May 2024 | Notion

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This video by far was the most impressive to me this month, this guy covers a bit of everything, from some advanced mechanical design, to image analysis even doing a lot of the same software things we do with our IF/RCO software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miRnNy7ZvIc
This article is not so much hard technical as in things, but rather one person’s view on how to see personal growth though a few metrics and thought it was an interesting take on how to gauge personal growth/development https://huyenchip.com/2024/04/17/personal-growth.html
The latest Steve Mould video doesn’t disappoint with a cool demonstration of fuel/air mixture, reminds me of the clear tubing/butane torch demonstations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqhXQUzVMlQ
Finally this is a neat project, it’s a microscope setup that uses Infra-Red light to inspect computer chips, it has two axis of freedom for controlling the light allowing for better adjustment to get good visibility https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/a-2-axis-multihead-light-positioner/ This blog is by Andrew “Bunnie” Haung who’s done a ton of cool reverse engineering projects over the years, and is a huge proponent of open source hardware.

“Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell. Want to be a pro hockey player? If you were born in Sep-Dec it’s not gonna happen. Want to do well in computers? Better be born between 1953-56. Worlds richest man? Be born in the late 1830’s. Of course these seem like generalizations, and to some extent they are. However this book does a great job at showing how the opportunities presented to someone have such an impact in their overall outcome. Of course Gretzky, Gates and Carnegie all put in the work, they spent countless hours honing their skills and working on their trades, but they were also all presented opportunities that not all were given. The big take away for me from this book was looking for ways to give those opportunities to give to others. Thinking back on my past and I can find a bunch of great opportunities I was given that made a huge difference in my life, and this book helped reiterate the importance of giving these opportunities to others.

Calculus can certainly seem intimidating if you don’t use it much, but it has tons of great applications. We take for granted that it’s something that can be done with computers now, but that’s a relatively new thing, Calculus has been around since the 17th century, so has it always been done via pen on paper? A century ago there were mechanical devices that did calculus, for instance this was one that was used for navy targeting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwf5mAlI7Ug here is one from a modern take on the old one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-y_lnzWQjk

So a bit ago I had this idea for a cool swag item for outpost, based on this ( see picture below) this is a ruler that Digi-Key has that’s covered front/back with various formulars, facts, diagrams, etc. I think it would be cool for us to make something like this but for outpost. The Digi-Key one is focused on electronics, however there’s are a few provisions for other disciples such as the holes on the right side used to identify many standard fasteners.

So if you have ideas of useful references that you find yourself looking up/using often please send them my way.

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