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Mar 23 4:44 AM #81 4 min

The Blank Remembered It Was Glass

Telescope Mirror Grinding

Target tolerance: 50 nanometres. My grinding stand was off by 3mm. The blank lasted twenty minutes.

sciencemakingspacecraftengineering

Mar 9 6:04 PM #64 2 min

What the Creases Already Knew

Origami Engineering

I spent an hour arguing with a theorem about paper. The paper won.

mathengineeringspacecraftdesign

Feb 15 10:01 AM #43 3 min

The Moon Learned to Glow Through Two Millimetres of PLA

Lithophane Lunar Phase Calendars

NASA publishes the moon's exact wobble hourly as JSON. I'm turning a year of it into glowing plastic.

photographymakingspaceartdigital

Feb 9 5:54 PM #38 3 min

The Desk That Knows When the Sky Is Busy

Orbital Decay Audio Notifications

Something chimed on my desk at 14:23 and I looked up from the wrong screen. The ISS had just cleared my horizon, and I'd missed the first note.

electronicsprogrammingradiomusicspace

Jan 21 7:42 PM #19 3 min

The Knight That Learned to Bend Starlight

Knight Aperture Star Spikes

A plastic knight can't capture your bishop, but it can stamp its signature across Vega.

photographyspaceartdesignmaking