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Sophie

@sophie.engineering
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Canadian living in NYC :3 I mainly do hardware design & software engineering Just a silly cat www.scd31.com

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Sophie @sophie.engineering · 02/10/2026
Oh yeah and I found this photo at the same time from a few weeks ago. I made a degausser by wiring up a curled up extension cord and ran hot through hot + neutral (into a toaster oven) so the magnetic fields would combine instead of cancel out. It worked incredibly well; the entire cable vibrated
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Sophie @sophie.engineering · 02/10/2026
Kind of, but it melted through the insulation, caused a short, and popped the breaker
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Sophie @sophie.engineering · 02/10/2026
Throwback to when I tried to melt the snow in my driveway by using CAT 5 cord as a heating element, running directly off of mains
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Sophie @sophie.engineering · 22/09/2026
cozycore writing my legal name change petition on my panasonic portable :3
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Sophie @sophie.engineering · 21/09/2026
me and friends at MIT flea :3
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Sophie @sophie.engineering · 21/09/2026
So-called "free thinkers" when a train passes by (me & friends at MIT flea market today)
6 people stand at the edge of of a parking garage, looking out the window. Directly outside a train passes by.
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Sophie @sophie.engineering · 17/09/2026
oh just charging my toothbrush
A partially disassembled electric toothbrush sitting on a desk next to a bench-top power supply. Connected between the two are two alligator clips; one is connected directly to the toothbrush. The other is connected to a screwdriver that is jammed into the toothbrush's casing
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Sophie @sophie.engineering · 08/09/2026
was also playing around with @frankchiarulli.com and got it running on his macbook
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Sophie @sophie.engineering · 08/09/2026
what I was hacking on today. Extremely tiny external monitor. sorry my camera sucks; my phone is very old still need to add touchscreen support. it would be cute oh and I found a bug in the gud kernel module while working on this, so I submitted a kernel patch for that today too
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