Tholin ΘΔ

@tholin.bsky.social

Cute transfem Avali | layout engineer and electronics gal | is literally an avali (ΘΔ) https://tholin.dev

Talking about "my EF badge" has been getting increasingly confusing since I’ve been making them for a while now, so here is a useful infographic, including a peek at what I’ll be rocking this year.

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I wrote a custom network stack in C to run on my custom silicon RISC-V core, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6 and its now good enough to make HTTP requests. But maybe I'll turn that around and have it accept HTTP requests. We'll see. feat. a really ugly bodge to prevent over-current on the memory bus

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need people to stop making technology inspired by Star Trek (smooth, sleek, no buttons, all screen, voice activation, extremely minimal, wireless) and start making technology inspired by Star Wars (clunky buttons, indicator lights on everything, ugly, indestructible, fat cables that emit steam)

TinyTapeout chips finally got delivered! This is where my whole journey into custom silicon began, so kinda ironic I’m receiving this long after my first fully custom ICs from GFMPW-0. Still, gonna do my best to test all of my designs on there.

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This weekend, successfully revived a MCU from the GDR. The cursed staggered pins required a custom PCB. The extra pins are for an external ROM, as this is a dev version for a part that has a mask ROM. 8MHz, runs VERY hot, which is bad for a MCU, but consistent with other GDR ICs I own.

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Hello Blue sky! For those who don’t know me already: I build fun things in both VR and RL. Migrating here from THE OTHER PLACE. Hopefully I can just pick up where I left off.

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