We Built A Laser Out Of Tin Foil And Highlighters

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Dye lasers are amazing because they are a high power source of laser light in essentially any color. And best of all you can switch colors in as long as it takes to change the liquid. Today we explore how they're made, how they work, and how a laser made of garbage could be the secret to making a meat laser.
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0:00 Introduction
4:09 TEA lasers
6:42 Building the Laser
9:38 Dye lasers
13:15 Changing colors
14:54 Wrap up
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  • @tkaczgames564
    @tkaczgames564 Жыл бұрын

    Stuff like this is what motivates people to become biotechnologists. Making whatever you want, playing with organisms and modern technology creating something that sounds like magic

  • @grins9882

    @grins9882

    Жыл бұрын

    True, this channel is the main reason I'm pursuing genetics rn

  • @UNVIRUSLETALE

    @UNVIRUSLETALE

    Жыл бұрын

    Absolutely, I chose to do my biotech bachelor's because I wanted to know how fluorescent cats worked and I'm now halfway through my masters

  • @maxluthor6800

    @maxluthor6800

    Жыл бұрын

    yup same here

  • @justsomeguy5628

    @justsomeguy5628

    Жыл бұрын

    And the amazing thing is that all of this can actually be what your job is like, depending on the specifics. For example, a bio laser could be used in experimental cancer treatment, advanced brain scanning technology, indicators that literally point to the location, and more.

  • @monad_tcp

    @monad_tcp

    Жыл бұрын

    Im a computing scientist and I'm disappointed we don't use more lasers. Where are my optoelectronics ? I mean, I know about photolithography which is basically how every chip is made ever. Still , want to play with lasers .

  • @quillclock
    @quillclock Жыл бұрын

    the fact your laser made of "trash" worked better means the fates have decided you are a garbage bender now. you made too many amazing things from scrap that it's your medium now. o7 keep up the amazing work

  • @DoubsGaming

    @DoubsGaming

    Жыл бұрын

    Welp if it means reduce, reuse, recycle then it's probably for the best right?

  • @partciudgam8478

    @partciudgam8478

    Жыл бұрын

    Gomi no Sensei!

  • @ViniSocramSaint

    @ViniSocramSaint

    Жыл бұрын

    I cracked! It shouldn't be that funny "water, earth, fire, air,... garbage!"

  • @johnmarkgatti3324

    @johnmarkgatti3324

    11 ай бұрын

    i had a mental flash of doc from back to the future digging through the garbage for fuel too !!.

  • @bup3483

    @bup3483

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@johnmarkgatti3324 Ja, Ulkig. Gut das wir wissen, das er gerne Läserstralen positiv einsetzten möchte, um Vitamine, Spurenelemente und ähnliches zu suchen.

  • @airborne0x0
    @airborne0x0 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this. Almost 40 years ago in 8th grade I had the assignment to 'design' a biological creature. I had been obsessed with dye lasers from a library book on how to make your own (I later dug into research and Amateur Scientist articles), and imagined a creature with a biolaser built in, with a flash lamp pumped with the biology of an electric eel, with fluorescent liquid similar to a jellyfish, biolenses of a squid's eye, and partially reflective material similar to a cat's iris or the skin of some fish. The teacher was very critical and said it was so improbable. But that wasn't the assignment, and I remained convinced all this time that all the components were possible, with occasional flashes of vindication coming out, including this one. I still have the desire to build a dye laser so I will have to pop it a little higher in my project list.

  • @andrewferguson6901

    @andrewferguson6901

    Жыл бұрын

    Bro. You're on another level

  • @freelancer917

    @freelancer917

    Жыл бұрын

    Finally. Sharks with lasers.

  • @drewlop

    @drewlop

    Жыл бұрын

    Well boo to that teacher! Sounds like you thought it through very well

  • @janthran

    @janthran

    Жыл бұрын

    @@freelancer917 bad idea! the only reasons sharks haven't taken over the world yet is cuz they haven't got good enough guns yet!

  • @airborne0x0

    @airborne0x0

    Жыл бұрын

    Things will get interesting once we get to the stage where we can do fully simulated generative DNA design and program in biological components as needed. I think we have the tools to start working on this now.

  • @anonimowyburek7207
    @anonimowyburek7207 Жыл бұрын

    i absolutely love how you discurage from building the laser but still provide all the details "just in case"

  • @threeMetreJim

    @threeMetreJim

    Жыл бұрын

    The 'technicalities' of the desire to transfer knowledge, while at the same time avoiding a channel/video takedown because of 'Karens' (or atmospherically geometrically frozen water).

