Fish Oil Telescope Lens

TELESCOPE LENSES MADE FROM FISH OIL
IS A FISH IN YOUR TELESCOPE'S FUTURE?
The Humanoido Lab was successful in creating hundreds of perfectly formed refracting lenses, of varying size, using fish oil. The objective is to create optics using materials other than glass that circumvents the many hours needed for grinding, polishing, figuring, testing and coating. Such methods could be used for rapid creation and deployment of telescopes in low Earth orbit, on non-orbital missions, spinning in deep space, on the lunar surface, and on the Earth.

These lenses employ a clear and pure fish oil extracted from Cod fish that comes from the deep ocean. The surface tension of a substrate is enough to hold the lens in place and is conducive to the collection of droplets and the formation of the convex curvature. The Cod oil has a propensity to collect together and thus perfect round convex lenses are created.

LENSES ARE FORMED WITHOUT SPINNING
The oil is processed before lenses are created. A recipe of cooking the oil precipitates its consistency before the lenses are made and held in place.

It's possible to vary the diameter of the lens from small to large. The amount of collective oil is directly proportional to the diameter of the lens. The size, amount of oil, weight of the lens, amount of surface tension, and the collective attraction of oil to oil, all contribute to the lens FL focal length process.

Small lenses are teased to join other lenses, forming larger lenses in the process. Keeping the process slow in formation will reduce or eliminate bubbles. The fish oil has a very light viscosity keeping the lens interior very pure and bubble free, perhaps significantly more so than plate, pyrex or other glass created specifically for telescopes.

It may be possible to substitute other carrier liquids (instead of water) to form the lenses and vary their properties. For example, using the CRC Handbook of Physics, a higher viscosity material may be found. As the viscosity varies, the size and depth of the lens also varies.

A collective (top right in the photo) was placed in the substrate and allowed to fill. The idea is to produce a creation vessel for a much larger lens. The results were successful and encouraging and could lead to creating much larger refracting telescope lens objectives of extremely pure quality.

So far, the 40-inch Yerkes Refracting Telescope doesn't have much competition as these lenses still remain under the 14-inch diameter mark due to the limitations of the experimental containment vessel.

50 Cent Computer

One switch 9-LED 50-cent computer for hacking

BIG BRAIN BUYS A NEW 50-CENT COMPUTER

Showing lenses above LEDs

WHO KNEW THE BIKE LIGHT IS A FULL COMPUTER?

 FOR HACKING
This is a simple low cost new preprogrammed computer. This surprising find is made possible by the visions of the Big Brain initiative. Sometimes we need to look at things in a new light.

Imagine the Big Brain on tour within the R.O.C.,  can you predict what it will buy - the large multi-wire gripping clawed head scratcher, the plastic shrunken head, the fierce vicious swimming robot fish, or the 50-cent computer? It was the computer that was too good to pass up. This find came from deep within the mystical night market by the ocean inlet harbor at a dollar store with many unusual and "great find" items priced less than a dollar. This is one amazing example.

OVERVIEW
This item is a complete programmed computer, with a single push button input that controls seven modes of operation and output.

OUTPUT
The output display is made up of seven super bright LEDs enhanced with built in panel of convex lenses that collect and focus the light. It has 360 degree visibility around its perimeter and it's entirely portable, clipping to a belt or to a bike with the enclosed mount.

DISCUSSION & DATA
The cost was US 50 cents though these lights go for US$12 at bike stores. It easily removes from the mount. Designed as a person or bike light, and running from two AAA batteries, this item can be hacked for some very useful parts or used for its intended purpose. This is packaged as part number XY-118 and made in China as a "9 LED Multifunction Caution Light" for uses a a high brightness tail light. The light is claimed to run up to 150 hours or 6.25 continuous days and nights. The interesting icons on the back of the blister pack show the light mounted on a pedestrian's backpack, near the peak roof of a house or tent, inside a car positioned up by the rear window, on the back of a bike, mounted on the front of a person who is skiing, and positioned as an obstacle warning light located by debris.

USAGE
The Big Brain thinks it can be recycled and used for parts, or computer programmed for 7 different multi-functions complete with input and output from processor pins. It runs from a 3-volt power supply, making it compatible with a Parallax Propeller chip, or able to operate independently. It can be used as an 8-bit port display with LEDs showing bits 0-7 and a byte condition in binary code representations and one LED for a power indicator. The nine white LEDs can double as input sensors, the lenses taking parallel light and focusing it onto each LED for greater precision.

ADDITIONAL APPS
The lenses are ideal for making a light beam communications machine where the transmission of parallel light is needed. Nine lenses can drive nine channels of LED electromagnetic radiation. Additional circuits are needed to modulate the LEDs with voice, however, no extra parts are needed to send binary and Morse Code. This is an experimenter's bonanza with many more possible uses!

LIST OF PARTS
Housing
Mount
Computer
Switch
Lenses
Nine White LEDs
Hardware