Tholin ΘΔ
tholin.bsky.social
Tholin ΘΔ
@tholin.bsky.social
Cute transfem Avali | layout engineer and electronics gal | is literally an avali (ΘΔ)
https://tholin.dev
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Get ready, fellow chirpers!

We're hosting our 2.5th VR Convention for 2026 (Yes, that's the actual number) soon!

We will soon be hosting our 2nd 2026 VR Convention on November 20th through to the 22nd.

Keep an eye on avali.party for the event schedule! (To be announced!)

#avali #vrchat #vrmeet
AvaliCon
AvaliCon - a VR convention for space birds.
avali.party
September 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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We need EVEN MORE avali models they’re all fantastic
August 30, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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August 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Talking about "my EF badge" has been getting increasingly confusing since I’ve been making them for a while now, so here is a useful infographic, including a peek at what I’ll be rocking this year.
August 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
And here is the full thing.
Fabbed through wafer.space
Photos by @mith.ro
June 23, 2026 at 12:34 PM
690x585µm, GlobalFoundries 180nm process
Artist is @starflowerr.bsky.social
Different lighting conditions on this one, helps the lineart shine through more
June 23, 2026 at 12:32 PM
870x1345µm, GlobalFoundries 180nm process
Artist is @lunarmidnight.bsky.social
June 23, 2026 at 12:27 PM
the creature :3
the creature :3
June 16, 2026 at 6:42 PM
You can connect a TMS9918 VDP to a CH32V003 if you try hard enough.
January 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
You can connect PATA drives to a CH32V003 microcontroller if you try hard enough. Even had one GPIO pin left in the end!
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I wrote a custom network stack in C to run on my custom silicon RISC-V core, supporting both IPv4 and IPv6 and its now good enough to make HTTP requests. But maybe I'll turn that around and have it accept HTTP requests. We'll see.
feat. a really ugly bodge to prevent over-current on the memory bus
October 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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need people to stop making technology inspired by Star Trek (smooth, sleek, no buttons, all screen, voice activation, extremely minimal, wireless) and start making technology inspired by Star Wars (clunky buttons, indicator lights on everything, ugly, indestructible, fat cables that emit steam)
August 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Its a bit all over the place and somewhat cursed, but ya'll will now be able to read about my most complex and most bugged custom EF Con Badge yet.
tholin.dev/i386-badge/
January 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Another day, another cursed bodge in the morning.
December 26, 2024 at 10:37 PM
Gorgeous dieshots of my two custom integrated circuits from GFMPW-1, and this new entry on my website with details on what I managed to accomplish on this shuttle: tholin.dev/custom_silic...
November 4, 2024 at 7:05 PM
In collaboration with another silly Avali, I bring you a little prop for your VR avatars. You can get it for free: tholin.gumroad.com/l/idvid

[Deleting my Twitter account soon, re-posting some old things]
[VRC] Planet Ring Prop
A ring for your VRC avatars with 4 planet-themed texture options.Prefabs ready to drag & drop!Note: atmosphere inside the ring only renders if the world has a bright sun in the sky. It will not re...
tholin.gumroad.com
October 31, 2024 at 9:08 PM
I am once again running large algorithms on hardware that was never, in anyone's dreams, designed to handle them!
This time: LLM on a Z80.

This took a really, really long time, so I hope people will at least find it funny.

github.com/89Mods/z80-llm
October 28, 2024 at 7:23 PM
I have booted Linux on the Eurofurence Cyber Badge and can now control the lightshow from the comfort of Linux userspace.

github.com/89Mods/ef28-...
October 18, 2024 at 7:58 AM
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I have never ever written for money. I write for the things I will buy with that money.
August 30, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Today, I successfully fit a whole DDR2 memory controller into a $1.50, 240 LU CPLD. It is ungodly slow, but appears to work without dropping bits. Lots of optimization left to do, but still got 25% unused space on the CPLD. github.com/89Mods/mini-...
June 17, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Today I drew a @kibyts.bsky.social for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
April 12, 2024 at 8:42 PM
You can now do real astronomy in my Avalon #VRChat world now that the telescope is adjustable with a working viewfinder, and get amazing views like this one. I also updated OpenFlight and the video player can now play side-by-side 3D videos.
t.co/CavG0Bbo6z
March 5, 2024 at 11:06 AM
In collaboration with another silly Avali, I bring you a little prop for your VR avatars. You can get it for free: tholin.gumroad.com/l/idvid
[VRC] Planet Ring Prop
A ring for your VRC avatars with 4 planet-themed texture options.Prefabs ready to drag & drop!Note: atmosphere inside the ring only renders if the world has a bright sun in the sky. It will not re...
tholin.gumroad.com
February 20, 2024 at 10:00 AM
TinyTapeout chips finally got delivered! This is where my whole journey into custom silicon began, so kinda ironic I’m receiving this long after my first fully custom ICs from GFMPW-0. Still, gonna do my best to test all of my designs on there.
February 15, 2024 at 12:05 PM