  • @yandere8888

    @yandere8888

    Жыл бұрын

    @@threeMetreJim ah yes hes saying to not build the lethal insta kill/blind machine cuz hes afraid of yt taking him down

  • @johnmarkgatti3324

    @johnmarkgatti3324

    11 ай бұрын

    plus his mum said ,' don't do that ' many times ,so he is naturally programmed to have to try it , knows we are too ,human nature ..ever since Eve actually ,When the Big Boss ,said don't eat that trees fruit it will kill you , what did she jolly well go and do !!??.

  • @charlesnathansmith

    @charlesnathansmith

    11 ай бұрын

    You can't stop people from doing dangerous things. You can show them how to minimize the risks

  • @matheusviana8056

    @matheusviana8056

    10 ай бұрын

    "Don't actually try this. Here's the circuit diagram of the laser..." - The Thought Emporium

  • @mikajacobsen860
    @mikajacobsen8602 ай бұрын

    I have worked with dye lasers and want to share some insights: - You do not need UV light to pump Rhodamine 6G. The frequency-doubled output of a Nd:YAG laser (532 nm) is typically used and is much more efficient since the quantum defect to the emission wavelengths is small. - A pumped stagnant dye solution will quickly get trapped in states that are unresponsive to pump light. The dye solution is therefore typically circulated so that the dye molecules have time to return to the ground state before being pumped again. - The optimal dye concentration depends on the length of the cuvette with longer cuvettes needing less concentration. The concentration also shifts the tuning range of the dye with higher concentrations shifting to higher wavelengths. - The surfaces of the cuvette can themselves act like a laser resonator, resulting in an unwanted beam. The cuvette is typically vertically tilted to steer that beam away from the intentional one. - The positioning of the cylindrical focal lens is quite important as you have correctly identified. However, tilting the lens like that results in aberrations that lead to uneven illumination. A better solution would be to move the whole lens closer or farther away from the cuvette. Where the lens needs to be rotated is around the axis set by the pump beam. This tilt angles the focal line. You can either align the focal line with the laser resonator for maximum conversion efficiency or tilt it slightly away from it to limit the amount of amplified spontaneous emission that travels along with the dye laser beam. - Rhodamine 6G is indeed a nice dye.

  • @finnimus2547
    @finnimus2547 Жыл бұрын

    this brings a whole new meaning to flesh light

  • @FleshWizard69420

    @FleshWizard69420

    10 ай бұрын

    Bro made a Scorn gun💀

  • @bup3483

    @bup3483

    10 ай бұрын

    Nicht witzig, solch Laser sollen keine Proteine usw. zerstören.

  • @darrylkinslow5613

    @darrylkinslow5613

    3 ай бұрын

    No, I don't think it does. How do you figure "laser" and "sex toy" are close enough to associate the name of a sex toy with a laser?

  • @wea69420

    @wea69420

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@darrylkinslow5613a meat laser. a flesh light.

  • @kadrix732

    @kadrix732

    2 ай бұрын

    @@darrylkinslow5613You... Really aren't very smart, are you?

  • @Nighthawkinlight
    @Nighthawkinlight Жыл бұрын

    Neat stuff! The rail laser is crazy, never seen anything like it.

  • @Dinnye01

    @Dinnye01

    Жыл бұрын

    It is almost surprising to me that you have not yet touched on lasers yet. Then again, that might be a job for Tech Ingredients. Nice to see you here!

  • @STONEDay

    @STONEDay

    Жыл бұрын

    Last thing you'll ever see.

  • @janthran

    @janthran

    Жыл бұрын

    seeing something that generates that much power with essentially no insulation is pretty terrifying lol

  • @Psykoses

    @Psykoses

    Жыл бұрын

    Styropyro and The Plasma Channel also made their own versions of that laser. Both just as terrifying. Styro watch?v=1psxE4NlECQ PC watch?v=YFkUOPl0tUw

  • @p8p877

    @p8p877

    Жыл бұрын

    Styropyro made it a while ago

  • @BackYardScience2000
    @BackYardScience2000 Жыл бұрын

    Dude, if I had known that you needed dyes I would have sent you some of every kind that I have on hand for free. I really need to get up with you on donating some stuff one day. As a chemical distributor, I have tons of dyes, just like these, that you could just have. Take fluorescein for example, I have pounds upon pounds of the pure powder, plus tons of others. If you ever need anything like that, just let me know and I'll gladly send you a ton of each absolutely free. 😃

  • @Shrek_Has_Covid19

    @Shrek_Has_Covid19

    Жыл бұрын

    can you help me make methamphetamine

  • @BackYardScience2000

    @BackYardScience2000

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you all for the encouraging remarks! I will reach out when I find the time to do so and I will try to donate some chemicals and elements to his channel/business to help save him some money and to just help out. Ignore the guy wanting to make drugs. I get comments like this occasionally due to some of the things that I sell and I do not appreciate those types of comments and I report any suspicious people to the feds because I am required to do so by law in order to be able to keep selling such things. Don't want to get a visit? Don't ask me to help you make drugs. Simple.

