Daniel Busby

Tinkerings of a backyard scientist

Post Archive

Lichtenberg Figures – Making a Custom Lightning Bar

9th December. By admin. Posted in Art, Woodworking.

My wife and I were remodeling our house and decided upon putting in a custom bar top.  We thought it’d be fun to burn a Lichtenberg fractal pattern into the wood. The first thing I did was measure out the size of the required board and make the bartop out of 3/4″ plywood.  I had …read more

Playing around with a Jacob’s Ladder

21st March. By admin. Posted in Two Bit Circus.

I pulled out an old transformer that I had been saving for probably 10 years. I don’t even remember where I got it from. According to the tag on it, it has a 110V input but the output is 6200V rated at 82mA. I ran the input through a contactor (basically a beefy relay) so …read more

Amazon Ad

RSS Feed

Subscribe to feed
Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: Oren by Themeora.
 

Loading Comments...