Comment on Virgin Physicists

yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SupaTuba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I admire it but also…wtf lol

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I made a potentiometer with paper and graphite clay once

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  • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Confuses me that anybody would downvote you for this. I’ve made makeshift capacitors out of rolled aluminum foil. It’s dumb, but it worked for what I wanted (triggering a trackpad via stepper motors for testing microcontroller code.) Plus I just wanted to see if it even worked. Life = science experiments.

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• RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s cool, could you share some photos? The theramin I mean

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• xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  This is exactly how high precision resistors are calibrated. A laser is usually used to notch out bits of the resistor to tune it after it’s made.

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