Notes concerning “Pricing”
Air conditioning
2007 to 2009 (21 minutes)
A comparison of prices for different forms of energy
2007 to 2009 (2 minutes)
A filesystem design sketch modeled on Lucene
2007 to 2009 (43 minutes)
Polycaprolactone
2007 to 2009 (3 minutes)
Studies in Simplicity
2007 to 2009 (5 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)
Food storage
2013-05-11 (updated 2013-05-17) (54 minutes)
Illuminating yourself with 10 kilolux of LEDs to combat seasonal affective disorder
2013-05-17 (5 minutes)
Only a constant factor worse
2013-05-17 (16 minutes)
Review notes for Chris Anderson’s “Makers”
2013-05-17 (5 minutes)
Trellis-coded buttons to run a whole keyboard off two microcontroller pins
2013-05-17 (updated 2019-06-13) (30 minutes)
Some personal notes from February 2014
2014-02-13 (8 minutes)
Jim Weirich’s death and my daily life
2014-04-24 (5 minutes)
What would a basic income guarantee for Argentina cost?
2014-04-24 (7 minutes)
The future of the human energy market (2014)
2014-04-24 (19 minutes)
Building a resilient network out of litter
2014-04-24 (4 minutes)
How to use “correct horse battery staple” as an encryption key, including a recommended 4096-word list
2014-04-24 (44 minutes)
Comparison of the PCO-1810 and PCO-1881 plastic bottlecap standards
2014-05-25 (updated 2016-07-27) (2 minutes)
Waterproofing
2015-09-03 (4 minutes)
A hand-powered computer?
2015-09-03 (updated 2017-07-19) (11 minutes)
Likely-feasible non-flux-deposition powder-bed 3-D printing processes
2015-09-11 (updated 2019-12-20) (49 minutes)
Simplifying computing systems by having fewer kinds of graphics
2015-10-13 (10 minutes)
Electrodeposition 3d printing
2016-02-19 (4 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)
Wikipedia people
2016-06-01 (6 minutes)
Transmission line computer
2016-07-11 (updated 2019-07-23) (7 minutes)
How can we build an efficient microcontroller-based amplifier?
2016-07-13 (5 minutes)
Jellybean ICs 2016
2016-07-14 (updated 2019-05-05) (17 minutes)
Transmission line diode computation
2016-07-30 (3 minutes)
Calculations about desalination in Israel
2016-08-11 (3 minutes)
Argentine oscilloscope pricing 2016
2016-08-16 (4 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)
Pulley generator
2016-09-05 (2 minutes)
Rosetta opacity hologram
2016-09-05 (8 minutes)
The internet is probably not going to collapse for economic reasons
2016-09-06 (9 minutes)
Subterranean glazing
2016-09-06 (25 minutes)
Low-power microcontrollers for a low-power computer
2016-09-06 (updated 2018-10-28) (18 minutes)
Solar-powered portable computers
2016-09-17 (updated 2018-10-28) (15 minutes)
License-free femtowatt UHF radio transceiver ICs under a μJ per bit
2016-09-19 (5 minutes)
Usability of scientific calculators
2016-09-29 (19 minutes)
My attempt to learn about jellybean electronic components
2017-02-08 (updated 2019-09-29) (22 minutes)
Lab power supply
2017-02-21 (updated 2018-06-18) (17 minutes)
3-D printing by flux deposition
2017-02-24 (updated 2019-07-27) (21 minutes)
Vibratory powder delivery
2017-02-25 (2 minutes)
An electric furnace the size of a sake cup
2017-02-25 (updated 2017-03-02) (10 minutes)
Burst computation
2017-03-20 (13 minutes)
The continuous-web press and the continuous press of the World-Wide Web
2017-03-20 (6 minutes)
Minimum hardware and software to get a flexible notetaking device running
2017-04-28 (4 minutes)
Illumination cost
2017-05-31 (3 minutes)
How cheap can laser-cut boxes be?
2017-06-01 (2 minutes)
A minimal-cost diet with adequate nutrition in Argentina in 2017 is US$0.67 per day
2017-06-15 (4 minutes)
CCD oscilloscope
2017-06-20 (updated 2017-07-04) (7 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)
Solar computer 2
2017-07-19 (3 minutes)
Zombie contingency plan
2017-07-19 (9 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)
Salt slush refrigeration
2017-08-22 (updated 2019-10-08) (12 minutes)
Absurd household materials
2018-04-26 (updated 2018-05-18) (8 minutes)
Bench trash power supply
2018-04-27 (9 minutes)
Earring computer
2018-04-27 (1 minute)
Urban autarkic network
2018-04-27 (1 minute)
Exploration of using RF current sources instead of ELF voltage sources for mains power
2018-04-30 (updated 2018-07-05) (29 minutes)
Resistor assortment
2018-06-17 (4 minutes)
Transistors vs. Microcontrollers
2018-06-17 (updated 2018-07-05) (8 minutes)
Electric hammer
2018-07-02 (updated 2018-07-05) (14 minutes)
Capacitors: some notes on tradeoffs
2018-07-05 (5 minutes)
Microlens vibrating lightfield
2018-07-14 (updated 2018-07-15) (11 minutes)
Notes on circuitry for the Nutra seed activator
2018-08-16 (20 minutes)
The details of the GPU in this laptop
2018-10-29 (2 minutes)
The uses of introspection, reflection, and personal supercomputers in software testing
2019-02-04 (updated 2019-03-11) (12 minutes)
Balcony battery
2019-02-11 (updated 2019-12-06) (6 minutes)
Fractal palettes
2019-04-02 (7 minutes)
Notes on SIP VoIP in 2019
2019-06-07 (updated 2019-06-28) (8 minutes)
How to get 6 volts out of a 7805, and why you shouldn’t
2019-06-08 (updated 2019-06-10) (8 minutes)
Energy storage efficiency
2019-07-30 (4 minutes)
the oversold-as-low-power Renesas RL78 microcontroller line
2019-08-27 (10 minutes)
Photodiode camera
2019-09-04 (16 minutes)
Can artificially-lit vertical farming compete with greenhouses?
2019-09-08 (12 minutes)
The Suburbean: a minimally-mobile dwelling machine with months of autonomy
2019-11-24 (updated 2019-12-03) (32 minutes)
Extending Heckballs
2019-11-26 (6 minutes)
Argentine electric bill
2019-12-18 (3 minutes)
Sulfuric acid dehydration printing
2019-12-18 (updated 2019-12-19) (3 minutes)