This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
First Post
Article: 7862 of alt.hackers From: kietzman@leland.Stanford.EDU (John William Kietzman) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: First Post Date: 23 May 1995 22:56:33 -0700 Organization: Could It Be _SATAN_ ? Lines: 21 Approved: Bugs Bunny Message-ID: 3puhqh$6kq@elaine31.Stanford.EDU NNTP-Posting-Host: elaine31.stanford.edu Status: RO
The traditional phrase is "let's see if this worked...". ObHack: For a controls project class, we were required to make any sensors and actuators we wished to use more or less from scratch. For instance, we couldn't buy a solenoid, we had to _make_ a solenoid. Rather than using the traditional "you hold the spool of wire, I'll turn the coil form with a drill" method, we went with Plan B. Plan B in this case meant buying a spool of magnet wire of approximately the right size and then spending ten or fifteen minutes fishing out the other end of the coil of wire, stripping both ends of the wire, and voila, instant coil, no drilling required. [Sorry, it saved lots of trouble and frustration at the time.] John kietzman@leland.stanford.edu