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she/her · 🏳️‍⚧️ & (🇬🇧 || 🇮🇪) · belfast, NI · posting about my silly little projects, photography, and things i find interesting · atctwo.net

a picture of the EMF sign at night. it's glowing blue and a little red, illuminating the grass below it
picture of the emf camp 2026 structure, constructed on dry grass beside a small lake. it's made of steel scaffolding and mirror-y metal-y stuff if you look carefully you can see me in the reflection of the "M" in EMF
a large equipment bag sitting on a bed. it contains multiple sections that contain (among other things): multiple extension reels, a power bank, an analog telephone, a USB modem, a DECT cordless phone, a mikrotik router, a small network switch, one million ethernet cables, a HackRF One, and some (unassembled) mesh nodes. to the bag's left are two cisco 2960 series switches, and to its top are two 8x8 VGA matrix switches, and a blahaj. a second smaller bag sits in the top left
picture of my desk, its a wooden bench with a deltarune chapter 2 deskmat. there is a lot of stuff sitting on it, including my laptop a lithium battery charger a large screwdriver set many screwdrivers multiple disassembled small robots a flight controller an arduino uno a soldering iron a small vice countless untracable wires going everywhere two monitors are visible in the background
two CDs sitting on a blue cutting board. the left one is Essex Honey by Blood Orange. the artwork shows a schoolboy walking down a street holding a basket ball the right one is Inferno by Boards of Canada. the artwork shows a group of people in a forest-type area. the image seems very faded
a digipak CD case sits on a cluttered desk, sandwiched between a blue and pink and white mechanical keyboard, a green flask, and a red tin. my laptop's sitting in the background. the cd artwork features Weyes Blood in a blue bedroom which appears to be underwater. light is pouring through the curtains.
A screenshot of the top of darktable's image editing panel. The histogram view happens to look like a cat (a sort of shape with two peaks at the left and right edges that look like ears), and has cute cat eyes and a mouth drawn on top. The other editing controls that are visible are local contrast and sigmoid contrast.
screenshot of a bluesky notification, with the title "Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ liked your post (5m)". the referenced post simply says "test" and has attached an image of a plush Kasane Teto on a white background
Several items sitting on a blue cutting board. Top left is a CD of Arlo Parks' album Ambiguous Desire. The artwork shows Parks sitting in a car, looking at the camera. The picture is taken from the back passenger seat, and the outside of the car is blurry. In the middle is a cassette tape of Ambiguous Desire. It features a white cover with a drawing of a heart with an arrow going through it. Top right is a CD of Live in London (live recordings of Parks' music from across her career). The cover shows Parks performing on a blue-lit stage in a dark room.
CD of Norah Jones' album Feel Like Home sitting on a blue cutting mat. The album artwork is mostly a pale orange, with Jones pictured looking downwards to the right of the artwork
a small island in the top-right corner of my tomodachi life save. the land has a sand and dirt surface and a small staircase leading from the sea. the only thing on the island is a very large, glowing, cat
screenshot from tomodachi life showing my Mii in her room. she has glasses, brown wavy hair and crudely drawn cat ears. she's wearing a green sweater, dark floral skirt and black leg warmers. the room's floor and walls are made from blue wood panels, and there's a little kitchenette in the left and a mirror, umbrella, and a roomba-type thing in the right
A small metal box sitting on a wooden table. It's showing the back panel of a small SWR meter. It has two antenna connectors, one labelled ANT (for antenna) and the other TRANS (for transceiver)
part of the ikea towel section. on the left are blue towels and on the right are green. right in the middle, on the green side is a little hedgehog plush wrapped up in a towel
the VGA switcher (a large 1U navy box with lots of white buttons and eight 7-segment displays) sitting on a blue cutting board on a wooden desk. my phone, sitting on top of the switcher, is playing music. it's connected to a USB-C to 3.5mm jack adapter, with a cable going to some wires going to the back of the switcher. behind the switcher is a little black box with some audio jacks and knobs. one of the jacks has a short cable leading to the back of the switcher. the box has a (USB) cable coming out of the side going offscreen to my computer
a pale green plant plot with some artificial dasies, sitting on a shelf in Tesco. It's surrounded by other pots with other artificial plants. its got a small pink sticker on it reading "I'm Unique". On the shelf edge are two price labels, showing £12 and £8
a capacitor-shaped battery taped to a plastic enclosude with a bundle of red, green, and white wires. the markings on the battery read "QL Li-ion 3.7V". the battery is white with a black strip with plus signs to indicate the positive terminal
a mashup of the Bluesky and the old MSN logo. it has the general format as the MSN logo, with the same blue italic text and four-coloured butterfly. however, the text reads "bsky" and the butterfly is a modified version of the bluesky icon. the logo sits on a blue gradient background
a thermal label printer on a wooden table, with its tape door open. a roll of small narrow labels sits in front of it, with the first few inches of tape unrolled from the roll. on every visible label is printed a monochrome dithered image of hugh laurie as doctor gregory house staring directly at you
A cat-shaped combat battlebot. The top lid is removed showing the insides of the bot - wheels, battery connectors, motor and drivers, and lots of wires. Connecting everything together is a small microcontroller board, to which three oscilloscope probes and a USB cable are attached.
