— back to main page — Learning kana is the essential first step for most learners of Japanese, because once you can read these characters you will have access to the tools that will be necessary for the entire learning process. It’s also one of the most enjoyable part of studying Japanese, as the characters…

This is some documentation that presents the basic steps for learning the Japanese language as an English speaker, specifically applying the methods that I have found to be extremely effective for self-teaching. The added challenge of learning Japanese, aside from the unfamiliar grammar and vocabulary, is that in order to make the best use of…

This is documentation for the process I used to anodize aluminium at Hedron Hackerspace. It is a relatively complex setup (especially for someone like me without much chemistry experience), but once you learn and carry out the procedure, it becomes a lot easier. The real trick, as far as I’m concerned, is that there is…