This is just a stub for now. JonH and I have been discussing how it would be a good thing to make some videos that would help motivate some more kids to get into science and tech, as without good old Don Herbert (the original) doing it, the enrollment rates are dropping off. Now, most of the cool stuff he did would get your arrested if you tried to do it in a school, in this "think of the children" mentality era, but hey, we're not kids, this isn't a state funded public school, and we have some awfully nifty toys to show off and it can be done in an inspiring and educational way I think.
I for one have a many-joule output laser that will punch holes in coins, much experience with HE and other cool chemistry, things kids find fascinating -- and enough Joules in Maxwell capacitors to amaze anyone, once I get the courage to charge them up (about 20k joules worth and hundreds of kilo-amps) -- perhaps I'll close the circuit with a bullet from a hundred yards or so. So if anyone has a great idea for a gosh, that's cool, kind of video -- this is where to put it. You can re-title responses to this post (so the search bots will find them better), and if we get a number of them, we'll start another forum for just them -- but hey, they'd be "eye candy" for sure, right? Anything that makes kids drool would fit here. Just add a little explanation to it.
Let's set aside a little time for pure fun.
Since Jerry has kind of gotten the ball rolling for us with videos, check out this one -- one of several he's put up that show how cool machining can be, not like what a lot of people think of (dirty auto mechanic) at all! Also check out his vid under Titanium.
I've tried to get a few of my "professional" friends to play in my shop, and there seems to be some resistance to it, as though it were some sort of grunt work, beneath them. Or gasp, they might get dirty (not!).
Silly boys! Check out the above for the real deal. This stuff is just plain cool! Y'all do what you can to catch up!