I loved that part. And, just for posterity: "Judging by the scratched out part numbers and lack of documentation, I'm going to guess I'm probably not supposed to have these."
I absolutely adore how this is 25% a laser microwave speedbuild video and 75% a ''here's what wacky food my unfathomably dangerous superlaser oven can make'' video.
At first hearing him talk about not completing his PhD made me sad, but after watching him make and eat the steak I realized that we’d all probably be dead by now if he was given the knowledge and recourses from a phd
You can have the knowledge it takes to get a PhD without jumping through all the hoops and time and having a PhD doesn't give you extra resources that would apply in a manner that would be in the way you mean. You mostly just get more credibility and some extra contacts and easier time getting a job in a in whatever field
I read laser storms and thought "heh that's epic" and then I re-read it and it just got better XD it sounds delicious and high energy Edit: Now that I've watched the video, I can conclusively say Laser Smores looks delicious too lol
I've burnt chocolate before trying to melt it and make chocolate dipped strawberries one time. For some reason it tasted wayyy better than just normal melted chocolate, and I haven't been able to replicate it since. That char is something special on certain food groups.
@@theeternalnow6506 Yeah, I may be on a NSA watchlist for exploring the more extreme aspects of the topics he's brought my attention to, but I have a funny little "eye-canceler!"
"Judging by the scratched out part numbers and lack of documentation, I'm guessing I'm probably not supposed to have these..." I think I found my new hero
I feel that if he gets bored (doubt that he will) then let him change or if he almost dies but like really really close or closer than normally then let him change his content if he wants
He has more confidence talking in front of a camera which just comes with the territory of making more awesome videos that people love. I totally agree with the OP here, please keep these going for as long as you feel like you can.
I love how in every video he casually pulls out some extreme and outragously dangerous component that your casual hobbyist definitely should not have in his possession
Like he said, he was actually pursuing a doctorate, but left the program to focus on TH-cam. He has a bachelors degree in Chemistry, and according to his 'about me', "worked as a research assistant under Dr. Boyd Goodson studying giant lasers and mega magnets (aka techniques in hyperpolarization NMR spectroscopy.)" He also gave an interview where he revealed he was pursuing his doctorate. I'll just drop the link and the relevant section: Esco Optics: You recently were at the University of Rochester for your PhD. in Optics and decided to take some time off from school. Any insight on why you put the PhD on pause? You may not have known, but Ron Schulmerich (Esco’s Business Development Manager based in Rochester) was ready to take you under his wing and invite you to Thanksgiving dinner and offer you home cooked meals while you were away from Illinois. Drake: Well, I’m still in the system and I could go back, but at the time was doing so much at once. I have my undergrad degree in chemistry but I tacked on so many extra classes. It was a lot and I just took on too much and I wasn’t ready for the adjustment to academia. Rochester is an awesome place, the university is amazing and it’s a great school and I just dove in too quickly and I had some things of my own that I wanted to get to and take a break. Esco Optics: Have you thought about what your goals are for the future? Drake: Right now, I’m at a crossroads, I’m struggling with increasing frustrations with TH-cam demonetizing and suspending some of my videos, so I’m not sure as a platform or a medium for me its going to continue. They really don’t like my chemistry videos. I’m going to keep posting videos, but also I have some new outlets that I’m cultivating from past inquires or I could get into the industry with a full time job or get back into academia. So, there are lots of options. I’m working through some decisions, but for now I’m just having fun and enjoying it all. Source: escooptics.com/blogs/news/q-a-with-drake-anthony-aka-styropyro-on-youtube
Styropyro being gone for a long time then coming back with more muscles and scarier stuff. I like to think that he goes on adventures fighting a bunch of aliens in a hive (or government agents in a shady research facility) going deeper fighting harder and harder enemies, before finally defeating the boss who drops the loot he needs for a new awesome video.
"and Freeman, if you pull this off i might just forgive you for that debacle at black mesa, you know the one I'm talking about involving a certain microwave casserole"
Same, especially after seeing one explode up close. They had the cover off for...reasons(?), and a CRX dashboard (complete with all kinds of metal bracing on the back) that was propped up in the corner somehow fell into it. I'm not an electrician, so I don't know exactly what all happened, but 2/3 of the main bar that the breakers attach to was vaporized in about 3 seconds. Ngl, I would feel much safer handling uranium fuel rods that I do messing with electricity, you generally don't get a do-over.
@@logicplague I'm no professional, but I do work with small hobbyist electronics. Idiots messing with mains electronics, fuses and breakers doing things like that unironically further reinforces my beleif that humanity is doomed.
I love that styropyro casually talks about how he could make insanely powerful weapons for the military that would very likely be against the Geneva Conventions.
Our family had the original Amana Radar Range microwave oven and it was a real work horse. After all these years, you finally improved on it. It only took 54 years, give or take. I still have the great cookbook that came with it.
Any other TH-camr with this title I would’ve been like “nah that’s clickbait” but you sir, are the kind of insane that will do this and are tough enough to survive it.
"When electronics hobbyists get killed by their projects, it's almost always because they're messing around with microwave parts like *theeeese* " almost made me jump
@@JanyaAndromedaGalactic Read the whole comment my dude, he's making a joke about the laser being so powerful that he went blind, therefore he can't see, like at all.
I absolutely love this dude like he's stayed consistent and chill since posting and even after getting really big on youtube he hasn't changed at all like some youtubers have
I wouldn't say that. I must live near him, because I see him at my local grocery store sometimes when I'm there. I never said anything to him until about three months ago. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
@@drkool8168 I mean, if it wasn't for crazy ass wackos and people with a unsatiable urge to kill, we wouldn't have really any technology we have today. He at least legitimately understood the danger and built a Faraday cage around it, and used a proper tool to change the power output. The fact he _isn't_ dead or maimed after years is showing that he did indeed understand the physics and danger.
no, neither this or most of what he does is illegal - he is licensed and registered and blah blah blah - nothing he does is really THAT risky. That said, TH-cam and the law are not the same thing.
