The distribution transformer is all wired up for the copper laser now! It's quite overkill but at least I won't be bottlenecked by voltage or power limits. Now I have to mount the laser tube to som...
2025-04-08 17:02:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I apologize for the lack of updates but there has been a lot of progress on the penny laser project and I'm almost ready for the first test run! For the power supply, I'm using the same "pole pig" ...
2025-04-03 18:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post
300 more car batteries were just delivered to my lab. It's time to make lightning currents look weak by comparison.
2025-03-11 23:30:09 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately I was missed by most of the snow that was forecast for me, and nearly all of it fell during daylight, so I didn't get many more snow laser clips. I'm going to hold out one more month ...
2025-02-25 20:13:36 +0000 UTC View Post
it looks like it is FINALLY going to snow here this week, which means I'll hopefully get the last clips I need for the laser video. In the meantime, I've been playing with the huge lightbulb, and i...
2025-02-10 20:21:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I've hit a standstill with the handheld laser video since I'm still waiting on snow here. I still think it's worth holding out for snow since the visual effects are just so good, but of course ther...
2025-01-24 18:52:49 +0000 UTC View PostI briefly got to play with my laser in snow the other day, but by the time I had my camera settings dialed in, the snow stopped falling. There are still many more shots I want to get in the snow, s...
2025-01-06 22:20:06 +0000 UTC View PostThis laser has completely surprised me with what it can melt and burn. It goes FAR beyond the capabilities of the 100W laser and has taken on materials I never imagined it would defeat. When it com...
2024-12-27 17:17:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I mounted the big f-theta lens from the first radar gun laser to the new one, and was able to quickly melt through a penny. I couldn't get a penny to melt at all with the first laser! Now I'm curio...
2024-12-16 17:54:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I rebuilt the handheld laser using a single one of the newest arrays and I'm quite happy with the results. I was able to clean up a bunch of the stuff that was hanging on the outside and now it loo...
2024-12-15 03:01:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn't able to do much work in the shop the past few weeks due to some family stuff that came up, however, I did score something really cool recently. This is a Prysm laser phosphor display, with...
2024-12-12 19:33:04 +0000 UTC View Post
While reading and gathering equipment for the "penny laser" project, I decided to revisit the giant handheld laser that failed on me earlier this year. I tore it down once again, and like the previ...
2024-11-25 23:10:09 +0000 UTC View Postin this video i test some old "torpedo" fireworks which are basically shock sensitive m80s. I found these in the junk I inherited from my grandpa when he passed away, although he did actually give ...
2024-11-06 22:33:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The macrowave video turned out to be more popular than I expected! It seemed like a project that I was just doing for my own entertainment, but I’m glad to see so many others found it interesting...
2024-10-28 00:14:45 +0000 UTC View Postthe full video is finally here! this was a fun video to make but the amount of broken glass produced was insane lol. i hope you all enjoy it!
2024-10-11 22:11:12 +0000 UTC View Post
full vid coming very soon, so enjoy this short while you wait
2024-10-06 16:54:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe video is nearly done! I only need to voice over a few more parts before I have a draft completed. In the meantime, here's a clip from an attempt at synthesizing ruby.
2024-09-28 20:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a nightmare day of filming where all the wrong things kept exploding, I had a very successful day where everything worked perfectly. Of particular note is that I finally squeezed a rich indig...
2024-09-10 21:44:50 +0000 UTC View Posti've tried all sorts of chemicals and metals but my best blue orb has actually just been this aluminum foil in a large beaker
2024-09-04 14:02:39 +0000 UTC View Postit's been challenging to get pretty colors out of the high power microwave plasmas, mostly due to the extreme temperatures involved. I'm going to try using bigger beakers to lower the plasma densit...
2024-09-03 19:09:48 +0000 UTC View Postalso only running at 12kW here. the funny thing is that the beaker survived this, but the glass dish below it exploded after i turned off the camera
2024-08-31 15:11:43 +0000 UTC View Postlight bulb in the macrowave. "only" running at 12kW here
2024-08-31 15:10:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been playing around with my huge magnetrons and finally came up with a working macrowave setup. I used a vintage "radarange" microwave to house the magnetron, which fit perfectly in the wavegu...
2024-08-30 18:21:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't want to boil my corneas with microwaves so I made this faraday helmet here. This is actually the same helmet from my laser bazooka video, but since I have better laser eye protection now, I...
2024-08-25 20:40:49 +0000 UTC View Post
For my first experiments with my huge magnetrons, I jammed one into a microwave oven and powered it up with a "pole pig" distribution transformer. Due to a poor fit with the oven waveguide, it...
2024-08-12 22:04:41 +0000 UTC View Post
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I scored some monster magnetrons recently. In fact, I was searching for this specific type of magnetron for years, and then recently a fellow hi...
2024-08-04 22:11:41 +0000 UTC View Postthis tick tried to bite me, so i popped it with a laser
2024-07-26 16:58:33 +0000 UTC View Post
a huge storm came through recently and toppled trees all over the place. one just BARELY missed my workshop too! it took long enough to clean up the trails here so I can't imagine what kind of setb...
2024-07-26 16:56:56 +0000 UTC View Post