Material Science, Microfabrication, Microscopy He/him. @breakingtaps@universeodon.com (Fedi) / @breakingtaps.com (Blue)
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I made a liquid metal ion thruster so you don't have to ☺️
(it was very difficult 😩)
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Hey friends! I made possibly the world's smallest animatronic eye?
Fun little engineering project, full of custom electromagnetic actuators! Small things are hard!
youtube.com/watch?v=GbcN0bPs…
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Crazy that we live in a time to watch a (presumably hostile) satellite interception from ground telescopes. COSMOS is within a few km of ICEYE here. 😬
Gorgeous footage though!
Short time-lapse of part of this morning’s first pass of ICEYE-X36 (59103) and COSMOS 2612 (68762) over South America under partly cloudy skies.
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when you need to lock tf in and finish editing but have had too much caffeine for the day
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Ads rates vary hugely across niches. I don't know anything about trading cards, but I assume videos monetize well
In contrast, science/engineering can be quite low. I have 580k subs. This video is 20min long, 2.5m views. $6k revenue over two years
Not all channels make bank 😐
This is not specifically about jaiden but YouTube pays way more than most YouTubers would want you to know. I have like 12k subs and the revenue covers my rent/food etc. this is not a brag post, please never feel compelled to give money to YouTubers outside the ad revenue.
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Alright I think this revision actually has a chance of working.
Limited angle torque motors ftw!
Now to add a hall sensor and repeat the whole mess for the second coil/axis.
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That annual intrusive thought to DIY a linear motor (or voice coil!) micromachining CNC 🙈
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This is neat. Electrostatic so needs high voltage (2-3kV) and not very strong. But simple, flexible and can probably be scaled down more which would benefit the physics
Looks more practical than other electrostatic motors I've seen.
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hate to say it folks but the runners might be right 🥴
Been training for two months, first race under my belt. Not an amazing time but I'm hooked!
I've really noticed improved mood, clarity, health since starting. Those runners weren't lying! Such a tragic revelation 🫠
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A modern "transputer" style machine built from rp2350's seems like it could be fun!
4x4 mesh, PIO for neighbor links (or maybe a small fpga switch). Message passing, distributed sdram and ownership tags
Could be a fun little machine! Surprising amount of horsepower too
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Caps were backwards, oops. Easy enough fix.
But then discovered the chip's mezzanine connector was mirrored. Sigh. Time to spin an interposer I guess
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I'd never heard of Transport Triggered Architecture (TTA) CPUs before--kinda cool--and @BreakingTaps managed to design and tapeout an actual (mostly?) working chip. A great intro to the topic and the architecture
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I made a microprocessor and want to tell you all about it!
Video covers at a high level HDL and programming, synthesis/layout and bringup
It was a lot of work, but really fun! 10/10, would recommend everyone tape out some custom silicon 😊
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