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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️

@techcubus.monster
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Aka "Lily" 💻, 🧠, 🍕, 🕹️, 🎹, 💡, 🏳️‍⚧️. Absolute wreck of an entity. ND, ΘΔ. Unix Demon, Science Succubus, I am the Techcubus! She/Her, PG-13 succubus, needs your emotions! bg: @kujikawaii av: @RED_SNK

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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 14/09/2026
Alright who in the world buys this and keeps it in the box for 30 years unused except for having cut out the barcode for whatever rebate was being offered
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 14/09/2026
Even I have to admit my reflexes aren't quite what they've been :( Therefore announcing today I have acquired a macro pad and will be playing with that moving forward lol
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 12/09/2026
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 03/09/2026
Ooh, it does start in Windows 11! I need to test Wine/Proton. Maaaaaybe I can even get far enough to test the physics bug!
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 01/09/2026
I forgot this thing was coming, the SN Operator! I will now dump all my super Nintendo games and no one can stop me! And the next time I'm playing SNES Mario Kart in public and someone asks if that's my copy of the game I can confidently say "YES OFFICER in strangely tight shorts!"
Also backup save backups. The super Nintendo cartridge "Chrono Trigger" attached to a device to extract the save data for use with emulators.
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 23/08/2026
Added basic display of buttons to my HyperCard viewer! I have no idea how i really want to deal with resource forks for icons
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 17/08/2026
Me forgetting the Internet exists and tracing the center terminal in the DC adapter socket lol (center negative!) I really didn't have to even trace it as it was well labeled (except to double check the board markings because, well lol)
The inside back of a Roland MM-4 midi thru box and and backside of the same device with unmarked midi and voltage in ports, and a "center negative" symbol scrawled on with silver marker
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 27/07/2026
Here's the main menu after pressing Control+V to reveal the version!
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 27/07/2026
I found these pictures lurking in the Apple IIgs version of "The Print Shop," likely the dev team and the QA team. There's evidence of a hidden menu called "La la land" that shows these, but I haven't found it yet. I haven't found much online about the photos either.
Secret photo of the development team for the Apple IIgs version of "The Print Shop" by Brøderbund software. Their likely names are found elsewhere in the binary: 
Ann E. kronen
Michelle McBride
Leila Bronstein
Roland Gustafsson 
Corey Kosak Secret photo of the QA team
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 16/07/2026
Girlslop Mark 3, the "I really need to go to the store" edition. Found some frozen steam in bag corn and sure that will make up for the lack of eggs, potatoes and black beans lol Honestly never tried corn like this, I'm scared
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 19/06/2026
This, this is why
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 19/06/2026
I would like for these cursed objects to be locked in some SCP universe
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 17/06/2026
Another sorted box of component porn lol
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 15/06/2026
Oh, neato! The UI design sketches I did for my hypercard stack I was making in like 9th grade that could send Apple events to remote machines! This poor stack was lost in an HD failure though, I'm sure :( Yes we totally used it to message one another during classes in the computer lab lol
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 15/06/2026
Thought I'd poke at old HyperCard stuff and boy howdy this clipart is nostalgic lol
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 09/06/2026
WHAT Well I'm glad it checked to see if 'foo' was in the expected format but why is it trying to open an image file named foo? Lol was this my fault?
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 07/06/2026
And then reconnecting a pull up resistor got me this
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 07/06/2026
Messing about with the present of the clock signals got me this
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 07/06/2026
A couple people on the look mum no computer discord were looking at the bass 3 synth output I was getting from my oscilloscope and gave some advice. The output was this. Not quite the stepped saw.
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 08/05/2026
I GIVE YOU.... The World's Least Ambitious Keyboard Controller!!!
