ham operators come up with all kinds of ideas and not all of them are electrical. Not all of it is original, and some comes from studying other inventions or accounts.
Somehow I subscribed to this and rather than it being some kind of plain junk that one usually gets subscribed to, it is full of interesting new stuff people are developing in electronics and mechanical and chemical and bio science. I always find some interesting electronics story in there.
It's hosted by GlobalSpec, and I guess it is their message board. GS seems to be a cross between a vendor catalog and a sort of dictionary. For example they have 170 vendors of panel meters. Probably not the old ones..
http://cr4.globalspec.com/you don't have to log in to see the discussions. They are usually something like 'I want to do this with that", and other people answer how to do it or what can be used.
this one they tell him how to capture biogas from a lagoon.
http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/90781/HDPE-Covered-Lagoons-for-Biogas-Capturing?frmtrk=cr4digest#comment1018121just saying there is all this stuff out there. Some of it we would think is real simple, but there's stuff we can use that we might not know and that's where the value is.
