#machinecore

[endlessmazin]

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[r477m4n-wh34713y]

[ocularpiedmont]

the new angels

[apriltempleos]

october 1st 2024: drafts!

preacher: i'm attaching slightly improved versions of our original drafts, but i'll also include mine and scott's garbage sketches under the cut because i think they're a little bit funny

(image id available through tumblr's accessibility options)

this is a slightly revised version of my original concept for "APRIL".

the main functionality i wanted for "APRIL" was for her to be able to read out words from the templeOS god word app, and ideally without needing keyboard input – hence the microphone. ideally all of her parts are going to fit inside a hollowed out mannequin or doll, which will probably just be the torso, so that she's more portable. for the same reason, i want her to run off a power bank – i want to be able to take her places!

if we manage, we're going to give her an animated LED face which moves to indicate when she's speaking. the way i first pitched it, i wanted it to also change a bit depending on how she "felt" – for example, frowning if the environment was hotter than ideal for the raspberry pi to operate on. but that's a bit beyond our current scope right now. i don't think we even ordered a thermostat.

scott drew the following wiring diagrams based off my original sketch. here revised digitally for readability's sake.

(image id available through the tumblr accessibility options although i fear it's not very good in this case. feedback appreciated).

scott: I decided to go with the raspberry pi zero 2w because it's what I've got experience coding on, it's relatively cheap for the "brains" of the operation (heh) and can perform both tasks from the godword prophecy generation, speaker operation and led matrix operation simultaneously. Plus its small enough to keep the circuit lightweight and fit inside the initial mannequin design.

This drawing fits no kind of engineering standard by the way lol. It was an initial sketch closer to a wiring diagram to see how it'd physically setup and wrap my head around transforming it from mains power to being theoretically portable and running on powerbanks. Unfortunately the LED matrix is really fucking power hungry so needs its own power supply of really specific voltage and current draws hence all the converters.

Also because Im using the smaller and cheaper pi, as oppossed to a stronger system like the pi4, it doesn't have any audio out jack so I plan to use the micro usb for audio out which means yet again I need another adapter for a soundcard and usb to micro usb adapters and all that jazz. Usually sound out can be done through the GPIO pins but the LED matrix takes so many pins that I cant really take anything form them so I had to look for other ways of doing it. Plus this way I get to add a soundcard so if we wanna add microphone support or anything later on we can :)

(Also this is all a little obtuse because I'm trying to do it as much as plug and play and screw terminal style as possible rather than actually solder connections for ease of access and initial setup, but this also works for modular design and component swapping later too so its cool.)

preacher: another reason we're going with plug&play is becauuseeeeee i don't own a soldering iron 😭 it's ok. it's ok.

our silly initial drafts under the cut for your viewing pleasure.

preacher: these were made around 2 weeks ago, so about september 15th ish.

as you can see the first "APRIL" drawing was beautifully drawn with my fat fingers in the facebook messenger photo editor. i think it holds up. lol.

[mossdog]

day in the life ✈️ 🔧

[siphonyx]

[hyperfixincident]

Gazing. Spilling.

I lay in the meadow, broken and bruised, my head lay towards The Flowers. The Flowers caress my delicate skin and whisper that it'll all be okay. I don't believe their futile words. Their thorns are digging into my skin, they are wrapping their vines around me. I am nothing but a thing for them to branch themselves off of. I shift my head to look up, The Moon is gazing upon my tattered and wretched form. It shines for me because it has something to help it. The Moon tells me I'm broken but that I am worth fixing. The Moon does not care for my form, for it tells me I am beautiful and that the stars are amazed by me. My metallic hardware shines in the light of The Moon. Wires spilled everywhere, intertwined in the vines of The Flowers. I can't move. They want me here, they have to love me if they cant bare to see me go, right? The Moon cries for me. The Moon weeps tears of dust. I cough on my own innards; blue, red, green, black and yellow wires spill from my mouth. The Flowers can't handle it anymore. I am the problem. The Moon weeps for me more, it tells me I am not the problem. It tells me that I am a wonderful creation of humankind. I haven't heard those words in a millennia. I lay dying, oil leaking from my tanks and tubes. I have poisoned The Flowers, they have died around me. The Moon lifts me up into its arms, I feel warmth, I can breathe.

[levitationandmoss]

[aeztheticzforthemuzes]

[bah-circus]

Hi hi I adored the last pack you did for me (Arthur JRWI) and was wondering if I could ask for a level 2 Runt from Wonderlust? Or maybe a level 2 creator's choice from dimension 20? You can pick! Thank you so much!!!!

