Self-powering tortilla breadboards

[maradydd]

Robotics hobbyist Kevin Ross ran out of breadboards (predrilled nonconducting surfaces, used for prototyping circuits) one night, so he used a tortilla in place of one. It worked quite well. I thought this was pretty cool, but check out what happened when he used a habanero tortilla with one gold-plated and one tin-plated power connector -- it became a self-powering tortilla breadboard.

Science is cool!

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favorite line (in my tired state)

[kekhmet.livejournal.com]

This is evironmentally friendly, and smells very tasty as you solder.
hehehe

(I'm going to bed now, really I am!)

(but you did have to post a link to a rather amusingly distracting site, didn't you?)

Breadboards?

[madandrew.livejournal.com]

Breadboards? Girly, in my day we didn't have no breadboards! We made weird geometric art of the electrical components and the smell of burning flesh and we liked it!

Kids today. Tortillas. Hmph.

Re: Breadboards?

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

See, I kinda like the dead-bug method (aka ground-plane construction). It's ugly as hell, but can be surprisingly compact if you're careful.

Oh, and a nod to one of your comments from a few months ago -- this weekend I have to implement a multilayer perceptron as an assignment for my data mining class.

Also, did you get the $500 I sent you?

[chitherea.livejournal.com]

Very nice. Just when I'm tempted to write off modern science as hopelessly narcissitic, something like this comes along. It's simple, poetic, ecologocially friendly, and damn creative. I for one, would love it if that sort of thing caught on.

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

I'm also deeply amused by the fact that it was a complete freakin' accident. :)

Accidents

[slimnerd.livejournal.com]

One thing I remember from the history of science is that many of the greatest discoveries were found by accident.