EXTREME Projects
I have here an amazing collection of projects and how-to for some very strange things. Because I'm a very strange person. Enjoy, and TRY SOME! E-mail me if you have something that belongs here, and I can post it and give you some free advertising in gratitude.
Disclaimer:
I Am Too Cool For Disclaimers.
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Random Projects
The Fan-Bike! This is a motorized bicycle I've made. A very motorized bicycle! Like a moped, but less expensive, and immeasurably cooler.
Grape Racing Make grapes into
jet-powered....things....in your microwave.
A Simple Hovercraft How to make a simple hovercraft. This is a
hovercraft even a kid can build (well, an unusual kid). It shows you how
little you need to make a working hovercraft. It's obvious how you could
modify it to make either a big multi-passenger vehicle or a
remote controlled hover-puck for your gerbil.
Charcoal Foundry How to forge metal with common, ordinary charcoal. You can actually melt aluminum with this furnace (I've done it). Just take a 5 gallon bucket and....well, just click the link.
Rocket-Powered
Go-Karts This project really needs no explanation. What it is is
what it says; what it says it is, it is.
Philo's Mad Lab Good old Philo
Farnsworth was one cool kid, and later in life he invented a fusion
reactor. One that worked. You can build one in your basement. I am
not kidding! On your kitchen counter you can have a stable
fusion reaction occuring! Yes, it uses more energy than it puts out, but
it's lots closer to success than the billion-dollar government disasters (surprise).
Maybe you can tweak it.
Make Superconductors The
ever-popular "shake-'n'-bake" 1-2-3 yttrium recipe. You'll need to buy
some chemicals, but in return will have some truly amazing stuff. Make a
revolutionary new type of motor? Explore magnetic interaction?
Superconductivity is still in its infancy--you could be a pioneer!
Plasma
Globes You know, the balls with lightning inside that's attracted
to your fingers. You can make them.
How to Make a High-Voltage Generator. This is a good plan for making a Van de Graff generator for creating high voltage. It makes direct current, as opposed to the AC that the plasma globes(above) use. This page appears to regularly overload its quota, so I've linked to an archived mirror.
Even Randomer Projects
Microwave Weapon Intro A basic description of the concept behind a microwave weapon. From a Glubco page, which was deleted years ago.
Microwave Weapon Plans Here is a fellow who has built some microwave shooters. Diagrams, pictures, video...if you want to build some high-tech weaponry/gadgetry, go here.
Gas-Powered Pogo Stick
Doesn't really have plans, but has a contact for someone who
might.
Microwave-Based Water Engine This uses
a magnetron to steam-atize water instead of the normal sparkplug to
explode-ilate gasoline. I really do not know if this would work at
all. But, reading the description may get your brain working.
Couch
Racing Similar to grape racing, however this uses much larger
microwaves. But seriously folks, you might want to glance over this page
if you're interested in building an electric car or go-cart.
Laser Gun Detailed plans for buildiing
a _real_ CO2 laser gun. Like a laser pointer. Kind of.
Except it burns things, makes them explode from a distance, etc. A neat
thing to have.
Make Bombs Heard a lot about bomb-making
instructions on the internet, but haven't seen any? Well today's your
lucky day! Here's some good explosives to make for fireworks, experiments,
or --ahem-- "other" uses.
Big, Loud Bang This page has taken a bit of a
destruction-and-explosions turn. This project is so easy, it
doesn't need a separate link: put dry ice in 2 liter pop bottle, add
water, cap, hit with pickax or somthing. Or just wait for it to burst. Wear very good earplugs!
"I'm a Flamethrower", Insists Crazed Toaster So hot they're
cool, yet also so cool they're hot? Impossible. Pop-Tarts are living a
lie. Help them get out their pent-up anger by using them as flamethower
catalysts. Ingredients: backpack, 12 V batt., DC-to-AC converter,
toaster, tape, Pop-Tarts, burn cream.
The "Glowing Pickle" Forget the interior designer: this year,
try a different lighting scheme--hanging vegetables. Use pickles as a kind
of light bulb, because they glow when plugged in. Got to useful for
something...Haunted house? Halloween porch lights? Modern art?
The Glowing Onion . Put an unpeeled onion in the microwave.
Omniscience Futureneering Once a lowly school club, now outcast
renegades on a mission. A few good How-tos, including a submarine, and a
"zipline", which they call a trolean trolly (follow the "backyard
playground" link). For the zipline, you don't want the rope to be super-tight. I went out and got a big metal cable like they use for bracing phone poles, and even then couldn't get it to stay tight. Don't make that mistake! You don't need the rope sloped; you want both ends at about the same height, but very high off the ground. Then the rope-sag is your friend.
Make Volcanoes . DO NOT go get vinegar! Don't you dare touch that baking soda. We're going to do it a little different this time.
Hunkin's Experiments . Not all these experiments are extreme, but it's still a pretty neat list of things to do.
Weird Construction Projects . Part of Bill B.'s extensive pages. You'll like it. Wander around a while.
Fission-Related
"How to build an H-Bomb" This is part-entertainment, part introduction. Why do I have a whole section devoted to nuclear stuff? What good is it? Space colonization. Power generation. What is it not good for?
Where to Find Uranium From the fine folks at Dangerous Laboratories, a little info on uranium mining in various places around America. You will want to know that the world's biggest known uranium deposits are in: Australia 28%, Kazakhstan 15%, Canada 14%, and South Africa 10%(source).
Uranium Ores A place to buy and trade uranium-containing minerals. Some are pretty and/or sparkly. But not as pretty as a nuclear blast pushing a rocket into space.
How to Enrich Uranuim . Gives a general overview of some methods of producing U-235 "from common household items". Well OK, you may not have natural uranium around the house, but hopefully you'll be able to get some (see below).
Buy Uranuim Here, ladies and gentlemen, is one easy place to "get some". You can pay by mail or with PayPal. Please, be discreet and make yourself look like a high school science teacher. Don't spoil it for the rest of us.
Stories Concerning Crazy Projects
Producing Fission When chemical explosions get
to be old hat, try some fission. Read this guy's story, learn from his
mistakes, and do it better.
A Boy and His Fusor . A success story. This Utah boy built his own nuclear fusion machine (learn how to build one of your own here).
Jet Vehicle A purported orgin of the
probably un-true Darwin Award story.
It's mid-November and I just added some new things here. Feel free to send me e-mail. I want to hear from you! I want to know who you are and what kind of projects you want instructions for. I especially want you to buy my fan-bike!!! But at least drop me a line, OK?