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Climbing Walls With RAINBOWS - DIY Gecko Tape (Patreon)

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2019-05-18 20:44:58
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Gecko are amazing creature that have an incredible climbing ability thanks to the use of nano structures on their feet. Scientists have since replicated these structures artificially and made rolls of tape with the same magical sticky properties are a gecko foot. But making these tapes is normally and expensive and difficult undertaking. In this video we explore a simple method to make gecko tape that if made correctly could hold upwards of 100 lbs. 

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Climbing Walls With RAINBOWS - DIY Gecko Tape

Gecko are amazing creature that have an incredible climbing ability thanks to the use of nano structures on their feet. Scientists have since replicated these structures artificially and made rolls of tape with the same magical sticky properties are a gecko foot. But making these tapes is normally and expensive and difficult undertaking. In this video we explore a simple method to make gecko tape that if made correctly could hold upwards of 100 lbs. _________________________________________________________________ Support the show and future projects: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thethoughtemporium Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/thoughtemporium Become a member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV5vCi3jPJdURZwAOO_FNfQ/join Store: https://teespring.com/stores/the-thought-emporium _________________________________________________________________ My Social Media Pages: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethoughtemporium/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thethoughtemporium/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/TTEchironex Website: http://thethoughtemporium.com/ _________________________________________________________________ As always, thanks to my awesome Patrons for helping to make these video possible. Special thanks to: Afrotechmods Alex Alex Vanderpot Alexander Halbleib Alexandre Guhur Andrew Gray Anita Fowler Austin Morris Ben Krasnow Ben Reay Bennet Huch besenyeim Cataract Bumblesnatch Christian Bastos Colby Callahan Danny Chan Daniel Gunn David Golouski Ezekiel Dohmen Elliot Turner Frank Harlad Havana Woody Jase Smith John De Witt Jim Mussared Jonas Abreu Jonathan Anderson Justin Hendryx Kevin Kevin Comerford Kevin Forsythe kn0tsin Kush Agarwal Larry Leon Schutte Matt KI7ZTH Michael Chatzidakis narvutar1324 Nico Schlüter Nicolas Pourtalé Noah Pedersen OmuN Patrick Sweetman Patryk Wycech Paul Emmerich Paul Richmond Peter Scott Philipp Weber Pietro Saccardi Rauni Robert S. Ryan Harvey Simon Hallam Skave Rat Tom Bullock tain TheQuickestBrownFox Vasilis Whence __________ Channel Members: Jorm Skagh Ana Kasbar Jason Clay Jeff Xu Felix Nica txyzinfo Robert Boll ikereku trevor skjerpen Kiran Gupta adamklam1 Hunter Bagby Anthony M Kush Agarwal L Weiner

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Leon Schutte

There are also diffraction grating versions with 13500 lines per inch. I think they might work better but i dont have any of them right now

Adric Menning

neat.. saw a thing where folks were making rainbow chocolates by dipping pre tempered chocolate on diffraction gratings.

Adric Menning

ive been fascinated by a material my sister had on a trinket box as a kid, it looked 3d looked like silver balls on a background, and moved oddly, like a lenticular animation, but with fluidity and an oddness, it goes left right when tilted up down. and up down when tilted side to side. i knew its not a hologram, but had a hard time tracking it down, because nobody knew what it was called, and Rowland plastics stopped making it in the 80's.. turns out its called Rowland 3d Kinetic film. and i believe its 2 sides of acrylic turned into a micro array of lenses, over a printed pattern. here is a video of a few of the samples i have been able to find on ebay. https://youtu.be/Q0j837JdAHM

S James Parsons Jr

Super cool! What about a making a tank tread for an RC car. Have it climb a glass building!

thethoughtemporium
>>22849281

I considered that, but more lines mean smaller wedges. I went with this size as it had the biggest wedges most likely

Cygnus

All these builds are making me think you can explore an idea that I haven't seen realized anywhere: You know how objects of the same metal cold weld in a vacuum by just touching? It turns out you can do this in an inert atmosphere just like argon they use for welding. As long as the metal is clean of oxides it will cold weld on contact. It's easier to maintain an inert atmosphere than it is to maintain a ridiculously high vacuum needed. So how about we just precut some metal cubes out of a square metal rod, clean them (chemically or with plasma) and then have a box filled with inert gas in which you can use the cubes like lego bricks to assemble metal objects. If the initial test is successful a future new type of 3D printer could be made that just stacks 1x1x1cm cubes in an inert atmosphere and out comes a cold welded metal object. Take that for simplifying open source lab fabrication!

thethoughtemporium
>>22923856

Cold welds aren't actually very strong. They're more lightly sticky. So that won't work very well. Also, 1cm is massive so it would give poor resolution, and would require enourmous amounts of argon to keep things clean and even then results would be mixed at best. I'd maybe try it to see if things will cold weld, but don't have much interest in going beyond that tbh. I appreciate the suggestion though