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Rubycon action figure!

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after some time she became mid level management barbie

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/stolen off of some forum 🙂
 
The Boston Dangler said:
why does engineer barbie dress like a 12 year old?
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First thing that hit my head, but then again, she is a Computer Engineer. :awe:🙁

WHAMPOM said:
"Math is hard" is dead now?
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Via Wikipedia:

One of the most common criticisms of Barbie is that she promotes an unrealistic idea of body image for a young woman, leading to a risk that girls who attempt to emulate her will become anorexic. A standard Barbie doll is 11.5 inches tall, giving a height of 5 feet 9 inches at 1/6 scale. Barbie's vital statistics have been estimated at 36 inches (chest), 18 inches (waist) and 33 inches (hips). According to research by the University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland, she would lack the 17 to 22 percent body fat required for a woman to menstruate.[16] In 1963 the outfit "Barbie Baby-Sits" came with a book entitled How to Lose Weight which advised: "Don't eat."[17] The same book was included in another ensemble called "Slumber Party" in 1965 along with a pink bathroom scale reading 110 lbs.[18], which would be around 35 lbs. underweight for a woman 5 feet 9 inches tall. [19] In 1997 Barbie's body mold was redesigned and given a wider waist, with Mattel saying that this would make the doll better suited to contemporary fashion designs.[20][21]

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bwhahaha "...Computer Engineer Barbie became viral amongst female engineers and other women in the tech industry..."

What do you think they'll do when they find out that 90% of the votes where from males...
 
Action figure eh?

I never cared for Barbie Dolls - ever. I used to tease boys for playing with their "GI Joe Action Figures" since they are really dolls. 😛 The boys that did not know me would tell me to play with my "Barbie" and I'd show them "Mr. Tractor" which was a Ford Model T ignition coil. They'd either pee their pants or run away. I did get in lots of trouble with shocking things while growing up. In the '80s when those piezoelectric ignitors became commonplace on gas grilles it was great! I used to keep one of those in my pocket always as it was a fail safe source of 15kV to test things and getting it wet would not wreck it like other things. (although sometimes it would shock you if pressed when wet!) :biggrin:

Oh and pics - we have an ATOT gallery for that. 😉
 
Rubycon said:
Action figure eh?

I never cared for Barbie Dolls - ever. I used to tease boys for playing with their "GI Joe Action Figures" since they are really dolls. 😛 The boys that did not know me would tell me to play with my "Barbie" and I'd show them "Mr. Tractor" which was a Ford Model T ignition coil. They'd either pee their pants or run away. I did get in lots of trouble with shocking things while growing up. In the '80s when those piezoelectric ignitors became commonplace on gas grilles it was great! I used to keep one of those in my pocket always as it was a fail safe source of 15kV to test things and getting it wet would not wreck it like other things. (although sometimes it would shock you if pressed when wet!) :biggrin:

Oh and pics - we have an ATOT gallery for that. 😉
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Be careful you can still google that. 😛
 
Rubycon said:
Action figure eh?

I never cared for Barbie Dolls - ever. I used to tease boys for playing with their "GI Joe Action Figures" since they are really dolls. 😛 The boys that did not know me would tell me to play with my "Barbie" and I'd show them "Mr. Tractor" which was a Ford Model T ignition coil. They'd either pee their pants or run away. I did get in lots of trouble with shocking things while growing up. In the '80s when those piezoelectric ignitors became commonplace on gas grilles it was great! I used to keep one of those in my pocket always as it was a fail safe source of 15kV to test things and getting it wet would not wreck it like other things. (although sometimes it would shock you if pressed when wet!) :biggrin:
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Almost sounds like me when I was a kid. At around the age of 10-12 I used to put paper clips in the plug, on purpose, to create my own little circuits off of, like make light bulbs light up with a switch and stuff. I did not have the luxery of driving over to a hardware store and buying stuff, so I was resourceful. Aluminum foil makes great wiring and even doubles as a fuse when you shove it directly into the socket and wire stuff off it. Properly folded paper clips can act as a socket.

I used to kill bugs with 120v too. Magnifying glass is was too low tech for me.
 
