[XCSSA] Hacking History @ 7pm on History channel... Set your DVRs...

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

I met Bre at SXSW last year.  He should make an interesting host for a
show.  I'll try to tune in, but I think I'm supposed to take the wife out
for her birthday tonight.  Maybe she'll understand if we just stay home and
watch History channel.

I'm also up for building a tesla coil.  I'm accumulating parts for a double
resonant solid state Tesla coil, and estimate the final cost will be near
$1k.

http://www.easternvoltageresearch.com/


Anton


On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:00 PM, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio <
xcssa at xcssa.org> wrote:

> Just found out that there is a new interesting show on the History
> channel 7pm tonight...
> http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=361802
>
> Anyone up for building a Tesla Coil ??? ;-)
>
>  From Bre Pettis site,
>
> My show, History Hacker, will be on TV tonight! It's is all about
> exploring our technological history by hacking the inventions of the
> past. If you can, I'd love it if you can watch it with your kids! While
> making it, I imagined families watching the show and enjoying it together!
>
> I really pushed hard to make the show fresh. There are a billion
> jumpcuts in this show and we achieved some special split screen and
> in-camera effects. It's an hour long, so I have time to get into some
> projects to break down some of the principles that Tesla pioneered and
> fought for in the war of the currents. I make a neon bulb, AC generator
> from a bike and muck about with an old telephone magneto. I also go
> check out the power plant in the basement of the New Yorker and the
> space systems lab at MIT to see how the principles that Tesla pioneered
> are being used today.
>
>
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