Erin / Terra Rose

@erinrose.bsky.social

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hi I make neat things occasionally! industrial designer (freelance) | "dfma-witch" | artist sometimes | meows at engineering problems she/it https://chaos.social/@ErinRose https://sleepy.computer/@erin

a crude looking magic wand in a cylindrical black shell held in my hand - a large cable is coming out of the rear
two small aluminium weights, pie-slice shaped with circular cores and splined holes in them. on the left is the tip of a pair of needle-nose pliers showing the scale to be about 30mm diameter.
an assembly of rectangular pcb’s soldered and glued together into a hexagonal tube - inside are 3 2-pin wago connectors.
a render of the witch staff wand head - translucent silicone with a purple printed core, and black spring
^ Is Open printer technology protected? A patent as well as a design and model registration have been made to protect the technical architecture and design of Openprinter. These protections ensure recognition of design work while preserving the project's spirit of openness. Open Printer is distributed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. This means that everyone is free to use, share, and modify the project, provided they credit the original author, share derivatives under the same license, and do not use it for commercial purposes. This approach encourages collaboration and innovation while ensuring an ethical and fair framework for the project's dissemination.
a slorx screw (a cursed hybrid between a slotted and torx screw head)
a small e-stop button with “STOP” and three concentric arrows - the font is ugly with weird kerning, and the arrows are strange too. it’s also off-center and poorly laser engraved
a render of a small device with a slanted eink display, a large rotary knob, and an e-stop button
a bunch of bright pink / blue / translucent parts in a press mold - they’re about 30mm in diameter and round the colours swirl together in a pretty way
a fume extraction hose dressed up to look like a snake (googly eyes, green opening, red velcro forked tongue) watching me desolder a small motor driver board on a hotplate
a tank of water with a Linear Induction Motor sticking up through the floor, the tip has a dome on it that is pulled down violently causing a jet of water to shoot upwards.
a tiny little drone which is basically just an 18650 battery holder with propellers (and an HD camera) It has a cute little heart cutout in the front end of the holder, exposing the battery contact
me, standing in front of a mirror in red shorts and a sports bra - In the background is my workbench with my laptop and plants. I have long dark hair tucked behind my shoulders.
two nutrias investigating my hand as I sit on the grass - a third is visible in the top right scampering over to join in
a long magic arm mounted onto the linear rail with a swiss plate quick release - the linear rail is mounted onto an aluminium extrusion lighting frame. it’s holding a small stuffed shark. there is a pothos plant in the background, along with two giant nuts, and two crocheted queer bees.
a pretty looking aluminium vacuum fixture plate in my hand it has a rectangular black o-ring indented, and a grid pattern machined inside it with an air hole. there is a pneumatic fitting at the top, and 4 mounting holes recessed around the edge. it’s about the size of my palm
a small fabric tool roll open showing a set of tightly packed electronics tools - in order from left to right: - solder - iron tip - ts21 iron - metal solder sucker - small brass wool tip cleaner - luer lock needle - glass luer lock syringe of flux - knipex flush cutters
a pair of alligator forceps with elastic bands on the handles, causing it to grip an led in it’s jaws.
a giant M64 nut strapped to the top of a yellow backpack
a cr2450 cell next to a diy battery holder - a pcb base and a laser cut steel spring that holds it
the eccentric weight motor assembly now real and assembled - the weight layers are cut from thin mild steel - they are blackened around the edges from being lasered
a tangara music player held in my hand it’s got an ipod-1 type chunky industrial aesthetic, with a large capacitive touchwheel the front case half is translucent polycarbonate, and the rear is silver aluminium - the buttons are gloss black aluminium. out of focus in the background is my desk plant
a CAD model of a drone brushless motor with two red eccentric weights mounted on the front on a spline, they can be offset from one-another on the spline.
the desk (workbench) is pretty large, with an alu extrusion frame on top for lighting, as well as some plants. A laptop and ipad are mounted on a monitor arm.
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a torx screw with a slot, for some reason (in a milwaukee bandsaw)
