Monster Magnet meets Silicone Wire

An experiment with silicone insulated wires and super strong permanent magnets
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[@steve_jabz]

"I'm not sure what's the exact purpose of this *giggles*" We were all thinking the same thing but please keep doing what you're doing

[@steve_jabz]

You should see what properties it has as a generator. Maybe a higher current alternative to a piezoelectric harvester?

[@steve_jabz]

Also seems like with different arrangements you might be able to get a more efficient linear motor than converting rotary motion to linear. Either pushing in the Z axis, or mounting a carriage near the start of the sine wave and then reshaping the sine wave so it slides left to right in the Y axis.

[@utsukush1215]

a diaphragm maybe

[@SS-gn3jn]

Exactly what I was about to comment! Yes please.. keep doing these random stuffs.

[@kevinscott9013]

Make a speaker out of it

[@Rouverius]

And thus without knowing it, Carl Bugeja invented what we now know as the "electric loom."

[@PaulGerarts]

Would this work as a speaker?

[@KiwiNom]

As long as it doesn't end up as a plot device for people that can curve bullets.

[@andreschoen9180]

At the slow speed you could actually throw a loom shuttle through. On each phase change.

[@wmhilton-old]

Some reason I really like it when the wire is moving slowly. It seems so graceful

[@sidyajv]

Thats one awesome way to visualize sine wave

[@CTCTraining1]

Fascinating ... would love to see this using EL wire👍

[@mystamo]

30AWG... 1.2AMPS?? Hobbyking. - Hold my Beer.

[@ChrisLocke1969]

silicone wire is awesome! 👍

[@IOUaUsername]

That's the still air rating. With 4x 5" props blasting air over the wire you can massively increase the rating.

[@jackmarshall2496]

@@IOUaUsername then you'd be relying on that air flow, in that case you'd also need to add a feedback thermistor to whatever control circuit you're using, to add an over temp cutoff

[@IOUaUsername]

Use fluorescent blue silicone wires (phosphorous mixed into the silicone) and a flashing UV lamp and this could be a great simulation of high voltage arcs for a costume or set design.

[@bluestonebest1893]

me:"what did we learn today?" also me at 4am while i have an exam at 8am: "i don't know..."

[@FixerUK]

You appear to have invented the most extreme Double Dutch skipping machine for ants.

[@MAshr-bv9mp]

Could these be used to finally untangle my headphone wires?

[@moismois7399]

You could make a wall covered with this in different colors, then you put in some sensors so it can react to people passing by.

[@Johnsmith-wh1sx]

Seeing the sine wave is pretty cool

[@danielleohallisey4218]

If you tighten the wires down and find the resonant frequency, you could have a very unusual oscillator. And if you then redesign the fixture so that it tapers in length, end to end, you might have a variable frequency oscillator of a whole new breed. Either way I’d love to sample it!

[@AdityaPrakash-kt3rf]

I wonder what this would look if u generate music signals and run it through this. This looked really weird but cool at the same time.

[@sundrak1]

Would love to see that, might look like some weird EQ "display"

[@Nono-hk3is]

Yes I had the same thought. Something with a lot of drums and bass.

[@AdityaPrakash-kt3rf]

I want to see Bohemian Rhapsody being played on this. Karl please see if it's possible 🙏 Would be totally awesome😎. Even if it's like a series of shorts👍

[@AdityaPrakash-kt3rf]

@Alberto Robles Gómez I don't think so. I have seen a lot of anime but not JoJo unfortunately.

[@AdityaPrakash-kt3rf]

@Alberto Robles Gómez Oh...well I like the Queen's songs, so this was interesting to know, even though that wasn't the intention.

[@TextZip]

If you can somehow reduce the weight of the magnets and invert the setup, you can actually make a weird crawler that can move around based on the input sine wave. Amazing video btw great job ..!!

[@CarlBugeja]

thanks! i think the only way the size of the magnets can be reduce is by pumping more current into the wire - which means larger batteries for the robot.. i think it would be impossible to make it light weight enough for it to crawl

[@isaiahmaccallum9588]

Incredible and ingenious. You have revolutionized the world.

[@hrofty]

The way wires line up reminds me of how textile looms work. you could try weaving a small mat out of this wire and see how it react to the magnets!

