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No, it's not a Crocodile Dundee knife. After many months working 100h/wk at the day job, I am now ready to open the shed and start a new project. I desperately need to restore my "geek-cred". This project (which is still under wraps) will be a world's biggest (as best I can determine from the internet) by a factor of 10-15. The previous best was limited by practicality but I am making this as a showpiece rather than a practical item. Think Monster truck Vs family car analogy. It will be a new approach at the limit of feasibility (for me anyway) I am embarking on this as a window of opportunity has opened in recent months to allow the project within a reasonable cost. Currently I have about AU$2000 in parts on the way. Total project cost is probably about $3000. Hopefully I can recoup some of the expense by hiring it out for advertising. I have one newspaper interested at this early stage.
So, what is it? All will be revealed once I am solidly into construction. It will involve a fair bit of power electronics and no high voltages are involved. I really hope to have it ready by Xmas (although it is not an Xmas project in my usual sense)
Guesses are welcome but I will not confirm or deny .....
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I will not deny but an induction heated white hot bolt really wont have the media falling over themselves at the mention.
What would you do to create something dramatic? Although if you know, perhaps you should keep it to yourself as a secret project with a reveal in a couple of months
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Joined: Thu Feb 02 2006, 09:45AM
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Avalanche wrote ...
yeah I was thinking some kind of magnetic levitation thing, the media would love a hovering car!!
Levitating a car would be something. Quick mental calculation - it takes perhaps 200W to suspend 1kg so perhaps 200kW to suspend 1000kg. I would need a considerable upgrade to my domestic power service or a 50x upgrade to my current 4kW generator. Hovering a car from below is something else again requiring at least 3 lifting modules and the complexity of the feedback to stabilise it.
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