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- jjk5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Indeed. A nice twist on an old idea.
- DFchoke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I looked online and the mist generators must have come down in price. they listed from $25-150. the ones $75 and up were for larger jobs(ponds and waterfalls, they came with 30' power cords) with built in led lighting effects. My guess is one of the smaller models would work for this.
- opticaltempest, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It sure puts a *spin* on homemade projects.
- blaksaga, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Looks cool and from what I saw of the instructions, they are well put together and easy to follow. In the guide, it says you can build one of these for $200 but I'm guessing it will be a little more than that considering the pvc, aluminum, $100 mist generator, all the little odds and ends like tape and hot glue, etc etc. It does look cool though and would be cool to have in my livingroom (I was also thinking about a fish tank :) ).
- tazamore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"I make these plans available free of charge, provided that you ONLY BUILD THIS MACHINE FOR YOURSELF and you do not gain any commercial revenue by building this machine or distributing these plans."
Does this guy work for the RIAA? - THX-7168, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Other Links:
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/04/how_to_build_a_tornado_machine.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=131081976&size=o - bigpeeler, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That sucks.
...2...3...4. - jsp317, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh yes i see a cool project for my kids
- tidejwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can see the Military spending a few Billion $'s making a HUGE Tornado/Hurricane machine and using it to take out IRAN or Cuba or North Korea or at least their Military or something so it can't be traced back to the U.S. and just gets blamed on "Nature". Or watch them figure out how to start Earthquakes (like in "The Core") under the ocean to stimulate another huge flood to take out a certain location. Now that would be a weapon...
- Sebastian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2...2...3...4.
AHAHAHAHA Funny , we go it - ianjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes it looks fairly straight forward to build. I would love to construct one of these.
I used to work in a store that sold mist generators, they have come down in price a lot in the last few years. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They did one of these on Popular Mechanics for Kids, a Canadian kids technology show, in 1997. I guess some projects are timeless. If only the same could be said for my BetaMax to LaserDisc converter.
- RandomInsano, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Dude, you stole my post.
- petro62, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I got one of those mister's with leds built into it from one of those little fountains that you put in your room. I think that would probably put out enough mist for it. You can get those fountains for cheap especially off ebay. I would get one that has a remote so you can control the led colors.
- zatrix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2and mine haha
but honestly, this is old news, Popular Mechanics for kids did this ages ago
P.S. Guess who was the star of that TV show? You guessed wrong, it was Elisha Cuthbert <3
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193846/ - OnymousHero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very nice instructions...I'd spot a LaTeX prepared document anywhere ;)
- Hacktivist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2They made one of these on popular mechanics for kids back in the days. Worked pretty well too.
- bigpeeler, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I seriously am thinking of trying to build a mini-tornado-maker using an old CPU cooling fan. How cool would that be? You could have your own desktop tornado maybe 8-10 inches high.
I'm gonna make a skillion dollars on this idea. No stealy, okay guys? :-D
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