I'd kill and die for my dad so don't get me wrong... but am I the only one who's like raging jealous sometimes of his son for having a dad as crazy smart/cool as he is?! Probably just me.
Great to see you here! Try it out but instead of using a vacuum try heating up the DCM and allowing the vapors to displace the air in the ampule. I’d imagine that as soon as you seal the ampule and allow for the DCM to condense you’d achieve similar results to drawing a vacuum considering that the highest vacuum you could pull would be the vapor pressure of the DCM. Love you videos and would love to see your take on this video an maybe shout Tech Ingredients out as he’s a smaller channel with a more niche audience! Best regards, Al
@@-a13x-75 I'd thought about doing this just with water years ago when I was on a torch more often. The issue with doing it with water is that steam is an *excellent* conductor of heat compared to air. Filling the glass with steam makes it far too hot to touch without tools. It's doable, but it becomes more complicated. I've no idea if it would be different with DCM.
I laughed when it happened. He's so obvious it would have been more stealthy if he simply walked past normally :p that way it wouldn't even have registered with me
All University Professors should watch this guy to learn how to teach. I have ADHD and have learned so much so fast from his videos because he explains things so clearly.
The spit is analogous to cutting panes of glass with scissors, underwater. The water ameliorates the vibrations that allows cracks to propagate. Water is also used in engraving glass for the same reason, with the bonus of keeping the glass cool. The next time that you need to cut a hole in glass, place it in water and use a hole saw with a CORDLESS drill (no mains cords) and the central pilot drill removed. Caution, will not work on "safety glass",
According to Scientific American: "Water causes the glass to crack more easily because when a water molecule enters the crack, a reaction occurs in which a silicon-oxygen bond at the crack and an oxygen-hydrogen bond in the water are cleaved, creating two hydroxyl groups attached to the silicon. As a result, the length of the crack grows by the size of one bond rupture. The water reaction reduces the energy necessary to break bonds, thus the crack grows faster."
@@jimmyb1451 Ah yes... all part of the glass/ceramics' world of 'crack energy propagation' and the materials engineer I worked with had the math for it as well.
Thanks for the info BoscoBob. Very good to know. I use diamond hole saws quit a bit, and I used to make stained glass lamps and windows and never knew these things.
When I took neon sign making classes in college, they taught us to score the tubing all the way around with a file, then place the file under the tube with the score right on the edge of the file and push down on the end of the tubing on the opposite side of the score from the file. This worked very well and didn't require that you get your thumbs right next to the cut. That being said, I still have a scar on my thumb from that class, so perhaps your method is superior. We were also using leaded soda lime glass not borosilicate glass. The other lesson I still remember from that class that's relevant here is that glass that's just below the temperature required for it to be soft is the exact same color as cool glass, so you have to be really careful not to grab a recently molten piece of glass and burn the heck out of yourself. This is a super cool project! I really hope I win the patreon lottery!
@@richardbarrow2977 - but it never does "break incorrectly". It snaps at the score (weak) point, which is precisely why you do it. Same as cutting a flat sheet of glass, you score and snap.
@@darkfur18 - there was nothing mentioned that the breaking of glass tubes caused the thumb injury. I will quote: _"This worked very well and didn't require that you get your thumbs right next to the cut."_ .
Just like you, when I was a kid I was fascinated by those old Noma bubble lights. Later in life I was just as taken by watching how the old WurliTzer bubbler jukeboxes used the same tubes, only these were heated by actual immersion elements. Naturally I found this video delightful. I am always pleased to see someone who has never lost that sense of childlike wonder, but has rather developed a rigid discipline of practical physics and applied sciences around it. At the risk of sounding cheeseball, don't we all form a hard shell of borosilicate principles, so we can nurture that colorful wellspring of creativity within? I don't know if you ascribe much to old Abe Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but you're probably one of the very few self-actualized people I've ever seen, let alone met. Bubble on, MP!!!
Thank you for this video. I look forward to making this with my daughter when she starts doing science projects as I do with all of your videos. You give a dad a lot of idea's to help engage, teach, and learn with my child to better us both together. Thank you again!
