ℂlaire 𝔻anielle ℂassidy⚡🔌⚒️👩🏻‍💻♾️🏳️‍🌈

Whoa! What a Saturday at Maker Faire Bay Area! We were so busy all day that I never got a chance to post anything! Here’s what our booth looks like, we’ll be there 1 more day, tomorrow (Sunday) until 5pm!

#mfba2025 #makerfaire #makerfairebayarea #glowies #alpenglowies #pixelblaze #learntosolderkits

A box with a hand-drawn sign about the contest showing all of the circuit boards, kits, and glowy things listed in the thread.

Visit us at Maker Faire and sign up for our newsletters and be entered for a chance to win this awesome glowy prize basket! Included is:
- A Rainbow AlpenGlowie pendant from us
- A mesmerizing Duonacci pendant from @californiasteam
….1/ more👇

The inability to edit posts here kills me. Prize basket contributors are @californiasteam.bsky.social
@bhencke.bsky.social
@lasermistress.bsky.social
@drc3p0.bsky.social
Learn to Solder Kits
+1 more prize: a super cool PwrTop 18650 super small battery bank w flashlight by @clomads.bsky.social !

To this day I get far more consistent, quick, local, loving connection through Facebook then any other platform.

Also, it's 95% women responding every time.

Related, it's my birthday. I posted there instead of here for good reason.

I think this should be taken into consideration 🤷‍♀️.

Building stuff in my brain I was like "wait, there's gotta be an inline wireless on/off switch I could use for LED builds"and voila. Haven't seen this magic simple thing before personally.

For me USB is siiiick but the concept comes in many voltages.

www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807...

A bright star is held in a hand with a circuit board in back of it, suspended from magnetic jewelry findings.

Light yourself up at Maker Faire Bay Area and Lambtown this year - we’ve got some fun new LED wearables in the works! #mfba2025 #wearables #ledjewelry #lambtownfestival2025

Reinvesting in posting this fall/winter as I continue my long game of setting up freelance seasonal income™️

This year ✨Lasercut Jewelry Bike Shop Summer✨ fuckin slapped

Now for ⚡Femme Art & Community Electronics Engineering Winter⚡

Will I post here? Who knows! It's not been rewarding before! 🤘🏼

A screenshot of a dropdown menu of firmware releases. The top section is labeled "Unstable (Alpha)". The lower section is labeled "Stable (or Beta)"

That second section would make an excellent t-shirt tho. And I do mean that extremely endearingly. I would buy it for my friends. Darlings they are.

A webpage titled "FLASHER" in green font shows a three step firmware flashing process. On the left is a render of a LilyGo T-Deck device. In the center is a dropdown menu of different firmware releases, including a section labeled "Unstable (Alpha)"

Name something Unstable Alpha and then expect me NOT to poke at it 🙄

I guarantee you an unfathomable number of women, afab people and tons of others will be feeling this.

This is a blow I cannot understand. I cannot process the ramifications.

Guys...please same team.

Actionably. Don't sit sadly. Don't sit.

Please. Please.

(Planned Parenthood reaction thread 7) 🧵

Planned Parenthood saved my life.

Actually, factually, practically, praxis, consistently, radically

Saved. My. Fucking. Life.

I cannot fathom a world they do not exist in.

I just panic. Intense panic. Losing a parent panic.

(Planned Parenthood reaction thread 6) 🧵

I was a poor kid, but I was informed. Planned Parenthood gave me Plan B at 15. They gave me all of my birth control, my IUDs. They are the only medical practitioner I went to for decades, the only one I trusted. I love them. I do not say that lightly.

(Planned Parenthood reaction thread 5)

And I'll watch men I know be sad and lost about it, at best.

I will hear "I can't believe this kinda thing is real"

I will sit in an eerie, gaslight space.

I will hold myself back. They will encourage me to be angry. They have no idea what that means.

(Planned Parenthood reaction thread 4) 🧵

But defunding Planned Parenthood just passed in the Senate.

So I will be busy fighting devastated nausea and mental anguish for a while.

And deeper than I can ever express rage. Uncontrollable rage, fear, pain.

(Planned Parenthood reaction thread 3) 🧵

That's all a bigger deal then any fucking internet mental health trope makes that sound. I've crawled through decades, white-knuckled. I've saved my own life to be here fighting now. To be able.

(Planned Parenthood reaction thread 2) 🧵

Welp. I've been really holding my own with my mental health for about 9 months now. I feel more stable than I have my entire life. Aggressively living and loving and fighting with care and sustainability for others and myself in insane times.

(Planned Parenthood reaction thread 1) 🧵

How To Make a Handheld Light Graffiti Projector Find the full tutorial for this project here: https://github.com/DisruptivelyUseful/handheld-light-graffiti This information is fully open source and can be copied,…

Did something in honor of the No Kings protests today.

