Construct a CNC Plasma Cutter for $3000
David Randolph was faced with a choice: buy an expensive plasma cutter or build a cheaper version at home. He chose the latter.
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Homemade Panaplex display
My friend Jon Singer sent me a link to this fellow’s homebrewed Panaplex display, using a jam jar as the vacuum chamber. Panaplex is a kind of gas-discharge plasma display tech related to the Nixie tube. The builder, Lindsay Wilson, explains the basic setup for his display: The entire thing is based on using a […]
Zoom into steel (to the atomic level!)
Weird Weird Science posted this extreme zooming video on the structure of steel – quite awesome. They have video for concrete, brass, aluminium and more available as well. – Weird Weird Science on Dailymotion Should you prefer a little more color & motion, check out Trey’s macro video of a plasma ball in action –
Found: High Powered Railgun
Collin sent me an email about this awesome railgun that has been posted in the MAKE Flickr Photo Pool. It looks like the builder used about 42, very large capacitors. All of them are dangerously easy to touch. Hopefully there will be a write-up soon, so we can learn more about how it was made. […]
Plasma speaker
Very cool little plasma audio project – if the visual audio correlation here seems vague, check out Timetec’s frequency modulated prototype Plasma Speaker/Tweeter [via] Related: Tesla coil super mario duet Tesla guitar
