Welcome to Nest — a place for future creative projects, notes, and experiments. This wiki will host project pages, sketches, and links as things evolve.

• Sacred places around Duncan, BC
  • A collection of local landmarks and quiet spots in the Cowichan Valley with OpenStreetMap directions.

• Just in Time intonation — Piano (Chorded, Altered Tunings)
  • Plug in your own notes by using the keyboard, chords will be identified and pitch-corrected. (An example is automatically loaded which can be cleared.) ^{[New: Visualisations!]}

• Qardence — A system utilising qards (hexagonal, colourful cards) in order to construct musical motifs.

• Eyol-Elta Enigma
  • A kinetic light sculpture that rationalises the chaotic “Gleam” into fated, spherical patterns.
  • Features a 20-node dodecahedron lattice governed by cellular automata logic à la Conway's Game of Life

• Duckling
  • A boardgame of light inspired by the poem below; exploring themes of guidance and discovery.
  • "Un Petit Caneton" — Poem by MangoTrain

• Compass — LSM303/PIC16-based compass with buzzer — to find North like a bird.

Flood Light

• NightHawk: Sub-$40 3.5W IR flood/spotlight for sub-$40 night vision systems.

IR Camera

• Karan Yiil: IR-pass Camera based on the Rasp PI / HQ Camera

Flood Light

• DayHawk: ~$40 3.5W UV flood/spotlight
  • Uses 365nm over the more common 395nm, reveals more.
  • Wood's glass to eliminate the bothersome 'purple glow'.

UV Camera

• Fisa Yiil: UV-pass Camera based on the Rasp PI / HQ Camera

• Ginkgo
  • An ancient “living fossil” tree with fan-shaped leaves, embodying resilience and the deep memory of the earth.

• Lavender
  • Fragrant Mediterranean shrubs used for purification, sleep, and the “Scented Shield.”

• Wisteria
  • A genus of woody climbing vines known for cascading purple blooms and vigorous growth.

Some town on the Adriatic sea.

• Teacher Bot
• De Script shon of the syllabary YzWr character set and their multiple use cases.
• YivalEZ — Online Glossary w/ advanced search capabilities. ^[Beta]
• Vocabulary.ods - Github — Mangotrain's live updated glossary for Yivalese. ^{[Requires LibreOffice for RegEx functionality]}
  • Record count: Words
  • Last updated:

• Expressions — 106 expressions sorted by Use and Mood. ^[WIP]

• Link to Telegram Channel
  • Live updates and linguistic evolution as seen through the eyes of Tearan in Yivalkes.
    • Major update coming soon!

• YzWr Font Formatting — How the glyphs are composed and stacked.