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Well done. Next project DIY IPL for those hair bears amongst us?
In general, experimenting at home with these kinds of light intensities is NOT a good idea. Way too much risk of accidental eye damage.
This is very impressive... The temptation to build my own now...
@y1n0 any chance that I can get in contact with you to help build my own?

I'm already up to several thousand in spend doing it the traditional way (which has been very helpful!) but it's not sustainable even on an upcoming big-tech salary.

thanks <3 hazel

Hell yeah. I feel like if the world ended there would be a group of trans woman with a wind powered experimental estrogen generator inside of a week.
I mean, it's just a fancy hydrocarbon, and in some form or another can be extracted from female mammal urine.

I imagine there's a way to genetically alter yeasts to make estrobeer while they're at it, with the side benefit that the alcohol would serve as a natural testosterone reducer for a double d whammy.

Can confirm, I’ve extracted estrogen from my own urine.
Knowing us it'd probably be in portland

Sidenote a fallout game in portland should totally feature this

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I have soooo many questions. Approximate hardware cost? Pain of needle? Pain of zap? How does the sensation of your machine compare to commerical applications? How long has it been since the first tests? Results from those tests? Is there some sensation that indicates having inserted to the proper depth? Is it an increase in resistance or an increase in pain? Have you used it anyhwere but the hand? Does the pain scale the same way everything else does (like the lip and chin hurt more than the arms?)

Full disclosure, I may or may not have caused some scarring having attempted to do this in a very rudimentary way with some 9volts when I thought that it was purely the heat from the electricity that we were after. This seems to be a vast improvement over the nightmare I came up with, even with the car battery as at least you've got voltage regulation.

>this board contains one or more chemicals known to the state of california to cause feminization :3 :3 :3 :3

You are a legend and an inspiration.

I get electrolysis (from a professional, not DIY, lol) and it does hurt a fair bit, but it's not intolerable for me. It's roughly the pain of tweezing a hair, only repeated a couple hundred times per session. I put on a podcast and just kind of get through it.

If this has been done appropriately and safely, it should be similar.

One thing I will mention, having watched the video, is that I think this goes about the same speed as what the pros do? It takes around 20 seconds for removal of the whole hair (about 10 seconds of current plus 10 seconds tweezing, inserting needle, etc.) in the video. My tech can usually remove around 200 hairs in an hour, which comes out to about the same (200 / 60 = 3.33 hairs per minute = around 18 seconds a hair).

…it's basically a medical device designed by an idiot…

That cracked me up!

Very cool! How can I order one?
Tindie is great for this type of stuff, if OP needs a platform. Though my experience is only as a buyer.

That said, if you have a 3D printer these days the process of ordering a board with full PCBA from PCBWay/JLCPCB/Aisler and printing the case yourself is pretty easy.

Excellent hack, lovely write up. Learned about Embassy, which I didn't know yet. Thank you!
I did not get all the transgender references in the comments but gemini found it without issues.

Nonetheless, great thing to have this. You can have a great default 'shave', can get rid of your ear hair, the hair on your toe nails.

I need this

Finally, directed energy weapons for trans people.
I'm a rather hairy man and I literally don't even want to imagine the pain of going through this hair-by-hair.

I also don't see the aesthetics behind it, but I guess that's the hetero guy speaking.

Is this something that M2F trans people typically do?

Is it really this expensive? OP mentions hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Typically not everywhere, but places with really coarse and dark hair like the face and chest are pretty common. Also, you need some done down there for some PIV vaginoplasty (though, some surgeons remove hair in other ways. in general a lot of mtf bottom surgery varies from surgeon to surgeon though)
I am equal parts terrified and amazed by this. Well done, fantastic.
Step 2, put the needle on a gantry (I suspect you'd need more like 5D CNC to enter the pore with the right angle) and seek and destroy hairs... As it is it saves money but not time nor skill...
This is so interesting, thanks for sharing!
One thing eludes me... We have thousands of hair follicles, how is that supposed to work in a finite amount of time?
Damn. This went from car battery style electrocution to custom PCB design unexpectedly quick.

Kudos, amazing design.

Very good work. I will try and build my own from your instructions when I can afford to. Thank you so much for making this open.