This guy's sarcasm is literally the best. He sounds like a sarcastic pyromaniac who's on the run from the government and trying to cause as much mayhem as possible
The electronics project that sketched me out the most was my massive capacitor bank. That thing was lethal. This was back when you could just go to the photo development section and just ask for their used disposable cameras and they would give them to you. If I remember correctly it was about 800 capacitors running at around 600 volts. When I realized our math was off by more than a factor of 10 was when I vaporized a piece of copper I was using as a fuse. The thing that still concerns me to this day is that it went missing in a move. I really hope no one tried to use this. Because this thing sketches me out as much or more than microwave transformers. Making giant capacitor banks is also very lethal idea that you probably shouldn't do.
This guy is basically the cocky movie side character that the main characters have to reluctantly call on to help save the world because he's just so unfathomably intelligent
@@iamdmc gee, if only English in particular not only allowed but necessitated the creation of new words to support our growing cloud of ideas that need to be expressed as quickly as possible. Too bad we're stick with a language where you can't use *google* as a verb or add *ie* to the end of *self* to give us *selfie* or describe your Monday experience by saying, "I got DMV'd". Aw shucks, too bad we're left with this static language that hasn't had any new words since its creation. Gee that really stinks.
I love how you casually mention that you have the materials and knowledge to build inertial confinement fusion lasers and then go back to cooking smores with the most powerful CW laser you've ever built. Madman.
@@dot32 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion I'm not a scientist, but it basically is a laser to start off a fusion reaction. You hit the fuel pellet with a laser, the outside explodes, and pushes the inside hard enough to start the reaction. Read more on your own, and take my recap with a grain of salt ;)
@@theories665 Really cool! It's a shame he didn't go on to use his knowledge to build a better future for us. He could've been the inventor of the first affordable, carbon free fusion reactor, yet he went on to make toasts and overcooked steak in a lazer oven. Madman.
@@BenjamintYT Who knows? He may still be pursuing a job in this area, or he's still finding opportunities. All I know is that he should be financially okay, or he just stole a bunch of microwaves...
"Whenever electronics hobbyists get killed by their projects its usually from messing around with microwave parts like these" *proceeds to fondle the guts of the microwave*
Fun fact, at a messy 2.4 GHz, you could be interfering with the Transponders used in aviation. That is the piece of equipment that send your altitude and position to ATC for their radar, so depending on how close you are to an airport, you could actually completely block your nearest airport's secondary radar. This kind of relates to the FCC he was talking about, but you would also get involved with the FAA and maybe even ATSB if something go's wrong.
@@ornessarhithfaeron3576 I think EM waves, especially at those with lower freqs do travel pretty far, so if they are directed in the correct way anything could happen
my ion beam for the ibkt project will block a country from radar but due to a high fidelity yield graphene filter it shields the extreme rays and still able to cut a home in half with a swipe. when u do 45deg swipe then the top half slides down the lower half .
Ah, I finally figured out why you remind me of HowToBasic, they throw a massive amount of eggs at everything, you "throw" a massive amount of electrons at everything, and destruction is inherent to the process.
I wonder if the microwave could be used to jam electronics, he mentioned it because the FCC will come after you. So maybe you could turn it into a ‘microwave gun’?
Hey man completely random comment but i think watching your videos and such like yours is what helped me make my decision to go into electrical engineering and go to school for it and basically i wanted to say even though you are messing around and doing some dumb stuff you inspired me to become interested on how everything works and how i could build things of my own one day so thank you hoss
Styropyro's complete disregard for caution is relatable in both a wholesome and second hand anxiety inducing way. All Hobbyists like him spent their childhood's blowing stuff up with fireworks and later nearly dying every five seconds of a project as teens. The difference with him is he lived long enough to make it his Job, and that's more than a little cool.
It's almost as if he's spent hundreds of hours researching the safety precautions he needs to take in order not to die. William Osman has the same problem with viewers not understanding the stuff that happens behind the scenes.
@Buck Norris yes, probably the biggest hurdle I have in starting my own science and engineering channel is all the "safety experts" who would be screaming at me for "not following xyz safety rules!" It's TV magic, jumpcuts and implied danger.
I've seen glimpses of his knowhow, he's got an extreme regard for caution and knows exactly what he's doing. His skits are so funny because he knows exactly the most dangerous and stupid things one can do, and pulls it off safely by defanging the danger first.
Well, he basically just built a cubesat-sized super-powerful laser array... Slap some solar panels and a battery on it and you've got an orbital death ray!
pyro: "when electronics hobbyists get killed by their projects, it's almost always because they're messing around with microwave parts like theeeese" also pyro: hasn't posted in 8 months (yes i am aware he's alive)
They say that during a thunderstorm, a powerful laser can attract lightning (the laser ionizes the air in its path and forms a "way" through which electricity is easier to pass). If you have thunderclouds with lightning nearby, make a video about the attraction of lightning. (in this case, it is better to turn on the laser remotely ;))
Unless you're looking at a laser without put in the millions of Watts you're not going to be able to ionize air with it so realistically speaking it's not going to have any effect on lightning because you need conductive particles to direct lightning. That does not however mean that we are not getting a video on this channel of him playing with lightning, in the 5000 w incinerator coil video he teases the fact that he might be playing with lightning at some point in the future which would be a very interesting video
the fact that he took three bites of mostly raw onion without reaction scares me more then the thought of being blinded at the speed of light from that laser
It was a fairly big onion, it might have been a Vidalia onion. They tend to be less pungent than other onion types, and are often grown in sulfur-deficient soil, making them even less pungent. It's said that those onions are very sweet and can be eaten raw like an apple. th-cam.com/video/M2GIXU_WFC0/w-d-xo.html _"This is a six pound onyo."_ th-cam.com/video/CwRttSfnfcc/w-d-xo.html He's cutting a Vidalia onion in this video.
