2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=2328#Comment_2328 2007-12-01T19:51:53-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 cragum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=742

anybody in here have any home projects that would fall under the purview of madness? a little while ago i got my hands on some free 9V batteries, and given that i have no electronics that require ...

a little while ago i got my hands on some free 9V batteries, and given that i have no electronics that require them, i got myself a 9V clip and have been running currents through an assortment of things.

the remotely interesting ones so far:
a piece of pencil lead: it started smoking like crazy, some sort of liquid came off of it, and glowed a deep red
my knife: also smoked like crazy, shot a lot of sparks all over
water i was drinking: i found this quite shocking.
an LED from a broken flashlight: i blew it up, and melted it's insides.

i wish i had pictures, but i lack a camera. D:]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=2332#Comment_2332 2007-12-01T19:57:41-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 lamuella http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=676

i wish i had pictures, but i lack a camera. D: did you run an electric current through it and destroy it?

i wish i had pictures, but i lack a camera. D:

did you run an electric current through it and destroy it?]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=2337#Comment_2337 2007-12-01T20:02:23-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 JaredRules http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=374

did you run an electric current through it and destroy it? hahahahahahahaha

did you run an electric current through it and destroy it?

hahahahahahahaha]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=2353#Comment_2353 2007-12-01T20:24:49-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Zachary Cole http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=927

a piece of pencil lead: it started smoking like crazy, some sort of liquid came off of it, and glowed a deep red That was its SOUL, sir. The soul of lead pencils, that guides your SAT scores to ...

a piece of pencil lead: it started smoking like crazy, some sort of liquid came off of it, and glowed a deep red

That was its SOUL, sir. The soul of lead pencils, that guides your SAT scores to the ground.

- Zachary -]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=2355#Comment_2355 2007-12-01T20:30:34-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Ben http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=700

Does making a still in my kitchen count? Okay, my brother was the one who made it, but still. *ba-dump* We've made absinthe, whiskey*from a bad batch of beer, not the proper way* and jet fuel so ...

We've made absinthe, whiskey*from a bad batch of beer, not the proper way* and jet fuel so far. I think the next step is grappa.

The only crazyness would be the fact that it is a half-keg sawsalled open and sitting on top of the stove. The entire apparatus sprawls throughout the whole kitchen. Crazy copper piping and all. Our first condenser was filled with stones from Nootka Island for sentimental purposes, but it just gave the thing too much surface area and our test bottle of wine was distilled into a couple hundred milliliters of make-you-blind-juice. It went boom nicely though.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3086#Comment_3086 2007-12-03T06:27:22-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Doc Ocassi http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=410

I linked up all my table lamp sockets to a light-switch at the door, it is probably the best thing I have ever done.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3164#Comment_3164 2007-12-03T08:57:18-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 caiasward http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=186

I took apart a window air conditioner, extended the refrigeration lineset, moved the evaporator to my computer cabinet and kept the condenser in the window just so I could run a 12000 BTU AC unit to ...

And only my computer.

I have no heat problems with my computer.

Ever.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3172#Comment_3172 2007-12-03T09:01:18-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Voodoo Kinky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1228

There was the time I decided to wire my brand new telly into my brand new amp and speakers for massive surround sound. It all sounded great until I turned on the CD player, and forgot the basic ...

was the time I decided to wire my brand new telly into my brand new amp and speakers for massive surround sound. It all sounded great until I turned on the CD player, and forgot the basic principals of electronics. I pumped a hell of a lot of wattage into the TV and blew the sound cards....

That was more stupidity than madness. I'd say madness was when I found an old moped and decided to get it running. Some ped-geek site suggested pouring some petrol into the cylinder head, replacing the spark plug and giving it a jolt to clear the tubes. Lacking precision or any real attention I pretty much covered the thing is gas, sat on it and kicked off. The engine exploded into life and sent me hurtling down the road with two-stroke fireball 6 inches from my bollocks]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3224#Comment_3224 2007-12-03T10:06:28-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2

I'm worried that I may have accidentally invented the new Something Awful here...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3230#Comment_3230 2007-12-03T10:12:02-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Voodoo Kinky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1228

Either that or a shortlist for the Darwin Awards...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3264#Comment_3264 2007-12-03T11:08:22-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Solario http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=58

My dad once asked me, dead serious, to shove a screwdriver into a lightbulb socket. I often wonder why he's trying to kill me.

I often wonder why he's trying to kill me.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3305#Comment_3305 2007-12-03T12:15:54-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 gwferguson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=495

Oh, sweet Crom! In my checkered career I've: --made a 7 ft. potato cannon --generated near-lethal amounts of chlorine gas in my parents' basement --blown up a pumpkin with calcium carbide and ...

