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- Tue Dec 16, 2003 12:08 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: WHITE LED FLASHLIGHT
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4282
Re: WHITE LED FLASHLIGHT
I found an interesting flashlight at the Goodwill for 99cents that would make a nice LED conversion. It's got 4 AA cells, in a '2x2 cluster'. The thing is made of 2 telecsoping plastic tubes. The inner one is translucent and has a conventional flashlight type of reflector/lens attached. When the two...
- Mon Dec 01, 2003 2:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Popular Electronics Magazine
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18639
Re: Popular Electronics Magazine
BTW, Carl & Jerry fans can find a few of the stories online here:
http://home.gwi.net/~jdebell/pe/cj/cnjindex.htm<p>
http://home.gwi.net/~jdebell/pe/cj/cnjindex.htm<p>
- Sun Nov 30, 2003 8:40 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Popular Electronics Magazine
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18639
Re: Popular Electronics Magazine
I had one really old issue of N&V from back in 93 I think. It was almost all ads, except for a single project. They used to hand out freebies of the large-format issues (a couple months old) at the computer shows. I never subscribed since they were too big for my apartment mailbox. The local boo...
- Wed Nov 19, 2003 9:36 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Popular Electronics Magazine
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18639
Re: Popular Electronics Magazine
Jolly Roger spake: <blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr> And how many remember the old Carl and Jerry stories? These were before my time but because of a nice neighbor, I got to read most of them. <hr></blockquote><p>I remember those s...
- Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:25 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Popular Electronics Magazine
- Replies: 18
- Views: 18639
Re: Popular Electronics Magazine
I've been doing this sort of CD archiving for some of my old magazines. A friend of mine found me slightly broken scanner with an auto document feeder. It's fairly easy to slice the spine off the magazine and run it through the scanner. I've been storing them as 150dpi jpegs. That's probably too low...
- Fri Feb 07, 2003 1:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Electric Vehicles
- Replies: 36
- Views: 17292
Re: Electric Vehicles
Someone mentioned earlier that the electric car just moves the polution to another place... well that it a Good Thing. :-) It's saner to concentrate the problem at one central plant where it can be dealt with by professionals than scatter it around among thousands of cars haphazardly maintained. See...