The last podcast in Ben and Vince Season 1!
Podcast 27: Working For You
load it down, or whatever it is you kids do these days
Podcast 26: "Retarded" Guest Star
five podcasts in june… thats a record
Podcast 25: Dog Days of Summer
get it now, before it’s caturday again
On the Use of Airheads Candy as a Component in Electrical Circuits.
Using an MS8264 digital multimeter, I have determined that airheads candy, removed from its wrapper and left flat, can be used as an electrically resistive material. A 1-inch section of the candy was found to have a resistance of approximately 70 Megohms. The resistance of the material as a function of length follows an approximately linear taper; two inches from the end, the resistance was found to be 135 megohms. At three inches, the resistance was found to be approximately 180 megohms. The net resistance, end to end, of the candy, exceeded the 200-megohm upper bound of the multimeter. Consequently, by attaching movable electrical contacts, an airheads candy can be used as a variable resistor/potentiometer.
Use of high currents is probably inadvisable, as the candy may melt. However, the little I recall from chemistry class seems to suggest that resistance would fall toward zero as the candy melts. Consequently, the candy may be used as an NTC thermistor.
Further experimentation could not be carried out, because I was hungry.
More to follow.
Firefox 3 Hates Us
Podcast 24: Shouting Up Your Wiretap
Unrelated topic: Jon Voight is going to be in 24.
What I did Today
Good News Guys
We’re still apparently distributing spyware…
Anyone have any ideas? We’re running the latest version of WordPress, so there shouldn’t be any security holes…
Podcast 23: I, Robot
ben’s coment pretty much writes itself for this one