the insides of my disassembled 3ds scattered across a wooden table. in the centre is the mainboard, to the left are parts of the blue shell and the lower screen, and to the right is a screw tray full of screws and 3ds parts
video of an animation of a ring-shaped thing. only the outer edges of the ring are rounded, while the inner edges are 90 degrees. the video starts off with nothing on-screen, until the ring "sweeps" into existence. as the video goes on, more of the ring appears, forming the actual round ring shape. half way though the video, the growing end of the ring meets the starting point, when the growing end stops and the starting point starts moving, or rather disappearing the ring in the opposite way it appeared. by the end of the video, the ring is once again gone.
a small snail cast from pure silicone, chilling in the leaves of a small fake eucalyptus plant. in the background are the tops of several real plants, against a wooden fence
an application launcher dialog on top of a pretty desktop wallpaper. the wallpaper features art of a tree in front of a small coastal village. at the top of the application launcher is a search box - the search prompt is a cat icon followed by "nya". below this are a row of five buttons representing different launcher tabs - in order, these are applications, visual studio code history, run command, window list, and calculator. the rest of the dialog contains a list of available applications, along with their application icons.
clip of four 450 gram weight class battlebots fighting in an enclosed arena. my cat bot (white) has a pink spinner weapon, and is fighting a blue bot called Shred with dual spinners. the cat bot's weapon collides with one of Shred's spinners, causing sustained sparks for several seconds, followed by cat bot's spinner being ejected at high speed to the right of the arena. the clip is followed by a slowed version showing the spinner exiting the arena in slow motion
picture of the new version of the robot, with a pink lid and a black chassis, and a pink spinner weapon. the chassis has curved sides so it can't get stuck on its side
two robots shaped like a cat head, sitting on a mesh table. they both have two wheels as eyes and a pink spinner blade as a tongue. both are made of a black chassis with the left one having a blue lid and the right one with a pink lid. the lids have lines on them in the style of whiskers. they are very cute
One East Caribbean Dollar. A small silver coin sitting on a black table. There's an illustration of a sailboat on the coin, above which lies text reading "East Caribbean States 2012"
picture of all the parts i took out of the server, all laid out on a wooden table. the open server is sitting in the top right. the parts surrounding it are: one power supply module, the motherboard and its IO shield, the RAID card, the network card, the two sticks of RAM, the CPU and its cooler, a few SATA cables, the two internal harddrives, one of the hotswappable fans, the slim drive top cover, and the internal drive mount panel. my screwdriver set is also sitting in the lower right
a green PCB mounted to the top of the chassis, with many side-mount buttons and LEDs, two USB connectors, and a series of 2.54mm pitch headers for connecting to the server motherboard. there is a black chip in the middle beside a buzzer, and a blue DIP switch to the left
picture of the top of the server with the top panel removed. it's split into two sections; the left one has a small floppy drive adapter board in it labeled JM215A VER:1.0, while the right section is empty. The middle section has a small green board toward the front of the chassis, which will be shown in more detail in the next post.
picture of the left half of the sas backplane. on the left are four molex connectors plugged into the backplane. there are holes in the PCB to allow air to flow through the drives. there are two connectors at the top of the board with wires running to underneath a metal panel
a ham and cheese bread roll on a plate sitting in top of the server
picture of the fan caddy. it's made of blue plastic and has holes in the back for air to flow. the fan cable comes out the top and down to the centre of the back, where the connector is held pointing downwards
picture of the inside of the chassis. at the back there is a large shiny box which houses the power supplies. coming out of it are several bundles of cables, which each terminate in different ATX-standard power connectors
picture of the three power supplies mounted into the back of the chassis. they each have a C14 power socket, a small fan, and a steel handle for pulling them out of the server.
a Microsoft certificate of authority for "Win Unified DataStorSvr2003 x64 1-4 CPU Std". The product key is KT2JM-K37JG-YMV9M-RWT7M-XWP6J"
two identical drives attached to the metal plate that was attached to the top of the chassis. they are 2.5" drives, and have a large white label almost covering the metal lid of the drive. the label has lots of writing (mostly product codes in regulatory info) and a large barcode in the middle
close up of the CPU. its a small green square with a large metal lid attached to it. the lid is inscribed with the CPU's model number but it's difficult to make out
a top-down picture of the motherboard from inside the chassis. all the expansion cards and ram have been removed, but the heatsinks are still attached
a larger green board. it also has gold edge connectors at the bottom but they're a lot denser than the last card. there's a huge black heatsink to the left, and a few black chips scattered around. there are four mini SAS connectors on the right edge, a RJ45 connector on the left edge, and a DDR2 ram slot at the top.
a green PCI expansion card, with a row of gold edge connectors at the bottom edge. there are two Ethernet jacks on the left side, and several black chips dotted across the board.