[@MultiFrollino]

It's a little bit wierd how much you're obsessed by flexible things but after that you take my follow! Good job Carl, keep it on!!

[@glutenfreegam3r177]

This just gave me some great ideas to incorporate into one of my upcoming cosplay builds. Thanks for sharing!

[@Delali]

The kinda things i see you do, lets me know i can do more for this channel of mine. Who woulda thought opposite sides magnets with electricity makes the wire assume a sine wave shape. Only something you see on Carl Bugeja Keep being awesome man.

[@CarlBugeja]

Haha thanks 🙃

[@Delali]

@@CarlBugeja Dont mention brother. Keep doing you.

[@abdullahkrmzyuz5827]

You should try to put some stuff on it, and make them jump around. Its definitely a monster, but its pretty great! Keep up the good work man!

[@reecejsymons]

This could be a real awesome tool as a visual aid teaching students of wave forms and electromagnetic interaction

[@AsymptoteInverse]

There's something unsettling about the way the wire moves. I like it. Also: I wonder if there's potential to use this as some sort of low-power manipulator. I'm imagining a flat array of electromagnets switching polarity in order to guide the wire into an arbitrary shape. I don't know what it'd be good for, but it'd be interesting to see. Though, thinking about it, they'd have to be pretty beefy electromagnets.

[@mystamo]

Individually address each string and have it output an audio spectrum. Low/High freq. Play music. Could look pretty damn interesting. You could PWM a FET at each string and calibrate each freq/string to wiggle about the same amount for each freq. A real mechanical/electrical audio spectroscope.

[@CarlBugeja]

That would look sick! The wire would have to be divided into pieces though and combined with series resistors

[@multiplysixbynine]

I wonder what would happen if the wire were sufficiently stiff to resonate (maybe under slight tension) at a characteristic frequency.

[@jessemoody2218]

If you could get them to move far enough, you could possibly embed LEDs in them and create a 3D POV volumetric display (or just a 2D one like your flex display). If embedding LEDs in them isn't feasible, maybe you could use a white/reflective wire and project light onto it in sync with its position to achieve the same effect.

[@giedrius2149]

I was blown away because I thought you polarized the silicone in order for it to be moved in a magnetic field until I realised it's a wire

[@esser50k]

I really like your understand o physics and electronics. Like you were super confident that the wire would produce a sine wave shape

[@kinzieconrad105]

Could be used in chutes for powdered materials as a sifter vibe to help keep material from sticking.

[@chebhou]

The way the wires move is like threads in a textile machine but without all the mechanics, you could try making one with it.

[@stevetobias4890]

That is super cool, I love the effect you achieved. I would not have thought about coming up with a project like this. Imagine the battery operated desk toys you could create with that effect.

[@VictorCampos87]

See how a KZbinr made a revolution with the tearing machines in his home. The owners of the fabric industries are crazy about him!

[@ESCOTCH]

add this to an electric guitar to induce effects into the strings while playing... reverb, feedback, distortion, all on board while playing!

[@darrinjones9387]

My thoughts..musical

[@SapperUSMC1371]

It was purely entertaining, well done.

[@lolo596164]

great your demonstrations thank you very much.

[@zoobiewa]

Whoa, that's kind of what weaving machines do, they alternate the warps so the weft can go back and forth. You could do a really bizarre weaving project with electric thread :)

[@TheTruthPlease100]

Hey, you could design it in the shape of a prop to drive a boat or airplane! So that each flop tuns the prop 180 degrees slightly over that to spin it the other 180 degrees!

[@Duraltia]

Reminds me of my experience with the kWeld Spot Welder... First time I tested the setup after having it assembled the leads to the tips performing the weld jumped on me due to them magnetically repelling each other when the load is being dumped - Wasn't exactly prepared for my electronics without movable parts to start moving on me - Totally freaked me out at first.

[@Graham_Wideman]

Idea: As shown in this video, the visual appearance is a bit messy because you have wires with opposite current on top of each other, and they have opposite up and down motion. Instead arrange all the left-to-right current wires in one half of the magnet and the return wires in the other half. This way you get two distinct areas of the magnet where all the wires display the same motion.

