OK, so it’s not, actually.
In this project, we’ll build a small, vertical-axis wind turbine, or VAWT for short.
I’ve always wanted to take pictures through a microscope so I can see what tiny screws and coins look like when magnified, but I don’t have the money to purchase that kind of equipment.
For this tutorial, you will need (or at least it is helpful to have) a knowledge of the Python programming language.
What do you do with the toilet brush right after you use it?
It’s rare to get very low temperatures where I live, but last winter the temperature was low enough to freeze and burst pipes.
The first spectroscopes used glass prisms to split light into colors, but Fraunhofer found that an array of closely spaced wires had the same effect. Today we call these arrays of tiny slits diffraction gratings.
Sometimes running a handmade biz can get pretty pricey.
Collin Cunningham teaches you how to etch your own circuit boards using the photoengraving method.
This project by Collin uses a familiar schematic — the light-sensitive oscillator (aka “phototheremin”) as originally described in Forrest Mims’ book Timer, Op Amp and Optoelectronic Circuits & Projects.
Many an experimenter, hacker, tinkerer, & maker have heeded the call of the mighty matrix – and it’s no mystery why.