Pawprint Prototyping ➡️ Open Sauce

A router locked inside of a cage in my hotel room

This hotel is clearly prepared for @defcon.bsky.social

Tune in from home at live.pawprint.space

Mastodon folks, you can also follow @streamer@live.pawprint.space for notifications!

Tonight!

Pinboard @ Pawprint Prototyping 🔔 Calendar, Spaceswitch, and other public announcements for PawprintPrototyping.org

Presentation will be streamed and recorded for anyone joining remotely. Stay tuned here or our Telegram channel for links!

t.me/pawprintprot...

Graphene OS: Open Source, Android Compatible, Private and Secure mobile operating system. Join us for an intro talk and user's group. July 28. 19:00

Monday, July 28 @ 19:00
545 Aldo Ave #24, Santa Clara, CA

Join us to learn about @grapheneos.org, a security hardened Android OS that runs on Google Pixel's line of smartphones and tablets. We'll show the benefits, caveats, and alternatives to reducing big tech's grip on your digital life.

Thank you for coming to say hello!!

A tiny pawprint-shaped shitty add-on with buttons and an LED for each pawbean that plays a game that is definitely legally distinct from anything you've ever heard of.

Support Pawpint's mission of fostering the hacker community at large with this stylish and interactive memory game badge SAO!

paw.bs/sao

photo of a bowl on our exhibit table at open sauce 2025. bowl has orange hand shaped PCBs inside. the sign on the bowl has a photo of the hand shaped PCBs and reads: “ Free! SiFive Prototypes! Should we have these? Who knows! TAKE EM. (just tell us what you’re gonna make with them)”

Halloween candy bowl got weird this year

Skill issue

Doesn’t mean we’re not excited to see you at Open Sauce 😌

We’re excited to see you too!!

partially set up Pawprint Prototyping exhibit booth at Open Sauce 2025. there is a giant simon says paw game in the corner of our exhibit. on the tables there are various parts and bins our robot arm and a partially set up game score counter

We’re setting up for @opensaucelive.bsky.social
SEE YOU TOMORROW

Our robot arm contraption has a new target

We'll be at @opensaucelive.bsky.social this weekend!

Come shoot our robot.

better late than never shhhh

We hope everyone is having a fun time at SF Pride today 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐾❤️

Time to turn it into a lathe cutting tool

Well…you signed our waiver for a reason 🤗

importing vector files into CAD programs is like "actually, none of your nodes are connected".
How is this not a solved problem in 2025????

Happy Juneteenth!

Coming to our open houses are fun

he is so handsome 🦨

A 3D rendering of a PCB shaped like a skunk

I made an SAO in KiCad at @dogthoughts.link's @pawprintprototyping.org class last week and after fiddling with it and resizing and redesigning the past couple days I think it's finally ready!!

I've dabbled with some board stuff in very limited contexts but this is my first Real Thing I think!!

We do have a laser cutter but it’s not the right one for the job of cutting a collar tag out of what I think looks like steel. That would need a more powerful laser cutter or plasma cutter. We use our 80W CO2 laser to primarily cut acrylic and wood. Here’s our wiki: wiki.pawprint.space/tools/laser/

Please come with a laptop with KiCAD installed!

Join us TOMORROW from 11:00 - 15:00 and learn how to use KiCAD, open source software to design your own custom electronics. Learn KiCAD! Design for our Pick-n-Place! Order a PCB!

Me in fursuit sitting at my desk where my IBM XT is displaying the cover page of a Telnet literary magazine!

Me in fursuit sitting at my desk where my IBM XT is displaying the cover page of a Telnet literary magazine!

Booted up the XT for the first time in months to read @anewsession.com Issue 3! On Telnet, nobody knows you're a fox

📷: @meanderfox.bsky.social

A user in a lab coat uses a VT100 to browse the web, the terminal displays the article for Pawprint Prototyping from the Noisebridge wiki. The video output from the terminal is also displayed on a modern LCD TV.

VT100 displays "20th CENTURY TEXT" ASCII art

At Pawprint, we are terminally online. @bamboozlewzl.bsky.social

Oscilloscope displaying a rainbow sinusoid

Pride month means I get to post the gay oscilloscope

it has been 0 days since software asked me to agree to the GPL.

Me looking at the cmera while holding a sony miniDV vx2000 camcorder up to my fursuit head. I'm wearing chinos, a gray graphic tee, blue denim jacket, and a tan keffiyeh around my neck. A con badge is clipped to the keffiyeh

Welcome to Foxline by PBS! We're investigating how awesome foxes are and why you should give them headpats #fursuitfriday

📷: @pjfoxes.bsky.social