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Every time you hit a light switch in your house, a tiny spark occurs and likely creates a puff of ozone, you monster.https://t.co/DvUOMovJus
But do it under water with specific conductivity (and with higher voltage) and you can drill thru anything conductive by vaporizing it with a wire. https://t.co/gVkzpqW4RQ
My favorite Youtube Mad Scientist made a mad scientist style switch for his solar bote.https://t.co/0I9aH4z8ut
Watching him dismantle and reconfigure a LiFePO4 power bank to go on one of this botes - The same battery tech in a Tesla Powerwall IIRC. I have yet to see him use any petrol energy sources since he's moved away from Vermont.https://t.co/e5bycssYbl
The relationship between magentic flux and how it works inside transformers didn't really make sense to me until well after college.https://t.co/0aVX04V4SG
Learning about electricity principles was kind of a pain in the ass. There's all this cultural inertia between different areas in how thing are explained, and it's all tainted by the history of viewing electricity as water because of "hydaulic analogs".https://t.co/dDNKtzesM4
I imagine a lot of early science being done by a bunch of "gentlemen nerds" showing off their experiments at places like the royal institute, or even earlier institutions in the case of Newton et. al. I wonder if in 10k years we'll frame it as a cult similarly to the Pythagoras.
The modern version of this practice seems to be hackers and makers doing werid shit for YouTube views. It's fun to watch people try to replicate the stuff coming out of Kerosan's channel.https://t.co/UHdWmdcbnt
I mention that weird spread of ideas because Jamie Mantzel was the guy behind the "attacknid" design, which was also the base for this awesome robot.https://t.co/lQhCuTfsFs
Which itself is an enhancement upon an earlier modelhttps://t.co/S84pBjHl4d
That idea spread wide and far.https://t.co/XqAqOrm2IBhttps://t.co/OzuTiVBlQkhttps://t.co/YqneI7N7rYand even inspired a kickstarter to try and manufacture a maker version of the bot (think: irobot's hackable platform)https://t.co/CKZ3NJNkcn
I'm writing all of this to talk about youtube's censorship of hacking and making content. That guy who built the laser attacknid did a mini interview on the subject:https://t.co/HG3b0y9hmQ
I sit here watching educational content blink out of existence. People being deplatformed because of splash-damage from our war on advertiser friendly content.https://t.co/3EmvlPa8U2
I have this anxiety in the back of my head about how we're loosing books, science publications, television content, and even our modern myths to this hyper-addicting lowest cost to produced shovel-wares.https://t.co/Q1l5oU5fU6
So many areas in how we collectively share, consume, and produce meaning seem to be under attack, and on multiple fronts.Been digging into the archival process around video games lately. You can't effectively archive them without resorting to aggressive piracy.