Archive for April 1st, 2009

3000th Post! And Gratzel Cells…

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

Wow…. this is the 3000th post that I’ve made to my blog since it’s inception. Huzzah.

I really need to get a hobby.

In any case, Bill Meara over at the Soldersmoke blog mentioned this video about constructing solar cells from donuts and tea.



It sounds like a joke, but it’s not. It turns out that powdered donuts aren’t just white because they have powdered sugar on them, but because they also contain titanium dioxide. Who knew? You can read about them on Wikipedia.

Nice signals over to W1BW this evening…

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

I was getting some pretty good SNRs into the east coast this evening, so I set my MEPT beacon to SMT Hellschreiber mode. Here’s the clearest signal I’ve seen to date from W1BW:

smt