Welcome to Paul Peng [aka Penguin]'s world.
A showcase/documentary of Penguin's projects & experiments
~Index of Penguin's projects/experiments~
High
Voltage |
NEWS (red- project news, black- other news) [21/7/08] More greensand castings from the furnace [21/7/08] Some awesome greensand castings have been made using the furnace, and brand new homemade flasks. [11/7/08] Greensand moulds and castings are now in the making for the furnace, after the acquisition of some bentonite clay! [30/6/08] Some improvements have been made to the furnace, and a few castings have been produced! [25/6/08] The construction of the furnace is complete! A small fire was lit to test it out. [24/6/08] Penguin's lab springs back into action with a charcoal powered furnace designed to melt aluminium, brass, bronze and copper! Initial melts with a fireplace were quite successful and a brand new furnace is in the making. [11/2/08] Whoops! Penguin's Lab had a bit of downtime for a few days, as the web hosting server went down. I have since transferred to a more reliable source (Lunarpages). [6/1/08] Just a couple more photos added to the laser page. [24/12/07] Merry Christmas from Penguin's Lab! Have a fun but safe time, especially if working with HV. [22/11/07] After a long break, acquisition of a high powered industrial fan has enabled me to revisit the peltier project and cool things down even further. [30/6/07] Schematics!! I finally got around to digging out the ignition coil driver and re-drawing the schematic diagram from that. Despite checking it over and over again, I still can't be sure that it is 100% correct though, but why don't you build it and see? Just don't blame me if anything blows up! For older updates, visit the Penguin's Lab Archive |
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Lightning simulation
is carried out by the Penguin's Lab Marx Generator... |
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Ignition coils- The cheap man's
source of high voltage fun! |
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Tesla coils are the most well
known high voltage generating device in the world. |
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Pulse
Energy |
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High energy discharge experiments
mean lots of noise, sparks, and awesome photos! |
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The coilgun was developed mid
2005, and its projectiles reached speeds of over 100km/h. |
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Optics/Vision |
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3D images that are so lifelike
that they can be mistaken to be real... a showcase of Penguin's holograms. |
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Experiments concerning semiconductor
lasers, and also the "Darwin laser lightshow"! |
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Night vision has been around
for a long time, but still not everyone has a pair of goggles... |
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Fibre optics technology...the telephone line? Nah, fibre optic cameras and lamps are better! | ||
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Low voltage fluorescent tube
drivers are the dream of campers and hikers everywhere. |
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Explore the world of new age
lighting |
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RF/Radio/Audio |
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Shattering glass with mere sound?
Explore the world of resonance. |
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A fun little gadget that you
use when the bus driver turns on the radio to the channel you don't
like... |
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General
Electronics/Physics |
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Red hot iron bolts with no flame?
Introducing induction heating... |
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Melting scrap aluminium into something a tad more useful... and a lot of firey heat in the process! | ||
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A trebuchet with microwave oven
transformers as a counterweight! |
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Launched early 2006, this camera
carrying balloon floated above Darwin. |
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2500 matches to waste, and the
beauty of flammable liquids. |
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Peltier devices are the portable,
semiconductor solution to refrigeration. |
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Photography |
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Penguin specializes in a variety
of special effects photography including high
speed, water
splash, stroboscopic
and infrared
photography. |
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The complete collection of 'Penguinphotos',
including fireworks and natural landscape photos. |
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Magnetism |
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How the hell do those trains
work? Playing with magnetic levitation devices... |
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Chemistry |
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Nick's distillation thing is
finally up and running, with pictures to come... |
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Other
Projects/Stuff |
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My 200W subwoofer developed
at the start of my MP3 downloading days. Hahaha... |
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Latest headlines stream live
onto this computer controlled LCD panel. |
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What is Penguin (and Nick, the chemistry man) working on now? Status/completion of current/future projects that are in progress.
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All about Penguin's Lab! |
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Questions? Comments? Complaints? |
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An archive of some random stuff |
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Thanks to...... |
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Main page logo - Mr. Penguin inspects the brand new casting fresh from the furnace Mr Penguin last updated the site... Friday 25 July, 2008 |
© Penguin's Lab 2007
Disclaimer: Most of the projects listed on Penguin's Lab do not carry a schematic, and for a good reason. You see, if you build one of these things and you kill yourself, well that's your fault isn't it? So I am telling you now that if you even think about building any of the stuff on here, well don't come to me if you die (wait, that's not very likely is it..) or get injured.
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