Don
Lancaster's
"Golly
Gee Mister Science" Library
This library shelf holds files and links mostly of scientific interest.
We'll be adding more as time and banner
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Most library files require an Adobe
Acrobat 3.0 plug in for online
viewing. Offline, these may be accessed by an
Acrobat reader, or
with use of any program (GhostScript, Transverter, Illustrator... )
that can accept v 3.0 or higher .PDF files as inputs.
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Files:
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Resource
Bin #63 RESBN63.PDF
(April 1997 ) A painless way to scam a student paper. Fast web searching. Aerogels. Archaeomagnetism. Buckyballs. magnetic refrigeration. mass teleportation, the mystery band, Santa Claus machines, etc... |
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Hardware
Hacker #64 HACK64.PDF
(May 1993 ) Steam calliope sources. Micropower oscillators. Avoiding energy scams. Thermodynamic basics. Communications trade journals. Understanding process reversibility. |
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Tech
Musings #120 MUSE120.PDF
(January 1998) NewTek's new PIC Calibar tv generator, investigating Brown's Gas, television broadcast magazines, understanding meta studies, comparing energy densities, plastic injection molding book, more. |
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Bin #74 RESBN74.PDF
(March 1998 ) Shaking down some seismic and earthquake info. Seismometers. Seismic associations. Magazines & journals. Books. Amateur Seismologist. AAS. Earthwatch. The web. Newsgroups. Contest. |
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Bin #90 RESBN90.PDF
(July 1999) A look at GPS and Navigation stuff. Fundamentals. Differential GPS. GPS World. Institute of Navigation. Navtech Bookstore. Trimble. Starlink. Free topo maps. Other sites and mags. For more help. |
Click here for GPS Book access info.
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Tech
Musings #139 MUSE139.PDF
(August 1999) Hot tub economics. SETI at home update. Thermal energy basics. Radio astronomy books. Digital scanner "photos" Plastic working catalog. New GPS publication. |
Click here for Radio Astronomy book info.
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Tech
Musings #148 MUSE148.PDF
(May 2000) Algae hydrogen source. Applying Taylor Series. Surplus and auction update. Lithium polymer batteries. Understanding nonlinearity. Battery books. Cave radio site, Maxim chargers, more... |
Click here for Battery book info.
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Tech Musings #130 MUSE130.PDF
(November 1998) A look at rail guns. DNA error correction effectiveness. Some pitfalls of Windows 98. An air conditioning power servo using the Honeywell Modutrol. Faraday motion experiments. |
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Bin #91 RESBN91.PDF
(August 1999) A look at some Antenna Resources. ARRL. Other antenna books. Antennax and friends. IEEE publications. More magazines. Those "miracle" antennas. AM resonators. FM DX tricks. More info... |
Click here for Antenna Book access info.
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Tech
Musings #135 MUSE135.PDF
(April 1999) Thoughts on brain parity. Fundamentals of impulse radio. A "new" bookbinding method. Some Richard Feynman books. MEMS nanotechnology CD ROM. Aerosence conference. |
Click here for Richard
Feynman Books info.
Click here for Age
of Spiritual Machines
info.
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Blatant
Opportunist #53 EMERGOP6.PDF
Some more Emerging Technical Opportunities. These include pulse radio, meatlloradicals, "D" cell turbines, carbon nanofiber hydrides, EIS spectroscopy, RFID, massive FPGA's, and brain parity. |
Click here for Pulse
Radio tutorials
and resources.
Click here for additional Hydrogen
information.
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Tech
Musings #138 MUSE138.PDF
(July 1999) PS web referral log reader. Life as we don’t know it. Fast access to data sheets. Small "miracle" antennas An impulse radar update. Fresnel vs Fraunhoffer. Fractal antenna designs. |
Click here for Dark Life book info.
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Tech
Musings #144 MUSE144.PDF
(March 2000) Temperature measurements. Thermocouple fundamentals. Working with newsgroups. PostScript Gambler's Ruin simulation Understanding "favicon.ico". Thermometry books. More. |
Click here for Temperature
Measurement bargains.
Click here for Live
Auction Bargains bargains.
Tech Musings #131 MUSE131.PDF
(December 1998)
Investigating position sensitive detectors.
Error correcting code books.
