Start
This is a digital scrapyard. There's no true start or end to it, but here we are. It was inspired by and adapted from the digital garden concept.
The main purpose of the scrapyard is to provide raw materials and an R&D site to support Bellerophon Observatory and related activities. The observatory's primary mission is a thirty-five year intra-planetary space voyage, concluding with an observation of Halley's Comet on its next return in 2061.
In a voyage of that length, with that sort of goal, many of the related activities will concern the health, safety, and well being of the mission crew, as well as everything else one might do to stay occupied and not get bored over thirty-five years.
Here we dump out and pick through ideas that have been accumulating over the last forty or fifty years: sorting them into categories and grading them. Ripping some apart for salvageable parts, smelting any half-baked schemes, fluxing out the pure good ideas, and throwing out the dross.
Like in any scrapyard, there are a number boats lying around. Some may get restored, some may be scrapped and discarded soon, and some may never be more than drawings. At the edge of the scrapyard is a workshop, GIMA Norfolk, trying to maintain and manufacture, to fend off entropy. There's also some notes on linux commands I find particularly interesting.
In the workshop are machine tools, screen printing equipment, tools, and the physical remains of countless projects, including several reproductions of the U.S. Navy zarf, the remains of many years and several attempts at different kinds of education, and a fair amount of random stuff, much of which needs to be discarded.
This digital scrapyard isn't only focused on matters inside the fence. It is a vantage point from which to watch comets and other celestial objects. The operable boats are used to make waterway videos, shot from a camera mast made to mount a GoPro camera.
Despite our focus on the stars and the future we don't forget the world right around us. We are equally focused on practical matters such as floor joists, crown molding, and kitchen cabinets.