Summaries of Applied Science Videos 📚

Intro to heat treatment of steel (hardening and tempering)

Self-cleaning glass windows

How to choose a cleaning solution

Photomicrography (microphotography, macro), focus stacking

Waterjet cutter built with a cheap pressure washer

Trigger circuit for large xenon flash tubes

Ultrasonic soldering bonds glass, titanium, stainless steel, ceramics, tungsten, nichrome...

Tongue mouse: Cursor control with your mouth!

Custom supercritical CO2 chamber with easy-to-use lid clamp

Turning a laminated wooden vase on the lathe

Make vacuum pre-loaded spherical air bearings without special tools

How to electropolish aluminum

Cryogenic machining: Custom rubber parts

Water circulator with temperature control

Follow-up: Attempting to make X-rays by unrolling Scotch tape -- Success?

Distilling pure anhydrous ammonia

Clear flexible printed circuits - first success

Electron microscope animation: Carbon nanotubes pulled into thread

Electron microscope image capture with an oscilloscope

Drawing on a plasma display with a laser pointer

Hypercentric optics: A camera lens that can see behind objects

Giant glass diffusion pump and cathode ray tube demo

The physics of floating screwdrivers

Detectron DG-2 geiger counter teardown and testing

Etching Acetal (Delrin) plastic in preparation for painting, gluing, etc

Getting started with the Altera DE1 FPGA board: Create and download a simple counter

DIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Overview

Caffeine extraction from green coffee with supercritical CO2

Measuring human digestive efficiency vs. a flame

Optical finish for acrylic -- vapor polishing and other techniques

Holograms on chocolate

"Bouncy" sulfur hexafluoride gas in tennis balls?

Supercritical CO2 caffeine extraction (negative result -- more work needed)

Extreme wood bending with ammonia

Argon beer, an alternative to the usual CO2 carbonation

Fiberoptic mouse with quadrature encoders and custom shutter buttons

Glowing plasma created by a high speed jet of water

Engineering magnetics -- practical introduction to BH curve

How to make fondant cakes - complete tutorial - Part 1

Creating aerogel with supercritical methanol

Liquid level sensor and controller (auto top-off for aquarium)

Remote electronic focus for telescope (DIY remote follow focus)

Etching silicon wafers to make colorful Rugate optical filters (porous silicon)

Jukebox color wheel synchronizer

Intro to plasma cleaning

High-resolution screen printing demystified

Electron microscope slow-motion video of vinyl LP

Freeze-drying Jello gelatin with an improved cold trap

DIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Electron Gun Detail

Measuring the voltage, current, and light output of a strobe flash lamp (Speedotron 4803)

Identify chemicals with radio frequencies - Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance (MRI without magnets)

Measuring the voltage and current of a microwave oven magnetron

Atomic Layer Deposition of copper - If you like sputtering, you'll love this!

AM transmitter for antique radios and other project updates

Demo and teardown of an X-ray fluorescence gun (measures chemical composition)

How a Mass Flow Controller works

New high vacuum system

Building a liquid crystal display (LCD)

Viewing an active electronic circuit with a scanning electron microscope

Universal motor speed control by a microcontroller (arduino)

A refrigerator that works by stretching rubber bands

DIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Sources, Costs and References

Dry water and Burning ice: all about gas hydrates

Product Review: Grizzly 4003G metal gunsmith lathe

Flashing Light Prize 2018 - Sunscreen, UV, and neon

Progress on vacuum chamber build - helium leak detection, custom flanges

Laser diode self-mixing: Range-finding and sub-micron vibration measurement

Whipped chocolate made with high pressure nitrous oxide

Attempting to make X-rays by unrolling Scotch tape (negative result)

How to make fondant cakes - complete tutorial -Part 2

Microstepping a stepper motor with the SLA7062

Ultra low-temperature cascade refrigeration system repair

Posture-based game controller

Vacuum and pressure frying fruits and vegetables

Web-controlled watering can with siteplayer and arduino

Temperature-sensing RFID tag in magnetic stir bar

Making silica aerogel at home

Hybrid rocket engine with acrylic and gaseous oxygen

Frying a potato chip in Fluorinert FC-40

Patterning aluminum with the photoresist "lift-off" method

Shop lighting upgrade: T5 vs T8 fluorescent vs LED

High speed X-ray video: jumping beans, wind-up toys and more!

Multi-layer reactive foil: no fuel, no oxygen, tons of heat

Thermocouple vacuum gauge teardown and explanation

Milling machine tutorial - cutter selection, speeds and feeds, coolant, high speed machining

Cathode ray tube disassembly and explanation

Encode information in fire!

How a horn amplifies sound (hint: Impedance matching)

Candle flame is repelled by magnets (and Zeeman follow-up)

Obeying the law (of physics)! Kinetic energy and momentum explained

DIY X-ray backscatter imaging system (airport body scanner)

Intro to sputtering (process to create clear, conductive coatings)

How a liquid lens works (electrowetting)

Photosynthesis photography: Making images with living plant leaves

Antique 4x5 camera creates 20 micron photolithography masks: Super tiny tax form

Make plastic printed circuits with a standard laser cutter

Behind the scenes at Applied Science: Why video? Camera gear. Shop tour.

Hacking a milligram balance (scale) with a Parallax Propeller microcontroller

Measuring the amount of lead (Pb) consumed when drinking from lead crystal glassware. Is it safe?

