Notes concerning “Materials”

• Air conditioning 2007 to 2009 (21 minutes)
• Polycaprolactone 2007 to 2009 (3 minutes)
• The economics of solar energy 2008 (27 minutes)
• Notes and calculations on building luxury underground arcologies for whoever wants them 2013-04-17 (updated 2019-08-27) (66 minutes)
• Improvising high-temperature refractory materials for pottery kilns 2013-05-17 (4 minutes)
• A resistive-capacitive trackpad made from garbage and three ADC microcontroller pins 2013-05-17 (updated 2013-05-20) (17 minutes)
• Holographic archival 2014-04-24 (10 minutes)
• Inflatable stool 2014-04-24 (6 minutes)
• An extremely simple electromechanical state machine 2014-04-24 (16 minutes)
• Archival transparencies 2014-06-05 (updated 2014-06-29) (7 minutes)
• A mechano-optical vector display for animation archival 2014-12-28 (updated 2015-09-03) (28 minutes)
• Simplified computing, down to the level of mining raw materials 2015-09-03 (22 minutes)
• Waterproofing 2015-09-03 (4 minutes)
• Tapered thread 2015-09-03 (updated 2019-06-10) (4 minutes)
• Likely-feasible non-flux-deposition powder-bed 3-D printing processes 2015-09-11 (updated 2019-12-20) (49 minutes)
• Hot wire saw 2015-12-28 (updated 2019-06-02) (10 minutes)
• Material merits 2016-05-08 (6 minutes)
• US$10M for a new, much better McMurdo Base, or less 2016-05-18 (updated 2016-05-19) (7 minutes)
• Spring energy density 2016-05-28 (updated 2016-06-06) (13 minutes)
• Phase-change heat reservoirs for household climate control 2016-06-14 (updated 2016-06-17) (13 minutes)
• Thermodynamic systems in housing 2016-06-28 (24 minutes)
• String cutting cardboard 2016-06-30 (5 minutes)
• Flux deposition for 3-D printing in glass and metals 2016-07-03 (15 minutes)
• How would you maximize the energy density of a capacitor? 2016-07-27 (5 minutes)
• Electroluminescent matrix 2016-07-27 (2 minutes)
• Vitruvius could have taken photographs 2016-07-30 (1 minute)
• Executable scholarship, or algorithmic scholarly communication 2016-08-11 (13 minutes)
• Solar dehumidifier 2016-08-11 (5 minutes)
• Hot oil cutter 2016-08-16 (updated 2016-08-17) (8 minutes)
• Heckballs: a laser-cuttable MDF set of building blocks 2016-08-17 (updated 2016-08-30) (24 minutes)
• Rosetta opacity hologram 2016-09-05 (8 minutes)
• Regenerator gas kiln 2016-09-05 (updated 2017-04-10) (9 minutes)
• Regenerative fuel air cutting 2016-09-06 (4 minutes)
• Sun cutter 2016-09-06 (9 minutes)
• Lithium fission energy 2016-09-06 (updated 2019-09-16) (6 minutes)
• House scrubber 2016-09-06 (updated 2019-11-25) (13 minutes)
• Filling hollow FDM things with other materials 2016-09-07 (5 minutes)
• Laser ablation of zinc or pewter for printed circuit boards 2016-09-19 (4 minutes)
• Cross current zone melting 2016-10-06 (1 minute)
• Freeze distillation at 1 Hz 2016-10-06 (5 minutes)
• 3-D printing glass with continuously varying refractive indices for optics without internal surfaces 2016-10-06 (3 minutes)
• Hot air ice shaping 2016-10-06 (4 minutes)
• Spark particulate sieve 2016-10-06 (updated 2016-10-11) (7 minutes)
• Recuperator heat storage 2016-11-01 (updated 2019-08-21) (4 minutes)
• A design sketch of an air conditioner powered by solar thermal power 2016-12-22 (updated 2017-01-04) (29 minutes)
• Clay fabrication objectives 2017-01-16 (updated 2017-01-17) (3 minutes)
• Millikiln 2017-01-17 (updated 2017-03-02) (4 minutes)
• 3-D printing by flux deposition 2017-02-24 (updated 2019-07-27) (21 minutes)
• An electric furnace the size of a sake cup 2017-02-25 (updated 2017-03-02) (10 minutes)
• Passive dehumidifier 2017-03-20 (14 minutes)
• Ice pants 2017-04-04 (updated 2019-01-22) (17 minutes)
• ¿Se puede armar un colector solar de agua caliente que anda en invierno acá en Buenos Aires? 2017-04-17 (2 minutes)
• Ideas to explore 2017-05-29 (updated 2019-09-15) (3 minutes)
• Fast sea salt evaporator 2017-06-01 (3 minutes)
• A quintuple-acting vacuum cascade to recycle heat for more efficient distillation and desalination 2017-06-21 (updated 2019-12-27) (3 minutes)
