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Projects

I've dabbled in magnetic card stripe reading. There is great information to be gleaned from driver's licenses.

Bored? Figure out exactly how fast that ceiling fan is spinning.

With a little knowledge of physics, you can measure the gravitational acceleration in your locale with a pendulum and some equipment. Similarly, you can find the suction power of a vacuum.

I was building a HERF gun, but I didn't know what I was doing and it failed miserably. But don't worry, I can make candles out of recycled cheese wax just fine. If you prefer something more dangerous, there's the vacuum bazooka requiring not much more than a vacuum cleaner, a few parts, and a little spare time. When you're done wreaking havoc throughout the neighborhood, the wireless telephone communication system can be used to tell your friends about your fiery path of destruction.