Lightning I finally got around to taking a few photos of my spark gap Tesla coil in action. It smelled like a thunderstorm for hours around the Unit last night. Enjoy! 2011-02-13 electricity #high voltage #photos #tesla
Wolfram’s Captcha I just registered for online access to Stephen Wolfram’s A New Kind of Science. As a regular user of Wolfram Alpha, I find it endlessly hilarious that the anti-bot captcha is a math problem. <img d… 2011-01-05 hackery
Plasma ball ornaments <img decoding=”async” loading=”lazy” class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-447” title=”ballplasma” src=”uploads/2010/12/ballplasma-300x273.jpgCaroline Wurden… 2010-12-24 electricity > science #high voltage
HOWTO grow your own snowflakes <img decoding=”async” loading=”lazy” class=”alignright size-medium wp-image-441” title=”snowflake” src=”uploads/2010/12/snowflake-300x258.jpgThis fun HOWTO f… 2010-12-22 electricity > science #science
First-ever live birth inside an MRI <img decoding=”async” loading=”lazy” class=”size-medium wp-image-431 alignright” title=”31649” src=”uploads/2010/12/31649-300x175.jpg Philips designed an ope… 2010-12-18 science #science #awesome #medicine
An Introduction to High-Magnification Macro Photography Phenomenal macro photos of various spiders, flies, and other insects. Watch in HD for full spider creep-out effect. Via Alex Wild. 2010-12-14 science #citizen science #creepy
The Periodic Table of Videos <img decoding=”async” loading=”lazy” class=”alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-421” title=”s12s” src=”uploads/2010/12/s12s-150x150.jpgCurious about a particul… 2010-12-13 chemistry > science #science #chemistry
Kink instability Who knew that studying plasma physics could be so stimulating? 2010-11-13 electricity > physics #fusion #lulz #physics
Trigatrons are in! My trigatrons have finally arrived. According to the datasheet, they’ll switch about 160 kW at up to 10 kV (7.2 kV typical). Sadly this is not enough for the quarter shrinker, but I think I see a mini… 2010-10-19 electricity #high voltage
Alchemy <img decoding=”async” loading=”lazy” class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-382” title=”jzqni.u.cs.png” src=”uploads/2010/10/jzqni.u.cs_.png-168x300.jpg (WARN… 2010-10-15 hackery