kind of anxious about measuring the red wires and whether or not i should tape the microcontroller to the box or let it just hang there so that vibrations and jostling don't mess w the chip as much. wires should be fine though since i bought stranded ones.
this is what it looks like outside. ive made myself a little guide to make it easier soldering each button to the default pinhole set in the firmware, but again anxious about that part. i'll defo (probably) have it in the center to save on wire. the ground though, that part i found pretty fun on my stream deck.
thing im most anxious abt is the usb wire. im hoping i can find one lying around that i can leave inside to have a dedicated wire since i dont have a breakout. but if it comes to it, i can share the one i use for my drawing tablet. unplugging its gonna be a bitch though.
hope in the future i can also wire a gamecube usb, so i can play on my wii or at locals that use gamecubes.
What's one hobby you have that you'd recommend other people try?
Oh I have so many this is hard to answer.... I think maybe just simple hand sewing skills? Just because a lot of it is really easy once you get the hang of it, and it's incredibly useful and multi purpose. You can make new stuff or save your old favorite things! I love mending my clothes a lot (saves money in the long run and saves me the heart ache), and there's plenty of different kinds of hand sewing skills you can learn depending on what you need them for. I recently even learned scotch darning to save my favorite sweater!
(Sewing is probably my oldest hobby too? I remember being very little and denied real sewing needles so I made my own out of Christmas ornament hooks and fixed my brother's stuffies with them and made my stuffies clothes. I got my needles not long afterwards.)
I prefer visible mending for most of my things, but I practice making it unnoticeable too. I've fixed bedspreads, clothes, bags, and all sorts of things! I've also made new clothes and other trinkets out of scrap material, and decorated things too! (<- personally obsessed with patch work things lmao.)
Admittedly if you get into sewing as a major hobby a sewing machine is very helpful, but I still prefer hand sewing where I can bc I find the machine to be a little stressful. I usually use mine on bigger projects to save time, but I mainly hand sew.
Also I know you quilt so I dunno if that was the answer you were looking for lol... I don't know much about quilting but it is still sewing, and really cool to me. (Long arms look terrifying to me however.) But yeah knowing how to sew by hand is really helpful and fun! It's relaxing for me when I have the energy to focus and feels fulfilling. Even if it's not a good hobby for everyone, if it's a skill you're capable of learning, it's very useful.
My friend in Ukraine finds me all sorts of cool, weird pedals.
This nearly completely unlabeled one he grabbed for free because it wasn’t working, and sent it to me as a holiday gift. The assumption was it wouldn’t work again and I could repurpose the housing for something fun.
BUT I got it to come alive last night. Despite the entire circuit being bricked in a solid chunk of epoxy!
So I still have no clue what the circuit is, but it works! And with a few mods I’ll be able to use it regularly!
I am... ALL the way here for Leo's short little dark turn. HELLO?
[All of 2012 Leo in his "foot clan" outfit. A black eye mask with scrap wear armour pieces on his limbs, extra straps, fish net like gloves and sleeves, black shoulder/knee pads and foot wraps]
[IDs from alt: 1. No visible irises, sword in both hands, ready to fight. Brothers behind him. 2. Action shot, striking a Footbot with his fist. 3. Sitting with his head in his hand, looking troubled. April standing behind him. 4. Crouched on his knees, looking furious, enemies behind him.
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LIKE HE JOINED A GOTH GIRL GANG??
[Features Karai, an armour wearing teen with red eye and lip makeup and short black hair with a bleached uncut. And Shinigami, Shini for short, a teen with a witchy hat and black corset and cape outfit. Long black hair with a widows peak, and bold purple make up]
[IDs from alt: 1. In a room with money and fine art. Leo and Karai stand to either side, Shini kneels and celebrates the riches. 2. Shini sits in foreground, chin in her hands, smiling. Karai in background, legs crossed on a throne. 3. Shini, hat on, holding up a large, handle-less crescent blade, hair over one eye. Red clad ninja on either side of her. 4. Karai standing, wearing her metal half mask. Shini crouched, brim of her hat covers her eyes. Battle ready and surrounded by their ninja mercenaries.
