Try it on your friend's bike

Try it with your Bike riding friend who rides on a dead flat, vibration free surface.

It's great seeing how things have progressed, because this would be a lot easier today. You just need a coin cell battery stuck between the leads on an LED bulb. I would probably do it exactly like this for my kids though to teach them about the positive and negative ends of batteries.

All of us should be playing the 'Curiosity Show Bingo' game...... Sticky Tape.....Check! Aluminium Foil....Check! Bent Paper Clip........check! Ice-cream Sticks....check! House-hold Batteries...Check! ..........damn, I don't have a red felt tip maker....no Bingo for me today!

Such a great and simple project using ordinary around the house items. Are there any current programs that teach hands on STEM projects like this? I have to wonder if in our digital-first world, where every kid has a flashlight built into their phone, if the lack of exposure to projects like these is leading us down a path where the next generation of engineers will grow up without hands on experiences.

@Droningonuk

Жыл бұрын

What does STEM stand for?

@eliot1970

Жыл бұрын

Science technology engineering and mathematics

@BarryMcCawkiner

Жыл бұрын

There are plenty of programs that do this. It just depends on where you live. There are also STEM subscription boxes that mail out monthly STEM projects.

This as the McGeiver feeling to it, for sure.

@crystalincyberspace

Жыл бұрын

Yeah just swap the electrical tape with duct tape.

How many kids would have tried this thinking it was actually going to be useful and were then disappointed to find that the lights were too dim and didn't stay on or kept falling off completely... Then there are possibly the couple who realised these problems, refined the lights into working prototypes and went on to become successful engineers later in life.

@CuriosityShow

Жыл бұрын

That would be the idea - Rob

That is quite ingenious. Maybe some ADULTS can take note of this.

I don't necessarily have a bikelight on me, but I do however have a spare LED, a paperclip, tinfoil and 2 D batteries

@jonathanedelson6733

Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately this video is a bit dated, because LEDs require slightly different drive than old school incandescent globes (lamps). With a suitable LED it might light up dimly, work correctly, or even burn out quickly. This is because LEDs are exquisitely sensitive to the applied voltage. A white LED probably needs 3 cells connected to work, but with a pretty significant risk of burning out. Jon

Where I live, there are adolescents and young ADULTS who specifically ride around without lights on their bicycles at dusk and at night AND even remove all the reflectors, which the manufacturers were legally required to sell the bikes with. Lights and reflectors are required, legally and for safety; and these poor fools remove them all, to be cool. It's discouraging.

@wildae.

Жыл бұрын

here its even worse, people ride on motorcycles in pitch black nights without any lights and everyone thinks its normal

@smadaf

Жыл бұрын

And they ride against the flow of traffic.

This is the day and age where led is not invented yet

Aww he didn't attached them to the luscious moustache

Such great ideas in these videos! Even though we have newer tech, you still can't dismiss the ideas. For instance, you can use some thin foil to heat paper to burn it, so it acts as a fire lighter. So useful in times of crisis.

Try it on your enlightened friends!

What is he calling the bulb. A Glow?

@what-uc

Жыл бұрын

Globe

This is probably one of the only curiosity show projects you can't easily reproduce today, because who has incandescent torch bulbs around any more? The 2023 version is "Google image search for 'red' on your phone, open the resulting image full screen, set screen timeout to 10 minutes and turn your flashlight on"!

note to self get 2 icecreame sticks 4 d cells 2 globes and electrical tape plus 2 paper clips

@dtec30

Жыл бұрын

darn forgot alfoil too and thick rubberbands x2

Видео на тему как люди жили до Алиэкспресса.

I hope DURACEL coughed up some royalties for the endorsement.

Try it on your dim friends.

Try it on a traffic cop

Nowadays, an LED & a simple driver circuit is better & more available.

@TheKnobCalledTone.

Жыл бұрын

How many people have a spare LED driver lying around the house?

@steviebboy69

Жыл бұрын

I had one of those small torches with a CRE Bulb in it and it was around 1000 Lumens so it lit the road very well, and the 18650 battery would run that for 2 hrs or more on full power.

Let's make a flashlight Step 1 get a working flashlight and disassemble it Step 2. LMAO 🤣

@jeremiahbullfrog9288

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True but they still introduced kids to basic electricity

@jeremiahbullfrog9288

Жыл бұрын

I'm more concerned about that janky rig falling off into their back spokes while riding lol

And remember kids, always lick your batterys to increase their performance! ;)

Our loo is in the mini umm 🤔 🚗 😮 🤦🏻‍♂️

This show is so old, these days you can buy a torch as cheap as dollar

@crystalincyberspace

Жыл бұрын

Way to miss the point.

Bharat 🇮🇳

Fun to show how batteries and lightbulbs work, but this is hardly a quality or even safe solution for a child riding their bike.

@smadaf

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4:40