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🔒Dev Log #1 — Building VIGIL, Part 1: PVM10 Mounting Design
Amongst running the rest of Taming Lightning, I still find ways to make my own work. This dev log covers two things I’ve been building for the Stealing Fire, Taming Lightning grant project: the PVM10 mounting system I moved to after Tech 22’s Midget Script burned out twice in one exhibition, and VIGIL — the…
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🔒Processing Dynamics: What’s Happening Inside the Tube Affects the Finished Product by Rusty Russo | Signs of the Times (sept 1999)
What’s really happening inside a neon tube during bombardment? Veteran glassblower Rusty Russo breaks down the science — ionization, viscous flow, molecular flow, and why your vacuum pump can be working hard while nothing is actually leaving the tube. His 1999 Signs of the Times article is now in the Taming Lightning Research Lab Library,…
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🔒Studio BTS | On plasma filling for Atupa (Cobalt Storm)
Patreon Exclusive A rough studio review of the plasma fill for Atupa (Cobalt Storm). In this behind-the-scenes video, I revisit footage from the fill while taking notes and talking through my thought process—covering manifold setup, driver choices, filament details, and how I use cumulative notes to navigate plasma fills from reference.
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🔒Crookes’ Radiometer and Geissler’s Light-Mill – Cooperation or Competition? Giinter Dorfel and Falk Müller
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🔒NEW WORK Summer-Fall 1985 | A conversation with Paul Seide by Joe Upham
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🔒Product Development | 10kV-Neon21 Plasma Driver
