Can I Build an Endless Bubble Machine?
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Join me as I build the world's largest bubble machine! From the initial design and planning stages to the intricate building process, watch as I assemble a giant frame, bubble solution containers, and an innovative bubble mechanism. After some testing and fine-tuning, witness the machine in action, creating enormous bubbles. Also included are some reflections on the engineering process.
0:29 - How To Make Massive Bubbles
0:55 - The Secret Bubble Ingredient
1:29 - Ideation and Concept Testing
3:18 - Upsizing the Prototype
4:17 - Getting Custom Parts Made
5:37 - Assembling The Final Design
7:10 - Hard Lessons
8:28 - Harder Lessons
9:38 - The Final Build
11:29 - Making HUGE Bubbles
I recommend switching the dawn pro for dawn ultra. Dawn pro has some anti sudsing ingredients in the latest versions that cause it to not work as well. Looks like you got good results anyway though. Nice job
Good to know! Thank you
ultra is some good shit. kills the hell out of fleas. if you was a dog in it.
Nice to see you here
You are absolutely living the dream. I hope this gig works out for you forever. As an old engineer who has to build "productive" stuff for my day job, and only build fun stuff in my spare time, it brings me joy that you can do this as your day job.
Keep up the good work.
That's the plan! Appreciate it 👊👊
You gotta take that rig through a parade!
hi morley
That would be fun!
Neat idea, but probably would be hard to pull off right, in practice. Getting the rig lined up with the wind would be difficult within the constraints of a parade, and parades often don't move quickly enough, if there's no wind.
Might need to add a few things, but I am sure it is doable.
1. Make the vehicle smaller. Cars are cool, but may not be the best suited for bubble creation.
2. Put the vehicle near the front, or at the front, of the parade. This ensures that it doesn't stop, or rarely stops, and so maximizes the time the vehicle can generate it own air.
3. If it is a very slow moving parade then the addition of a way for the bubble maker to swing around to face in a direction that it can pick up the natural wind.
These 3 things would make the design more feasible for Parade use. Though honestly the wagon design would probably be sufficient.
Two simple solutions could be putting a fan in front of it, or using the smaller skateboard-sized machine and just riding it around in a gap in the parade.
Love the hypothesis, great video 👍🥰
A bubble is always heavy, due to gravity.
Please experiment using a heat source, so that it becomes a "hot air bubble" - this can be tuned to a gravity neutral, or even rising bubble.
If you also use a fan, you don't need a moving vehicle.
I experimented with this - small scale/short time using a hairdryer (pulled back a little) as an air supply. That was very promising 😊
Hot air could be a great option! With the fan, at some point it may not move far enough, not too sure!
@@Engineezy with hot air driving it up, fan may work just fine.
The heat will evaporate the thin layer and pop the bubble, it will also add uneven air flow which in turn will cause the bubble to break
I came here to sugest helium for this would be super easy to inject. Then my 12 year old brain said "propane. No, wait, Acetylene."
@@johncollins3910 Ha! Just what the world needs, dangerous bubbles.
Next: we drive in a circle and connect the ends, creating the first soap based wormhole
🤯
Soap donut 😂
Shush! The hoo-mans are not ready for this power. They can't even handle social media without self-destructing.
Soaporoboros
I needed to see the failure this morning, i too can overlook the track to the solution. Seeing someone who is definitely smarter than me struggle and be confident in the solution and still going "nope nope I'm still wrong, hang on this is the part where we learn why" i needed this.
Glad I can be of assistance through my failures!
As a fellow mechanical engineer, who has spent quite a lot of time designing a foam canon and working with a lot of soap, well done! 👏
An infinite bubble of course cant be done, as the bubble bursts when the liquid in the bubble falls to the buttom side and the top of the bubble gets to fragile.
One idea that would be extremely cool: put a fog machine on the roof of the car and make huge fog bubbles! 🍾😊
That would be awesome! The popping 😱 might have to revisit that in the future
Whoa cool fog idea
so what youre telling me is he just has to go up with it to keep adding liquid to to the top of the bubble
@@ryangross5446 what I'm saying is that as long as you are doing it with gravity present, the bubble will burst at some point. There are however ways to extend it's longivity. The lube he adds works because it slows the fall of the liquid and adds rigidity.
@@thgersrensen1855 I believe he's using way too much liquid and the bubble would last way longer if it was uniform
It’s honestly amazing how elegant you solved you initial problems. You didn’t just throw more materials at it and basically overengineer the thing, but you actually made it simpler
Thank you! Sometimes it take a complete redesign rather than stubbornly doubling down on a flawed concept
This video shows that nearly always the simplest design is the best (not always the easiest to find)
It's very true! And sometimes requires a complicated process to get there haha
Being comfortable with failure is part of the process that a lot of people just don't get.
