Turbo Encabulator

six hydrocoptic marzel vains dude I need one of these

Make a Point Contact Transistor at home

Really great video from Jeri Ellsworth

Live Rig / Looping

He's doing some really cool stuff live with vey few sources really is quite amazing.

Circuit Skills: Perfboard Prototyping, sponsored by Jameco Electronics

This is from Collin Cunningham he has some really cool stuff on his page at Make. 

When you think "DIY electronics," one of the first images that likely comes to mind is of parts and wire soldered to a standard piece of perforated circuit board -- and that makes sense. Perfboard is widely used because it's so versatile. Essentially, it's just a grid of potential solder-point connections. You can trim it down to just the size you need, or leave extra space for future enhancements, or revisions, if need be.

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414 In the Bird House

414 In the Bird House
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My friend Paul and I discovered that when recording drums live if you want the most compressed industrial sounding drums without having to do any post production work this is how you do it. AKG 414 in figure 8 in a can of sorts, I forget what this one was for originally. Thin metal works best and different cans have different notes to themselves; Also larger openings in the can work better.

HP 132A Dual Beam oscilloscope

60's HP Scope

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Took some pictures of my scope today and gas some fun editing them

Came across this while looking at photos on Flicker. Its a CGS65: Dual Tube VCA Built by Granular Matter. He has some great stuff at his blog well worth checking out.

"Pictured here are two Ken Stone CGS65 Tube VCA/Timbral Gate circuit boards. Both will be mounted behind one Eurorack format panel to reduce the build cost."

A Bleak Future Ahead?

A Helium Shortage? 

Emily Jenkins

There are two kinds of stable helium. You know the first one: It puts lift in birthday balloons, Thanksgiving Day parades, the Goodyear blimp.

The federal government first identified helium as a strategic resource in the 1920s; in 1960 Uncle Sam began socking it away in earnest. Thirty-two billion cubic feet of the gas are bunkered underground in Cliffside, a field of porous rock near Amarillo. But now the government is getting out of the helium business, and it's selling the stockpile to all comers.

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Rare Earth in BlackBerry to Prius Underscores Alarm Over Supply

Bloomberg

Rare-earth elements help give BlackBerrys their buzz, Toyota Priuses their battery power, and computer hard drives their spin.

The rare earths, a group of 17 metals including neodymium, lanthanum, cerium and europium, also have industrial and national-security uses, such as in petroleum refining, fiber- optics transmission, and military radar and missile-guidance systems.

China’s 72 percent reduction in export quotas for the second half of this year, which it announced in July, and the customs delays since then are driving up prices. U.S. Representative Edward Markey, chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, asked the Obama administration on Oct. 21 to report on China’s export restrictions and ramifications for the military and U.S. clean- energy producers.

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High Voltage Cable Inspection

This video is absolutely amazing in my opinion. First, because what this guy does on a daily basis is just amazing. Second the video is shot well.