Archives

Pages marked with a star (⭐) are ones that I think are particularly intresting.

This list excludes pictures of space.

2026:

  1. You have been mislead about lightbulbs
  2. Regressive JPEGs:
  3. Making cooled clothing:
  4. The Tadpole galaxy:
  5. Glassblowing #3: A better thermionic diode
  6. Glassblowing #2: Making a tungsten lamp and (bad) vacuum diode
  7. Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes.
  8. Please don't mess with links:
  9. Notes on optimizing battery life:
  10. Search engine results are truly terrible
  11. Building a clock from salvaged Vacuum Fluorescent Displays
  12. Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller.
  13. 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
  14. Taking down my site on purpose:
  15. Loading... [13 kB]
  16. My ramblings are available over gopher
  17. GopherTree
  18. Life TV: Video with 2 bits to spare
  19. The web in 1000 lines of C
  20. Remove annoying banners
  21. Why does C have the best file API?
  22. Be careful with LLM "Agents"
  23. Inside an alpha-beta scintillator:
  24. Notes on blog future-proofing
  25. Writing my own static site generator
  26. How to write your own website (⭐)
  27. You should start a blog

2025:

  1. What an unprocessed photo looks like:
  2. Stabilizing dusty rocks:
  3. Uranium from the Colorado Plateau:
  4. A sea of sparks: Seeing radioactivity (⭐)
  5. You already have a git server:
  6. Uranium from Butte, MT:
  7. Please don't give Reflect Orbital money:
  8. Modifying a Geiger counter for rock collecting:
  9. No adblocker detected
  10. Optimized cyanotypes:
  11. Let's take a photo: (⭐)
  12. Trap bots on your server:
  13. You should feed the bots:
  14. You can make up HTML tags:
  15. Your TV can see through walls: (⭐)
  16. Don't use external CSS:
  17. Why you can't color calibrate (deep) space photos:
  18. Dirt to airplanes: Making aluminium (⭐)
  19. A Linux "driver" for the MDX-540 CNC mill:
  20. Building a metal detector
  21. Perhaps give oversampling a try:
  22. Testing GraXpert's image denoiser:
  23. Making glow-in-the-dark Strontium Aluminate: (⭐)

2024:

  1. The bucket brigade device: An analog shift register
  2. Building a fluxgate magnetometer:
  3. Fixing the CH341A/B based flash reader:
  4. Making a rickroll laser: (⭐)
  5. Weekend fun: Nonlinear sound propagation
  6. Getting gigahertz from a 1N4148
  7. Inside a 1 dollar radar motion sensor:
  8. Afternoon fun: Observing X-ray fluorescence
  9. Making the simplest radiation detector:
  10. Building a bolometer:
  11. The physics of flight:
  12. RFM69HCW Radio Notes:
  13. Using PIN photodiodes for X-ray photon counting:
  14. Counting with neon
  15. The principle of error correction:

2023:

  1. The fast fourier transform:
  2. Testing PCB ground plane myths:
  3. Slowing down signals with sampling:
  4. Magnetic logic gates:
  5. Modulating signals with magnets:
  6. Simple wireless power:
  7. Writing a CPU renderer [3]:
  8. Writing a CPU renderer [2]:
  9. Writing a CPU Renderer [1]:
  10. Making a simple physics engine:
  11. How not to delete a file:
  12. Using a neon bulb as a light sensor:
  13. Viewing NFC communication:
  14. Adding outlines in Blender:
  15. Improved micro FM transmitters
  16. Fun with tiny FM transmitters:

2022:

  1. Red fluorescence from chlorophyll:
  2. How to build a single transistor AM radio
  3. Super simple AVR AM transmitter
  4. AVR build system: