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Night Vision Scope From Scavenged Parts

Posted by timothy on from the see-in-the-dumpster dept.

Caydel writes "Greg Miller appears to have built a Night Vision Scope out of an image intensifier tube, and parts he found mostly in dumpsters. Also on Greg's site: Flyback transformers, coil guns, plasma globes and Tesla coils made from dumpster materials." You get the feeling he's not also writing product safety manuals on the side.

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  1. coral cache by supersuckers · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's angelfire, so bandwidth limit probably won't take long to be reached...
    http://www.angelfire.com.nyud.net:8090/80s/sixmhz/ infrared.html
    Also, this project was from May '03.

  2. CORAL Cache Link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    http://www.angelfire.com.nyud.net:8090/80s/sixmhz/ infrared.html

    I managed to get most of the pages in before the /.ing

  3. Hack A Day by wolveso · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hack A Day's story referencing Miller's night-vision project can be found here;
    http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000107028849/

    Lots of similar DIY projects, including peltier beverage coolers and linux-powered weather balloons, can be found at;
    http://www.hackaday.com/