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Andy Kong
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@chargerlessxyz making imperceptible electronics. Interests include fun facts, perception, sensing, and pseudoscience
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    Andy Kong
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    Oct 15, 2024
    Imagine a world where earbuds don’t need charging — this is the vision of our research, Power-over-Skin
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    Andy Kong
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    Sep 23, 2025
    However big you think an ostrich egg is, it’s bigger
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    Andy Kong
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    Sep 23, 2025
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    This shit is unreal
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    Andy Kong
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    Mar 6, 2025
    Me and Arielle (and Claude) made the perfect egg from the paper "Please Cook The Perfect Egg Its Fire" Yolk and white both perfectly jammy/cooked, a subtle yet new experience! 3000 years of culinary history and you get to live in the era with new egg recipes, blessed are we
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    Andy Kong
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    Feb 9, 2025
    Periodic cooking of eggs (alternating 100C and 30C) allows a sugary yolk while totally firming the whites thanks to the different thermal conductivities of the albumin/yolk
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    Andy Kong
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    Aug 21, 2024
    Did you know resin printers have enough resolution to make your own custom lenses? I designed these plates to map normal light into a single line
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    Andy Kong
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    Feb 9, 2025
    Periodic cooking of eggs (alternating 100C and 30C) allows a sugary yolk while totally firming the whites thanks to the different thermal conductivities of the albumin/yolk
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    Scott J Forman
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    Feb 7, 2025
    Replying to @sjforman and @sdamico
    "Periodic cooking of eggs," by Lorenzo et al (nature.com/articles/s4417…)
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    Andy Kong
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    Sep 15, 2024
    I read a cool post explaining how detectives extract the electric grid's "hum" from an audio recording in order to determine when it was taken All grids drift from their center frequency over time — some cities publish their historical drift, and you can match that w/ audio to
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    Andy Kong
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    Feb 3, 2025
    Ok, made some progress on 3D printing lenses
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    Andy Kong
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    Aug 31, 2025
    Replying to @TheInternetFish
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    Andy Kong
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    Jun 10, 2025
    Insane Easter egg inside the Whoop 5.0 (from FCC)
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    Andy Kong
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    Feb 4, 2025
    I've always wanted 3D printed optics for custom eyeglasses + binoculars, but the prints always turned cloudy after washing. Hand-polishing can clear it up, but the process sucks. Recently we've made some progress on doing it fast with a common kitchen material — saran wrap!
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    Andy Kong
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    Aug 4, 2025
    Solar panels can double their efficiency (20% to 40%+) if you concentrate enough light onto them, so companies make these tiny panels designed for a light concentration of ~400-1000 suns
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    Andy Kong
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    Sep 24, 2025
    if another egg post goes viral I'm gonna lose it. they'll call me eggboy for ever
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    Andy Kong
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    Sep 4, 2025
    Replying to @i2cjak
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