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Fort Emplacements and FDM: making Castle Doctrine

How I made Castle Doctrine, a 1:1 scale fully 3D-Printed American Revolutionary War era cannon.

over a year ago 67 votes
Back into the FE-AL: Iron Pour at Sculpture Trails Indiana

In which I detail the process of making a cannonball by participating at a very unique iron casting event.

over a year ago 35 votes
Sending a signal - DOGMAS, a project because of the RP2040

How and why I built the DOGMAS project, a self contained Morse code reader in the form of a candle.

over a year ago 40 votes
p5.js on Squarespace - The Basics

A quick guide on how to get p5.js guides working on Squarespace.

over a year ago 42 votes
Host Jumping, thinking about viruses and how they’re changing.

Thinking about the concepts and reasons behind the making of my work ‘Host Jump’.

over a year ago 64 votes

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No one knows the name of the maternity nurse who helped with the delivery of Marie Curie or Esperanza Spaulding. You might grow up to be a genius, but the team that helped your mom give birth don’t have to be geniuses–they simply have to be pretty good at their craft. The same is becoming […]

11 hours ago 1 votes
Weekly Scroll: Vance Memes

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Freelancer as centaur

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Is anarchy compatible with modern society?

Problems of scale and shape in imagining the futures

3 days ago 4 votes
“I don’t care”

This is difficult. Care requires time and effort, and we can’t care about everything, all the way, all the time. If you’re prepared to care about every element of your work, then you also have to decide to not care about something else. Because caring equally about everything means that someone else cares more than […]

3 days ago 3 votes