1380 Making Transistors From Rocks
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A Trekkie might remember Spock attempting to make a tricorder extension using stone knives and bearskins. With a knapped flint transistor and some graphene conductor extracted from collagen, you might approach the same achievement. Good video, and Happy New Year!
When dad first made a crystal set for me (1950s) he used a lump of coal with a cat's whisker as the diode. We messed around for a while until we found a place on the lump of coal where the necessary diode properties were discovered, and moved it at our peril!
That's pretty cool! Where can I get a lump of coal?
Wales 😂
Excellent, I used to have a magazine collection from 1920s of Australian Radio n Hobbies and this method was described and corresponded over for some years. Then slowly forgotten. The transition metal sulphides are interesting and the semiconductor effect is said to be due to the varying sulphur to metal ratio throughout the crystals.
You mentioned negative resistance, hence the tunnel diode . Also there's a quick way of connecting a P jfet and an N jfet to yield a tunnel diode which I think it's Clive Sinclair created back in the early sixties for some exceptional matchbox transmitters he concocted .
the application of this stuff is really helpful to the amateur in very high power electronics where standard silicon solutions are usually very expensive. i you dont care about efficiency but need to handle tons of current these work well. there is a video somewhere where someone makes a very high current capaicity diode from i think borax in water between two plates.
If you read about Oleg Losev he used a zincite crystal to act as both oscillator and amplifier. A simple junction of ZnFe2O4 might do the same.
That is so cool.. I was looking for a video of putting the diode to transistor diagram into action and stumbled onto this. Well it's good to know that in the event the CME of the sun destroys everything we might be able to rebuild our electronics using rocks.
Great video. Tiny rocks like from crushing n-type or p-type silicon, can be mixed into waterproof paint to make a semiconductor paint instead of conductive paint only. Then two different layers of such paint could make a diode. And three layers could make a transistor. But details of connections and such need to be worked out.
Awesome! I found that very interesting. The cure for the chip shortage, maybe :) I like the slides you put in. Thanks for sharing.
imagining that slab of rocks with wires hanging everywhere attached to the socket where a chip used to be🤣
@@m3sca1 yep that would rock! I'd love to see a guitar amp made of rockzisters :) Happy New year mate.
@@zylascope call it the Flintstone amp, just add bird on record player... Happy New Year to you too!!!
I always knew this instinctually after first seeing how a sooted razor blade could be the active part in a rudimentary crystal radio.
Logical to assume there would be readily obtainable elements that would be better suited.
its possible to make stone transistor
you can cut thin pieces of crystal stone and sandwich between metal pieces to act as a transistor, or two pieces of metal painted with thin oxide paint and dried,than two metal pieces are sqeezed together in one piece.
great stuff,Rob .Had the same idea making transistor from stone and you can make really transistor
i have a cats whisker for making a "coherer" for crystal radios...basically it holds a rock and you move the pointer around on the rock til it picks upa station
Thomas henry moray...
J F Corrigan?
The " coherer " detector was a glass tube with end caps like a fuse that contained a mixture of iron powder and nickle powder. A small current was passed though it, and when a radio frequency was also passed though it the iron powder would vibrate and disrupt the current, causing the coherer's current to respond to amplitude modulation, this was because of magnetic disturbance of the iron particles on the nickle powder, Maxwell was famous for his ( silver ) hammer which he used to hit the coherer, when it had a reduced output, to re-distribute the iron powder when it clumped together through magnetic attraction.
Excellent video and a trip into history that I have a new found interest to travel down.
Best wishes Rob happy new year. Thank you for the last year. It's been incredible following your channel. You really light up the world.
you are a Genius and your tu ck transistores can prove my theory of how and why Egyptians and possible Mayan civilization was able to have this kind of transistor! uf u reply me will feedback you when publish soon
Back in the early 50's my uncle Jim made one for me like he used as a kid in the 20's and again in WWII. I would go to sleep with a bud in my ear for years.
Try galena, it works for a transistor, especially the kind with decent amounts of silver and copper impurities. Mount to a an electrode using low melting solder. Next probe till you find points that act like a diode. Pick two that are close togther and apply a very low current to them. Look for the most change ratio of resistance with the least change in current between two points to find the highest gain.❤
I never stop learning with this channel. Amazing, I had no idea!
Free energy from radio 5 live or talk sport is right up my street. I've been powering a night light using white LEDs for a few years now. I'm only about 4 miles away from Brookmans park transmitter. I can get a significant amount of power from the ground alone.
Oh great, thanks. I remember reading something about our troops being to build a radio with a razor blade and a pencil years ago and I’ve always wanted to find out how they worked. Thanks… 😀
A safety pin works better than a pencil. Also a blued rather than rusted blade works best for a foxhole radio.
They work just fine. This brings back memories of when I was a young teenager spending hours listening to my Gillette Super Blue blade and pencil lead powered radio that I made. That was a lot of fun. If you are a tinkerer at all you should try it.
Like it! How about rocks as heat sinks? Soapstone may be the best. Happy new Year!
I think you meant that 2nd World War POWs made point contact diodes for crystal radios, so that they could hear what was going on outside the prison camps, rather than WW1.
What are the url's to the sites that demonstrate amplifiers made from rocks?
The video summary does not have the links and a search of the names mentioned in the video do not turn up anything useful.
I really appreciate a simple answer
But a video right after I really appreciate it. Made me feel special
So with making a stone transistor, can one make a transistor from stone that can handle a very high power levels compared to normal transistors
Nice. I took a screenshot of the Bell Labs transistor.
