Only two were ever made. (Both are spoken for.)
To experience the thought process behind the conception, design and manufacture of these amulets, or simply to enjoy a mesmerizing micro metalworking montage, watch the following YouTube video – over 52 minutes of the highest quality content.
Ordinarily my videos only summarize the content while the technical details are expounded upon more extensively on these pages, but since the vast majority of my audience don't even read this shit I'm mixing up the formula today and presenting the following bonus items.
You can pan, tilt, and zoom using touches on mobile, and scrollwheel/mouse drags (possibly holding shift or ctrl) otherwise. If you're struggling to scroll away, grab the edges of the page outside of the viewer window.
Also present: doodles relating to a kicad teardrop plugin pull request; tea stains.
My trusty magpod was enhanced with an aluminium extension bar (threaded quarter inch at each end) in order to position the DSLR right over the action. And yes, using the lathe with this in the way is as impractical as it looks.
The bare PCB, temporarily soldered directly to a programming cable, taken out into the sun for the first time:
The amulet with battery cover removed, showing the 0.5mm pitch threads:
Two amulets:
Fun fact: by turning the lights off and using a suitably long exposure, the whole world can turn red.
As usual, the repository is also mirrored on my own git server, git.mitxela.com.