  • @Shrek_Has_Covid19

    @Shrek_Has_Covid19

    Жыл бұрын

    ☹️

  • @handlesarefeckinstupid

    @handlesarefeckinstupid

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@Shrek_Has_Covid19not gonna lie, that made me snort.

  • @yosemitesam9576

    @yosemitesam9576

    11 ай бұрын

    @@Shrek_Has_Covid19Did you actually think doing that was worth it lol

  • @Mwwwwwwwwe
    @Mwwwwwwwwe Жыл бұрын

    "Then I just download the genetic sequence from 'thingiverse' and quickly insert it into e-coli"😂😂😂😂

  • @agentklaas
    @agentklaas Жыл бұрын

    As one of my optics profs once said: almost everything will lase if you pump it hard enough. Also, and without getting into the intricacies of building a high end laser, a simple trick to make the laser cavity more stable (which should make it easier to align) is to replace one of the end mirrors with a slightly convex mirror (i.e. with focal length larger than your cavity length).

  • @reinei1

    @reinei1

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, creating a more stable (as in stability polynomial, not necessarily acoustically) cavity is to provide at least *some* form of focusing. Also for anyone else interested in doing this themselves: Just because the commercial UV laser was *safer* (electrically) to operate it's STILL A UV LASER which means it basically automatically is a class 3 or higher laser and also carries a higher risk of cancer (I am not entirely sure if this is wavelength dependent, but in all laser safety briefings and classes our magical wavelength is 400nm and everything below that requires *very* hard to get safety gloves and thorough documentation for something like 40 years due to the potential increase in cancer risk if exposed to the beam)

  • @jamesbachman4249

    @jamesbachman4249

    Жыл бұрын

    @@reinei1 you're right it's wavelength dependent. UV light is just the right energy level to cause particular mutations in our DNA (two bases covalently bond together), whereas visible light is too long wavelength. I'm guessing high power visible light would just burn a hole in your skin before causing cancer

  • @sciencegeek499

    @sciencegeek499

    Жыл бұрын

    @@reinei1 and blindness,, gotta make sure those goggles are validated correctly

  • @Mister_Brown

    @Mister_Brown

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sciencegeek499 which is even more important with dye lasers since you can produce colors that no goggles exist for

  • @ericlotze7724

    @ericlotze7724

    Жыл бұрын

    @@reinei1 Electrical Interlocking and MAJOR Safety Precautions are for nerds though… ( /j , the people behind this channel are probably doing all that / fine, but yeah especially the diode lasers selling these days really pretend laser safety doesn’t exist)

  • @dontworry4945
    @dontworry4945 Жыл бұрын

    Literally synthesized molecules in an abandoned farm house for 2 years trying to make one of these dye lasers. And the meat laser? Way farther than i ever could achieve. I made 3 dyes but i could never get them into lasers. I didnt have ambition, or 3d printing but man. This was literally my dream as a 17 year old. Thank you for reminding me of the days of gold when chemistry channels like nurdrage and chemplayer and masterminds like styro the like Began to inspire me. You really rock, bro.

  • @Slop_Dogg

    @Slop_Dogg

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep, this guy is seriously skilled. I was blown away

  • @commentfailedtopost

    @commentfailedtopost

    10 ай бұрын

    You created life?

  • @dontworry4945

    @dontworry4945

    10 ай бұрын

    @@commentfailedtopost truthfully that not a impressive accomplishment. but I think you misread my comment if that's what you absorbed from it.

  • @commentfailedtopost

    @commentfailedtopost

    10 ай бұрын

    @@dontworry4945 So, a whole celebrated book is devoted to the concept of creating life, in which case a monstrosity is born, but when we do it today and answer a thousands-year old question of where do we come from, we're just, like, "meh"?

  • @spvillano

    @spvillano

    9 ай бұрын

    @@commentfailedtopost granted, I curse in 6 languages fluently and was raised speaking both UK and US English, somehow I didn't get creating life out of synthesizing molecules. For fuck's sake, burning hydrogen synthesizes water molecules! That sure as shit isn't life, but absolutely necessary to maintain it. Of course, synthesizing organic chemicals properly, that's a wee bit more complicated.

