9/9/2026 - 3rd Update!

It’s 11:31 PM. It’s been a full month since Fermion was announced to the infinite depths of the internet.

It’s the night before the first day of school, senior year. The final year. The start of the end. If you had less than a year with the stuff you’ve grown up with for the past three years, what would you do?

If everything changes, what would you do?

What would I do?

welcome back and yeah, it’s the day before the start of my senior year. fermion would be quite a way to kick it off :D, there hasn’t been much progress on this at all, and im very sorry for this. after all, a bunch of unkept promises, unfulfilled dreams, you get the idea, isn’t really plesant.

so, stardance ends in 21 days. i have multiple essays and applications to finish up. 21 days, somewhere around 500 hours, probably less. how am i gonna split up my time? the goal, at least for the rest of september is to first finish river by the end of the week (its only cleanup and updates at this point), and to submit it! then, for the rest of the month, i’ll work on trying to, well, cad the whole thing in two and a half weeks

where have i heard this before? oh yeah, i dont have much confidence i could do it by the end of stardance, and that’s fine. well, it actually isnt, but hey, hopefully moving projects works by the end of it all? (ill still aim to finish)

of course, ill do last minute stuff after the deadline, probably the day after (like the wiring diagram), but lets not think that far yet!

bzz

yep! first photo, that’s currently my ideas for now. there’s no way to actually scuplt or imagine it in 3d (i mean, i can sketch, its just gonna be messy with so many iterations), so it’ll have to be a krayoncad (yes we’re using that again!). it’ll probably be some mashup of random stuff, but it’s just to get a conceptually idea, of course, then we’ll hopefully start mastersketching by next week.

speaking of which, how do you balance this with school? lemme reference the spark logs…

bad news guys, uhh… last time i tried doing this in a month, it became six months (not counting research), with the time before being a one week attempt (which got nowhere). so, we got stuff to do

• 9/10/2026 - 9/12/2026
  • Finish and submit river
  • KrayonCAD and refine ideas
  • Idea Refining (1 day)
• 9/13/2026 - 9/19/2026
  • Mastersketch (3-4 days)
  • Physics Work (1 day)
  • Subsystems (Basic) (2-3 days)
• 9/20/2026 - 9/26/2026
  • Subsystems (Detailed) (5-6 days)
  • Fixes (1 day)
  • BOM Assembly (1 day)
• 9/27/2026 - 9/30/2026
  • Electrical (1 day)
  • BOM Assembly (1 day)
  • Buffer (1 day)

But that’s impossible! It’s basically constant work and unrealistic scheduling, with almost zero free time.

yeah, that’s the issue. to pull this off, i (quite literally) need to work everyday on this, along with balancing school, essays and applications, homework, and robotics (woo), so this is quite truly a challenge. but hey, no one got anywhere stay in their comfort zone, and, frankly, ive been in mine for far too long (the second half of this summer)

so, see you on friday? or saturday, idk

anyways, it’s 11:57 PM, here’s to ambition and the will to challenge, and yeah, good night!