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Get LITHIUM( Li) from Rechargeable Batteries !

Posted by sjackm on 13 March 2010

So I was just scouting for some cool mini science projects on youtube, and I accidentally found this :

As it says in the video, you should rapidly put this metal in a jar, or even better, in mineral oil.  Being the first metal in its group, it’s( I think) the most reactive metal. It’s so reactive that it reacts just standing in the air ( you can see in the video that it gets black).

One can make awesome reactions with it or just burn it, it burns with a light comparable to that of sun. Have fun! ( if you have the money, these batteries are expensive =)) )

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Robots! What?

Posted by sjackm on 15 February 2010

Robot

A small robot

I discovered today a lovely guide( actually “instructables” as they like to call them) on how to build several types of robots on a cool site everyone should visit, because all the articles there are posted on different categories.

Here’s the link to that guide I was talking about : LINK

The walker

The motor walker

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USB LED Glow Stick Tutorial

Posted by sjackm on 3 September 2009

Am facut un tutorial pentru un concurs in care se cere sa ai durata maxima de 30 de secunde. N-am putut altcumva decat sa accelerez vorbitul intr-un program, veti da pauza de cate ori vreti sa observati ceva in detaliu :P .

Din pacate tutorialul este in engleza, dar majoritatea stiti limba engleza :P

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Making Oxygen(first attempt)

Posted by sjackm on 29 June 2009

Daca nu stiti engleza, incercati acest translator

OK so I decided to make a simple apparatus for making oxygen from electrolysis. I also made hydrogen during this experiment, but I didn’t collect it. The bothering thing was that it took 8 hours(!!!) to fill just a quarter of my small collecting “tank” ( which is a jar btw…).

Secondery products, in smaller quantities, were chlorine gas and , I think, Na that combined with water resulting NaOH. I’m not pretty sure about this though. I plan redoing this next week when I’ll make the anode( the electrode where the oxygen is producing) better- I’ll increase its surface.

But until then whatch the video :P . You’ll see at the final of the video what cool effect has oxygen over super heated wood.

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Home-Made speaker Test 1 !

Posted by sjackm on 20 May 2009

Hey all, I found a cool method to build a speaker ! Just search after “kipkay” on youtube, you’ll surely find it :P

And it’s quite cool too. This is what I did :

  • Made a coil on some scrap paper
  • Glued the coil on the plastic plate
  • Built some suspensions from scrap paper which will sustain the plate and coil
  • Put some magnets in the center of this coil while allowing it to move freely vertically

The result wasn’t as I was expecting, and I immediatly noticed the problem : the coil has a low resistance , meaning that it lacks of wire.

Well, anyway it had sound and also at full bass the plate was moving up and down, cool :D . At some point the coil began smoking. Here are some pictures and a video(smoking) with it :

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HDD activity LED mod

Posted by sjackm on 17 May 2009

I modified my case a little with some components. Know the red light that flashes when the HDD is in use ? Well, I deconnected that led and added 2 blue leds with some circutry. That’s because I wanted the mto slowly fade away.

Here’s the video : 

And here’s how to hook the pieces so you can do this thing too :

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Settlers2

Posted by sjackm on 14 May 2009

For those of you who loved settlers2 in their childhoods, here’s a surprise !

A bunch of coders from Germany succeded in making settlers2 a multiplayer game. Not hotseat, but multiplayer ! Not only that it’s multiplayer now but it also runs smoother, runs on windows xp and the single player part of the game is a wip.

Here’s a link :  http://www.siedler25.org.

If you would still like to play settlers2 in single player, I recommend you to download DosBox. And here’s the full version of the game ( abandonware) on bestoldgames :

http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/settlers-2-gold-edition.php

Happy gaming !

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