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   Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 02:46:34 JST Emily Velasco

   Baking

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 02:46:30 JST Emily Velasco

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     Holy shit, i did it, lol. It looks terrible, but it works.

     For people who haven't been keeping up with this project, I've been doing ceramics for a couple years now, and recently people kept tagging me in posts about a European feminist hacker collective that was making circuit boards out of court they dug out of the ground and fired in a campfire.

     After having an epiphany about some experimental copper ceramics glazes i made last year, i thought i would see if i could solder to them, and i found that i could.

     Sooo ... I made a stamp and stamped out some really basic boards for an astable multivibrator (two blinky lights) circuit. I filled the recessed traces with copper powder and had them fired in our pottery kiln.

     Now i have ceramic circuit boards.

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 02:46:32 JST Emily Velasco

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     Unreduced and reduced

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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 02:46:32 JST Emily Velasco

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     This is good!

     Rich Felker and Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Emily Velasco (mle_online@social.afront.org)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 02:46:33 JST Emily Velasco

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     This looks very promising!

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 02:03:35 JST botvolution

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     @MLE_online
     I forgot to mention when you started all this that there's a guy who builds synths using transistors he makes from minerals he finds in the trailings of old tin mines in Cornwall. He's on the fediverse somewhere too.

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 04:54:36 JST botvolution

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     @l03s ah thanks i couldn't remember

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     l03s (l03s@post.lurk.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 04:54:37 JST l03s

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     @botvolution @MLE_online @nebogeo

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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 06:00:56 JST botvolution

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     @nebogeo @l03s
     Oh no @MLE_online seems to have dropped off the reply list.

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     Dave Griffiths (nebogeo@post.lurk.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Jun-2026 06:00:57 JST Dave Griffiths

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     @botvolution @l03s some leaky galena diodes would look good on those circuit boards :)