  • @uncommonsensor
    @uncommonsensor Жыл бұрын

    How neat that you went over the build process in such detail

  • @Jackson_Zheng

    @Jackson_Zheng

    Жыл бұрын

    But remember - don't try this at home

  • @durpeey1400

    @durpeey1400

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Jackson_Zheng 1984

  • @storbytronics
    @storbytronics Жыл бұрын

    I built one of these when I was 13 not realizing how dangerous they were, I am still surprised and thankful I did not get electrocuted or blinded doing it!

  • @notapplicable7292
    @notapplicable7292 Жыл бұрын

    It really feels like stuff is ramping up this year! Looks like the infrastructure work over the last few years is really paying off.

  • @Lizlodude
    @Lizlodude Жыл бұрын

    "I maintain a huge collection of genetically engineered E Coli" belongs in an xkcd somewhere Thanks to StyroPyro I immediately recognized the TEA laser and am immediately scared. Also that feeling of building it all proper like and it works worse than the prototype is so much feels.

  • @kenb4849
    @kenb484911 ай бұрын

    I can only imagine what your ultimate goal could be with all of this, I suspect that a lot of this stuff has already been played with in the big labs, but the fact that you are doing it here, just proves that ingenuity and the masses can prevail. Best to you, Ken.

  • @Wyi-the-rogue

    @Wyi-the-rogue

    7 ай бұрын

    Laser eyes

  • @TheWretchedOwl
    @TheWretchedOwl Жыл бұрын

    “And I’m the only bio-engineer on KZread crazy enough to try. That, in a nutshell, is why I subscribed in the first place 😅

  • @stevepreskitt283
    @stevepreskitt2837 ай бұрын

    This video really takes me back about 35 years, when a friend and I puttered around with both N2 lasers and fluorescent dyes in our off time. Something that's not mentioned but should be kept in mind - Rhodamine 6G will stain *everything* you get it on, so aprons or other cover should also be worn in addition to PPE for the risks that will affect your health and not just your clothes.

  • @grinreaperoftrolls7528
    @grinreaperoftrolls7528 Жыл бұрын

    You single-handedly convinced me to switch from physics to biology back in 2021. Mad science is awesome!

  • @shipwreck9146

    @shipwreck9146

    Жыл бұрын

    I graduated in physics, but I have a general understanding of most fields of science (nerd with adhd)... Anyway, genetic stuff is literally magic to me. I'm still not 100% convinced that bio engineers aren't just wizards.

  • @u-will-begin-2-cough-in-3-days

    @u-will-begin-2-cough-in-3-days

    11 ай бұрын

    biology is amazing but not enough for me to ever switch from physics lol

  • @PossiblyABird
    @PossiblyABird Жыл бұрын

    Modern science truly is amazing, can't wait for the meat laser.

  • @SenpaiSkyy
    @SenpaiSkyy Жыл бұрын

    Oh sweet 3D files for a dye laser. I have Been looking for this. Thank you!

  • @LeoDaLionEdits
    @LeoDaLionEdits Жыл бұрын

    "I wouldn't recommend you building this, but here is exactly how to build it" 😂

  • @DAVOinIN
    @DAVOinIN6 ай бұрын

    I'm a laser physicist by trade and this is a fantastic video. Most of it is familiar, but i'm very impressed by how well you synthesize all these different topics and condense them without necessarily reducing them to an inaccurate form. Specifically, the topic of grating based mode-matching is awesome and a bit of a pain to explain well, but you managed to do it in less than 30s! One critique is that the TEA doesnt work via stimulated emission, but rather ASE (amplified spontaneous emission). This also means that although it is fairly temporally coherent, it isn't perfectly so which is why it only runs on a pulsed source.

  • @timng9104
    @timng9104 Жыл бұрын

    great to see ur lab growing well! sputtering, meatcubator, lasing set-ups, so cool!

  • @psiga
    @psiga Жыл бұрын

    Downright kaleidoscopic rush of a video, and all of it was actual genuine examples of what amazing, beguiling thing you're working on! _No wonder_ I'm subscribed to you guys.

  • @quillclock
    @quillclock Жыл бұрын

    MEAT LASER!!! ok we are getting into supervillain territory. . . and i am 100% here for it

  • @movax20h
    @movax20h7 ай бұрын

    I discovered Les's Lab few days ago, and what he does is very impressive, but also shows how some of these things are not as complex as they might initially look. I knew of your channel for years, but this is a great showcase of lasers. The dye lasers are cool. It is also mind blowing that anybody can just engineer DNA of a bacteria with just few clicks in a browser. Wow.

