If you have ever been interested in huge telescopes this site is for you. There is a ton of details about this huge 22 Inch Binocular Telescope. Make sure you have a look at the right column of the site, many of the suppliers that were used are listed. This supplier list will give you a head start when you start your build. 🙂
Could this be the breakthrough in energy that we are needing to kick out habit on fossil fuel? With the organic solar cell I think the scientists of the world may be onto something here! "MIT chemists Daniel Nocera and Matthew Kanan discover a new catalyst that speeds up the splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen. The discovery may heighten interest in pollution-free fuel cell vehicles, which generate
If your stock alternator in your vehicle can’t supply all the power you need you can install a larger after market model. Another option would be to install five more!
Lack of sunlight at this time of year has many people experiencing Seasonal affective disorder (SAD). One way to overcome SAD is to be exposed to bright lights, with this Sun Track project you could reflect bright sunlight into your house where you may otherwise just have a dimly lit room. "The sunTrack system can reflect the sun in my house and keep the reflection all day. That way it
The prize this week is 20 of our popular LED mounting boards. These LED mounting adapter boards let you solder to a small circuit board instead of soldering directly to LED and resistor leads. This contest will run for one week (Dec 6 – Dec 11, 2008) . Ending time is based on central standard time. To enter, identify the item pictured above and give an example of what can
Robin Massink from the Netherlands has built a cool Magnetic Levitation Light Bulb it uses Wireless Energy Transfer to power the bulb. It is always weird to see something being powered with no wires! "I used this globe (http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/98b8/) for the levitating part. It consists of 2 permanent magnets, and 2 electromagnets, coupled with a hall sensor to keep a third magnet (inside the globe) floating. I mounted a
I love the look of the old rotary phones. This hack turns your old phone into a cool iPhone docking station. With 16 Watts of speakers hidden in the device there is sure to be some cool sounds coming from this covert device. "Rotary Dial 1940’s Phone fitted with an iPhone speaker dock. One speaker behind the dial (10w) on the front of the phone and two speakers in
