Nick Mitchener 🏳️🌈 🔭⚛️
@crossjack.bsky.social
Retired CEO of engineering company now a physics technician in secondary education. IoP Technician award 2024. Clocks, scientific instruments , proper nerd. Ex sailor, ex mountaineer, ex fell walker, now arthritic and overweight! RSciTech MIntP He/him
I love the look of Nixie tubes but I'm not sure that at this stage in life, with failing eyesight and shaking hands, was the time to start soldering them into circuit boards. What a pain!
November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I love the look of Nixie tubes but I'm not sure that at this stage in life, with failing eyesight and shaking hands, was the time to start soldering them into circuit boards. What a pain!
This is the second time tatty has decided this wooden hide is a rival. Normally he ignores it or treats it as a love interest. 🧪🐍
October 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
This is the second time tatty has decided this wooden hide is a rival. Normally he ignores it or treats it as a love interest. 🧪🐍
What looks like a hornet and flies like a fly? A hornet fly!🌿🪳🧪
September 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
What looks like a hornet and flies like a fly? A hornet fly!🌿🪳🧪
3 hummingbird hawk-moths on our buddlia.🪳🧪🌿
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
3 hummingbird hawk-moths on our buddlia.🪳🧪🌿
I made a coil for my magic Eye.
August 19, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I made a coil for my magic Eye.
Meanwhile at home we look after hoverflies and the now redundant wasps another way
July 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Meanwhile at home we look after hoverflies and the now redundant wasps another way