Siddeley Genet

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It's your tinker genet. Viverridae vivacious. Can't see the greymuzzle if already a grey genet. They/them. Maker of things, crisper of circuitry, sculpter of stuff. Ebikes, furry things, electronics tinkering and props.

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Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· 28d

I might have gone a little too full-send. (First time I've actually straight up kicked a pedal off the crank peg getting started from a stop)

The left hand crank of a bicycle, over a concrete slab. It's in a very sad state, broken nearly in half with one lobe of two hanging on by the slimmest sliver of sun-bleached black plastic. Rest in pieces.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Jun 18

More "Living River Forge", @tinselfire.bsky.social Decorative light strings of scrap electronics and shipping tubes with resin, every vertical surface used like a spacer (note the magnetic tool plate on the fume hose!

The soldering worktop at Siddeley's bench. Every conceivable point on the gray slat wall behind the fice pointed iris nozzle of the fume vent front-center is hung with tools, tape and electrical sundries. A few small lamps hang decorative; small glass spice vials with a fill of phosphorescent resin mixture and LED cores, one of them with a tiny shade made of scrap circuit panels. In the foreground above, plastic clear tubes of heat shrink insulation hang in a row, suspended from magnetic strips on a bolt-tipped cord to allow them to attach.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Jun 16

Having a River Forge moment here, @tinselfire.bsky.social Workspace like I'm in an orbital habitat or spacecraft without spin gravity

A look up in part of Siddeley's work space. Tools and wiring festooned over vertical surfaces. Most of the focus on this photo is on an overhead arm lamp with magnetic strips holding an assortment of electricians scissors, flush cutter and pliers. Electronics schematics are out of focus on the wall behind, and other homebrew electronic work gadgets are attached vertically to all surfaces

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Jun 12

Well, here, have s'more genet teef.

a spotted genet, zonked out and snoozing, in close focus. Just the creature's silly head, on its side, snout upturned and mouth wide open showing the various sharp teeth lining its whiskery muzzle. Probably dreaming of mice to chase.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Jun 12

Oh, for your ref, on the earlier topic of ride gear being a good idea, @renegadekangaroo.bsky.social - this lives in my front hall. Saved my face and probably my life. Totem reminder now, every time I head out for a ride.

A white motorcycle helmet with noticeable cracks and damage to the chin bar. The visor is missing and the rubber gasket normally running flush behind that visor is sagging at the top where it was almost squeezed off by the missing visor cracking off. A red NASA "CRITICAL SPACE ITEM" sticker adorns the crown.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Jun 11

It is valid to eat fingers.

A spotted genet's gone fangs out, deciding to chomp a little on the human hand stroking at its cheeks, whiskers lifted, mouth open and ears pivoting back. Play biting, not genuine aggression, as its hackles aren't raised and its sable-spotted coat isn't bristling but still. The little viverrid has chosen violence now.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· May 31

Chirp? o.o! Art by @sifyro.bsky.social - genet me!

The spotted genet character, Siddeley, with their ring-striped black and grey tail flowing to the left, on a blank background in early aviator's apparel consisting of a flight harness, open fronted aviator's coat and blue trousers. Whiskers, big purple eyes and tall rounded ears adorn this genet's smiling viverrid face, flashing a victory vee gesture with clawed digits. Posed as if casually leaning on something to the right, or floating in free flight, with a flight-cap and goggles ready to go.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· May 23

My bike's main battery, for reference: Two ports, charge and discharge (vehicle drive supply). This charge port has recessed sleeve receptacles and matching posts that mesh with recesses around each pin of the M connector. Silicone dust and spray cap.

A very closely framed snapshot of an ST3 type ebike battery charging port. Three crescent-like shapes mark the ends of each pin sleeve in this black plastic socket with cutouts for the unseen plug end to index into.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· May 19

30 kilograms of groceries onto a 25 kilogram vehicle. Milk crate bike gang. (I'm a leatherworker for goodness sakes, I should build myself some saddlebags or fork bags already.)

Siddeley's red salvaged Ohm bicycle frame with its hallmark "RATFOOD!" battery mounted to the front step-through low tube. Flags of orange gaff tape mark peripheries of the bike, the handlebars are utterly festooned with a mess of ride electronics, voltage buck power supply, and truck horn. Two phaserunner motor controllers are currently redundant, because there's currently only one rear hub motor on this frame. The poor "20 pound maximum" load tail rack is hanging on for dear life with at least twice that perched on top of it. Out of frame is the backpack and hip-bag loaded with a good ten to fifteen kilograms more of stuff.

A week's worth of food, snacks and treats on one bicycle

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Apr 28

Cal Kestis, demonstrating the appropriate handling of space-fascists: (Silly Imperials.)

