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Author: monsieurglitch

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The Saturday Night Thread is a big bottle of glowing mercury

January 9, 2021January 10, 2021 monsieurglitch

This thing is a mercury arc rectifier, a giant bottle of hot, ionized mercury that glows and sparks and buzzes and looks absolutely amazing! It was invented in the early 1900s by a fellow named Peter Cooper Hewitt to tear … Continue reading The Saturday Night Thread is a big bottle of glowing mercury

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Avocado Holiday Lightstravaganza!

December 4, 2020December 11, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hi all, let’s share some pictures of our holiday decorations. Traditional or original, subdued or positively griswaldian, if you or your neighbors have built a festive and photogenic holiday display, I wanna see some pics of it in the comments. Continue reading Avocado Holiday Lightstravaganza!

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Under This Bush

November 20, 2020November 20, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hi all, and welcome back to another in a very occasional series about native wildlife wandering around this bush in my front yard. Earlier this week, a small pack of coyotes briefly loitered around the bush before resuming their patrol … Continue reading Under This Bush

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Let’s Build An LED Lantern! Part 3: Controlling It Part 1: Too Many Colons

September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hi all, welcome back! In part two, I built the lantern’s LED light source. Now that it’s finished, I’m ready to build and program the microcontroller device that manages it. This article is going to be pretty theory-heavy, concentrating more … Continue reading Let’s Build An LED Lantern! Part 3: Controlling It Part 1: Too Many Colons

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Let’s Build An LED Lantern! Part 2: Assembling The Light Source

August 28, 2020August 28, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hi all. In part one, I laid out my idea for the lantern’s basic design; what I want it to do, and what I plan to build it out of. Today, I’m going to begin putting the thing together, starting … Continue reading Let’s Build An LED Lantern! Part 2: Assembling The Light Source

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Let’s Build An LED Lantern! Part 1: Planning The Thing

August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hi all. A sudden, and rather unwelcome spare time surplus has left me bored out of my head lately, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to finally knock out an electronics project I’d been tinkering with for a while, … Continue reading Let’s Build An LED Lantern! Part 1: Planning The Thing

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Under This Bush

June 29, 2020June 29, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hi all, and welcome to another in an occasional series featuring videos of urban wildlife stalking each other by this bush in my yard. It’s been a long time since I rapped at ya. So I got a lot of … Continue reading Under This Bush

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The Avocado Folding@Home Team

March 25, 2020April 30, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hey there, sports fans! Guess what? The Avocado now has its very own Folding@Home team. The TL;DR version for folks already in the know: Our team code is 249704. Folding@Home is a “…distributed computing project for simulating protein dynamics, including … Continue reading The Avocado Folding@Home Team

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Under This Bush

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hi all, and welcome to another in an occasional series featuring videos of urban wildlife beating the crap out of each other past a bush in my front yard. I’ve seen cottontail rabbits go full-Watership Down several times before, and … Continue reading Under This Bush

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Under This Bush

January 23, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hi all, and welcome to another in an occasional series featuring videos of urban wildlife wandering past a bush in my front yard. Tonight, we witness a hungry fox looking for an early morning snack, and a rabbit wisely choosing … Continue reading Under This Bush

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Under This Bush

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hi all, and welcome to another in an occasional series featuring videos of urban wildlife wandering past a bush in my front yard. Today, I present a day in the life of a mountain cottontail rabbit in mid-winter. Filmed from … Continue reading Under This Bush

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Under This Bush

January 9, 2020 monsieurglitch

Hi all, and welcome to the first in an occasional series featuring videos of urban wildlife wandering past a bush in my front yard. Today, we see two or maybe three red foxes on the prowl just before dawn. One … Continue reading Under This Bush

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My Hideous Workbench: Smart Garage Door Opener Part 1

November 29, 2019 monsieurglitch

Hi, everybody, and welcome to the first in what I hope is a regular series on electronics theory, experimentation, demonstration, repair and project construction from a hobbyist’s perspective. I hope to occasionally explore topics in physics, chemistry, and computer science … Continue reading My Hideous Workbench: Smart Garage Door Opener Part 1