FUTURE BILL B. VIDEOS
ALREADY DONE:
* 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 tricks
* capacitor ion vacuum pump
* dry ice chips on water tray (try it without water)
* disgustoscope!
* air threads HV dry ice
* ultra-simple generator
PROBABLY POPULAR
Tutorial: antibubbles science fair
simple telescope, how lenses work
Vandegraaf gen demos
Virtual halloween costume, UV LEDs
New microwave oven demo (obsidian lava? Plasma?)
Linear motor train: wheeled cart, maglev cart
Three-phase generator, hamster powered
IR filter goggles
all static electricity demos
elehob project, explain BJT transistor
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" holo, 360-viewed rotating box & ?dodecahedron?
VANISHING MATTER EFFECT, foam, sugar
ultrasonic mayhem: charring, heat-beam in water tank
plasma mug, rotating plasma w/supermagnet, inside the HV supply
aluminum dynamic fractal surface
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
lenyr zincite oscillator
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, beams, dual-speaker shatter
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?
9volt battery chain, cut open battery, burn initials, carve pickle
undercam in sandwich baggie
undercam, bubbles
undercam, knock rocks in cloud, or bubble sound in cup
x-rays with tesla coil and small light bulb
smoke from your mouth, gleet
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
NOT AIMED AT THE TV AUDIENCE, NOR EVEN AT YOUTUBE
These videos are meant only for me. ...but myself at age nine.
What if... you were sending messages into your own past?
What if a kid had a time machine which could receive video messages
from the future; and the vids were made by their adult self? Which
cool secrets and weird tricks would an adult scientist want to
transmit back to their own childhood? It's not about Teaching Important
Science Facts, it's about revealing secret adult tricks/techniques.
CAREFULLY AVOID USING EXISTING DEMOS
There's no passion in plagarism. So, try to exclude known demos,
instead create new ideas.
DO INTERESTING DEMOS AND STUNNING PHENOMENA ONLY
Back when you were nine, what kind of odd science videos would have
driven you crazy with joy?
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. My goal is to make kids say:
"Hey, I could do that too... but mine would be WAY BETTER." So my
demos need to be crafted so that a science teacher will sneer at their
crudeness and simplicity. (But Feynman would probably be impressed
because they are so crude and simple. New goal: impress Feynman.)
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."
BREAK VIDEO TRADITIONS
No classroom talks, no professional studio, not even a lecture table.
Use tiny handheld camera in the talent's own viewpoint (often clamped
under chin!)
AVOID THE "EXPERT LOOK."
No degreed professional w/labcoat and glasses. Keep my degree hidden;
instead do Redneck Science! Carefully preserve the look of an
overweight loser in a t-shirt. Blacken a tooth. Don't shave.
USE NO LABORATORY
Perform demonstrations on a grubby kitchen counter. Or even better, on
a living room couch ...in my lap.
EASILY-FOUND MATERIALS ONLY
Replace gleaming acrylic and machined aluminum with dirty cardboard.
Buy all science equipment from the grocery store, or if we have no other
option, from Home Depot and Radio Shack.
NO TOOLS NEEDED
When I was a kid, drilling a hole in wood was nearly impossible.
Scissors, cardboard, and glue is OK. A pocket knife is for the oldest
students.
USE EXPERIMENTS THAT ALWAYS WORK
If it takes considerable expertise to make the demo succeed, it's
guaranteed to turn kids off to science, since most kids won't ever get
it working.