[@CarlBugeja]

Visually this would definitely be better.. Though there is the width of the magnet that limits it.. While building this I thought it would be easy to visualizer the top and bottom rows which should move opposite sides but it ended up looking messy 😅

[@madis_l9578]

Seems like good idea for building mixer for some low density materials.

[@kestans]

Social distance device :D attach to your wrist and put a heat sensor to regulate vibration.

[@darrinjones9387]

You are on to something. Build a bionic heart or a set of vocal chords

[@anthonyj777]

This is great! Put LEDs on em, job done :)

[@ChrisLocke1969]

i love how you cant stop giggling to yourself about this project... thats what its all about, Carl!

[@Personnenenparle]

Silicone wire is the best wire. They dont melt when you solder them! Its amazing.

[@Veveve1]

Try changing the shutter speed of your camera to stroboscope the wires! you may get cool wierd standing waves or moving patterns

[@jorgealonso2238]

That thing is awesome

[@kellyhofer]

an even more lightweight solution is braided copper that is laquered. you can buy laquer in a can. but it insulates well enough and almost weightless

[@gavincurtis]

It is The Servotronic Harpsichron; it can perform wonders.

[@manojithalder7448]

Try to modulate the input signal such a way that your wire can play melodies. It would be awesome. But I don't know how good it will be.

[@mono891031]

It looks like a loom .... I am interested in all your projects, whether casual or planned, it has many applications

[@romankubiv1801]

Try wrapping the wire around magnets in a full loop around the magnet, that way the wires on either side will move together.

[@spacebwoy]

It's an electromagnetic loom. You just need a transverse magnetic shuttle now...

[@youssefahourri3245]

One time they'll use this concept to build a vibrating bed 🤣🤣 RELAAAAX

[@kennyk4134]

Now you find practical use for it .

[@poijmc606]

I wonder how it will behave as a filter, e.g. you might use it to slow down bigger particles of sand or anything.

[@notecat7785]

you can make it into an interior accesories or some furniture for cool bluetooth speaker

[@TheTruthPlease100]

Using the signwave pattern in the shape of the prop blade.

[@OviedoSaul]

Im pretty sure you'll find something interesting to use this later! cant wait

[@АлексейСветлов-о9о]

Maybe try to build incandescent light bulbs with "live" spirals?! 💡💡💡

[@andreschoen9180]

Please try filming this in the dark. Under a strobe light. Then vary the frequency of strobe & magnetic polarity switching. Cheers Chromii

[@greywolf2809]

Maybe a wierd kind of voltage display or something? A painting tool that paints splatter? Figure some way to create mechanical energy from it? Try different shapes?

[@jonmayer]

It's a very cool "analog looking" device.

[@dare2scheme904]

Looks and sounds like you have a controller hooked up for alternating current. There is a high frequency tone in the background

[@feuerfritas]

If all wires go in the same direction I think they would synchronize and maybe move in a wave pattern that could look cool

[@donwright3427]

Absolutely awesome

[@Bananakid11]

maybe you could use it as a assembly line for light but firm items? if you could "harvest" the sin wave?

[@laiquocbao2565]

It does look like the blue/green electrical pulse animation from alien guns :))

[@husnufuat7382]

Genius man

[@KodyAWSOME]

I wonder if you could modulate the output in some way to create music with the wires as the tap against the magnet surface.

[@olivervoss3196]

If you reverse the idea, and let wind shake the wires around, you've got yourself a bladeless Windgenerator

[@GrimOfDonuts]

If it could work like that, it may work better under water instead

[@olivervoss3196]

@@GrimOfDonuts great idea, extracting energy out of turbulent water is a new concept i guess Fancy starting a business together ?

[@GrimOfDonuts]

@@olivervoss3196 i can foot $5 in for 98% stake in the company 😅🤣

[@beaconofwierd1883]

Extracting energy from waves and turbolent water (and wind) has been studied quite a lot. The difficulty is not in doing it, the difficulty is doing it well and cheaply. Scaling this up you’ll quickly realize that the cost of the wire per unit of energy you extract will be huge, so there’s no way you could make any money off this, it would cost you more to build than you would ever get back, and the wires will fatigue and break pretty quickly too. Basically, it’s difficult to come up with a worse generator that’s not simply ridicolous (like strapping small generators and batteries to fish and train them to swim in circles and then come back to discharge the battery at a power station).

