Mastodon

The federated Twitter-like social media platform Mastodon has been around for years and has never really taken off. And I don’t honestly expect it to now. But I hope it does. Twitter is now officially down the toilet. I disabled a bunch of twitter accounts yesterday. I’m keeping the main one active for now to […]

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Next case

Back in early June I posted about how the original-and-expanded Kosmodrome case was close to full. Not too long after I started building another case to house more Kosmodrome as Phase 2 proceeds. It was pretty similar to the original-before-expansion first case. It’s select pine dimensional lumber for the top, sides, and front. The back […]

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Ring modulator forward voltage?

Conventional wisdom is that in a ring modulator — a real ring modulator, one with a diode ring and transformers — diodes with low forward voltage are preferred. Matthew Skala writes (PDF): in a ring modulator, higher forward voltages mean higher signal levels are necessary and there will be more tendency for the carrier to […]

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