GeekBytes: Thanksgiving Turkey, Tesla Coils, and Taking Photos
The midweek edition of GeekBytes is here, bringing you your daily dose of geeky news in a shorter form. Today we have a handy Thanksgiving guide, a entertaining use for low-tech disposable cameras, and another amazing zoopraxiscope (yes, that's a word) that doesn't need backlighting.
Hack Yourself A Saintly Thanksgiving Turkey
Jeff Potter, who happens to be the guy behind the "Cooking For Geeks" book, hacked a slow cooker using a temperature controller, a J-eccentric thermocouple and an extension corduroy. Jeff explains how this will transform your drawn-out cooker in the video below:
New Tesla Spiral Could Be Mammoth
If you mentation the ongoing International Record for the biggest Tesla coil was impressive, a new competitor to the title might be steady more awesome. The largest-ever such coil was created in 1903 by Nicola Tesla. It stood 18 stories soprano, only was mangled down before it could be victimised. Just one and only somebody will attack to build a disposable treble-coil unit of measurement that will be 118 feet tall and 100 yards long when completed.
This new Tesla ringlet is likely to farm 10 million volt-arcs, which is why it's being built in the Nevada defect. If that's not enough to induce your inner excited scientist, I assume't know what will. Its creator, Greg Leyh, explained his reasons for edifice the new Tesla helix in The Late Man of science.
Artistic creation Propose Leaves Disposable Cameras in Rosa Parks
A small project that started off as a bit of fun with friends and family has become a huge hit on Kickstarter. Katie O'Beirne decided to leave disposable cameras in two of Recent York's parks and let passers-by take a picture Eastern Samoa part of an art project. The only request was that people were within the systema skeletale–the more the merrier. Not only did this result in some really interesting pic sets, but it also got enough backers on Kickstarter to convince Katie to transform the externalise into an fine art show. View her Google correspondenc to run where she left her cameras.
GIF Instrumentalist More Fun Than A Computer Screen
If you thought the stroboscope from yesterday's GeekBytes was cool, checkout out this GIF Player by Pieterjan Grandry. The player is very simple–each frame of the vivification is put on a paper disc within a wooden boxwood, then spun around quick. You though the fattened result through the hole in the lid. [via Taxi A Day]
GeekBytes will be taking a give out tomorrow to enjoy the holiday. We'll be back on Friday with plenty of great news to apportion!
Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/478531/geekbytes_thanksgiving_turkey_tesla_coils_and_taking_photos.html
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