Site Index

 

 

I.                   Home Page

a.       Red River                                              Page devoted to my trip down the Red River in a homemade raft.

                                                               i.      Why                                                  Attempt at explaining why I did it.

                                                             ii.      Photo Gallery                                     Some pictures to give you a better idea of what you're dealing with.

                                                            iii.      Captain’s Log                                    Log I kept while floating.  Unedited.

                                                           iv.      Technical Data                                   Some of the specs on our raft.

b.      Go-Kart!                                                This page is about our adventures with Ultimate Go-Kart (UGK).

                                                               i.      RATS, the guilty party                        Mug shots of the RATS, the group responsible for most of the hoodlumry on this site.

                                                             ii.      Part 1                                                 Story of UGK:  John, Creative Genuis.

                                                            iii.      Part 2                                                 Story of UGK:  I love it when a plan comes together.

                                                           iv.      Part 3                                                 Story of UGK:  Maiden Voyage.

                                                             v.      Part 4                                                 Story of UGK:  Repairing the Damage.

                                                           vi.      Part 5                                                 Story of UGK:  Beginning of the End.

                                                          vii.      Photo Gallery                                     Pictures of Ultimate Go-Kart.

c.       Dune Buggy                                         Page about the RATS attempt to build a Dune Buggy.

                                                               i.      Story                                                  The (condensed) story of Dune Buggy.

                                                               i.      Photo Gallery 1                                   The first Dune Buggy photo gallery.

                                                               i.      Photo Gallery 2                                   The second Dune Buggy photo gallery.

c.       NDC                                                     Page detailing our dealings with non-dairy creamer.

                                                               i.      Part 1                                                  Intro

                                                             ii.      Part 2                                                  Y2K

                                                            iii.      Part 3                                                  Ben's House #1

                                                           iv.      Part 4                                                   Ben's House #2

                                                             v.      Photo Gallery                                       Sweet pictures of fireballs.

d.      Select Your Tesla Coil                            Pick our first coil or our second coil.

            i.      Tesla Coil                                            Page about the first Tesla Coil we built.

                    A.    Brief History                                          Brief history of our first coil.

                    B.    Photo Gallery                                        A few pics of our coil.

                                                                         C.         Coil Specs                                            Specs of our coil.

                                      D.    TC Links                                              Links to some interesting Tesla Coil sites.

                            ii.     White Lightning                                       Page devoted to our Senior design project Tesla Coil.

                                      A.    Group Contract                               Our Design Group's Written Contract

                                      B.    Intro Paragraph                                Paragraph outlining our idea to our professor.

                                      C.    Proposal                                          Formal proposal of our idea.

                                      D.    Power Point                                     Power point presentation  from our oral report.

                                      E.     Updates                                            Keep up with our progress on White Lightning.

                                                    I.    BBQ                                               Story of us cooking a neon sign transformer. Mmmm...

                                                   II.    Progress Report 1                           Our first progress report; details TC components.

                                                  III.    Milling the Motor                            Pics of our motor being milled for sync operation.

                                                  IV.    Winding Secondary                        This page shows and explains our winding jig.

                                                   V.    Building the Table                            See Russ actually doing work!

                                                  VI.     MMC                                            Photo's of our capacitor setup.

                                                 VII.    Primary Coil                                    First pics of our primary.

                                                VIII.    SRSG 2                                          Description and photo's of our SRSG box.

                                                  IX.    MMC 2                                          Soldering and mounting the caps.

                                                    X.    Table 2                                           Rigging the Table for a quick trial run.

                                                   XI.    Sparks!                                          Check out some awesome lightnin!

                                       F.    TC Links                                           Links to some interesting Tesla Coil sites.

                                      G.    Engineer's Day                                   Story of how White Lightning won LA Tech's Engineering Day competition.

e.       Crazy Experiments                                    Page devoted to any manner of crazy experiment that doesn't deserve its own page.

                                                               i.      Rocket Plane                                         Rocket engine powered Styrofoam airplane.

                                                             ii.      Potato Cannon                                       Our quick 'n dirty Spud Gun.

1.      Ammo Essay                                     Essay I had to write for English that details one of our forays.

                                                            iii.      Flying Capacitor                                     Our attempt to replicate a "Lifter."

                  f.    Ben's Shrine to his sweet Trans Am            Ben drives a 2000 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am WS-6.  This is its shrine.

                            i.    Drag Times                                            Dedicated to how fast Ben has gone down the quarter.

                           ii.    Sad Story                                               Story of how Ben got screwed.

g.       Links                                                         Links to various other sites on the web.  Want your address here?  E-mail me.

           



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