FUTURE BILL BEATY'S VIDEOS
* This show's philosophy
ALREADY DONE:
* brain modification: cross one eye
* brain modification: echo speech
* make your own "poor-man's liquid nitrogen"
* trafficwaves zen driving lecture
* improved 'robot voice'
* hand-holos in the sun
* ultrasonic mayhem: cola fountain
* microwave melt beer bottle
* field-view steel wool bottle
* antigrav camera chamber
* bead supermagnet bucky sphere
* bead supermagnet tricks
* capacitor ion vacuum pump
* dry ice chips on water tray (try it without water)
* disgustoscope!
* air threads HV dry ice
* ultra-simple coil generator
PROBABLY POPULAR
Adding YT closed captions: simplified
Halloween laser eyes, employs your own actual eyeballs
Simple Generator II: 3-phase, rotary pseudo-iron, hamster power
elehob project, explain BJT transistors
Tutorial: Kelvin water-drop high volt generator
Tutorial: antibubbles science fair
Edu: voltage versus current
Edu: what *is* Electricity?
Edu: how diodes really work
Edu: how solar cells really work
Dry ice air hockey, margaritas, icecream, etc.
12v gyroscope
forming ant-trail patterns, mills
Make the dangerous vac bottle (Tesla coil glow? Brief cavitation glow?)
simple telescope, how lenses work
Vandegraaf gen, many demos
Invisible "Virtual halloween costume," UV LEDs, feista ware hand
Next new microwave oven demo (obsidian lava? Plasma?)
Linear motor train: wheeled cart, maglev cart
IR filter goggles
Thermal cam senses air sheet
Thermal image art device
Repairing violetta
all static electricity demos
static: pop bottle motor and TV set
static: voltmeas: voltage of peeled tape
vwatt1: red/green electricity
ele-edu: rope & pulleys, pump
tesla: move plasplan to YT
weird, unusual
HIGH COOLESS FACTOR
holos: short video of making a "V"
holos: making lines in 3D, art holos for sale, 360-viewed rotating box & ?dodecahedron?
VANISHING MATTER EFFECT, foam, sugar
ultrasonic mayhem: charring, heat-beam submerged
build a plasma bulb
Art proposal: giant dual-tornado emission device
plasma mug, rotating plasma w/supermagnet, inside the HV supply
Fiestaware, torbernite, americium
Tesla: break a lit neon sign in a box of neon
aluminum dynamic fractal surface
Lost Tesla discoveries:
- FM freq-hopping tranceiver
- "Radiant" plate chopper receiver
- Inverse coil idea, excites 8Hz resonator
- "Programmable" lightning
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IR-plastic black sheets, black cases, BW security cameras, secret message T-shirts
nerd life-hacks. shyness, anorak, toys in pockets, kill-BO
better argon plasma globe
HV ion beam hitting fog layer. distance?
resonant voltage telegraph w/piezo disks
just exaclty what *IS* a Tesla Coil?
lenyr zincite oscillator
spy beam
bowing the stone
dust storm as small-slope avalanche
Edison motor vs Tesla motor, the $50,000 edison joke
laminar hissing 'glass' rods, don't cross the streams!
Traf anim: infinite jam, vigilante, close-pak myth, 2-state merge
all charge-detector activities
wineglass w/water, rotr beams, magnet, dual-speaker shatr, multi-fingr
Swimming pool faraday soliton wave, bubble cloud
Brad's Tesla coil party: plastic neon sign without vacuum
Brad's fire party: Kim Hall fire tornado, giant scout candle
carve a pumpkin with neon sign transformer? Works? Try pickle.
9volt battery chain, cut open battery, burn initials, carve pickle
fake cerenkov glow, radioactive death cylinder
undercam, knock rocks in cloud, or bubble sound in cup
x-rays with tesla coil and small light bulb
smoke from your mouth, gleet
mushroom cloud neck effect
restaurant candle engineering, flame-jet
kill-BO
MOS electron-beam
MOS e-field aura tester
goldenrod-paper demos
DDW and high voltage, pick up water like ferrofluid! (add some black dye?)
microwave oven demos (ALL of them)
* melt a beer bottle
stable pool of plasma
argon lightning storm
argon in bottle
light bulb plasma globe
x-ray generation
xmas ornament
CD fractures, plus explanation, microscope, 1-ohm 0805 resistor, etc.
mirror-chip solar furnace
fluor tube art, westinghouse, filaments, tesla super-science, hold moving-plasma tube
carving watermelon EDM (works? add salt?)
Electric Glowing pickle, done with salty jello, agar, sodium nitrate, potassium chloride
testing "cold fusion" claims
backwards coil, frequency stepdown
a DC tesla coil - voices from air, glowing t-shirt effect, etc.
Steampunk radio: Tesla's mechanical receivers
air threads reed relay nanoamp sensor
squealing wall laser demo
old 1992 maglev cradle
red/green electricity lecture
floating graphite with grid of tiny magnets
calculating the speed of sound in a dictionary or thick catalog
heavy-air sub-bass resonator
tiny tesla coils, burn wires, light tubes
touch the clouds, humidifier activities
humidifier clouds (on dry ice CO2 pool?)
Mr. Wizard memorial video. HUUUUGE pile of purple-black powder. little kid touch with feather.
