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Mushrooms and harp progress.

Mushrooms are growing! Little tiny baby ones, which is pretty neat. Hopefully, they'll be full grown, or nearly enough, by the next update.

There's been some pretty major updates to harp, with the materials having a proper webpage. Hopefully the first print will be done by the weekend.

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Filanew

One of the goals of WorldsProject is long term sustainability. Like any deep space vehicle, we need to recycle our resources so that we can use them tomorrow.

As a result, Filanew has done a soft launch. This service allows people to send in their used, potentially discarded, filament, and …

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Moving away from hydroponics, selling on Etsy, HARP.

It's been a while since there has been an update. Silent but not motionless. There's been a small pivot from hydroponics. Due to high energy costs, it's not very profitable to grow and produce just about any food crop. The only real option is something like pot. Sadly, I don't …

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New Etsy products, knitting needles from the UK.

New Products!

We have some earrings up for sale, along with some bulbasaur planter/thing holders. They're all very cute!

Bulbasaur Pencil Holder and Hlanter Green Flower Earrings Orange Flower Earrings Green and Blue Flower Earrings

Ive also added an Instagram. Because many of the items are visual in nature …

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IPFS, laser cut parts shipped.

Skipped a day, simply because not much to update.

Laser cut parts ship tomorrow! That means lots of picture taking of the circle loom, as assembly can finally start.

Lots of new Etsy stuff, from the finished Bulbasaur planter/pencil holder, earrings and 3d printed objects, starting with cookie cutters …

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Redesigning circle knit electronics case.

Worked on the electronics case for the circle knit so that it no longer requires to be laser cut, and can now be 3D printed. Since laser cutting is so much more expensive than 3D printing, this does save on some cost. Of course the original files are still there …

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Small update on feather board, circle knit, and Etsy.

The Feather hydroponics board is nearly designed. Hopefully by the end of March a working prototype will be complete and ordered.

A quote for the circle knit laser cut parts has been sent out. That plus a small power supply are the only missing parts. Assembly should be complete in …

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Working on: Hydroponics and Knitting Machines.

Currently working on two main themes, hydroponics and knitting machines.

The Feather board has been coming along nicely. The only portion of the design that remains is the integration of the pH sensor. This is mostly because the work that was done with it was several months ago, so there's …

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Hydroponics and Knitting.

Currently working on two main themes, hydroponics and knitting machines.

Designing a Feather compatible board that will let you monitor parameters essential to hydroponics, namely EC, pH, humidity and temperature. The overall goal of this board to to get all these sensors at a BOM under $5, with a sale …

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Boards ordered, recipe db 'promoted', noiselib coming along.

Great news! A small EC sensor has been designed and boards have been ordered. Hopefully they'll come in soon (although the eta is the 20th). Next up is the design of a pH sensor. This will require a bit more "experimental" work, but the concepts are sound and it should …

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