I guess all bubbles burst as the water evaporates… you should collaborate with someone who lives in a tropical area where the humidity is higher and see if you can get the bubbles to last longer.
Thats a great idea! Although the humidity here in the summer is about as high as it gets haha. Might be some other factors
Evenings, areas where a breeze flows off water or shortly after a rain will maximize the bubble life.
Low dust, away from airports, and away from smoke from forest fires, the particulates pop the bubbles as well.
Distilled water and knowing the test results from the baking powder and guar gum will help increase the quality of bubble.
Great idea! Those bubbles at the end were ridiculous
Thanks Joel!! Didn’t get old!
Have you tried using remote control to close the wand arms and, therefore, the bubble? If timed before it bursting you’d have some actual bubbles.
I was too focused on trying to make the bubble go on forever haha! Might have to bust it out again
I'm so excited. Thank you for being so kind in chat. You are a one of a kind TH-camr.
Thanks so much for watching!
You're gonna be a wonderful father! You send such a great message when you state frustrations and mistakes. This message is far more positive and inadvertently supportive to anyone watching that needed encouragement on their projects. I love this aspect about you, that you impact people far more than you or they realize. Keep up the great work man!
Really appreciate this! Thanks for watching 👊👊
LOVE IT!! One of my favorite places in my hometown was a children’s science center and you would step onto this raised platform that was sunk into the ground next to a moat of bubble solution and there was a pulley system that would lift a rope hoop up… needless to say it was not 50ft, but it was always cool as hell to get a floor-to-ceiling bubble tube that was at least 20ft pop right in front of you and watch it disappear
Thats an awesome installation
Would be cool to inject smoke. Into the bubble as it's being formed.
That would be awesome! Definitely worth exploring more in the future
Hey! Just found this channel and love it! ❤ I have always loved engineering specifically “useless engineering” that’s just fun and even a child could understand.
Same!
Glad you’re down for it!
Dude, keep the engineering up - we need more folks like you 🤙
Haha thanks! Will do
I doubt you built that car
You may be right 🤔
Only a matter of time
Engineezy 2027 lets gooo
He downloaded it and then 3d printed it, yup. It's the future now
I doubt you doubt he built that car
I don't know why making bubbles has become a staple of engineering culture (a local college has it's engineering students make a bubble pit for kids to play in at it's open house every year) but as a bubble lover, I am so here for it!
Great build and video! Really enjoyed the pacing on this one.
Thanks brother! 🙏🙏
Team up with slomo guys!! Also I think you can add glycerin to make it stronger
That would be sick 🙌
i believe the turbulence left behind the car may be acting too aggressive on the bubble, which would explain why it seems to pop at random points. i believe putting this contraption on a fastback sedan or coupe, and/or mounting it significantly higher would likely yield better results.
Would definitely be an interesting thing to test out!
Man that was awesome! The story and the engineering process were so engaging
Thanks Jeremy! Was (mostly) very fun to make this vid 😂
Wow... You're living the dream! Keep on going! I love your vids and your an inspiration to me, to be honest
Thank you so much! Glad I can inspire
Just visit Canada, we have had one going for almost 20 years !
I appreciate you showing the whole process including your failures!!
Glad you can appreciate that bit! Engineering can be hard haha
The amount your vids have improved over the past couple years is crazy. Great vid Jay!
Thanks Steven! Appreciate it 👊👊👊
I started watching your videos recently and I love how you explain the thought process behind making your projects. It makes the videos so much more interesting
Glad you like it!
Wow!! The long bubbles make me feel like I am Donnie Darko
😂
Just came across your channel from the marble picture printer. Your stuff is awesome and it seems like i'll be able to show it to a 5 year old i work with who is EXTREMELY mechanically inclined so thank you for also keeping them pg. In case it's of use, your were suggested after a brick experiment channel video for the shredding paper with lego gears version 2 video.
That's really cool, looks so beautiful. I think it ended up being an example of how sometimes the simpler answer can be the best answer. Congrats for not giving up, it paid off at the end
So true! Thanks for watching 👊👊
“Mom, why is that man driving a bubble wand?”😭😭
🤣🤣
I really love that you showed everything that didn't work. Just found your channel, immediate sub. ❤❤❤ I also love the part where you said how thrilled your wife was, cause yeah, I know how I would have felt! Great video!
