Lab Notes hero — garage workshop crammed with tools, devices, and the operator

Lab Notes · Public Build · Unsanctioned tools

Oh Geez.
It's just eyes, you know?
Who needs to know all this stuff?

Each apparatus calibrates from one wallet-size rectangle held to the forehead. After that, the rest of the apparatuses use the same calibration. The instruments below are released for public operation; the rest of the lab is restricted access.

Apparatus APP-000

Eyeball Analyzer

● online

Twenty-minute walk-through. Inputs: your current numbers, a few questions about how you use your eyes. Outputs: a working theory of why the numbers drifted and a concrete first move. Closest thing this lab does to a free first consult — start here if you don't have a measurement to log yet.

Eyeball Analyzer entry screen: "Your eyesight might be 'fixable.'" with the Let's find out button

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Apparatus APP-001

Measure PD (pupillary distance)

● online

Outputs: pupillary distance, in millimeters. Inputs: any rectangle of plastic, held to your forehead. Built because the local optometrist won't write it down for you. Functions in 1.0 ± 0.2 mm.

PD readout: 63.4 mm

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Apparatus APP-002

Learn Active Focus

● online

Demonstrates the brief sharpening reflex that the establishment forgot to mention exists. Subject participation required. Yes, that means you. Most subjects fail to notice the effect on the first three attempts. This is by design.

Snellen chart visible during a hunting session

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Apparatus APP-003

Measure CM Distance

● online

Live readout, eye-to-screen, in cm. Bands the data into healthy / strain / clamping. Subjects who insist they sit far enough are encouraged to check. Most are off by 15 – 20 cm. Telemetry persists across sessions.

Live distance telemetry: 58 cm, banded healthy, stable

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Apparatus APP-004

End-of-Cycle Strain Ledger

○ in fab

Tallies the day's accumulated bad posture into one regrettable number. Currently in fabrication.

Apparatus APP-005

Translate Contact Lenses ↔ Glasses

● online

Vertex-distance compensation between the corneal plane and the spectacle plane. Inputs: any diopter you have, or a blur-edge distance you measure with the camera. Outputs: the matching number on the opposite plane, rounded to 0.25 D.

Both-plane readout: −3.75 D glasses, −3.50 D contacts

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Apparatus APP-006

Centimeter Ledger

● online

Daily log of subject blur edge, in cm. Charts the migration over a 14-day field study, projects a 12-month population trajectory under three engagement modes. Trial members get the full study scaffolding; everyone else gets the same logging tool, plain.

14-day blur-edge trend chart, lime trajectory line

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Restricted Access — Member Apparatuses

The public apparatuses measure. The member apparatuses change the numbers.

Lens recommendations matched to your numbers, daily protocols, the parts that only twenty years of operating this lab can tune. Open to subjects for one (1) USD, trial duration one week, decline at any time.

Request lab access ($1) →

New here? The Eyeball Analyzer is the 20-minute walk-through — your numbers, why your eyes got worse, what to do about it.

● Build C-137 · Operator: G. (kinda retd.) · Lab Notes maintained since the late ‘90s.

▲ Apparatus output is descriptive, not predictive. Your local professional still gets a vote. We just wanted you to have the data.