New year mindblowing, thanks! 🎉
The point contact diode was invented by Jagadis Chandra Bose who used several types of rock. I am not aware of any point contact diodes being made any more as a superheterodyne receiver simply does not need them. IE you have a very accurate frequency source and mix it with your signal you can down convert it through a filter. For AM this is incredibly easy. FM needs veractor diodes (diodes that change capacitance with voltage). The other point people might be interested in is that the first transistors were thin film FETs not BJTs. Dr. J. Edgar Lilienfeld invented the FET way back in 1923 not Bell Labs who keep trying to pretend they were first. You can make your own thin film FET's using microscope slides as the glass substrate.
Now we need to find T Henry Moray's Swedish white powdery stone. Then we are really on to a winner ! 👍
‘I hope that sparked some ideas’ - just be careful with high voltage experiments! Happy New Year!
We tend to think that new stuff was just invented, whereas most things were thought of many years or decades ago, only the implementation and manufacturing has changed.
Bornite. And zincite (Perikon detector)work really well so does iron pyrite( Man made) and aluminium foil. You can't beat the Germanium 1n 34a's , I've been trying though. If only I could find out what T Henry Moray's Swedish white powdery stone is. I need to get hold of some cassiterite ( tin oxide ore ) it's supposed to have an even smaller bandgap than Germanium. I wonder if you could use a super conductor material instead of a semiconductor materials to pull even more power from the aether ?
i think you can find your white stone powder in east europe
Happy new year mates! 🎉
Thomas henry moray invented the germanium cats whisker transistor and described its properties,the bell labs guys nicked his device and patented his invention,he ought have received the nobel prize...
I think Oleg Losev did it even earlier than Moray ? I could be wrong though ? He used zinc oxide to make his device.
@@kevinleebailey moray pioneered the germanium device,which led directly to the transistor ,and all modern electronics...like tesla his work was stolen and his memory and acheivements suboerned by lesser unscrupulous men
@@dexterdequoitdikkentheworl87 I really would like to know what Moray's Swedish white powdery stone is ?
@@kevinleebailey germanium ore from a seam...
@@dexterdequoitdikkentheworl87 through out history great inventors have been silenced and murdered T Henry Moray , Bob Boyce , Stanley Meyers , professor Ian lathewate , Tesla ......ect. I can only imagine what kind of world we should be living in already if only all this knowledge had not been stolen and hidden away.
That is fascinating! Thanks Robert!
Love your work Keep rocking
Love your videos. Your content seems endless. But when are we going back to the blades? I want more carbon energy storage videos!
Hello, very useful info, but i couldn't find any of them (Nile Steiner or Ryan Jordan).
you can make transistors from oxides without baking them in oven.
Uh oh ... I was expecting a demonstration :-). ...Maybe I'll give it a shot......
I've tried to put a load of link's up to semiconductor mineral's but TH-cam keep taking them down ? 😕
I have been having trouble finding information about pulseless dc generation. One coil, magnet moves along the coil, linear to the wire. Can someone point me in the right direction. Keywords?
🙂🍻🍻 """ THIS ~ ROCKS.....!!!!!
Well said ❗
hi Robert i could not find the nyle steiner and ryan jordan can you provide a link please
Jordan - makezine.com/2013/08/08/making-transistors-out-of-iron-pyrite/
Nile Steiner www.sparkbangbuzz.com
@@ThinkingandTinkering thank you so much
Awsome idea john bedini made his own transistors for his bedini amplifiers in the 70 and 80s can you show a joule thief running ok one of these rock transistor that's wold be awesome you should make a high voltage output joule thief and light up 110v ac led bulb
Cool stone age electronics
Happy new year guy's !👍
The builders of the pyramids knew about the special properties of certain rocks.
Yes, which rocks are good for building things and which rocks are pretty when polished. Or are you one of those LAHT believers?
@@AlbertaGeek - Explain Laht
@@herenow2895 "Lost Ancient High Technology"
@@AlbertaGeek - We only believe in what we cant prove. LAHT as you call it is highly provable.
But we only see what we want to see. Dont we.
@@herenow2895 _"LAHT as you call it is highly provable"_
Proofs are for mathematics and alcohol. Science deals in evidence. There is *no* objectively verifiable evidence supporting the existence of anything that could be considered "high-tech" existing in ancient times. No evidence of: ancient high-tech, Atlantis, alien visitations, alien/human hybrids, a race of giants, or any other nonsense of that sort. Graham Hancock is a charlatan, and Robert Sepehr is a charlatan as well as a racist.
So presumably you could make a computer from rocks, though I guess it wouldn't be very mobile ?
depends on the rocks. Crystals are refined naturally and weigh less for the same punch
Awesome, really interesting.
Happy New Year!
Is the link not working for anyone else?
But can you make a rock from a transistor?
with a big enough hammer lol
Yes!
purifying the rocks helps.
You should make a theremin.
great!!!
👍🙏🙏🙏👍
love
Thomas Henry Morey. Check him out
Hes the MAN,up there with tesla...
Hermann Plauson is also another one to check out.
Another to check out is Don L Smith.
@@kevinleebailey yeah I'm aware of both those names and you're right they were on to something interesting
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Based on the last batch of Chinese transistors I bought, the quality and reliability was so low I think the Chinese are STILL making transistors out of rocks. 😖
Seriously, one out of every six transistors had one leg disconnected, and one out of every 20 had no legs measurable at all. Garbage. Obviously someone sold me reject transistors from the production line.
Fortunately i found out real quick and they didnt get put in anything important!
Dont trust Chinese rock transistors... 😥