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Well, as I mentioned in my personal journal, I am starting a new section that deals with various projects I do. Hopefully others can get something good out of it. I know that during my research, it was hard to get answers. I would often get responses like "That's not meant to be used that way" and "You can't do that". But the truth of the matter is, when doign any engineering, you're creating something that's never been done before. As a matter of fact, the thing I was told "can't be done like that" is something I currently have my first patent on and we're already in production of this viable technology! The company I work for is making some good money off of this invention! So it's not all hot air. But after all I did, I found so few application engineers had good information. It's surprising how many people don't know what they're doing. So I added to this section. There are new gree links at the top of the page for small or interesting projects I've done. Fully documented with plans, schematics and whatever else necessary to recreate the project along with valuable information about info some people and even manufacturers leave out. Please enjoy the links and I'll add more as I do more. Thanks! I always seem to be busy with many projects at the same time. I will still be "tinkering" with all that I've mentioned above, but I've decided to focus on one thing for now. Yesterday I amassed all the information about ESC (electrostatic cooling) I could find. I decided that this would be the easiest for me to research and experiment with. My cancer research is still the top priority, and I still will be working with schematics and research on that. But there are other projects that I feel will help fund the cancer research through their success. Namely my ESC research and applications there of and my wall TV projector design. Because these things are in their development stage, I can't really talk about them. Although, I will mention interesting things I found out along the way. Plus, I'll be a bit general so that you'll get an idea about my research. But because I need the funds from my inventions to find my cancer research, I can't reveal much here until these things are patented. As I'm writing this, I find it hard to believe I haven't written in a year. I did buy the Wimhurst Generator, but I don't think it will give me what I want. I have download several patents on other similar devices, and hope to make my own version of it only with more of what I need as an output. I recently read an article from the Special Edition of Scientific American (Volume 14, Number 3) that had information about cancer. I was re-inspired to do something with my research and started a DSP design. I also took a class this past Wednesday that had to deal with Altera's FPGAs. A certain type can come with a processor (the Nios II) already built in and I'd like to mate that with the DSP processor I'm using for my waveform generations. I started a schematic and at least are headed down that road. So that's the update, I'll keep you posted. I purchased a Wimshurst electrostatic generator (click here to see it) to further my experiments with electrostatic cooling, and it should arrive this week. The unit produces up to 75,000 volts of static electricity. Because I didn't want to crowd my personal journal with technical information that might bore the average user, I decided to make this page so that those who ARE interested in my research can go here and read about my progress. Yesterday, I went to the Huntington Beach library to find the original article I read many years ago. The article is about a type of electric wave that chills how surfaces just using electricity. It's my intent to find a way to adapt this kind of technique to become more of a super cooling element for a medical scanner. If you're currious to see the article (which is in Popular Science, March 1973) You can read my transcribing of it here: Probe Puts Freeze On Hot Spots (in word doc format). After reading it, I don't know if this will really apply to what I was thinking, but I'll be investigating it. |