When hobbyists get killed by their projects, it's usually because they're messing around in a microwave like this (proceeds to stuff hand recklessly into circuitry)
All you need is common sense and knowledge about what your doing and you'll make it out alive. Trust me I've been playing with high power transformers extremely hv transformers and I've not been shoked even once . Also even the great photonicinduction said that all you need is common sense 😉
@@valanps1638 Survivor's bias - most dead folks don't comment on TH-cam But really, there's another important component to safety - sleeping enough. When one's exhausted, one's judgement just refuses to cooperate
We must protect this young scientist at all costs, for our own safety. He's one really bad day away from writing his name onto the moon and declaring laser war on the entire world!
All i want is a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range. If he can make that happen, i will forever become his personal bodyguard until I die or he finds someone better. But I'm keeping my plasma rifle 😎
Honestly, Styro is more like a main character, antihero kinda guy. He talks about how half the stuff he owns is illegal and could likely kill a large residential area, but instead he just decides to make laser s’mores. He’d totally end up being the guy you meet up with randomly throughout the adventure. Initially you’re terrified of his absolute power over lasers, but then realize that he’s actually pretty chill.
@@johnnyparsnips7641 Oh i remember the CERN worry. As if you think logicly, accelerating things on near light speed can have side effects :D But i didn't now that nuclear reaction had theoretical chance to ignite atmosphere.
I love the fact that his thumbnail is straight up actually what it looks like out of the microwave. Anyone not familiar with the channel looks at it and is like yeah that’s photoshopped.
The laser oven construction, seeing the massive coil, other massive electrical components that can kill with a touch, all of the electric discharging, and the green flames... lol, what a Frakenstein's monster of a machine.
check out my new shorts channel! th-cam.com/channels/wGEZhoIwu7GN44Xkr_fXwA.html
I just watched your Tornado video
damn ur looking ripped af
... you wear shorts?
you're gettin jacked bro, keep up whatever your doin'
What CC source do you use to drive those lasers?
Everytime he leaves I assume he dies but he just comes back even more buff with an even scarier invention
Those two have an uncanny correlation
Not to mention all this new shit in a lab that looks completely different each time. The dude looks busy as hell even when he's not uploading!!
Why is this so true! Lol
Lmfao
Well, you know what they say: What doesn't kill us makes us stronger...
I guarantee this guy solved nuclear fusion years ago.. he got bored... and just moved on to more challenging projects
bro my dad loves your videos, and i also do.thats all
lol
Oh my God I forgot you existed
Omg you’re alive aswell!!
Nuclear fusion got solved in the 1950's. Thermonuclear bombs are nuclear fusion.
“Judging by the scratched out documentation and labels, I’m going to guess I’m not supposed to have these” this man is literally a mad scientist
Easily the best line I’ve heard in a TH-cam video in… ever?
I loved that part. And, just for posterity:
"Judging by the scratched out part numbers and lack of documentation, I'm going to guess I'm probably not supposed to have these."
when you want your pizza rolls to be lava
He could easily defeat crazy Russian hacker
@@aceman0000099 oh no....
I absolutely adore how this is 25% a laser microwave speedbuild video and 75% a ''here's what wacky food my unfathomably dangerous superlaser oven can make'' video.
You get what you came for with some extras
FUCK IT MACROWAVE
I don't know what's scarier how shredded he keeps getting or how sketchy these experiments are progressing
In 10 years he'll be sitting there with a herculean physique and a terrifying gadget made out of old x Ray machines that melts cars
@@muggins2279 "Best of both worlds!"
His accent will slowly turn Schwarzenegger, and he'll have to inexplicably get to the chopper in the middle of a video.
He only eats foods cooked with lasers, gotta be.
@@muggins2279 10?
It’s good knowing you are alive.
*still alive
We we really know that? Video could have been scheduled
@@TatsukiHashida🎵 ah, ah, ah, stayin aliveee
I agree it's 7 months since
Or 1
This is the most calmest, passive-aggressive psychopath I’ve ever watched
ngl he looks the same as the dude who hit a child and mom with a car
lol
yes lol
Knew the comments wouldn't disappoint
He's the Bob Ross of lasers
Just noticed that this is the origin of the "fuck it, macrowave" meme. Congrats on being famous!
i eat microwaves they are very tasty
How come I’m living under *a rock* -
@@Ririxpj how come i eat rocks
@@GiveMaToesBackBro what
The fact that that image isn't edited is amazing
At first hearing him talk about not completing his PhD made me sad, but after watching him make and eat the steak I realized that we’d all probably be dead by now if he was given the knowledge and recourses from a phd
He could also be an A grad mad scientist supervillain
We narrowly avoided "Making Nuclear Popcorn," part of me is disappointed
You can have the knowledge it takes to get a PhD without jumping through all the hoops and time and having a PhD doesn't give you extra resources that would apply in a manner that would be in the way you mean. You mostly just get more credibility and some extra contacts and easier time getting a job in a in whatever field
einstein. contributed more to others phd. he didnt like school either...
"Roasting southeast asia with my orbital cannon"
The supervillain death lasers were one thing, but seeing him bite an onion like an apple is what convinced me he's built different
Lmao
Could've been a Vidalia onion; they're the sweetest variety and can been eaten raw without issues.
I've been eating onions that way since I was a kid
I had a polish co-worker who did this regularly, everyone's eyes tearing in the room and he is just eating it like an apple 😂
my ma does this lmfao
I'm really the wrong kind of Engineer it seems. I'd rather be making laser smores.
I read laser storms and thought "heh that's epic" and then I re-read it and it just got better XD it sounds delicious and high energy
Edit: Now that I've watched the video, I can conclusively say Laser Smores looks delicious too lol
Laser S’mores? I’ll stick to my firework-baked cookie thanks very much
Designing roads is fine, but when the most exciting part of my day is driving to work, you really wonder if 5 years of college was worth it.
Oh EM, didn't expect you here man
I made a laser bong lighter one time, and I'm not even an engineer!
I've burnt chocolate before trying to melt it and make chocolate dipped strawberries one time. For some reason it tasted wayyy better than just normal melted chocolate, and I haven't been able to replicate it since. That char is something special on certain food groups.