Thanks for subbing! 👊👊
Love the different colors the bubble produces
Me too! Thats the best part
Hello I am a watcher of ur channel for a couple of months so I am excited for this
Hope you enjoy!
This is awesome man! Next challenge, make a dirty bubble
Ooh that would be fun
Waiting for immortals in 100,000 years to decide to make an, "infinite bubble" that stretches around the Earth's circumference, and reconnects to itself. It'd probably take a few million or billion attempts.
🤯🤯
I love big bubbles
Me too Hafu 🕺
Amazing work man! Please, you have to try it indoors! Some big warehouse or stadium.
Vehicle notes: attach this to an ebike or scooter. I think you have to reduce air turbulence near the bubble, seek inspiration from airplanes. The ideal vehicle might be a flat e-motor 4-wheel "electric car skateboard" with the 2 servo-actuated arms sticking up.
I would love to try this indoors! Maybe one day. An e-skate could work well!
I'd love to see you add in some coding that can dynamically change the flow rate, etc based on the car's speed. Then, you'd also want to close the bubble loop at points so that it can detach and be an actual bubble. Very fun video.
That would be cool! There are so many factors that in the end I would have to try this in a huge warehouse with controlled temperature and humidity to get the best results! Maybe in the future
I love your longform videos, so high in effort.
Thank you very much!
An engineer in a bubble !
What can go wrong ...
We are lucky , everything is cool !
Very cool project and a lot more complicate
then it look like at the begining !
I realy like it !
That is thinking outside of the bubble !
Haha sure is! Thank you!
I'm impressed. A lot of youtubers out here are doing sensationalist clickbait, and you're out here delivering xD (by which I mean you posed a question in the title, presented the hypothesis in the introduction, and performed the experiment)
Glad you enjoyed the attempt!
Where have you been all my life ? How come I discover this channel only now ?
And WHEN IS THE COLLAB WITH THE SLOw MO GUYS ???
Still “new” to the game! That would be sick!
@@Engineezy I truly love the way you mix science engineering and art. I want to do a wind sculpture since a long time, have you done one ?
8:34 "Got everything wired up in a way that only a mechanical engineer knows how" the power supply being held to the car with 3 long strips of OFFICE TAPE 😂
**hockey tape 🤣
Now that was cool, definitely kind of reminiscent of the effects in the Abyss or Donnie Darko😎
Thank you! I could see it 👻
This looks so cooooooooooool man I wish I could see it irl :D
this is the greatest youtube video ive seen in a while
Appreciate that 👊
The variability in the winds were probably causing lots of variability. They're generally calmest at sunrise if you go again. I'd love to see you rig an anemometer to some kind of e-bike/scooter to have it drive at the exact speed to get the wind pressure needed dynamically.
Very nice.
I appreciate the fact that you started by looking into the work done (or at least the results of work done) by others interested in giant bubbles. There will be a gathering of bubble people in Cleveland this September … you or others might be interested.
Allow me to comment on a few of the suggestions that others have presented on this page.
I think that it’s fair to quibble about whether an open bubble is actually a “bubble” but it is one of the records that the Guinness people considered and there are different records for these long open tubes as well as closed bubbles .
Some have suggested that evaporation is a concern regarding the popping of soap bubbles and, yes … bubbles are typically thinner than wavelengths of light (it’s why they have colors) so only a tiny bit of its tiny bit of water needs to evaporated on any portion of the bubble/tube and that will happen more quickly on a dry day than a humid one.
Others mentioned the quality of the air and that is certainly a concern to people making big bubbles. The tiniest bit of dust or pollen in the air has the ability to do to these monstrous bubbles what children do with their fingers … pop.
But I don’t think that these videos show popping that comes from those common sources. Left in the air long enough, evaporation will certainly become a concern but most of these bubbles popped either from the stress or from touching the ground.
Alan McKay, in Wellington, New Zealand set the record for bubble tubes of this sort when he created one that was 105 feet (32 meters) long. Alan pioneered this idea of using long poles and string, a device that bubble people often refer to as a Tristring. He didn’t use a car and in his experiments, his poles got longer and longer as he found that the limits were mostly related to the giant bubble tubes touching the ground. On the day of his record, he credits the wonderfully cooperative breeze that helped hold up the thing as he backed into the wind and kept walking (no car).
Others mentioned the possibility that the turbulence around the moving car was breaking bubbles and that is something to consider but I don’t see much of that. That polyethylene oxide in the J-Lube has made the bubble extremely flexible and we see it responding to the wind, the movement and the turbulence by distorting from the bubble’s preferred spherical shape in response. But the thing often splits up into multiple bubbles rather than burst when it is that flexible.
