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[Dude111]

Check here for a very strange app..

Basic idea is that it uses the radiation from your monitor to transmit music that you pickup with a reg radio

This is 1 time i would like to have LINUX just to try stuff like this i find!

[tommie gorman]

Or here is a simple enough one my 7 or 9 year old daughter could probably build. 
http://sci-toys.com/...io.html#crystal

[Conuck]

I can remember when to could buy Crystal Radios for about $1.50. I used to listen to it at night when I was a kid.

[Roco]

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I can remember when to could buy Crystal Radios for about $1.50. I used to listen to it at night when I was a kid.

I can remember the cats whisker  crystal , I  built a few as a kid , 100 ft wire aerial ,and getting up a 6 am , thats the time BBC ..UK started transmitting ,
just to tune the receiver in ? ,
suddenly I feel very old ,

[Conuck]

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suddenly I feel very old ,

If anyone calls you old just hit them with your cane!

[Roco]

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If anyone calls you old just hit them with your cane!

:lol:not sure that is the answer , ? I tried that on the G/f , she just screamd , "Oh yes yessss, more more ,  ,

[tommie gorman]

OH heck we built a few in highschool. Those and the electro magnets, and the shockers. Cant remember if there was a real name, but if you had 20+ guys hold hands and set it off, the last guy to reconnect was knocked on his ass. 

[pixiepistlz]

Sounds like you guys had more fun than me in school.    Maybe I should go back ?? Hmmmmm??

[tommie gorman]

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Sounds like you guys had more fun than me in school.   Maybe I should go back ?? Hmmmmm??

Its kind of hard to go that far back.  You ever hear of knights of the round table?

[pixiepistlz]

Yeah ..who needs school when you have Google???
               and no sick days or classes. Feeling sick now.......