Go to lightgraffiti.club to find the full tutorial for a DIY light graffiti projector out of hardware store parts.

If you build one I'll answer questions and send you lasercut stencils.

That is all.

vimeo.com/851967606

#nokings #protest

Donate to There U Glow Radical Educational Electronics Camp Fundraiser, organized by Claire Cassidy There U Glow is back this year babes! The more help we get fr… Claire Cassidy needs your support for There U Glow Radical Educational Electronics Camp Fundraiser

www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl...

Today I searched for "really really angry free fonts".

A last second way to help out my queer+femme run electronics camp 💖

I'm printing a bunch of these free zines to give away:
www.mirkwork.com/free-zines-t...

If you have revolutionary, free, techy / queer / fuck the system one page zines to print please send me links!!

✨ 💖 ✨

#zines #STEAM

There U Glow There U Glow Camp

Alrighty babes. It is the last hour to pull in ✨ the last 17%✨ of the fundraiser for my all femme & queer founded and run electronics camp.

Additionally, I have taken the month off work to suddenly take on the intense estate logistics from my stepdad dying.

(fundraiser below)

thereuglow.carrd.co

Donate to There U Glow Radical Educational Electronics Camp Fundraiser, organized by Claire Cassidy There U Glow is back this year babes! The more help we get fr… Claire Cassidy needs your support for There U Glow Radical Educational Electronics Camp Fundraiser

I so deeply appreciate all the incredible support I've gotten. Just pulling for the last little percent on the fundraiser 💖

To subvert GoFundMe fees:

Venmo: (at)claire-cassidy-2

CashApp: $ClaireDCassidy

PayPal: clacassidy@gmail.com

www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl...

There U Glow There U Glow Camp

Alrighty babes. It is the last hour to pull in ✨ the last 17%✨ of the fundraiser for my all femme & queer founded and run electronics camp.

Additionally, I have taken the month off work to suddenly take on the intense estate logistics from my stepdad dying.

(fundraiser below)

thereuglow.carrd.co

As a twist in the running of my electronics camp soon, I have sudden news that my stepdad is terminal without much time. I've got to take that on and keep everything else moving. 💖 Thanks.

To subvert GoFundMe fees:

Venmo: (at)claire-cassidy-2

CashApp: $ClaireDCassidy

PayPal: clacassidy@gmail.com

Donate to There U Glow Radical Educational Electronics Camp Fundraiser, organized by Claire Cassidy There U Glow is back this year babes! The more help we get fr… Claire Cassidy needs your support for There U Glow Radical Educational Electronics Camp Fundraiser

I just found out that my stepdad is in the hospital and it's terminal. He is my last remaining parent. I have to get there fast and be helpful 😮‍💨.

There's no new fundraiser, the one for my camp works for this (& camp is still on).

(other donation methods below)

www.gofundme.com/f/there-u-gl...

Coin Cell Power Board We made the Coin Cell Power board to make displays for our soldering kits at conventions, which we could power from a single USB battery bank. Now you can add fixed power to your CR2032 badges too! Al...

The last Battery Buddy is our Coin Cell Power board! This one is used to replace a coin cell battery on boards that have side-insert-style holders, and it has convenient PH conns and a little cable that allows you to daisy-chain them. Badge display anyone? www.alpenglowindustries.com/products/coi...

Not to be too intense about it (I will).

But suddenly I can't stop feeling the fact that I haven't cried in someone's arms for four years.

And I haven't called a parent (there aren't any to call).

I know it's true for the collective too. It's fucking lonely out there.

#Audhd #ActuallyAutistic

Need something to watch? The new season of Dr. Who is wild and radical (as in fighting back) and opens by gratuitously shaming incels.

But because of it's shitty core audience it's ratings are plummeting.

It is precious and needed and eye candy to boot.

And stars Ncuti Gatwa! 🥵

Get on it!

My response to my friends question "how do you gather people!?"

I'm a persistence predator. It is rough to do consistency. But it will be *remarkable* how solid it will grow. My ability is unhinged because it's all small, selfishly satisfying, existentially purposeful, and spread over time.

A woman smiling widely and wearing a neon yellow beanie is taking a selfie holding a licence plate in front of a big vehicle painted line an ambulance but shaped more like a box truck.

A screenshot of a gofundme called "There U Glow Radical Educational Electronics Camp Fundraiser" with $3,554 raised which is 71% of its goal.

Crushed it last weekend! Repped my camp speaking vulnerably at a big-deal event, got us 1k more in donations (75% there!) AND got plates for my Retired Red Cross Emergency Response Vehicle. (Thoughts on the nickname "Surge" for her? Like Power Surge⚡)

Oh and made THIS!
thereuglow.carrd.co