Hey there, wanna ride my DeLorean? 😆
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merlin / alex glow
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New vid! #PCBs I made in 2025, part 1: LED charm ✨
Finally pulled together a prototype with this little board – one of my new #Charmware set, reviving the series of modular tech #jewelry bits I started back in 2018. Been dreaming of assembling these with elytra and bike-leather, and the day finally came... The board still needs some tweaks (smaller switch etc.), but with my fixed-up #KiCad workflow, those will be a snap. 😸
// #Maker #LEDs #WearableTech
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Alex Glow on Instagram: "Part 1! Here's my new LED charm circuit board, built into a piece of jewelry as intended.
A few tweaks are still needed: smaller switch, repositioned LED (so it shines back on your skin – as my guitar pick #PCB earring does), etc. However, I'm really happy to finally have something close to my vision!
I used @kicad.eda to design these, and @pcbway to fabricate both the green/silver prototype and the black/gold version. The earring is made with jewel beetle elytra and upcycled bike inner-tube. Looking forward to making lots of variations on these. 💙✨
🔗 bit.ly/charmware for more info – linked at the top of the original @hacksterio tutorial from 2018, when I started this series before a looonnnng hiatus :)
// #WearableTech #LEDs Maker"
119 likes, 12 comments - glowascii on January 4, 2026: "Part 1! Here's my new LED charm circuit board, built into a piece of jewelry as intend...
I've been pretty quiet lately! Conference season pretty much wrapped up after the 16th, and I've continued the headlong #KiCad / #PCB design streak I started a couple months ago.
Since fixing my @KiCad setup ~3 weeks ago, I've done...
- 2 new #Charmware designs (will post tests soon!)
- Upgraded my #ESP8266 programmer planchette! (ordered yesterday)
- New modified Joule Thief board for the holidays! (ordered tonight)
...And various other things, like this #Hades gem concept :D
Happy place. <3
Had to do this for my channel recently, too :(
I'd never seen it in the wild, so for anyone else who hasn't had the pleasure: YT is beginning to auto-enable AI voice "translations" of people's videos, and REPLACE the original voice with a flawed version, without warning viewers about it at all. Creators may only find out when viewers have already been driven away.
Not enough expletives in all the languages in all the world to describe how I feel about this... 
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Just received an email from YouTube that they'll soon enable autodubbing on the OctoPrint channel for new and soon also old vide...