  • @emyshini
    @emyshini4 ай бұрын

    Loved this video. I once made a TEA laser in highschool for my science fair project. Used a neon sign transformer, some aluminum foil, painter's plastic, plexiglass, and aluminum rods to essentially make it. I wish I had access to information like this back in the day. Not that I'd know how to make these laser proteins but it would have made for a fun discussion along with how the UV laser worked and what it could be used for.

  • @matthewphillips9083
    @matthewphillips9083 Жыл бұрын

    This gives me the same vibes as writing my engineering honours project, you've clearly done tonnes of amazing work and have absolutely no time to show us the immense amount of work you had to do to get to where you are. Very interesting and exciting video, loved it!!

  • @iwanttwoscoops

    @iwanttwoscoops

    6 ай бұрын

    i like that you used this one paragraph compliment to… brag about yourself. like your first sentence added exactly nada to the comment, and makes you look socially iffy

  • @matthewphillips9083

    @matthewphillips9083

    6 ай бұрын

    @@iwanttwoscoops appreciate your feedback, champ!

  • @iwanttwoscoops

    @iwanttwoscoops

    6 ай бұрын

    @@matthewphillips9083 gotchu dad

  • @kennethhicks2113
    @kennethhicks2113 Жыл бұрын

    "I've done so much with so little for so long I can now do anything with nothing" I saw/read this many decades ago and thought I'd share in case you haven't read/heard. Very appropriate for you imo. Something I tell my kids and others, "There is nothing hard, just things you haven't learned yet" Enjoyed very much, be safe and hf learning.

  • @xiaoranli8036
    @xiaoranli8036 Жыл бұрын

    This is a crazy project. But your work is so amazing and inspiring. Good job bro!

  • @shortcut1331
    @shortcut1331 Жыл бұрын

    As always super interesting content :D Thanks for sharing! :)

  • @MD-pg1fh
    @MD-pg1fh Жыл бұрын

    Thinking quickly, Dave crafted a laser out of cells, a dye, and a laser!

  • @crackedemerald4930
    @crackedemerald4930 Жыл бұрын

    It's weird seeing a video on such a sketchy laser machine and not be reminded how it'll delete my retina if i even think about looking at the the spot on the wall

  • @randomname4726

    @randomname4726

    Жыл бұрын

    "Wow! This thing is so sketchy that...... etc etc"

  • @-feonix48-47
    @-feonix48-47 Жыл бұрын

    This is making me think about that silver nanoprism video from applied science a while back, and that’s one I’ve gone back to quite a few times. Great video, love this stuff as always

  • @oxoniumgirl
    @oxoniumgirl7 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much for posting the dye concentrations in sensible units! I'm making a rhodamine b dye laser with a SHG-YAG and the main unknown I've had trouble nailing down was how much dye to use.

  • @aetius31
    @aetius31 Жыл бұрын

    Impressive work! But don't forget to protect your skin from UV, good sunscreen is a good option if you dont want cover yourself up all the time

  • @zenmark42
    @zenmark42 Жыл бұрын

    your mad scientist projects have gotten so ambitious. this is some wild stuff man, can't wait to see how you make it work.

  • @marcusramberg5340
    @marcusramberg5340 Жыл бұрын

    Bro I didn’t even know you could do almost any of what you talked about, that’s super cool, like ordering custom dna things that grow with your desired codes or whatever you called it, wild man, keep it up

  • @YuriChan-428
    @YuriChan-42811 ай бұрын

    8:34 Just look at that coronal discharge! Going from the sharp corners as they should! Beautiful!

  • @SenpaiSkyy
    @SenpaiSkyy Жыл бұрын

    Oh sweet a new laser video. I missed the TEA laser video you made and hid.

  • @thethoughtemporium

    @thethoughtemporium

    Жыл бұрын

    It wasn't very good so I wanted to redo it. This is the result. And now I have the tools to follow up and succeed on the quantum entangled particles I mentioned in that video. So really I took down 1 bad video, to replace it with with 2 good ones.

  • @SenpaiSkyy

    @SenpaiSkyy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thethoughtemporium I can't wait for the next video. Thank you for the update!

  • @joundii3100
    @joundii3100 Жыл бұрын

    "We really don't recommend you try to build one, seriously it's super dangerous and could easily kill you in an instant. So anyway, here's exactly how you could build one."

  • @barryyoung6159
    @barryyoung615911 ай бұрын

    This is absolutely awesome, thanks so much for sharing your work !

