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Building a visco/cannon fuse machine for no reason.

A speech recognition plugin for Audacity for automatic transcription.

The CDC has recently announced that all persons should be wearing masks when in public. NIOSH approved PPE should be left for healthcare profession...

Growing, fermenting, and curing small scale tobacco: A surrogate project for my father.

Building a general purpose recirculating cooler for the lab.

Hydrogen torch and atomic hydrogen welding.

Ammonia and nitric acid from ammonium nitrate.

Designing a personal carbon dioxide scrubber.

Using vermiculite in hydroponic media mixes might be troubling for pH control.

Minimal diets: satisfy (almost) all nutritional requirements at the lowest cost.

Getting Ubuntu 18.04 to work on an Asus laptop with Nvidia graphics using a few grub boot flags.

A high temperature, insulating refractory exclusively from the hardware store at one-tenth the cost of and better than commercial firebricks or cer...

A quick photography light box made from foam and polypropylene fabric.

Creating a Zotero shared group by scraping all the citations in the more scholarly subreddits.

Prolog is hard. That is all.

A list of shorter projects.

New research in the journal Nature has demonstrated that many of the drugs we take every day may have hitherto unknown microbiome effects: My notes.

An (incomplete) open letter responding to the recent political discourse on the Parkland, FL school shooting on Feb. 14, 2018.

Keylogging and mouse tracking data can be used as a primary endpoint for evaluating the effect of any *quantified self* data that one seeks to trac...

The GRE general test is one of the objective requirements for my application to grad school. I took the test once before and performed "adequately"...

An evaluation of various online courses and eventually a collection of any class notes I am allowed to post.

Now that my cursory evaluation of [applying to grad school](/active/2017/08/25/grad-school/) has been written I can focus on the detailed implement...

Exploring the possibility of grad school.

A few notes on synthesizing L-Carnitine Zinc: a pharmaceutical? for protecting the gut. Possible use in the anti-hangover project.

Vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) can be used as a bulk disinfectant. VHP leaves no toxic residue and construction of a crude vaporizer can be acco...

Some environment work on getting this site up and running.

Alcohol is a common psychoactive drug, and while the initial ingestion can be liberating, the recovery period can be staggering. This page is a col...

I supported a kickstarter a while back to develop a 16-core FPGA based microcomputer capable of running a standard(ish) linux distro. And thus... P...

Home concentration of hydrogen peroxide by evaporation.

Methylene Blue is a rare nootropic. I experimented with it for a while but ultimately stopped due to its MAO activity. Perhaps I will resurrect thi...

Started with an analysis of some ETFs... Conclusion: [Wealthfront](https://wealthfront.com) does it better.

Spot welders are used to affix two materials by melting and fusing under pressure without the addition of filler material. A simple spot welder can...

An example of purification by recrystallization using potassium chlorate.

Simple, homemade electronic igniters from easy materials.

Making chlorates with electrochemistry is fairly easy. Perchlorates are quite a bit more troubling. Unless, of course, you just heat your chlorates...

For a senior project in high school I elected to build a fusion reactor for some reason. At the time, I was the youngest person (15) to ever attemp...

Tesla coils were my first and probably my longest deep dive into a project. I built my first coil around age 12. I even won first place at a region...