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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

okay bsky here is my ID

An image of Tomoko Kawase from like 2006 is on this Round 1 card. The book titled "HOW TO GET MAN" is cut off and would be under her in the photo. Why does this card even exist? Who is it for? Obviously for me.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Nah fuck this, starting a new mastodon I guess.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I can probably get away with a single 45 degree 8 foot cross beam, right? This thing is just gonna hold power ranger toys at the end of the day. This is just so much easier than trying to do a proper full corner to corner....

Same shelf as before but now with a cross beam and slats on top

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

"If I can CAD it I can build it" or "If I can CAD it then I have no one else to blame but myself when it doesn't look like the picture when I build it and then it falls into the hole in the basement"

CAD of some shelves that can hold 20 x 27 gallon totes from Home Depot

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

why did they make these so hard to put on and take off

inside a pop'n music arcade cabinet showing how the buttons are clamped in place

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Yeah I have desk toys, they're not as cool as funko pops but don't shame

a bunch of scrap plastic for test prints, failed prints, and removed supports

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Watching this show about aliens or something and they show some filler car driving scene that made me sit up and go "I KNOW THAT BURGER KING" and it's the one in akiba right outside the tsukuba express station next to the shosen book tower lmao, here's google maps: www.google.com/maps/@35.697...

A scene from the AppleTV series Invasion shows a car driving on an overpass in Tokyo next to a Burger King

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The real issue here is that no one has even attempted to stop me from doing this.

A webcam mounted to a dancemaniax arcade cabinet. There are also kirby pushes sitting on the sensor pods.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Actually this works better for where I need to get the wires

A similar photo but the video amplifier has been moved to the other side

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I guess I just VHB tape it here

The inside of a pop'n music arcade cabinet, there are wires everywhere including the video out going to a new device, a extron video amplifier.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I guess they thought I was doing this? Seems kinda uhhh

If you're going to respond to anything in my little rant here DO NOT. I repeat DO NOT phrase it in the form of a correction and absolutely do not double down on it if I respond back.. that'll earn you a block.. thanks so much!

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Yeah okay the magical electronics pixies live in this area, okay, that's good.

Sorry screen readers and blind people, there's no chance at doing alt text for this. It's schematics for a power supply.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Okay, I was able to get these phoenix connectors locally, so now I just have to steal 12 volts from the cabs. Uhh WITHOUT blowing up the 12v rail like I did last time.

Three Extron P/2 DA2xi video amplifier/distributor boxes with 3.5mm phoenix/euroblock connector. They have two D-sub 15 (vga) connectors and a 3 dip switches. One d-sub is labeled "local monitor" and the other is labeled "output"

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I'm really tempted to buy this pompompurin squishmallow but I need to see it in person first to make sure it's legit ✳️

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I'm throwing it out the window

Internal Memory Issue. Printer is
recovering to factory default mode.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Testing with cards I already knew the numbers of is one thing but getting proof of it working with one of the new blank cards is good. Really the number is only needed at registration on the website but getting it off a completely blank (white on both sides) card means I can start handing these out.

The card number matches the one jubeat says. The screen shows your eamusement card number and it matches the one from the card scanner arduino.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Implementing konami's felica/amuseIC->konami ID code in arduino compatible code was uhhhhh well let's just say the github repo for this is private. Arduino triple DES was a struggle and getting it to calculate the checksum bit was equally a struggle. But it sure does scan cards and spit out numbers.

A 1602 LCD screen reads: "Your card no. is 4P8NZEZHKN0HZY2U" It is plugged into an arduino and a breadboard and a series of wires hangs off of a project board. There's also a coffee cup hanging out on the desk.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I was going to buy the rest of the air purifiers that I wanted for the rest of the rooms in my house but they've gone up in price from $69.99 to $159.99. Maybe Honeywell should ~just~ set up their entire supply chain a little closer to where I want to use their products.

a screenshot from arrested development that has been turned into a way cool meme that says "it's a us factory michael how long could it take to build? 10 days?" which is changed from the original line of "it's one banana michael how much could it cost, ten dollars?"

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Pop'n Music is kill. I only had one spare so I guess I need to source a handful of replacement microswitches just in case another one just uhhhh explodes. Oops.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Place your laundry money into my Judy

Inside a jubeat arcade machine showing the internal coin mech in place

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It REALLY wasn't really worth my time doing this when the cab this is for isn't even here yet (and the likelihood anyone will ever drop a coin in this is very low) but I needed a project to do and I guess I accomplished that.

happ coin mech with screws from an asahi seiko coin mech

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I don't want to waste a lot of effort on this and technically I don't need all three of these right now but I really think the best thing to do would be size these holes up for the other posts on the other asahi seiko mech. But not if I have to buy a new tap and die kit for tiny tiny metric screws.

suzo happ coin mechanisms showing them from the side where the mounting posts would go. One mech is missing the posts.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The retention screws from this old video card fit in there but I'd have to round off the hex nuts. The threading is different so I could thread lock them in place afterwards?

head on photo of a vga port (it's watermarked)

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The back is really good too

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Sorry if this is how you find out but I'm weird. I didn't want you to have to find out like this but I wanted you to hear it from me first. Found this in my storage unit in a box of stuff from roughly 2008? It appears to be a voltage regulator for some HP product.

An old computer part with a label that reads "PORNOGRAPHY"

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I mean COME ON you had one job here!

Yellow shorts that day pompompurin and have a picture of pompompurin on the side

Back of the shorts with a distinct lack of butthole

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

He's wearing pants.

Two pompompurin pushes. One wears pants, one shows butthole.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

If my ceiling looked like this it would be funny but I bet no one else that read about my issue here thought this was what was going on. Like just imagine going to someone's house and their ceilings just look like this and you ask if they were getting work done and they said "no, what do you mean?"

A man working on blending drywall mud plaster between two sheets of the ceiling to achieve an even surface. He's wearing a red shirt and for some reason there is a wet concrete wall in front of him. He seems very good at his job.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

anyway just so I'm not left out but mine isnt a coat rack

dancemaniax marquee with kirby plushes on top of sensor pods

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Yeah, it's probably still in there SOMEWHERE but I just made a new branch, dumped the files from the test env, and synced it to local. I'll push it out eventually and then wash my hands of the whole thing. It's my fault for having 600 forks and branches originally anyway.

I'm really sorry screen readers, I can't be bothered. I know I'm awful.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Always wild to watch a show and go "oh yeah, I bought taiyaki around the corner from this scene, neat!" but the taiyaki place is gone now so who cares

A screenshot from a TV show, a motorized scooter leans against a wall in a covered shopping street in Japan. a fire extinguisher box hangs on the wall near it. There are people in the background. Do they know they are in a show?

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Finally found the decal I missed buying a couple years ago. I'll use it for this hole.

A pop'n music arcade cabinet with a hole drilled in it that was used to interface with a card based credit system.

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

maybe this one works shrug

the animation plays in the preview so maybe it will play in the real post

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tyam @tyam.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I'm not going to pretend that I'm some kind of plastics expert or anime expert or sculpting expert but you guys see the problem with this figure too right? It's not just me?