Recent content by josephjah

Meh... This is kind of funny here... about a week after I posted this little idea I had completely forgotten about it, and yazzo here just contacted me on msn wondering how it went... never progressed past the drawing board, not really that important. Most of my focus is on my AI and Fusor...

Hmm I don't know... Newton's third law: "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." could this also apply to gravity itself?

Ehh... I wouldn't go as far as saying there are 'no' ideas geared towards it because I have seen numerous articles and proposals pertaining to anti-gravity (I'm not saying they are proven, or even work for that matter), but I think that our best bet would be supercooled semi-conductors from...

Yeah, good point... But I'm not really expecting a major breakthrough in power supplies, I'm just looking for potential unique ways of providing power to small devices.

I see... I don't really think the energy density will be that big of an issue seeing as how it will basically be an empty box (for the most part) :P And I'm sure glowsticks are made pretty much the same way anywhere you go and I don't doubt you've seen a "use by date" stamp on them, but I never...

lol, yes, he knows about rechargable batteries but none were on hand at the time, and as I said, this wouldn't be something to completely replace batteries.. it would just be something cool to show your friends "yeah... my RC car is powered by glowsticks " :-p

I just thought of this... maybe I could use multiple glowsticks spread out to pruduce more power... I would like to build one of these and test it out if you guys don't see any potential obstacles :smile:

"GlowBox" <- going to work? ok, here's the deal... I was watching my little bro play with a relatively small RC car and he was constantly having to rumage through the "junk drawer" for AA batteries, and he would find a few here and a few there and they would only run for 5-10 min (we didn't...

ahh, yes... thanks umasankar, that site was very helpful, I think I have found what I'm looking for now :)

Thanks for the welcome and advice guys; I've been looking rather in depth at some of Atmel's chips and kits... I admit, The chip prices are very appealing, but the programmer prices range from $79 (to) $125 + a $24 adapter for the chip I'm looking at (AT89C51), so If you can show me where I can...

Hey everyone, I'm starting to take up an interest in microcontrollers and I have a basic idea of how they work, but I'm still really new to it all, and I think I could use some help or at least a pointer in the right direction... basically what I want is: to be able to control motors, lights and...