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Doohickey Corporation - home of the gadgets, gizmos, and thingamajigs

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Welcome to the Doohickey Corporation! This is the home of all the latest doohickeys, gizmos, and thingamajigs.

All posts must be of a wacky device of this nature.

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Science department running diagnostics on their latest doohickey (reddthat.com)
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[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s a mercury arc rectifier right? And old school way for doing AC to DC electricity. They’re super old school and get HOT, but they can run for decades.

[–] 0ops@piefed.zip 13 points 3 months ago

You're sure it doesn't raise the dead? It looks like it raises the dead

[–] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

Good use of the bloopin song

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

is that heiny as close as it looks to the spinning oscillator??? 🤔 precarious 🤔🤔🤔

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

So fucking cool. The science with the music. Fuck yea

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today -2 points 3 months ago

The sound is not necessary