Welcome to Spectral Circuit! As Pintober draws near, I'd like to acquaint you with the latest glitchy bot boards set to join the Short Circuit lineup. Today we will take a look at our first three pins --
Servos whirring at the field's edge, just beyond the tree line
Backtick is the ambassador unit of Unit Line: Blood; funding them and their related stickers will be the initial goal for the campaign! Their corresponding robot design is in the works, and will be revealed soon.
Scraping and pecking in the dark, on the shoulder of a lonely highway
Zerofill is flying close at their heels, adding to the ever-growing flock of bird-based bot boards in the Circuit 'verse.
The eagle eyed among you may have already noticed a slight shift in technique: while the Blood Line pins do feature the same opaque hard enamel "solder masks" (the red pantones) and clear soft enamel "components" (the black pantones), they also include multiple layers of metal for added depth.
The face, feet, and line art on the back wing of Zerofill are examples of what's called "second metal" - metal that is still somewhat raised, but shorter in depth than the majority of the enclosing lines. Then the base of the back wing itself will have the same fully recessed, sandblasted appearance as the areas beneath the clear fills, but bare. Backtick and Zerofill have already been sent off to sampling, so for those unfamiliar I'm hoping to show you exactly how that looks by early on in Pintober's run!
Elongating shadows in the shifting light
The Sun to Backtick's Moon, this Scarab Bot Board is no ordinary bug in the code: the imagery of their pose has been based on the ancient Egyptian depiction of scarabs rolling our day star up into the sky. Every Short Circuit board is some flavor of pun or another, and their potential names are no exception--
Boot: Sunrise as "booting up" the day. Load: Sunrise as "loading" a new day. Boolean: The true/false dichotomy of day/night. Runtime: The mental image of the little guy running along, dutifully pushing the sun.
Vote for your favorite via the attached poll, and whichever name prevails shall become theirs forever more.
Thank you as ever for being here, I appreciate your support immensely. More bot boards will be introduced as the week progresses!
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