MOS vis electricity box
ion stream immune from air blast
genecon driving a vis-electricity device
Slow sound in foam, sand dunes, resonating a book w/loudspeaker, organ made of databooks, sound of single bubbles in aquarium! Vary bubble size! 2rocks in pool
Rijke tube w/hot wires/screen, sucks up propane, helium, CO2, droplet-filled air, flour, lycopodium. Plug one end. stack of hot/cold screens. dry-ice backwards rijke. water-filled Rijke tube, hi freq.
Kelvin's thunderstorm, hot needles, HV supply, charged ring and uA meter, NE-2 blinker?!!
Kelvin's thunderstorm half: with microamp meter, with balloon charge
Kelvin's thunderstorm, inline version
demos from my "hoaxes" page
Giant Schieren photography DIY with retro screen
sticky electrostatics demos
how microscopes actually work
other neodymium supermagnet
tornado box
MISCONCEPTIONS, lens diagram, bad textbook illustrations
PIRA balloon demos
maglev train w/linear drive motor magnet strip (circular track?) (reed sw vers?)
cat toy circuit, crt
Feynman's paramecium
quarter shrinker
tour of my garage
Kryptonian hyper-Oboe
my box of toys
making toy mutations
Photos, with and without infrared
buid a one dollar mirror focus solar furnace (1" blur spot!)
big supermagnet tricks
do some "hoaxes," kids w/mirrors "Wave" soundwave w/cards
seeing sound, do some Winston Kock photos
Coke cans: balance on edge, beatbox, nipple-cola, de-embiggening,
sudden-condense steam, cross eyes big giant head, de-foaming shaken
Make b-fields visible using diamagnetic water, overhead projector! it...
DOESN'T WORK! Blurred, so try pinhole on bulb?
USEFUL SCIENCE CONCEPTS
Droplet growth/evap supersat, traffic jam growth, seed crystals
NE-2 bulb tricks
Lasers explained with waves
Antennas cast shadows
THE SHOW'S PHILOSOPHY
1. NOT AIMED AT THE TV AUDIENCE, NOR EVEN AT YOUTUBE
These videos are meant only for myself. ...but me at age nine.
This series is a set of adult secrets that I'd wished I'd known
about back when I was a kid.
Imagine that you had a machine which let you pass messages back in
time to your early years. Which cool secrets and weird tricks do you
wish you knew about back then? My own childhood isn't accessible, but
the childhoods of millions of future adults are sitting right there
online, waiting to be altered! :) Make no mistake, this is not about
'Teaching Important Science Facts.' Instead it's about revealing secret
tricks and techniques that only grownups know.
2. FEATURE SOME EMBARRASSINGLY CRUDE, SEMI-INCOMPETENT DEMOS
My goal isn't to impress other teachers. That would just convince kids
that science is complicated & adults-only. Instead my goal is to lead
kids into saying something like: "Hey, I could do that too... but
MINE WOULD BE BETTER." So my demos need to be crafted so that an adult
science teacher will sneer at their crudeness and simplicity. (But in
saying that, I realize that Richard Feynman would probably be impressed
because they are so crude and simple. New goal: impress Feynman.)
3. DO INTERESTING DEMOS AND STUNNING PHENOMENA ONLY
Imagine which kind of odd science secrets would have driven you crazy
with joy, back when you were nine.
4. AVOID THE "EXPERT LOOK"
No professional w/labcoat and glasses. Keep my advanced degree hidden;
instead do some Redneck Science. No suit and tie. Carefully preserve
the look of an out-of-shape loser in a t-shirt. Don't shave. Don't
clean the kitchen mess. Maybe even blacken a tooth for that white trash
look. [Update: I lost a huge filling between front teeth! Cool! Made
many videos, but can't tell if anyone noticed. LATER UPDATE: finally
had it repaired. No more toothless weirdo look.]
5. USE NO LABORATORY
Perform demonstrations on a grubby kitchen counter. Or even better, on
a living room couch ...in my lap. Keep pushing the cat away.
6. BREAK VIDEO TRADITIONS
No classroom lecture, no professional studio, not even a lab bench.
Use tiny handheld camera in the talent's own viewpoint (often clamped
under his chin!)
7.ELIMINATE ALL JARGON: REPLACE OBSCURE TERMS WITH THEIR FULL DEFINITIONS
Don't say Alternator, say "AC electric generator." Never say ions,
instead say "electrically charged atoms." Say "charge flow" instead of
electric current, and "energy flow" instead of Power
8. CAREFULLY AVOID USING EXISTING DEMOS
There's no passion in plagarism. So, try to exclude known demos,
instead pull new ideas out of nowhere.
9. EASILY-FOUND MATERIALS ONLY
Replace gleaming acrylic and machined aluminum with dirty cardboard.
Buy all your science equipment from the grocery store, or if there's
no other option, from Home Depot and Radio Shack.
10. NO TOOLS NEEDED
When I was a kid, drilling a hole in wood was nearly impossible. Our
family was all gradeschool teachers with a kitchen tool drawer, no power
tools. I only had pointy scissors. Cardboard, glue, and mayo jars are
OK. A razor knife really is just for older students.
11. USE EXPERIMENTS THAT ALWAYS WORK
If it requires considerable expertise to make the demo succeed, it'll be
guaranteed to turn kids off to science. Never forget that if kids fail
to get the demo working, they'll feel incompetent and blame themselves.
Avoid including any such "psychological toxin" which kills off the
scientist in everyone.
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