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Asante
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Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities?
#6849492 - 04/29/07 01:28 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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What's the most recent thing you did that shows your unhealthy preoccupation with science?
Some of us do strange things ordinary people don't usually do, like cooking up piezoelectric crystals in the kitchen for electrical experiments. Or buy a calculator with 200 functions.
Let's hear the last thing you did that identifies you as a science nerd.
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Asante
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Asante]
#6849498 - 04/29/07 01:30 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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For me it was creating the above soundfile. To the main theme of the horror movie Hellraiser I added a background noise only nerds would come up with.
The movie itself deals with opening doors to rather sinister dimensions.
As a background noise I used a radiotelescope registration of Black Hole GRS 1915+105 steadily pulling in matter from the surrounding universe.
The actual sound of the devouring of the physical universe as a background noise to the hellraiser theme, particularly eerie thinking music for the science nerd who knows his horror classics
For good measure I pinched it off at 2 minutes 22 seconds 22 hundredth.
Enjoy!
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Asante]
#6849573 - 04/29/07 01:55 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I got a Fresnel lens to play with the spectrum of sun light that comes out of my HUGE prisms.... If I could take a picture of some of the various abstract shapes it makes while shining onto a white canvas board, it would look like that of a flame fractal, only much more brilliantly intense colors....
Also got some books on lasers, optics, and crystallography....
Fascinating shite~....!
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Asante]
#6849672 - 04/29/07 02:32 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Funny you should mention cyrstals and calculators...
I grew crystals to hang on the christmas tree last winter. Also I bought the HP 50g calculator, which is probably the most advanced calculator on the market. It uses RPN (reverse polish notation) so most people couldnt even use it if they picked it up off of my desk. Ultra Nerdy.
I just got done building a DC variable power supply (but that was for a class).
I have an aftermarket fan/heatsink coming in the mail to overclock my PC.
Oh, and I ordered a few math/science textbooks that arnt required by any of my classes. Thats real nerdy.
Lastly, Im in the process of installing a remote starter/keyless entry on my old stick shift car that doesnt have door lock actuators or a neutral saftey start switch .
Good thread, I cant wait to read future replies.
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Asante]
#6850110 - 04/29/07 04:31 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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30+ hours debugging the latest program I created. That was all though, thankfully.
Quote:
Real Programmers' programs never work right the first time. But if you throw them on the machine they can be patched into working in "only a few" 30-hour debugging sessions.
Today I am going to spend a bunch of hours playing with another program inside a memory mapper because I am suspecting it of being full of leaks. Fun fun fun!
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Asante]
#6850399 - 04/29/07 06:01 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I taped a lizard to the back of an old black and white TV tube, then I taped a Polaroid film pack over the lizard. Next I turned on the TV and watched a rerun of I Love Lucy.
After the show, I stuck the Polaroid cartridge in a camera and shot a pic with the lens cap on so the mechanism would squeeze the developer over the emulsion properly.
Voila, lizard x-ray!
Note: no lizards were harmed in the production of these x-ray images though some may have been rendered sterile.
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Diploid]
#6850492 - 04/29/07 06:26 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Wow, how'd you figure that out? That's fucking sweet!
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: delta9]
#6856637 - 05/01/07 02:01 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I spent the last month working on writing/debugging/testing a game. I still have to work out some major graphical issues and the network compatibility.
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Legend9123]
#6857911 - 05/01/07 11:29 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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i spent most of the last 3 weeks learning about mineralogy and reading over reports issues back in the 1800's and 1920's
I also took a field trip down to University of Nevada Reno to talk with some high up professors in the Bureau of Mines and Geology
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: ZippoZ]
#6858950 - 05/01/07 04:04 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Well myself I have been doing nothing but studying for finals
I'll be done by Friday! Rejoice.
Then I'm off to start work on my "interactive" ray tracer.
I'm going to implemented ocean wave simulation, meta-balls, and whatever other crap I think up.
My whole idea is to implement a demo engine but using "semi real-time" ray tracing so I can trace scenes at a few frames per second to make movies.
Eventually I plan to use the ideas I learned in implementing this demo engine to create a real time 3D visualizer/game type thing.
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Asante]
#6859124 - 05/01/07 04:54 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I just spent many hours painting a black-light reactive version of this image:
Which is intended to be an 'artistic' portrayal of the progression from small gaseous molecules (at the top) to complex organic molecules (as produced in the miller-urey experiment) and eventually RNA. It's just one 'circle' of a series of circles that will be a 'fanciful' (+psychedelic / black light reactive) depiction of evolution, to be placed around Shiva in this mandala I'm painting.
Other circles depict prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells + mitosis, the cambrian explosion, land plants, ice age, evolution of man, and my depiction of 'the future', with space exploration and mind machine interfaces!
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Asante]
#6859696 - 05/01/07 07:22 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm working on an EEG. Actually, I'm still procuring the materials, but I've almost started assembling.
http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/
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delta9
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: DadeMurphy]
#6859953 - 05/01/07 08:16 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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That's so freaking cool!
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: delta9]
#6860120 - 05/01/07 08:54 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I'm making a bunch of small robots out of spare VCR parts.
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Asante]
#6860783 - 05/01/07 10:47 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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i overclocked my computer today. opteron 144 CPU's stock clock speed is 1800 MHz. Now it's running about 2500 on stock voltage and air. slight overclocks on the RAM and HTT as well.
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supra
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Asante]
#6861019 - 05/01/07 11:29 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Ive spent the semester at my university learning prolog and designing/building/programming an autonomous robot, he plays a small game called botball, its for my AI class.
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delta9
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: supra]
#6861073 - 05/01/07 11:43 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Cool, I do AI programming as well, it's good fun. I am working on a nethack agent.
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Asante]
#6861513 - 05/02/07 01:36 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Got a bunch of these Mini RC cars http://www.todo100.com/product_info.php?products_id=705 and I'm figuring out how to hack them to run faster and longer.
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: funnybunny]
#6861739 - 05/02/07 05:01 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just added 256 ramstick to my comp
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Re: Whats the latest of your Science Nerd activities? [Re: Liquid_Dimension]
#6881952 - 05/06/07 08:03 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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I recently built a three dimensional rapid prototyping machine. You can build one yourself:
www.fabathome.com
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