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 08/05/2026
Lollllll this has been what bluesky on my phone has been opening to for the past week
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 03/05/2026
THERE I forgive you if you don't believe me but I think we can start over now lol
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 03/05/2026
By the way this is tonight's recipe ideally, I just turned the desoldering pump off bc there's no suction >:(
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 03/05/2026
Ope lol welp so much for luck, we've gone pear shaped already lol dangnabbit, hmmmmm
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 03/05/2026
I would like to finish this tonight though first thing I need to strip these first tries off lol wish me luck!
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 02/05/2026
Woooo hot dang big thanks to @adriansdigitalbasement.com for giving me the idea to use hot air to get these components off this board FINALLY lol Like no joke this has been on my bench for three+ years. I can now properly figure out how I destroyed it and I get two free log pots woohoo
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 26/04/2026
KEYBOARD WORKS(ish) Somehow the lvgl font disappeared too and lvgl was complaining the fonts are compressed but not set via define as enabled which was frustrating but whatever lol I wonder if these are bugs or oversights due to the keyboard really still being developmental? I doooon't knooooooow
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
Okay well at full speed it's obvious it thinks most keys are down lol got a problem there boss sir It's back to my wiring but things make sense now I THINK lollll?
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
lol yes way irritatingly i'm still not getting a response from the calculator but I can pull out my debug info and restore to full speed lol dang
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
lol no way
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
It looks like it isn't getting in the for loop? We're bounded by CONNECTED_COLS, let's check that
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
Okay cool the serial write during keyscan is happening, so IT SHOULD BE WORKING WHY ISN'T IT LOL
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
lol oh good margatroid okay let's send it to the esp32 instead lol geeeeez
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
Okay, i'll comment out the ifdef for a minute, though there's an unclosed ifndef up above that has me curious..
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
lol it should be defined at any cost!
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
See? Although.. it is wrapped by an ifdef.. hm....
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
This seems like the correct location! Hmmmmmmmmmmm
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
Yoooo okay, i think this is where the magic is! And it looks intact, so now I'm confused about the wiring again.. I'm adding the Serial.printf to make sure this is getting called and recompiling.
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
Note: this is being called by the serial bridge to handle keystrokes from the serial port, so from handlekey() things seem to be working
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
Okay it looks like it's polling the keyboard, let's find this definition
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
Hidden/Experimental? We do not hide things here unless they are ugly! lol This might be a place to build an icon to start the hardware test, let's keep going...
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 24/04/2026
Well ok, this is the main loop. It looks like if lvgl is active it lets that update, then runs g_app.update() which is in the SystemApp.cpp file, then writes a heartbeat to the serial port every 5000 ticks (5s) and sleeps till the next time to poll everything. So into SystemApp.cpp we go..!
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 22/04/2026
I just realized nowhere in this red box does the bluesky app think when I touch I intend to scroll down
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 22/04/2026
Okay seriously listen to me, four bands are USELESS if I can't tell which end is what now! Leave some space! I think the right side brown stripe is thinner than everyone else but that is not consistent and maybe a manufacturing error argh STOP IT YOU ONLY NEED THREE (+1) lol
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 22/04/2026
I started working on this and think I forgot to tell anyone? I'm playing with NumOS and hit a wall of not understanding what I'm supposed to be doing with the button array. The continuity checks out.. I think I need vss or ground somewhere on the buttons and it's not in the documentation, :l
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 22/04/2026
I am genuinely kind of shocked to see -- instead of — on a product from 1978.. I thought people knew how to typeset back then!
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 15/04/2026
No, it's fine! It's just named skirizi , that can mean all sorts of meaningless things you are not having a stroke... Ah?
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 15/04/2026
Oh this is .. huh. I wonder if it will restart the bottle?
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 15/04/2026
Good old nostalgia flash bang from the installer here
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Dorknerd Succubus 🤪🏳️‍⚧️ @techcubus.monster · 14/04/2026
And finally we have this. It is a discontinued version of a computer controlled radio and I have no idea if I can make it work in this day and age lol. I imagine the PCMCIA adapter card is not easy to track down, but it's not necessary apparently? I need a serial connection and a power supply.
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