what’s up guys welcome back to the king
of random I’m Nate thanks for joining us
today
recently we had a video where we showed
you how to make your very own foam
balloon generator well today we’ve got
some experiments that are going to take
that to the next level first I want to
point out that I’ve changed my formula a
little bit before I was using bubble
soap with a ratio of about one part
bubble soap to seven parts water and
while that still works great I think
I’ve had slightly better results by
using a foaming hand soap I use one part
foaming hand soap to two parts water so
it’s not quite as concentrated of a base
to start with but I think it makes a
slightly better phone since that’s what
this type of soap was designed for the
experiment that so many of you wanted us
to try was using food coloring to see if
we could make our foam come up as
colored bubbles instead of white blue is
usually the most concentrated food
coloring color so I’m going to add
plenty of that to our liquid and then
blow some bubbles in and see what
happens to our foam because I want to
give these bubbles the best chance of
picking up the blue color I’m using a
lot of dye probably only would have
taken about one drop to turn all of this
water blue nice dark blue diluted soap
all right now I’m just gonna use my
mouth and blow some air in to see if we
get any sort of color in these bubbles
there you go you can see that there
really isn’t almost any blue tint
there’s maybe it looks like a little bit
down at the bottom but I think you’re
just seeing through the bubbles to the
blue liquid below the actual foam as it
comes off really has no color whatsoever
it’s still the same shade of white that
it was before so let’s talk about what’s
happening and why we aren’t getting any
color in the bubbles themselves when the
bubbles are forming they’re an extremely
thin film surrounding whatever gas it
was that filled them up it’s so thin
that it really isn’t able to hold any
color of its own so the soap that’s
forming these bubbles actually contains
the blue dye in it but it’s spread out
so much that it can’t really add any
color to it the reason these look white
is they’re actually clear reflecting the
light around and since all the light we
have shining in the studio and outside
is white light the bubbles appear white
the only way to really change the color
would be to either use a colored smoke
to fill them or if you’ve shown a
different color like on to the bubbles
so unfortunately because bubbles are so
thin it looks like using food coloring
to dye the bubbles doesn’t work out too
well however I do have a few other
things I don’t want to try the first of
which is using hydrogen to fill these
bubbles instead of helium let’s take
this outside so here we have our giant
tank of hydrogen our pressure regulator
which is apparently absolutely essential
to getting hydrogen safely out of a tank
so we have that it’s got two different
valves to control actually it’s got
three valves one here and then two on
the regulator just to control very
carefully the speed and pressure at
which our hydrogen is leaving the tank
I’ve got our bubble soap already I’m
still using the blue stuff because why
waste bubble soap but as we’ve learned
unfortunately that will not give us blue
bubbles let’s see if the hydrogen has
any more lift to it than the helium did
open this valve and then as I slowly
turn this one it will let a little bit
of hydrogen through at a time and that
will immediately start bubbling up down
in our pan
a little bit windy out here today so our
bubbles are already straining to get
free get it free see what happens
[Music]
boom flying up into the air obliterate
chop into thousand pieces by the tree
branches whoo balloon attacked our
cameraman I think we’ve shown that
hydrogen works pretty well
probably lifts even better than helium
now I want to try cutting a stencil
shape out of foam core to see if we can
control the shape of the foam balloons
coming out of our generator well I think
to start out we’ll just try a triangle
it’s not the most perfect triangle I’ve
ever seen but I think it’ll work now I
do want this to sit flush so I’m gonna
add a little bit of a notch where the
hose comes out just so I’m not squishing
that I’ll seal it all up with tape so
it’s on there pretty well it looks like
it should work all right
all right looks like our board is pretty
well attached so let’s see if we can get
some triangle-shaped bubbles come out of
our foam generator
[Music]
hmm
well it’s not working wonderfully our
stencil isn’t really doing much to
control the shape of the bubbles so I
have an idea that I want to try to see
if we can get the bubbles to travel in a
more uniform direction part of the
problem is that they’re coming from all
sides and they’re really getting
squished through sort of a bottleneck
there’s also the fact that our bubbles
are a little larger than I’d like them
to be which makes it so it’s hard to get
any sort of resolution or definition in
our stencil as the bubbles are coming
out through it
[Music]
so I’ve put our whole bubble generator
down at the bottom of a bucket and I
want to see if that makes a difference
