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Will Work for Launch. Spacecraft troubleshooter at Flying Circuits. Building hardware for the ISS (and beyond!) with BioServe Space Technologies at CU Boulder. Former toymaking elf at Sparkfun Electronics. Friend of parrots. He/him/ally.

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · Aug 16

Words to live by

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 7h

A few Vornado tips:

- The minerals that would go in the air end up in the paper wicks which get crusty and stop absorbing water. You can make them last longer by soaking in vinegar and rinsing.

- The units are expensive new but I see them in thrift stores occasionally and always pick them up.

A Vornado evaporative humidifier. This is the two-reservoir model; they also make (or at least used to) a single reservoir model.

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Pete Sastone, but spooky @kbuts.bsky.social · 8h

William DeBlasio? The wine importer?

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TaskForce23 @taskforce23.bsky.social · 1d

Pointy planes in the Southern Californian desert

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie with the words wow again on his face

ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the words wow again on his face

media.tenor.com

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Dr. Craig DeForest ☀️ @craig.deforest.org · 1d

We will greatly miss Al Nagler, founder of Tele Vue Optics (@televueoptics.bsky.social), who left us Monday. I was honored to know him: a brilliant man with a gentle and joyful disposition. Among many other accomplishments, he designed the Wide Field Imager optics in use on the PUNCH mission. ☀️🔭

Al Nagler (1935–2025)

Albert H. Nagler, a pioneer of telescope optics, passed away at the office of his company Tele Vue Optics on Monday, October 27th.

skyandtelescope.org

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 1d

I just had an amusing (to me) exchange with a parts supplier. Maybe it will be amusing to you too:

👇🏻

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 14h

they’re currently testing a very cool new experimental nasa jet rn.

just in case you’re an airplane pervert and you didn’t know yet

NASA X-59 on a runway. it has a verrrrrrry long nose and is designed to achieve supersonic speeds quietly

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 15h

I've been using Vornado evaporative humidifiers for years. You need to replace the wicks every couple months which isn't super cheap, but they don't cover everything with white powder like the ultrasonics do.

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Tomb👻Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 17h

Here's a handy guide to some electronic components.

Guide to Electronic Components
A list of parts each with a photo of a SOT-23 package
Bipolar Transistor
MOSFET
JFET
Voltage Regulator
Diode
Supervisor
Thyristor
Voltage Monitor
Temperature Sensor
Voltage Reference
Varactor
Magnetic Field Sensor
EEPROM
Resistor Divider
LED (but with a red SOT-23 package that is glowing!)

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April Wright @wrightam.bsky.social · 18h

Still slaps, though I’m utterly heartbroken by its prescience.

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Jen(s) Mothra 🏵️🎉 @jenetmms.bsky.social · 5d

I'll hold you close, knowing nothing ever stays

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Rob Cruickshank @robcruickshank.bsky.social · 20h

If the sign at Ax Man says "this is our favorite motor" you just throw that in your basket

A geared motor with a right angle worm gear and an Ax Man price tag

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Emily Stepp @emilyart.bsky.social · 20h

We fixed up our Halloween costumes some more this year. Here they were a decade ago and then today.

Quadrupedal forest spirit costumes based on the stilt spirit costumes that became famous around that time, but without the stilts because we found out the hard way how easy it is to fall in them so we just use forearm crutches and plantigrade feet. Both have blank white faces and yarn for hair along with eclectic creepy cloth clothing.

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Marco Petagna @petagna.bsky.social · 1d

The Sentinel-2 satellite captured this view into category 5 hurricane #Melissa's eye just before landfall today... what a shot!

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Shane McKee @shaneir.bsky.social · 1d

Not now, carnivorous death ball sponge

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

Carnivorous ‘death ball’ sponge among new species found in depths of Southern Ocean

Researchers previously took first confirmed footage of a juvenile colossal squid in scarcely explored habitat

www.theguardian.com

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Gene J. Mikulka @genejm1017.bsky.social · 1d

In case you missed it, the #JAXA #HTVX Cargo Craft has made a call on the International Space Station for the first time today ( 29 October 2025). Capture occurred 11:58 AM EDT, 260 miles over the South Atlantic Ocean. Here's the #NASA video www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXm8...

JAXA HTV-X1 Cargo Rendezvous and Capture

YouTube video by NASA

www.youtube.com

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Flying Circuits @flyingcircuits.bsky.social · 23h

That's a whole lotta Farads! 🤯

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 1d

Let's Learn about types of ghosts

A roughly drawn chart with large text at the top that says "recognizing ghost types" with a subtitle that says "there are many kinds of ghosts and we can learn about all of them, ok"

Then there are several drawings of different ghosts, mostly sheet ghosts of sorts
Rude - on a skateboard, flipping the bird
Discreet - wearing sunglasses and a hat
Long - long
Hunk - has handsome chiseled features
Forgotten Chores - is looking at a to do list
Satan - has horns
Pervert - has a giant foot
Melting - goop
Dad - has a mustache and wrinkles
Bird - has a beak and wings
Sultry - is laying down with a hand on its head
2 Parter - is cut in two horizontally
Freaky - a weird looking one that has arms and legs and giant eyes and a sideways mouth
Past Memory - inside a polaroid
Floating Head - you can figure this out, it's a severed head
Flat - i think you get the idea
tiny - very small, this is also self explanatory
mouth - mouth
video tape - a small ghost coming out of a tape
silly - wearing groucho glasses and has a fake arrow through head headband
And a big one in the center labeled "normal style"

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Dakota Smith @weatherdak.bsky.social · 1d

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool? (and maybe a little nauseating)

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

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Lectronz: The new maker marketplace. @lectronz.com · 1d

Now in stock on Lectronz: LTO 3900 mAh Battery Pack with BMS https://lectronz.com/products/lto-battery-pack-with-bms
#Sensors #Power

LTO 3900 mAh Battery Pack with BMS

LTO 2.4 V / 3900 mAh battery pack with battery management system

lectronz.com

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

special item location here if anybody wants it I'm not gonna risk it I'm down to 1 life

boston area bridge stone thick pillar outside has a little black pile on top.

me gesturing at it making a confused face.

photo zoomed in on the black thing, probably actually somehow a permanent part of the design but sticks out since it's black and the rest is gray.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 1d

'Ausstellung Englische Graphik': a poster advertising the exhibition of English graphic art at the Kunstsalon Wolfsberg in Zurich, 1923, as designed by Edward Wadsworth, who put to wonderful use one of his 1918 depictions of Dazzle Ships in Liverpool Docks.

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Wil Deny @wildeny.bsky.social · 1d

A warning sign in Japan. It's got a drawing of three cats in a superman pose above text that reads "WARNING CATS MAY DART OUT" and not "WARNING: FLYING ATTACK CATS"

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A Catbus on Elm Street @hayao.lol · 1d

look we're decades into social media and the roads are littered with people landing high profile gigs only to get rekt by stupid old posts, WISE UP

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Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 1d

cat is writing about academic/research-related writing but this rule applies to creating anything that uses ideas imo!! i've seen many such fatal spin-outs

Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 1d

It's an action killer, that so many people get stuck in, to never be able to stop your mind spinning out endless ruminations about the thousand threads that your thing connects to! They're real things! But the people who can't overcome this don't finish their creative work.

Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 1d

Also needs to be said there's a massively big difference between citations that are like, "I am telling you the Most Significant Theory that has ever Had Influence in an area", which is fine if you're doing idk, boring history? But much writing is saying, "here's a good piece of evidence about this"

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