[Claude Paillard] makes his own triodes (google translated) for short wave radios. The site doesn’t have a lot of details itself, but links to entire books on the history of radio tubes and manufacturing of them. [Claude] takes us through the entire process of building a triode in a 17 minute long video. Even if you aren’t into them, this is fascinating. From the looks of it, several of us might only be a pump or two short of being able to cobble one together.
[thanks Dieter]
Failure.
http://hackaday.com/2008/01/07/how-to-make-a-vacuum-tube/
Looks like new hacks are starting to run very thin…
deja vu.
I knew I’ve seen this before!
toasty
hack-a-day pwnd
Yeah i remember this from a while back.
That spot welder is really tits.
just shy of a week away from being a year after the first!
hmmm… coincidence?
andrew, fuck off
That music is giving me deja vu. It’s not even a full track but its looped for 12 minutes.
yeah…. but ive always ben wondering.. whats the name of the song he loops in the background of the movie?? i need to know. its been killing me!
Geeze, don’t you guys read your own site? I knew as soon as I saw the picture that this was the same hack as before. It’s a good one but still can’t you search your own site before posting?
nice stuff.
Sweet, that is an awesome video.
dude that was such a calming video i watched the hole thing just fr art sake.
-hero
It is like watching someone tie a fly…. amazing patience and skill. Very relaxing.
And the music is Gershwin. I think… specifically… The Man I Love.
lol?
Soon homemade transistor!
I’ve been doing transistors for a year or so now. It took about 2 years to find a process that can be done at home.
Here is my setup I took to a conference and we made solar cells, single FETs and an inverter.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeriellsworth/2835459827/
This is an inverter:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeriellsworth/2835524263/in/photostream/
This is a quick talk I gave at metalab explaining the basics.
http://www.vimeo.com/2423528
it’s the ‘slashdot disease’
Holy machine shop, Batman! No wonder he has so many jigs and rigs. I especially like the way he doesn’t wait for the mill to stop before reaching for the cutting tool. I though he was going to lose a finger there.
P.S. Thanks for resurrecting this one, I probably wouldn’t have ever come across it otherwise.
So this is, a repost. I kinda thought so, but still very cool. I don’t have the equipment to do this, but if I did I would definitely make my own.
I didn’t even see the video this time around, but I know the song, and it’s stuck in my head..lol oh well at least it’s a soothing song.
“Soon homemade transistor!”
This has two. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeriellsworth/sets/72157607161498665/
next time i see a blown tube im gonna cry
Hrm… it appears that it is a dupe. It happens. Send us more hacks to post!
Homemade transistors?
Now that’s hackworthy!
Not saying that this isn’t tho.
I was fairly impressed when I first saw this on hack a day a while back, and still is today.
Re. home made transistors, you can just about make one yourself using a pair of safety pins and chunk of galena. Not exactly precision stuff, but it is possible. Hobbyists were doing similar stuff with crystal sets for nearly a century.
http://www.qsl.net/k3pd/book.html
“Hrm… it appears that it is a dupe. It happens. Send us more hacks to post!”
That’s not your job?
I’m from the Future. This was posted again in the year 2013!