Materials Update #1:
- 3 of my ferrofluid orders are backed up until Nov 14 and Nov 17.
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Questions
Next Steps
Container
Requirements
- Be waterproof.
- Do not stain.
Questions that prototype answers
- Can it be vertical / wall mounted or does it need to be on a surface?
Material options
- Resin (problematic on sanding the inside).
Making a container
Constraints:
- My acrylic cement had been used.
Discoveries:
- The container needs acrylic cement or epoxy to seal.
- If it’s acrylic, it needs a coating to make the magnet slide and so that the ferrofluid isn’t trapped.
- Clear acrylic is not the best choice. Mirrored would be a more interesting choice.
Tools needed to handle ferrofluid:
- Big syringe.
Other items:
- My stepper motor heats up very easily → project needs a vent in the back and a new motor.
Next up:
- Need to test if the rubber seal actually works.
- Research couplers, pulleys, gears, linkages, or aluminum tube for motor shaft.
- Glue with epoxy magnet to motor shaft coupler.
- could buy: “round glass top etsy”
Resources
Printables.com Stepper Motor Flag - Nema 17 (5mm Shaft) by LittleSilvr | Download free STL model | Printables.com
November 13th, 2025 Class Notes
PeriscopeFilm 1958 "ABOVE AND BEYOND" NASA SOLDER & SOLDERING TECHNIQUES ELECTRONICS INSTRUCTIONAL FILM XD48824
When do you first notice you have agency over your time?
“A sense that life is unfolding in a particular direction” - Alanna
“Back up to-do list (for when you’re on holiday)” - Devon
Untethered time. Bounds and constraints. But which ones provide safety?
Past tells me it’s all about balance. It’
14 version of a project is not the only one. But it should be a complete one. The version needs to have its deadline.
When I have an unrelated job, is it
How many things
Am I doing anything that well?
My survival tactics are frowned upon here.
Granula
If company monitors
Leisure, according to Aristotles = time that serves no other purpose.
9 to 5 and 5 to 9 are
Highest Tech vs Textiles.
20 November 2025
Write
When naming my chapters, I felt the need to be very truthful (including any darkness) and for them to be fully representative of the time occurred. It’s too honest to a point that it starts being negative, when that is not in fact how I feel about the chapters at all. In a way, by always trying to be true to myself and be ethical at all times, I’m out of practice in this whole other way of living.
What are you lacking in being susceptible to a cult? Other people to reflect reality back to you.
What stories are getting purposely cut out from the archive?
Nostalgia can be forward looking and backward looking too.
Episodic vs Semantic Memory.
Are nostalgia and narrativization the same?
“No archive will restore you”.
Algorithm serving of a memory.
Would you order your chapters any differently?
Knowing edges around the chapters but having the content be abstract.
Nostalgia as a political force being imposed on you as something to go back to or as a hyperfocus on a specific emotion instead of an accurate recount with all the misconceptions of a reality.
“Freedom of not having reality weighed on you”
Nostalgia as a trojan horse.
Having these discussions on the personal vs national level is very indicative of our state of mine.
Exporting order and importing order. Entropy is the increased sense of chaos.
“Labour saving devices don’t save labour”
You need to rest before you can be reeincarnated.
Tea Time at Hex House
“Thousands marched in protest of the future’s arrival tomorrow”
Man saves Time
“Just at the moment that time ends, man survives to save time”
Time shortage
“The nation is in the grips of a massive time shortage. Everyone is encouraged to hurry and not waste time”
Human Beings Unite
“Many human beings are uniting today due to the discomfort of disunity”
Add photos from friday nov21