Site Map

The whole archive, arranged on one page — sections, essays, projects, and holdings.


  • Home

    The masthead and recent additions.

  • Bench & Binder

    Electronics education, restoration, and the course-reconstruction ledger.

  • Library

    The catalog of books, manuals, and correspondence courses.

  • Institutions

    Historical register of the schools and makers behind the materials.

  • Projects

    Restoration and research work in progress.

  • Ideas & Inquiry

    Essays in philosophy, history, and the history of ideas.

  • Notebook

    The bench journal — dated notes and observations.

  • Search

    Search across the whole archive.

  • Preservation & Copyright

    The archive's mission and editorial standards.

  • About

    The scholar behind the archive, and how to make contact.

The Independent Scholar

Curiosity without a curriculum.

A personal record of things studied, built, repaired, collected, questioned, and occasionally understood.

Set in EB Garamond, Libre Baskerville, and IBM Plex Mono. Designed in the spirit of a Renaissance notebook read by the light of an electronics bench.