Andy LeTourneau

@centerorbit.bsky.social

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Engineer, enigma, neurodivergent. If you're curious, ask! If you're still curious, take it apart. CoOwner of ShipLift.io The original [Off-Peak.Engineer](https://off-peak.engineer)

A cartoon character resembling "Link" from Nintendo holds a blue rock above his head with the textbox saying: "You found *uranium-stained apatite*... As you hold it over your head, a mellow aroma of radon flows into your nostrils."
The login screen of my desktop computer, in front of it, between the ergo split keyboad is a cup of coffee, a small try with 3 earthworms in it and a little box half full of woodchips and a baby robin inside another cup full of shreaded paper towel.
A black and white card with flowers to color in that says "happy mothers day" and on the other side a writing practice sheet that says "Sorry for Breaking and Entering" for my boy to trace.
The "DriveKeys" capacitive touch wheelchair platform, a custom 3D print with a bluetooth or USB-C remappable keyboard touchpad.
Four pictures, clockwise from top left is: the bottom of a PCB with a smaller PCB soldered directly to it. A tiny table-top "table saw" sold by harbor freight, the 4" mighty, sporting a diamond cut off wheel. A close up of the two boards soldered together. A close up of just the cut board, showing the vias cut in half before soldering to the motherboard.
A 3D printed modified back to the picocalc to expose yet another USB port for a housed pi debug probe.
A screenshot of a graph from Home Assistant with "Wood Stove" temperature measurement going from 325*F to 475*F then sloping back down to 300*F with a tiny uptick at the end when I added more wood to the fire.
A semi-cluttered desk of electronics with a variac on the shelf in the background. In the foreground, plugged into it, is a hotplate holding a blue coffee cup.
Firefly S1:E4, Shindig: Kaylee at a party with mean girls: Why, Banning Miller. What a vision you are in your fine dress. Must've taken a dozen slaves a dozen days to get you into that getup. 'Course, your daddy tells me it takes the space of a school boys wink to get you out of it again.
The old-school blue-haired plastic troll doll with a blue gem as a belly button.
An AI 'enhanced' image of the artist Prof moving his head and blinking.
Stworzenie wody by Jacek Yerka
A relatively large white amaryllis flower.
Clip from boondock saints where Rocco puts on homemade mask with nose hole and says "what? You guys got masks."
My first chest x-ray, depicting and large spot of pneumonia in the lower right quadrant.
On the left side is a screenshot of Autodesks Q4 2024 financial results for investors, toting an 11% growth in revenue. On the right is the email I get as a customer notifying me that my annual subscription renewal is no longer going to recieve a discount, and even mult-year subscriptions will see their discount halved.
Silicon valley scene: comma guy telling Jared "this guy fucks". His reply "Thank you."
The journey from concept to realistic prosthetics.
Apparently rats have wings now.
A realistic photo of a medieval battle between a rat and an owl, both wearing era appropriate armor.