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erodingsinner

TOKYO GORE POLICE ( 2008 )

opendirectories

A whole track from just one drum machine. It's like a kickflip for synthesizer dorks.

#cyberpunk #synthesizers #drum machine #elektron #music #new music #techno #dub techno #my music #Youtube

serverseraphim

Hidden PCB silkscreen art

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What you're looking at is a subtle artistic inside joke within the world of electrical and hardware engineering.

During the design process of PCB's, engineers have to map out the board's silkscreen (aka the nonconductive layer of apoxy ink, typically in white, black or yellow, that is used to indicate components, design, and test points). This is an essential part of circuit board building that is an integral part of the design process, serving as essentially a communicative manual to anyone servicing it, or something fun to find for teardowns. Think of it as a medical diagram to the board's meat and bones. It is layered on top of the solder mask which in turn protects the copper of the board from corrosion.

Many designers opt to put hidden messages, symbols or popculture references within the leftover/non-essential spaces as a fun way to connect them to their work. It's a piece of the artist within the art, and acts as a fun little real life easter egg to anyone brave enough to open up the tech housing it.

They don't serve any functional purpose to the board, but they sure are cool :)

Images and info sourced from flickr, r/hiddenpcbeggs, and pcbgogo

1nternetangel

From Mine Yoshizaki Art Works 1994-2004 Mine bluE

THE NEXT MOLOCH MIXTAPES CHAPTER IS OUT

M/M - This one's for the boys (and cyberware-style body horror fans.) It has guns, dubious dubcon, and megacorporate age/power difference. Read cybersmut (18+) https://archiveofourown.org/works/88712051/chapters/235391166 img: [Elf] - MetalEye (PC-98)

#cyberpunk #90s anime #pc 98 #dithering #old anime #retro anime #pixel art #ao3 author #original fiction #Moloch Mixtapes

d3athcrusade

The infinite world of BLAME! - lost in the megastructure

You’re dropped into a world that seems allergic to explanation. No names, no maps, no exposition panels. Just page after page of impossibly vast corridors and monstrous machines. It’s sci-fi stripped down to its steel bones.

And so you get The Megastructure, a city so vast it’s measured in light years. Architecturally, it’s part brutalist nightmare, part alien cathedral. Think endless concrete caverns, cables thick as highways, staircases that lead nowhere, and walls that look like they’ve been melted and reformed by something not quite natural.

uramura

Pcell why are you trying not to laugh bro

phantastische-illustrationen

'Le temple de la nuit', 1978 (Philippe Caza)

Looker (1981)

'microscopic photos of transistors + integrated circuits produced at fairchild semiconductor between 1959 + 1979' in the computer: a history from the 17th century to today - jens müller + julius wiedemann (2023)