You guys are such geeks. And I mean that in the most positive, complementary way possible. I love your channel and I love how you approach things. As a basement scientist, your videos always make me want to raise my game. Thanks.
Great video. Great science. I remember having Christmas tree lamps like these in Kitwe, Zambia when I was four years old … around 1962. I’m certainly going to make a few for my bar … a real talking point.
This content is so great! Thanks for everything. I've just started to enjoy your older videos about drones. Amazing stuff! I wish you all the success in the world. You guys deserve it.
for a living im a black smith and ornamental fabricator , some of my job is work that's been done by humans for several thousand years but at home I'm a tech tinkerrer and inventor your videos' offer so much practical education in such a consumable way thank you
I'm constantly impressed by the information density in these presentations. I find myself having to pause every now and then to really take everything in, because there are so many little interesting comments interspersed with the main topic. I consider this to be a massive positive - anything that makes me actually pause the video to think about it is very engaging. Bravo, friends.
Nothing exploded... still, one of, if not the best video ever! I wonder how many people on the planet want to "grow up" to be like you...? Excellent team, content, coach/Head Mad Scientist, and channel. Many happy, preplanned explosions to you, and an especially crazy new year, buckle up, Canada!
This is by far one of the best practical science channels on youtube. The clear, concise, and organized presentation makes it so easy to follow. Very impressive work and a big thanks!
How fun! I was just explaining these lights in detail the other day. A friend saw them at the local hardware store and asked how they worked... so I broke out the DCM and a test tube and showed him!
Im so amazed by all the knowledge you have. I find that incredibly fascinating. May I ask what profession you pursued? I mean you are so experienced in every field of science, which just amazes me! Keep up the excellent work!
Really cool effect. You could also use this with RGB LEDs and use them for custom PC case lighting. Have you considered using fuming solvents in a tube? It might be possible to get a smoke effect that you can then light with LEDs. Might even work with a piezo disc creating a fine mist and the air currents could then carry the mist up the tube.
Very good tutorial , thank you . As I was watching this video on my tablet I was struck by how FAR we have come technically. If I think back to the magic of colour TV and here I am enjoying amazing technicolor clarity on a thin lightweight 7 inch device . What a giant step in such a brief time !
I really like what you did with those bases and the clear tubes along with the LEDs. It really makes it feel like the bubble lights are coming back someday and not just for use of the holidays but also for normal decorative house decor and environment decor use as well
u guys might just be the greatest wealth of knowledge on youtube. you are one of the very few that is without bias and obviously accurate. really there should be no reason government employees elected or otherwise could not provide their data in simmilar fashion, unless they dont want it repeatable.
Pretty neat 🤩 I love that I can watch any of your videos and learn something new or a different concept/application from what I could have known before.
I still have my very first ornament...a bubble-light...that I got in 1974 when I was 6 years old...though the incandescent lamp has needed to be replaced every decade or so. It is my favorite ornament and it hangs on my tree every year :) And...yes...I still love looking at it!
Really cool you mentioned making the cut wet causing it to break better... I'm in healthcare and routinely have to break glass ampules of medication. I've always used an alcohol pad to grab the tip and snap it off because it breaks so much easier than just grabbing it with my thumb and finger and breaking dry. Super interesting that this is an actual phenomenon and not just some random thing I've noticed.
You never disappoint. Everything you show us is interesting and not always "mainstream". I also like that your family is a major contributor to the channel. Best wishes to you and yours for an outstanding 2022. Merry Christmas!
This was really cool! Nice change of pace. I enjoy ALL of your videos though. Answered many of the questions I've always wondered about as a child. This is much appreciated! I love understanding the "how's and why's" of how things work!
Thank you for the very nice video. I am no glass working expert, but how about building a simple foot pedal setup with a string or wire to tilt the burner up and down so the person operating can control it as needed? (18:10) Greetings from Germany :)
I love the mood between everybody in this video...great work on this front from all 3 of you great content too of course 🙂 Best Regards, Richard Mid Wales UK
Thanks for all of your efforts! I love how you guys, somehow get a seemingly simple topic and turn it into a very interesting video! Always a treat when a new video is out. I wish you all a great christmas and new year!
