Erin Rose

I won’t be at SMRRF, but I will dm you! (..once I’m done with another ~week or so of my current all-consuming work project)

I did not expect to be carrying a rifle case containing a fiber laser through central London this evening…

(…I expected to be carrying it in an ikea bag)

my ~2 weeks of being incredibly gay and (nominally..) not working is over :((

is the ’super bonus’ kissing them? that seems to be the outcome quite often

yeah, they definitely did

i really can not emphasize enough that the most materially impactful thing you can do for trans people right now is hire them.

Dyke stealth tip: a magnet on your least used key will stop your carabiner from jingling, preventing detection

I’m also (for now..) UK-based! and that’s definitely a trade I’d be willing to do, as it’d be a shame to leave such a nicely engineered chocolate extrusion core unused for ages.

cocoa press! a company gave me one for free, and I got bored of printing American chocolate.. maybe I'll try printing wax with the extruder.

today we’re modding a chocolate 3d printer into a hybrid galvo / cartesian fiber laser cutter :3

fabricators are like crows, befriend them and they’ll bring you shiny trash they think you might enjoy

(today it was a pair of linear rails and a high power UV source from an industrial printer)

an EE friend of mine seriously pitched working on it together sometime later this year.. so we’ll see

a shock collar that zaps me whenever I forget to try is the most viable option I’ve thought of so far

same..

my arms are basically useless today, but now half my bed is taken up by an electrical cabinet, so who's to say if it was worth it or not?

if u spot a soaking wet 1.9m tall transfem struggling to carry a massive electronics cabinet on the London underground - hii :3

i don’t, unless the next print is really big, never noticed any issues

i got a headache

i tried that once

a long magic arm mounted onto the linear rail with a swiss plate quick release - the linear rail is mounted onto an aluminium extrusion lighting frame. it’s holding a small stuffed shark. there is a pothos plant in the background, along with two giant nuts, and two crocheted queer bees.

a close up of the linear rail block, with a machined aluminium adapter plate to a swiss quick release plate.

made a shark holder for my workbench

just make sure the hard drive has a metal platter and not glass, I made that mistake as a child..

girl who takes devices apart to see how they work: “oh, I understand how this works now!”

maybe not applicable to your situation (requires access to a laser cutter), but I'm currently experimenting with coroplast eurobox dividers that slot together in various configurations - it seems promising so far!

multipurpose omnidirectional all terrain yearning device

sadly not very time / cost effective to do with a machine like this, and it’s a nice cnc (old othermill) that I use a lot for work, just not suited for anything but small metal parts.

I’ll definitely keep it around for PCB milling after I upgrade.

a smol and ancient othermill v2

a pretty looking aluminium vacuum fixture plate in my hand it has a rectangular black o-ring indented, and a grid pattern machined inside it with an air hole. there is a pneumatic fitting at the top, and 4 mounting holes recessed around the edge. it’s about the size of my palm

I gave in to an urge to make a vacuum fixture plate and spent ~16 hours machining this on my comically ill-suited plastic framed cnc - it works really well!

if only for my health (remembering to eat mid project), I really need a better cnc machine..

a small fabric tool roll open showing a set of tightly packed electronics tools - in order from left to right: - solder - iron tip - ts21 iron - metal solder sucker - small brass wool tip cleaner - luer lock needle - glass luer lock syringe of flux - knipex flush cutters

the roll now folded up, showing a silicone usb-c cable tucked into an external pouch. in the blurry background a pretty green plant is visible.

I love modifying second hand fabric tool rolls for my own purposes - quite often only a stitch unpicker is required!

here’s version 2 of my portable soldering kit

yess, I’m so glad to have friends that also appreciate platonic biting