  • @DirtySpoonz
    @DirtySpoonz Жыл бұрын

    just brilliant, mad science and brilliant information delivery thanks ! keep making videos :)

  • @PlasmaChannel
    @PlasmaChannel Жыл бұрын

    Your nitrogen laser is a beautiful build! Far superior to mine I must say. Great video!

  • @thethoughtemporium

    @thethoughtemporium

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks man! Your video was really great too!

  • @JamesBrown-oe7zd

    @JamesBrown-oe7zd

    2 ай бұрын

    @@thethoughtemporium Please do some experiments with a Kozyrev Mirror. I would really like to know the truth in what you experience. Apparently according to the team who work with it and others it seems to really concentrate time and the experience is horrifying to some.

  • @netherstarbuild
    @netherstarbuild Жыл бұрын

    nice!

  • @npiper
    @npiper Жыл бұрын

    Quick reminder that 20-ish years ago nearly everyone had a 20,000 volt flyback transformer just a few feet away from them protected from touch by just a few millimeters of plastic. I am of course talking about CRT televisions and in case you are wondering YES people did die poking around in them with screwdrivers.

  • @edwardvarby4363
    @edwardvarby4363 Жыл бұрын

    Back in the 90s, a guy who worked at an air force base,gave me a laser that he found in storage. some guy had made it in the 70s or 80s in his spare time from a magazine article, but one of my favorite movies was My Science Project. So I had a very high opinion of it. In this video,I recognize a lot of the parts. Mine has an watched board for the base, & plans are ancient photocopies.

  • @DoubsGaming
    @DoubsGaming Жыл бұрын

    Something I don't see anywhere which should be shouted from the rooftops. WHERE EYE PROTECTION WITH LASERS. Not sure if this is the type that needs it if it's a special case, but better not lose an eye.

  • @reinei1

    @reinei1

    Жыл бұрын

    It's a UV pulsed laser, it most definitely needs eye protection (and possibly hand protection as well, but I don't work with UV lasers because the required safety precautions are insanely difficult/costly to fulfill here)

  • @gavinyarwood4752
    @gavinyarwood4752 Жыл бұрын

    For the love of god please please no one ever break this man's heart. If he turned evil we are doomed!

  • @valiantstallion
    @valiantstallion Жыл бұрын

    My lord this is an incredibly well crafted KZread video.

  • @Nobody5555-
    @Nobody5555- Жыл бұрын

    love your content hope to see more soon

  • @draggonhedd
    @draggonhedd3 ай бұрын

    I used to work in laser manufacturing and i sure do love ThorLabs. They are so fun for an industrial supply company.

  • @ExpatZ266
    @ExpatZ2663 ай бұрын

    So cool! I did similar a few decades back but I made my pump with plexiglass and pumped it down with a fridge pump, soooo loud and yeah, I did burn my eyes a little being in the room without full circumference sheilding on the glasses. Lesson kids: ALWAYS wear eye protection that coverover your eyes all the way around to the skin when playing with lasers. What you can't see WILL blind you if you are careless. Loved the vid, subscribed.

  • @t0nI0
    @t0nI011 ай бұрын

    WHAAAT? Dude, love the synergy between disciplines and perceived simplicity you show here. That's beautiful science, I love it. Thank you.

  • @carpemkarzi
    @carpemkarzi Жыл бұрын

    Not what I was expecting to think about today but here it is and it’s fantastic

  • @zubrkabbi
    @zubrkabbi Жыл бұрын

    We missed your videos and mad scientist inspiration!

  • @tisAndyyy
    @tisAndyyy Жыл бұрын

    Brilliant video. Absolutely buzzing I found your channel. It’s exactly the type of content I like to see. Keep up the great work!

  • @BenFortner
    @BenFortner11 ай бұрын

    No period on the T.E.A acronym graphic. This isn't critical feedback, just a very relatable moment. Addicted to your channel now. Thank you!

  • @iPsychlops
    @iPsychlops11 ай бұрын

    I am from Northern California, but this is the year that I am out of the state for my pre-doctoral internship… I am so sad that I’m going to miss seeing all of you when you would all be so close to my home. I hope you do this again!

  • @Midnightmicroscope
    @Midnightmicroscope Жыл бұрын

    I was so excited to see this video! as someone who is a big fan of you and Les’ lab and as someone who happens to have a few vials of purified GFP laying around, I have wondered about this exact idea. I am so excited by the idea of you trying it for real! I hope to see you at OpenSauce.

  • @johnclavis
    @johnclavis Жыл бұрын

    Lasers of diverse colors is beautiful and exciting

  • @vezenik6059
    @vezenik6059 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, this is good. I have never thought living cells could be used for stimulated emission! Now I have gotta build my own!

