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v01d ma1n() @v01dma1n.bsky.social · 19h

People were really mad in Poland! My screw driver, which I brought over the ocean in 1990s.

A flat-head screwdriver with a worn wooden handle stamped "(MAD IN POLAND)", resting on a green grid cutting mat under warm lighting.

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Greg Uzelac @gregrex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Refinished a sentimental rocking chair. MIL rocked my wife as a baby in it 64 years ago. Our daughter is expecting, wants to rock her baby in it. Disassembled it to get best possible outcome. Daughter loves the results

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

LEG. Still needs the hydraulics and springs installed. Two powered joints and passive ankle. #robotics

An arthropod sort of leg (3d-printed plastic joined with thin wire) attached to a flat body piece and resting in a neutral position on a coffee table. There's only one leg, so the body is supported on a tissue box and weighted down with a drinking cup that has a picture of the Endurance moon lander on it. The leg angles up to a "knee" joint and then back down to a flat round foot.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Fun with yard work: a branch half-broke off my tree and was dangling in front of my/the neighbor's mailboxes. Today I fulfilled my public responsibility to remove it. Too wimpy to pull it loose, I resorted to the "use your own body weight" trick - I jumped and hung from it. Success!

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I don't like the amount of play (out-of-plane rotation) in the homemade bearing, but it'll be fine until it's not. It does feel like it'll still be able to turn under weight, which is what it needs to do. #robotics #3dPrinting

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Random rant: it annoys me when nerdy activities/organizations feel the need to apologize for themselves by touting benefits outside their central mission. E.g. FIRST claiming to be "more than robots" or SETI using the "more than just aliens" tagline.

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Fred Coppersmith @unrealfred.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Happy 60th to Star Trek!

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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

told my agents to touch grass now there are empty grass files popping up everywhere help

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

First print of spider body came out pretty well. There's a hint of warping at the base of the leg joint that sticks out, but not enough to ruin it. #3dPrinting #robotics

A 3d printer in the act of printing a large flat white object with very low infill percentage.

The finished object, a flat panel with some raised elements and holes.

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Sansa Sandisk @cheatlines.co · 30/08/2026

Still not COMPLETELY done (I need to seal it and add an edge/frame, probably some aluminum) but I might actually like it enough to display it. Feels like it should go over an outside door as a protector spirit of sorts

A rectangular glass mosaic of a DC-10 firefighting aircraft

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It is my honor to announce that I'm officially published in @analogsf.bsky.social - "Roots' Remembrance" is OUT in the September/October issue! For more about this story and how to read it: writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/08/root... #ShortStory #ScienceFiction

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Roots' Remembrance

Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Looking a bit more fleshed-out ... Now, can I pull off the build? #robotics #3dPrinting

A 3D model of a robot platform. There's a pump in the middle, two fluid tanks, and a little "house" to hold battery packs. Stubs of eight legs surround the edges, sticking up from the platform.

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Byrd - Remembering out Oct 1! @byrdbrnz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

For the book cover artists, a question: If an author approaches you with a completed cover, that they drew themself, but they just want someone to redo it...what are your thoughts? Would that be something you'd take on or pass on?

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RobotZwrrl @robotzwrrl.xyz · 07/08/2026

Outdoors with Robots! Here's my presentation from Hackaday Europe @hackadayofficial.bsky.social #HackadayEurope www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys6N...

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Outdoors with Robots - Hackaday Europe Presentation

YouTube video by Erin RobotZwrrl

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HookieDuke @hookieduke.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Flash sale for Zeti is live. Use code ZetiLove131 to get 30% off most items (excludes preorders) Today Zeti was accepted into an I-131 treatment that starts next week but vet bills are kind of intense so i am running a sale to support that expense. Any and all help is appreciated!

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Dean Oyebo @deanoyebo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Well things really haven't panned out how I hoped lately. I'm opening commissions again as I'm really quite in need of funds. To the point where I am very much looking at homelessness unless I can turn things around. Please either email me requests or order through my ko-fi page. ❤️ #art #commissions

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

LOL There's still time for this to happen to me IRL 🐀 RAT RACE #2 · DECEASED* 💀 *dead at 39 · $894k unspent · the on-call rotation already updated 💼🎉📦📨📨💼🧩📦🌴📦 📨📨📨📨💼💼💼💀 www.abeyk.com/escape-the-r...

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🐀 ESCAPE THE RAT RACE

A FAANG life sim. One tap = one quarter of your life. Layoffs, lifestyle creep, an AI named Kevin, and Milton the desk rat.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

More cleanup and polishing in this month's Acuitas diary. I added the last features to the new Episodic Memory, and worked on (but couldn't quite finish) rule-following in the Game Engine. #SymbolicAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbots #NLP

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Acuitas Diary #98 (June 2026)

Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Updates on the quadruped robot: I am about ready for final assembly and a proper test of the new motors, though that will have to wait until <gestures vaguely>. #robot #robotics #3dPrinting

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ACE the Quadruped 2026

Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Weird to be in the middle of a long holiday weekend and almost not want it. I want to go back to work.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Haha (the circle is a motion detection target).

A camera feed of a messy living room. A tuxedo cat is sprawling in the middle of the scene, surrounded by various toys. A blue circle has been drawn around the end of the cat's tail.