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less aesthetic but for the full picture sake
[IDs from alt: Full body Leo standing from the front, you can see more of the outfit at once. He's got one spikey pauldron, and one with bolts. Shin guards, one clearly from a can, other darker and less distinct. A seat belt acting as a shoulder strap. Plates of metal at his hips, and wraps and chains on the upper thighs. 2. Leo sitting from the back, he has is swords hanging from the hip, and his black mask tails reach down to his belt, worn and blue at the ends.
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^last bits like thematic huh... like the blue isnt all gone but was just kinda hidden from view. also he dip dyed his hair : }
Ashton is so funny to me bc, his first course of action after finding out his dad, who he thought had died in a fire that he (ash) had caused, was actually alive and well, and had just taken the oportunity to freaking leave, then had ended up in magic jail
is to START PLAYING PSYCOLOGICAL GAMES ON HIM- straight up, locating the guy´s cell and pretendind he´d died in the fire. therapy? what´s that?
he is such a healthy and well adjusted individual mhm...
It sounds terrible, but the square wave is just going to be driving the reset on the sawtooth core, so all I need from this section is good clean edges, which it does!
Right now it only does linear voltage control, and there's a lot of glitching from analog measurement noise. The code needs a lot of work, but I'm trying to keep it to little mini projects that I will slowly build upon
sometimes I think I’m just being out of touch and looking back on a past i didn’t live through with rose colored glasses but no I think we are living in a uniquely isolated time in every sector of life
I hate my period. TMI and Gross medical stuff below, specifically the fact that I’m too crippled to make it to the bathroom.
My cramps are so fucking terrible I can’t even pee without difficulty— the cramps are so bad it literally STOPS me from letting out a proper stream. I have to take a bunch of short bursts because I am in so much pain my muscles cannot relax.
I have to pee so bad and have for HOURS now but I can’t make it out of bed without pain that’s literally crippling and just sends me right back down.
Normally I have… Solutions to this, but lately I find my heating pad is helping more than usual with the cramps, and if it’s not directly on my skin at max heat, the cramps get worse. Having medical briefs in the way between my skin and the burning blanket of comfort is unbearable.
It’s just the first two to three days that give me problems with going to the bathroom. As I’m writing this I notice I don’t even care that I don’t have a bowel movement the first two days of my period— it’s really the lack of urinating I’ve never found a way to cope with. Shit hurts so bad.
Occasionally I find comfort in imagining a yandere threading me up with a catheter or removing my uterus or drugging me into the abyss or anything medical that could relieve the pain, no matter how risky, because they care so much about how much pain I’m in they don’t care what risks it takes to help me. Regardless of however misguided their malpractice is.
But all I can think about today is that I would absolutely die in the care of a yandere. There is zero chance someone who’s willing to kidnap me is going to give a shit if I’m passed out in a puddle of bloody piss and vomit because they refuse to give me my painkiller cocktail.
Manipulative yanderes who don’t kidnap also would not be thrilled that all I’m capable of doing is laying down, drugged half out of my mind, silent as the grave because talking makes the cramps worse, and texting them/writing on a notepad about the woes of being a cripple instead of something interesting to them.
I suppose since it’s just fantasy and real people don’t have Stands, they aren’t mages in training, or any other one of the fantasies I write for, then I can imagine they’re kind, to a degree. I suppose it’s just as likely as the rest of their canon that they could give a shit, if I wrote them that way.
But there’s just something so demoralizing and depressing about wasting away in your bed for several days straight, unable to properly bathe, use the restroom, eat, or even roll over every few hours to prevent a deep vein thrombosis
At least that is accurate to being chained to the bed by a yandere. And that, oddly enough, brings me a bit of comfort