Well that was a surreal night - tunes, dinner in a packed bar that's closing in a week, followed by driving the kei truck down to the beach while being serenaded by a somewhat tipsy friend on the viola in a very confined space, and then as soon as we got there, a very vivid and dynamic aurora sighting!

This setup produced some really nice results in yesterday's test run!

Back on my low-cost high-precision nonsense. All prepped to glue in the inserts to bolt the linear motors to the surface plate they'll live on

Just kei truck things

someone should buy me a dev kit and two months of vacation

I wonder if you could build an imaging laser doppler vibrometer with one of these iToF sensors - it's basically a pixel array of all of the demodulators you'd need, right?
https://www.onsemi.com/products/sensors/image-sensors/af0131

@attoparsec but it sounds cool with the relays!

(https://www.bakkecoffeemuseum.com/event-details-registration/drawing-night-at-bakke-coffee-museum )

Excited to go to a life drawing event soon, with some really great models!

And by "really great models", I mean vintage espresso machines at our local espresso museum

you'd think that after ~3 years of writing CAD code jokes about literal corner cases would start to get old, but nope

I suspect what happens is I quickly figure out my favorite bow, and then subconsciously choose a second one that feels as close to it as possible...

(Probably getting the nicer of the heavier pair, since it's got such an amazing tone, and then a much cheaper second bow from today - responsive and good tone, but a price better suited for situations involving beer)

went on the second round of viola bow shopping today, and the pattern repeated itself - my two favorite choices were basically exactly the same weight again (68.5g), but much lighter than the pair of identical weight bows (71.5g) from the last store.

oh no, my "which amaro works best for trapping fruit flies" experiment shows really statistically significant results (11,2,1,1 per trap) so now I get to think about confidence intervals and poisson processes and...

staging photos like this may be my new hobby

"how's your father" - "he's been dead two years now, so hopefully nothing new?"

...uuuuh that word doesn't mean what you think it means...

Rhinoceros: the CAD software of choice for discerning cat transit system designers

@attoparsec they are such fun... More or less the anti-car for the anti-car person.

oops forgot to post this here - I did the thing, and am now dealing with the consequences of it: namely, having to learn how to drive stick for real, and being unable to drive anywhere without people shouting about how cool I am

(no really, people *love* kei trucks)

knocked off a quick part for a coworker - 0.004" stainless sheet, done on the lathe/drill press, since the laser is down for a rebuild

(I did resist the urge to throw it on the macroscope and see how precise it really is. Free parts don't get inspection reports!)