Notes concerning “Independence”
Notes and calculations on building luxury underground arcologies for whoever wants them
2013-04-17 (updated 2013-05-17) (67 minutes)
Food storage
2013-05-11 (updated 2013-05-17) (57 minutes)
Critical defense mass
2013-05-17 (14 minutes)
Ghettobotics: making robots out of trash
2013-05-17 (42 minutes)
Ultraslow radio for resilient global communication
2013-05-17 (updated 2013-05-20) (26 minutes)
The Tinkerer’s Tricorder
2013-05-17 (updated 2014-04-24) (27 minutes)
Bike charger
2014-04-24 (2 minutes)
Offline datasets
2014-04-24 (15 minutes)
Keyboard-powered computers
2014-10-25 (updated 2018-10-28) (27 minutes)
A hand-powered computer?
2015-09-03 (updated 2017-07-19) (11 minutes)
The book written in itself
2016-06-12 (updated 2016-06-14) (18 minutes)
Thermodynamic systems in housing
2016-06-28 (24 minutes)
Solar dehumidifier
2016-08-11 (5 minutes)
Regenerative fuel air cutting
2016-09-06 (4 minutes)
House scrubber
2016-09-06 (updated 2018-05-05) (12 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 (4 minutes)
MiniOS
2016-12-28 (updated 2017-01-03) (6 minutes)
Lab power supply
2017-02-21 (updated 2018-06-18) (17 minutes)
Thredsnek: a tiny Python-flavored programming language
2017-03-20 (7 minutes)
Minimum hardware and software to get a flexible notetaking device running
2017-04-28 (4 minutes)
Ideas to explore
2017-05-29 (4 minutes)
Distributed computing environment
2017-07-19 (8 minutes)
The imbalance inherent in copyright systems
2017-07-19 (2 minutes)
Pipe dome
2017-07-19 (7 minutes)
Options for bootstrapping a compiler from a tiny compiler using Brainfuck
2017-07-19 (2 minutes)
Solar computer 2
2017-07-19 (3 minutes)
Energy storage in a personal water tower: pretty impractical
2017-07-19 (2 minutes)
Zombie contingency plan
2017-07-19 (9 minutes)
An RPN CPU instruction set doubling as user interface
2017-07-19 (updated 2019-07-10) (22 minutes)
What does a futuristic OS look like?
2017-08-18 (updated 2019-05-05) (6 minutes)
Deep freeze
2017-08-22 (updated 2019-01-22) (6 minutes)
Frustration
2018-04-27 (2 minutes)
Lisp 1.5 in a stack bytecode: can we get from machine code to Lisp in 45 lines of code?
2018-04-27 (4 minutes)
Some notes on FullPliant and Pliant
2018-04-27 (10 minutes)
Urban autarkic network
2018-04-27 (1 minute)
Barrel safety
2018-07-14 (3 minutes)
Text editor design for e-ink displays
2018-10-28 (23 minutes)
Bootstrapping instruction set
2018-11-06 (updated 2019-05-03) (20 minutes)
Atmospheric pressure harvesting phoenix egg
2018-11-23 (14 minutes)
Household thermal stores
2018-12-02 (27 minutes)
Gardening machines
2019-04-02 (updated 2019-04-24) (32 minutes)
Three-stack generic macro assembler (design sketch)
2019-04-30 (8 minutes)
Scrubber mask
2019-05-08 (5 minutes)
A phase-change soldering iron
2019-05-08 (updated 2019-05-09) (14 minutes)
Assembler bootstrapping
2019-07-18 (updated 2019-07-30) (16 minutes)
Techniques for, e.g., avoiding indexed-offset addressing on the 8080
2019-07-20 (updated 2019-07-24) (27 minutes)
Cardboard furniture
2019-08-01 (updated 2019-08-11) (15 minutes)
Sandwich theory
2019-08-05 (17 minutes)