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High Voltage! (Patreon)

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2021-01-21 15:06:18
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I always wanted a Van De Graaff Generator and now I have a video idea using one, so I bought one!  My last two ping-pong ball videos have done really well on YouTube, so I'll be doing more like that as long as can come up with interesting ideas. Of course there are lots of mechanical ways to push ping pong balls around but a lot of them aren't as interesting.

There are still plenty of robot projects though. Now I've pretty much worked out what to do with ROS, navigation, machine vision etc I'll be looking for some more interesting applied uses for projects.

Next week's video for Patrons though is something totally different. It's an interesting engineering concept that I wanted to explore, but for the first time in ages I've built something that doesn't have moving parts or code controlling it. That video comes up for Patrons early next week.

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Matthew Little

Can't wait to see what you do with it! Thinking of the Van De Graaff Generator in the context of a ping pong ball contraption makes me wonder if a jacobs ladder would make for a good stage, if the arc has the lift capacity for a ping pong ball.

Al Pieroway

i hope you home fire insurance is paid up. :)

Neil Devonshire

How about lightning direction control using a midi interface and doing another music vid with look mum? It would be interesting to see what effects you could make. Maybe have grounding spheres around it that pull the lightning towards them at the flick of a knife type switch (servo operated of course with their own grounding cage) 🤔 or even a performing robots lightning show? Also, frying different objects with slo-mo would pull some traffic, especially if you could get the slow Mo guys on board 🤔

XRobots
>>51901431

I think we might need a bigger Tesla coil for that one, the sparks aren't very big on this. It'll be good when we can do collaborations again though!

Neil Devonshire

Yeah, I probably god carried away by the size it looks. Have you got an exercise bike you could hook up to it?

XRobots
>>51913666

Yes this is a proper old school one, like we had a school. It's got wood in it.

Andy Ihnatko

How about a laminar flow video? It seems like the sort of demo/project where 3D printed components would be a natural.

Anonymous

Hide all your electronic pets! They're gonna get fried.

Darius Zaerin

i don't know enough about all this and reading through the comments it sounds like your robots probably wouldn't appreciate it, but if its possible it would be really cool if you could set a stage of all your robotic band members and dancers and have then come to life one by one as they get struck by lightning. or even only move/play when theres an arc hitting them, and have it switch from one to the other so they take turns doing their all out solos like a jazz band.