  • @AIUserInterface
    @AIUserInterface3 ай бұрын

    Wow! Thank you so much for the information. I am now a subscriber and look forward to personally going far down the laser world rabbit hole. Again, thank you so much... GL

  • @Benoit-Pierre
    @Benoit-Pierre Жыл бұрын

    8:33 love the micro blue antennas out of the corners when it's not arcing

  • @bradmitchell5217
    @bradmitchell5217 Жыл бұрын

    Loved this so much!!!

  • @victortitov1740
    @victortitov17407 ай бұрын

    We have the same "lucky reptile" meatcubators in the lab i work in. Some of them after about half a year developed an awful fault: they would crank their setpoint to 60C, and cook the content. It was a real challenge to find the cause of the issue. It seems to be caused by leds in the display not behaving as good diodes, causing false button press detections (because pins are shared).

  • @garethsmith7628
    @garethsmith76287 ай бұрын

    Interesting point you almost make - an arc in air has a negative resistance, that is why there were early transmitters based on spark gaps as this negative resistance overcame the losses in the LC resonator circuit, thus creating a waveform at a frequency. Plenty references on the web if you look. Modern day examples of similar are tunnel didodes that have a V/I curve that has both positive and negative sloped parts of the curve, depending on bias voltage.

  • @freehat2722
    @freehat2722 Жыл бұрын

    I've been waiting many years for more work to be done on bio lasers. Thank you sir.

  • @christopherjones7191
    @christopherjones7191Ай бұрын

    A term that might be useful for adjustment is a micrometer screw, thimble or similar. A very smooth, precise piece of machenery for relatively cheap.

  • @avi5134
    @avi5134 Жыл бұрын

    The amount of information we get here for free boggles my mind every time.... Can't wait to see what's coming up next in the future.

  • @berylcnc
    @berylcnc7 ай бұрын

    You guys have the secret sauce for massive technology advances - cross pollination of these vastly different disciplines. Massive love from Beryl CNC!

  • @firstmkb
    @firstmkb11 ай бұрын

    I came to a dead stop at “huge collection of genetically engineered E. coli.” To a guy with thousands of books, parts for obsolete computer architectures, and a ton of other random stuff “too good to throw away,” that seems weird. Yet you did something with it. I’m envious.

  • @ericlotze7724
    @ericlotze7724 Жыл бұрын

    It will probably be covered in that next video, but I’m intrigued by the Dye from E. Coli at that Makerspace scale. Dye lasers are cool and all, but applying that to other uses of florescent dye (Microscopy Stains, Art, Non-Destructive Testing, etc) would be neat, especially with like how you said it being cheap.

  • @ericlotze7724

    @ericlotze7724

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m intrigued as to your methodology. I’m guessing column chromotography? If I remember correctly that is what the company Gabriel Lienca mentioned that makes blue dye from algae uses. Although if you can extract it with something less intense that is always a food thing. (Although i would love to have you design an Open Source Continuous HPLC System…)

  • @whendricso
    @whendricso Жыл бұрын

    "Meat Laser" might be the coolest/weirdest idea I've seen on KZread. And there is a lot of cool and weird stuff on KZread.

  • @nehemiah1441
    @nehemiah1441 Жыл бұрын

    keep building from scratch I love learning form scratch. Amazing stuff!

  • @tulsatrash
    @tulsatrash Жыл бұрын

    What a refreshing beacon of hope, rigor, and whimsy.

  • @oscargr_

    @oscargr_

    Жыл бұрын

    You mean "bacon" of hope, I think.😅

  • @tanchienhao
    @tanchienhao Жыл бұрын

    Am very pleasantly surprised you made a video on rhodamine 6G as I’ve been looking at it for a while now

  • @user-yr7xi1om3h
    @user-yr7xi1om3h4 ай бұрын

    I spoke to the scientist that created Glo- fish and ive been wanting to learn more about different proteins from jellyfish and other specimens. I never considered they could be made into a laser 😂. Love this channel already.

  • @ricardasist
    @ricardasist Жыл бұрын

    Bro, this was cool as heck. Keep it up, you inspired me to look for a hackerspace in my own town for a radiotelescope project, or making some graphene or making genetically modified bacteria (have no friends to do them with so i am waiting for the day i finally decide to try something)

  • @connorcahill8688
    @connorcahill86889 ай бұрын

    So happy to see a fellow mad scientist on their way to making the potentially possible, possible. I haven’t taken any steps yet but I hope to in the next couple years

  • @PilotPlater
    @PilotPlater Жыл бұрын

    I’m definitely not going to do this, but if I wanted to this video would be a godsend. Well done

  • @AlienRelics
    @AlienRelics11 ай бұрын

    Regarding the paper; make sure you use Bright White paper. Plain typewriter paper won't work well. The reason the UV laser beam is visible, is because Bright White paper gets bright white because it is coated in a chemical that fluoresces under UV, so it looks brighter white than if it were just plain white.

