Zach Fredin
zachfredin.bsky.social
Zach Fredin
@zachfredin.bsky.social
electronics! machines! fab labs! teaching! flexures! birds!

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Oh! Sorry I will contextualize more. Merlin, in addition to being a stubby bird of prey, is also a wonderful app by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology ("Merlin Bird ID") that helps one ID birds by description, image, or recorded sound. It is a brilliant and free educational tool, highly recommended!
October 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Merlin doesn't yet have giant yellow glowing bird statues in its database!!! Ugh
October 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
yes! Mostly aluminum in the case of this machine. And clay slop, at generally 50:50 by weight. It's been quite a rabbit hole.
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Maybe typical aspect ratio?? I dunno. Seems pretty chonky. Lots of berries.
September 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
oooooooooh flexure printers 🥰 I knew I should have gone to fab25!
August 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
ah fabulous!! Let me know if you end up building it!!! 😁
July 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I think a good bet could be to find a friendly neighborhood welding shop, they should have tanks of argon and might be into using it for weird things
July 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Hmm are they resistors? Resistors are pretty important
June 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
ooh are they diodes?? Those leads look diodey
June 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
that isn't spit-up, it's "feed-forward"
May 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM