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extreme metal && queer culture && electronics hacking. Creative mind behind @robotmetalband and @cutefuckers

San Francisco, CA
Joined November 2014
Me & my ROBOT METAL BAND Electromancy are playing our first LIVE SHOW ever this month in San Francisco!! If you’re in town you should totally come!!
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HOLY SHIT! I was just listed on Bitch Media's "Bitch 50" , their list of 50 most impactful people in progressive pop culture! 😮 😮 bitchmedia.org/article/2020-…
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I was just interviewed by @HackSpaceMag about my @RobotMetalBand! Do you think I kept a cool? Or do you think I looked more like...
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@Jenny_Alto Hey Jenny! I’m going to be releasing a video of my robot guitars playing Steve Reich’s 1967 Piano Phase in a few short weeks. Any chance you might be interested in writing about it on Hackaday or similar? :D
Throwback to a hardware meet up we went to last year! It was so fun to meet people who were so excited about the guitar!
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We just screwed the PCB on the guitar! The best part about getting a guitar for cheap is we don't have to worry about drilling the board on it tbh!
Finally got the solenoids on it!
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Here we are mounting the electronic parts on some cheap guitar I got from Craigslist. I literally got it for 50 bucks! Pretty sweet deal
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How to play electric guitar with hand disabilities \m/ With months worth of engineering work coming to fruition it’s time to dive deeper into compositions for my first album! #robot #HeavyMetal #diy #guitarplayer
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Several hours of work later, self playing guitar V2 is almost there
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