After tragically melting my previous HV switch, and given that a 15kV multi-ampere switch isn’t exactly something you find at Radio Shack, I’ve had to resort to more drastic measures. It was time to m…

Here’s a great article on the importance of deflocculants and specific gravity in maintaining your slip suspensions. A more modest title might be, “How to keep your mud pourable, but not too wet.” Yes…

A friend pointed out that it’s been ten years this month since I wrote an article about a particularly infamous DIY Wi-Fi antenna. While it was never a particularly efficient antenna, it served as an …

I’ve made a little progress with the mini-coil. I have two flyback drivers up and running. Each circuit fits nicely inside a 2″ ABS cup potted with silicone, now dubbed the hockey puck of DOOM. …

I’m working on a small Tesla coil project. After hours of winding and letting the polyurethane cure, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of finding the resonant frequency of your secondary + top loa…

I scored 15 bytecoins at Metrix CreateSpace yesterday. What are they worth? Well, I’ll tell you what I paid for them. I traded a shrunken Susan B. Anthony dollar for a 10-byte note, and a shrunken qua…

Here’s a very nicely done DIY liquid nitrogen generator from Ben Krasnow, the guy who brought you the DIY scanning electron microscope. Great build!

A while back, I took some photos of my spark gap Tesla coil running. Although I did get some nice shots, I couldn’t help but feel that they don’t quite capture the full experience of a real live light…

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Back when we opened our workshop, one of our members went nuts and bought a $4000 laser engraver for the space. He very graciously offered to let us all use it if we treated it well and replaced the c…