{"id":304,"date":"2025-07-12T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/07\/12\/a-usb-powered-homebrew-x-ray-machine-and-who-is-project-326\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:16","slug":"a-usb-powered-homebrew-x-ray-machine-and-who-is-project-326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/07\/12\/a-usb-powered-homebrew-x-ray-machine-and-who-is-project-326\/","title":{"rendered":"A USB-powered Homebrew X-ray machine.  And who is Project 326?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jLOBMBN8A4A?si=yeGJKHu0bUOZaXWk?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>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&#8217;s great book <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/amateur-scientist-trivial-motors.html\">&#8220;The Amateur Scientist.&#8221;<\/a> Here is a .pdf of the book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ke5fx.com\/stong.pdf\">http:\/\/www.ke5fx.com\/stong.pdf<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>The X-Ray machine in Stong&#8217;s book appears on page 500 (520 in the .pdf) Here is the opening paragraphs: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/a\/AVvXsEjb3md4J_uRN_lAHQWF0p_W0QgXAhYKULHXnEFPpEGzicVYrZyc8EUYHf4nwAS2TRUJ7Hfh2SOE-sx3flGsL-eUiqcy27nwOz74q6KORGq8xd2OA1Y86T4U3wsOMwfTbb-2q2RTJIOXm0-IJNZjYHtVnp19vf7Y5w7t7O0-lNc5QQE_U3X3Qs_7U16_rmY\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-original-height=\"434\" data-original-width=\"428\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image_1752980137.png\" width=\"395\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><b>Indeed, it was lonely up there in the 10^-8 cm band! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>But who is behind Project 326? Who is the robot narrator&#8217;s human assistant? <\/b><b>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 &#8220;tubes.&#8221; 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 &#8220;Magic Smoke&#8221; and of passing or failing &#8220;the smoke test.&#8221; 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. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Here is the Project 326 YouTube channel: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@project-326\"><b>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@project-326<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s great book &#8220;The Amateur Scientist.&#8221; Here is a .pdf of the book: http:\/\/www.ke5fx.com\/stong.pdf The X-Ray machine in Stong&#8217;s book appears on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/07\/12\/a-usb-powered-homebrew-x-ray-machine-and-who-is-project-326\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A USB-powered Homebrew X-ray machine.  And who is Project 326?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}