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Odd Lots
- Which movie theater did you go to on your first date? Whether or not that theater still exists, this site may have a photo of it, along with other interesting historical data. The first theater I took Carol to is this one. It's still there, and still awesome. (Thanks to Ernie Marek for the link.)
- Five years later, I proposed to Carol while we ( Read more... )
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A One-Tube Electroscope
I found the circuit below by accident, while flipping through my library of Popular Electronics looking for something else. It was published in the October 1961 issue, and caught my interest because a friend of mine built it back in 1964. It was a cool thing to watch in action. It's an electroscope that detects static charge by using the grid in a ( Read more... ) -
Odd Lots
- Antique Electronic Supply in Tempe, Arizona, has created a new DBA for their tube audio amplifier business: Amplified Parts. The tube stuff still predominates but it's hardly "antique" and has definitely gone upscale. They rate their power tubes like fine wine: "This Russian tube [6L6GC] has tight lows, straightforward body, and smooth highs. In ( Read more... )
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Odd Lots
- Don Lancaster wrote to say that Carl and Jerry were not the first to build a house-current hot-dog cooker. Don built a couple when he was in high school, and said that it was a pretty common school shop project in the shop books back in 1954.
- On a recent "celebrity" episode ( Read more... )
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Odd Lots
- The biggest list of links to homebrew radio sites I've ever seen (many, but not all, specific to ham radio) is here.
- Another good one is here.
- And while we're talking tubes, here's a link to TubePad, a very nice clipart collection of schematic symbols and parts images, for drawing schematics and parts layouts for tube-era projects using drawing tools ( Read more... )
