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Lucy Chapar

@lucychapar.com.bsky.social

maker of things and chaos wrangler, currently helping people manufacture their products @ Opulo. Pronouns are she/her!

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Customer Spotlight: Nathanael Huffman of Oxide For a long time, we have been fans of Oxide and what they do. That is why we are happy to introduce Nathanael, who works at Oxide, where they make servers as they should be. Their mission is to "Kick…

Learn how our very own @syntheticgate.bsky.social uses the open-source LumenPnP to rapidly prototype Oxide boards, enabling remote testing without shipping rack-sized Cloud Computers to everyone's home.

01.05.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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can someone please tell me why the Harmonized Tariff Schedule system needs to delineate between items by gender? this is truly wild lmao

19.12.2024 02:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Person standing in front of science faire event hall

Person standing in front of science faire event hall

Just got back from the Rochester Makerfaire! Lots of cool projects on display, but my favorite was definitely the open source Prometheus MSLA 3D printer @ragwafire.bsky.social was showing off!

Check out the Github if you haven’t heard of this before! github.com/TheContrappo...

18.11.2024 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Thrilled to welcome @thea.codes to @opulo.io! We're excited to have you on board! Big things are coming.

12.11.2024 16:37 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Glad you found it helpful!

11.11.2024 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What’s this for?

31.10.2024 00:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We had an interesting problem with these gears recently where the alignment holes were cut undersized by the vendor!

Thankfully the dowel pins in the jig could be replaced with bearings to create an impromptu kinematic coupler! Not ideal, but it’s been a great patch-fix so far πŸ˜…

28.10.2024 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’d be awesome. It’s on my list to try those weird Temu laser welders too.

25.10.2024 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It felt like we replaced cans connected by fraying string with cellphones 🀯

25.10.2024 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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If you like satisfying jigs check out how LumenPnP feeder gears are made!

25.10.2024 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

Switching HackPGH from Enders to Bambu machines was one of our best choices ever. See ya Ultimaker! 🫑

25.10.2024 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Open Hardware Summit was amazing! Grateful for all the incredible people that attended and shared their stories. I think I’ll have to plan a talk for next year!

Special thanks to NYC Resistor and Fat Cat Fab Lab for showing us around as well!
#oshwa #opensource #hardware #nyc

30.04.2023 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no, don’t tell people on here I slept in 🀣

29.04.2023 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hanging out with some new and old friends on our way to the Open Hardware Summit Afterparty

29.04.2023 00:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ve been working on restoring an old milling machine at a #hackerspace in #pittsburgh! Can’t wait to have it up and running

12.04.2023 13:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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