TRANSISTORS – first family of electronics
Scientific American, August, 1956 – TRANSISTORS-first family of electronics. Related: How transistors work Microcontroller basics. How transistors of an integrated circuit are made.
Retro
Joule Thief goes “steampunk”
The Joule Thief madness continues, here used in a project to power an “on phone” status light/headset hook. Steampunk Headset Hook Related: More Joule Thief fun A cuddlier joule thief Make a Joule Thief – Weekend Projects Video Podcast The Joule Thief
Handmade mechanical dragonfly
Etsy seller JesseDanger has created this amazing precision clockwork-style insect – Modeled after the largest modern species of dragonfly, this is a functioning creation whose wings flutter up and down when the very tip of the tail (really the abdomen, but tail sounds cooler) is turned. The inspiration for this complex mechanical insect originated from […]
Tethered racing cars
On Dinosaurs + Robots, Mister Jalopy wrote about this sweet 1940s gas-powered model racer: Starting in the 1920’s, well before radio control cars, hobbyists built and raced nitro burning model cars tethered to a center point like an old Cox airplane. Eventually, there was a commercial market of such size that small manufacturers like Duro-Matic […]
Motorcycle with “steam effects”
Over at the Steampunk Workshop, Meredith Scheff interviews artist Tom Sepe about his mini-bike, converted to run on electricity with a steam boiler to add some cool sound and visual effects. Tom Sepe’s Steampunk Motorbike
Ping Pong balls make plane buoyant
Ping Pong balls make plane buoyant Modern Mechanix, 1936. Fun fact, from Donald Duck artist Carl Barks wikipedia entry… A 1949 Donald Duck ten-pager features Donald raising a yacht from the ocean floor by filling it with ping pong balls. In December 1965 Karl Krøyer, a Dane, lifted the sunken freight vessel Al Kuwait in […]
The HarmoNESica – Make a NES cartridge a harmonica
Monthenor writes – That’s a NES cartridge and a harmonica. I think you know where this is going. This is going exactly where the intersection of nostalgia and commercialism should have gone like ten freaking years ago. I’ve googled all sorts of combinations like “NES harmonica” and “nintendo harmonica” and “NES cartridge instrument” and I […]