in how it rises up out I think we might
be able to have a more smooth uniform
transition with the bubbles rising out
this way well test it alright let’s see
how this works out so far so good making
bubbles they float large part of what
we’re going for right there yeah we’re
getting nice thin layers of bubbles now
that’s a step in a good direction
now these bubbles are still a little
larger as in each individual bubble is a
larger size than I would ideally like
but there’s also the fact that as the
bubbles fill up the whole bucket the
excess bubble fluid that’s around them
has more of a chance to drain off so we
have what’s actually a little bit dryer
of bubbles and I’m hoping that that will
also work better with our stencils let’s
give this another shot
letting it grow a little too high at
first just to let it even out
[Music]
Hey look that looks like a triangle it’s
not a great triangle but its triangle ha
shapes
I’m just let this one go for a little
bit we’re getting a nice prism shape all
right that worked out pretty well now
I’m gonna try a slightly more
complicated shape and see if we can get
that to work we’ve got a king for a king
of random we’re gonna see if we can make
some bubble hydrogen foam caves float
through the air here we go here we go
that we’re facing the camera better
you’d be able to see how a case shaped
it was here’s another one
[Music]
that worked okay it wasn’t perfect but
it was a whole lot better than nothing
we got some good shapes out of it let’s
move on in the next experiment which is
to see how big we can make this work
I’ve taken this three-foot plastic
bright pink kitty pool run clear hose
and Aspire all the way through it poke
holes in the hose all the way around
we’re gonna pour a whole bunch of our
fluid into here run hydrogen down
through the hose and see if we can make
some giant foam balloons for bubble
fluid we already have in we’re gonna
need a whole lot more than that all
right I think at this point all of our
hose is completely submerged that’s what
we want for some good even bubbles let’s
add some gas and see how this works well
you can definitely see it forming a lot
of bubbles it’s all sort of pushing to
one side of the tub as the wind blows on
it Oh big one there it goes and there
goes an even bigger one from the wind oh
boy that’s just spinning around it got
caught in some little sideways tornado
or something that’s funny it looks like
a car wash exploded there are no wind I
think this would work I think we’d have
like a column of this that I could like
jump roars I’ve been
yep there you go that is working pretty
well I think it would work better if it
weren’t quite so windy out here but I do
think we’re getting bubbles about as
large as we could possibly get there
gets to a point where there’s just like
the maximum amount of lift that bubbles
can hold on to they don’t have a whole
lot of cohesion to themselves however
there is of course one more thing I do
want to try we are using hydrogen gas to
fill these balloons and hydrogen is
flammable so I’ve got myself a little
makeshift torch here that I’ve been
using just as a stick but now I’m gonna
add some fuel light this up and when a
bubble goes off I’m gonna try and poke
it and ignite it here goes
[Music]
haha
break free break free you can do it
this is the greatest game ever
[Music]
oh don’t worry
[Applause]
should be a big one
[Music]
still good
whoo five seconds awesome haha yeah just
wait it’s just hovered right above it
and I don’t want to like the pool on
fire so I had to wait for it to move
somewhere Oh a big one here we go got it
[Music]
like fending off an attack cover yet
really got back bubbles back hot bubble
soap wave them this is the greatest game
ever played it was like Harry Potter
King around stuff Alakazam incendio
laughs I didn’t even float
oh it’s coming right at my face
Oh
that was safe that wasn’t nearly as
dramatic as I thought it me neither
probably for the best yeah
huh that does look really cool actually
I’m sure this is not at all safe it just
kind of circles and snakes around
chasing itself
there you have it lining a three foot
kiddie pool with our tube with holes
poked in it filling that with bubble
soap and setting that off with hydrogen
makes some great foam balloons and best
of all it’s flammable so you can have a
really fun time pretending you’re a
wizard like poking at balloons and they
just explode it’s great fun this is
seriously very entertaining even if you
aren’t lighting them off if you just do
it with helium it’s way fun making these
balloons and just chasing them and
hitting it and swatting them stuff like
that it’s easy to do at home the little
version it’s cheap it’s quick you can
definitely make your own foam balloons I
highly recommend it thank you guys for
your suggestions of things you wanted to
see us try if you’ve got any other ideas
please let us know down in the comments
thanks for joining us for this project
today and we look forward to the next
one talk to you then huh oh no oh it’s
too high now I can’t get that I want
lightning to strike it haven’t just blow
up you know that Santa Claus trick
[Music]
haha that was a good one
[Music]
you
