February 20, 2010

Ionic Spinner - Work in Progress
Electronic Hacks

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Our friend Bob Davis is working on an experimental device he calls an Ionic Spinner. It’s working but still needs some fine tuning. The first video he describes the creation but the demo doesn’t work too well, in the second video you can see the modified design and the spinner spinning away. Bob is using a TV flyback transformer in this experiment so use extreme caution if you attempt to

Name the Thing Contest - 120
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Thanks to Stanley for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a Compact HID Spotlight to a lucky contest winner. This flashlight would have come in handy last year when we did some travels and visited a number of campgrounds. It usually ended up being dark when we were setting up camp and light was always an issue. We had a number of flashlights but you can never