Collin’s Lab: Homebrew Piezo
Piezoelectric materials are about as close to magic as you can get. They turn physical pressure into electricity and can even turn electricity into physical pressure – an amazing sort of bidirectional converter for mechanical and electrical energies. Perhaps even more amazing is the fact that you can easily ‘grow’ your own piezoelectric crystals overnight using just a couple of common ingredients – awesome.
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www.youtube.com Magic Revealed: How to do a crazy coin trick that will fool everyone, using a nickel, a cup and a matchstick. The secret is “electrifying”! See our latest episodes! youtube.com Never Miss New Shows – Subscribe for Free! www.youtube.com Twitter twitter.com Facebook facebook.com Watch some of our other shows! youtube.com youtube.com youtube.com youtube.com youtube.com youtube.com REVISION3 is a TV network for the internet generation! —- The setup: balance a nickel (the prize) on it’s side on the table. Balance a wooden matchstick on top of the nickel. Finally, cover the whole arrangement with a plastic cup or pint glass (whichever you discover works best for you). The challenge: The match is your security alarm, and as long as the match is balanced on the nickel, anything touching, shaking, or moving the cup will activate the alarm. Your job: disable the alarm system WITHOUT setting off the alarm! The method: this one sounds impossible (and it almost is)… No amount of blowing, shaking, tapping or physical manipulation will get the match off without setting off the alarm… However, if you use static electricity to charge a straw (as we did in the “science friction” episode), you can use the attraction to pull the match off the nickel without setting off the alarm! NOTE: every area has different attributes for static electricity. Factors including humidity and the materials you use will greatly influence how well this trick works for you… So make sure …
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@Jughead2950 No, but if you attach metal conductors to it and put wires into your tongue it will tingle.
are the crystals safe to touch?
lol i didnt get it
If you can’t find soda ash check the craft section at a local big box store I know walmart has fabric dye that is mostly soda ash also this is the easy way to make colored crystals.
@ruralcoder wouldn’t see why not.
Awesome! I’m making this just for the crystals, they look great!
Wow, awesome crystals!
@ruralcoder no it will only change shape slightly… thus it is a transformer
“Cream of TAR-TAR” lol
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@ruralcoder yes
@flahr1 No, I meant, would it still create voltage even if you just held it and whacked it? By the way, a small voltage can still shock you, it will just not hurt much.
@Jughead2950 No it is a tiny voltage
@rampike74 – I’d have to do some quick research to give you a definitive answer but earthquakes most always have a pressure buildup in rock layers that then give rise to the piezo electric effect. Exactly how that translates into causing atmospheric rainbows I don’t know for sure but it would seem that there is a connection. Rainbow streaks are often seen just before an earthquake occurs.
Light is a fascinating critter, as are electric fields.
@makemagazine If you were to just hold the potassium sodium tartrate crystal and “apply mechanical pressure,” would it shock you?
nice!!
im in uk. has anyone done this in the uk….and what cream of tartar would work for this? we have dr oetker cream of tartar…has anyone tried that….plese answer back as soon as any of you can…thankyou
Do you know how to make a Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) because that’d be the shit.
@ruralcoder 0:41
How much voltage did it put out?
I followed these directions, it just made a slushy solution with very small snowflake-like crystals. What did I do wrong? It seems others are having these problems…
lol, you could make fake diamonds…………
@spiderobert I had the same problem. It formed a uniform, slushy solution rather than chunky crystals
@TheJ0ne lol ;P
great.thank you
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is that a glass cup or plastic see-through cup?? or does it not matter?? lol
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Wow cool solution.. I remember seeing this trick done by David Blane I think.
But when he mentioned the angle of the table, I was thinking: What if the person tilted the table, so that the stick falls down, but not the coin? It’s not really significant seismic activity per se, since if you do it carefully, it would be less than the force created when someone rests their arm(s) or hand(s) on the table, or someone walking by the table.
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Of all the things i could come up with, wanking off a straw wasn’t one of them 0___0
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