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Saturday, July 12, 2025

A USB-powered Homebrew X-ray machine. And who is Project 326?


This is an interesting project.  The use of dental X-ray packs was really innovative. The approporately snarky presentation about nanny-state nervous nellies was great.  It all reminded me the X-ray chapter of C.L. Stong's great book "The Amateur Scientist."   Here is a .pdf of the book:  http://www.ke5fx.com/stong.pdf

The X-Ray machine in Stong's book appears on page 500 (520 in the .pdf)  Here is the opening paragraphs:  


Indeed, it was lonely up there in the 10^-8 cm band! 

But who is behind Project 326?  Who is the robot narrator's human assistant?  At first I thought they were joking when they said they were in Southern China.  But YouTube does show them in Hong Kong.   He has British accent, but oddly he calls valves "tubes."  He also seems to use quite a bit of SolderSmoke terminology and practice:  He uses copper tape as a ground plane. He talks about relaeasing "Magic Smoke" and of passing or failing "the smoke test."  Could it be that Project 326 had been listening to the SolderSmoke podcast?  We hope so!   Please let us know if y ou have any background info on this mad amateur scientist. 

Here is the Project 326 YouTube channel:  

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