[@colleenforrest7936]

The wind concept would work too. I'm thinking about things like Windbelts, but here the magnetic field runs the whole length of the wire (or belt), not just at its ends. Could be enough to charge USB equipment overnight when the wind is blowing.

[@quentinwolf]

What an incredibly neat experiment! Thanks for sharing! :)

[@uniaddict]

you should use that to make a speaker or put it on a drum or something!

[@Will-kt5jk]

Could you make a [probably really inefficient] electromagnetic muscle with this? Looks like it would be really controllable in terms of how much contraction force you get from the wires wiggling, but might not have much range or power.

[@TheBookDoctor]

That's very interesting. The behavior of the wires reminds me of the behavior of the warp threads on a loom for weaving cloth: they must alternately travel up and down to form the "shed" that the weft threads pass through while weaving. I wonder if there is some way to combine your idea with weaving.

[@pauljs75]

You can also see the 50 or 60Hz dance if you put a magnet up to a low wattage incandescent C7 bulb.

[@Bleats_Sinodai]

I can see this being used to create analogues of muscles.

[@kelkka7]

Since the wires move up and down and slightly sideways, maybe you could have separate wires in parallel and use varying current to grab and hold objects and potentially pass something through?

[@chreinisch]

does make sense when you do look at how the current flows through these wires silicon or not, it is just an insulation

[@StevenIngram]

If you were to get into soft robotics, I suspect some of these findings (especially with the coils) could be used to drive things like silicon jellyfish.

[@themastergambiarraofc7925]

could do a sound spectrogram with that

[@Marco-xz7rf]

This looks like fibers of muskle. Imagine a robot with magnetik bones as base and these around as muskle. Now you need to find a way to align them so they produce maximum power if they do at all haha.

[@TheAuxLux]

How about tightening it ? :) Movement will be weaker, but maybe more precise and organized?

[@wizdumb420]

A new surface to project things upon...

[@Shreyam_io]

lol, I was watching artificial muscle fibre where you heat the curled nylon with wire resistance to contract and expand ... I kinda feel it can go that way.

[@hardikshah4825]

Hello Mr. Carl, I think we can make a flapping mechanism for bird or a boat This is super awesome to watch😍😍

[@Drawliphant]

Dragonfly!

[@icewallowkam2054]

You could put more tension on the wires and try to turn that into one hella wild lookin speaker doe.

[@ryanworks35509]

I was waiting for him to out it in a tub of water with dish soap in it! Bubble maker!!!

[@JohnDlugosz]

How does the material used for the insulation around the wire affect things? I would expect that the EMF is a property of the current in the metal part of the wire.

[@LuigiBrotha]

Now ... Could you make a guitar play using this method ? Cool stuff

[@AnilArya51]

Can't we use it for some kind of motion instead pf using a motor

[@macrumpton]

If it didnt require huge heavy expensive magnets, it looks like it would have potential as an actuator for transporting things or even itself.

[@kevinmathewgeorge4994]

Put some plastic sheet kind of tube inter wieved through wires we have an linear pumb If tuned correctly i think water will flow forward 🤔

[@blessingismyname5833]

awesome

[@nigmaxus]

Sometimes making something is the purpose

[@Robin-sw1cc]

Put a sheet of silicon on the wires. Maybe you can move objects. Just try some things. Looks cool, keep it moving. ;-)

[@johgranger1304]

That is interesting. Maybe it could be used for mixing stuff. Would be interesting to see different wire configurations / shapes.

[@JessicaFEREM]

congrats, you made a speaker without the cone also is it possible to pass music through this?

[@TechsScience]

Is those wires carring AC current?

[@SMVK]

Wow 😮 you can make a self organization structure (looks like a origami or another transforming figure) And hay, what if make another shape? Spring, coil , spring coil @-@ or silicon wires speaker @-@

[@kmemz]

One use: attach a panel with good acoustic qualities to the wires, and make it a speaker Another use: entry level AC current probe, using a single wire and writing down measurements underneath by comparing the same signal to an actual current probe?