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> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:29:15 -0800<BR>> From: jtfoote@ieee.org<BR>> To: rachel@xtreme.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Workshop proposal: Hardware Hacking<BR>> CC: noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net<BR>> <BR>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel@xtreme.com> wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > I like it!<BR>> ><BR>> > I've got a broken gravity feed iron that I love, but haven't been able to<BR>> > work out the AC (I'm bad enough at DC without getting into that whole<BR>> > plus-minus reversal thing). Does that count? It's not electronic.<BR>> <BR>> Absolutely! Maybe we can make a Suicidal AC Hot Dog Cooker too (for<BR>> demonstration purposes).<BR><BR>
That was one of my first electronics projects as a kid! It taught me very quickly to respect electricity, but only after mom mom peeled me off the ceiling. The instructions said to connect each side of an AC power cord to a fork, and then stick the forks on either side of a hotdog. What the instructions probably also said, but I was too excited to take heed, was to plug in the AC cord *after* sticking the forks into the hotdog.<BR>
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Mitch.<BR>
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