Anything with sugars in it could be caramelized, so you probably did something like that accidentally.
never heat chocolate chip cookies in a microwave btw, it's just getting worse
This is awesome. What a banger thumbnail!
I see you use mayonnaise as thermal paste too!!
Fancy seeing you here, Hacksmith. You might have built a lightsaber, but you haven't built a *Laser Oven* yet...
a thumbnail compliment from you is impressive!
@@spaceevo8622 guess he better start XD
hello machine man
UwU
The man who looks like he makes clickbait, but doesn’t. We need more of these people.
Yeah my jaw dropped when i saw the microwave laser, it was actually true!
Yeah. This dude makes insane stuff. It almost feels dangerous to simply watch him do it.
We do not need more of these people
@@theeternalnow6506 Yeah, I may be on a NSA watchlist for exploring the more extreme aspects of the topics he's brought my attention to, but I have a funny little "eye-canceler!"
With all due respect: *no.*
Love how he casually drops that he has discarded government project laser technology just lying around his house
I'm just suprised how big that nd:yag crystal was
IKR? that one got all my "WUTTT?"
Yeah you could buy COIL parts on ebay for a while and other stuff... it's not that unusual in the laser world tbh.
14:01 “wow that’s quite a fragrance!” Things you never wanna hear in a lab
“Oh my, those grass clippings sure smell great”
Everyone else in the trench: 😟😟😟
Those poor chemists…
I feel like we need a Styropyro half-life mod. He would add so much more colorful dialogue among the scientists.
i believe this guy is immortal and he literally dies a couple times each video we just dont see it
Explains how he has looked almost exactly the same for over a decade
He cuts it out coz otherwise the video will be taken down, Duh 🙄
How did you know oh you weren't talking about me
@@SeaBunnny let's say you are, how'd you become it?
Kenny without the hood
"Judging by the scratched out part numbers and lack of documentation, I'm guessing I'm probably not supposed to have these..."
I think I found my new hero
Quick! Rush to Ebay before they figure out what they're selling!
This is one of the only channels whose videos feel just like how they did when I first started watching years ago. Keep it up, and never change!
You mean excessively dangerous? Then yes I agree haha
I feel that if he gets bored (doubt that he will) then let him change or if he almost dies but like really really close or closer than normally then let him change his content if he wants
I feel like there are alot more jokes now then when he first started but the same content
I agree. He still has the wonder and magic of his early videos. It’s honest. I think that what makes it so endearing.
He has more confidence talking in front of a camera which just comes with the territory of making more awesome videos that people love. I totally agree with the OP here, please keep these going for as long as you feel like you can.
How does he just move so gracefully and softly while looking at the camera
What is this glazing XD
I love how in every video he casually pulls out some extreme and outragously dangerous component that your casual hobbyist definitely should not have in his possession
He's becoming more powerful than we could possibly imagine
No joke, look at those guns! Holy crap man!
He does look like he's been spending a lot of time in the gym. I'm sure he'll have lots of women fighting over him now.
@@bigguy130 and men... and men...
@@bigguy130 He can just laser them off with his microwave
Seems like he has been going to the gym lately.
I love how he takes special care to make sure he's taking a bite out of all the eccentrically charred bits of food.
second bite of onion was top moment
@@evolevil1 “that was amazing wow”
Literally after biting a raw onion 🤣
@@evolevil1 how about the third lmao
10:32 Dude it looks like you turned your microwave into a time machine lol
This man could’ve chosen to be a model but went for the “mad scientist” life. What a legend.
Derek Zoolander laser physicist. It’s beautiful
Ah Perry that platypus time to burn your eyes out
Like he said, he was actually pursuing a doctorate, but left the program to focus on TH-cam. He has a bachelors degree in Chemistry, and according to his 'about me', "worked as a research assistant under Dr. Boyd Goodson studying giant lasers and mega magnets (aka techniques in hyperpolarization NMR spectroscopy.)"
He also gave an interview where he revealed he was pursuing his doctorate. I'll just drop the link and the relevant section:
Esco Optics: You recently were at the University of Rochester for your PhD. in Optics and decided to take some time off from school. Any insight on why you put the PhD on pause? You may not have known, but Ron Schulmerich (Esco’s Business Development Manager based in Rochester) was ready to take you under his wing and invite you to Thanksgiving dinner and offer you home cooked meals while you were away from Illinois.
Drake: Well, I’m still in the system and I could go back, but at the time was doing so much at once. I have my undergrad degree in chemistry but I tacked on so many extra classes. It was a lot and I just took on too much and I wasn’t ready for the adjustment to academia. Rochester is an awesome place, the university is amazing and it’s a great school and I just dove in too quickly and I had some things of my own that I wanted to get to and take a break.
Esco Optics: Have you thought about what your goals are for the future?
Drake: Right now, I’m at a crossroads, I’m struggling with increasing frustrations with TH-cam demonetizing and suspending some of my videos, so I’m not sure as a platform or a medium for me its going to continue. They really don’t like my chemistry videos. I’m going to keep posting videos, but also I have some new outlets that I’m cultivating from past inquires or I could get into the industry with a full time job or get back into academia. So, there are lots of options. I’m working through some decisions, but for now I’m just having fun and enjoying it all.
Source: escooptics.com/blogs/news/q-a-with-drake-anthony-aka-styropyro-on-youtube
@@vlc-cosplayer moral compass leaving my body when the villain is sexy
@@vlc-cosplayer Role-playing as a female doesn't make you one.
Styropyro being gone for a long time then coming back with more muscles and scarier stuff. I like to think that he goes on adventures fighting a bunch of aliens in a hive (or government agents in a shady research facility) going deeper fighting harder and harder enemies, before finally defeating the boss who drops the loot he needs for a new awesome video.
He literally went tornado hunting a couple weeks ago
love that, the best story i've read in a long time
Dude got buff
You made it sound like terraria
he has to get the laser diodes from somewhere
"The good thing is it bypasses ALL of the safety mechanisms!"
