Home ScienceHave you split the atom in your kitchen? Made your own fireworks? Fired a bacon rocket through your window?
We love home science experiments - tell us about your best, preferably with instructions.
Extra points for lost eyebrows / nasal hair / limbs
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chthonic, Thu 9 Aug 2012, 17:25)
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I bet your local Maplin staff know you by your 1st name...:-)
eBay is quite often a good source of cheap as chips chips and if you want to order PICs then try getting them from source in China, I got 16F877s for £1.20 a piece and those are the monster 40 pin jobbies, 3x8-bit I/O ports, it's practically half a BBC micro on one chip...
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Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 9 Aug 2012, 21:25,
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They do actually!And yes, I use those same pics, and I got them from ebay as well. At the moment, I am building an LED Cube like this one:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mXM-oGggrM
(the video is not mine)
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Squiggy Alloria makes theme parks., Thu 9 Aug 2012, 21:29,
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build an rgb one like this:
aglick.com/charliecube.html
I did. It's dead good.
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