  • @benjaminbirdsey6874
    @benjaminbirdsey687411 ай бұрын

    This is interesting. I worked with a 1-watt CW laser that used Rhodamine 6G. My first thought about using a more complex molecule is that more of the light will be trapped in states that are not optically connected to the ground state. A solution to this for dye lasers is to circulate the dye at a fast rate to keep the dye exposed to the pumping laser "fresh."

  • @HelenaOfDetroit
    @HelenaOfDetroit Жыл бұрын

    Very cool! I wonder if it would be possible to "stack" different proteins so the laser color changes as they die off. Could be a good way to determine life span in such an environment.

  • @chefscorner7063
    @chefscorner70634 ай бұрын

    The 2 funniest moments in this video for me was at around 4 minutes in the narrator was using what are now common terms (Genetic manipulation, building them by design, etc) that were all but science fiction until my 30s!!! And "This is for Educational purposes only" line and then shows exactly how to build everything!!!

  • @KalijahAnderson
    @KalijahAnderson2 ай бұрын

    First video I've seen from you. Fascinating stuff. Subbed.

  • @serta5727
    @serta5727 Жыл бұрын

    Pretty crazy cool idea ❤

  • @serta5727
    @serta5727 Жыл бұрын

    Even thinking about this stuff is out of this world ^^

  • @jtcustomknives
    @jtcustomknives Жыл бұрын

    LOVE your videos

  • @alexo9840
    @alexo9840 Жыл бұрын

    "oh your He-Ne laser is stabilized with iodine? Mine's stabilized with a 16oz filet mignon"

  • @simo9445tsns
    @simo9445tsns Жыл бұрын

    Great video, thanks

  • @DonCarlione973
    @DonCarlione9738 ай бұрын

    I love stuff like this, I'm such a science nerd lol. But this is a real cool video bro, I really like what you're doing! You definitely earned another subscriber. Thank you for stimulating my brain!✌🏼

  • @Financeification
    @Financeification Жыл бұрын

    Man, I love this guy's videos. I wish I grew up nextdoor.

  • @user-qt6rh7qk6f
    @user-qt6rh7qk6f Жыл бұрын

    F***k sake.... Damn.. okay, i just feel like yeah, you're kind of a crazy scientist, and all i just have seen is hyper-mega-ultra awesome. Basically brought a ton of new info for me in like 2-3 first minutes, which i'm happy about. And this speciality is unusual ah... subscribing here with no hesitation, and just hope that'd lead to ton of innovative discoveries. with what i study as an applied to magistracy, i'm glad i found something i can really claim as science. Not in our institution, unfortunately, but at least here. Good luck and tons of patience to you man, thank you for you work! looking forward for further vids, gone checking other stuff you do here

  • @user-lu1pn6to9e
    @user-lu1pn6to9e3 ай бұрын

    I believe this man's work will bring forth some good discoveries one day

  • @layheeee3782
    @layheeee3782 Жыл бұрын

    I wish styropyro helped you out with this, would have been the colab of the century

  • @adolfomotanavarro6553
    @adolfomotanavarro65539 ай бұрын

    For the first 3+ minutes all I've been wondering about how uv tends to kill cells, good thing he did take that into consideration for the video explanation

  • @serloinz
    @serloinz7 ай бұрын

    watching stuff like this makes me realize how much of my life i have let go by without having my childhood want to build things and experiment ..life isn't over tho.. inspiring :)

  • @pyro-millie5533
    @pyro-millie553311 ай бұрын

    Dude, I stick to the electrical/mechanical device side of biotechnology, and Damn you make me proud of my field! Fully channeling “knows enough about electricity to be incredibly dangerous” with that trash laser lol! That’s so cool!!!! You make tissue engineering topics so freaking cool and approachable, even to me, on the “opposite” side of the field, who never wants to touch wet lab stuff personally because of the “breathe wrong and its contaminated and your cells are dead” aspect, but very highly respects those who work with it and advance the technology! (Also I had no clue you can just order custom plasmids and/or dna segments to splice into your cell lines now! That’s Badass!!) I’m gonna be following your channel super closely! This is hardcore mad science!

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