Ah yes, the statement ALL the educational channels love!
This guy certainly seems like the Steve Irwin of electronics. I dont hate it.
"the statement ALL the educational channels love!" - I mean he DID state at the beginning that nobody should try this ever.
No with the us army budget and can use illegal thingz man thats a way for apocalypse
Forget the hacksmith making a railgun, this is the cracksmith
Funniest part is that Hacksmith commented on this video
Fr@@SuprSBG
I love how he touches all the microwave parts while saying how dangerous and deadly they are
He clearly says doing anything that he does will kill you. 1:04 and 3:10.
He knows how to touch them right 😏😉🤤😂
Ikr
I get the feeling the PhD program was holding him back.
Probably lol
Mad scientist back story
I love how this man casually whips out the pyromaniacal side as soon as he gets his hands on ANYTHING
2030: turning the water into the deathstar laser
"and Freeman, if you pull this off i might just forgive you for that debacle at black mesa, you know the one I'm talking about involving a certain microwave casserole"
Mayo is fine, but you can't match the tangy zip of Miracle Whip's thermal conductivity
Haha yes, am i right
Under-rated comment. 😆
i was just thinking of you XD
No, Cool ranch is made for this!
You miracle whip people sicken me
I love how he casually mentions all safety systems were bypassed and then proceeds to say “this is super convenient”.
When he showed the circuit breaker held open I lolled pretty hard
everybody be like: "haha, Michael Reeves is so crazy omg, so quirky"
meanwhile styropyro: *actually a mad crazy scientist*
love both of you guys
Micheal Reeves does stupid shit because why the fuck not
Styro does INCREDIBLY stupid shit because why the fuck not
i wonder what would happen if both of teamed up to make something
@@TheGreatMossMan A laser pointer that manages to tase people. Don't know how but they'd probably find a way.
i want to see a colab
@@salmaelnox1822 yea lol
Power Company - "Um there's some unusually weird electrical variations going on in this area."
ngl when he said "nothing a little copper wire and duct tape can't fix" about the tripped breaker my heart stopped a little. Got me.
Same, especially after seeing one explode up close. They had the cover off for...reasons(?), and a CRX dashboard (complete with all kinds of metal bracing on the back) that was propped up in the corner somehow fell into it. I'm not an electrician, so I don't know exactly what all happened, but 2/3 of the main bar that the breakers attach to was vaporized in about 3 seconds.
Ngl, I would feel much safer handling uranium fuel rods that I do messing with electricity, you generally don't get a do-over.
Dude I couldn’t stop laughing
@@logicplague I'm no professional, but I do work with small hobbyist electronics. Idiots messing with mains electronics, fuses and breakers doing things like that unironically further reinforces my beleif that humanity is doomed.
@@bluspectre2042 I think that's awesome!
A lot of things in this video could make your heart stop a little
I love that styropyro casually talks about how he could make insanely powerful weapons for the military that would very likely be against the Geneva Conventions.
I'm pretty sure this already is against the Geneva Conventions. A laser that instantly blinds you is probably too powerful to use against people.
And shows us how to make them
StyroPyro: proud supporter of the Geneva Suggestions 😂
Like they don't have engineers already doing that
@@randomblock1_ lol u haven't heard of haarp have u
Yeah, the laser is cool and all, but can we have a moment of appreciation for how RIPPED my man is rn?
I was thinking the same thing, like when do u start working out. Got ripped all the sudden bro keep the grind up!
@@notJRoss he teaches martial arts
man i love carbon
Actually he was always kinda ripped
my husband is Jealous
Our family had the original Amana Radar Range microwave oven and it was a real work horse. After all these years, you finally improved on it. It only took 54 years, give or take. I still have the great cookbook that came with it.
It would be terrifying to leave Pyro, Reeves and Nile all in one room with a MrBeast budget...
Who’s reeves?
Also Cody’slab
@@somethingwithbungalows Reeves is a precocious young filipino boy occasionally heard screaming in the background of William Osman videos.
@@sir_vix you do know he moved out right?
@@somethingwithbungalows Michael Reeves
@@NeonPup6000 He might be talking about Wiliams older videos
*William Osman:* "I built an x-ray"
*Styropyro:* "I built a death ray"
Exactly where I came from too lol
“And I cook with it”
Multiple times
he just mount a laser array , not built it
X-rays are death rays just delayed
Any other TH-camr with this title I would’ve been like “nah that’s clickbait” but you sir, are the kind of insane that will do this and are tough enough to survive it.
This dude is bat shit crazy but I love him! The ONLY TH-cam channel I’m both intrigued by and find hilarious! Thank you!
"When electronics hobbyists get killed by their projects, it's almost always because they're messing around with microwave parts like *theeeese* "
almost made me jump
My organs flinched. That's how hard I winced when I saw that.
Same
I’ve been watching too much electroboom. I definitely was a little worried for the slapstick/microwave combo
They are not that dangerous if you know what your doing. Just short the cap out and turn per off and your good to go. I work on them every day.
@@AlphaAchilles short the cap out. No idea what that means.
I can't see why people love this channel so much. No really, I can't see. The laser was so powerful I went blind just from watching this video.
@@JanyaAndromedaGalactic Read the whole comment my dude, he's making a joke about the laser being so powerful that he went blind, therefore he can't see, like at all.
@@JanyaAndromedaGalactic even if they weren't joking, who are you to demand that they declare that they also don't like other science shows???
@@JanyaAndromedaGalactic whoooooooosh
@@JanyaAndromedaGalactic read the joke
@@JanyaAndromedaGalactic Imagine being as thick as you...
