Month: December 2013

IBM Ponder This 12-13 Solved

Credited with solving this puzzle: Ponder This Challenge: This month’s challenge is from Michael Brand (thanks!) and a related riddle can be found as the December challenge on his site (“Using your Head is Permitted”, http://www.brand.site.co.il/riddles). Every Christmas, the employees of MegaCorp play a gift-giving lottery game. On the first of December, each of the […]

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Microwave Gun

I repurposed an old microwave with the intent to make a microwave gun.  When I first had the idea I had an initial delusional vision of it being able to be effective at considerable range, but unfortunately the math just doesn’t hold up.  Just the same I studied the design principals of a properly sized […]

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