I've been watching your videos for only a few days but because of the way you talk, I can listen you like someone I know for a long time. I would love to watch a Q&A
These are so neat! Personally I think they look best with the raw end un-capped. I can see a setup with multiple tubes of varying colors in a single base being especially cool. Also, I was rather surprised with how quiet your vacuum pump is.
This is cool! I have loved bubble lights for my whole life being a huge part of Christmas of my childhood, they always went on our tree each year. This could be a good solution to old bubble lights with burned out lamps, changing them to LED. Or with broken tubes, to create new ones as replacements. At the very end, the tubes you demonstrated with water added, are very similar to an old style of tube made by NOMA called the 'Shooting Star', which had a small amount of oil and had a similar lava lamp effect. Very good work! 👍
Wonderful video as always. The one thing that would improve it? A slow motion close-up of the dye-lifting mechanism you described at the end. I would love to see that in action :) Have a fantastic xmas all.
15:47 Take a still image against a black piece of construction paper. And just drop the image in. Keep the hand moving toward the camera, that is still useful. 😉🥂
With a large circular glass container, you could wrap several tubes into a weave. The inner glass tubes would be invisible and the different color bubble tubes would make it look like the bubbles are being controlled inside.
I have been a fan of this channel for many years and subscribed much later than I should have. In that same vein, today is the first time I have written a comment. I felt compelled today in the spirit of good will and support. I absolutely love your demonstrations which have the perfect mix of humor and wit to keep things interesting. I wish and your team only the best in the coming year. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year!
These videos are always so engaging. They strike a great balance of technical knowledge and theory without being overwhelming. It lways makes my day when a new video gets released. Thank you for all the time and effort hat goes into them.
Tech ingredients! I think this may be the first time I know something you don’t know. Sound travels much more quickly in water, so natural processes oftentimes will happen differently. Glass fractures happen much much more quickly in water and therefore they often take the shortest path under water. Try taking a pair of scissors to a 1 to 3mm thick pane of glass with it submerged under water. It’s amazing the control of the cut you have with it under the water. This is also why - apart from convenient bulk removal - I think wet-saws are so proficient at making cuts that are clean and without run-away fractures. Whether or not this aspect was deliberate or just a pleasant surprise is yet to be determined. To get more technical though. I believe it is the mechanical damping the glass gets while under water that keeps the fracture vectors from turning chaotic....or something like that.
Merry Christmas and thank you for the trip down memory lane to a bygone era. I loved seeing these type of lights every Christmas Eve at my Aunt's house. They were mesmerizing to a young boy, and still are today so many years later.
Good job in explaining how the bubble lights work. As a kid I always enjoyed them at Christmas. It is interesting that you have taken it further with the use of LEDs. It might be interesting to use RGB LEDs and program the color display. Thanks for making the video.
A couple ideas come to mind. First one would be to use a programmable RGB led so you can control the color with a computer using an FTDI bridge. The second idea I have would be to reduce the thermal mass around the tube to just a bit of copper and instead of supplying heat with resistors use a transistor so you can vary the heat going into the tube and thus vary the bubbling reasonably quickly.
Yes instead of the power resistors simply use the LED slug to hold a TO220 package NPN darlington, and make a simple constant current source out of it. That will provide the heat easily, and you can also use a smaller thermal block, with a outer brushed aluminium sleeve, and some insulation between the inner block and the outer sleeve. Lower power use, or more heat placed in the glass. For the LED unit you can probably also place a colour changing unit there, one of the high power addressable units, and supply it with 5V, and still use the block to mount a 7805 regulator, to get the heat needed, in addition to the power transistor that simply is used to make heat. The power transistor is cheaper than a simple resistor in a TO220 package, plus it is programmable to almost any temperature. With a microcontroller you can also use the base emitter voltage drop to measure die temperature, and use this to control the heating.