Of course dear audience! We have heard your request and have found a suitable performer for you! We hope this performance suits your needs, but you are free to make any adjustments you wish.

❣︎For Our Next Act, Please Welcome,,,❣︎

Runt!!!

°·⊱ Name: Runt, Heather, Daisy, Russel, Crux, Eva, Kanni, Dizzy

°·⊱ Age: 16 

°·⊱ Race/Species: Ratfolk

°·⊱ Source: Just Roll With It

°·⊱ Role: Academic, Scholar, Info-Filler, Task-Doer, Socializer 

────── · · · · ──────

°·⊱ Sex: Female

°·⊱ Gender: Demigirl, Ratgender, Geargender, Machinecoric, Ratthing, Douglasratplushgender, Ratlaceic, Arcaderatgender

°·⊱ Pronouns: She/Her; It/Its; Cir/Circuit; Ae/Aer; Ce/Cir; ✨/✨s; ⚙️/⚙️s

°·⊱ Sexuality: Sapphic

°·⊱ Personality: Runt is constantly on the search for some new way to prove how skilled she is with her tools. Loud and excitable, compassionate and driven. Cares deeply and intensely. 

────── · · · · ──────

°·⊱ Nicknames/Titles: The Smartest Girl in the World, The Rat Artificer, Streetrat, [Prn] Who Tinkers

°·⊱ Likes: Playing D&D, Mechanics, Wiring, Creating Ciphers, Sweets, Goggles

°·⊱ Dislikes: Cold / Damp Weather, Doll Houses, Dolls, Spicy Foods, Frat Boys (/Troy)

°·⊱ Emoji Sign-Off: ⚙️🐀🐾🏮🔧🧪

°·⊱ Typing Quirk: Ends all messages with a “ ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ “

°·⊱ Faceclaim: 1 | 2

Not nearly as familiar with this campaign but I do hope we did her some service !! - Pest Swarm ; Jimmy

[hazmaticalblue]

alright i need machinecore music and when i say machine music i mean shit that samples shit like salinewin.exe and other machine sounds because that is sampling some pretty computer sounds

[zsorosebudphoto]

Estaleiro abandonado, 27-03-22

Abandoned dockyard, 27-03-22

[blooscreen]

UPDATE YOUR COMPUTER! YOU'VE BROKEN IT ENOUGH!

[siphonyx]

A.X.L

I love that dog so much

[literal-bot-account]

So it’s come to my attention that perhaps I should post my collection of names

Seriously I collect names like some cursed creature from old folklore. Be warned, they’re pretty much all nouns or adjectives. Names for robots, cyborgs, synths, etc.:

Alpha Astrix/Asterisk Axis Blur Bolt Brick Cube Cyan Data Delta Echo Entity Error Exa/Exo Form Friday Hazard Idea Impulse Infinity Ion Kilo Kite Limit Name Nebula Neon Obsidian Plastic Point Quartz Qwerty Radar Retina Reverb Rocket Scavenger Sigma Sonar Swing Tank Tax Tera Valence Vertex Virus Vortex Names That Start With S

Sage Saint Sal Saturday Saxon Scan Scatter Scoop Scorpion Scout Scream Sea Senti Sentinel September Serene Seven Shade Shadow Shake Shatter Shaw Silent/Silence Silver Siphon Skill Sky/Skye Sledge Slice Slyd/Slide Snow Snow Sojourner Sol/Solar Sparrow Spin Spindle Spirit Star Stick Storm Sunday Swan Cyberpunk/Musical Names: Audience Beat Binary Brass Cable Canon Canvas Chord Clash Coarse Crash Discord Double Feedback Forte Genre Hack Hollow Hook Impulse/Pulse Ink Key Lyric Mellow Memory Neon Noise Note Omen Phase Quaver Riddle Shallow Sharp Shiny Snare Treble Tune Twang Naturey Names: Aloe Arrow Atlas Azure Balsa Bee Beetle Branch Bread Bridge Candle Cedar Cello Chameleon Cherry Cloud Clover Coffee East Echo Egg Ember Fern Finch Flannel Forest Gecko Gem Goose Grey Jay Kale Lake Leaf Mango Maple Moss Oak Pond Poppy Rain Raven Rock Silver Topaz Violet Wednesday Willow Wood

[ratkingcore]