Beetle, a little thing that collects other things.
this blog has no theme but you may see some doctor who, bugs, and mechanical things here and there. i rarely engage with tag or chainmail games, but you're free to send whatever.
my personal tag is #beetle-says and i sometimes tag #bug boys in insect posts. my notifications are off. please send asks or messages about things. thank you!
me represented by stamps (with alt descriptions) and their sources under the cut.
graphic credits: daredevil plush stamp by me; free Palestine stamp by @xumoonhao; Doctor Who stamp by @doybyke; all others didn't have credits. if credit is needed elsewhere, please let me know.
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phm is decently popular in japan and i mostly see this when i check twitter and see accounts posting pictures of handmade rocky plushies that are so fucking round looking it brings a tear to my eye
btw, idk if this will be seen by any of the countless people who already have seen and reblogged this post, but heres the original guide posted on how to make the chibi-rocky! the OP also has a separate guide for a more accurate rocky, though obviously less simple of a guide than the little thingy shown off
(im surprised this post gained any attention, haha, if i had known i would have just shared the guides, the more handmade pebbles in the world the better)
hey kitten. daddy needs to talk to you. your kink blog is great, but you are not highlighting the words correctly. kitten. stop highlighting. this is shit. did you seriously highlight that period. kitten.
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Wendy Carlos pictured with the Moog System 55 a staple in her solo projects and iconic film scores, including for Stanley Kubrick’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ (1972)
One of electronic music’s most important figures, Wendy Carlos is a true pioneer of the craft with countless influential albums and scores. She provided technical advice and insights to Robert Moog during the development of the Moog Synthesizer, an instrument that would revolutionize the music landscape. Her album ‘Sonic Seasonings’ (1972) is an early example of an ambient record, blending the then-new synth with field recordings to create an entirely new listening experience — years before the term “ambient” was even coined!
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I have a weird relationship with people BUT that doesn't stop my love for them. the small bug resting in my friends hair as we talk about nothing. another friend singing along to Hozier as we go to dinner. getting a sappy text out of the blue. painting with others. watching friends react to media we both love.
it feels special that I can watch people be beautiful.
I repaired this sick ass digital clock I got from a thrift store very cheaply a few years ago. It's just a floating LCD panel and I think it looks so frigging amazing. (Really makes me think of that cool Dutch YouTuber, Posy, and his love of LCD panels. (And I'm like "hell yeah!! There's so much beauty in the mundane!!! Just look how frigging cool this clock is!!"))
Anyhoo, it wasn't working when I got it. Probably why it was so cheap.
It has a little on/off switch on the back, but nothing would happen when you flipped it, but sometimes if you held its solar panel under a very bright light the clock would turn on
...for one second
before turning off again
and then back on again.
Very rhythmically.
So there was still some life left in the old girl... somewhere... 🤔
Unscrew the back of it and have a look see.
Discover a pair of circuit boards, one of which has a cr2032 coin cell clamped onto it. Hooray, a Vital Clue!
Fortunately, I have one of those batteries lying around. A second spare from when I replaced the batteries in some Digimon v-pets.
So I replace it.
Aaaaand nothing happens...
:(
Next step: fully disassemble the clock to look for More Clues.
Discover that its LCD panel isn't wired in to anything. There's just a row of teeny tiny contacts along its base which press up against a matching row of teeny tiny contacts along its control board, held together by the frame of the clock and a kind of thin pink foam buffer ring around the contacts. Very cool!
(Like two mouths kissing but only one of them has any lips. 😆)
Examine the two circuit boards under a loup. Maybe there's a visibly-broken component!
(I hope there's a visibly-broken component, else I have to dig out my multimeter and start systematically testing them one by one)
(I hope there aren't any visibly-broken components. If it's the quartz crystal or one of the two capacitors, then I might be able to replace it, because those are regular-sized, through-hole, components; but if it's one of the surface-mount resistors then I'd have to scrap the whole clock, because I just don't have the tools, experience, or know-how to deal with those microscopic little guys... :/ )
There aren't any visibly-broken components. Phew, but also consternation, because now what?
But hmm, there are some teeeeny tiny white flecks of crusty residue here and there over the circuit boards... I guess the old battery must have leaked at some point?
I gently scrape them off with the tip of a very fine pair of tweezers and then reassemble the clock enough to test it.
(LCD panel & solar panel back into front-frame, control board back over them to hold them into place and make contact with the LCD; everything else [coin-cell daughterboard, piezo buzzer, and the user-input buttons] dangling free in the breeze Winnie-The-Pooh-style)
It turns on! It chirps out a happy little song of high-pitched beeps!! It blinks "12:00" at me!!!
I fully reassemble the clock with a song in my heart and set its time and date.
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You might be asking: "Casio makes digital cameras?!" The answer is yes! Up until 2018, at least. Casio actually started manufacturing digital cameras in 1995, and was considered a pioneer in the new field.
Pictured above is the Casio QV-10 from 1995, the first consumer digital camera with a built-in LCD screen! This early model shot at 320 x 240 resolution and had a whopping 2 Megabytes of internal memory.
The QV-700 was the first of the QV line of cameras to use external memory, with CompactFlash cards being its only form of storage. And if you can't tell from the picture of the QV-10...
This bitch swivels! This was actually a pretty common feature of digital cameras from this era, (I have a few more with a similar styling) one which has sadly fallen by the wayside. The manual tells you to use this for group photos, but I think it makes a pretty great selfie mode.
This camera is actually chock full of weird features, like a panorama mode, "Past" and "Future" modes, which store 3 pictures in a frame buffer either before or after you take a picture, letting you choose the best frame out of all of them if you maybe caught something at the wrong time, and a timed exposure mode that takes a picture in intervals you set yourself. Unfortunately this feature doesn't work on mine, as the clock seems to be dead.
The QV-700 is one of my personal favorites in my collection, which is why my profile picture features it!
Now onto the samples! All of these photos were taken in Fine mode, the highest quality the camera can do.