[Noisebridge-discuss] Workshop proposal: Hardware Hacking

[Mitch Altman]

Too amazingly cool.  Way dangerous, too.  Still, can't imagine why people who comment on websites are so inane as to get angry about these things (serves me right for actually reading the comments -- rarely a good idea).
 
Mitch.
 
--------------------> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:34:09 -0800> From: jtfoote at ieee.org> To: maltman23 at hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Workshop proposal: Hardware Hacking> CC: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net> > 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.> >> >> > _______________________________________________> > Noisebridge-discuss mailing list> > Noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net> > https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss> >> >
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