January 05, 2004
What's this?
Can anyone guess what this is? And no, I don't mean the eye of the needle. That's just there for scale. Free drink for the first person to get it.
is it that thing that helps you thread the needle?
Posted by: lesley at January 6, 2004 02:09 PMNope. It's got nothing to do with needles.
Posted by: G at January 6, 2004 02:20 PMIs it a motion sensor?
Posted by: Vivek at January 7, 2004 07:39 AMNope, but you're getting warmer. It's quite basic.
Posted by: G at January 7, 2004 09:02 AMIs it electronics related? Or is it used to attach two things? Or as a pendulum of some sort?
Posted by: Vivek at January 7, 2004 06:13 PMWell, you're terribly close. It can be used to attach two things, and it's electronics related. There, I've practically given out the answer.
Posted by: G at January 7, 2004 07:18 PMPractically given out the answer, eh? OK - I'll bite. Is it an electronic two-thing-attacher? Maybe something that changes its inductance or resistance based on opposing forces? I have no idea.
Posted by: Al at January 8, 2004 07:43 AMit looks like a spring, but i guess that's not specific enough...
Posted by: lesley at January 8, 2004 07:50 AMIs it a spring for a breadboard or something, that you'd use to stick in resistors, etc.?
Posted by: Vivek at January 8, 2004 07:52 AMis it a spring for one of those calculators that pop open and the lid flips back to prop itself up?
Posted by: lesley at January 8, 2004 10:37 AMI'm going to have to guess 'conical inductor'. :D
Posted by: Al at January 9, 2004 10:01 AMYou all got pretty close. I think Al got it last night went I saw him here in Palo Alto for dinner. It's an inductor. A conical inductor to be exact.
Posted by: G at January 9, 2004 10:02 AMInteresting.
But, how is a conical inductor 'quite basic'?
Hell, I still don't know how an inductor works. Stupid Henrys.
Posted by: Vivek at January 9, 2004 03:26 PMStumbled into this site thanks to google. Cannot find link to original question but was it a photo of a Piconics conical inductor? They are very wideband and can provide a resonance-free impedance up to many gigahertz. Pretty useless unless that is exactly what you want! (I do).
Posted by: john wells at April 30, 2004 07:59 AM