All components arrived Amazon Prime. $157.98. Two-day delivery. No background checks.
Three weeks following free YouTube tutorials. Four jigsaw blades deploy in sequence, 500ms intervals—same timing as military R9X systems because physics imposes identical constraints. Ukraine proves this operationally—what I built as sculpture, they deploy as weapons.
I can't unknow how accessible this infrastructure is now.
THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVERSION
Week one: fan housing salvaged from basement, traffic cone from street waste. Arduino Uno, four micro-servos, voltage regulator—all Amazon Prime. Same logistics Ukraine uses for drone modification programs.
Week two: followed Arduino tutorials teaching millions. digitalWrite(LED, HIGH); delay(500); becomes servo.write(90); delay(500); with syntax unchanged. Whether building toy robots or blade deployment mechanisms, the code remains neutral. The educational infrastructure operates identically.
Week three: functional proof complete. Every successful test brought simultaneous pride in technical execution and horror at what I'd proven accessible.
This measures what Ukraine operations already demonstrate: consumer supply chains + STEM education + distributed manufacturing = weapons literacy at hobbyist scale. The barrier between maker culture and weapons capability has collapsed for those who recognize the pattern. Not speculative futures—present documented conditions.
The infrastructure I use professionally operates identically to what enables this pattern. Same supply chains. Same educational resources. Same problem-solving frameworks. I already possess the literacy this work measures.
"The complicity isn't symbolic—it's operational. Amazon isn't metaphorically connected to violence; it's literally the logistics pipeline. STEM education isn't abstractly implicated; it's concretely teaching transferable military skills through neutral framing."
CONVERGENT ENGINEERING
August 2025: Joe Rogan casually distributing R9X specifications to 11+ million subscribers. Ukraine operational footage. Iran 3D-printing reports. The convergence was unavoidable.
Started building without clear purpose beyond proving accessibility. Materials insisted on assembly.
Testing revealed the psychological cost: that knowledge is permanent. Millions are gaining identical literacy through education framed as neutral skill development. The linguistic sanitization disturbed most—"humane killing" describing brutal death by blade shredding. Violence becomes acceptable through technical framing.
The 500ms blade deployment interval wasn't copied from military specs. Consumer micro-servos draw 200mA at stall; four simultaneously would spike to 800mA, exceeding regulator capacity. Solution: stagger activation at 500ms intervals. Military R9X systems use identical timing—not because I copied specifications, but because electrical physics imposes identical constraints producing identical solutions.
This is how convergent engineering works: same problems generate same solutions regardless of builder intent.
Posted documentation to multiple Reddit communities August-September 2025. All removed within hours to days. Whether removals indicate institutional recognition of accessibility pattern, moderator liability concerns, or automated filtering remains uncertain. The functional mechanism and $157.98 cost stand as material proof regardless of institutional response.
Cutaway view showing salvaged fan housing, blade deployment servos. All electronics Amazon Prime—identical logistics Ukraine uses for drone modifications.
Complete apparatus: salvaged fan housing, disposed traffic cone, Amazon electronics. $157.98. Three weeks. Basic Arduino literacy. The barrier between maker culture and weapons capability has collapsed.
Four jigsaw blades deployed in X-pattern. 500ms sequential intervals
Front view with blade deployment mechanism. Arduino tutorials teaching LED patterns transfer directly to servo control—code structure remains neutral whether building toys or weapons systems
Materials: Salvaged fan housing, disposed traffic cone, Arduino Uno R3, four SG90 micro-servos, LM2596 voltage regulator, four 24cm jigsaw blades
Cost: $157.98 AUD (all components Amazon Prime)
Build Timeline: Three weeks part-time
Skill Requirement: Basic Arduino literacy (2-4 online tutorials)
Blade Deployment: Sequential activation at 500ms intervals via Arduino-controlled servos
Critical Engineering: 500ms stagger prevents voltage regulator overload (200mA per servo × 4 = 800mA spike). Military R9X systems use identical timing—convergent solutions from identical electrical constraints, not copied specifications.
Code Structure: Arduino tutorials teaching LED blink patterns transfer directly to servo control. digitalWrite(LED, HIGH); delay(500); becomes servo.write(90); delay(500); without modification. Educational infrastructure operates identically whether building classroom demonstrations or blade deployment mechanisms.
Status: Functional blade deployment mechanism. Operational proof complete. Reddit documentation removed from multiple communities August-September 2025.
Context in Series
Third piece (#3 of 12), deepening Complicity examination. Following Ghost News Telegraph's recognition of internal fragmentation, documents external infrastructure complicity: maker possesses literacy measured, built proof using identical systems critiqued.
$157.98 and three weeks prove accessibility pattern Ukraine operations already demonstrate. Recognition permanent: cannot unknow how infrastructure operates now. Amazon logistics, YouTube tutorials, Arduino education—cheerful neutral infrastructure accidentally enabling weapons literacy at garage scale.
Sets up Ghetto Blaster Mouse's examination of survival strategies within corrupted conditions: if infrastructure is complicit, if maker is complicit, if continuation requires using corrupted tools—what the fuck else is there?