Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I’m not a big fan of cars with woofers so loud that their cheap chrome trim rattles lose but this speaker is worthy of respect:
Unfortunately, Tim and his crew didn’t realize just how much acoustical power the sub could generate, and didn’t build the vehicle to contain it appropriately. Even at less than 1/2 output, the doors were blown off the tracks, and the entire vehicle ballooned in and out several inches.
That is one hell of a speaker!
[via OhGizmo]
If there ever was a toy that screamed out "mod me, hack me, subvert my cuteness!" it’s this. What could be more fun to cram a camera into than a remote control flying Doraemon helicopter? I mean, it a robotic cat from the 25th century after all. It needs some mad video moves. With this you will be one step closer to ruling the world…
[via Oh Gizmo!]
Come June the military is going to run some tests to the effects of study ground shock effects on deeply buried tunnels. To do this they will detonate 700 tons (a little less power than 600 tons of TNT) of heavy AN/FO in a shallow pit 65 miles north west of Las Vegas some time in the summer of 2006. Should be quite a bang but not the biggest done by the propeller heads That was in the 80’s it weighed in at around 4000 tonnes of AN/FO over at White Sands.
I will be building one of these myself shortly. I used to have a nice 25 VDC bench top power supply but a leaky water pipe sent it to electronics heaven. The units looks like to needs a load to stay on, that would normaly be the mother board of a PC but in my casse I think I’ll use a 12V neon case light. Should be hard to forget that I left it on with it glowing like a spent fuel storage pool.
[via MAKE]
Nothing is sweeter than a camera that has been subverted to pass infrared light. I have a Nikon 950 that is just waiting for me to do this…
[via MAKE]
I spotted this on MAKE today, looks pretty cool. Sadly, it’s not part of some giant Victorian inspired wooden robot thats driven by steam and springs that will clamber across the lowlands in search of villages to trounce. It’s part of an assignment to build a wooden toy that was inspired by the works of Leonardo da Vinci.
[via MAKE]