I absolutely love this dude like he's stayed consistent and chill since posting and even after getting really big on youtube he hasn't changed at all like some youtubers have
I wouldn't say that. I must live near him, because I see him at my local grocery store sometimes when I'm there. I never said anything to him until about three months ago. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
THE MACROWAVE ORIGIN
“A benefit of the new setup is that it bypasses all the safety mechanisms.” - styro
Famous last words
- white Freddie Mercury
The words of every great scientist everywhere before they make a revolutionary piece of tech LOL
@@drkool8168 I mean, if it wasn't for crazy ass wackos and people with a unsatiable urge to kill, we wouldn't have really any technology we have today. He at least legitimately understood the danger and built a Faraday cage around it, and used a proper tool to change the power output. The fact he _isn't_ dead or maimed after years is showing that he did indeed understand the physics and danger.
@@drkool8168 I just think of when Tesla took that photo inside of his Faraday cage with electrical bolts arcing everywhere.
When a microwave doesn’t cut it…
Summon the *m a c r o w a v e*
It’s more like picowaves cause light has a shorter wavelength than single digit ghz microwaved
On the third day, god cooked a burrito in the macrowave
@@covertpluto Then arrives the f e m t o w a v e
@@NOTONtechsx It appears i no longer can reproduce....and i have cancer
Macrotsunami
It's scary how buff this man is. Not only can he make you into a "living" lamp, he can also just throw me in the microwave
The dude ain’t even jacked 🤣 he’s just cut.
Yeah. No. He’s not jacked. He’s just shredded. He has that “otter body”. Which is handsome.
But he’s not yoked.
@@RxTerps true. Confused how everyone calling him jacked lmao
He's a Brazilian Ju Jitsu instructor, he probably should be in shape.
He's cut, not buff.
Your sense of humor is out of this dimension! Keep it rolling, man, and try not to die!
Putting bananas in modified microwaves? This dude is definitely gonna make a time machine.
Man of culture
certified el psy kongroo moment
If he ever puts chicken tenders in it, are we back on the beta worldline?
OoOoooO aaAaaah aaahh aaaaAaaA.
Nice one!
"That makes it the most powerful CW laser build I‘ve shown on this channel"
Implying he‘s built more powerful lasers that he‘s not showing us? 👀
Yes, but those are legally bombs, at least in atmosphere.
@@aidengray3998 yeah
They’re probably illegal
@@urmomconnor7870 the legality of this is allready questionable
no, neither this or most of what he does is illegal - he is licensed and registered and blah blah blah - nothing he does is really THAT risky. That said, TH-cam and the law are not the same thing.
This guy's sarcasm is literally the best. He sounds like a sarcastic pyromaniac who's on the run from the government and trying to cause as much mayhem as possible
He sounds like a pyromaniac on the run from government because he probably is
Dang it I can’t think of a good pun using “drying to cause mayhem”
yeah… “sounds like”…
@@Ulrich7681 “By the way guys, don’t tell anyone you saw me here. If they mention lasers tell them they’re unsafe and uncool….no reason.”
He looks like one as well
The electronics project that sketched me out the most was my massive capacitor bank. That thing was lethal.
This was back when you could just go to the photo development section and just ask for their used disposable cameras and they would give them to you. If I remember correctly it was about 800 capacitors running at around 600 volts. When I realized our math was off by more than a factor of 10 was when I vaporized a piece of copper I was using as a fuse.
The thing that still concerns me to this day is that it went missing in a move. I really hope no one tried to use this. Because this thing sketches me out as much or more than microwave transformers.
Making giant capacitor banks is also very lethal idea that you probably shouldn't do.
As an electrical engineering student, this channel both scares me and inspires me. Keep it up 👍
This guy is basically the cocky movie side character that the main characters have to reluctantly call on to help save the world because he's just so unfathomably intelligent
I see him as a 3d character in 3d porn games.
@@shaeahmad2805what
@@shaeahmad2805Oh
I mean a protagonist in 3D porn games
@@shaeahmad2805 oh.
He doesn’t just have a laser array, he has an array of laser arrays. Amazing.
LASER
@@iamdmc
fixed
@@Calthecool nope still wrong. LASER isn't a word, it's an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"
LASER
@@iamdmc gee, if only English in particular not only allowed but necessitated the creation of new words to support our growing cloud of ideas that need to be expressed as quickly as possible. Too bad we're stick with a language where you can't use *google* as a verb or add *ie* to the end of *self* to give us *selfie* or describe your Monday experience by saying, "I got DMV'd". Aw shucks, too bad we're left with this static language that hasn't had any new words since its creation. Gee that really stinks.
@@elfeiin gee, it's a language with rules, and that's why you can understand what I'm typing and not confused by a jumbled mess of characters
LASER
How could anyone not love this guys personality
I love how you casually mention that you have the materials and knowledge to build inertial confinement fusion lasers and then go back to cooking smores with the most powerful CW laser you've ever built.
Madman.
what's an inertial confinement fusion laser?
@@dot32 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion
I'm not a scientist, but it basically is a laser to start off a fusion reaction.
You hit the fuel pellet with a laser, the outside explodes, and pushes the inside hard enough to start the reaction.
Read more on your own, and take my recap with a grain of salt ;)
@@theories665 ohh thank you
@@theories665 Really cool! It's a shame he didn't go on to use his knowledge to build a better future for us. He could've been the inventor of the first affordable, carbon free fusion reactor, yet he went on to make toasts and overcooked steak in a lazer oven. Madman.
@@BenjamintYT Who knows? He may still be pursuing a job in this area, or he's still finding opportunities. All I know is that he should be financially okay, or he just stole a bunch of microwaves...
"Whenever electronics hobbyists get killed by their projects its usually from messing around with microwave parts like these"
*proceeds to fondle the guts of the microwave*
"parts like *theeeese*"
I Imagine that dying to a microwave feels how 5:32 looks
problably discharged that capacitor though styros videos may sometimes seem reckles but he knows what he is doing
im dead laughing
How do you get the words thic like that without making them capital?
Fun fact, at a messy 2.4 GHz, you could be interfering with the Transponders used in aviation. That is the piece of equipment that send your altitude and position to ATC for their radar, so depending on how close you are to an airport, you could actually completely block your nearest airport's secondary radar. This kind of relates to the FCC he was talking about, but you would also get involved with the FAA and maybe even ATSB if something go's wrong.
