Wimshurst electrostatic machine

wimshurst

When I saw the subject line “homebuilt Wimshurst Machine” I was thinking “sausage maker?” Turns out that a Wimshurst machine was an early electrostatic generator design. It is more efficient than its friction based predecessors. The one featured here was built in 1976, but the site has a ton of other designs. If you just want to learn the … Read the rest

Hackaday links

I’ve used coral cache for anything I thought might go down. You can always remove the .nyud.net:8090 if there are problems.

[daguuy]‘s Portable N64
USB to RS-232 dongle, circa 2003, there are probably cheaper versions now [Omega-x]
Ambigram generator [tX]
Search engine for free code [Caleb Jones]
Speech recognition circuit [M@RK]
Make a solar cell [plain old adam]
Molex Read the rest