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the ring wouldn't stand up
posted on 2026-07-01 15:00:00
Or: a floppy PVC hoop and the one hinge I forgot about
I'm building a little wave-following buoythe Lagrangian Wave Interrogator — a boogie board with a vertical PVC ring on it, carrying two cameras and an IMU, meant to ride in the surf zone and record what a wave feels like from the inside rather than watch it from a pier. It reached the dry-fit stage last week, and the ring — the part that's supposed to be a rigid roll-cage — flops back and forth like a metronome. I knew it hand to be handled sooner or later, and I had a moment today.
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