I'd put three or four TO-220 resistors around a cube of copper or aluminium with a hole in the middle. Maybe solder those packages directly to a copper block, but that's tricky. Then use four logiclevel-mosfets to PWM-control the heater and a high-power RGB-LED. Bonus points for using a thermal sensor (or any diode as a makeshift-sensor). Put it all in a nice wooden box for some thermal (and optical) isolation. ...sadly it's kinda sketchy to get DCM in the EU. :/
This is quite nice. thank you for making a much more detailed and scientific version of how to make bubble lights. I wonder how much more efficient this version is compared to the version BigClive made a couple years go.
My wife and I recently went on a date night glass blowing class. The instructor had his lab set up with torches using DME portable oxygen concentrators used by folks needing oxygen therapy. The plus side was there was no danger from storing oxygen tanks. You can often find these for free or inexpensive from estate sales etc.
I love how this channel has a real “Mr. Wizard” feel, but I enjoyed seeing the sort of behind the scenes dialog about the rotating mount.
Exactly what I was gonna say, shout out to my man THE Wizard
@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 those kids grew up to invent the internet lmao #worth
I came here to say this but I’d like to add “swole mr wizard” : don’t disrespect science like I disrespect these weights.
this is what Mr. Wizard should have been.
I'd kill and die for my dad so don't get me wrong... but am I the only one who's like raging jealous sometimes of his son for having a dad as crazy smart/cool as he is?! Probably just me.
I love how the presenter has totally adapted to his role. He's getting better every video. Thanks so much for everything yall do!
Even the "son of the main presenter" has adapted to his role.. 😀
It holds true: Practice makes Perfect
@@jeremiahbullfrog9288 Yes, that appearance when he tried to hide from the camera, was a bit distracting but rather amusing.
@@mumiemonstret he was hiding from the other camera on the stairs
Neat stuff. I might try this. I really like the water layer effect.
Great to see you here! Try it out but instead of using a vacuum try heating up the DCM and allowing the vapors to displace the air in the ampule. I’d imagine that as soon as you seal the ampule and allow for the DCM to condense you’d achieve similar results to drawing a vacuum considering that the highest vacuum you could pull would be the vapor pressure of the DCM. Love you videos and would love to see your take on this video an maybe shout Tech Ingredients out as he’s a smaller channel with a more niche audience! Best regards, Al
@@-a13x-75 I'd thought about doing this just with water years ago when I was on a torch more often. The issue with doing it with water is that steam is an *excellent* conductor of heat compared to air. Filling the glass with steam makes it far too hot to touch without tools. It's doable, but it becomes more complicated. I've no idea if it would be different with DCM.
The sneak in around 5:10.was awesome lol.
So stealthy I wouldn't have seen him, if you hadn't commented!
Definitely in Ninja Training. 🥷
Sneaking 100
I laughed when it happened. He's so obvious it would have been more stealthy if he simply walked past normally :p that way it wouldn't even have registered with me
He would have gotten away with it if the other camera angle was in use, too.
All University Professors should watch this guy to learn how to teach. I have ADHD and have learned so much so fast from his videos because he explains things so clearly.
The spit is analogous to cutting panes of glass with scissors, underwater. The water ameliorates the vibrations that allows cracks to propagate. Water is also used in engraving glass for the same reason, with the bonus of keeping the glass cool. The next time that you need to cut a hole in glass, place it in water and use a hole saw with a CORDLESS drill (no mains cords) and the central pilot drill removed. Caution, will not work on "safety glass",
Or you could just use a hole saw made for ceramic and glass. Still use water but a piece of soaked sponge cut to fit inside the bit is enough.
According to Scientific American:
"Water causes the glass to crack more easily because when a water molecule enters the crack, a reaction occurs in which a silicon-oxygen bond at the crack and an oxygen-hydrogen bond in the water are cleaved, creating two hydroxyl groups attached to the silicon. As a result, the length of the crack grows by the size of one bond rupture. The water reaction reduces the energy necessary to break bonds, thus the crack grows faster."
@@jimmyb1451 Action Lab made a very good video to this topic which covers exactly your reference.