The Jedi character Cal Kestis, posed in a Jedi-style wanderer's outfit with a roughspun tunic over wrapped sleeves, a bandolier and pack, with tasseted waistcloth traveler's cloak rolled up at the beltline. The not so fortunate bounty hunter sharing this Jedi temple courtyard in the game screenshot, rather lifeless and prone on the ground, is minus a lightsaber-snipped hand on the tiles in the background. Cal has a boot up on this poor Imperial hireling.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Apr 24

So, mustelidae in my circle, you now know what to do, right? Especially if you're a fisher. Mechwarrior up after six Timbiqui Dark ales and rise, Drunken Fisher.

A cropped snapshot from the game Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries. The BattleMech repair bay in the background isn't quite the focus of this clip of the neuro-helmeted Mechwarrior Duncan Fisher, quoted in a text-box in game by name, saying "Ah, she had the misfortune of meeting my intoxicated alter ego "Drunken Fisher"... she wasn't a fan."

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Apr 9

I love my little mutant Phaserunner. Did some preventative maintenance on it; Odd cable boot on the XT connector's for a Hall grounding reference splice to route around damage. Original prototype Phasesink mount. Mutare ad custodiam!

A GRIN Technologies Phaserunner motor controller. The bare stainless finish type, with a shiny steel casing, mounted in a fin-ridged anodized aluminum heat spreader and heatsink expansion. Black cabling snakes out of frame to the left, and it's sitting on a bit of shop-towel after having just undergone a little electrical surgery. One of Siddeley's custom touches to this repaired and recycled motor controllers is a pentagonal laser-engraving badge-art from XCOM on top in black oxide, with finer print reading "MUTARE AD CUSTODIAM" over the stylized biohazard symbol below in the pentagonal shield. It also reads "There are many Phaserunners, but this one is also mine. - S"

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Mar 13

Built a thing. Servo controller for a bicycle spoke lacing driver. Programmable quadrature-sensor motor drive that can deliver repeated, precise rotation counts when setting spoke-nipples.

A prototype board of a small servo motor driver. A red riser card sits over a mostly obscured blue servo power board below. The top and bottom edges of the PCB are populated with 0.1" pitch header rows pinning the two circuit boards together. Connectorized wiring is routed over from the left, with a DC barrel plug, thin red and black wire connector for the control trigger button, and a rainbow of wire attached to the motor connector JST group of 6 pins. Far right, an adjustable DC-DC power supply sports chubby little electrolytic caps on its top face and a transistor package for regulator switching.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Feb 27

Post a picture you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed (be polite and alt-text tho!)

Ten battery cells in an open enclosure. Corrosion damage is evident on the nickel terminal strips. Green rings of barley paper alternate with the blue cell wrappers, and milky translucent silicone surrounds the cells in this small battery pack.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Feb 10

It's only polite, so the test battery doesn't run down on the meter's passive draw.

A close look at a very hack-bred meter cluster of three LED numeric displays inset into a clear acrylic frame stuffed with flying circuit and multiple colors of wire.

The real focus is the sticker on top of it reading "Unplug after alien abduction". Don't want the batteries draining, after all

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Feb 4

Yeah, there's actual structural black iron gas pipe on my frame at the moment. Gaze upon my shame, @clapptrap.bsky.social

Siddeley's gas pipe kickstand. An old German alloy bike stand with the original leg snapped off halfway. A sleeve of half inch black iron (and at least 5% rust now) pipe forms the leg supporting 30 kilograms of red framed ebike above, with a bodged rubber foot made of inner tube bound into a ball with number 23 splicing rubber.

A shameless bodge for old, broken but beloved parts

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Jan 19

Today's ride is already interesting. Almost ate it by finding unexpected black ice - caught enough dry pavement to keep it upright and not go sliding into King George highway, but... yikes. (The Fraser river is somewhere down there. I think. Ice fog.)

An almost entirely dogged photo frame with near zero visibility on the right half. The faintest hints of the iron framed Pattullo bridge are visible at top, and a barge is the sole hint at the river below completely engulfed in fog.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Jan 10

Discord's little space invader gamepad icon on a white background, with "Discord Research" discordantly printed in mismatched typefaces. The text below reads "in general, how do you feel about Discord integrating AI features? We'd love to hear your overall thoughts and any concerns you might have."

My response in the box simply reads Please tell the executives that want AI buzzword-boosted grift-hooks to consider sitting on a cactus. A large one. Soaked with lemon juice.

Seriously, fuck your AI grifting, you absolute hacks.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Jan 1

Apparently the genet of 2026 is "WITNESS ME!" and-or hold my beer and watch this

A snapshot of a post from @merriam-webster.com. It reads "Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026. Let's. Go."

The teal-green to yellow fade reads Your 2026 Word

zip-line

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Dec 23

QTP with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers. Hard Mode: No Gundam Series,Battletech or Macross allowed. [Saraba Yasashiki Hibiyo intensifies in the distance] It's probably cheating a tiny bit to invoke Dougram with Battletech forbidden.

