Dan Efran

Since we have so many do-it yourselfer's, I thought I'd share my Medieval themed cigar lounge build above my new garage we built last...

I think I'm finally ready to call this one done! 31 unique chirp patterns, timing fixed, and some more fun stuff worked in. The final...

I put together a short video to better demonstrate what I was talking about above with the whole communicator "chirp splicing" thing. It...

To me the bad motivator seems to be made of 5 or 6 parts. My eyes see a back plate which the main socket attaches to and is used on the...

I was going to mention seeing a sort of plate behind the socket as well! Seems like a spring coiled around an eraser shield could be...

I agree and originally was throwing that possibility out the window because of it. With that said, this may fall into being a common...

I guess I should also make explicit the biggest reason one might doubt the variable air capacitor theory: most of those have an obvious...

Keep the ideas coming though! Little of this is clear enough to be definitive.

Sure. It’s certainly not impossible. Those could be corrugations on a half cylinder rather than stacked plates. But most corrugated...

Are you proposing that the part we’re calling a variable air capacitor is actually something corrugated? I think that’s unlikely. First...

That all sounds right to me.

On the Baddeley version of the flowerpot dome, the panel opening is 2 inches wide about 1/3 of the way in from the outermost edge, which...

Yeah, my mockup is about 2.5 inches wide, not counting the loose wire and the meter needle. Probably a bit too much—about two inches...

Here’s a crude kitbashed mockup based on those ideas. I don’t have a socket yet or some of the other things, so I just used vaguely...

Now I'm wondering if the yellow and purple plates are duplicate parts, rotated 180 degrees around the central axis of the motivator. The...