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3DPrintBunny @3dprintbunny.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Hello everybody. It's good to be back. I have cleaned up and thrown away everything that was damaged from the workshop floodings. Now I can get back to designing and playing with my new @snapmaker.bsky.social U1! This is my Peacock String Art, do you like it? stls and 3mfs: than.gs/m/1548707

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Peacock String Art - 3D model by 3dprintbunny on Thangs

This is my Peacock String Art, printed in four colours. I have attached the files plus 3mfs for Bambu, Creality and Snapmaker U1 (Orca). It needs to be printed

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Orionrobots (Danny Staple) @orionrobots.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Shake your hands in the air in you know what it is… yes yes yes

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Trying out my new I2C-equipped solenoid drivers and ADCs I got for the hydraulic robot. I am ready to control a bajillion valves ... #robotics #hydraulics

A bunch of electronics laid out on the floor of a medium-size cardboard box. There are a Raspberry Pi, there peripheral boards, three little solenoid valves, and two battery packs (one connected to the Pi and the other awkwardly alligator-clipped to some of the other boards).

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Who's moving jobs to Blue Origin and is over the moon about it? It's me! I start May 18.

A dark-blue starfield with a bit of nebula catching the light in places, and a cutout of a white feather superimposed on it.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A friend of mine is developing this slick little space trader sim MMO that you can play in your browser: everestdrive.io I think you can even invite friends to be on your ship and run some of the stations. This is an early access game; there's a Discord for bug reports.

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Everest Drive

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Success #2: I do seem to be able to heat-fuse 3D-printed polypropylene with my polyethylene film. Despite being technically different materials, these are a lot more willing to be friends than PLA and PE. #robotics #hydraulics

Closeup of someone's fingers flexing two flat pieces of plastic (a little square of film and the underside of a valve stem) in a way that shows they're stuck together.

A sheet of plastic film with a valve stem sticking up from a little hole cut in the center. The top surface of the film around the stem bears the scars of melting.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

First try sealing polyethylene film to a polyethylene tube, and it worked out! Besides matching materials, I needed pressure - the heat gun alone won't do it. Had to use the soldering iron behind aluminum foil. #robotics #hydraulics

The bottom of a translucent tube flared into a puddle of plastic and stuck to the underside of a piece of black plastic film.

The tube poking up through the top side of the black plastic film. The film is visibly distorted and tattered by melting.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's too bad I'm missing RMRRF this year, but unrelated business (that I can't disclose yet) has been sucking up too much of my time and energy. I'm not up for a day-trip to Loveland this time around. Whoever's tabling or attending, have fun!

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Read: "Beneath the Rising" (Premee Mohamed). This was fantastic. It's the first good modern treatment of cosmic horror that I've read, and definitely my favorite of the books by new-to-me authors that I picked up to try recently. #AmReading #Books

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

My buddy and I watching Artemis come back

A tuxedo cat sitting up on a blanket-covered couch, intently watching a laptop on a nearby coffee table which is showing the Artemis capsule with its drogue chutes out.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The year's indoor potato starts, before I put them out. I also planted some straight outdoors, so this year the two groups can race. #gardening #plants 🌱

A bunch of potatoes in those little plastic pots that new plants come in, sitting on a rug in front of a sliding glass door. There is also a sleeping tricolor tabby cat stretched out on another rug just behind them.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Atronach's (second) eye, without wiring. Building up the first one gradually left me without an appreciation of how much tedious effort goes into assembling one of these. Not sure if I can really do anything about that in future iterations or not. #robotics #3dprinting

A 3d-printed "eyeball" with a camera in the center, inside a shroud in which it can rotate. The shroud is mounted inside a larger case that holds the motors and several circuit boards.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Finished a new story today. "Mirepower" is about a trio of alien plant farmers who use their knowledge of the local flora and fauna to kick invaders off their planet. (Yes, the title is a pun.) Also still working on publication of various others. #writing #amwriting #writingCommunity

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

This month's Acuitas diary concerns more bugs and enhancements in the Conversation Engine. It's been a tangled mess, but I am slowly refining it ... writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/03/acui... #SymbolicAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbots

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Acuitas Diary #95 (March 2026)

Adventures in robotics and AI on a shoestring budget. SFF Fiction and occasional video game appreciation.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Progress is slow, but in the background I am still gradually working on this year's robotics projects (these are ACE's gearboxes for the better motors, which I still need to buy). #robotics #3dPrinting

A bunch of black-and-white gearboxes, made from 3d-printed parts and ballpoint pens, scattered on a fuzzy blanket.

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WriterOfMinds (she) @writerofminds.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Read: "Draw One in the Dark" (Sarah Hoyt). Kyrie is just staying in control of her "hallucinations" about turning into a panther, when she learns one of her co-workers turns into a dragon - and is in big trouble with a lot of other dragons - and might've killed someone??

Cover art for "Draw One in the Dark," by Sarah A. Hoyt. A big blue dragon with curling horns that point back from his forehead is rearing up in the center, wings outspread and mouth open. A body, partly covered in blood, lies just in front of the dragon. A cityscape can be seen in the background.

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