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I'm going to wait for rev.2 since there will undoubtedly be problems with the first one.
Also hoping for more memory/clockspeed/smaller form factor.

>>131220
There's other devices like it already released. Google, "nettop" and see just how many there are.

>>131220

its opensource, so once the first batch is actually shipped, a dozen more clones will be out within 3 months

>>131087
Gonna make it into control systems for my UAV that I'm building. Another for a media center for my dad.

>>131242
But how many are $20 - $30 ?

>>131311
>>131303
Hydrogen is the way to go. Fuck that fuel cell disinfo we were told in the 90's that the only way to run a hyrogen car would be to carry a hydrogen bomb with us. That was crazy talk they got everybody to believe that's how hydrogen works. No you don't have a fuel cell, you spark it on the spot the hyrdrogen goes one way and you can ignite that and the oxygen goes another..the amazing thing is you can let these two elements reconstitute into water again and then ignite it AGAIN. The danger comes in running a car off water with Additives...don't need the whole world putting more shit into our water

>>131323
Hydrogen is not an additive.

It is the equivalent of adding an extra injector of gasoline to your gasoline engine.

If your engine is already running at stoich, you don't need more fuel.

>>131378
Thank you

here is a french news story of a car running off of water.
notice the drive repeatedly says "pantone"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntTrXBYdNQs
i got this clip from
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_the_Paul_Pantone_fuel_save_work

>>131323
>implying 30-40amps is a problem

"Typical passenger car and light truck alternators are rated around 50-70A"

Alternators that put charge in the battery ready for when we want to turn the engine (by the starter motor) and start combustion are already putting out "50-70amps" while the engine is running.

Once the battery is fully charged up again the alternator is still producing current but most of its output is wasted because apart from the radio, lights or ignition system we dont need the extra power for anything else.

Strap another alternator (or multiple units) on the timing belt and you can double the output of electricity.

>>131426
Just cover your bike in RGB led tape and have it flash orange all the time. I'm pretty sure some cops would start harrasing you if you were using a light like that in traffic on a bike blinding every fucking person in front of you, In fact i might actually swerve into you for being such a inconsiderate cunt.
"But your honor, I couldn't see a damn thing! that kids light was blinding me!"

>>131430
Oops forgot image.

>>131430
fuck you dickweed. I cycle on an unlit road nearly every night. Not one driver will turn off their high beams till I shin my own light at them.

>>131432
Yeah, I am not a inconsiderate driver, I rarely use my brights anyways. But if some arrogant bicyclist started fucking with me with his intensely powerful light how is that different than me not turning off my brights. I think a light that bright on a bike is fucking dangerous to other people on the road.

>>131434
how about a light like that with variable brightness.

>>130874
True, but I'll have more than one transformer on it. Also, I plan on slapping aluminum heat sinks on them, bolting them in a metal container with heat sinks on its outside and filling that with mineral oil. That way only the breaker will trip if a rod gets stuck to something before I can hit the kill switch myself.

>Although, if you're making one, I'd suggest being awesome and making an engine welder out of a lawnmower engine and a truck alternator.

How about making one from a wind turbine, massive PM motor, and a large battery bank?

unless you know the amp draw, enjoy burning your house down

>>131356
Be negative somewhere else, please.

Looks like I'll be getting something like this, but from a local source,

>6AWG 100' Marine Grade Battery Cable
http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/product.do?part=113422&engine=adwords!6456&k
eyword=product_ad_14007&type=pla

I'll be using a 60amp breaker since the cables can hold 60amp, though lower amp breaker wouldn't hurt.

>>131427
Correction, 2 AWG since I will be going about 30 feet it seems.

>>131352
sweet instructable!

>>131369
I live right by a low water bridge that is seldom used. It has three tubes that force water thru it. That could work. The state law in MO is if you own both sides of the river banks you own that portion of river but i do not i would have to talk to my neighbors who im sure will call me crazy but if i can give them some power as well i bet they would support me.

>>131403
so seriously i can take a motor out of a washing machine and use it as a generator? See the tire like machine in my OP picture? could i stick two of those in a barrel like that? Then i can wire this to my houses circuits?

old washer motors, genius! if i exponentiate by having several of these barrels held on top of the water i could feasibly continue adding on until all our electricity needs are met? any pitfalls in this?

>>131414
you can use old washer motors, yes. I made a wind generator out of one for my science fair years ago. I believe they have to be spinning quite fast for 12 volts though. You'd probably need quite a few for any reasonable amount of power. Also, Rather than having a barrel on top of the water (ugly, and it doesn't sound very efficient), I saw a picture once where someone had diverted some water away from the river wioth pipes and run it through a generator apart from the main river. Just a thought.

>>131414
The motor out of a washing machine will output AC if used as a generator; but the frequency and voltage aren't likely to match what your electronics are used to getting from the grid on its own. Simple things like lightbulbs don't care; but anything more complex will. The frequency of the AC power will be a product of how fast the motor is spinning. Washing machines use three phase motors. So for 60 hz that's 1200 rpm (60/3 = 20 rotations per second). The voltage can be brought up or down with a transformer. A transformer is two coils of wire rapped around a common ferrite core. The ratio between the number of windings on each coil determines how much they step up or down the voltage; and inversely how much they step down or up the current.

Current tells you how many things you can run off your setup. A 40 Watt bulb running at 120 VRMS uses 0.33... amps. A generator outputting one amp at this voltage could power three of them.

Needs more mini camper photos

shits missing so many branches of engineering. Also, goetech is a branch of civil. Industrial engineers are the tards of the group - it's basically a business degree with slightly more math. ME tend to be cooler while civil are more the snoody "i'm so responsible" types (they are technically legally liable for more than any other field). Chem tend to be "normal asian" types - not super nerdy. Computer Engineers/CS are surprisingly the funnest people i've worked with - underneath their very serious exterior. which leaves AE - yeah that one seems about right :)

>>131283


Shit son, who do you work for and what do you do? I need to sign up.

>>129351
>Systems: Most girls/people who suck at math, also very fun

really? that's what undergrad systems engineering is like? that's... terrible to hear.

>>131399
>who do you work for
>what do you do

nepotism

>>131412

WELP. shit. I don't have connections to anyone important. There was money in my family, but it's distant. Already have 3 or 4 dipshits fighting over it anyways.

Your using resistors right?

I don't see anything in there that would make an LED strobe. That flashing one isn't an FLED is it? They look like regular LEDs but they have internal circuitry to make them flash.

Also that setup is likely to burn out your LEDs and does not balance the current going through them. You need current balancing resistors.

>>131395

not OP but those are diodes

it might be because of that parallel circuit on the far right, I dunno, I always hated circuits in physics class

Don't wire LED's in parallel.