June 5, 2010

Name the Thing Contest - 134
Contests

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Thanks to Dangerous Prototypes for sponsoring the contest this week. They will be providing a project that most of you have already seen! You will be able to test your own storage to death with your very own Flash Destroyer.  The current count is just shy of 10 million which is my failure guess. If it doesn’t go soon who knows when it will fail. If you can’t wait you

Geek Group Impulse Generator Demonstration - Project Thumper
Complex Hacks

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The Geek Group has lots of interesting equipment but the Thumper Project is one of the most impressive. The system has gone through 7 revisions so far and more are in the works. Our friend Bob Davis has been making lots of similar devices but on a bit of a smaller scale. “Thumper is a High Energy DC Impulse Generator that is capable of producing a 1,800 Volt discharge of