Jack A Lopez

May 11, 2008
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About:I've built some weird stuff over the years, but most of that stuff has remained unseen by the world outside of me and a few friends. But then one day, one of these friends, he says to me, "Hey Jack, you should take some pictures of that weird stuff you're building all the time, and uh, I don't know, like, put those pictures on the internet or something..."

Location:Secret desert proving ground, located somewhere in the Former United States, Southwest region.

Joined:May 11, 2008

Interests:Math. Science. Reverse engineering. Forward engineering. Taking stuff apart. Building stuff. Alchemy. Folklore. Cryptozoology.

Gender: MALE

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Jack A Lopez's Instructables

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pkb4112 says: Aug 1, 2011. 6:30 PM

Hi Jack A Lopez,

I was recently doing some searching on electromagnets, which led me to a discussion that you were involved in on the topic of a small EMP. I saw that you were able to make a "Piezopen", and I am really interested in this idea. Do you think you could possibly make an instructable about this, or maybe just email me some more info? It seems like a pretty cool little gadget.

Cheers,
Peter

Jack A Lopez (author) in reply to pkb4112Aug 2, 2011. 11:37 AM

That's something I've been meaning to do anyway: write and instructable on how to make one of those things. I will see if I can get that accomplished sometime this week. If don't meet this deadline, you get the consolation prize, which is me just describing in words how I built the thing, and maybe a few pictures of the last one I have.

Most of the work on the piezo sparky pen was done a few years ago. I made a bunch of them. Some I gave away. Some got lost. And I think there's one that I still know where it is.

Jack A Lopez (author) in reply to Jack A LopezAug 12, 2011. 6:14 AM

Finally, my Piezo Pen 'ible. Just published it. Here:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Piezo-Pen-Pulsed-Power-Source/

Bartboy says: Oct 19, 2009. 6:31 PM

Related to the Jackelope?

Jack A Lopez (author) in reply to BartboyOct 19, 2009. 9:12 PM

I can neither confirm nor deny such a relationship. Nor would I be at liberty to discuss jackalopes, if indeed such animals did in fact exist.

Bartboy in reply to Jack A LopezOct 20, 2009. 4:19 AM

Well, I'm not talking about normal Jackelopes, I'm talking about KillerJackelopes.

Jack A Lopez (author) in reply to BartboyOct 20, 2009. 9:15 AM

Oh! You mean this guy, er bloke. His profile says he's a bloke. <a href="http://www.instructables.com/member/killerjackalope/">http://www.instructables.com/member/killerjackalope/</a> The answer is 'no', no relation. BTW looking at the "member since" fields reveals KJ joined instructables before I did, thus making him the Original Jackalope, or OJ, for whatever that's worth. ;-)

Jack A Lopez (author) says: Sep 2, 2009. 12:41 AM

Not sure where else to put this. The PDF attached to this comment is an old communique from the Barbie Liberation Organization (aka B.L.O.), an instructable written prior to the creation of the Instructables web site. It's a little piece of hardware-hack history I think is worth preserving.

Especially since many of the original hyperlinks are broken.
Reference:
http://www.sniggle.net/barbie.php
http://users.lmi.net/~eve/barbie.html (broken link)
http://web.archive.org/web/20070629123558/http://users.lmi.net/~eve/barbie.html (archive.org)
http://web.archive.org/web/20070629123558/http://users.lmi.net/~eve/download/barbiedir.pdf (archive.org)

barbiedir.pdf(612x792) 130 KB

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Jack A Lopez (author) says: May 11, 2008. 2:40 AM

What's an orangeboard?

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