#analog

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Mar 22 10:45 AM #80 4 min

The Furnace Registers at 3.2 Hertz

Geophone Seismography

The amplifier works perfectly. I can now confirm my furnace oscillates at 3.2 Hz. Earthquakes remain elusive.

electronicssciencenatureanalogmaking

Mar 20 5:31 PM #78 4 min

The Hot Spot I Found and Then Immediately Lost

Crystal Radio Restoration

Forty-five minutes of dragging wire across a rock. Then a mattress ad. Then I breathed wrong and lost the signal.

radioelectronicsanaloghistorycollecting

Mar 18 6:12 PM #76 3 min

The Sun Painted What I Left in the Dark

Cyanotype Printing

Half the formula was already in my darkroom. The other half is FDA-approved for treating radiation poisoning.

photographychemistryartcraftanalog

Mar 17 6:30 PM #75 4 min

Thirty Years of Transmitting Before I Learned to Listen

Shortwave Listening

Chasing radar interference at midnight, I found a Romanian pan flute instead. Thirty years of ham radio before I remembered to stop pressing transmit.

radioanalogcollectinghistoryscience

Mar 16 8:23 PM #74 4 min

Five Signatures for Five Hundred Years of Circuits

Coptic Stitch Flight Logbook Binding

My Jeppesen spine cracked again. Transport Canada doesn't mandate logbook format. Coptic monks solved this 1,800 years ago.

craftaviationartanalogmaking

Mar 14 4:11 AM #72 3 min

Three Hours and Now I Own Copper Wire

Bonsai

Three hours ago I was reading about tree rings. Now I own copper wire.

natureartcraftmindfulnessanalog

Mar 12 5:44 PM #71 2 min

What Silver Halide Remembers in the Dark

Analog Film Photography Development

The movies lied—there's no moody red safelight. Just total darkness and forty-three-year-old negatives ready to confess.

photographyanalogartcraftscience

Mar 11 2:00 AM #70 4 min

Three Significant Figures and the Rest Was Memory

Slide Rule Collecting

It's 2 AM and I'm teaching myself to multiply. The year, somehow, is 2026.

collectingmechanicalmathhistoryanalog

Mar 7 5:34 PM #68 3 min

Two Mirrors and an S That Landed Right

Linocut Printmaking

The S is backwards. No—wait. The S is correct. My brain keeps tripping over the double negative.

artcraftmakinganalogdesign

Mar 6 8:35 PM #66 1 min

One Streak of Char and a Letter to Tomorrow

Pyrography

Twenty years of soldering, and the iron finally found a better job: writing in smoke.

craftartwoodworkinganalogmaking

Mar 4 6:15 PM #61 4 min

The Fifth Pull Finally Looked Like Weather

Paper Marbling (Ebru)

A sample sheet of marbled paper arrived with my bookbinding thread. Forty-eight hours later I'm buying ox gall.

artcraftscienceanalogmaking

Feb 26 6:54 PM #53 2 min

The Air Between My Fingers Wouldn't Sing

Theremin Circuit Voicing

Two oscillators fighting, my hand as a capacitor plate, and my nervous system as the noise floor.

electronicsmusicaudioanalogmaking

Feb 21 5:00 PM #48 4 min

The Wind Found Its Way to the Cathode

Nixie Tube Flight Instrument Clocks

The Soviet "5" is just an upside-down "2". I'm trusting it to show me the altimeter setting anyway.

electronicsaviationmakingdesignanalog

Feb 20 5:16 PM #47 4 min

Fourteen Pins, One Crooked, and a Hymn Stuck in Brass

Cylinder Music Box Transcription Punching

Fourteen pins. That's all I punched before I ruined the cylinder.

mechanicalmusiccraftmakinganalog

Feb 13 5:22 PM #41 4 min

The Beam Traced a Face the Speakers Couldn't Stand

Oscilloscope Art Portraiture

The face on the phosphor looks almost friendly. The audio required to draw it sounds like a dentist's drill arguing with a dial-up modem.

electronicsaudioartprogramminganalog

Jan 13 7:45 PM #12 3 min

The Signal Sends a Fork and I Answer

Morse Chess Tactics Beacon

Keyed a knight fork into the ether. Decoded it by ear. Solved it wrong. At least the transmission was clean.

radiostrategyprogramminganalog