Steorn

Steorn has been all over the internets the last few years. Most things said about it are negative. For good reason too. Some background first.

Sreorn claims to have made an "overunity" device, called the Orbo, that outputs more energy that is inputted into the system. They have been working on this thing for years now, and so far all demos have very successfully shown nothing at all.

"We are interested in the development community"

That is a quote from a series of six Youtube videos recently posted. Go watch them. the video demo starts OK, but during the Q&A session it seems as if he is just talking BS. He keeps comparing his device to manufacturing HDDs, that it requires precision technologies and a large plant to produce the devices. He claims that people can not reproduce it because it requires precision technologies to make. I am suspicious. I would almost categorize this as a non-reproducible result. Instead of actually explaining how the Orbo works he says that it is too complicated to explain. Right.

In the next week they will have live demos of the Orbo to prove that it works. I think that the only thing the device will show is that it is really good at slowly draining a battery, but I guess time will tell. It would be really cool if the Orbo does work, but the physics don't work out. There is no such thing as free energy.

The quote posted above to me says one thing: I want your money. It would be incredibly evil if this was just a con, but that is exactly what I'm thinking it is right now.

Magic forces read zero. Until a better explanation on how this thing works comes out, it is just magic (or wishful thinking).

Robots!

I just discovered that the Electronic Goldmine has cheap robot kits.

I'm in. Totally going to build a robot. I like this one.

They also have boxes of random stuff. Will probably buy one next week. I'll post what I get.

CAD

Whenever someone mentions CAD around me I immediately have a flashback to middle school where we had a tech course and learned how to use a CAD program; I think it was AutoCAD, but there is a good chance I am making that name up. That was my only experience with a CAD program for many years.

Something Useless

Watch!

I must build.

I have most of the necessary bits to build it, I jsut need a box and a servo. I should work out a way that it triggers a thing that shouts "NO" when you flip the switch.

I would link to the instructions, but it appears that Instructables has recently been attacked by some Nazi malware or something about bigfoot. I wasn't really paying attention. I'll post as soon as they pop up on the internet again.

Two more pictures

DX 7, still working on it.

Phase Royal, completed.

Phase Royal

Hi.

So I got a Phase Royal for Christmas. Or...I got a kit to build one. So I built it! (It won the poll BTW)

The build wasn't that hard, but soldering thing together is a ton of fun. I really enjoy it for some reason.

So here are some pictures of the build:













The tricky part was getting it to work properly. There is a trim pot that you need to adjust to get the thing to phase right. This controls the bias for a LFO. It will phase if it is not properly adjusted, but it won't sound that great.


I spent a good deal of time adjusting the trimpot. Probably 20 minutes a night for four nights until it sounded good. Now it sounds good! In fact, I'm going to go play through it now.

Time

Sorry It's been slow. I've been busy at work and have had no time to work on projects.

So here is the best music video ever:



Maybe some updates after the holidays.

Yamaha DX7 Key Repair: Screw the parts.

All of them.

Sometimes he just gets me.

Funny cause the SLO Clone goes to 11...

Important

Watch. Now.

Its officially December.