u/yestereon — reddlx

I Built a Detonating Bubble Machine, and Now I’m Terrified

TLDR: I’m a hobbyist who built something rad—a precision explosive bubble machine that uses mixed welding gasses (acetylene and oxygen)—and made a video about it for fun: https://youtu.be/bg-uCaPdddI

This is not an informercial, but is a request for help to improve how I’ve documented it, so please find it interesting but come back to tell me how to make my presentation better! High-speed video? Better sound recording? At one point I was hoping to capture the attention of a nearby science celebrity with a studio and professional equipment, but I’m not holding my breath anymore.

Ask me anything and I’ll answer, or just roast me, but DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS YOURSELF—IT’S VERY HARD TO MAKE SAFE—and absolutely terrifying!

u/yestereon — 2 days ago

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The Bubble Dragon

I built a precision machine to blow bubbles filled with explosive welding gasses that I detonate inches away from me with a flint striker, and in my video I explain it and the sensation of a blast that got me. TLDR: I built a shockwave machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg-uCaPdddI

Edit: Jump to about 7:30 in the video for the main oxygenated boom. This isn't an informercial, I'm just a hobbyist that's a little too close to a Darwin Award. DO NOT ATTEMPT YOURSELF.

u/yestereon — 11 hours ago

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Adam Savage Inspired Me to Build Something Absurd; I Hope He Likes It!

Dear Internet:

Adam Savage and Mark Rober inspired me invent something absurd—the Bubble Dragon—which is a highly unique machine that casts grapefruit-sized soap bubbles from mixed welding gasses (acetylene and oxygen) that can be detonated mid-air with a handheld flint striker for truly underwear-threatening booms with the approximate punch of a cherry bomb.

Making something like this reasonably safe required patent-worthy innovation and significant effort, but thankfully my hypothesis that a balloon could safely contain welding gasses with enough pressure to blow bubbles was correct. While the devil is always in the details and there were many challenges to overcome, I was eventually able to build a high-performance, industrial-quality machine that can really dial it up to 11 for some extremely thrilling scientific experimentation. I also attempted to give it some artistic flair with claws and whatnot.

While I’m thrilled with how the Bubble Dragon turned out, my success ends in finding an appropriate place to test it dialed up, or a satisfactory way to record such without professional equipment, and I’ve already invested heavily in this project. It is for this reason that I have reached out to both Mark Rober and Adam Savage to humbly request a place to play with the machine they helped to inspire and to extend to them invitations to pop some bubbles of an unforgettably terrifying sort that will surely peak their adrenaline and may even make them think twice before dipping into their next bubble baths 😂 .

Based on their past interest in spectacular chemical reactions or pyrotechnics and their tendencies to use technology to explore the limits of physics, I earnestly believe that they would get a kick out of this, so I put my maximum effort into a video to help convince them that it would be worthwhile to experience firsthand. You can find that here: https://youtu.be/bg-uCaPdddI

While I really hope that at least one of them will be personally interested, in case they’re not, I would appreciate anyone’s advice on where to test in my area and how to record.

Thanks to Mark and Adam for all the encouragement through their videos, and I hope all of you find this entertaining! If you do, please like/subscribe/comment 😄 .

Absurd Machine Inspired by Mark Rober & Adam Savage Makes Detonating Bubbles

Best Regards,

Yestereon

https://www.youtube.com/@yestereon

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u/yestereon — 5 days ago