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This tiny little scratch-built electric tricycle is a insanely powerful. Some might think you don't need a crash helmet for testing a trike, but seeing the video after the break where [Ben Katz] is flying through a parking garage while slaloming between the support beams proves that this ride has some pep to it. Looking through the presentation post linked above is fun, but when we started … [Read more...]
Odds are you played the game of Operation when you were a kid. The classic electronic toy challenges you to use a tethered tweezers to extract plastic pieces without touching the sides of the holes they're hiding in. This upgrade makes the challenge more interesting for a grown-up audience. If you touch the sides you won't hear a jarring sound, you'll get a painful shock! The modification … [Read more...]
Ever wondered just how much being zapped by electricity hurts? Curious if AC is worse than DC? Want to know just how many volts a human body can take? Although many people might cringe at the shear thought of it, [Mehdi Sadaghdar] is an electrical engineer who decided to turn himself into a human guinea pig and find out. [Mehdi] measured the electrical resistance of his dry skin, his wet skin, … [Read more...]
This project most certainly has some of Trailer Park Boys rolled into it. We say that because the living room is the only place this will ever been used and this guy's reaction to getting shocked is exactly how [Ricky] would respond. The sword on the left has an electronic stun mechanism built into it. it works by energizing two blades which are separated by nylon bolts and spacers. Look … [Read more...]
It's a bit difficult to estimate the size of the Tesla coil from this picture, but look closely at the hand rail on the red-orange wall to the left and that helps. The 10-foot tall musical Tesla Coil project has been on-going for about two years. But the team at X-Labs -- a hackerspace affiliated with the University of South Florida -- finished it just in time for the University's engineering expo … [Read more...]
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