Category: Mad Science

Travel Tinker Trouble Kit

TTTk

Fancy yourself a bit of a MacGyver? With this you might be a bit closer if you make one of these.
This little unassuming Altoids tin holds the following:

  • A small Swiss Army Knife with the plastic removed to save space (the usual tools, knives, screw drivers, scissors, files, ect…)
  • The tiny ball point pen from the above knife, used to sit in the side cover but was inefficient there.
    Mini Sharpie marker.
  • Lock Picking Set, Tension Wrench, Rake, Diamond Pick.
  • LED light, from an old headlamp.
  • Folded piece of sand paper.
  • Paper clips.
  • Rubber bands.
  • Zip ties.
  • Dental Floss.
  • Strike anywhere matches.
  • Pills, sleeping, Clariton, Decongestant.

Not the sort of think you want to try explaining to the TSA guy when your trying to board your next flight, but then again if it will save your bacon in a tight spot you might want to stow this gem in you checked luggage. For years I kept a tiny (3″x”3″x1-/2″) first aid kit that had all sorts of ‘extra’ stuff in it with me and I can’t tell you how many time that came in handy. I think I need a new one… And some curiously strong mints.

[via MAKEzine]
Escape My Head: TTTk, Travel Tinker Trouble Kit

DIY Sentry Gun

Kevin sent me this weapon of choice the other day:

The idea of this project was to create a fully-automated sentry gun, capable of picking out a human target and accurately tracking and shooting him or her in the heart. Really, the idea was to find a cool robotics project for the summer while I was working at an advertising agency, and I’d only ever seen sentry guns in movies (like Congo) and video games (Half-Life 1, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress Classic). I couldn’t find any record of anyone building one, even the military, although it seems likely I just didn’t look hard enough. It’s a pretty simple technology.

I think I can answer why there arn’t any of these systems in the real world. You just can’t trust a robot to not shoot you in the back. Thats a tough one to code around.

Sentry Gun

The High Altitude Slug Project

The High Altitude Slug Project

No, this isn’t some banana slug snuff project, the slug this uses is the Linksys NSLU2 wireless USB storage device. After a little firmware hacking you can convert your ‘Slug’ into a web server, streaming MP3 server, or eve a VoIP PBX!
Not to be outdone by others, these guys are planning on sending theirs up in a tiny R/C airplane attached to a weather balloon. The plan is to release it at 100,000 feet and have it fly home. On it’s way down the craft will take photos and make temperature and barometric readings. All this will be run by the 266MHz XScale computer in the NSLU2. Pretty darn impressive for a simple wireless USB port!

The High Altitude Slug Project

Backscatter X-ray Scans

By using a flying beam of x-rays this company can quite literally see through walls! The technique is very much like how the picture on your TV is produced. A narrow beam of x-rays are projected to the target (like an electron gun in your TV) and the energy that is reflected back is recorded from exactly where the beam intersected the target (like how the phosphor glows in the picture tube when the electrons hit it). This builds up a picture of what is in side of the object being scanned. Items with low atomic numbers (such as explosives, drugs, cigarettes, and people) are shown in stark contrast to their surroundings.

AS&E Z Backscatter Scanning

‘NASA’CAR

Rocket Racing League

This puts a whole new spin on the old “fly low, go fast, turn left” of the sport of air racing.

The RRL will see Grand Prix-style races between rocket planes, flown by top pilots through a “3D trackway” just 5,000ft (1,500m) above the ground.
The first “X-Racers” will be built for the series, but it is hoped new teams will soon enter with novel designs.
Events will be staged across the US, culminating in a final in New Mexico

[via BBC, title by Dusty Weasel]
Rocket Racing League

Device Helps Psychic Senses?

Hyperdimensional Oscillator

Umm… yeah… Remember folks, Tesla was cool and everything – a real genius – but he also would sit with an x-ray source beaming into his head because he felt it let him think more clearly. So with that in mind, take this article with at little NaCl.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Tesla developed a device which he claimed was capable of communicating across deep space, the Teslascope. Life Technology Research International® have been granted access to documents and papers pertaining to the patent for Tesla’s original Teslascope and with the aid of our consultant electronics engineers we have been successful in creating The Hyperdimensional Oscillator™ ,a microcircuit which will duplicate the effects of the original device.
The circuit is so advanced that it is actually a superconductor powered by scalar energies, the biophoton energy of the cosmos.

A few of the benifits of the Hyperdimensional Oscillator are:

The Hyperdimensional Oscillator™ is a tool of healing and enlightenment. It has been gifted to mankind at this time to enable us to awaken and receive the transformational energies of the cosmos.

The Hyperdimensional Oscillator™ only allows subtle energy movement in one direction, which is positive and gives a positive spin of energy.

The Hyperdimensional Oscillator™ also acts as a rectifier by keeping the body’s subtle energy field in perfect balance.

The Hyperdimensional Oscillator™ corrects and filters the cosmic energies flowing into the human body to bring increased harmony and balance to the body’s electrical system.

The Hyperdimensional Oscillator™ is specially prepared to emit cosmic resonant energy frequencies that synchronize and promote a healthy human bioenergy field.

The Hyperdimensional Oscillator™ facilitates communication with higher dimensions including entities commonly termed ‘Extraterrestials’ or ‘ETs’.

And remember, do not taunt the Hyperdimensional Oscillator.

For some odd reason I have a feeling that $90US your getting a pill case with little or nothing in it. My reasoning is that in addition to being a genius, Tesla was a fantastic showman, a trait that these people obviously share with him.

New device helps develop human psychic senses