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Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions
Diabolus writes "This is the tale of a man, a bunch of disposable cameras, and his techniques for harvesting lots of capacitors to build a gauss gun. Insane..." A basic capacitor tutorial is probably in order.
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No info on flux capacitors? Damn, guess I'll never get back to the 2030's...
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wrong - guy's from australia
Be careful if you try this; those capacitors hold a fair amount of charge.
My brothers and I played with some of them in the kitchen at a family gathering a few years back. One of them is in the biz, and had more used, disposable cameras then he knew what to do with. We were bored and trying to rig up something ad-hoc (as I recall, we were using whatever we could find in the kitchen--rubber bands, tupperware, etc.) Our wives were in the dining room with the everyone else, and we weren't being very structured about it.
Things were going fairly well until we accidentally shorted something. There was a loud bang, a flash, and one of us jumped back, knocking over a pile of pie tins.
All conversation in the dining room stopped, and after a moment our mother's voice called calmly: "What are you boys doing in there?"
Without missing a beat we all replied, in unison, "Nothing!"
It was like old times.
-- MarkusQ
Does this mean we won't be able to take disposable cameras on to planes any more?
Imagine the memo to baggage scanning technicians:
"WARNING: Any passengers attempting to take large numbers of disposable cameras on board any flight is a terrorist. These cameras can be used as a weapon by assembling a gauss gun from their parts. Call your appropriate superviser IMMEDIATELY if you have any suspicions"
1. get a 5 farad capacitor, WHERE you say? TRAMS have em, they are huge.
2. charge up to 1 million volts...
3. surround the device with explosives like a nuke.
4. when charge is 100%, detinate...
5. result... large/fast discharge of electrons.
Anyways, I was responsible for 4 complete goobers and one gorgeous blonde (who really dosent have anyhting to with the story, but I just want to mention her), which was not an enviable task. They got bored on the plane to hawaii and took apart their disposable camera ... well low and behold they figured out about the only thing you can do with a broken disposable camera is shock shit or get shocked. After some dumb luck (getting shocked in the first place) and some trial and error, they figure out if you touched these leads and pressed that button youd get shocked ... so the next step was to walk around the plane getting people to hold the leads so they could shock them (someday Id like to know why you would hold two leads a 14 year old asked you to).
So one afternoon our scheduled activity was to hang out in this park because thats damn cheap :) and well now you have to know about the director ... he was this big fat, raunchy, disgusting fat fuck who happened to be one of the best directors in the nation, and he had this even fatter and even rauncher wife their two skinny (but soon to be fat kids). The wife was horrible annoying and the kids were even worse, the whole band was sick of them. Meanwhile in the park, the band was getting pretty restless, shocking eachother with cameras actually became entertainment :) So these guys I am responsible for are shocking eathother, Im hitting on the blonde (amy hays if you're out there... ;-) ), and oie of the directors sons walks up and he says "Hey what are you guys doing?" (the kid couldn't have been more then 6 or 7) One of the worst jerkoffs in my section gets this HUGE grin on his face and he says, "I'll show you. you touch this and this, and then press this button" Meanwhile I look over and see whats going on, as Im screaming "nooooooooooooooooooooo!!" in slow motion like the matrix, the kid shocks the crap out of himself and I swear he almost pissed his pants as he took off running. We never got in trouble so I dont suppose he told his father :) but we were paranoid the whole rest of the trip.
on an unrelated topic, couldn't this guy just buy a couple 1 farad capacitors? Those are pretty popular with car audio buffs, they run maybe between 100 - 200$ a piece, I think that would be so much easier then getting UV burns like this guy is describing :D
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Good point, the guy that made that page about harvesting capacitors is obviously a dickhead because Slashdot can't help but sensationalise.
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When I was a senior in high school, a group of us would hang around in the ahlls before calss and talk. Most of us were "mad-scientist wannabes", and we would discuss our current projects (one guy was trying to make napalm, IIRC).
Anyway, there was this one sophmore who hung around with us, who was always trying to immitate our projects (usually badly). He was ok, I guess, and it was usually funny to listen to his recent mistakes/problems (like accidently land-mining his room in the middle of the night with exploding paper strips.)
The hallway at our school were long, with lots of glass, and metal rails running along at about waist height. Usually, all the students would lean against the rails before class.
Well, one guy in our group had torn apart a disposible lighter and had gotten the electronic igniter out of it. He would touch the wire to the railing, and when he pushed the button, everyone touching the rail would get a shock (very minor shock). It was irritating and fun!
Well, this sophmore decided to "one-up" us, and managed to get hold of the igniter from a gas stove. The thing was about 10 times as big as the small igniter, and produced a nice, fat spark when pressed.
IIRC, he managed to shock himself, while the rest of us stood around laughing. I think he finally gave up on trying to shock anyone with that.
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