Drill through anything (conductive) with Electrical Discharge Machining

Handheld CNC router repairs old CNC machine

How a breathalyzer works (alcohol sensor)

Testing UV absorption eyewear and sunscreen with a deuterium light source

How to chemically strengthen glass (eg Gorilla Glass)

Glue chipped glass - first attempt

Molecular gastronomy (playing with food): "reverse" spherification maraschino cherries

Low-cost DIY thermal imaging - liquid crystal paint testing

Speaker repair - replacing the foam surround

Water vortex display from SJ City Hall exhibition -- repair and upgrade

How Digital Light Processing (DLP) works

Zeeman Effect - Control light with magnetic fields

First test run of 1000W Osram Xenon short arc lamp XBO

pH indicating soap bubbles (Ben Krasnow - new channel name!)

Control light with heat and magnets (Magneto-optical Kerr effect)

Fiberoptic joystick with quadrature encoders and arduino

Intro to Fourier Optics and the 4F correlator

Creating X-rays with a standard vacuum tube

Tools and Tips #1 from Applied Science

"Bullet Time" with the Chronos high-speed camera

Lithium sheet metal and zirconium powder

Hydrogenation: transform liquid oil into solid fat

Your toothbrush is worn-out!

How corrosion inhibitors protect metal: synthesis in the lab and testing

Build an electroluminescent glass panel display -- an Apollo DSKY

Mathematical integration without calculus

1000W xenon arc lamp built into DIY searchlight housing

Shrinking paper money with ammonia

Cryogenic treatment of drill bits: tested 2X lifetime and microstructure analysis

Piezoelectric Braille system with PC parallel port control and HV transistors

Olestra (zero calorie cooking oil) - chemical synthesis and taste test

Silver nanoprisms grown into structural colors by high power LEDs

CNC milling glass plates and mirrors

Catalytic cigarette lighter

Electron microscope image capture via microcontroller (with drill bit animation)

How anti-theft tags work - magnetostriction

World's smallest lightbulb flasher? Flashing Light Prize 2017

First test with 4.8KJ xenon flash lamp (Speedotron 4803 strobe light)

Review of National Instruments VirtualBench

DIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Operation procedure

Making YBCO superconductor

Heat-sensitive 3D paper (swell paper)

How a film camera superimposes the date onto photos

Ruby laser (and other projects) follow-up

Gas-powered waterjet cutter (follow-up) and other project updates

Making astronaut ice cream in my home shop

Extech IR250 infrared thermometer disassembly and plans for thermal imaging

E-paper hacking: fastest possible refresh rate

Measure car engine speed RPM via the cigarette lighter

How to make precise sheet metal parts (photochemical machining)

How to make fondant cakes - complete tutorial -Part 3

Control light with magnets and olive oil?! (Faraday effect)

Details in the process of making "blacker than vantablack" coatings (part 1?)

UV laser creates disappearing ink in normal printer paper

Glass engineering - designing and making photochromic glass

Decapping ICs (removing epoxy packaging from chips to expose the dies)

Making Pop Rocks candy at home

Extracting caffeine with methylene chloride

Reverse-engineering and testing an x-ray filament supply

The best projects from 10 years of Applied Science

Measure the mass of an eyelash with a DIY microbalance

Tour of Ben's shop 2012

Tools and Tips #2 from Applied Science

Frequency response test for thermal imaging sensor

Experimenting with a liquid lens and driver IC

Camera movement and dolly zoom with Chronos high-speed camera

Shooting an electron beam through air

3D print your brain, timelapse, high-res microfluidics, custom colors...

Supercritical CO2 extraction of cinnamon, coffee, and vanilla with dry ice

Tutorial: How to build an air muscle and use it in a force-feedback joystick

Electro-osmosis: pumping water with electricity and no magnets

MEMs oscillator sensitivity to helium (helium kills iPhones)

Tutorial: Op-amp circuit for force sensor signal conditioning

The science of wineglass tears (or wine legs)

Product Review: CP06 low-cost AC/DC clamp-on current probe

More info about sputtering: process parameters, chamber construction

Tutorial: How to design a transistor circuit that controls low-power devices

Cookie perfection machine - butter dispenser

LED mounted in a contact lens for possible virtual / augmented reality displays

Explanation of how kilowatt-hour meters work (electromechanical)

DIY Scanning Electron Microscope - Tektronix contest entry

Cleaning a high-vacuum Penning gauge (cold cathode vacuum gauge)

Unusual usage (hours) counter with mercury capillary

Prototyping with Applied Science: Design and build a bite sensor

Alpha radiation makes sparks, detects smoke, and eliminates static cling

Vintage electrical tech - Weston Sensitrol Relay

DIY mass spectrometer measures potassium in dietary salt substitute

Design and build a spin coater

Making patterned mirrors and ITO glass with a thermal evaporator

DIY X-ray CT scanner controlled by an Arduino

Laser microphone for audio surveillance via window panes

Covert radio pen with bone conduction speaker

X-ray timelapse of fluid movement in plants, stop-motion animation, sensor teardown/repair

Large area detector for X-rays

Intro to DIY Raman Spectroscopy

Quartz crystal thickness monitor for vapor deposition in vacuum

How to TIG weld aluminum beverage cans together

Supercritical drying chamber for aerogel production

Electron beam control in a scanning electron microscope

DIY Custom LCD

High pressure gas cylinder transfer