#ct meanderings

[eldritchadept]

1 year ago: successfully tested our rocket engine for the first time. 

Now: launching a liquid-fueled rocket to 20,000ft in 2 weeks...

Made a lot of electronics and even more art for my rocketry team over the past year... 

[eldritchadept]

Moon’s also looking nice tonight...

[eldritchadept]

Xhorhas kids doodle! They’re talking about snacks in the library...

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This episode should be called "Out of the Frying Pan" so the next episode can be "Into the Fire"

[eldritchadept]

If you haven’t watched this, you absolutely must - what a fantastic collection of transient luminous events! It’s Pecos Hank (of course), one of the guys that discovered a new kind of TLE recently (the GHOST), and there are so many amazing red sprite displays here, it’s so goddamn cool

[eldritchadept]

From my archive: early testing (read: shenanigans) with the vacuum tube Tesla coil. Single 811A tube build, and a relatively simple circuit, the worst part of it was tuning. 

Not shown: that time I accidentally touched the plate on top, it was definitely... an... experience...

[eldritchadept]

As an avid builder of big stupid things this is probably the biggest, stupidest, thingiest thing I’ve ever worked on. It’s a massive spark gap Tesla coil, and I haven’t been able to try running the whole thing 1) because it’s a bit unsafe to do alone; 2) there’s still things that need to be reinforced and fixed; 3) I’m mildly scared of it. Seriously, I tested the power supply alone and when I turned it on, the lights in my house started flashing. Anyways, since it’s still a current-in-progress project, I have a ton more photos of the build and all, including all our very sketchy choices.

[eldritchadept]

What do you call it when you go around bringing back dead art...anyways here’s a star spawn seer doodle from way back when, 2/10 not creepy enough