The Dougram, titular mecha from Dougram Fang of The Sun, slumped over in the Deloyer deserts after being scuttled and abandoned by its crew in the first episode recap / final ending. Damage is evident all over from its many trials on the journey, and the machine is no longer operable. It sits like a man slumped exhausted, body hunched over knees, a hand in its lap, and the cockpit slouching lifeless. Sepia and sand tones further carry the desolation of this end to the iconic mecha's adventure.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Dec 11

Vent system had to be shut off again to deal with a shop rag getting ingested by a port. Decided to fix that problem. Test cut, built a thing. Finished devices being lasered in 1/16" aluminum. BaggieBlocker9000. No more eating stray cloths, parts baggies or other dross, fume-slurper.

A busy worktable with wiring scattered to the right, some decorative chain to the left in progress, and dominating the frame to the center, the Baggie Blocker 9000, a fume vent hood attachment that would normally be a foot-wide open suction port, but it is instead, equipped with an X shaped bar of laser cut plastic sandwiching aluminum expanded mesh, which quite effectively will block this vent port from ingesting bags, rags and other lightweight objects which it would normally ingest, then eject through a fan onto the building roof, jamming said fan and requiring someone to go climb onto the roof to retrieve it.

A much needed device.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Dec 9

I made a cheeky suggestion in the workshop for Christmas party activities. Other crew have run equally wild with it.

Handwritten text on a whiteboard, for suggested Christmas party activities

It reads, top to bottom:
- Finish kegs
- (redacted) Disco hoe down
- All the rum
- none of the rum
- some of the rum
- schrödinger's rum
- schrödinger's cat's rum
- pin the tail on the reindeer

Very normal whiteboard workshop stuff.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Nov 28

*genet stance*

A large-spotted genet arches up with puffed fur to look bigger and more threatening. Caught in the flash of a camera trap, this fuzzy dun-furred viverrid is richly dappled with spots from nape to tail. The genet's striped tail is similarly bristling up like a bottle brush, and wide, glowing eyes *stare* into the camera with alarmed whiskers craned out at the "threat"

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Nov 26

Building a thing. (It's a backlit sign for my lab-space)

A sign box on a cluttered worktable. Laser cut hardboard frames the sides of this box, painted a deep gray matte finish with scalloped vent slots on the top. Art deco nouveau style print is laser cut into a gloss black acrylic finish, inlaid with "MR-T" in a brushed, shiny mylarized acrylic finish.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Nov 18

Shenanigans with salvage: Bootleg modular batteries.

A black plastic rectangular 3D printed battery shell. Inlaid text in the print identifies its contents as 36 volts nominal with a 99 watt hour capacity. More importantly, whomever, on this homemade battery is the bright yellow paint pen reading "NO OCC - DO NOT SERIES". Only slightly sketchy homebrew.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Oct 28

Built a thing. Pi-clone single board services host for an ESP32 device net. VOC sensors, anemometer, and other devices to automate a network of soldering smoke extractors on a central filter and evacuator

A single board computer in the Raspberry pi family of devices. The computer itself is nested into a bright orange 3D printed plastic housing with a small touchscreen LCD on top, framed by a grey printed bezel. This device is built to automate a series of workshop machines and sensors.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Oct 28

On why we always ride with gear, folks: That's the quick release for my rear axle. Its missing about 3 millimeters of metal from Wednesday's slide.

A close up view of a black metal "skewer" (a bicycle axle pin) with a conspicuous ragged scrape on its levered back face, on the outside of the axle. This is abrasion damage from a road accident. Smaller scratches are evident on the steel brake mount bolt above this.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Oct 16

Couldn't find a spare tack hammer in the shop, couldn't find mine. Needed to set small hammer-set inserts with a drive punch. Did find the gas plumbing supplies have a suitable solution, however.

A janky ersatz hammer, made from iron gas pipe. An iron T pipe joint attached to a section of merchant iron gas pipe, with steel pipe plugs in the ends of the T-joint.

A substitute bonking tool.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Oct 16

Made a thing. Salvaged motor magnets, a bit of epoxy and some laser cut hardboard. Modular tool hanger.

A homemade magnetic tool rail. Four nickel plated neodymium magnets sit in rectangular recesses in a bar of wooden hardboard with six spaced mounting holes in the bar. Domes of epoxy protect each magnet from chipping.

Siddeley Genet@sergalprojects· Oct 9

Figure that I should share more projects and less random postings. Little LM2596 based DC-DC handmade buck converter in a variety of salvaged ebike hardware. Borrowed the shell off a dead solar current monitor shunt, built a tiny little DC-DC for a colleagues formerly 4-AA powered bike light