Roll on the 20th June

[markh]

@shak

Anything I can do to help.  I really like your idea.  Using  your princple with the original archer wheel, it seems like you could almost lay that wheel on the ground, and put 16 or so of your version of the  archurian gates around the wheel, and just use those to pull the arms around the wheel.    Just a thought.   

I wish I had time and a few dollars to try these ideas out, but I have neither.  (also I'm relatively new to the world of magnets, but it seems like that should work.)  I have a strange feeling someone is about to create something exceptionally cool here in the next month or so.

peace
mark

[shakman]

@shak

Anything I can do to help.  I really like your idea.  Using  your princple with the original archer wheel, it seems like you could almost lay that wheel on the ground, and put 16 or so of your version of the  archurian gates around the wheel, and just use those to pull the arms around the wheel.    Just a thought.   

I wish I had time and a few dollars to try these ideas out, but I have neither.  (also I'm relatively new to the world of magnets, but it seems like that should work.)  I have a strange feeling someone is about to create something exceptionally cool here in the next month or so.

peace
mark

Hey Mark,

That's just crazy enough to work! Maybe with some space-saving tweaks and switches spaced on either side of the wheel you might be able to fit enough of the switch mechanisms around to get it to work.

Or going back to my "antenna" idea - if we can figure out how to get the trigger to move around with the roller somehow so you can set off a domino-like effect with a bunch of spaced iso-ferrite blocks around the wheel... this one is going to require a few beers to mull over I think

Plenty of food for thought... never enough hours in the day or $ in the bank to play with all of them but I will definitely be setting up some experiments soon. I have plenty to learn but hands-on is always the best way (especially when learning about the fairer s3x, but that's another story altogether  )

shakman

EDIT: It seems s3x is a banned worked... but fuck isn't...? ROFL

[exxcomm0n]

@ shak

Kudos dude! Finding a fliter term is always good fun.
My first was the "C" word. That was a good day.

@ all

More horribly edited and written videoplay on construction and testing (which always seems to NOT do what it did 15 times before in dress rehearsal!)

Dry runs of the "finished experiment" (who am I kidding? It'll never be finished cause there is too much about the principles adaption) stuck me at the end of the gate.

Who'd a thunk it?

But there are too many unexplored variables to give up on the proximity gate.
But it's basically an evenly spaced gate all around the circumference except the straight continuation of the upper slope past the small loop starting @ about 4:00.

There's a lot of amusement potential here. >

Anyway........it's here:

http://www.youtube.com/v/gLb_A174W1o

Hot off the upload and probably still in processing.

.....and the cutting board can still be used for just that.
Just flip it over (after I glue it (plexi) in).

I just realized I'm building a Ron Popiel Ronco product.
All I have to do now is jimmy a sleeping bag into it and I'm sure Ron will be all over it.

Gimme a couple hours and I'll have the vids of tests so far, and one interesting effect that helps a lot with the concept of mag fields.

But you have to suffer through this one 1st.

Muahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

While I'm waiting for this next vid to process, I'll hack up a pic for an Archerian mag switch in this configuration so I can see what it'll cost me in design.

But the more I think about it, the more (and this is straight insanity here) it seems the switch would be easier to actuate if it was implemented on the uphill slope?

See what happens to me when I experiment like this and find weirdness?



What if you built a seesaw over the wall?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[shakman]

Hello all,

I've tried finding an answer to a question about isotropic ferrite magnets and how they interact with anisostropic magnets out on the web but haven't had much success. Maybe someone here can help.

When an isotropic ferrite magnet is connected to the N or S pole of another magnet, what magnetic properties (i.e. pole(s)), if any, does the isotropic magnet take on during the interaction? Does the surface of an isotropic ferrite block inherit the opposite pole to that with which it is interacting?

Cheers,

shakman

[oak]

@Capthook: 

Maybe what you should be looking for is "soft ferrite."

"There are basically two varieties of ferrite: soft and hard. This is not a tactile quality but rather a magnetic characteristic. 'Soft ferrite' does not retain significant magnetization whereas 'hard ferrite' magnetization is considered permanent. Fair-Rite ferrite materials are of the 'soft' variety."

http://www.fair-rite.com/newfair/faqfer.htm

Various ferrite materials:  http://www.fair-rite.com/newfair/materials.htm

Fair-Rite home page:  http://www.fair-rite.com/newfair/index.htm

Fair-rite distributors:
http://www.sourceesb.com/Distributors/Fair-Rite-Products.asp

Mouser Electronics:  http://www.mouser.com/fairrite/

Lodestone Pacific:  http://www.lodestonepacific.com/fair-rite.php