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Alex Glow (merlin)
@alexglow.bsky.social
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Sustainable electronics, robots, PCBs, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, open-source DIY hardware... + music, languages, art • Masto: @[email protected] • Was @glowascii on bird site • she/her • thoughts & feels my own.
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I don't really use these terms anyway; just sharing a good turn of phrase.
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Sending cozy vibes yr way~~
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Fully support tangents to tangents! If it's good enough for Martha Wells... gizmodo.com/martha-wells...
Martha Wells on Her Return to Fantasy—and What Murderbot Is Up To
io9 talks to the prolific author about The Murderbot Diaries , Witch King , how to start a story, and what it means to explore one point of view.
gizmodo.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
alexglow.bsky.social
Looks like the wall is painted w/ glow-in-the-dark paint??

What it *definitely* is, is shiny 🤩✨
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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GOING LIVE NOW :D
October 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
alexglow.bsky.social
Literally talking like one of those "type these two words and then keep hitting autocomplete" challenges
October 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
alexglow.bsky.social
Yikes, sorry to hear!
October 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
alexglow.bsky.social
Right?!?!
October 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Another mention – Onyx Ashanti, shown playing his #WearableTech beatjazz #synthesizer in this clip: bsky.app/profile/gray...

More coolness: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc5L...
October 23, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Also ended up on a whole bone-conduction audio tangent – incl. showing this ridiculous photo of my "Bass to the Face" project (which entailed feeding audio into a DC motor with a glue stick impaled on it, back in uhhhhh 2015??)
Alex, back when the hair stood up more, with a motor shaft clamped between her teeth, plucking a flame-red bass guitar that's plugged into a pathetically tiny Orange amp. A USB battery dangles from the motor, providing some extra Orange-flavored juice. Various art/tech projects clutter the area.
October 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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Flipped out a little on-stream about the two book series I've been re-chomping recently, DRM-free via @libro.fm – Area X by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social & Wormwood by @tadethompson.bsky.social!

Here's my referral code if you wanna grab 'em yourself [spoiler alert: do itttt]: libro.fm/referral?rf_...
Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores
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libro.fm
October 23, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Also made a couple designs to hold those pixel-art emoji I designed earlier this year, but it feels kinda egotistical to put my face on stuff. I do think the art is cute, though – and they'd be collectible :V

[Decided to just make some and Let The People Decide™]
Yellow hexagon sticker with a pixel-me smiling, plus "Alex Glow" and "Hack on!" in white text. Same, but with the skully version for Halloween :) Smiling pixel-me over a big ol' "ALEX GLOW" in white Impact font, on yellow. Same, but skully – and with "Hack on!" on the side (as in the first two).
October 22, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Oh man, that stream was like 5 kinds of nerdery in one :D

Here are the sticker designs I'm trying to choose between. All will be HEXAGONAL (per the Hexbin standard: hexb.in). Helppp?
Pixel art of the head of my owl companion bot, Archimedes, with a drop shadow, above the text "Superb Owl" – flanked by "Est. 2018" and "Alex Glow". Sticker is a white hexagon, shown on a teal field for contrast. Very similar design, except with an 8-bit font instead. Archie's head sits on top of "Owl". White hexagon sticker. Similar design to the above, but this one is yellow and has no drop shadow. "Superb Owl" is in Impact font, and Archie's head sits atop the text. Same as the last one, but with a drop shadow under Archie's head.
October 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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(Wanting to do these earlier, and with more warning – but I'm still a tad under the weather and just found the energy 😅)
October 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM