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Posted by: equant on 2008-07-29 16:32:56
Buy some copper wire Dig up some ore....
Make a shovel to dig up some ore to make a shovel to dig up some ore to make a shovel to dig up some ore.
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Posted by: porter on 2008-07-29 16:51:54
make a shovel to dig up some ore. Find a piece of flint...
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Posted by: lordstith on 2008-07-29 18:44:51
Haha, yessss...
Um... I've actually thought about getting some silica sand and following the method that was in pop sci how 2.0 a while ago for extracting the pure silicon out of it and then finding a way to dope it from phosphorous from light bulbs or something and aluminum somehow to make my own semis. It's a sickness, I tell you!
DIY relays, all aside, is actually a pretty cool idea. It'd be one nasty mess though. But really you'd just need some solid core copper wire (check) and some nails. hmm... Perhaps this is a feasible cheap project I should look at? I'd need to find a cheap spring-back mechanism, though. maybe the springs out of bic clickeys, but I don't really have a bunch of those right now and it'd be pretty neat to build something functional out of parts I've just got lying around the house.
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Posted by: porter on 2008-07-29 18:56:07
Try a "Babbage Difference Engine"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
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Posted by: lordstith on 2008-07-29 19:18:05
...something tells me that I can't make that with paper clips and duct tape... :-/
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Posted by: TheNeil on 2008-07-30 00:53:45
WTF?!?!?!?!?
Now that is seriously cool
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