Notes concerning “Contrivances”
Optimized finger joints
02020-05-16 (4 minutes)
Solar furnace CPC
02020-05-16 (12 minutes)
Slide rule addition
02020-06-22 (3 minutes)
Trying to drive a speaker with a buck converter
02020-06-29 (4 minutes)
Retro teletext
02020-07-18 (updated 02020-07-23) (18 minutes)
Machine teeth
02020-08-02 (updated 02020-12-31) (8 minutes)
Inductively-coupled plasma torches
02020-09-10 (5 minutes)
Oxygen generator rocket
02020-09-10 (1 minute)
The programmable world
02020-09-10 (0 minutes)
Spark gap logic
02020-09-20 (updated 02020-12-16) (25 minutes)
Aluminum-air batteries
02020-09-23 (4 minutes)
Modern material processing
02020-09-24 (updated 02020-09-26) (8 minutes)
Level shifter
02020-10-08 (updated 02020-10-10) (9 minutes)
A seamless CMG-driven walker
02020-10-11 (updated 02020-10-12) (6 minutes)
Rigid glider
02020-10-12 (1 minute)
VGA oscilloscope?
02020-10-13 (5 minutes)
Wire machines
02020-10-13 (updated 02020-12-31) (12 minutes)
Thermistors, resistance temperature detectors, and other thermal sensors
02020-10-14 (updated 02020-11-06) (12 minutes)
Atkinson differential blower
02020-10-14 (updated 02020-12-31) (10 minutes)
Oscillating flexion
02020-10-15 (updated 02020-10-16) (11 minutes)
Minimal cost computer
02020-10-23 (updated 02020-12-01) (12 minutes)
Abbe-limited DRO
02020-10-24 (updated 02020-12-31) (11 minutes)
Desiccant climate control
02020-10-27 (updated 02020-11-24) (31 minutes)
Pit firing
02020-11-06 (3 minutes)
Swashplate screwdriver
02020-11-06 (1 minute)
Thermal expansion speaker
02020-11-06 (1 minute)
Copper segelín
02020-11-06 (updated 02020-11-08) (19 minutes)
Alien screws
02020-11-06 (updated 02020-11-11) (4 minutes)
Cutting steel with steam
02020-11-11 (1 minute)
Improvised humidity sensors with PET dielectric spectroscopy
02020-11-11 (3 minutes)
Adiabatic separation
02020-11-12 (updated 02020-11-14) (14 minutes)
The rep-2 cuboid
02020-11-13 (5 minutes)
Capacitor meter
02020-11-16 (updated 02020-12-03) (26 minutes)
Oscilloscope superresolution via compressed sensing?
02020-11-17 (1 minute)
Relay buzzer
02020-11-23 (2 minutes)
Lava time capsule
02020-11-24 (8 minutes)
Lenticular air bearing
02020-11-24 (2 minutes)
A field-programmable RTL array: a more efficient alternative to FPGAs?
02020-11-26 (updated 02020-11-27) (11 minutes)
A reverse-biased diode thermometer
02020-11-27 (9 minutes)
My very first opamp
02020-11-27 (4 minutes)
Majority logic with DRAM sense amps
02020-12-09 (30 minutes)
Yablochkov arc cutter
02020-12-09 (1 minute)
Light pen latency
02020-12-23 (updated 02020-12-28) (29 minutes)
Differential dividing plate
02020-12-31 (14 minutes)