Do you happen to know how many km would classify as "close enough"?
@@ornessarhithfaeron3576 I think EM waves, especially at those with lower freqs do travel pretty far, so if they are directed in the correct way anything could happen
@@flawnski if its in open air the freq dosnt really matter.
Devices made from microwaves were used jam missile radars in several wars already.
my ion beam for the ibkt project will block a country from radar but due to a high fidelity yield graphene filter it shields the extreme rays and still able to cut a home in half with a swipe. when u do 45deg swipe then the top half slides down the lower half .
Normal person: I have a microwave
styropyro: fk it, macrowave
"It's nothing that a little bit of copper wire and tape can't fix"
Almost had a heart attack there
Wdym
The breaker would have still tripped anyways 😅.
@@jasonspink1981 lol yep. That doesn't work at all
@@bizanagi5378 If he actually managed to bypass the breaker he could cause the wires inside his wall to catch on fire
@@casualbird7671 a little fire never hurt nobody
styro's biceps are directly proportional to the danger of the experiment he is doing
Indeed
They not that big relax 😂😂😂
So imagine him having Hulk like arms.... It would be equivalent to an experimental nuclear reactor powered interplanetary laser pointer...
@@maximkikena622 They are, he's just really skinny so they don't show as much.
@@pinekel8987 maybe for betas like you 😂😂😂
Ah, I finally figured out why you remind me of HowToBasic, they throw a massive amount of eggs at everything, you "throw" a massive amount of electrons at everything, and destruction is inherent to the process.
Completely forgot that channel even existed
Also Photoinduction channel with high voltage
nonono, who "throws" electrons at everything is Photoninduction, he "throws" photons at everything
I wonder if the microwave could be used to jam electronics, he mentioned it because the FCC will come after you. So maybe you could turn it into a ‘microwave gun’?
1:40 that explosion is so funny 😂😂😂
I had an add When it happened and it made it like 10 times more funny
As dangerous as your laser experiments are, you straight up eating an onion like an apple is the scariest thing you've done so far.
Yeah that was a trip to see.
it's good with salt.
those big onions have a relative mild flavour, compared to smaller and those red ones.
Well onions are good. You saw Shrek doing the same thing too.
Just like Miss Tulip...
"You can't make toast like this in a regular oven"
Trust me, micriwave burnt toast is my speciality
How?
I like microwave toast. It browns the middle.
@@alexbarnett8541 so does a toaster
@@glenecollins throw it in, start doing something and forget about the toast, come back 30 to 40 minutes later and it's suddenly black as Muddy Waters
@@diablotry5154 but a toaster browns a rectangle in the toast, while the microwave makes a perfect circle. Toaster is boring
I just started to appreciate this guy even more after seeing him eat an onion like an apple
Probably this guy has lost the sense of taste and smell
Me and my brother do it all the time have you never had a double down but it's all onions
@@PH4N.T0MB bread butter and onions is da bomb
@@PH4N.T0MB on a side note add some mature cheddar slices
i can do that thought it was weird
Outtake/Gag reel? I LOVE YOUR WORK!!
“Yeah don’t try this at home you’ll probably die”
Most honest and effective PSA I’ve heard lol
I have my microwave transformer ready as well as my ultra-capacitor time to pretend I didn't hear a thing.
*Styro, holding back tears as he bites into a raw onion* "mhm, this is great"
His look in his eyes were like “What have I done to get here” lol
Manly men eat onions raw and whole!
The things we do for TH-cam
...
I would eat an onion like that
It's not fun but it's doable
pyro: Completely devoid of emotions
Also pyro: eats an onion like an apple
You don't?
Reminds me of a certain... Spicy...Boi..
@@Inuweeb Spicy Boi? Which Spicy Boi, there's an awful lot of them today...
@@livedandletdie The one holding an onion who looks like they want to die.
@@Inuweeb is that a beastars reference
Hey man completely random comment but i think watching your videos and such like yours is what helped me make my decision to go into electrical engineering and go to school for it and basically i wanted to say even though you are messing around and doing some dumb stuff you inspired me to become interested on how everything works and how i could build things of my own one day so thank you hoss
Styropyro's complete disregard for caution is relatable in both a wholesome and second hand anxiety inducing way. All Hobbyists like him spent their childhood's blowing stuff up with fireworks and later nearly dying every five seconds of a project as teens. The difference with him is he lived long enough to make it his Job, and that's more than a little cool.
It's almost as if he's spent hundreds of hours researching the safety precautions he needs to take in order not to die. William Osman has the same problem with viewers not understanding the stuff that happens behind the scenes.
@Buck Norris yes, probably the biggest hurdle I have in starting my own science and engineering channel is all the "safety experts" who would be screaming at me for "not following xyz safety rules!" It's TV magic, jumpcuts and implied danger.
I've seen glimpses of his knowhow, he's got an extreme regard for caution and knows exactly what he's doing. His skits are so funny because he knows exactly the most dangerous and stupid things one can do, and pulls it off safely by defanging the danger first.
This guy is one soul crushing moment away from going full super villain.
If he's the Super Villain then Colin Furze is the Super Hero or at least Anti-Hero...
its kinda scary how right you are.
@@misterjder1.831 🤦
@@zuphlas7130 Whats wrong?
Well, he basically just built a cubesat-sized super-powerful laser array... Slap some solar panels and a battery on it and you've got an orbital death ray!
pyro: "when electronics hobbyists get killed by their projects, it's almost always because they're messing around with microwave parts like theeeese"
also pyro: hasn't posted in 8 months
(yes i am aware he's alive)
Oh no
He posts on his shorts channel
@@elythas128 i know, i just think it's kinda funny
to people who think he is dead: dont worry, he does these stuff in another shorts channel
@@justastranger101 thank god 😩😭
“A benefit of the new set up is it bypasses all of the safety mechanisms.”