This is a wonderful video, thank you for showing us. The concerns that you faced have been addressed by others and the idea of pumping fluid and widening the opening and increasing the speed have also been addressed. Consider coming to Cleveland this September or look for the organization called AOIBA, an international group of bubble people. You’d fit right in.
Thanks for the detailed comment! Really interesting about the 105ft bubble. Also, the pollen in the air could definitely be a factor. Appreciate you watching!
Some of the stuff you do is so cool. I would have no idea where to start doing the stuff you do, it’s the kind of thing I want to do when I’m older so I can create cool stuff lol
Start small and build from there!
I don't think you got either the largest bubble or bubble making machine, but that was a really cool project! I've mulled over ways to pump bubble fluid to my strings when I'm making giant bubbles and came up with a solution that was pretty close to yours. Ultimately the most important factor for making the largest giant bubble possible is the air quality, with your bubble solution being the next most important factor. Technique is another important thing. You would have better luck with some smooth laminar offshore ocean wind in the morning. Your car was creating quite a bit of turbulence in the air that filled and surrounded your bubble. I say all of this with about 15 years experience making giant bubbles.
Thank you! Good stuff to know for the next attempt! Cheers
Is it technically a bubble if it's open? Isn't it just more of a cylinder closed at one end that is being made here?
I’m curious how much of your time is split between filming / editing / designing / building these projects.
The project was a 6 week project total, with 5 weeks and 1 days spent building and filming, and 1 week editing the video 🥵
Im so excited for this!
Thanks for giving up your kitchen 😂🥰
Giant soap bubble-tunnel looks awesome
To qualify for worlds largest bubble, I think the bubble needs to be closed off at then end. But youre easily breaking the record
Probably right! Gonna have to work on that technique
Longest free floating bubble.
Alan McKay
New Zealand
32 meters long
09 Aug. 1996
This was fun and entertaining to watch! Great design and idea along with amazing filming. Good show and tell of the concept of the idea to the planning and the execution.
The bubble really looked awesome! Better than some of the CGI that is used when trying to make bubble like physics. Especially in sci-fi. I wonder if maybe you will inspire some film directors to use your idea as practical effects.
Thanks for the hard work! Good luck on your other ideas can wait to see more!
Glad you enjoyed it! Appreciate the kind words 🙏🙏
Woah so cool!!! Nicely done, and such a large build!
Thank you! Was definitely a bit of a stretch haha
I am excited. Based on your proposed hypothesis my prediction is as follows. 1 as the bubble expands in volume the surface area will increase by significantly more, this requires more solution. 2 in the event of perfect theoretical execution there would eventually be a point where the solution could not travel from the source to the end fast enough to overcome expansion. In summary, i predict a maximum limit even in ideal circumstances. I hope i'm right
This is good logic!
Me watching this me just realizing this is soemthing i would never be able to do, amazing work bro i love it, its somthing that would be my childhood dream
Thank you!!
Omg engineezy HOLLY
Incredible. Well done!
Thank you! Cheers!
would be an amazing car commercial. beautiful.
Thank you!
Awesome! Could you put a heater on the car so that the air in the bubble is warm and the bubble rises into the air? Maybe it wouldn’t pop as soon as
Thats an interesting idea! Might be worth exploring
Really cool Project!!! Even as a small child I always wondered what a giant soap bubble would look like. Now I have the answer!
As an adult I can say they are still super fun!
@@Engineezy Wow, you're rapid fast!
This is soo awesome, also cool you show that failing not bad, but you can learn from it. I wonder why you put it on a car instead of using a fan? Like heat the air a bit and blow it a bit under an angle or something. Easy to type on youtube comments, I know it has a lot of complications :). Thx for the awesome video!
I’m not sure how far a fan could go, this just seemed like the best way to do it! Thanks for watching
Awesome video! Just finished the mechanical counter build and I'm just getting started! Love to see more of your art!
Thanks so much for your support!
Showing how to learn from failure is something we need more of. Nice build. Two things tickling my brain:
1) I bet there's some turbulence from the car itself that's destabilizing the bubble.
1.5) you could build a foam fairing for the back of your car like hypermilers do. Or maybe use a fan...?
2) To help weigh down the string and ease overall weight on the rods, the tubing could come from below and run up the wicks maybe...? Just spitballing here.
Thanks Winston! As much as I wish I could get it right on the first try every time, its just not the way it works! The turbulence thing might be a factor. Although I wasnt moving that fast so I would guess the air is still in a somewhat laminar state. This would be cool to cfm! A fairing could be cool to test! Running the wicks up may help, only one way to find out 🤓
@Engineezy Did you try closing the wand back up after generating a giant bubble to see if it would begin to spherize itself? I know that wouldn't make them as large but it would be cool to see how large of a sphere you could make.
