Joss Rickard
@jossrickard
Car Tech Wolf 37 | He/Him | Poly/Demi | ΘΔ |🔞 Starfox | Baking | Cars | Motorsport | VRchat | Sim Racing The suckers: @bikkit.bsky.social 💜🤍💙 @foxoo.bsky.social 💜🤍💙 @nommage.bsky.social 💛🤍💜🖤
Hot off the press. I got bonked by Gorgon and got stuck with single green laser on Wolf 😭
Comparing art and music to kicking a ball around sure is a big reach
Hydralyte, you didn't have to go so hard on making a fantastic stim toy but I'm glad you did
*Me, opening this article to get the balance of "Surely it can't be this stupid." and ending up seeing that it's complaining about a drop in teen pregnancies* Gosh, what a shame, despite who the presidency is, that paedophilia is on the downswing. Fuck me what an article.
A nice weekend of working on train stuff with friends. Painted the S Sets (they were bare black resin print), made some trees, did some foliage and fox is getting to grips with the 3D printing! The roof and pillars all their work in blender!
Will patient X survive his quadruple bypass? Here's what a carpenter and English major think
I can only fit two minutes in of the six minute full loop. Four out of the eventual nine trains running on automation
We're done our first plaster cast mouldings and painted them! I'm really happy with them, as a first attempt. Trying to colour match the rocks around Darling Harbour
I finished a spool of solder. It was at least ten years old. Impressed I never lost it.
We were initially told our design concept was rejected. That we were only included for representation. Our numbers were halved. The end result? OzFurs WON THE BEST FLOAT DESIGN FOR SYDNEY MARDI GRAS PARADE 2026!
Three power supplies, 14vac, 3.3vdc, 5vdc, all fused and switched individually so there's ample room for future electrical scenery. The goal is to have it running autonomously, with up to six trains on four lines. All the wiring I scavenged from a discarded Corolla harness and cost nothing.
Very happy with this - it took about two weeks of fairly dedicated work each evening. Everything running through DCC with a CDU and sixteen relays for switch control, operating off the phone. 12 IR sensors for train position detection and later block control.