of random I’m Nate thanks for joining us
today
recently we had a video where we showed
you how to make your very own foam
balloon generator well today we’ve got
some experiments that are going to take
that to the next level first I want to
point out that I’ve changed my formula a
little bit before I was using bubble
soap with a ratio of about one part
bubble soap to seven parts water and
while that still works great I think
I’ve had slightly better results by
using a foaming hand soap I use one part
foaming hand soap to two parts water so
it’s not quite as concentrated of a base
to start with but I think it makes a
slightly better phone since that’s what
this type of soap was designed for the
experiment that so many of you wanted us
to try was using food coloring to see if
we could make our foam come up as
colored bubbles instead of white blue is
usually the most concentrated food
coloring color so I’m going to add
plenty of that to our liquid and then
blow some bubbles in and see what
happens to our foam because I want to
give these bubbles the best chance of
picking up the blue color I’m using a
lot of dye probably only would have
taken about one drop to turn all of this
water blue nice dark blue diluted soap
all right now I’m just gonna use my
mouth and blow some air in to see if we
get any sort of color in these bubbles
there you go you can see that there
really isn’t almost any blue tint
there’s maybe it looks like a little bit
down at the bottom but I think you’re
just seeing through the bubbles to the
blue liquid below the actual foam as it
comes off really has no color whatsoever
it’s still the same shade of white that
it was before so let’s talk about what’s
happening and why we aren’t getting any
color in the bubbles themselves when the
bubbles are forming they’re an extremely
thin film surrounding whatever gas it
was that filled them up it’s so thin
that it really isn’t able to hold any
color of its own so the soap that’s
forming these bubbles actually contains
the blue dye in it but it’s spread out
so much that it can’t really add any
color to it the reason these look white
is they’re actually clear reflecting the
light around and since all the light we
have shining in the studio and outside
is white light the bubbles appear white
the only way to really change the color
would be to either use a colored smoke
to fill them or if you’ve shown a
different color like on to the bubbles
so unfortunately because bubbles are so
thin it looks like using food coloring
to dye the bubbles doesn’t work out too
well however I do have a few other
things I don’t want to try the first of
which is using hydrogen to fill these
bubbles instead of helium let’s take
this outside so here we have our giant
tank of hydrogen our pressure regulator
which is apparently absolutely essential
to getting hydrogen safely out of a tank
so we have that it’s got two different
valves to control actually it’s got
three valves one here and then two on
the regulator just to control very
carefully the speed and pressure at
which our hydrogen is leaving the tank
I’ve got our bubble soap already I’m
still using the blue stuff because why
waste bubble soap but as we’ve learned
unfortunately that will not give us blue
bubbles let’s see if the hydrogen has
any more lift to it than the helium did
open this valve and then as I slowly
turn this one it will let a little bit
of hydrogen through at a time and that
will immediately start bubbling up down
in our pan
a little bit windy out here today so our
bubbles are already straining to get
free get it free see what happens
[Music]
boom flying up into the air obliterate
chop into thousand pieces by the tree
branches whoo balloon attacked our
cameraman I think we’ve shown that
hydrogen works pretty well
probably lifts even better than helium
now I want to try cutting a stencil
shape out of foam core to see if we can
control the shape of the foam balloons
coming out of our generator well I think
to start out we’ll just try a triangle
it’s not the most perfect triangle I’ve
ever seen but I think it’ll work now I
do want this to sit flush so I’m gonna
add a little bit of a notch where the
hose comes out just so I’m not squishing
that I’ll seal it all up with tape so
it’s on there pretty well it looks like
it should work all right
all right looks like our board is pretty
well attached so let’s see if we can get
some triangle-shaped bubbles come out of
our foam generator
[Music]
hmm
well it’s not working wonderfully our
stencil isn’t really doing much to
control the shape of the bubbles so I
have an idea that I want to try to see
if we can get the bubbles to travel in a
more uniform direction part of the
problem is that they’re coming from all
sides and they’re really getting
squished through sort of a bottleneck
there’s also the fact that our bubbles
are a little larger than I’d like them
to be which makes it so it’s hard to get
any sort of resolution or definition in
our stencil as the bubbles are coming
out through it
[Music]
so I’ve put our whole bubble generator
down at the bottom of a bucket and I
want to see if that makes a difference
in how it rises up out I think we might