@@jimmyb1451 Ah yes... all part of the glass/ceramics' world of 'crack energy propagation' and the materials engineer I worked with had the math for it as well.
Thanks for the info BoscoBob. Very good to know. I use diamond hole saws quit a bit, and I used to make stained glass lamps and windows and never knew these things.
When I took neon sign making classes in college, they taught us to score the tubing all the way around with a file, then place the file under the tube with the score right on the edge of the file and push down on the end of the tubing on the opposite side of the score from the file. This worked very well and didn't require that you get your thumbs right next to the cut. That being said, I still have a scar on my thumb from that class, so perhaps your method is superior. We were also using leaded soda lime glass not borosilicate glass. The other lesson I still remember from that class that's relevant here is that glass that's just below the temperature required for it to be soft is the exact same color as cool glass, so you have to be really careful not to grab a recently molten piece of glass and burn the heck out of yourself.
This is a super cool project! I really hope I win the patreon lottery!
I'd be worried about it launching glass at your face if the glass broke incorrectly
@@richardbarrow2977 - but it never does "break incorrectly". It snaps at the score (weak) point, which is precisely why you do it. Same as cutting a flat sheet of glass, you score and snap.
@@johncoops6897 it's not a perfect process errors can always happen
@@johncoops6897 he replies to the guy that had the glass break incorrectly
@@darkfur18 - there was nothing mentioned that the breaking of glass tubes caused the thumb injury. I will quote:
_"This worked very well and didn't require that you get your thumbs right next to the cut."_ .
Bubble lights! You are always experimenting, building, and enginenerding the awesomest projects on TH-cam, thank you.
I'd like to thank the people in the comments for being helpful, humble, and additive to the value of these videos.
Just like you, when I was a kid I was fascinated by those old Noma bubble lights. Later in life I was just as taken by watching how the old WurliTzer bubbler jukeboxes used the same tubes, only these were heated by actual immersion elements. Naturally I found this video delightful. I am always pleased to see someone who has never lost that sense of childlike wonder, but has rather developed a rigid discipline of practical physics and applied sciences around it. At the risk of sounding cheeseball, don't we all form a hard shell of borosilicate principles, so we can nurture that colorful wellspring of creativity within? I don't know if you ascribe much to old Abe Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but you're probably one of the very few self-actualized people I've ever seen, let alone met. Bubble on, MP!!!
Love this channel so much. The variety and detail of topics discussed are unmatched on any other channel.
Thank you for this video. I look forward to making this with my daughter when she starts doing science projects as I do with all of your videos. You give a dad a lot of idea's to help engage, teach, and learn with my child to better us both together. Thank you again!
You remind me of my chemistry teacher in 98. He was the best teacher I ever had. The man could get your attention and hold it the whole class.
You guys are such geeks. And I mean that in the most positive, complementary way possible. I love your channel and I love how you approach things. As a basement scientist, your videos always make me want to raise my game. Thanks.
Thanks!
So much respect for people who know so much and still allow themselves to say, "I don't know why this works..."
You had me at bubble lights! I absolutely love them! My favorite Christmas ornament too!! Very fond memories of childhood 😊👌
Great video. Great science. I remember having Christmas tree lamps like these in Kitwe, Zambia when I was four years old … around 1962. I’m certainly going to make a few for my bar … a real talking point.
This content is so great! Thanks for everything. I've just started to enjoy your older videos about drones. Amazing stuff! I wish you all the success in the world. You guys deserve it.
Finally! Screw saying "happy holidays" in fear of offending other, just wish others what you celebrate.
for a living im a black smith and ornamental fabricator , some of my job is work that's been done by humans for several thousand years but at home I'm a tech tinkerrer and inventor your videos' offer so much practical education in such a consumable way thank you
i am a professional lampworker. work with boro everyday . love your channel. good instructions and explanations as usual Mr. Wizard
So cool. I'll paraphrase someone who commented on another video you made. "This is what we imagined the internet would be when it was new." Thanks.
