Well I was added to this blog so I could report on the weird things I find on the internet. Hope my long-rambling style and lack of in-depth scientific knowledge doesn't put your dear readers off...
Picture this: You are a brilliant scientist who has been working with the town's superhero for a number of years. You create really cool gadgets for your hero and repair or improve them as needed. You lead a simple life filled with interesting challenges on the edge of many branches of science. Your superhero might ask you to create a rainproof housing for his GPS unit one day, or ask you to reprogram the unit to track down large amounts of evil thoughts, so evildoers can be eliminated before they ever commit crimes. (then you watch Minority Report and suddenly find it hard to sleep at night...)
While your superhero is out testing his new EvilTracker 3000 (with improved motive sensing capabilities), you're cleaning up your lab and come accross this year's calendar under a pile of discarded wire and screws. You note that Christmas is only 3 months away. You wonder: What would be a good gift for your nephew, little Joey Saunders? You note by the year on the calendar that Joey isn't so little anymore. In fact, he would be close to finishing high school. You briefly wonder if a time warp has somehow masifested in your lab, but you know these don't exist on that scale. Theoretically.
As you continue cleaning up your lab you come across some random old junk:
a cordless drill
a drive circuit
A couple of different spark coils
Some diodes, capacitors, chokes
A topload sphere
more coils & a coil former
a spark gap
some other random electronics junk, and
some argon gas (well, not randomly, it's stored properly)
You suddenly have a spark (pardon the pun) of ingenuity and begin assembling these items into something you think your teenaged nephew would really enjoy... at least until his parents find out. Of course you can just explain that you were trying to get the kid interested in science, right?
Picture this: You are a brilliant scientist who has been working with the town's superhero for a number of years. You create really cool gadgets for your hero and repair or improve them as needed. You lead a simple life filled with interesting challenges on the edge of many branches of science. Your superhero might ask you to create a rainproof housing for his GPS unit one day, or ask you to reprogram the unit to track down large amounts of evil thoughts, so evildoers can be eliminated before they ever commit crimes. (then you watch Minority Report and suddenly find it hard to sleep at night...)
While your superhero is out testing his new EvilTracker 3000 (with improved motive sensing capabilities), you're cleaning up your lab and come accross this year's calendar under a pile of discarded wire and screws. You note that Christmas is only 3 months away. You wonder: What would be a good gift for your nephew, little Joey Saunders? You note by the year on the calendar that Joey isn't so little anymore. In fact, he would be close to finishing high school. You briefly wonder if a time warp has somehow masifested in your lab, but you know these don't exist on that scale. Theoretically.
As you continue cleaning up your lab you come across some random old junk:
a cordless drill
a drive circuit
A couple of different spark coils
Some diodes, capacitors, chokes
A topload sphere
more coils & a coil former
a spark gap
some other random electronics junk, and
some argon gas (well, not randomly, it's stored properly)
You suddenly have a spark (pardon the pun) of ingenuity and begin assembling these items into something you think your teenaged nephew would really enjoy... at least until his parents find out. Of course you can just explain that you were trying to get the kid interested in science, right?
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