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Crazy Wingsuit Base Jumping/Flying!

Posted in Consumer, Cool, Educational, Entertainment, Flying, Sports, Travel, Video by max on the July 11th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

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Going at over 100MPH sorta like flying squirrels, these wingsuit base jumpers are really taking skydiving to another level.

via onearthtravel

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Tesla coil sparks

Posted in Circuits, Consumer, Cool, Educational, Entertainment, Graphics, Hack, Industrial, Shows, magic by max on the February 20th, 2007 at 6:55 pm

Tesla coil sparks

Holy crap, this is some tight tesla coil action!

The 6 inch coil has performed better than expected with sparks reaching 8 feet (0.5 million volts). The photo above shows 7 foot sparks to the closest point of the ladder. This is with a large topload and a tank capacitance of 92 nF (0.092 uF) at a power in excess of 5 kVA. A lot of smoke comes from my spark gap at runs of over 5-10 seconds at the highest powers. I suspect it is metal oxide from the tungsten stationary electrodes and the brass dome nuts and steel bolt heads that form the rotary electrodes. There was no sign of any polycarbonate frame or Tufnol wheel overheating. Despite the leaf blower cooling, the tungsten rods become hot enough to have a visible glow though the yellow polypropylene box after turn off. The 8 foot (96 inch) spark is exactly 3 times as long as the 32 inch secondary coil that generates it.

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Video - What happens inside a harddrive

Posted in Cool, Video by max on the October 8th, 2006 at 11:16 am

Here’s a really cool video of what the harddrive does while the user types,

copy & pastes, and etc…etc…

Joshuamarius writes - “Simple operations performed by a hard drive with no cover, so that you can see what it looks like inside. This experiment was performed on an old hard drive, do not try this with newer expensive hard drives, it is a bit risky. “

via make

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Cool Flash - Crazy Rabbit

Posted in Cool, Web by max on the September 15th, 2006 at 7:59 am

Check out this cool flash in which a crazy rabbit will eat your mouse cursor!

via changar

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