Your wisdom, knowledge and intelligence never fails to amaze me,you are the teacher we all wish we had.
I'm constantly impressed by the information density in these presentations. I find myself having to pause every now and then to really take everything in, because there are so many little interesting comments interspersed with the main topic. I consider this to be a massive positive - anything that makes me actually pause the video to think about it is very engaging. Bravo, friends.
Thanks.
Nothing exploded... still, one of, if not the best video ever! I wonder how many people on the planet want to "grow up" to be like you...? Excellent team, content, coach/Head Mad Scientist, and channel. Many happy, preplanned explosions to you, and an especially crazy new year, buckle up, Canada!
This is by far one of the best practical science channels on youtube. The clear, concise, and organized presentation makes it so easy to follow. Very impressive work and a big thanks!
How fun! I was just explaining these lights in detail the other day. A friend saw them at the local hardware store and asked how they worked... so I broke out the DCM and a test tube and showed him!
Im so amazed by all the knowledge you have. I find that incredibly fascinating. May I ask what profession you pursued? I mean you are so experienced in every field of science, which just amazes me! Keep up the excellent work!
This is easily one of the most underrated channels out there. Thanks for all the fantastic presentations.
Thanks.
Really cool effect. You could also use this with RGB LEDs and use them for custom PC case lighting. Have you considered using fuming solvents in a tube? It might be possible to get a smoke effect that you can then light with LEDs. Might even work with a piezo disc creating a fine mist and the air currents could then carry the mist up the tube.
Very good tutorial , thank you . As I was watching this video on my tablet I was struck by how FAR we have come technically. If I think back to the magic of colour TV and here I am enjoying amazing technicolor clarity on a thin lightweight 7 inch device . What a giant step in such a brief time !
Thank you for breaking this down to a simple explanation. That is such a big help. I love this project and want to try this. I love your channel.
I love that you actually sell Thermal Epoxy and Performance paste!
Great guide for a cool Christmas project! I really enjoyed the variation with the water and dye interfacing together
I really like what you did with those bases and the clear tubes along with the LEDs. It really makes it feel like the bubble lights are coming back someday and not just for use of the holidays but also for normal decorative house decor and environment decor use as well
Thanks!
I hope so.
I dig the guy coming down the stairs to about center of the shot, then ducking down and moving on :D I saw you mr.invisible!
u guys might just be the greatest wealth of knowledge on youtube. you are one of the very few that is without bias and obviously accurate. really there should be no reason government employees elected or otherwise could not provide their data in simmilar fashion, unless they dont want it repeatable.
i like the slight behind the scenes insight :) for brainstorming around the catching of the bearing
Pretty neat 🤩 I love that I can watch any of your videos and learn something new or a different concept/application from what I could have known before.
Fantastic video.
Allways is beautyfull to see a father being helped by his sons.
Thank you and Marry Christmas.
I still have my very first ornament...a bubble-light...that I got in 1974 when I was 6 years old...though the incandescent lamp has needed to be replaced every decade or so.
It is my favorite ornament and it hangs on my tree every year :)
And...yes...I still love looking at it!
Really cool you mentioned making the cut wet causing it to break better... I'm in healthcare and routinely have to break glass ampules of medication. I've always used an alcohol pad to grab the tip and snap it off because it breaks so much easier than just grabbing it with my thumb and finger and breaking dry. Super interesting that this is an actual phenomenon and not just some random thing I've noticed.
I'm glad you have someone to help. Welcome buddy. Enjoy the best experience of your life!
So proud to see the production quality of the channel now 😁❤️
You never disappoint. Everything you show us is interesting and not always "mainstream". I also like that your family is a major contributor to the channel. Best wishes to you and yours for an outstanding 2022. Merry Christmas!
lol around 8:55 u got me all anticipating the sound then suddenly perfectly timed.. a commercial.. lol : p
This was really cool! Nice change of pace. I enjoy ALL of your videos though.
Answered many of the questions I've always wondered about as a child. This is much appreciated!
I love understanding the "how's and why's" of how things work!
