I finished reading this book about Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of naval nuclear propulsion, and about the deadly reactor accident that took the lives of the only three people to die this way in the U.S. The author is Todd Tucker. Up until reading this book I had read only anecdotally about the nuclear accident
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I came across this at a website with other projects. Just scroll down to Recycle Plastic. The basic idea is to build up sheets with an iron. The raw ingredient is dozens of plastic shopping bags. My only concern is that using the iron might be more costly on your electricity bill than if you
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I was Reading about a guitar fx dongle that plugs into a Smone earphone jack. For a Samsung smone it has to have the capability called ??. This recognizes the device when it’s plugged in. Since the device must have power, apparently the earphone jack has to analyze the device when it’s plugged in to
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The Fenn Treasure is a treasure reportedly worth $1m–$3m hidden by art dealer and writer Forrest Fenn in the Rocky Mountains. According to Fenn, many people have claimed to have found the treasure, but no one has provided any evidence to him supporting their claim. As of 2015, Fenn has stated that to his knowledge it is still not found. This article was
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I fell asleep late last night while reading a book*, and I was awakened this morning at dawn when the light went out, my cell phone stopped charging and the screen lit up for a second. Uh-oh… A power failure. Last year during a warm spell, the power went off for many hours. This time
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I took a photo of a TV screen with a white LED shining at it. In each of the four corners there is a little rainbow made by the reflection from the screen. I may have seen the reflection but I never noticed the rainbow before. I thought this was interesting; it’s like looking at
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I got a bag of these heat sinks from a Chinese seller. They come with twenty fins and four mounting holes, two tapped for metric screws, which were included. They were meant to mount a Star LED to the heat sink. However, since I used thermal glue to mount the LED, I decided to face
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While I was picking up some stuff at the local MicroCenter, I bought an Inland flashlight for $2.99 US. The SKU is 398842 and it comes bare with no packaging. It comes with a lanyard and key ring and it uses a single AA cell. With a fresh alkaline cell it puts out a decent
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I was reading the above titled article in the May 2015 issue of Scientific American magazine. Suddenly I thought about the SETI At Home Project of more than a decade ago. This system is a distributed computing system where small pieces of a very large data set are sent to many thousands of computers around
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I was at MicroCenter buying a few items, mostly USB 3.0 cables. I strolled down the aisle with the tools and this popped into my view. At first I didn’t know what to think. A flexible flashlight? What’s that? But that’s what it is and does. Here’s a link to a photo. And another photo
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