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  • A (medium-length) primer on energy, greenhouse gas, intermittency, and nuclear
  • The Total Solar Eclipse Experience in the Malheur National Forest
  • Making a cheap and simple barn-door star tracker with software tangent correction for astrophotography
  • The modern era passed through a cathode ray tube
  • Home automation
  • Sending and receiving Morse code with a laser and a Raspberry Pi
  • The dramatic end of my ’97 Jeep
  • hot tub controller
  • neighborcasting
  • The Infopanel: a simple MQTT-connected display system for weather, traffic, pictures, animations…anything!
  • Host your own contacts and calendars and share them across devices

Recent Posts

  • Never use Angi (aka Angie’s List aka Home Advisor): they damaged my home and refused to pay
  • Replacing the keyboard on my 2020 System76 Lemur Pro lemp9 laptop
  • A casual failed attempt to find Autunite in Marten Creek
  • Seattle’s I-5 colonnade off-leash dog park in Eastlake
  • Do NOT(!) rent a van from Indie Campers

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Sir William Crookes

Sir William Crookes, an early pioneer of the Crookes Tube, later called a cathode ray tube

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