I bet this would look amazing to see this in super slow motion up close .Thank you for this great video.
Pops and his grown kids hanging out in the shed make interesting stuff. That is awesome to see.
Thank you for the very nice video. I am no glass working expert, but how about building a simple foot pedal setup with a string or wire to tilt the burner up and down so the person operating can control it as needed? (18:10)
Greetings from Germany :)
I love the mood between everybody in this video...great work on this front from all 3 of you great content too of course 🙂 Best Regards, Richard Mid Wales UK
Thanks for all of your efforts! I love how you guys, somehow get a seemingly simple topic and turn it into a very interesting video!
Always a treat when a new video is out.
I wish you all a great christmas and new year!
I love the way you explain things. Thank you!
I've been watching your videos for only a few days but because of the way you talk, I can listen you like someone I know for a long time. I would love to watch a Q&A
Thanks for the years content - Merry Xmas and a happy new year.
A laser pointing upwards through the tube might look interesting
You might laugh, but this is the guy that helps organise Raves ! Helter Skelter here we come !!!!
Your retinas will thank you for the spontaneous laser surgery
And dangerous 😂
Beat me to it. Eye safety would be something to take into consideration.
Put them on the top of an engine and as it heats and runs it can bubble. Fun stuff!
Bubble Mower!!! Or lawn tractor. Cool decorations!
Love your videos. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thanks!
I like the ice cream cone ends to the tubes. They look like candles. Merry Christmas to all of you
🎅🎄❤
These are so neat! Personally I think they look best with the raw end un-capped. I can see a setup with multiple tubes of varying colors in a single base being especially cool. Also, I was rather surprised with how quiet your vacuum pump is.
I'm excited to see what kind of work you put into these, they look amazing!
My little bloke will love this. Excellent!
When I was a kid I used to love messing around with Pyrex tubing and a propane torch. High energy arts and crafts FTW!
Always edifying, instructive, educational, and ALWAYS entertaining. Thank you.
Had my final university delivery today, and could it be better? YES! Tech Ingredients release a new video!
Nice to see more of the crew :)
Well done, thank you for sharing the skills needed to make Christmas bubble lights!
This is cool! I have loved bubble lights for my whole life being a huge part of Christmas of my childhood, they always went on our tree each year. This could be a good solution to old bubble lights with burned out lamps, changing them to LED. Or with broken tubes, to create new ones as replacements. At the very end, the tubes you demonstrated with water added, are very similar to an old style of tube made by NOMA called the 'Shooting Star', which had a small amount of oil and had a similar lava lamp effect. Very good work! 👍
Wonderful video as always. The one thing that would improve it? A slow motion close-up of the dye-lifting mechanism you described at the end. I would love to see that in action :) Have a fantastic xmas all.
The b roll editing is really improving. Awesome work... Thanks so much.
15:47 Take a still image against a black piece of construction paper. And just drop the image in. Keep the hand moving toward the camera, that is still useful. 😉🥂
I really like the input from the other guys in the shop.
Thank you for making such a nice video for the holidays! You have a a great gift for passing on knowledge and inspiring people.
This is amazing. And great quality instruction. Thank you for doing these videos.
With a large circular glass container, you could wrap several tubes into a weave. The inner glass tubes would be invisible and the different color bubble tubes would make it look like the bubbles are being controlled inside.
I have been a fan of this channel for many years and subscribed much later than I should have. In that same vein, today is the first time I have written a comment. I felt compelled today in the spirit of good will and support. I absolutely love your demonstrations which have the perfect mix of humor and wit to keep things interesting. I wish and your team only the best in the coming year. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year!
Thanks, you too!
Good job Paul! You're a helluva'n assistant!
These videos are always so engaging. They strike a great balance of technical knowledge and theory without being overwhelming. It lways makes my day when a new video gets released. Thank you for all the time and effort hat goes into them.
Thanks.
