Collaborate Disseminate
When you set out to build a 60,000-volt power supply and find out that it “only” delivers a measly 50,000 volts, you naturally have to dive in and see where …read more Continue reading Lessons Learned from a High-Voltage Power Supply
It’s not entirely clear why [Advanced Tinkering] needs a 50,000-volt power supply, but given the amount of work he put into this one, we’re going to guess it will be …read more Continue reading An Adjustable High-Voltage Power Supply Built with Safety in Mind
When first starting an electronics project, it’s not uncommon to dive right in to getting the core parts of the project working. Breadboarding the project usually involves working with a …read more Continue reading AC-DC Converter is Reliable, Safe, and Efficient
It’s a pretty sure bet that anyone who survived high school biology has heard about the Miller-Urey experiment that supported the hypothesis that the chemistry of life could arise from …read more Continue reading The Primordial Soup’s On With This Modified Miller-Urey Experiment
Real-time flight data used to be something that was only available to air traffic controllers, hunched over radar scopes in darkened rooms watching the comings and goings of flights as …read more Continue reading Real Radar Scope CRT Shows Flights Using ADS-B
In our age of pervasive digital media, “pics or it didn’t happen” is a common enough cry that most of us will gladly snap a picture of pretty near anything …read more Continue reading Enjoy the Beauty of Corona Discharge with This Kirlian Photography Setup
Depending on the context of the situation, the staccato clicks or chirps of a Geiger counter can be either comforting or alarming. But each pip is only an abstraction, an aural indication of when a particle or ray of ionizing …read more
Continue reading Plasma Discharges Show You Where the Radiation Is
It is tempting to think of analogue and digital domains as entirely distinct, never to touch each other except like a cold war Checkpoint Charlie, through the medium of an ADC or DAC. In reality there are plenty of analogue effects upon digital circuitry which designers must be aware of, …read more
Imagine if you will that you are enthroned upon the porcelain, minding your own business while doing your business. You’re catching up on Hackaday on your phone – c’mon, admit it – when a whir and a buzz comes from behind you. You sit up in alarm, whereupon your lower …read more
Continue reading Fail Of The Week: Toilets And High Voltage Do Not Mix
It’s basically a lightsaber. Except smaller. And with an invisible blade. And cold to the touch. But other than that, this homebrew cold plasma torch (YouTube, embedded below) is just like the Jedi’s choice in elegant weaponry.
Perhaps we shouldn’t kid [Justin] given how hard he worked on this project …read more
Continue reading Cold Plasma Torch Produces a Cleansing Flame that Never Consumes