...or how to build a cool electronic gadgets.
Caydel writes "Greg Miller appears to have built a Night Vision Scope out of an image intensifier tube, and parts he found mostly in dumpsters. Also on Greg's site: Flyback transformers, coil guns, plasma globes and Tesla coils made from dumpster materials."
Build your very own:
- An electromagnetic linear accelerator; Coil gun
- A tater tossing page with electronic igntion
- Your source for cheap n' easy high voltage, the Flyback transformer
- A spark throwing tesla coil made entirely of garbage
- Pictures from the trash, a tribute to unwanted photographs
- Home built plasma globe. mmm..plasma
- Build your own radio controlled switch from a cordless telephone
- One of my favorite hobbies, dumpster diving
- Spud gun ignitor from a disposable camera
- Measure voltages up to 20,000 V with this home built meter
- Homebuilt night vision scope
- Homebrew telescope
- Build a TRIGATRON
- Cheap radio frequency plasma generator
This part is my favorite:
A trigatron is a high current, high power, high voltage spark-gap switch. You use a trigatron when you are switching several thousand volts at several thousand amps. You use a trigatron when you've exploded and caught fire to every other switching device or semiconductor known to man. So you might think that a trigatron would not be used in a whole lot of situations, well you are right. But, if you are among the insane or just an idiot like me you might just need one. You might need a trigatron if you are wanting to shrink quarters, or launch a disc into space, or produce an EMF so large that it shuts down a block's worth of integrated circuits and other electronic goods. You might want a trigatron to explode things with a few kJ of capacitor bank energy. You might want one to see what items in your refrigerator can sustain a few mega-watts of power. You might want a trigatron if you have a capacitor the size of a dog house. But you also just might want one because they are cool and have the phrase 'tron' in them. Do you have a trigatron, well I do..
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