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My mom revealed that her mother, my little old Grandma, let her keep a watch her then-husband gave her.

It's a Rolex ladies watch not much larger than a dang dime or nickel.

My brother is the watch guy who goes FERAL for Rolexes, and when I told him about this he went nuts.

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Finished a kumihimo project and started a new one today.

The one I finished was a 15-bobbin triangular braid in two colors using cotton embroidery floss. Interesting enough.

The new job is using imitation silk and a circular "spiral" pattern (the spiral is far less evident than I'd like, considering the fact that the threads are evenly balanced between red and blue. I should revisit this at a later date with a different color spread.)

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*maniacal laughter ensues*

It lives!

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Oh I got my first sale from a 3D Print I put on Cults3D !

Someone in Europe bought my Razer Ripsaw mount.

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My rank spacer gadget for you Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cosplayers who want screen-accurate size and spacing for your rank stripes.

Designed in Autodesk Fusion 360 but I no longer have access to the design in any meaningful manner bc I'm a poor and the subscription is $80/month

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I put this up on Cults3D for free, but in the secret mode Bc I'm just leaving it there for the cosplayers.

Designed in Autodesk Fusion 360 but I no longer have access to the design in any meaningful manner bc I'm a poor and the subscription is $80/month

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I'm rather annoyed, if not outright angry that I spent almost twice what I normally spend on a 1Kg roll of filament (including shipping!) to only get maybe a half-dozen successful prints out of it. The rest was wasted as spaghetti (which would start some 1/2-2/3 of the way through a print ftr) and detached from the print bed, even after creating a completely new filament profile for it accounting for "correct" temperatures and speeds, and then, just for good measure, changing the entire nozzle assembly.

Fuck getting the color right, I just wanted the prints to finish successfully.

I'm not even going to waste my time finishing the roll. Absolute dogshit.

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Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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My 3rd Star Trek related project is the hand Phaser (officially a "Type II Phaser") from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

I procured the printer files for it a couple weeks ago and got the main body printed last weekend and just got the paint color picked out (Tamiya AS-19 Intermediate Blue (USN), for the curious) and I think it's gonna look dang good and not just a holster-filler either because I'm working on the electronics for it.

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I'm printing some parts for the interiors right now and I'm also considering if/how I can paint them to the right colors. Also looking at correct color references so I can get it right right.

Just got the printer files for the Disco/SNW Phaser Rifle

It's 91 files, (some of which are multiples) big.

Jesus.

I'm working out what I can print in assembly groups so that I have fewer parts floating around than doing it by filament color.

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Just thought of a really brain-breaking, but EXPENSIVE thing I'd love to do with my SNW Phaser rifle - create a working RDS optic for it.

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This thing fucking rules holy shit its so efficient at what it does.

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Like have 3 or 4 power banks on me so that anyone who wants a top-up for their electronics can get it or a diagnosis on why their thing stopped working. That kind of thing.

Just thought of a cosplay that's less cosplay and more "fun convention costume"

Ya know those "doctor cosplay" type costumes with threads and supplies? I wanna do that specifically for Electronics.

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The bag arrived yesterday and it already makes a WORLD of difference in the consistency of the braid compared to the clip tied off to a leg that I was using.

I also got adventurous and started trying new and different braids. I'm still doing braids of 8 strands, but they're better and more organized than they were!

Marudai : acquired

Test braids : underway

Results: Need a low stool or a zabuton to sit on while I do this bc sitting in Seiza is not comfortable for the knees right now. Braid-wise, they're not too shabby. Just need thicker threads to do it with and heavier bobbins and moar counterweight (the bag should be here soon I guess)

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Just received the parts I needed to make the electronics work in my prop Phaser and... now I know what size resistors I need and how many. (512 ohm ×10)

Next up is to continue the painting process.

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Marudai : acquired

Test braids : underway

Results: Need a low stool or a zabuton to sit on while I do this bc sitting in Seiza is not comfortable for the knees right now. Braid-wise, they're not too shabby. Just need thicker threads to do it with and heavier bobbins and moar counterweight (the bag should be here soon I guess)

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Just thought of a cosplay that's less cosplay and more "fun convention costume"

Ya know those "doctor cosplay" type costumes with threads and supplies? I wanna do that specifically for Electronics.