Secrets
of optical rangefinding. Noisy ac power measurements. Some
new
stereolithography resins. RFID tutorial..
Tech Musings #128 MUSE128.PDF
(October 1998)
A look at used test equipment. Some Tesla Turbine
lit. How to
buy military surplus electronics. Impulse radio communications. New
Class
D amplifiers. Merry-go-round horses.
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Tech
Musings #137 MUSE137.PDF
(June 1999) EIS impedance spectroscopy. Sources for radiation detectors. New flexible current transducers and sensors . Gun camera mechanism bargains. Fundamentals of spectrum analysis. |
Click here for Patent
Files book info.
Click here for Patent Avoidance
tutorials.
Tech Musings #119 MUSE119.PDF
(December 1997)
Miracle motor suppressed! Handheld data acquisition
resources.
A
useful hydrogen book. Thoughts on electrolysis. Reactance
limiting
concepts. Web FM radio search service.
Tech Musings #118 MUSE118.PDF
(November 1997)
Time saving laser printer testers. More on hydrogen
developments.
Inside
a submillimeter telescope. Radio astronomy resources update
Home
Power's new SOLAR II CD ROM.
Tech Musings #121 MUSE121.PDF
(February 1998)
FM Wireless Broadcasters. The Radio Shack 12-2051.
Surplus
and
auction update. A homopolar traction motor. A new power
measurement
chip. Understanding the Faraday Disk. Cool cars.
Tech Musings #117 MUSE117.PDF
(October 1997 )
Real PostScript for PIC Robotics. Shattering
homopolar machinery
myths. Six clicks to display PostScript. Motor and generator
intro
and
fundamentals. Melody IC's and sound modules.
Tech Musings #125 MUSE125.PDF
(June 1998)
Understanding crest factors. Temperature sensing
circuits. New
Battery
Products trade journal. Great new SAW filter databook
More
on power measurement. Radiotron Designer's Handbook.
Tech Musings #126 MUSE126.PDF
(July 1998)
AC line powered chips, Isolated power supplies, electric
and
hybrid
automobile books. Transportation alternatives. Nitrogen
powered
cars. Better magnetic refrigeration.
Tech Musings #116 MUSE116.PDF
(September 1997 )
Reading
web site log files. New self-calibrating op amp. Hand
bookbinding
resources. Interpreting HTML error codes. Making
low
level measurements. Source for wood microveneers.
Blatant Opportunist #13 RESSCRTS.PDF
Classic Don Lancaster pre-web tutorial on Insider
Research Secrets.
The
research contiumium. The grestest resource. Library stuff.
Dialog.
UMI. tech books. ervice info. Networking. Consultants net.
Tech Musings #115 MUSE115.PDF
(August 1997 )
PIC chips
now on CD ROM. Hydrogen car fact and fancy. A brand
new,
PIC friendly genlocking tv typewriter! Fuel cells and related
resouces.
Decade's BOB-5L design contest.
Tech Musings #114 MUSE114.PDF
(July 1997 )
The
energy density of gasoline. Digital temperature sensors.
Measuring
source resistance. Free online Ulrich's replacement.
Some
electrochemistry basics. New straw bale newsletter.
Tech Musings #112 MUSE112.PDF
(May 1997 )
A.C.
power measurement tutorial and basics. Aerogel
resources
and developments. 99 cent Telephone extension lockouts.
Understanding
RMS currents. Several column corrections.
Tech Musings #111 MUSE111.PDF
(April 1997 )
Evaluating
energy claims. the CIE Chromaticity diagram. Superb
digital video book. Understanding color spaces. Innovative auto
electronics.
A new current monitor. A skeleton for your closet.
Tech Musings #123 MUSE123.PDF
(April 1998)
AC power measurement new options and tutorial.
$49 Acrobat
source.
Rapid simultaneous A/D converters. Solid state
power
meters. Home energy monitoring. DNA computing.
Tech Musings #106 MUSE106.PDF
( November 1996 )
Secrets
of math determinants, Power generation efficiencies,
Solving
larger
linear equations, induction heating fundamentals, new BOD
Book-on-demand
binding opportunities.
Tech Musings #105 MUSE105.PDF
( October 1996 )
H-P
5SiMx laser printer hard drive interface, new video and audio
chips,
navigation resources update, understanding digital filters,
triple
tri-sample building blocks, linear phase techniques.
