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3/12/01 NOTICE: I had a major system failure, so if you sent an email to bsycmiyk@hotmail.com between Dec 1, 2000 and Feb 28, 2001, chances are I didn't get it. So if you wrote and you still happen to have the original message in your sent box (especially those of you who wrote about foxhole radios!) I would appreciate very much if you sent the message again. Thanks!
12/11/00 Just in time for the Christmas Day partial solar eclipse (visible across much of North America), a guide to safely viewing a solar eclipse. This page is still being developed; more to come!
11/14/00 More info added to the track casting page.
10/30/00 Harness the power of the sun to bake your pies with this solar oven! Plus new material added to the Foxhole Radio page.
10/26/00 I am in the process of revising the Foxhole Radio page, and I would like to add more of the history behind these sets. If you or someone you know built a receiver like this, during wartime or otherwise, from improvised parts, or if you have or know of any surviving sets that I may photograph, please contact me at bsycmiyk@hotmail.com. Ultimately I would like for this page to be a brief history of these sets, told by the resourceful people who constructed them.
7/1/00 The project this time: build this basic range finder to help judge distances.
1/18/00 Out of matches? Start that fire the old fashioned Boy Scout way with a wooden bow and drill.
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This site is an ever growing warehouse of the kinds of projects some of the more demented of us tried as young people, collecting in one place many of the classic, simple science projects that have become part of the collective lore of amateur science. It is a sort of warped semi-scientific cookbook of tricks, gimmicks, and pointless experimentation, concoctions, and devices, using, for the most part, things found around the house. These are the classics. Strange goo, radios made from rusty razor blades, crystal gardens... amateur mad scientist stuff. If you happen to learn something in the process, consider yourself a better person for it.
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