October 26, 2007

Name the Thing Contest - 26

Congratulation to the last contest winner. This weeks prize would be perfect to mount your camera on and document your hacks. 🙂 This contest will run for this weekend only (October 27- 28, 2007) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can be done with it. Please do not give the answer in the comments.

Animatronic Eye Mechanism

If I had one of these Animatronic Eye Mechanisms I could put it to good use this Halloween. “In order to make it possible for puppet eyes to be animated a puppet eye mechanism (commonly called an “eye mech”) must be constructed. Some eye mechanisms are manually controlled by the puppeteer’s hand inside a puppet’s head or externally via a cable control, string or lever. Moving puppet eyes can also

High Power Demonstrations

  Mental note, don’t short out bus bars. 🙂 “Here arcs were intentionally initiated by bridging wires across three copper bus bars in a testing laboratory. Three phase 480 volt power was then applied across the bus bars for about 1 second. The wires immediately explode, forming a conductive plasma which forms high current power arcs between phases. The actual fault current in the demonstration is not known, but is