Erik Contreras

One of my favorite parts of repairing tech: seeing the sped-up instant replay, like its a 1990's LEGO ad.

An amazing Day 1 at the 2024 Open Hardware Summit! ✨ Many thanks to @oshwassociation for creating a collaborative space full of amazing engineers, makers, and educators. I appreciate being able to share my work in repurposing obsolete tech on stage today! 👾

It's great seeing one of your first #opensource projects being remixed! ✨ Shoutout to Chris Borge on Youtube for making some rad updates to my original cassette tape model ^-^ youtube.com/watch?v=o0a3_S…

I'm excited to be presenting my research on tech-ownership and repair at the Open Hardware Summit in Montréal next month! Many thanks to @oshwassociation for organizing the event! ✨ 2024.oshwa.org/presenters/

Found gaming footage of me and the boys playing @CallofDuty Modern Warfare 2 (2009). Video was shot in 2010 using a 4th Gen iPod Nano. So much nostalgia ✨

All aboard the hype train! Tomorrow, Dec. 16, we’re hosting our first ever @Twitch livestream with streamers @niniyuuna and @synthionmusic – and some special guests from BART. We’ll be decorating cookies and talking all things transit. See you there: twitch.tv/sfbart

New apartment vibing ✨

Just found out today you can order Swedish fish from @McMasterCarr 🤯

My teeth got scanned today. The dentist was nice enough to give me the .stl file. Trying to figure what color to 3D print this atm.

I made a domino block from HDPE today. Feeling accomplished ^^

That feeling you get when your coworker is acting sus #amogus

I found my album for the summer <3 Fav song: Drink Pepsi m.youtube.com/watch?v=awmFbs… #pepsi

Soooo Satisfying ^^ #pachinko

I love you Portland 🖤

So I did a thing 💁‍♂️ This pachinko machine is really going to tie my apartment together ✨ Planning to document the restoration ^^

How I wrap gifts 🗿

My truck is finally drivable again!!!! (Had to replace a broken power steering pump >_<) So happy to see my dash light up again :3 #Chevrolet #Truck

⚡️𝖤𝖫𝖤𝖼𝖳𝖱𝖨𝖢 𝖬𝖤𝖳𝖤𝖱⚡️ Photo taken with my Sony Mavica (MVC-FD91) 💾

This inspires me to DIY a custom 7-segment displays m.youtube.com/watch?v=RTB5Xh…

I'm spending my Friday afternoon switching out the innards of my Casio F-91W with a programmable sensor board made by @josecastillo. I'm a little bit in love with this transparent jelly aesthetic 💎