mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06He/him, DIY Aerospace, game dev, 3D modeling, 3Dprinting, writer, Terran 🌎
I make things.
I just concluded a decade long experiment. I had a USB flash drive in a jar buried in my back yard since 2015. I dug it up, plugged it in and it suffered no data loss after 11 years idle underground.
It's a usless experiment but everyone needs hobbies.
This is so real, Before it's launch I thought I didn't care about Artemis. But turns out when spaceflight is devoid of SpaceX it's actually cool again and makes me feel that wonder I thought I lost. I now actually care about this mission a lot.
Also excited for China's moon missions, Spaceflight is so much better without tech bros.
Although I mostly sell miniatures, I do offer a selection of 1:1 scale items, such as a full size M388 Davy Crockett nuclear bomb, A Soviet Prop-M Mars rover, Soviet mag fed laser pistol (fully articulated) and STL files to print your very own Demon Core!
I might start selling wood cubesat frames on my shop. The frame is still experimental, but it's easily customizable, lightweight and cheaper then other cubesat frames (aluminum ones are $1000+ where I can sell this for $400 - $500). Can also work with balloons or as a test frame for a conventional build. So if someone wants to take a chance on it why not?
I highly doubt I'll ever sell one but hey, you never know.
My last custom model order was for a 7 foot tall minuteman I ICBM. I love seeing the finished models fully painted and with decals. Like the Dyna-Soar, I just made the model, the client printed and painted it.
I feel we really should stop calling LLMs AI, They aren't artificial intelligence they are simulated intelligence. There is no real intelligence, no thought no persistence. It's just word prediction.
While browsing various medical symptoms on my phone the Google AI had a bit of a moment when it tried to understand heart palpitations. I found it funny but this is also why I block Google AI on my computers browser because its hot garbage.
I needed a fantasy map maker I could use to make a background texture for the dungeon crawler game I've been working on, and I found this neat little open source one. It has a bunch of tools to draw land, sea, terrain, roads ECT. It works remarkably well and I want to share this with anyone else who may find it interesting.
Alright, the wood cubesat frame is now available for anyone interested.
I made this listing on my Etsy shop a few years ago as a joke that makes fun of NFTs and esoteric modern art. The listing itself is meant to be part of the art. Anyway I generally forget it's even there, but the other day I got a message from someone asking to know more about the whole concept of the art, listing and item together and what it means.
Was surprised, but honestly happy that someone found the listing interesting in an artistic way.
Commercial fusion energy, human Mars mission, and a Europa submarine probe.
Things I've been reading about since I was a small child, and still waiting on...
Ok, hear me out...
Assuming I stop procrastinating on music creation, I could conceivably have the first build of my fantasy dungeon crawler game ready for publishing next month.
I'm kind of excited, but I'm going to get some people to play test it first. It's a simple game but I don't want to rush it out like I did Flank Speed.
Happy Earth Day!