Ramblings of a Unicorn

Thoughts on engineering, building, ideas, and the occasional chaotic curiosity worth exploring

Documentary: Meet the biohacker living with cyborg upgrades
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Documentary: Meet the biohacker living with cyborg upgrades

She's a biohacker with three microchip implants. Brut filmmaker Jessey Dearing met Amie Dansby as she gets a new one installed.

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General Sweet Mayhem Cosplay
cosplay

General Sweet Mayhem Cosplay

Progress for General Sweet Mayhem cosplay for Dragon Con 2022.

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Cosplay: A History Book is Out Now
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Cosplay: A History Book is Out Now

Cosplay: A History by Andrew Liptik is out now and I'm honored to be included in the section about 3D Printing.

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Running Linux Game Servers on Kubernetes
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Running Linux Game Servers on Kubernetes

Game Developer Conference 2022 Attend a demonstration of deploying and operating game servers on Kubernetes. Learn about game server multiplayer architecture and how to use Thundernetes, an open source project from Azure and Xbox, to deploy game servers on Linux Kubernetes clusters and manage and monitor the game server lifecycle.

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Making Filament Colors That Smell: A Visit to Proto-Pasta
3D Printing

Making Filament Colors That Smell: A Visit to Proto-Pasta

3D Printing Nerd and friends when to Proto-Pasta to make scent 3D Printing filaments!

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LEGO Holiday Wonderland
LEGO

LEGO Holiday Wonderland

The 4 elves help raise the cheer meter in this LEGO Holiday Wonderland.

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Holiday Hack 2021
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Holiday Hack 2021

Join us for a holiday hack with Adafruit and Hackster.io

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3D Printed Halo Needler
3D Printing

3D Printed Halo Needler

It's been 20 years since the first Xbox release with Halo.

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thundernetes Allows You to Run Your Linux Game Servers on Your Kubernetes Cluster
programming

thundernetes Allows You to Run Your Linux Game Servers on Your Kubernetes Cluster

Thundernetes is an preview project from the Azure PlayFab Multiplayer Servers (MPS) team that enables you to run Linux game servers that use the PlayFab Game Server SDK (GSDK) on your Kubernetes cluster. Thundernetes can be useful while developing your game server in the following scenarios:

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Women In Gaming Open World Dialogue - Avoiding Burn Out
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Women In Gaming Open World Dialogue - Avoiding Burn Out

Check out the amazing panel with @amiedoubleD, Tanya Watson and Dr. Sarah Hays where we talk about metal health, setting boundaries, surviving Mariah Carey and avoiding burnout or on the merits of getting a dog!

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HACKNOMANCER collab Halloween is out on AudioJack
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HACKNOMANCER collab Halloween is out on AudioJack

My latest collab project! A story using only audio! What adventure did you imagine when listened to this Halloween episode? HACKNOMANCER is out on the AudioJack app! I had an amazing time recording sounds with LEGO bricks, solder sucker, multimeter, my dog snoring & more. Audiojack is an audio based movie. No words, no music, not video, just sounds. Close your eyes and listen to Hacknomancer and use your imagination.

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Nominated for The Game HERs Awards for Best Charitable Drive
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Nominated for The Game HERs Awards for Best Charitable Drive

Beyond excited to be nominated for The Game HERs Awards for Best Charitable Drive for my scholarship program for Girls in STEM through the National Videogame Museum.

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A Blooming Breakfast with a LEGO Master and MythBuster
LEGO

A Blooming Breakfast with a LEGO Master and MythBuster

The set is full of unique design techniques, and we were amazed to find that Pterodactyl dinosaur wings were used for the leaves!

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LEGO How To Train Your Dragon Helmet
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LEGO How To Train Your Dragon Helmet

164,957 LEGO bricks to design Hiccup's helmet from How to Train Your Dragon.

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