Cheesetogo said:
http://www.safey.net/pics/albums/ATOT/RubyCon.sized.jpg
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Ugh! That's a horrible pic. At least there are no skinny dipping pix!

Joemonkey said:
i thought the rubycon pic from the gallery was a fuzzy small pic of her in a red dress? weird
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I sent a PM to the gallery owner a long time ago with a better pic. That one was quite blurry - a few drinks with camera in manual mode don't mix too well. 😉

RedSquirrel said:
Almost sounds like me when I was a kid. At around the age of 10-12 I used to put paper clips in the plug, on purpose, to create my own little circuits off of, like make light bulbs light up with a switch and stuff. I did not have the luxery of driving over to a hardware store and buying stuff, so I was resourceful. Aluminum foil makes great wiring and even doubles as a fuse when you shove it directly into the socket and wire stuff off it. Properly folded paper clips can act as a socket.

I used to kill bugs with 120v too. Magnifying glass is was too low tech for me.
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If you want to shock someone you can rig a GOOD plug (Hubbell or equivalent) by wiring a 5A full wave bridge rectifier and 400+ microfarad electrolytic of sufficient voltage. You can get creative using diodes and double or triple the voltage as long as your cap is sufficiently rated. 240VAC (120V in North America) is PLENTY as you will see!

What you want to do is wire the AC (~ marked) leads of your rectifier to the bronze and silver terminals of your plug. Connect the + to the positive and - to the negative of your cap. Now for the probes you will need small brads - brass are recommended since they are easiest to solder to. Solder the wires to the heads and leave the pointed side as is. You can even use the residual heat from soldering (holding with needle nose pliers of course!) to drill the holes in the plug body. Make them about 1 cm apart. The wires you just soldered go parallel to the cap.

This is how it works. When you plug it in to a wall socket the cap gets charged with line voltage potential. This occurs nearly instantaneously so no need to leave it plugged in! WARNING! Line voltage exists on the probes! Keep your fingers clear!

Now when you unplug this contraption you can walk around with the equivalent of a wall socket "hit" on your person! Brush the probes against a pop can, for example. It will blow holes through the skin with the report similar to a small squib! (firecracker)

Touch it on a person's arm and they will feel a jolt not different than touching a live wire from an energized circuit! (you really should not do this as it's not very nice!)

It's a good demonstration to show just how dangerous things with capacitors can be! If you build this with a doubler or tripler the shock can be quite dangerous so don't even think about fooling with this unless you're properly trained. 😉

Hehe I'm such a dork - sometimes. :biggrin:
 
Wait so there's pics of you skinny dipping and you didn't share? 🙁


And boo... I would need higher voltage and higher capacitance caps dumb things would cost like $3-$5 though... do have the needed diodes though. 😛

Probably would break all kinds of ethics things using it as well.
 
Matthiasa said:
Wait so there's pics of you skinny dipping and you didn't share? 🙁


And boo... I would need higher voltage and higher capacitance caps dumb things would cost like $3-$5 though... do have the needed diodes though. 😛

Probably would break all kinds of ethics things using it as well.
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I owed another teacher in my school. Over the years, I've been pelted by a nerf football or pennies at moments that I was completely unexpecting either to be thrown at high velocity at me.

Big plastic garbage can lid. Some aluminum foil. Some tape. A short amount of time with a Van de Graaff generator = Holy shit, you can get that much charge doing that?!! I had one student touch one side, and then another student touch the other side. The circuit was completed through their sneakers & through a few feet of the floor. Without recharging the lid, I repeated this 4 more times with 4 more pairs of students. Each was surprised it was more of a shock than from the van de graaff. One student - the big football player who is a pretty tough kid - said "they're just being wimpy. Here, toss it to me." I didn't think there'd be that much charge left. He caught it with one hand on each side. Tears came to his eyes.

I owed that other teacher. I didn't charge it up quite as much, but I walked into his room, remarked "I owe you for all the footballs you've thrown at me," and gently tossed that lid across the room toward him. Head cocked to one side, as if to say "like I'm not going to be able to stop that," he stuck out both arms and caught it exactly as expected - one hand on each side.