a paper fan-like device from underneath being actuated by a leadscrew and a cross slide linkage with two metal pins. it moves up and down. there’s a giant nut on the left of frame (m50)
an MGN 7 rail and carriage next to an HGR 20 rail and carriage on a wooden surface. the mgn7 rail is about 4 mx smaller than the hgr20, it looks very cute!
a frame made from 3030 alu extrusion, with wooden ply runners going from front to back the runners have channels that let euroboxes slide in and out nicely. the bottom tray is slid out showing a bunch of neatly bundled usb cables.
a short looping video of a countersunk Torx m3 screw being partially orbited by the camera - it's rendered as white outlines on a black background.
a close-up shot of a small cnc spindle, it’s covered in white plastic chips and has googly eyes on it.
a utility blade and a tiny handsaw sitting on a wooden surface the saw is cut from another blade, and has a black 3d printed handle
a Tangara music player with an entirely anodised silver aluminium case, held in my hand. the case has a slightly rough bead blasted surface, but looks quite pleasing. the screen is on, showing the device is playing “Equilibrium” by carbon based lifeforms over bluetooth. in the blurry background of the image is a plant and an air quality monitoring device.
A simplistic style isometric sticker design of a progynova estradiol valerate box. It's shows an off-white, standard tablet pack card box, with "THIS MACHINE PILLS SAPPHICS" on the side, where "progynova" would normally be. It has the iconic 90's style pink swirl, and line elements below, but The "BAYER" logo has been changed to "GAYER" on the left face is a barcode that decodes to ":3"
a wide photo of my workbench, a large birch ply table with rounded front corners. the bench has an aluminium extrusion lighting frame built on top, with a monitor arm mounted. on the workbench is a small chc machine, keyboard, pile of project parts and a blahaj drinking glass. a drawing tablet is on the monitor arm, with a trans flag themed idc cable design on it.
A short close-up shot of a pair of surgical robot forceps close to a wooden surface. The wrist bends down and grabs an SMD LED, it lights up amber/red when gripped. The jaw raises the LED in the air, it briefly turns off, and is then lowered again.
a product listing for screw studs (screws with no driving interface) titled "TERF® M3 (3mm) X 20mm Self Clinch Studs Screw M 3 X 20mm Steel Clinching Flush Head Studs" the price is £3.99-4.99
the same cat, this time sitting up on his side, paws out in front of him. he's looking off to the right (at some food he is not allowed) the depth of field is shallow, so his paws and the background are blurry.
a fusion 360 render of a grid array of omnifixo arms on a blank grey surface. omnifixo arms are small (5cm tall) sliding spring loaded jaws on ball joint swivels intended for fixturing when soldering.
a fusion 360 render of an othermill y-bed, bolted on top is a sandwich of 10mm thick hdpe, and 6mm thick aluminium. the aluminium has a grid milled into it, with indents on each of the grid squares to allow airflow. in the 4 corners there are holes down into the hdpe base. the hdpe base has a push fitting and short length of hose coming out of its left side. in the background is the voron scale banana, slightly longer than the entire assembly.
a cropped photo of the inside of an othermill's enclosure, showing a set of 4 black silicone wires routed in channels up the right wall, and onto the ceiling. the wires are routed in pretty and gentle curves, all spaced evenly. as the wires reach the ceiling they make a 90 degree turn to enter new channels. visible in the foreground is the x axis linear rod, and the plastic flexure it's mounted into on the right wall.
a photo of the ducting section above a false ceiling in a workshop. you can see down through the mesh into the workshop, a laser cutter below. a laptop is sitting on one of the panels, with spotify open.
a cropped in section of one of the parts, showing a hole. the layer lines, and fuzzy texture are far more visible as the image is crisper.
an ISO 7010 red crossed out circle icon, with a black outline drawing of the google glass inside. it is ISO 7010 P044
the "no take, only throw!" dog meme, edited to say "pls domain???", " no make website!!", "ONLY DOMAIN" across the 3 panels. it is a 3 panel b/w outlined comic, showing a cute dog holding a frisbee in the first panel, a hand trying to take it in the second, and a close-up of the dog looking angry in the third.
an isometric line drawing of a glass through hole mounted LCD grid matrix display. the design is drawn in a thick-lined simplified style, and has a very deep blue colour pallette. with a purple background the display is showing a pixel heart
a close-up photo of a laser cut grey stamp, showing a mirrored simplified isometric 555 timer outline with a heart on top. it is mounted on a ply puck and sitting on a plywood surface