[Noisebridge-discuss] Workshop proposal: Hardware Hacking

[Jonathan Foote]

Great anecdote! Yes, it made a lasting impression on me too.

Have you seen this? Windell figured out there's enough of a voltage
drop across the dog to light LEDs:

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/hotdogs

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Mitch Altman <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:29:15 -0800
>> From: jtfoote at ieee.org
>> To: rachel at xtreme.com
>> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Workshop proposal: Hardware Hacking
>> CC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > I like it!
>> >
>> > I've got a broken gravity feed iron that I love, but haven't been able
>> > to
>> > work out the AC (I'm bad enough at DC without getting into that whole
>> > plus-minus reversal thing). Does that count? It's not electronic.
>>
>> Absolutely! Maybe we can make a Suicidal AC Hot Dog Cooker too (for
>> demonstration purposes).
>
> 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.
>
> Mitch.
>
>
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