Recent content by Karbort

It doesn't matter what you're actually spinning, whether its a lazy susan or just a piece of wood you buy at a hardware store. Just get something circular and put it on an axle in the middle. Cheap particle board would be the best option. Put a cloth surface over it so the mouse has something to...

Issue with method 1 is that you'd have to have an incredibly small mass on a pretty high-stiffness spring. Issue with method 2 is that the current would be AC, but I think this would be the best method. Also, you might get more total energy out of the system by absorbing *all* of the spring...

I don't know if you're seriously planning on starting a DIY gold mining company, and if this is the case I don't want to rain on any parades, but getting any yield of gold that would make reasonable returns on investments in mining means you need loads of money and a ton of experience. Wooden...

Hey, long time reader, first time poster here. If it were not a particle (i.e. non-quantized energy exchange), how would the energy exchange occur? Does the difference lie in the energy transfer not being quantized (e.g. any amount of energy can be transferred, without being limited to only...