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Building a Personal Clean Room?
eagleyezx asks: "I have a rather large basement with nothing currently sitting in it (I moved all my crud to my garage). Since I am really into space and satellites, I have a satellite all designed. It's kinda based on one of the Amsat designs, but all it really does it beep, just like Sputnik. However, I would need a sterile clean room to build one that would function properly and not go beserk in orbit. I know everyone out there has thought about this at least once? Has anyone ever built a room like this? Any suggestions on equipment?" If you had the drive to do something like this, what would you need to do to be able to build a workshop that would even come close to "clean room" standards. Has anyone ever built an airlock on the cheap?
So you don't give the spacemen a deadly (to them, harmless to us) cold when it crashes on their planet?
should have used the preview button link
(I was on the ASU Sat1 team. && !(I know what I'm talking about))
Go to radio shack! Buy all your parts there.
If you're a farmer, build it in the pig pen. If you're not a farmer, find a farmer.
If it can work under those conditions, it can work anywhere.
Swiffer. I used one in my bathroom today, really a cool product. Picked up everything.
python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
I am about to start work on a third clean room for my house. The important thing to remember is that these add significant resale value.
Through my research (I am currently completing a Physics PhD from several ivy-league universities) I have studied many techniques for keeping rooms clean. They include picking up laundy that has been left on the floor and not eating crackers in bed. Just yesterday, while I was having anal sex with my girlfriend, she commented on how clean the room was! SUCCESS!
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me directly.
If you want a really clean room, you should ask your girlfriend for advice, rather than Slashdot. If you don't have a girlfriend, one of your friends might have one. Check around.
So what do you want to do, anyway? Fab some chips?
Donate background CPU time to fight cancer.
If he actually starts to buy the parts for the clean room and or the sat lets start a pool as to how fast the FBI comes to investigate now :)
man
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Uranus jokes aside, I think the conversations will go like this:
Potential Girlfriend: Wow, what's this?
Geek: A satellite
Potential Girlfriend: Gee, has it been to space?
Geek: Nope, but its built to spec. I build 'em in my spare time.
The Woman Formerly Known As The Potential Girlfried: That's, um, pretty dedicated.
Geek: Yup. Want share a Mt Dew with me?
-Sean
First of all, you need a Rotary Space Wave Generator, as commonly found on the NII's Winnebagos of doom. To make one, first you need two coat hangers, a 9V battery and two plastic plates. Then you need an anti-gravity source and amplifier consisting of at leas 125g of element 115 (ununpentium) obtainable in quantity from intel corp. For the gravity amplifier you will need an oak wardrobe and a flux capacitor. Connect the flux capacitor (in the wardrobe) with copper wire to the ununpentium. The rotary space wave generator may now be mated to the other end of the wardrobe. There will be a pleasant smell as you drill through the oak. Pick up a sencond hand anti-matter regeneration unit form your local scrap yard. This will transmit anti-waves to the rotary space wave generator. To control the device you will need a dual channel K6-2/Pentium III 500 system running Windez 98 under Linux Technology and a 28" plasma screen with military spec. joystick. Good luck, and have fun.
Stick Men
...but I have a two year old son. Not a clean room in the house. Hey! There's peanut butter in my satellite! Daddy! You got your peanut butter in my satellite...