410757864530_dead_follicles [she/her]

working on open hardware electrolysis! check out https://sphynx.diy

schematics are here: https://git.sr.ht/~_410bdf/sphynx

email me at 410bdf@proton.me, or hit my Matrix at @410bdf:matrix.org!

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Joined 9 months ago
Cake day: March 4th, 2024
  • 410757864530_dead_follicles [she/her]todiy•sphynx electrolysis development journal entry #8: using it, and a website 🌐
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    4 months ago

    hello! I'd love to talk through it, but the very short answer is that this is fully global as designed. It runs on 2 9V batteries and is never connected to the wall at any point. Batteries are consumable and it's a little bit of a bummer (these exist which mitigates this issue!) but there is a safety risk with having any direct electric line from the wall to a person. I trust my engineering skills but even if I feel like I could make it safely, it's not worth the risk. If my circuit completely fails and the batteries shoot straight through to the recipient's body, it's just 18 V and it's a little ouchie but no big deal, unlike with wall current, which is a very, very big deal. I would never endanger trans. <3

  • 410757864530_dead_follicles [she/her]todiy•Sphynx electrolysis development journal entry #7: look at this fucking thing it's rad as hell
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    5 months ago

    hi! Perfect timing, I just sat down to conclusively definitively follow your instructions to get this patch implemented and then set up CD onto https://sphynx.diy. I'm honestly not opposed to you having push access to a branch, but I just have to get settled into the repo first and reacquaint myself how Jekyll projects are typically organized. I'll let you know when I'm up to speed with where you're at and then there's a good quantity of site things to be done 🥰

    edit: holy shit patching with eml files is easy I don't know why I was dreading this so much. 4 minutes. The CD job failed, I didn't really expect it to pass on the first try, but I'm going to go into debugging that now

    edit 2: i fixed the build script chicken-bop I went down a somewhat (entirely) unnecessary rabbit hole of getting bundler installed as a user gem instead of as a system gem for the problem to be totally unrelated and just be system binaries anyways. Might change it back, might not. The important thing is that pushing jekyll automatically uploads HTML to the site. I can finally start writing blog posts and guides and stuff. Thank you :meow-hug:

  • 410757864530_dead_follicles [she/her]todiy•Sphynx electrolysis development journal entry #7: look at this fucking thing it's rad as hell
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    5 months ago

    hi! I sincerely hope it has that level of impact, if I can meaningfully improve - let alone save - one girl's life, it'll have all been worth it ❤️

    as for the tip jar - I'm an engineer in the imperial core, I truly don't need the money. If anyone here wants to thank me, give whatever you were going to give to me to elevated access or another trans-related charity, or to people in need in Palestine, Congo, or another anti-imperialism struggle close to your heart. If you want to thank me and you don't have the money, just pay it forward and use my hardware, once it's released, to help make life a little easier for another trans girl. cat-trans

  • 410757864530_dead_follicles [she/her]todiy•Sphynx electrolysis development journal entry #7: look at this fucking thing it's rad as hell
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    5 months ago

    Hi! @Edie@hexbear.net summed it up pretty well, the thing I'm looking for is to have very simple 3D models associated with all of the library components, so that in my KiCAD 3D viewer, it's not just an empty PCB. KiCAD has defaults for resistors, capacitors, and ICs, (which all need to be set up actually, that's another part of this ask), but things like the potentiometers, battery holders, and phono jack could be modeled as a couple of cylinders and boxes per the datasheets. The two purposes this would serve is providing visuals for instruction guides and the website, and to help enclosure designers have something to work around. These are both of moderate importance - not blocking development, yet would still be nice to have. That is to say, there's no rush but if you're feeling motivated it'd be a neat thing to do!

  • 410757864530_dead_follicles [she/her]todiy•Sphynx electrolysis development journal entry #7: look at this fucking thing it's rad as hell
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    5 months ago

    I'm very uncomfy around patch files in general, I've never worked with this development workflow before, so I'm just going to take a bit of time to get up to speed!

    first things first - the repo and the site are actually not connected right now, the site is just some raw HTML I wrote and the repo is blank, iirc? So I couldn't tell if you were patching from the repo or the site. I found the official guide at https://git-send-email.io/, but that appears to be more for sending patches than accepting them, so it wasn't super helpful to me. I just downloaded the contents of your email and tried to use patch directly on the contents in my working directory, but it looked like it threw some errors and I got scared off. Do you have some time to work with me on it tonight? I think I'll make a matrix account so we can talk about it, if you have one yourself and like that method of communication!

  • 410757864530_dead_follicles [she/her]todiy•Sphynx electrolysis development journal entry #7: look at this fucking thing it's rad as hell
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    5 months ago

    thank you <3 my first mission is to get the hair off of my knuckles! It's very accessible for self work, it's good practice, it's very not affirming hair even after becoming a lot thinner and lighter, and because it's thinner and lighter, the kill time per hair is a good amount lower too! Probably one or two hours of work first pass do both hands! and of course, any user testing time that involves couch time with the girlies should be very fun too 🙃

    Once I've done that, I think I'll have a good read on the board user experience wise for RC2 changes. I deeply appreciate you stopping by for all of these! I reference your technical advice every time I start a new design and I'm gonna roll some of your more recent advice into the RC2 as well. Thanks for stopping in meow-hug

  • 410757864530_dead_follicles [she/her]todiy•Sphynx electrolysis development journal entry #7: look at this fucking thing it's rad as hell
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    5 months ago

    the black soldermask was like $2 more but I think it was so worth it, I kinda made a snap desicion that this one was gonna photograph well and planned accordingly. and yes! building shit is so good! This is my biggest solo project ever and it has been making me feel very good, although for me especially but I think for everyone to a certain extent, solo work is super challenging. Do you have a local makerspace? I'm not working thru one right now but I dearly miss every time I've spent time building in one, or especially with people in one!