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PCB Stencils (or tiny metal parts) on the Xtool

Lately I have gotten access to an xtool F1 Ultra. One of the advantages of this laser is its ability to ablate (I wont say cut) metal. I’ve seen videos of people making pcb solder paster stencils, or cutting really thin metal on similar fiber lasers, and I wanted to try too. All of this…

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Lingonberry – First Leaf!

UnbeLEAFable! This is a tiny leaf growing from a callus culture, produced from a tiny cutting harvested from the wild. This is exactly what I expected (and hoped) would happen with this project. In a few more months, I hope to have rooted plantlets that I can transfer to normal soil media for hardening! Once…

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Wide Temperature Range Thermistor Use

Reading a thermistor seems like a pretty straightforward task, and there are a lot of guides on how to do it, either using just the beta value, or using the full set of coefficients for the Steinhart-Hart equation. I wanted and needed to do something a little different, because I wanted to measure temperatures somewhat…

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