That moment when plugging exposed wires into a power outlet is the least dangerous thing you’ve done that day…
"it's because they're messing with microwave parts like these"
*proceeds to fondle the deadly bits*
He knows the trigger points for sure.
He knows how to turn things on and when they're safely turned off to mess with them without long term relationship damage.
Since he uploaded it im sure he's still alive, but boy did it not feel right when he groped those components.
They say that during a thunderstorm, a powerful laser can attract lightning (the laser ionizes the air in its path and forms a "way" through which electricity is easier to pass). If you have thunderclouds with lightning nearby, make a video about the attraction of lightning. (in this case, it is better to turn on the laser remotely ;))
9/10 comment would suggest this video.
He could destroy his enemies with lightning and just blame it on nature and coincidence
Would be awesome but I'm certain pointing a laser at the sky is a little illegal
Unless you're looking at a laser without put in the millions of Watts you're not going to be able to ionize air with it so realistically speaking it's not going to have any effect on lightning because you need conductive particles to direct lightning. That does not however mean that we are not getting a video on this channel of him playing with lightning, in the 5000 w incinerator coil video he teases the fact that he might be playing with lightning at some point in the future which would be a very interesting video
@@the_undead "millions of watts" Dont give him ideas lmao
bro just said frick it and made a yoctowave
the fact that he took three bites of mostly raw onion without reaction scares me more then the thought of being blinded at the speed of light from that laser
TF? People eat raw onions all the time. U sped AF
given the status of that steak after he pulled it out I'd say odds are that onion was surprisingly well cooked
@@agoodun The only people that eat raw onions is Zero and Stanley Yelnats
it actual good raw like that lol
It was a fairly big onion, it might have been a Vidalia onion. They tend to be less pungent than other onion types, and are often grown in sulfur-deficient soil, making them even less pungent. It's said that those onions are very sweet and can be eaten raw like an apple.
th-cam.com/video/M2GIXU_WFC0/w-d-xo.html
_"This is a six pound onyo."_ th-cam.com/video/CwRttSfnfcc/w-d-xo.html He's cutting a Vidalia onion in this video.
“Lethality aside” is probably something you could put on a shirt
If that was a real shirt I’m getting it
When hobbyists get killed by their projects, it's usually because they're messing around in a microwave like this (proceeds to stuff hand recklessly into circuitry)
All you need is common sense and knowledge about what your doing and you'll make it out alive. Trust me I've been playing with high power transformers extremely hv transformers and I've not been shoked even once . Also even the great photonicinduction said that all you need is common sense 😉
@@valanps1638 I once accidentally touched a huge capacitor, my arm shook lol, no hurt
@@Versuffe should have made sure it was discharged xD
@@valanps1638 Survivor's bias - most dead folks don't comment on TH-cam
But really, there's another important component to safety - sleeping enough. When one's exhausted, one's judgement just refuses to cooperate
@@valanps1638 If you had been shocked once by one of those transformers would you be here to tell us? Or would you have that carbon flavor? lol
You sir are an amazingly entertaining person. I truly appreciate your delivery!🤘
Can we all give a moment and some applause for the hero,the legend,the mighty, P O C K E T S A N D.
When I think about it, it's not a bad way to put out small fires.
7:35
SHI SHAH!
We must protect this young scientist at all costs, for our own safety. He's one really bad day away from writing his name onto the moon and declaring laser war on the entire world!
Eh, as long as i can buy a 300 megawatt laser cannon when he's in charge i'm happy.
Forget nuclear war, this guy’s lasers will become the new meta soon enough.
StyroDoofenschmirtz
All i want is a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range. If he can make that happen, i will forever become his personal bodyguard until I die or he finds someone better.
But I'm keeping my plasma rifle 😎
@@badpiggies988 yay war crimes
*Styro shoving ash into his mouth*: “great char flavor”
This cracked me up
"I love Carbon!"
Just like grandma used to make it
@@Golgito ash flavor... just like grandma
@@BugBestieLily dawg😂😂😂
Taping the fuse breaker from flipping had me in hysterics that was so funny
He's like that side character that people end up liking MORE than the main character.
Don’t you fucking dare call pyro a side character again or I’ll have him put you in the laser oven...
The Olaf of Science
Damn who tf is the main character then
@Varick from legend of Korra
Honestly, Styro is more like a main character, antihero kinda guy. He talks about how half the stuff he owns is illegal and could likely kill a large residential area, but instead he just decides to make laser s’mores.
He’d totally end up being the guy you meet up with randomly throughout the adventure. Initially you’re terrified of his absolute power over lasers, but then realize that he’s actually pretty chill.
“That makes it the most powerful CW laser build *I’ve shown on this channel*”
-styro
Dear lord styro what are you hiding
He built a working Death Star
Yeah remember pangaea?
Protip: if you want your text to be bold, make sure that your asterisks have spaces next to them.
“*This won’t work*”
“ *This will work* “
Why do I feel like this is either the guy that's gonna save the world, or the guy that ignites the atmosphere and burns us all?
He probably create a Black Hole that would pull in the entire Earth into it.
Is that a Manhattan Project reference?
edit - I mean the part about igniting the atmosphere? Is that a reference to the Trinity Project?
Feel my heat taking you higher burn with me heaven's on fire!
@@johnnyparsnips7641 Oh i remember the CERN worry. As if you think logicly, accelerating things on near light speed can have side effects :D But i didn't now that nuclear reaction had theoretical chance to ignite atmosphere.
The real joke is that some Christian groups think that is how we get heaven
never thought i'd be watching a mukbang with a laser microwave
The cool but scary thing about pyro is that none of his thumbnails are actually photoshopped
Maybe GIMP'd, but only for things like text.
I love the fact that his thumbnail is straight up actually what it looks like out of the microwave. Anyone not familiar with the channel looks at it and is like yeah that’s photoshopped.
The laser oven construction, seeing the massive coil, other massive electrical components that can kill with a touch, all of the electric discharging, and the green flames... lol, what a Frakenstein's monster of a machine.
Yeah my thoughts exactly lol