• Coolants 2017-07-04 (updated 2017-07-12) (11 minutes)
• Dyneema 2017-07-19 (2 minutes)
• Pipe dome 2017-07-19 (7 minutes)
• Copper plating furniture 2017-07-19 (updated 2017-09-01) (4 minutes)
• Approaches to 3-D printing in sandstone 2017-08-03 (5 minutes)
• Deep freeze 2017-08-22 (updated 2019-01-22) (7 minutes)
• Salt slush refrigeration 2017-08-22 (updated 2019-10-08) (12 minutes)
• Absurd household materials 2018-04-26 (updated 2018-05-18) (8 minutes)
• A brief note on autonomous cyclic fabrication systems from inorganic raw materials 2018-04-27 (1 minute)
• Data archival on gold leaf or Mylar with DVD-writer lasers or sparks 2018-04-27 (5 minutes)
• Laser cut next step 2018-04-27 (updated 2018-04-30) (7 minutes)
• Exploration of using RF current sources instead of ELF voltage sources for mains power 2018-04-30 (updated 2018-07-05) (29 minutes)
• Notes on a possible household air filter 2018-05-05 (updated 2018-05-15) (10 minutes)
• You can stuff a UHMWPE hammock in your wallet 2018-05-15 (updated 2018-10-28) (11 minutes)
• UHMWPE clothes could be lightweight and sturdy 2018-06-05 (3 minutes)
• Why is there so much anti-plastic sentiment? Visibility, Arcadian primitivism, conspicuous consumption, and profit. 2018-06-21 (7 minutes)
• Notes on circuitry for the Nutra seed activator 2018-08-16 (20 minutes)
• Caustics 2018-08-18 (updated 2019-11-08) (8 minutes)
• Electrolytic anodizing, with a small movable electrode 2018-10-28 (2 minutes)
• Household thermal stores 2018-12-02 (updated 2018-08-19) (27 minutes)
• Friction-cutting plastic 2019-02-25 (8 minutes)
• Ultralight tunnel personal rapid transit 2019-03-11 (15 minutes)
• Single-point incremental forming of aluminum foil 2019-03-11 (updated 2019-06-10) (14 minutes)
• Elastic metamaterials 2019-03-19 (17 minutes)
• Paper/foil relays 2019-04-02 (updated 2019-10-23) (13 minutes)
• Maximal-flexibility designs for printable building blocks 2019-04-20 (18 minutes)
• Plastic cutters 2019-04-20 (5 minutes)
• Plasma glazing 2019-04-24 (1 minute)
• Cold plasma oxidation 2019-05-01 (updated 2019-08-21) (7 minutes)
• Scrubber mask 2019-05-08 (5 minutes)
• A phase-change soldering iron 2019-05-08 (updated 2019-05-09) (14 minutes)
• Inductor thermocouple sensing 2019-06-01 (21 minutes)
• Induction kiln 2019-06-02 (19 minutes)
• Drone cutting 2019-06-11 (12 minutes)
• Foil origami robots 2019-06-13 (updated 2019-06-14) (10 minutes)
• Reducing nighttime bedroom CO₂ levels 2019-07-08 (updated 2019-07-09) (14 minutes)
• Measuring the moisture content of coffee and other things with dielectric spectroscopy 2019-07-16 (updated 2019-07-17) (28 minutes)
• Terrestrial lithium supplies provide adequate energy storage to reach Kardashev Type 1 2019-07-25 (6 minutes)
• Cardboard furniture 2019-08-01 (updated 2019-08-11) (15 minutes)
• Sandwich theory 2019-08-05 (updated 2019-08-29) (31 minutes)
• Needle binder injection printing 2019-08-05 (updated 2019-12-30) (12 minutes)
• Printed circuits on fired-clay ceramic 2019-08-13 (11 minutes)
• Gold leaf trusses 2019-08-31 (11 minutes)
• Methods of pumping ice-vest coolant silently 2019-09-28 (12 minutes)
• Expanded mineral beads 2019-10-01 (12 minutes)
• Bistable magnetic electromechanical display 2019-10-24 (16 minutes)
• Fabric optimization 2019-10-28 (updated 2019-10-29) (17 minutes)
• Hot lye granite cutting 2019-11-01 (2 minutes)
• Shaped hammer face giant pressure 2019-11-10 (21 minutes)
• Why you can't run a diesel engine on water and diesel fuel with electrolysis 2019-11-24 (2 minutes)
• The Suburbean: a minimally-mobile dwelling machine with months of autonomy 2019-11-24 (updated 2019-12-03) (32 minutes)
• Bootstrapping rope bridges and other tensile structures with UHMWPE-bearing drones 2019-11-25 (5 minutes)
• Extending Heckballs 2019-11-26 (6 minutes)
• Incremental roller comb forming 2019-11-27 (4 minutes)
• Berlinite gel 2019-12-14 (updated 2019-12-15) (10 minutes)
• Phase change unplugged oven 2019-12-15 (0 minutes)
• Sulfuric acid dehydration printing 2019-12-18 (updated 2019-12-19) (3 minutes)