Tech ingredients! I think this may be the first time I know something you don’t know. Sound travels much more quickly in water, so natural processes oftentimes will happen differently. Glass fractures happen much much more quickly in water and therefore they often take the shortest path under water. Try taking a pair of scissors to a 1 to 3mm thick pane of glass with it submerged under water. It’s amazing the control of the cut you have with it under the water. This is also why - apart from convenient bulk removal - I think wet-saws are so proficient at making cuts that are clean and without run-away fractures. Whether or not this aspect was deliberate or just a pleasant surprise is yet to be determined.
To get more technical though. I believe it is the mechanical damping the glass gets while under water that keeps the fracture vectors from turning chaotic....or something like that.
Christmas with extra steps 😀 seems like a fun project! Thanks for sharing knowledge as always! Oh and happy holidays everyone 😊
It is like watching Mr. Wizard for adults. Really like that you explain everything.
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Merry Christmas and thank you for the trip down memory lane to a bygone era. I loved seeing these type of lights every Christmas Eve at my Aunt's house. They were mesmerizing to a young boy, and still are today so many years later.
Very Impressive, I also loved to watch the old bubble lights on the tree years ago.
As always, a great presentation. Took me back to my childhood.
Good job in explaining how the bubble lights work. As a kid I always enjoyed them at Christmas. It is interesting that you have taken it further with the use of LEDs. It might be interesting to use RGB LEDs and program the color display. Thanks for making the video.
Really cool, always loved the boiling lights.
i just love how much stuff you can make at home! i never expected to be able to do almost any chemistry at home :)
A couple ideas come to mind. First one would be to use a programmable RGB led so you can control the color with a computer using an FTDI bridge. The second idea I have would be to reduce the thermal mass around the tube to just a bit of copper and instead of supplying heat with resistors use a transistor so you can vary the heat going into the tube and thus vary the bubbling reasonably quickly.
Yes instead of the power resistors simply use the LED slug to hold a TO220 package NPN darlington, and make a simple constant current source out of it. That will provide the heat easily, and you can also use a smaller thermal block, with a outer brushed aluminium sleeve, and some insulation between the inner block and the outer sleeve. Lower power use, or more heat placed in the glass.
For the LED unit you can probably also place a colour changing unit there, one of the high power addressable units, and supply it with 5V, and still use the block to mount a 7805 regulator, to get the heat needed, in addition to the power transistor that simply is used to make heat. The power transistor is cheaper than a simple resistor in a TO220 package, plus it is programmable to almost any temperature. With a microcontroller you can also use the base emitter voltage drop to measure die temperature, and use this to control the heating.
I'd put three or four TO-220 resistors around a cube of copper or aluminium with a hole in the middle. Maybe solder those packages directly to a copper block, but that's tricky.
Then use four logiclevel-mosfets to PWM-control the heater and a high-power RGB-LED. Bonus points for using a thermal sensor (or any diode as a makeshift-sensor).
Put it all in a nice wooden box for some thermal (and optical) isolation.
...sadly it's kinda sketchy to get DCM in the EU. :/
Have a wonderful holidays my friend.
Thanks for your amazing content always!!!
That's some quality Christmas special!!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your family! Remember the reason for the season.
This is quite nice. thank you for making a much more detailed and scientific version of how to make bubble lights. I wonder how much more efficient this version is compared to the version BigClive made a couple years go.
My wife and I recently went on a date night glass blowing class. The instructor had his lab set up with torches using DME portable oxygen concentrators used by folks needing oxygen therapy. The plus side was there was no danger from storing oxygen tanks. You can often find these for free or inexpensive from estate sales etc.
That is one heck of a torch. Nice grab!
Wow I'd like to have one to sit on my desk. Awesome video
This channel is so cool. These were my favorite christmas lights when I was a kid.
Really nice effect. Thank you for your work.
Oh Wow! I have Never seen the bubble lights!!
Those are Sooo cool!! AX
This work is really inspiring! Thank you for sharing this really cool process!
When you had your sun glasses on when you were flatting the end of the glass reminded me of Weekend at Bernie's 1989
What an amazing video. I need to make some of these, so cool.
Thanks for all the work involved in making and sharing these.
Merry christmas to both Main presenter and co-presenter!!!🎄🎄