--made a 7 ft. potato cannon
--generated near-lethal amounts of chlorine gas in my parents' basement
--blown up a pumpkin with calcium carbide and water
--soaked the backyard with Diet Coke/Mentos spew
--walled in a doorway a la "The Cask of Amontillado" with empty Coke cans
--made gunpowder and nitrogen tri-iodide FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY (ahem!)
--and many other perversions]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3342#Comment_3342 2007-12-03T12:56:08-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 ravnos http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=644

In running with the whole "being a massive nerd" thing... I bought a Nerf sniper rifle and modded it so it shoots over twice as far as it's supposed to, and actually kind of looks like a ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3399#Comment_3399 2007-12-03T14:08:28-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Scribe http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=904

When I was a child I discovered that if you take a desk lamp and place a watch battery where the bulb base goes, positive side down, and then turn on the lamp, the battery will become a projectile ...

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3583#Comment_3583 2007-12-03T17:37:32-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Ben http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=700

@gwferguson Nitrogen tri-iodide! I thought I was the only one! Hehee. Though we left it to dry in the garage and went to play video games. We were in seventh grade. Dad comes home, drives his ...

Nitrogen tri-iodide! I thought I was the only one! Hehee. Though we left it to dry in the garage and went to play video games. We were in seventh grade. Dad comes home, drives his car into the garage only to be met with a large explosion and a great purple cloud. XD

Mmm. Potato cannons. I had a seven footer as well. Strapped it to the rollbars of my bright orange '73 VW Thing and fired rags into the air, then drove after them and caught them. Aaah. Country life.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3685#Comment_3685 2007-12-03T19:35:24-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Sara 013 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=400

anybody in here have any home projects that would fall under the purview of madness?I try keep all my madness confined to the lab....

anybody in here have any home projects that would fall under the purview of madness?I try keep all my madness confined to the lab....]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3699#Comment_3699 2007-12-03T19:58:42-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Swift Benjamin http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=819

Ben, Fergeson: I'm sorry to inform you that, for reasons of national security, your experiments have been reported to the HSA. Don't move, don't call, we know where you are. I never made anything ...

I'm sorry to inform you that, for reasons of national security, your experiments have been reported to the HSA. Don't move, don't call, we know where you are.

I never made anything more explosive than combining a little acetelyn and oxygen in a balloon, a little light, a lot of noise and not much else. I did build a compressed air potatoe gun that could fire golf-ball through a 1/2 inch of plywood when I was in high school. My mechanical science teacher gave men an A, my advisor asked me to see the counselor, something about building a home made seige mortar.

These days I just wrench on my bike and try to think of new things to run through my uncle's still.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3732#Comment_3732 2007-12-03T21:08:16-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 gwferguson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=495

Ben: No, you're definitely not alone! Why, there are entire communities of people devoted to The Technology Underground! Metalcowboy: That's okay; I have uranium and a UFO Detector. Let 'em try ...

No, you're definitely not alone! Why, there are entire communities of people devoted to The Technology Underground!

Metalcowboy:
That's okay; I have uranium and a UFO Detector. Let 'em try to infiltrate Fortress Ferguson!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3743#Comment_3743 2007-12-03T21:25:31-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Ben http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=700

I have this feeling that I read backyard-ballistics.com when I was a kid. Strange. Also, yay! Things that go boom!

Also, yay! Things that go boom!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3804#Comment_3804 2007-12-03T23:34:17-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 Demarc http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=496

I recently modded an Altoids tin with a speaker, a potentiometer, and an audio jack so that I could have my own Personal Ambiance Device. Never go a day without your own background music again!

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3810#Comment_3810 2007-12-03T23:43:58-08:00 2013-05-18T19:45:03-07:00 cragum http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=742

my own background music? that is something far too awesome to pass up. please share how you made this device Demarc.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=90&Focus=3821#Comment_3821 2007-12-04T00:14:41-08:00 2007-12-04T00:18:57-08:00 Demarc http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=496

It's a pretty simple circuit. You take an 8 ohm speaker and hook the negative wire to the ring portion of the audio jack and the positive wire to the middle leg of a 25 ohm potentiometer. Then ...

Get an Altoids tin and bore a hole in the short side of it large enough to fit the jack into place. You don't want to put the hole in the middle or you'll run out room inside. Next to the audio jack you put the potentiometer. Bore a hole in the bottom of the tin to fit the knob. Don't let the legs of the potentiometer touch the audio jack or you'll short the circuit.
With the potentiometer and the audio jack on one side, there should be just enough room left for the speaker. Put it in, with the noise-producing part against the bottom of the tin, and mark where it will rest. Now comes the fun part. Make the speaker grill by punching holes inside the area where the speaker will rest, leaving about a quarter inch along the edge undamaged. You can then put the speaker in and, if you want, glue it down or otherwise secure it. There wasn't much room for mine to move around anyways, so I let it be like that.
You can then close the lid of the tin and plug in a male-to-male cable between the PAD and the music player of your choice. Put the PAD in your jacket pocket and let your soundtrack be heard.
(Yes, I know there are technical terms for the tip and ring, but I work with telephones. It makes more sense that way.)
EDIT: And when I say hooking up the wires, I mean soldering. If you haven't soldered before, just use my method and put giant globs on each connection so that there's no way in hell it's coming undone.]]>