Elucubration

That's one of the best words I know, and also one of the most obscure: it means "the act of working studiously at night," but the literal definition of the original Latin elucubrare is "to compose by lamplight." If I was going to elucubrate, I'd want one of these fantastic miniature desk lamps built by Kosmas Santosa (kosbrick) to illuminate my workspace. 

These were built for kosbrick's Iron Builder battle against Rod Gillies (2 Much Caffeine), which you can check out here. The seed part, which you probably can elucidate from the image above, is the paint roller handle. If you want to see kosbrick elaborate on his build process, check out his blog post here. 

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