Tristan has taken some EBay capacitors and some charging components to build a cool Disc Launcher. His home made coil self destructed on the last launch but it worked very well till that point. “This project was started in Spring of 2006. I had taken a several year break from working on any HV / EMP project. In that time I was changing jobs, getting married, and buying a
What happens when you apply way too much voltage to a circuit? Watch the video and see for yourself! “Check out this video by Legs & MrPinky showing you exactly what happens when you apply 240V of AC power to various different computer hardware, there’s also a sledgehammer introducing itself to a hard drive thrown in for good measure…..” Via: Hack247
Andrew McCaskey from Slashdot Review posted an interesting video of a motor that could develop into a common method of increasing efficiency. “Scuderi’s cycle is much like the Miller cycle in that it attempts to delay the opening of the exhaust valve as much as possible to take full advantage of the expanding combustion gases. Traditionally, the Miller cycle -completely unrelated to Miller Time, by the way – uses
Sanjiv Dutta saved some money when he decided to make this LED Based Handycam Light instead of going to the store and buying one. It looks very bright and based on the pictures on his site (scroll to the bottom) it seems to work very well! "I have come with a naive solution, but a working one. I put resistors to drop the supply voltage when needed, by means of
Here is a better look at the cool LED fabric that was shown last week. “This video shows the full extent of how far the technology has gone, with different colors, how the fabric reacts to touch (which is surprisingly like a normal fabric) and how LumaLive can be made useful on other things like sofas or in other places around the house. For example, a Lumalive clock on
After looking at a few DIY flashlights that included the Hacked Gadgets Mouse Light the Garage Door Remote Flashlight was an obvious progression! This hack looks great, I will have to keep my eye open when I go to my next garage sale. “I took the circuit board from the case, snapped the case back together and used a drill press to make the two holes. I then soldered the
You may remember the first RGB light from tobe.nimio.info. They have made a new and improved version. A schematic is also provided. “After making my pyramid mood light with 12 high power leds, i decided to make a bigger and better version, without the emphasis on the low budget.. After all, the pyramid mood lamp was more of a proof of concept with its shortcomings. I wanted the new
