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Solder & Sparkles: An AO3 E-Reader Built One Knob at a Time

solderandsparkles.com ↗ · Personal Pages · score 87.0
○Open: public page gives enough substance to understand the site $Paid: pricing, booking, ecommerce, subscription, or paid access is visible ADAds: visible ad load or ad-supported content ✦Pretty: notable design, copy, craft, or presentation ◆Pro: polished, finished-feeling, serious, or operationally mature ◇Niche: specific audience, workflow, or unusually focused use case ◉Human: personal, local, community, civic, handmade, or real-person signal !Suspicious: scammy, spammy, trust theater, finance fog, or credibility concern

Honey Chawla’s maker studio documents custom electronics, cyberdecks, 3D prints, jewelry, and other craft-meets-circuit experiments.

Why it surfaced

The centerpiece is an e-reader for fanfiction, built around an ESP32 Feather, a 3.5-inch display, and a single rotary encoder for turning pages and changing modes. The journal preserves the useful friction—first solder joints, a misidentified display driver, a failed CircuitPython detour, and the moment a real Dramione epic finally loaded onto the board.

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Ham Is Specifically Discouraged

August 10’s newborn domains include a mock cryptid council that specifically discourages ham, a vintage phone collecting messages for Twyla’s 70th, a 4.5-meter dish measuring Galactic hydrogen at 1420 MHz, and an open index that found 530 sites permitting GPTBot in robots.txt while refusing it at the server.

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