How to Build a Wimshurst Influence Machine
Jake von Slatt at the Steampunk Workshop wrote an article for MAKE Magazine describing how to build a Wimshurst Influence Machine (an electrostatic generator) out of easily-obtainable materials. He’s re-posted the article at his site, so we can all pretend to be mad scientists.*
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Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
*Or is it just me who does that?
Posted in Doom It Yourself | 4 Comments »
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:35 am
I may or may not cackle madly when I’m bunging a bunch of stuff into the slow cooker >.>;;
February 23rd, 2012 at 1:02 pm
This makes me long for a real vent hood. My original training was in printmaking, and the fear of God was instilled in me about the noxious fumes this stuff creates. I adore copperplate etching, and this makes me want to give it a go. Health be damned. *cue Freddie Mercury a la Highlander*
February 24th, 2012 at 12:16 am
Pfft. Whatever. We ARE mad scientists. *whispers* We all are…
February 24th, 2012 at 10:15 pm
It is not just you.
Also, Sisifo: you must follow that with a “muahAH AHAHAHA!