
Wehttamman asks: My dad and I once built a go-kart from chipboard, pram wheels and an engine from a lawn mower. It didn't work... so tell us about your favourite things you've made, and whether they were a triumph or complete failure.
( , Thu 11 Oct 2012, 12:00)
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I made a simple UHF Yagi, for picking up radio signals from cubesats:

The stack of Zip disks in the picture is roughly a 10cm cube, the size of these tiny little satellites which are zipping past a couple of hundred miles above us. I'd love to make a cubesat, but 15000 quid to launch one is a little out of my budget.
I also made this last Christmas, and left it running in the workshop:
An animated Christmas tree on an oscilloscope
( , Thu 11 Oct 2012, 17:25, Reply)
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