December 2009

The LOLinator

December 9, 2009

My brother just sent me this… http://lolinator.com/lol/www.stephenhobley.com/blog/ It’s an old concept, but now with LOLCATs… Which was nice.

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Bedini Monopole Motor – now finally spinning

December 7, 2009

I’ve had the parts to build one of these on my shelf for over a year – I thought it was about time I dusted them off and actually put the thing together. I first tried it with some small ceramic magnets attached to a hard-drive platter. But this only put out about 7-10mV – [...]

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Bedini Motor

December 5, 2009

I’ve had the parts to build a Bedini mono-pole motor for a while. I just hooked up everything this morning, but so far I can’t get it to spin…

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The Man Behind the Masquerade

December 4, 2009

When I was 9 years old Kit Williams published a book called Masquerade. It was a children’s story about the Moon’s attempt to give the Sun a gift. She entrusts it to a hare with the instructions to deliver it for her, as she was unable to present it herself. Somewhere along the way the [...]

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Paradox

December 3, 2009

There’s a new TV show in the UK called Paradox. It’s very similar to Flash Forward in the US. Set in Manchester, Dr Christian King is monitoring sun spot activity when he starts to receive a transmission via one of the monitoring satellites. The transmission turns out to contain a set of 8 images that [...]

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