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Hand-Made Vacuum Tubes
djmoore writes "Over at Make Magazine, watch this video of a French amateur radio operator making and testing his own vacuum tubes. It looks like he built much of his own equipment as well. The Make poster notes: 'I love the ease with which he performs these rather high-end skills (like glass forming), the gestural flourishes (like it's hand magic), and the Zelig-esque soundtrack.'"
Over at Make Magazine, watch this video of a French amateur radio operator making and testing his own vacuum tubes.
This was covered in Make Magazine, primarily because Nature abhors a vacuum.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Make Magazine sucks? How dare you!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Perhaps we can use these hand-made tubes to make a new hand-made internets! Think of the possibilities!
What is it with acting like foreign nationals are some sort of trained monkey? C'mon folks.
Wow, like I didn't realize people in other countries had personal names :o
Oh yeah? Well, I built a wheel out of popcicle sticks!
Table-ized A.I.
take that homebrew computer club! i'll bet none of those guys ever made their own transistors!
when religion is no longer the opiate of the masses, governments will resort to real opiates.
maybe now I can make my own interwebs!
We came,we saw, we kicked it's ass!
Freedom amateur radio operator...
There, fixed it for you.
Many moons ago I was the "gofer" for our school's one act play. The lead character was going to use a prop broom as a crutch, so the teacher in charge told me to shorten the wooden screw-in handle of the broom. I cut the stick down, and spent the afternoon hand-carving a new screw thread into the bare wood that fit perfectly in the broom head. I was really proud of that carving. But the handle was still a few inches too tall, so the teacher told me to cut it shorter. And this time, he told me to just cut off the plain end. D'oh!
John
He actually found a use for those tiny scissors that come with a Swiss Army Knife.
Well that's only your theory. I however believe in "intelligent distortion" (ID) and that's what I teach my kids thank you very much.
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