Joshua Woehlke's Posts
A New EV Nova Ship Plugin
The first time I stayed awake until the sun came up was the night I got my color Macintosh IIsi. I was maybe ten or eleven years old, and I’d just gotten a space exploration game called Escape Velocity. It was fascinating in its openness and the range of ways you could play it. Years […]
A Toroidal Transformer Tester that Counts Turns
I was recently commissioned to build a machine that would perform a very interesting and unusual task: Count how many times a wire had been wound around a ring by measuring its electrical properties. This task was a relatively involved one, as it included a ground-up design of the circuitry, making choices about component prices […]
Simplifying the T4 JS Layout Processor
Update for 2024: 9 years later this library is still in daily use and is virtually unchanged. If you’re using T4, we’ve run a very large site with all the code running through this for almost a decade so I’m pretty confident in saying this one’s a keeper. Where I work, we use TERMINALFOUR as […]
Realtime Tracking of Elio Motors Crowdfunding
Update: Elio Tracker has been voluntarily deactivated due to some unexpected effects it could have had regarding Regulation A+. This form of investment is new and comes with some unique issues that a public data tracker like this brought to light. Further updates on the progress of campaigns will not be issued by this tracker, […]