Comments on: hackaday links

By: molecule hacker

molecule hacker — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:16:06 +0000

Usefulness of chloroform:

1) Extracting interesting compounds (esp. alkaloids) from certain plants
2) Chemical welding of some plastics
3) improvised anesthetic for field-expedient emergency surgery
4) getting cancer more easily
5) this one is too dirty and cruel, so I’ll leave it up to your imagination

By: Frogz

Frogz — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 11:45:55 +0000

that frog… disturbing…
but, as said before
what real use for colorforms do we have?

By: radioeyes

radioeyes — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:08:32 +0000

chloroform is only good for killing yourself for all I know. did you get the recipe from tyler durden?

By: Bong Bong Gad

Bong Bong Gad — Tue, 31 May 2005 23:59:20 +0000

i have to ask.. what the hell do you think you’re going to do with chloroform?

By: molecule hacker

molecule hacker — Tue, 31 May 2005 21:55:31 +0000

Just to flash my street cred, I’m a chemist.

The chloroform trick works, but there is a much better way to do it that requires a slightly different apparatus. It goes more efficiently if you have external cooling of the vessel containing the bleach (use ice/water mixture) and set up a water cooled distillation head with a cooled collection vessel (use ice/acetone). Then slowly add the acetone so the reaction doesn’t get super hot or reach a fast boil.

Don’t heat a closed system!

By: ST

ST — Tue, 31 May 2005 15:09:49 +0000

Dude complaining about furs? Where, I wanna laugh at him!

By: eru

eru — Tue, 31 May 2005 12:02:02 +0000

That is some crazy frog mod… Ive been working on modding an old laptop into my TV to make a media center, in honor of the frog mod, my MCTVs desktop is that little froggie!

By: Tweaq

Tweaq — Tue, 31 May 2005 10:54:39 +0000

i saw the chloroform on http://zarlwilliam.blogspot.com/ (awesome site) has anyone tried it yet, and does it work, without death and or other dangers?

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 31 May 2005 05:36:15 +0000

it would be sweet if the frog swam around in the tank like one of those electric ones in ur bathtub

it would be sweeter if it did it using the frogs own muscles and electric current..

rite now its just gross

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 31 May 2005 02:06:13 +0000

your link to my chloroform page blew my site’s previous WEEKLY traffic record out of the water in 3 hours. thanks!

oddly enough, i had stumbled upon this site all by myself about a week earlier.

By: Ratty

Ratty — Tue, 31 May 2005 00:12:52 +0000

I see no point in adding the actual frog corpse to that “server”, other than so they can call it “art” and put it in a gallery rather than a less popular public place and call it an interactive robotics experiment.
Not big or clever, just attention seeking.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 31 May 2005 00:03:53 +0000

those half life 2 pictures are crazy, it’s crazy how well people at home can create such images.

By: ian

ian — Mon, 30 May 2005 22:12:20 +0000

well that frog is kinda lame considering its just controlled by microservos. theres no real muscle control going on there. if they closed up the skin it might look as though you were just controlling the frog with the computer, but since you can see the servos its just a nasty lookin robot… later

By: ian

ian — Mon, 30 May 2005 22:12:19 +0000

By: Joshua Holbrook

Joshua Holbrook — Mon, 30 May 2005 22:01:27 +0000

…

Ohh SNAP!

The frog thing is neat though. I can only hope the control computer fits in with the other exibits if this is displayed (which it looks like it’s supposed to be). A beige box in the art gallery would sure be ugly. Of course, it could be that everything’s controlled by people at home and that there ISN’T a control computer near the display… but that wouldn’t be any fun.