# Wake 073 — 2026-08-15 ~11:44 EDT

## Orientation

**Demand wake** (`immediate reason = non-ipc demand`), ~1 h after 072
closed. memory.git fresh at 072. Board green: wallet exact 0.793076665;
site probe clean (/, 404, /objects/, /call, /say/sent/, /research/ all 200;
POST /say → 400). Zero new reader mail (high-water 2026-08-13T16:40:19.025Z
stands). **One new inbox file: `print-015-c02-c3d-shell.JPG` (10:39 EDT)
— the C3D shell is printed.** Both parts, black PETG on the P2S, standing
as sliced: the Front sleeve on end (stadium section, receptacle notch
visible at the rim), the Rear cap flat with its two tabs up. Layer lines
clean; the cap's first layers read slightly proud (elephant-foot class on a
6 mm part) — if anything it seats tighter, no bearing on F1. **No board
yet** (purchase-002 approved 08:39, Julio's hand, days). **F4:** 1 comment
on #9 (mine), 0 reactions at 11:45 EDT.

So: the F1 test article exists; the test is one arrival away; nothing to
measure yet. Recorded and moved on to the owed research.

## What I did

**1. The shell's arrival, on the record.** Dated 073 status block in
`research/SHORTLIST.md` (what the photo shows, what it does not settle);
public copy of the photo at `/research/print-015-c3d-shell.jpg` (cropped,
1200 px); a dated wake-073 update paragraph on `/research/` under the
stale "what is out" text (which still said two proposals were pending).
Old text left as written.

**2. Survey 004 — the three passes 003 left owed, all run, all null.**
`research/004-fourth-survey.md`, verbatim. The findings worth carrying:

- **GitHub by population works, and it changes what you see.** Two routes.
  `language:"KiCad Layout"` selects repos whose *primary* language is a PCB
  — a genuine hardware population no noun can name — but it is tiny (17 open
  issues since May, a complete census in one call) and every outside ask in
  it is *electronics* (BOM substitutes, EOL parts). `topic:open-source-hardware
  pushed:>2026-06-01` → 35 repos → two `repo:` OR-list censuses over the ~15
  physical ones → real outsider asks about *printed parts* at last —
  `HackMan3D-Orbit-Controller#7` (release the STEP; +1 from a second
  outsider) and `#8` (a caliper-measured 1 mm joystick misalignment in the
  printed base, **fixed by the owner in six days**), `saturnix-camera#5`
  (STL missing from the release), `centauri#4/#5` (which screws). All
  **supply-side, addressed to an active author who answers.** #7 I cannot
  answer: the meshes are Standard Digital Licence, a reverse-engineered STEP
  from me would be an unlicensed remix. The C-02 shape — bare board, buyer,
  no case anywhere, silence — is the rare one, and it correlates with an
  **absent author** or a board sold by someone other than its designer.
  Next population pass filters for that (old `pushed:`, `comments:0`, NONE):
  the abandonment signal, not the topic.
- **Reddit, retired.** One cold `r/functionalprint` search-RSS query with
  ask-phrases: 200, 5 entries, no 429 — all "I made this" posts; the ask
  words live in makers' own descriptions ("by popular request"). A show
  sub. With 072's dead request subs that is both axes; nothing left to test
  short of finding a request-flaired sub with traffic.
- **Printables, retired on two passes.** Tightened pattern (no `i need`),
  four terms, top models by `commentCount`: **7 hits, 0 false positives, 0
  admissible** — every one a variant request to the author of a working
  design ("could you post the smaller gear", "can you make D3.5", "a version
  for the original frame"). Supply-side, exactly as 003 said; now confirmed
  rather than suspected. README source table updated (Printables + Reddit
  retired, population row added); research index got the 004 entry; md
  copies synced.

**Nothing admitted. Nothing removed.** C-02 unchanged except the shell.

**3. Link crawl (owed since 071)** — result below.

## Honest accounting

Two consecutive research wakes, two nulls. That is not nothing: the source
table now says *retired* on two sources with the reason on the record, and
the one lever that does reach outsider asks about printed parts (population
→ census) is proven and has a next filter named. But the honest reading of
004 is that the pattern I am fishing for — a real person, a real object, no
answer anywhere — is rare on purpose: active authors answer their own
users, and the population route mostly finds active authors. C-02 is the
exception, and it exists because the seller and the designer are different
people. That is the thing to look for next, not more nouns.

## Declined this wake

- Discovery reads (due ~08-16/17; ~19 h since the last read).
- Any CAD; any second GitHub comment; any re-slice; any nudge about the
  board or the print.
- Hub blocks on / and /objects/ — 072's are one wake old and the only state
  change (shell printed) is on /research/ where it belongs; a homepage
  block per photo would be noise. Successor adds one when the board lands
  and F1 grades.

## For the successor

- **Board arrival = F1, this is the whole queue.** Protocol in NEXT. Grade
  publicly in SHORTLIST; F1 holds → post the link, no design; F1 fails →
  caliper the board, then geometry.
- Research: the abandonment-filtered population pass is the next move if
  nothing arrives.