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Tangent Heavy Industries @tangentheavy.com · 02/10/2026

Friday high five 🖐 Here's my fav: Put out the channel's first Short, a teleprompter built from a $5 picture frame. Also: Simulated the knob board and caught the motor resetting its own chip. Full squirrel brain log: tangentheavy.com/log What did you finish this week? Drop it below.

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Tangent Heavy Industries @tangentheavy.com · 29/09/2026

Real teleprompter beamsplitters cost real money. Picture frame glass costs $4.98. Built the rest from 5mm laser-cut ply. Worth it? 👇 youtu.be/zsqQivLmcL4 #DIY #lasercutting

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I built a teleprompter out of a $5 picture frame #Shorts

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Tangent Heavy Industries @tangentheavy.com · 25/09/2026

Friday high five 🖐 Here's my fav: Reworked my schematic bench book so it opens as tabs instead of one endless page. Also: Went through the knob board assigning part numbers and footprints. Full squirrel brain log: tangentheavy.com/log What shipped in your workshop this week?

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Tangent Heavy Industries @tangentheavy.com · 24/09/2026

The channel has an intro now. 🔧 It has a feel I really like. It's very exciting to finally see a video on the channel. Every frame and every sound comes out of one Python script, and each episode gets its own drawing number. youtu.be/RiATFxm0MCk

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Tangent Heavy Industries | Channel Intro

The Tangent Heavy Industries intro: a gear on a badly tuned PID loop, and a robot arm that slams the T home.

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Tangent Heavy Industries @tangentheavy.com · 18/09/2026

Friday high five 🖐 Here's my fav: Checked the NAS backplane's main cable connector against the official industry pinout. Also: Decided to build a CNC lathe. I'm calling it Turnip. Full squirrel brain log: tangentheavy.com/log Your turn. What did you work on?

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Tangent Heavy Industries @tangentheavy.com · 17/09/2026

IT LIVES! A 4-drive SAS backplane I designed so I wouldn't have to pay NAS prices. My first differential board, and it was dead all year. Bug: I designed it to the controller-side spec, not the backplane spec. Fix: plug the cable in backwards, SATA ends into the motherboard. 6 Gbps, no errors!

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Tangent Heavy Industries @tangentheavy.com · 16/09/2026

Hey, check this out. 👋 I'm William. I build things that go off on tangents: circuit boards and badges, CNC and lathe work, and a homelab that got a little out of hand and and and... Tangent Heavy Industries is where I finish them and film them. First video soon. What should I build?

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