nycki's easy salad

- wash and shred 1 large kale leaf
- shake up 1tsp oil and 1tsp vinegar to make dressing
- roll up some coldcuts and slice into wheels
- toss leaves with dressing, salt, and pepper
- top with coldcuts

woooo, today I got the Rise C kit from extremeRate installed. this kit converts a ps4 controller from usb micro to usb c, and it also adds four "remap" buttons on the back, which can be programmed to copy another button on the controller. it's tournament-legal, if you care about that.

I wish they'd go back to written guides. not a fan of the video instructions. But I was able to figure it out, and I admit, it does give me a lot more views of where all the wires go.

this is definitely the hardest kit of theirs I've done so far due to the thin wires. I only burnt myself with the soldering iron twice!

I do *not* want to go back in there again. which means... I can start covering it in stickers, and not worry about having to peel them off later!

here's a fun trick: I arranged these shapes I want to cut such that, after tracing the edges with knifebot, I can slice the page with a regular straight line cutter, and be left with a 9x6" area suitable for a catalog envelope.

knifebot and I have successfully cut out A Shape!!!! I'm so excited yessss

huge thanks to this open source project called inkscape-silhouette for providing support for this old baby! this is so cool!!!

https://github.com/fablabnbg/inkscape-silhouette

woooo, it is done! really glad I went with the textured vinyl; it makes the touchpads feel nice, although it does make it hard to see the little spots on the rest of the texture, ah well.

steam controller vinyl skin concept (template from MightySkins)

I think I need to re-do this in a higher resolution before I get it printed, but otherwise I love this concept

the eight types of little guys

A fifth color! Tried to pick a shape that's somewhat distinct from the others and still a little bit "five-ish". Thoughts on this? Am interested in both shape and color feedback.

Okay, we'll call that v1.1! Made the suits 50% larger and reduced the amount of shading on the greens. Enjoy!

https://nycki.net/a/martian-origami-v1.1.zip

@ajroach42 's article [1] convinced me to get back into physical media so I picked up these supplies for fun, might make a shareware CD later. I already had a bunch of CDs and paper sleeves, but i did buy a long stapler and some 9x6 catalog envelopes.

Bill Nale wrote in 2018 [2] that he could get away with using a regular Forever stamp on these, but the USPS website says you're *supposed* to use a Non-Machinable Surcharge stamp for 'rigid' mail. They're just like Forever stamps but they cost extra, currently $1.19.

Since Forever stamps are worth $0.73 right now you *could* just use two of those, for $1.46 total, and write "non-machinable" on the letter yourself. In hindsight I should have done that, and saved myself some trouble. Oh well, it was a good excuse to visit my local post office!

Now I just need to actually write something worth printing...

1: https://retro.social/@ajroach42/113481632282311122

2: https://elivermore.com/mailing_dvds.htm