be able to have a more smooth uniform
transition with the bubbles rising out
this way well test it alright let’s see
how this works out so far so good making
bubbles they float large part of what
we’re going for right there yeah we’re
getting nice thin layers of bubbles now
that’s a step in a good direction
now these bubbles are still a little
larger as in each individual bubble is a
larger size than I would ideally like
but there’s also the fact that as the
bubbles fill up the whole bucket the
excess bubble fluid that’s around them
has more of a chance to drain off so we
have what’s actually a little bit dryer
of bubbles and I’m hoping that that will
also work better with our stencils let’s
give this another shot
letting it grow a little too high at
first just to let it even out
[Music]
Hey look that looks like a triangle it’s
not a great triangle but its triangle ha
shapes
I’m just let this one go for a little
bit we’re getting a nice prism shape all
right that worked out pretty well now
I’m gonna try a slightly more
complicated shape and see if we can get
that to work we’ve got a king for a king
of random we’re gonna see if we can make
some bubble hydrogen foam caves float
through the air here we go here we go
that we’re facing the camera better
you’d be able to see how a case shaped
it was here’s another one
[Music]
that worked okay it wasn’t perfect but
it was a whole lot better than nothing
we got some good shapes out of it let’s
move on in the next experiment which is
to see how big we can make this work
I’ve taken this three-foot plastic
bright pink kitty pool run clear hose
and Aspire all the way through it poke
holes in the hose all the way around
we’re gonna pour a whole bunch of our
fluid into here run hydrogen down
through the hose and see if we can make
some giant foam balloons for bubble
fluid we already have in we’re gonna
need a whole lot more than that all
right I think at this point all of our
hose is completely submerged that’s what
we want for some good even bubbles let’s
add some gas and see how this works well
you can definitely see it forming a lot
of bubbles it’s all sort of pushing to
one side of the tub as the wind blows on
it Oh big one there it goes and there
goes an even bigger one from the wind oh
boy that’s just spinning around it got
caught in some little sideways tornado
or something that’s funny it looks like
a car wash exploded there are no wind I
think this would work I think we’d have
like a column of this that I could like
jump roars I’ve been
yep there you go that is working pretty
well I think it would work better if it
weren’t quite so windy out here but I do
think we’re getting bubbles about as
large as we could possibly get there
gets to a point where there’s just like
the maximum amount of lift that bubbles
can hold on to they don’t have a whole
lot of cohesion to themselves however
there is of course one more thing I do
want to try we are using hydrogen gas to
fill these balloons and hydrogen is
flammable so I’ve got myself a little
makeshift torch here that I’ve been
using just as a stick but now I’m gonna
add some fuel light this up and when a
bubble goes off I’m gonna try and poke
it and ignite it here goes
[Music]
haha
break free break free you can do it
this is the greatest game ever
[Music]
oh don’t worry
[Applause]
should be a big one
[Music]
still good
whoo five seconds awesome haha yeah just
wait it’s just hovered right above it
and I don’t want to like the pool on
fire so I had to wait for it to move
somewhere Oh a big one here we go got it
[Music]
like fending off an attack cover yet
really got back bubbles back hot bubble
soap wave them this is the greatest game
ever played it was like Harry Potter
King around stuff Alakazam incendio
laughs I didn’t even float
oh it’s coming right at my face
Oh
that was safe that wasn’t nearly as
dramatic as I thought it me neither
probably for the best yeah
huh that does look really cool actually
I’m sure this is not at all safe it just
kind of circles and snakes around
chasing itself
there you have it lining a three foot
kiddie pool with our tube with holes
poked in it filling that with bubble
soap and setting that off with hydrogen
makes some great foam balloons and best
of all it’s flammable so you can have a
really fun time pretending you’re a
wizard like poking at balloons and they
just explode it’s great fun this is
seriously very entertaining even if you
aren’t lighting them off if you just do
it with helium it’s way fun making these
balloons and just chasing them and
hitting it and swatting them stuff like
that it’s easy to do at home the little
version it’s cheap it’s quick you can
definitely make your own foam balloons I
highly recommend it thank you guys for
your suggestions of things you wanted to
see us try if you’ve got any other ideas
please let us know down in the comments
thanks for joining us for this project
today and we look forward to the next
one talk to you then huh oh no oh it’s
too high now I can’t get that I want
lightning to strike it haven’t just blow
up you know that Santa Claus trick
[Music]
haha that was a good one
[Music]
you
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