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Upcoming public demos, events etc. I'll be participating in
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I can often be found lurking or presenting at Dorkbotlondon meetings.
NEW! May 2007 - I've put some of my vids + some new ones here on Youtube
Loewe multi- valve The first ever integrated circuit, from 1926! | The BIG stuff Serious glass. | High-frequency valves plus klystrons & magnetrons. | Spark gap and triggered gap tubes and small thyratrons. |
Miniature
valves ..and the cutest little CRT you'll ever see...! |
Vintage valves | Mercury Arc Rectifiers How you made DC before silicon. | Lamps etc. Antique / unusual bulbs & arc tubes.. |
Neon lamps and neon strobe tubes. | Geissler tubes pretty discharge tubes from before the days of neon. | Assorted glass components Weston cells, crystals, geiger tubes, vacuum guage. | Photoelectric Cells and photomultipliers. |
Nixie tubes, dekatrons & counting tubes Digital glass stuff. | Nixie Clock project Full construction details including PCB artwork. | Advertisments for early electronic stuff incuding very early transistors & computing, from the early 1950s. | Interesting
old frequency counter Unusual display device |
Old technical
books online Old technical books covering obsolete technology |
Industrial Valve specs and data sheets Thyratrons, Ignitrons, cold-cathode tubes, power valves etc | Very Clever Glassware including a glass analogue to digital converter and a 256 bit memory tube. | Valve & Vintage electronic Links |
Warning! Tesla coils and their ancillary equipment are VERY VERY dangerous and you should not even THINK about trying to make one unless you really understand the dangers of high-voltage electrical systems. And even then you probably shouldn't.
Tesla coil pictures Trying not to burn down my garage. | Zapping CD's What to do with that Spice Girls CD you got for Xmas. | Lightbulb plasma globe Storm in a bulb. | Laptop Hell Remember those 'portable' PC's with plasma displays? |
Fun with Argon Inert gas getting slightly more ert. | Zapping Electronic stuff Chip frying. | High voltage demo at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. | UK
Teslathon Corby '98 First UK teslathon. |
UK Teslathon Corby '99 | UK
Teslathon Cambridge '99 With AVI's of coils and exploding stuff |
UK Teslathon Corby 2000 | Fun with a surge generator Can-crushing, ballistic maglev and exploding stuff. |
Jacob's Ladders High-voltage flames | Tesla Coil Motor Electric 'wheel of fire' effects. | Fun with Plasma in a xenon flash tube | "Quick & Dirty" Marx Generator Big sparks - fast! |
The Destruct-O-Tron Three Thousand
Joules of danger! |
The Jacobs-Ladder-O-Phone of fire! A new twist on an old HV device |
Marx Three |
UK
Teslathon Derby 2004 |
Sparks of Fire High voltage AND flames - cool! |
Amberley
Teslathon 2004 |
High-speed
camera meets destruct-o-tron Amazing footage! |
Destruction in
the name of charity
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The Spark-O-Phone Sound improvisation by electrons... |
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50KV Electron Microscope PSU | Info on high-power pulse switching devices trigatrons, thyratrons and various other -trons. | Tesla coil and high-voltage links |
Inside Electric Stuff - Ever wondered what electronic gadgets look like inside but were scared to get your screwdriver out ? |
Commercial exploitation department : (Warning : may contain something that is actually useful)
Electric Stuff for sale | Electric stuff for auction | Universal
prototyping board Highly flexible board for DIP and SMD building. |
Red-Eye Infra-red protocol converter for Pace UK digital cable boxes |
Press / web articles etc. featuring this site :
Video of
French TV coverage of Dorkcamp 2006, featuring Spark-o-Phone & other fun stuff
Liberation magazine (French)
report on Dorkfest 2006 (Try Babelfish
for translation)
National
Science Digital Library Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology (July 19, 2002)
IEEE Spectrum magazine, June 2002
Electronics Weekly, 5th June 2002
WorldVillage Family (!) Site of the Day
Yahoo! Pick of the week 22nd May 2000
HiFi News magazine October 98 - copy of article here
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