Porcelain, Tungsten, and other yaks
Yak shaving : Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem. —Wiktionary I didn’t […]
Porcelain HV switch
After tragically melting my previous HV switch, and given that a 15kV multi-ampere switch isn’t exactly something you find at Radio Shack, I’ve had to […]
The rheology and thixotrophy of slip slurries
Here’s a great article on the importance of deflocculants and specific gravity in maintaining your slip suspensions. A more modest title might be, “How to […]
MakerSlide Kickstarter
Barton Dring (of Buildlog DIY laser cutter fame) is holding a Kickstarter for an Open Source linear bearing system. This should greatly reduce the prototyping time […]