Next in my #introduction posts featuring Stuff I’ve Made:

This is the Chernobyl Dice: a Cold War era themed quantum RNG. It uses the clicks of a Geiger counter nestled next to an array of uranium glass marbles to generate random bits displayed on Nixie tubes.

This is a *disgustingly fair* dice and I’ve run the tests to prove it, lol

Hackaday article:
https://hackaday.com/2020/01/02/roll-the-bones-chernobyl-style/

#intrductions #arduino #maker #stem #ttrpg #nuclear #physics

‘Nother #introduction poast! As you can probably tell I’m a bit of a hardware hacker, and (extremely) amateur electrical engineer

During the long summer of 2020 one of my projects was to build a custom layout mechanical keyboard completely from scratch. I did the PCB layout, designed the case, and wrote the firmware. It doesn’t have a name but the working project title was “BattleChunk,” which I might keep haha.

#introductions #maker #keyboards #mechanicalkeyboards #kicad #arduino

Wow lots of new followers from these #introduction posts! Thanks for joining me!

The next project I’d like to discuss is more recent and ongoing. It’s also, to put it mildly, my most ambitious—an solar powered off-grid radio telescope capable of doing meaningful SETI work.

That’s right, I’ll be looking for aliens in my front yard!

(Attached is a plot of the Milky Way hydrogen spectrum that it can see)

#introductions #maker #astrodon #astronomy #radio #RaspberryPi #sdr

okay final #introduction post!

these days when I’m not building a gadget or playing with a radio, i tend to be taking photos. either with a telescope or a long lens. so expect this account to be chock full of birds and galaxies and planets and shit!

here are some photos from 2022 that I’m proud of

#introductions #space #BirdWatching #photography #wildlife #birds #astrophotography #astronomy #astrodon