Mike Craghead over at Instructables.com has come up with some very interesting projects. Besides songwriting and playing music, this guy is also into Skull Pumpkin carving and is a fan of Tom Nardone's site: ExtremePumpkins.com (if you haven't bought the book yet then you'd better hurry on over to his site). I don't even know him and I like him already.

Anyways, he's come up with this Mini Van De Graaf, using my favorite drill, the Makita BDF452HW cordless LiIon drill/driver. I've included a photo of it but if you want to view the full Instructable, then click here.

Per MCRaghead: Making aMini Van De Graaf... M & M style!
"I'd been thinking about making a VDG generator ever since I read a few Instructables, and I'd read up on how they work here. But I was at a loss as to what to stick on top of the thing... until I came across this 3" metal M&M box, just crying out to be charged up! (It's only entered in the tool contest because of the Makita-as-motor, which is at best a stretch, I'm fully aware) So far I can get 1/4" sparks to jump to my finger. I can get rice crispies to crawl up a plastic cup. I can get packing peanuts to stick to the M&M. Definitely low power VDG tricks, lots of fun demos out there to try!"

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