Tech Musings #103 MUSE103.PDF
( August 1996 )
New
fluxgate sensors and chips, earth field magnetometry,
Post-it
note opportunities, introduction to vectors, measuring
web
site popularity, greeting card sound chips.
Tech Musings #102 MUSE102.PDF
( July 1996 )
A
"colorizer" for PostScript; Using bionomial coefficients;
Laser
printer repair resources; magnetic field intensity paper;
HP
5SiMX Book-on-demand printer, more.
Tech Musings #101 MUSE101.PDF
( June 1996 )
Using
Delta-Wye transforms, Professional audio resources,
Acrobat
Amber beta software, Building your own Tesla coil,
Three
phase magic sinewaves, more.
Tech Musings #100 MUSE100.PDF
( May 1996 )
Internet
magazine resources; understanding power factor;
Antigravity
and magnetic levitation; Bargain power module
sources;
your personal web page;more.
Tech Musings #92 MUSE92.PDF
( September 1995)
GPS Navigation
update; picking a microprocessor, microcontroller,
or
digital signal processor; new internet directories, understanding
pitot
tubes, more on the mystery TeraHertz band.
Tech Musings #90 MUSE90.PDF
( July 1995)
Fourier
Series analysis, alternatives to plated through holes,
classic
computer resources, a $200 GPS receiver, Newtek's
new
video toaster for Windows.
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Hardware
Hacker #68 HACK68.PDF
(September 1993 ) Heart rate pulse monitor interface. New wireless communications magazine. An update on free energy. Aerobic excercise software thermoelectric module guidelines. Heathkit history. |
Click here hydrogen
resource info.
Click for consultant's
network referrals.
Tech Musings #89 MUSE89.PDF
( June 1995)
BASIC
Stamp Manuals. Secrets of Fibonacci sunflowers.
New
Bezier cubic spline book. Adobe's elegant Acrobat.
E-field
ac voltage sensing.
Tech Musings #88 MUSE88.PDF
( May 1995)
Misconceptions
of acoustic cancelling. Chip adaptor
resources.
PIC micro fundamentals and instruction set.
Fast
& easy SMD removal. Essential hacker nutrients.
Hardware Hacker #77 HACK77.PDF
(June 1994 )
Thermodynamic
Second Law violations. Soliton waves, references,
and
resources. Superb CD ROM directory. Santa Claus machines
review
and update. Some hacker opportunities.
Hardware Hacker #86 HACK86.PDF
(March 1995 )
The
DNA computer language. Some wavelet book resources.
Magic
digital sinewave codes. Engineering economics review.
Hot
new fringe FM RBDS tuner.
Hardware Hacker #63 HACK63.PDF
(April 1993 )
Video
game repair videos. Piezoelectric fundamentals. On not
coming
unglued. Understanding Curie Pointsx. Simple home
EDM machining.
Stunning new integrated circuit opportunities.
Hardware Hacker #62 HACK62.PDF
(April 1993 )
Using
cubic splines. Switchmode resources. Electrorheological
fluids.
National's simple switcher. Colorized avuncular sleezoids.
Curvetracing
contest. Non-ionizing radiation safety.
Hardware Hacker #43 HACK43.PDF
(August 1991 )
Electric
power research info. Focused X-ray breakthrough.
C-60
and the new Buckyballs. Getting telephone information.
Caller
ID number delivery secrets and circuits.
Blatant
Opportunist #17 EMERGOP2.PDF
A
second review of emerging technical opportunities. Dye based
solar
electricity. Wavelets. GPS navigation. Spread spectrum comm.
Switched reluctance motors. Aerogels.
Links:
Periodical
Table of the Elements at Web
Elements
Detailed
properties, chemical, physical, optical, magnetic, history, etc...
Seems
a tad skimpy above element 112, though.
An online IBM Patent Repository
Studying
patents is almost always an utterly mind-rotting waste of time. But,
if
you must, this site offers instant Patent searches and full text downloads.
Coverage
back to 1971. Fax and mail copies also available.
Handy fluid flow calculator at Connel
Online
computation finds friction loss in pipes for everything from
fire
department hydraulics to alternate energy hydro calculations.
Newsgroups:
Here's a few hot linked newsgroups with sci. in their title...
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