Posts by North@chaos.social
(DIR) Post #B2jeyEHFSYdlbGp7aa by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T00:57:13Z
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Project: Rococo JacketI raided the upholstery section of Jo-Ann's Fabrics to put together a Rococo look for a company holiday party (that was _not_ rococo themed) I wore it with short breeches, white tights, gold sneakers, and a floral fitted cap.
(DIR) Post #B2jeyFGZmXhGfTW6BE by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T01:04:18Z
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Project: Architectural ModelThere was a period of time when my plan was to buy some land and build my own workshop. This was an architectural model that I built to explore my "dream workshop" design. I ended up finding an even larger and better constructed building already standing, where my shop is now. Crazy.
(DIR) Post #B2jeyG9WUFeJPtDypE by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T01:12:39Z
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Project: DIY Nuclear Battery KitThis was a SparkFun product, briefly. Turns out there isn't a big market for artisanal radioisotope photovoltaic batteries. I had to hand-cast all of the rubber gaskets that hold the tritium vials in place, so they were expensive to make. Also, it was BYOT (Bring Your Own Tritium) but even then, there's probably only so long you can poke the NRC. https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/nuclear-battery-assembly-guide/all
(DIR) Post #B2jeyO5YyrEe1vQvlQ by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T00:59:03Z
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I had fantasies of special addition cups decorated by designers and street artists, similar to limited edition Montana spray cans. In retrospect, I'm glad I didn't make a bunch of money from glorifying opiate addiction.
(DIR) Post #B2jeyPQA1lJ0A64tVY by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T02:46:06Z
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Bonus Material: I found a photo of the ceramic prototype from Shapeways. I had a quote from a Chinese ceramics casting company to produce these at a very reasonable price, too. It was non-trivial explaining that the model was a single cup and not two nested cups across the language barrier.
(DIR) Post #B2jeyQvkPoAMqLrdNg by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T02:21:29Z
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Bonus Material: I found a picture of me wearing it.
(DIR) Post #B2jeySAfnnhQgvr4Hg by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T01:22:03Z
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Project: Solarpunk/Outer Sprawl ClothesI made some clothing that incorporated imaginary logographs, fishing net, and composite sail-cloth. The idea was that this was clothing from a fishing village on a newly sea-side part of the outer sprawl. Printing is spray-dye using laser-cut stencils. Sail polymer is machine stitched, with some difficulty.
(DIR) Post #B2jeyaFDmm5hjM2oU4 by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T03:15:57Z
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Bonus Material: PNG of some stickers and logos, as well as the conlang typefaces that I made for this project.
(DIR) Post #B2jeyasZQTZBhOSEoi by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T01:30:08Z
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Project: Glowing Collar for Chest HarnessThis leather chest harness is something I wore for a long time, I made it from heavy veg-tanned tooling leather and it held my sunglasses, wallet, knife, keys, etc. I made a cyberpunk style EL collar for it out of matching leather. I ran electrical connections through snaps, which worked great.
(DIR) Post #B2jeyiQVMhs16fNwBM by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T01:36:25Z
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Project: LED BlotterAs a test of the boardhouse's willingness to drill a ton of mousebites, I designed these breakaway LED boards in the style of LSD blotter with the notorious Orange Sunshine blotter art in the silkscreen.
(DIR) Post #B2jeyrxRvaZQfRrsHY by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T01:44:40Z
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Project: GITS Inhalers In the live-action Ghost in the Shell movie, club-goers were using these inhalers. They showed up on the Propstore auctions and I saved all of the photos instantly. I re-drew the label graphics in Inkscape (I still have the vector files for anyone interested) and transferred them onto aluminum spray cans from Amazon using a packing tape toner transfer method. I built the rest from flame-distressed 3D printed parts and a cheap oxygen mask.https://propstore.com/product/ghost-in-the-shell-2017/three-handheld-huffers/
(DIR) Post #B2jez0HayZRGUFM4nI by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T01:50:11Z
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Bonus material! Here are the label PNGs. Redrawn by eye, not traced, from the original prop photos. There are vector files available if anyone needs them.
(DIR) Post #B2jez0HayZRGUFM4nJ by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T02:19:29Z
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Project: Lord Canti Head (FLCL)This was my second Canti cosplay for DragonCon. Made from foam, lasercut acrlyic, PVC pipe, wire, and a curved acrylic screen made by slumping acrylic in a laser-cut frame with a heat gun. I put this together in an incredible time-crunch and re-used the display electronics from my first Canti cosplay. Everything still smelled like paint when I got to the hotel.
(DIR) Post #B2jez8pDDT5Ayp92Iq by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T02:29:57Z
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Project: Animal Skin SpeakersI made these speakers from natural drumskins in the style of wooden drums. I built the drum shells from oak and welded my own rings to tension the heads. The coils were wrapped on cylinders of goatskin. I used huge neodymium magnets to make them work. Drums obviously make terrible speakers because they're designed to be resonant at a single frequency. They still sounded pretty good for what they were. The stereo one used a hand carved cross as a cap-touch on/off.
(DIR) Post #B2jezHJdeEArJVRRq4 by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T02:34:55Z
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Project: Occult Pokémon ObjectsThese were some things that I 3D-printed, distressed, and painted to explore the idea of occultism in the Pokémon universe. An engraved Cubone skull and an engraved bone pokéball.
(DIR) Post #B2jezPppyOgRjgZH8a by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T02:40:40Z
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Project: Laser cut leather stitched masksLeather is an awesome material because it's dimensionally stable and easy to work like wood, but malleable like fabric. I designed and stitched some masks using veg-tanned tooling leather. A classic plague mask and this ornate little deer with carved wooden antlers.
(DIR) Post #B2jezZ5lYXlyRh5ciO by North@chaos.social
2026-01-25T02:42:46Z
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That's probably enough spamming the timeline for now. I'll add stuff later if I find anything vaguely worth sharing. Some of this stuff is on my Instagram which I never use anymore but never got a proper write-up. Hope you were inspired! </🧵>
(DIR) Post #B2l2GOKnIXiU6m4UKG by North@chaos.social
2026-01-28T22:24:28Z
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It is time to handle the kitty
(DIR) Post #B2rIVap9uMHvP4IveS by North@chaos.social
2026-01-31T22:45:05Z
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Harvesting a cold one ❄️🍺
(DIR) Post #B2rMGOh57qG1FrXI0G by North@chaos.social
2026-01-31T23:07:59Z
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@discatte Hasn't happened yet but it's about -12C out so they'll freeze solid for sure and probably explode if left long enough. Once I left a can of coke in my truck overnight in this kind of weather and it perfectly popped the top of the can off. Like... it unrolled the edge and the top came off with the tab intact and all!