incoherent ramblings

The macrowave video turned out to be more popular than I expected! It seemed like a project that I was just doing for my own entertainment, but I’m glad to see so many others found it interesting as well. Building it was easy and filming went quickly, although assembling all the footage into a coherent video ended up pretty time consuming. Either way, there will be more microwave themed content in the future.

I’ve been wanting to do more exploration of the overlap of chemistry and electric plasmas for a while, and the macrowave ended up doing this way better that I would have guessed when it came to exciting elemental plasmas. There’s still much more I want to do in this area though. In particular, I’ve long had an interest in metal vapor lasers, but never felt confident that I could make this topic interesting to a wide audience. Recently though, I had the video idea of “turning a penny into a laser” which seems like something that could work on youtube. A video like this would allow me to play with all sorts of beautiful copper chemistry, followed by blasting those copper compounds with a hellacious high voltage circuit in order to make a laser. I have a LOT to learn about vacuum systems and glasswork if I want to go down this road, but it’s probably my best option on combining chemistry, lasers, and high voltage, since the same general idea can be applied to elements other than copper as well. Idk if this will be my next video, but I'm going to start diving into vacuum systems so I can eventually accomplish these topics.

In the meantime, there will be another shortish video from me soon. I filmed it a couple weeks ago but haven’t gotten around to editing it. I don’t know what I’ll do with it though because it’ll probably be like 10 minutes long and it’s not something I’d post on my main channel. Maybe I’ll repurpose my shorts channel as a generalized second channel since that channel is sorta worthless to me at this point. Idk but I’ll let you know soon lol.

Stay tuned!