top-down view of the inside of the server. the left half is where the motherboard and other computer parts live, which are obscured by a large metal panel. a shiny box can be seen at the top of the left half; this is the power supply enclosure. in the middle of the chassis is a metal divider. to the right are four blue boxes; these are hotswappable 80mm fans. on the right of the chassis is a large metal panel, which the drives live under.
closer image of the front panel. there are 16 drive slots, 10 have drive caddies in them while the other 6 are empty. at the top are 2 USB ports, some status LEDs, and the power switch. the left and right sides of the panel have handles, and under the left panel is a badge saying "Westek Technologies"
a 3U server on a wooden table. its a long steel box with a black front panel that has 16 drive bays (6 are empty). a rail is attached to the side and there's a bag of screws taped on top
video of the cat bot biting things. the bot resembles a simple shape of a cat's head; it's like a box where two opposite faces are curved, one side convex, one side concave. the concave side has a small metal disc protruding from it, which spins at a high speed and is used as a weapon. the video shows the robot driving into different items of food packaging with the disc spinning; these include a quality street tub, a coke can, a pringles tube, a pepsi bottle filled with water, a cardboard box, and a weird 3d printed thing. by the end of the video, nothing is left intact
a progress flag waving on a long pole, with St Anne's Cathedral and a tree in the background
a video of a high-RPM motor spinning, specifically regarding the cool noises it makes when it spins at different relatively low speeds. the motor is on the right, with a sound recorder on the left, and a foam sheet separating the two
a large sculpture of the Utah Teapot. It has a checkerboard pattern, showing the contours of the shape. There is some light rust around the front of the teapot. The whole sculpture is sitting on a large block with writing on it (shown in the next image)
picture of a half-disassembled laminator. sticking out of the black plastic housing is a long assembly of metal extrusions and foam-coated rollers. in the right side of the housing is a mess of wires making up a simple power supply
in the middle of the image sits a brown mushroom. the framing of the image makes it look large. behind it on the right are a collection of smaller mushrooms. these sit on a wooden log covered in green and brown plant stuff. they are framed by a small tree branch sitting behind them. the sunlight is hitting everything at a angle such that the big mushroom casts a little shadow on the smaller mushrooms
picture of Katamari Fortissimo Damacy, the official soundtrack CD for the 2004 video game Katamari Damacy. the jewel case is still sealed. there is a paper obi strip hugging the left side of the case. the album artwork depicts lush green rolling hills, with a city and mountain in the backdrop, and two cows and the main character (The Prince) in the foreground. there is a rainbow overhead, while the title of the album is spelt out (in Japanese) from the contrails of an aeroplane. the CD is positioned on top of a green grid-lined cutting board (as a backdrop)
video of mario kart 8 deluxe being played on the four monitors from the previous post, as well as a fifth monitor on the right. the track being played is GBA Mario Circuit, and i'm playing as rosalina.
a wide-angle picture of my desk. it's very very messy, covered in cables and equipment. starting from the left, there's a bench power supply with 7 cables coming out of it. moving right, an oscilliscope showing a sine wave. below this there is a multimeter and a bunch of cables converging on a tiny voltage regulator. these are sitting on top of a turntable. in the middle of the desk is a large circuit board, with two smaller ones in front of it being held up by helping hands. this is the vga matrix in question. behind it are two 4:3 vga monitors, and to the right of those are a 2009 netbook. behind the netbook are two 16:9 monitors. above the desk, on the wall, there are two component cabinets and an IKEA SKÅDIS pegboard with large amounts of paper and tools handing off of it
screenshot of a popup notification from my computer's operating system (endeavour os) informing me 855 installed packages had available updates, as of 01/03/25 12:29:48. in the lower right sits a button labelled "Update"
the video starts by showing the inside of the box; it points out that there is now a 433 MHz ASK radio transmitter. the camera pans upwards, showing a computer monitor on the right of the frame. on the left there's a wireless mains switch plugged into an extension cord; the switch has a red LED on indicating that it's enabled. the monitor is showing the output of the ESP32 in the box, which shows that it's failed to ping a device on the network 2 times. when the ping fails for a third time, the LED on the switch goes off for 5 seconds, then back on again.
a small blue cardboard box with "JLCPCB" written on the top. there's a wire coming out of one side, and some more wires coming out of the opposite side with a barrel jack adapter attached to them.
screenshot of an article on sigidwiki.com, showing an unidentified radio signal called "Unknown Pear". there are two images showing a radio spectrogram plot, each containing a radio signal that is pear-shaped, along with other radio signals around it. the article has very little text, other than the description: "Here was a pear shape happened 3 times tonight.Sorry to say I didn`t get the audio. I was lucky to get 2 images. "
two pigeons on slightly frosted grass, facing away from each other. the left one is gray and the right one is black. the left one has its foot lifted as if it's walking away while the right one looks to be staying still
a blackbird sitting on a wooden fence. it's lightly raining and if you zoom in on the bird you can see water droplets on its back. in the background you can see out-of-focus sheds and a house