maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

i won't have much time to work on it today, so maybe this weekend i'll take a look at the gears. those i can get from eBay for a more reasonable price than the pens (because the pens are only sold domestically), but first i'll see if i can do anything to them without replacements

so the next step is to try and focus more on sourcing new pens through whatever process. there's a place you can still buy them in the US but i'm not in the US and that makes it prohibitive, unless someone wants to donate me some pens for cost of shipping

so after more work yesterday and more frustratingly broken pens, it doesn't look too good for restoring the original pens. i still have black and blue working ok, green sputters but looks like the ballpoint is not getting enough ink, and i have no working tips left to make a red

there's not going to be a stream tonight. sorry

sorry, i can't. the more i try the more frustrated i get that i wasted $500 on a 5ghz router i can't even make discord calls on from one room away

ehhnn

we'll be saving the games for 2 weeks from now, yakuza 2 next week

let's see if i can rig up some remote controls...

the ballpoints in these pens are VERY fine and the tip holding them is plastic, so they're very easy to break. the black pen i have right now is using the tip from one of the gray extra pens (supposedly "correctable" pens, but mine had weird greenish and reddish inks in them)

also, just so it's noted i _did_ ruin three pens so far: one of them i didn't notice the ballpoint had vanished, one of them basically crumbled when i tried to take it apart, and the other one i tried a method of getting the ballpoint unstuck and it just dropped into the pen body

i still want to try making new pens from scratch later because i want ones in the other colors the ballpoint set i bought came in (like purple and pink), but for now i'm content enough in refilling the ones i have right now

i'm gonna be a bit late cause uh, plotter is happening 👀

i thought about maybe streaming plotter happening instead of video games tonight, but, i have no idea how to properly set up a remote streaming station from the other room where the plotter is in

the backstage :^)

so i bought some inexpensive fine-tip 0.7mm ballpoint pens (in 10 different colours!) in order to try to fashion new stock for plotters like mine

the first attempt wasn't a success.. however i managed to refill one of the pens with the black ink from those ballpoints!

🤔

hey i don't have a nice graphic for tonight's stream but unless the plan changes we're playing a blind bag episode of http://itch.io picks by @LaserScheme@twitter.com which i haven't seen before, come join us in about 2 hours, 9pm UTC-3!
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https://twitch.tv/mavica