I got too focused on making long bubbles!
This video was so good! 💯 🔥 🤯
Thank you!!!
Awesome! You probably saw this in your research, but just in case, check out 'CNC Bubble Iris" - it's an awesome mechanism that creates big bubbles. It uses the same mechanism as the "Canadarm" end effector on the ISS!
I actually met the guy! Gordon- such a sick machine
@@Engineezyah awesome, I should have guessed :-)
Awesome! Do it at night with some good lighting and it would be a sick photo!
That would be cool!
He makes big bubbles and I cannot lie.
Awwwyeahhh 🤓
This is amazing, but also a great example of over engineering. I used to know a guy that made 30+ft long bubbles 6+ft in diameter with a stick and rope. Not knocking you at all. This is really cool!
Wow love a good story nice job man
Glad you enjoyed it 👊
You need a manifold with the same length tubes to the injection points on on the bubble apparatus. Controlled by the correct sized jets for equal flow. Just ideas. Great video.
Love it! Thank you 🙏
Oh! You could turn this into a parade float idea!
That would be awesome!
Drive inside a hanger or somewhere large and enclosed for better control of the wind and elements that can disrupt the bubble progression if you wish to make the longest bubbles with your current set-up
That would be so sick!
you'll probably never read this, but a 3D printed "drinking bird" toy would be fun side project to build. Its small but pretty sure it'll be difficult to achieve
That would be fun!
Awesome video idea. Version 2 had some brilliant simple ideas. Great work man, I really enjoyed this video!
Thanks Cody! So simple and so effective 🤦♂️
Bubble science is surprisingly fascinating. I saw some research with them finding all sorts of uses for bubbles. Utilizing them in different tasks. Also I saw NASA recently measured a giant bubble that is around our entire solar system that is created by our sun's cosmic rays lol. I guess that boundary layer interacts with the surrounding cosmic neighborhood. That might help us learn more about space. Like the interactions between stars, galaxies, black holes. It's interesting to think the study of bubbles can span from very small scale systems to very large scale systems? I recommend looking up and watching videos that focus on the research & studies on the science of bubbles. Nature really is fascinating and I think bubbles just have this natural way of getting us to ponder about physics and all the other ways that Nature behaves. Bubbles are fun
Bubbles are fun!
Wow, really cool, if you lower the poles down will the hot exhaust from the car provide lift to the bubble?
That is an interesting question indeed
Cool project. And I'm glad it ended up working in the end. But...did you just do NO CALCULATIONS in this project?
I went with the empirical approach!
Try this one. The humidity is higher on a cloudy day. Water will evaporate much slower from the bubble. You could probably get a bigger one
I will definitely have to try it 🙌
Beautiful just terrific😮
Maybe try adding glycerine to the bubble solution. It helps keep the water in, as far as I know.
Would be hilarious if parents are asking you to drive around like that on children's parties.
Would blow children’s minds 🤪
Wow, such a creative innovating person with the best ideas
Thanks a lot 😊
You are an awesome TH-camr keep it up I love your videos 😃😃😃
Thanks for watching 👊👊
They make tubular cotton webbing that would probably work really well for pumping fluid more evenly through the wand.
it’d be so cool to see how people react to seeing this in public
People definitely took a second look 😂
Very nice video! I think this is one of your best videos yet! ;)
Thank you! I think I agree! Cheers 👊👊🙏🙏
If you put an adjustable spoiler at the front of the roof of the car, you can play with the dymamics of the air going into your bubble, it looks like it needs more air, but not faster air.
I have a suspicion this will be like tuning a carburetor, but infinite bubble probably is possible.
That would be an interesting thing to test out! Next version
Loved every second! Might need to make something bubble related too.
You won’t regret it!
Clearly... I think (lol), it is because you are trying it outside, that is the reason why you get breaks at different places as the wind hits differently and then the whole movement also does on the bubble too, Try in inside.
I will definitely have to try indoors if I can!
Awesome video as always! Love that you show the process and not just the one that works at the end! Engineering is all about iteration and getting better!
Thanks Mike! And thanks for making the drone shots possible for this video!
can I like this 3 or 4 times? Because that was absolutely awesome :D Thanks for taking us through your journey, I love what you do!
Thank you!! Really appreciate that
COOL BUBBLE... U GOT MY SUB
Thank you!!
That was awesome
Super cool! I love it
Thank you!!