After that first test I proceeded to coat a bunch of colors @UnkleEarth and I pulled in the hotshop. FINALLY- I can back purple with purple , brown with a warm white pink with pink and the weird calcedony "blue"/red I put red in so its backed with red light. The oxblood ruby is now oxblood argon (its normally a red neon fill). I think the phosphor is mostly coated nicely, some areas still too thin and thick. I gotta practice I think. Excited to see how these turn out! #neon #color #unobtainium

Raspberry Pi SBC’s may be #unobtainium, but I can still have fun with some of their Pico W microcontrollers! Can’t wait to see how I can leverage the onboard #WiFi for these. #RaspberryPI #PicoW

Anyone with Infos or #datasheet for PLL52C05S or TK9107-2 ICs? Should be PLLs found on some 386/486 #motherboards. I'm collecting components to build https://github.com/Marco-Both/M396F-Replika, but these seems to be made of #unobtainium

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #film #movie #blue #ResourceCurse #colonialism #military #spies #robots #pandora #unobtainium #McMovie

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Avatar (2009)

It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a decade since Avatar was released. Chances are you’ve probably already seen this one because it was the highest-grossing film of all time when it came out.

Avatar was able to achieve two things that few other films before it did:

1. It featured an interracial romantic relationship without anyone noticing.

2. It showed topless women in a PG-13 rated film.

Even with all of the hype and the obvious preplanned blockbuster feel, it’s still a nice film and worth watching. The film is about American colonialism and serves as a surrogate for commentary about oil wars.

Depending on your perspective, the film delivers one of either two messages:

1. The US is wrong to use its military might to subjugate other less powerful countries.

- - or - -

2. We’re Americans, we’re coming to take your stuff, so bend over.

Yeah, they’re doing another one of these – it releases next month.

(fair use image from the film)

If you're bored you can watch all of Avatar on Twitter, it's been up for over 2 days. #unobtainium https://twitter.com/laborkyle/status/1593457838956986368?s=46&t=7pK_rLHY5IdLaUqzkI7KaA

@tobyrobertspi Last time I was in the Cambridge store there were quite a few Picos ☺️ #unobtainium