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Stephanie Nicol

Cyberdeck Builder • Curious Human

Where mycelium networks meet circuit boards.
Where moss grows between the keys.

Enter the Grove
Glowing firefly forest at night, nature and light
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Hello, I'm Stephanie

I'm a mystic and a tech nerd — keyboard-soldering, recipe-hoarding, and living somewhere between a forest and a terminal window. I find beauty in the way candlelight flickers over a circuit board and the way a good mechanical switch sounds at 2am.

I believe nature and technology are not opposites — they're the same pattern at different scales. Fungi communicate like networks. Rivers route like algorithms. Cells fire like circuits.

This site is my little corner of the internet — equal parts field journal, workshop log, and hyperfixation archive. Welcome.

Cyberpunk DIY Thrifter Gamer Cook
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What I'm Building

Active projects, experiments, and works-in-progress. Always evolving.

Green glowing keyboard for cyberdeck build
ACTIVE BUILD
// FLAGSHIP PROJECT

The Solar Deck

A custom cyberdeck built around a Raspberry Pi 4 in a hand-modified enclosure themed around solar energy. The display is an HD touchscreen, and the whole build is powered by a solar panel — clean, off-grid computing with a sun-drenched aesthetic.

CoreRaspberry Pi 4 (4GB)
InputCustom ortholinear KB
DisplayHD Touchscreen
OSRaspberry Pi OS (custom)
PowerSolar Panel
ThemeSolar Deck
Raspberry Pi Custom Hardware Solarpunk In Progress
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Field Biology Log App

A local-first app for logging field observations, specimens, and habitat notes. Built to run offline on the cyberdeck in the field. Currently logging isopod breeding in my terrarium — tracking moult cycles, population growth, and colony behaviour.

Python SQLite Field Work
My terrarium build — bioactive vivarium
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Terrarium Build v2

A bioactive vivarium housing a temperate moss and fern ecosystem. Experimenting with automated misting, LED grow schedules, and temperature logging via Pi Zero.

Bioactive Pi Zero Plants
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My Clothing Vibes

My clothing vibes go from worn-out mother straight to looking fresh in blacks and whites — clean, minimal, and a little bit sharp. But occasionally I go full forest witch and I have zero regrets. I love my capsule wardrobe.

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Current Vibe

Cottagecore meets darktech — linen, cargo, and canvas

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Favourite Finds

Ponchos and utility bags are my staples. I also weave scarves into my plaited hair — a rare art these days that I love keeping alive.

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DIY Projects

Embroidery, iron-on patches, and hand-distressed denim

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Shopping Philosophy

Blacks, whites, and the occasional earthy green when the forest witch takes over. Small, intentional, and deeply loved. Thrift first, slow fashion always.

// Update this section with your actual style notes, recent thrift hauls, or outfit inspo.

Stephanie — personal style portrait
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From the Kitchen

Forager-friendly, experimental, and mostly edible. I cook heavily with fresh herbs and medicinal mushrooms, and I make magical butter, space cake, jellies, and magic organic edibles. These are the recipes I return to.

Fresh herbs on a wooden cutting board
ForagedVegetarian

Herb & Nettle Soup

A simple, earthy soup using foraged nettles, garden herbs, and a good stock. Warming, green, and deeply satisfying. Edit this with your actual recipe.

Prep: 15 min Cook: 25 min Serves: 4
BakingCozy

Rosemary Honey Bread

No-knead overnight bread with rosemary and a honey wash. Crusty outside, soft inside, smells like a forest bakery. Replace with your own recipe.

Prep: 10 min Rest: 12 hrs Serves: 6
DrinksSeasonal

Elderflower Lemonade

Homemade elderflower cordial diluted with sparkling water and fresh lemon. Floral, bright, and perfect for warm weather. Add your own twist here.

Prep: 20 min Chill: 1 hr Makes: 1L
QuickSavory

Miso Mushroom Ramen

Rich miso broth, wild mushrooms, soft-boiled egg, and whatever greens are around. Deeply umami, deeply comforting. Add your go-to recipe here.

Prep: 10 min Cook: 20 min Serves: 2
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Currently Playing

Cosy, life-sim, and adventure games. I've clocked them all — and I'd do it again.

Retro NES game cartridges — vintage gaming nostalgia
SWITCH / PC

Pokopia

Completely clocked it. A cosy creature-collecting world I could live in forever — the kind of game that makes you forget what time it is.

★★★★★
3DS

Tomodachi Life

Clocked it. My little Miis living their bizarre, chaotic lives on an island. Unhinged in the best possible way — absolutely essential.

★★★★★
SWITCH

Animal Crossing

Clocked it. Island life, bug catching, museum filling, and making my villagers' lives as chaotic as possible. A forever game.

★★★★★
PC / SWITCH

Stardew Valley

Clocked it. Farming, foraging, fishing, and falling in love with pixel villagers. The perfect game to play while something is cooking on the stove.

★★★★★
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Current Hyperfixations

Things I cannot stop thinking about. Rotating cast. Chaotic good. Very normal.

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The Solar Deck

My ongoing cyberdeck build powered by a solar panel — off-grid, sun-drenched computing in a hand-modified enclosure. Every tweak and upgrade feels like witchcraft and engineering at the same time.

Intensity:
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Mechanical Keyboards

Switches, layouts, lubing, stabilizers, sound profiles. I have opinions about keycap legends now. This was the cyberdeck rabbit hole that never ended. Send help.

Intensity:
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Growing Medicinal Mushrooms

Lion's mane for the brain, reishi for the soul, oysters for the table. I'm learning to grow my own medicinal mushrooms at home and it is absolutely as magical as it sounds.

Intensity:
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Solarpunk Aesthetics

The visual language of a future where technology and nature coexist peacefully. Living walls, wind catchers, community gardens, and open-source everything. This is the vibe I want to live in.

Intensity:
05

Decorating My Girl Cave

Turning my personal space into something that actually reflects me — dark, cosy, witchy, and wired. Fairy lights, crystals, circuit boards, and dried herbs. The vibe is coming together slowly and I love every step.

Intensity:
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Diary Writing Experiment

I started keeping a proper handwritten diary and it's changing something in me. Stream of consciousness, no editing, no audience — just me, a pen, and whatever needs to come out that day.

Intensity:
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Breathwork

Discovering what happens when you actually control your breath intentionally. It's one of those things that sounds simple until you're doing it and realising your nervous system has been waiting for this your whole life.

Intensity:
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Shadow Work

Doing the inner work to cure the malaise. Sitting with the uncomfortable parts, integrating them, and slowly becoming someone who isn't running from herself. It's hard and it's worth it.

Intensity:
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Say Hello

Whether you want to talk cyberdecks, biology, recipes, or just vibe — reach out.