Some stuff that I threw here

• Projects
  • OS-2, a fullsize modular analog oscilloscope I'm building from scratch. Think Tek 7k series. It's a huge project and fucking stupid for one person to do so it's taking a long time. Still workin on it.
  • Littletube, a CRT driver and video generator for miniature electrostatic CRTs to make them easy to drop into a project as a display. Maybe someday it'll be a thing you can buy.
  • Littlescript, a BASIC dialect and interpreter for RAM-constrained embedded applications wanting runtime scriptability.
• Stuff I'd like to do if I had the time, but probably won't
  • A full series of bench instruments designed from scratch. I know there's OSHW stuff out there already but it's just fun to do. I'd love to experiment with oldschool analog/modern digital fusion UI design. Stuff needs knoooooobs
  • A Modern Legacy Computer. A new ARM SOC/SOM with a bunch of circuitry to give it all the old ports and interfaces. I think it'd be dope as fuck to build a multicore 64-bit ARM computer with ISA slots and floppy drives and shit. Shouldn't be too hard to make that a first class citizen in OS land with some simple kernel modules too
• About me
  • I'm Alexis Lockwood (she/they)
  • I'm a Colorado-based electronics engineer in my late 20s^*. I really like analog electronics. Fitting because my workspace looks like Jim Williams'.
    
    ^*Probably early 30s by now since I never update this shit
  • Not really Into Tech™ unless it's old and useless. I have at least half a dozen CRTs on my bench at any time. I do more modern stuff like multilayer boards with penguins on them and shit that connects to the internet (that probably shouldn't) for money. Which we should abolish and start working on fixing this mess of a world we made instead of building more gizmos.</cynicism>
  • Kinda into stuff that burns dinosaur squeezings and makes vroom vroom noises too, though yeah we should all probably burn fewer dinosaur squeezings. Hey, getting my hands dirty is fun, and I can't do much physical activity so it lets me feel like I'm going fast wheeee lol 🏍️🏎️
  • My ADHD is poorly managed so all of this is out of date lmao
  • I'm a queer, trans anarchist who thinks "keep politics separate" is a pretty neat idea for people who get to live on easy mode, deal with it. Eat the rich y'all, BGDC
  • My socials are 🐘 @alexisvl@queer.party, alexisvl on gitlab
• This website
  • I type the HTML into vim and glue on some other stuff with a macro processor. Currently cpp and a makefile. Yeah I know static site generators are a thing but I like this. It just feels more personal, y'know? Handcrafted artisanal HTML like my great grandma did back in 1312.
  • It's ugly but so am I. I like it that way.
    • (But I don't want it to be inaccessible so if it's an actual pain in your ass feel free to let me know. See socials above.)
  • You can see my git sins lol