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[WillowLuman]

MrButtchicker
And don't talk about throwing all the insane people to the furnaces, or else we'll be furnace operators all. Except you, the self proclaimed monarch.

That is, if you think you could make us. Don't make me go Nac Macfeegle on you! Nae King! Nae Queen! Nae laird! Nae masterrr! There ca' on'li be one 'tousand!

[wierd]

Ironically, the papercraft version, while flimsy and poorly assembled, would probably make a kick ass wifi amplifier for stealing internet.

I will test it for that when I get home!

Not as robust as the one I built for a friend a few years back though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(That's a USB port in the middle. )
(It gets a reliable 20dbi directional gain! My friend uses it to get wifi from next door. Before that we tested reliability with a cheap belkin wifi dongle. Over 500 meters through a wall and foliage! Booya! Lol)

[Eric Blank]

We'd need radios.

[wierd]

Yeah, but the solar cooker is meant to cook with.

(Or just catch things on fire.)

The shoddy paper beta was sufficiently successful, despite inferior materials, to warrant further testing.

If I can get it working, I will release the segment PDF blueprint.

[WillowLuman]

We'd need radios.

There would be no one to listen but us. And we'd need to build an above ground tower in order to broadcast/recieve. The bunker-like nature of our fort would block signals.

Though I have the strangest feeling we'd pick up disturbing and strange noises if we turned on a radio, picking up signals emanating from far below.

[Corai]

We'd need radios.

There would be no one to listen but us. And we'd need to build an above ground tower in order to broadcast/recieve. The bunker-like nature of our fort would block signals.

Though I have the strangest feeling we'd pick up disturbing and strange noises if we turned on a radio, picking up signals emanating from far below.

I vote we do this and track down these forces, raise a small army of kobolds and re-taught elves (cause both are expendable) and have them cleanse the caverns.


Yes, I just suggested to put my kobolds in death's way. No problem bro?

[wierd]

How awesome would it be to taunt the HFS remotely?!

LOL!

[gzoker]

So, how big your death ray is going to be? If you want to cook with it, then it need at least a 100degree increase the focal point, and to heat up a frying pan probably a lot more. And i guess you want the food out of the focal point, so it would cook evenly. Or is it just for heating up your coffee?

You could build a seismic radio with caveins....

[wierd]

This is more for driving a camp percolator.

At 14in diameter, it won't concentrate enough to heat a big pan.

(I am limited by what size template my consumer grade printer can poop out.)

The design could be scaled up for a much larger dish though. If someone wanted to print it on a plotter at 500% size or something, they could easily catch wet meat on fire.

WHEEEEEEE!

[WillowLuman]

That video... dear Gandhi! A supersized one would be terrible to behold!

Only, if it rains or someone chucks a rock in, the whole thing is ruined.

[wierd]

Not only that, but to aim it would require a very precisely ground crystal glass lens, a rotary aming mirror, and a remote actuated armature. (I'll be damned if I'm gonna be aiming the mirror by hand!)

This is because the focal point of the parobola is fixed. You have to re-bend the light into a straight path very near/at the focal point with a lens fitted to that parobola, and then aim the straightened light beam.

But wherever you shone it, it would make burny doom! Wheeee!

[WillowLuman]

Not only that, but to aim it would require a very precisely ground crystal glass lens, a rotary aming mirror, and a remote actuated armature. (I'll be damned if I'm gonna be aiming the mirror by hand!)

This is because the focal point of the parobola is fixed. You have to re-bend the light into a straight path very near/at the focal point with a lens fitted to that parobola, and then aim the straightened light beam.

But wherever you shone it, it would make burny doom! Wheeee!

Alternately, it could be rigged to produce a solar smelter.

[Corai]

THE RAILS ARE BEING REMOVED, SOMEONE REPLACE THEM!

[WillowLuman]

Another entry from Talvieno/Olioli should do the trick

[Cellmonk]

The rails are frozen.... IN A BLOCK OF ICE that is NOW a mug.