I have completely offset all the costs of my lighting project by selling lamps and doing lighting installs. My original goal with this project was to build an offline lighting system for myself and pay for all of it with revenue from lamp sales and that's exactly what happened

The RBMK as a concept was actually pretty cool. Low enrichment, but no heavy water required, and no RPV, making manufacturing easier

New favorite code words: "stockpile stewardship"

SMRs exist and operate daily despite what most people think. The Russian model for civilian, commercial deployment of SMRs should be at the very least copied by Western nations if they want to have any maritime relevance in the future. Google "Project 22220 icebreaker"

Results from a nuclear themed pumpkin carving competition

Before and after a power transient. I love doing hardware support.

I did surgery on an LED strip

Refined code

Refurbishing old lighting installs and adding interactive lighting effects

Driving (and breaking) the control rod

Skip dinner and cut metal

Sometimes the best solution is to delete problematic hardware and reimplement the integration in one afternoon

New stepper motor amp for driving the control rod that works over EthernetIP instead of rs232 (awful)

All roads lead to paragon

Everything is open source if you know how to reverse engineer (and the oem used the Arduino bootloader)

Do you want a cheap place to live in Berkeley for the next year? I am looking for someone to take over my lease at my apartment in Berkeley. It's close to public transit and a 5 minute walk from the UC campus. 1100/mo. Lease expires June 1 2026. dm if interested.

The honorable task of finding zero

If you're not driving the control rod at 11pm, what are you doing?

My n channel mosfet failed to a closed state so unfortunate

In order to avoid using jargon, Rockwell Automation invented more jargon. It is called a "rising edge"

we have achieved thermocouple graphite fit