Torqued to spec AND properly aligned.
50 years ago, we had Ranger Rick magazines at my house.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_Rick
rangerrick.fandom.com/wiki/…/gallery
Thank you for the moment of nostalgia.
I don’t know if that is the best goal.
I've also realized that I might be old.
The Whale Probe was the designation for an immense probe of unknown origin which visited Earth in 2286. It was given this designation due to the fact that it apparently came to Earth in order to contact members of the humpback whale species. Dwarfing the Miranda-class Federation starship USS Saratoga and even the Spacedock One, the Whale Probe was a featureless black cylinder, and carried a small deployable sphere, normally stowed internally, at the front. This sphere was physically detached...
My circa 2016 DIY attempt at an equivalent of TrackIR used a piece of floppy disk media as IR filter for a PS3eye camera (I used 850nm LEDs tho) .
More current howto linked to filters at aliexpress, and they have all sorts of ir filters in 940nm, for things that look like the super cheap IR backup cameras. Maybe a dirt cheap backup camera housing+filter could work…
Also, that old wiimote might have new purpose. Look at step 7 here.
The archive suggests that you should have known this by 2008.
“Lincoln Imp spoon” gets some results.
I would like to acquire my own goblin shovel.