Briefly, he was trying to think of something for revenge & told the kids that he'd get even with me. I made a comment that probably saved me from any such attempts "Tell him, 'bring it.' I knocked him on his butt with a garbage can lid & some aluminum foil. There's nothing I enjoy more than an escalating practical joke war. A garbage can lid is nothing. "

And to bring this back on topic - the last thing I mentioned came directly from Rubycon in a thread or PM where the Model T ignition coil was mentioned: involuntary incontinence. That's one of the cooler toys I have. And touch the van de graaff with my tongue though I may, nothing will get me to stick my finger anywhere near that ignition coil when it's operating.

"Will it ignite paper?"
"Well, 'ignition' is part of its name, but there's one way to find out."

I love answering questions with demonstrations. 🙂
 
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Rubycon said:
Ugh! That's a horrible pic. At least there are no skinny dipping pix!



I sent a PM to the gallery owner a long time ago with a better pic. That one was quite blurry - a few drinks with camera in manual mode don't mix too well. 😉



If you want to shock someone you can rig a GOOD plug (Hubbell or equivalent) by wiring a 5A full wave bridge rectifier and 400+ microfarad electrolytic of sufficient voltage. You can get creative using diodes and double or triple the voltage as long as your cap is sufficiently rated. 240VAC (120V in North America) is PLENTY as you will see!

What you want to do is wire the AC (~ marked) leads of your rectifier to the bronze and silver terminals of your plug. Connect the + to the positive and - to the negative of your cap. Now for the probes you will need small brads - brass are recommended since they are easiest to solder to. Solder the wires to the heads and leave the pointed side as is. You can even use the residual heat from soldering (holding with needle nose pliers of course!) to drill the holes in the plug body. Make them about 1 cm apart. The wires you just soldered go parallel to the cap.

This is how it works. When you plug it in to a wall socket the cap gets charged with line voltage potential. This occurs nearly instantaneously so no need to leave it plugged in! WARNING! Line voltage exists on the probes! Keep your fingers clear!

Now when you unplug this contraption you can walk around with the equivalent of a wall socket "hit" on your person! Brush the probes against a pop can, for example. It will blow holes through the skin with the report similar to a small squib! (firecracker)

Touch it on a person's arm and they will feel a jolt not different than touching a live wire from an energized circuit! (you really should not do this as it's not very nice!)

It's a good demonstration to show just how dangerous things with capacitors can be! If you build this with a doubler or tripler the shock can be quite dangerous so don't even think about fooling with this unless you're properly trained. 😉

Hehe I'm such a dork - sometimes. :biggrin:
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Capacitors are fun especially when mixed with transformers.

I was playing with a capacitor once, I charged it with a 17V AC adapter, then I unplugged the adapter from the wall and touched the blades with the capacitor still on the other end. Got a nice little shock there. The 17V basically got stepped back up. I wonder how high I can get the voltage if I do this with two capacitors. :sneaky:
 
RedSquirrel said:
Capacitors are fun especially when mixed with transformers.

I was playing with a capacitor once, I charged it with a 17V AC adapter, then I unplugged the adapter from the wall and touched the blades with the capacitor still on the other end. Got a nice little shock there. The 17V basically got stepped back up. I wonder how high I can get the voltage if I do this with two capacitors. :sneaky:
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If you felt it the voltage was higher than 17V. Something else was happening, however as a capacitor produces direct current and direct current into a transformer will not be stepped up or down unless it's chopped with either a vibrator or oscillator.

This is why one cannot get shocked by an ignition coil that's powered on with an ignition in the run position. (assuming points closed) It will run down the battery since the primary's resistance is sufficiently low to draw a few amps. It will also make the coil get warm. Now if one has a battery charger connected to the vehicle battery the AC ripple "riding" down to the coil WILL get stepped up to perhaps a kV or two and you will get bucked by that.

Have no idea if any of this applies to current vehicles with transistorized ignitions (pointless ignition modules). Some produce quite a hot spark. The model T coil when properly tuned produces sparks well in excess of an inch with sufficient current to ignite paper and burn flesh if one's pain tolerance is high enough to allow them to play across a finger, for example. 😱
 
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