Remember the column in Scientific American were a scientist would offer up some interesting apparatus or tool for you to build usually out of commonly available junk. I think of our spacesuits as this sort of thing not B-Movie Costumes. For sure they are costumes, but they block vision and put a barrier between the user and the world.
Back to the TAS projects...you would use stuff like old coffee cans, pieces of wood, ABS pipe and copper pipe and you would be amazed at how well the thing worked.
This is the only image I could find of the drawings that use to be online...
I guess you can buy a CD-ROM with all the articles on it.
BTW why are you saying hi to LJK? I'm Chris Vancil.
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re: The Amataur Scientist