@BreakingTaps

Material Science, Microfabrication, Microscopy He/him. @breakingtaps@universeodon.com (Fedi) / @breakingtaps.com (Blue)

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Joined December 2020
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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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Hard-won squiggles but we got there in the end
BreakingTaps@BreakingTaps17h
My experience trying to get a sensitive photodiode + TIA working: 1. photons get into everything 2. connections need to be approximately 0mm long to keep noise to a minimum. Better yet make the lengths imaginary just to be safe. 😐
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My experience trying to get a sensitive photodiode + TIA working: 1. photons get into everything 2. connections need to be approximately 0mm long to keep noise to a minimum. Better yet make the lengths imaginary just to be safe. 😐
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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…

Making the Smallest Animatronic Eyes

Let's design and build the world's smallest animatronic eye mechani...

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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!
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@s2a_systemsOct 18
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 😐
Joe@MarinefordTCGOct 13
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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Not taking pot shots at anyone fwiw! Happy to see fellow creators making a good living! Just wanted to raise awareness that everyone is not automatically a Mr Beast billionaire just because they have a YT channel and a few successful videos.
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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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making progress
BreakingTaps@BreakingTapsOct 8
questioning life choices stage of the project 🥴
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questioning life choices stage of the project 🥴
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current status: widgetmaxxing
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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. youtube.com/watch?v=lANIMRoO…

FiberMotor: a flexible linear coaxial electrostatic motor in fiber...

FiberMotor is a thread-like linear motor, 1 to 3 mm in diameter. It...

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Paper: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley…

Fiber‐Format Flexible Linear Electrostatic Motors

A flexible coaxial fibre-format electrostatic motor enables backdrivable and reversible linear actuation with high force density and functionality under bending, offering a scalable actuation...

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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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Are wireless soldering irons any good? Seems convenient for quick bodges 🤔
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BreakingTaps retweeted
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@PsychogenicTechSep 20
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 youtube.com/watch?v=q6ytRHaT…

Designing Silicon From Scratch

I made my own microprocessor, and want to tell you all about it.W...

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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 😊 youtube.com/watch?v=q6ytRHaT…

Designing Silicon From Scratch

I made my own microprocessor, and want to tell you all about it.W...

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