That bachelor weekend
LoopyByteloose
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXx1qxH247k&NR=1
Here is a little cooking project for when the wife is gone.
When I was a kid, I used to electrocute my hot dogs with 120VAC, but it never occured to me that LEDs might light up. With RHOS parts, it is even edible.
Here is a little cooking project for when the wife is gone.
When I was a kid, I used to electrocute my hot dogs with 120VAC, but it never occured to me that LEDs might light up. With RHOS parts, it is even edible.
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When I was a kid sometime back in the 80's, My Mom & Dad had an electric hot-dog cooker.
It would electrocute 4 hot-dogs at a time with 120volts AC. It was much safer then using two forks and a cut-off cord. I still found the microwave was easier.
BTW, I chose the buzzer. Hey! It made noise. What can I say? (Okay, okay: I chose poorly. It was only later that I found out what satisfying sizzling and popping noises the weenies made while they were being electrocuted.)
-Phil
By "it" I'm presuming you mean the hot dog without the LEDs. The LEDs might be lead-free but I don't think they would be part of a healthy diet if swallowed. Come to think about it, the same could probably be said for most hot dogs, too.
Eating LEDs, that must be an engineer reading text.
To some of us, the cup is half full; to others it is half empty; but to an engineer it is simply twice as larger as it need be.
I found it especially interesting that the LED would light. Doesn't anybody want to speculate why?
I had doubts about posting this as household AC is dangerous.
You-Tube is chock full of youth demonstrating self-destructive tendencies - many of them using electricity. Cooking a hot dog with 120 or 240 is a neat thing to do (if done right), but just destroying stuff with electricity doesn't really appeal to me. If anyone want to do that go to You-Tube (and sue them when it goes wrong).
I enjoyed 'shop class' in junior high school. I tool metal working and print shop (we had to set type from those large wooden trays and learn to read text in a mirror image, like Da Vinci.)
But the reality is a lot of us messed up and got hurt, so it was all shut down. You can blame Melvin Belli, the King of Torts.
Still I feel that kids need to learn crafts and to accept that tools cut both ways. Here in Taiwan, engineers never seem to have any practical knowledge of their trade, only book learning. Getting dirty or looking inside are considered unnecessary.
Because hot dogs contain wiring and a variety of resistors?
I wouldn't be too surprised.
As are hot dogs.
Yup, I did the metal and print shops, too, along with drafting and woodworking. 'Sounds like we had similar curricula. You didn't happen to attend school in Indiana, did you?
I still have the hammer I made in Mr. Flannigan's eighth-grade metal shop:
It gets constant use to this day. (The tin/lead-soldered sheet metal fudge pan and cast aluminum bookends never made it past my first move, however.)
Shop class was great fun; and, yes, we got burned and bloodied on occasion. But that's what the school shops' first aid cabinets were for.
-Phil
Loopy, Not sure what occurred to create the duplicate threads, but I merged them together and removed the duplicate initial post.
NO, not Indiana. My shop classes were in San Francisco. My dad had me take German instead of drafting. I really still feel that I missed a very useful class. The German teacher told my dad that I wasn't interested in German (very true) and had me switched to art.
And so life goes on.
I also took Electronics at Lowell High School in a summer session and had to ride the bus for hours to get to and from the classes. But they were worth it for a 12 year old.
Then pull out the steel, safety glasses, and start pounding and folding away!
The rural area I live in now still has those classes. Lots of farmers here, and they are the self-sufficient, older school, just get it done types more often than not. So we've got wood, print, electronic media, metal, auto shop, and some FHA stuff going on.
Where I used to live, it was urban, and they stripped all of it. The difference in the overall capability of your average high schooler is dramatic.
Amazingly, we've got a fair fine arts program. It's not stellar, but the tech-theatre / drama / music / band / dance kids have enough exposure to have a good impact on them.
It's like a time capsule. Many things remind me of my own HS experiences, where in the city a lot of things changed for the worse.
My 'batch it weekends' happen on business travel. So I just take a prop and some goodies along.
Grandpa was the one cooking weenies on AC. He had a nice setup too, complete with safety switch.