I'm making (eventually open-source) VR gloves! If you're interested in learning more, you can find a build timeline in the link below
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Alex
@Wannab3Spaceman
Network Engineer | IT Tech | E3D beta tester | VR Hardware Developer | Space, physics, computing, 3D printing and videogames. People tell me I make cool stuff.
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this piece of steel has enabled me to do so many things
it was just vibing in the pencil case I keep in my backpack; unknowingly being carried with me everywhere I went this whole time
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I found my favourite 15cm rule last night after years of thinking it was lost and I just wanted to share that, because metal with lines precisely inscribed on it at set intervals is surprisingly useful
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mer crimas
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I got to learn tiki was still alive and kicking this year, and tbh...
I still miss her. I miss getting to be the me I was when her and I met, too - but if he knew what I knew, then things would be different, so I can't blame him for being me, y'know
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Maybe I need to stop working on VR gloves and jump to building a real iron man suit already
please be creative btw. online is full of fleeting luxury. paid personalities. material desires. it comes and goes. make something that’ll last. please. it’s deeper than our individual lives sometimes. don’t get lost
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It happened again just now, but this time it was for three months of dev time
So much has changed for me personally over the last year, but it's still crazy to think about how much people are willing to support me in the things I do
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I've been coughing my guts up so much over the last week that my abs are actively starting to hurt
I've been meaning to work out more lately but this is not the kind of exercise I was expecting
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I get given this week off work and fell ill on Sunday for the first time since catching covid back in June
It's been nearly three days and I've never coughed up such chewy phlegm before, it's gross
It kinda worries me when people tell me they see me as a role model
If twitter tanks, the next best places for people to follow me for VR glove updates would be my YouTube channel and Patreon page. Ngl having one less app to consume my time wouldn't be terrible if it happens
patreon.com/daedalusgauntl
youtube.com/@WannabeSpacem
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it wasn't until brad retweeted it (thank you mr smells) that I noticed the typo in the yt video title, nice
it's gonna be stuck like that in the twitter embed now 🥲
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yo dawg have a video of a WIP thing that might interest you
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Every so often I have lucid dreams where I realise I'm not awake, but the environment is realistic enough to make me doubt myself - they're always the ones set in mundane, everyday locations
There's some commentary to be made about that, but it wouldn't fit into a single tweet
A surprising amount of time spent on these gloves goes into figuring out how to design them in such a way to make them brain-dead to assemble, and while I'm definitely biased being the designer and all, I'd say I've been doing a pretty good job of it
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Well, there goes that last 25% 👋👋👋
I wonder if it might be worth tackling what's left of the few places where support material's needed for printing the parts too...
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I have an idea as to where I'm going with this, but it's 1 in the morning and I need far more brain power to continue conveying the point eloquently
Social media is trash and has no problem using you, more than you use it
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Make another account? Yeah, but that's keeping yourself trapped in the system. DM people individually? That defeats the point of wanting to share your work with the world. Use another platform? See the options available these days and refer to the first sentence in this tweet.
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I *want* to be able to post my depressing-ass takes. I wanna post about stuff other than VR gloves every now and then, but those numbers don't lie and it's clear people don't care for hearing about those sorts of things from me, so what options do I have?
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"But your engagement!" those running the show try to make you care about - the same people that don't care about what's being shared, only how viral it can get.
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But that's what people expect! They get to know you for one thing and one thing only - people that claim they care about the multifaceted human being on the other side of the screen, wouldn't just say they care, they'd offer ways of showing it
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I don't enjoy the fact that my personal twitter account has effectively became just an avenue for VR glove posting, and the fact that companies I'd honestly enjoy working for follow me on here has also lead to a level of self-censorship I sometimes find genuinely uncomfortable
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The compartmentalisation of user-generated content facilitated by the capitalistic schemes of those wishing to monetise the creative passions of those sharing themselves online, has lead to the stifling of personal expression and the commodification of user engagement
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I seriously need to start posting more glove progress on my Patreon again
Have a WIP splay+K1 curl tracker
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I've managed to redesign the VR gloves around Hall Effect sensors in such a way to eliminate 75% of the soldering, and the last 25% is also being worked out of it too
People are telling me I should patent this, but I'm not sure if that'd impede open sourcing the designs
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It's also made me realise how much I could do with someone like Kes in my life
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I started watching Star Trek: Voyager a couple days ago, and after having gotten through the first season, it's helped show me why my early 20s crush ended up marrying the man she did
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retweet this one
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#Bonelab releases times
9/29/22
10:00am PST
11:00am MST
12:00pm CST
1:00pm EST
2:00pm BRT
6:00pm GMT
7:00pm CET
8:00pm AST
10:30pm IST
9/30/22
1:00am HKT
2:00am JPT
3:00am AEDT
5:00am NZDT
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There'll be a video of it in action once I've figured out how to record IRL and in-game footage at the same time
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I now have a functional, modular 20 DOF VR glove capable of tracking every thumb and finger joint in the human hand
Time to look into adding force-feedback, that should be fun
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Honestly wish I could turn up the sound of the rain outside sometimes
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Real talk though, having a level of personal insight to where you can recognise conjurations of your subconsciousness is a great tool for diagnosing your mental state
Would recommend, it's a fun take on meditation that you can literally do in your sleep
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I've gotten proficient enough with lucid dreaming to where I can't actually remember the last time I had a regular one recently
Being painfully aware of the reality around you has its perks, maybe that's why VR hardware dev is so appealing to me 🙃
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To all my recent followers;
Y'all cool, enjoy the glove posts, sometimes there's stuff that isn't gloves
As for @immersion_mech, it's good to see you're back again my guy, the XRCaliper project was and continues to be inspirational as a hardware dev
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One of my peak nerd desires is a set of D&D dice made from lapis lazuli, with gold leaf inlay for the numbers
This's been something I've had on my mind ever since @polymorphMT gifted me my first set of blue and gold dice many a year ago
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it's funny to think that I might have the world's smallest FDM multi-material benchy on my desk and practically nobody knows about it
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I still wanna find a colour scheme that gives off Aperture Science vibes though - I've got some galaxy black laying around, and I've been wondering what parts I could swap out with it
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