I loved the videos and description for the cathode ray tubes. Certain objects are so engrained in our daily lives that making them seems outside the realm of possibility for a regular shmuck. Hell, I make my own mustard, and a few people refused to believe even that!

Very cool.

Posted at 5:34 pm on Nov 20th, 2006 by n3rrd

I’ll probably kill myself making it.

Posted at 5:53 pm on Nov 20th, 2006 by Garrett

Now that can become usefull in making something as a visual effects or even a handheld osilliscope if someone can whip that up.

I would make a cluster of seven of them and have the X and Y axis electromagnets placed where needed to make one killer visual for media players.

Posted at 6:03 pm on Nov 20th, 2006 by Azurus

I should point out that an MUCH easier (and one that doesn’t require a vacuum pump running to use it) source of small crt’s is old video cameras. You know, like when they had the pop out viewfinder ;)

You can even get color ones ;)

Plus major points for making one on your own tho, man!

Posted at 6:38 pm on Nov 20th, 2006 by ...

I’d rate this a 10 on the hack scale, but the reality is that you can get nos 1″ crt tubes on ebay for just a couple of bucks that will certainly provide a better display. So the real-world value isn’t that great. But, again, the hack is brilliant!

Posted at 12:28 pm on Nov 22nd, 2006 by agent420