, to easily check continuity to the respective components. all the pins were ok, so I replaced the video chip and now all is well 🦊👍

I BEAT CRUSHERS!! that one level added like fifteen hours to my total.. but I figured it out 🦊💡 now to see if I can do the rest of them

that mod would stay in pairing mode indefinitely due to the LEDs flashing white, so I figured out how to fix that! now it only presses the button when the green LEDs and vibration are active (a pokemon is found). with my professional mspaint visual I stumbled onto baby step's first logic gate lmao

they're puttin' chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs holographic #VRChat

them: you better not be a playstation tech demo when I get there me: #VRChat

who is she....

today's fox fix: a pokemon go plus+! it was sent to me with no power, which was an issue with the battery installation. I replaced the battery and also modified it to auto-throw great and ultra balls, by using a transistor and the green LED signal to press the catch button. now it is good to GO 🦊👍

I made some habanero taco macaroni and cheese 🦊🥣 this fixes the step