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Well, powered on the tesla coil today. had it hooked up to a variac, and I started it off at 20v. Nothing exploded, decided to go to 60v, that's when all four IGBTs caught fire. Upon further inspection (and looking at the IGBT data sheet), apparently I swapped the collector with the gate. so I...

Yes, that's exactly where is came from, due to the many capabilities of the Pandora.

Here's my two cents. To me, it looks like you shouldn't have to touch the sense line from pin 13. For the PWR_OK, I would put a diode in series on each line coming from the board, the diodes should prevent the two boards from interfering with each other. The PWR_ON line may be tricky. It's...

Yeah, general is what I was going for. Any project is fine, but there wasn't a place for random hardware projects.

I'm somewhat surprised we don't have one of these threads yet, given all of the talented people around here. I'm creating this thread as a place for us to post our projects (finished or in progress). Also, I wanted to stop infecting the communication cube with my random, incomplete updates of...

one cool thing about that cat video. After the cat tackles the dog, it turns around to make sure the kid is okay, then it goes after the dog again.

I'd go with just having the switch break Vcc. Usually the only time you have to break two power lines is when you are either dealing with AC, or just have multiple DC rails, but with all of those, the ground is usually left alone.

The secondary is all cured, and it looks awesome. today I built the current transformer, and it seems to work. Tomorrow I will start soldering the control board, and finish up the interrupter, and hopefully start assembling the coil.

I post some specific examples soon, but most of these are awesome :) http://vip.aersia.net/vip-source.swf

Well, I attempted to wind a Tesla coil secondary on Saturday, and failed miserably. I had to cut all the wire off, then I tried again. I just put a light coat of fiber glass resin on it, now I'm just waiting for it to cure. Hopefully all goes well.

that may be a lot harder than you think. If you're wanting to just directly plug in an LCD, then ED would have to have another MIPI interface available to him (not sure how many he would have), not to mention he would have source yet another LCD. You may be able to just use the HDMI, but finding...

I just read the rest of that story. That's an accurate description of riding it :)

That's good, and yes, I can ride it :) I'll go with modern. I built it along with my dad, and our main goal was to make it a "functional replica" Heh, funny thing is, I seriously considered slapping a seat on top of the front forks, and making this a high wheel unicycle :P

I'm sure they probably can be hot swapped. The main reason is probably because they aren't swapped out often enough for manufacturers to worry about it, so they stick it where ever it's convenient. This is all a guess though :)

I just fulfilled a childhood dream. I now own a Penny-Farthing :D

What kind of swords do you make?

Or how flammable and inflammable are the same? Another one is indefatigable, that one makes no sense :P

Lightning

I may be interested in that Atari depending on price/shipping

Dafuq?! [/SPOILER]Looks like an experiment on the effects of G-forces to me.