Maybe not water per-se, but with this simple technique you can turn one of the most abundant materials on earth, into a highly explosive gas.

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Experiment I tried with the HHO generator made in a previous project: http://bit.ly/WaterFuelConverter

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What do you get when you combine water with a homemade electrolyzer and a car battery? BOOM!

In a previous project, I built a generator that uses electricity to convert water into a very powerful fuel. The amount of electricity available determines how much gas can be produced. I’ve got this hooked up to my car battery and have produced up to 5 liters per minute. I’ve even tried powering it with a makeshift hand-crank generator, but obviously the gas production is slower. So just how powerful is the gas? Watch the video to find out!

The gas is just a mixture of the H2O molecules broken down into their gaseous elements of two parts Hydrogen and one part Oxygen, which combine as H2 and O2 gas. This is sometimes called HHO, or Hydroxy gas. I used a bbq ignitor to see if the bubbles will pop.

Some people might ask what the purpose of the bubbler is. It helps clean the gas, but more importantly, it acts as a flame arrestor in the event of a flashback. The bubbler cap is just pressed on, so if there’s a tiny flashback explosion, the worst thing that happens is the cap pops off. If the bubbler’s a little low on fluid then be careful, because now the gas has a place to build up, and if you were to get a flashback in this situation, it could be a little more dramatic. It’s helpful to keep the bubbler full, so I made mine detachable for ease of use.

Cast away on a deserted island? Here’s a survival technique for making a fire with the most basic of resources. How to make a fire rubbing 2 sticks together!

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Samoan show – Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC) – Laie Hawaii.

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A friction fire made by the “Fire Plow” method is not as easy as it looks. Practicing with the right woods and techniques is invaluable to being prepared for an actual emergency. I used dried wild hibiscus wood, which in my experience is the easiest wood to do this with. I’ve heard that dried sotol wood is also very easy.

The Samoans say that any type of wood can be used to make a friction fire, and it’s important that both sticks come from the same piece of wood.

I’ve tried many different woods and been successful with amazing amounts of smoke, but thus far haven’t had any success in developing a coal. It’s probably my technique, which I hope I can master over time, but I’ve found very little information on the subject, and nobody who’s actually done it with wood other than hibiscus or sotol.

Is there energy hidden inside your pocket change? Convert pennies into make-shift batteries that can drive small current devices like LED’s and calculators.

Many people have asked how long the green LED stayed on. Surprisingly, it was bright for 2-1/2 weeks before finally fizzling out!

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TV Hack: http://bit.ly/MegaSolarScorcher
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Balloon Cannon: http://bit.ly/WaterCannon
Fuel From Water: http://bit.ly/WaterFuelConverter

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Project Inspired By: Julie Yu http://www.exo.net/~jyu/activities/penny%20battery.pdf

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LEGALITIES: Some people have asked about the legality of treating pennies in this manner. The federal law states that there are exceptions made for use as “educational, amusement, novelty, jewelry, and similar purposes as long as the volumes treated and the nature of the treatment make it clear that such treatment is not intended as a means by which to profit solely from the value of the metal content of the coins.” For more information, see: https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2007/04/16/E7-7088/prohibition-on-the-exportation-melting-or-treatment-of-5-cent-and-one-cent-coins

This is a wet-cell battery. Pennies newer than 1982 are nearly 98% Zinc.

The redox reaction between the copper and zinc metals allow electrons to flow and each cell provides around 0.6 volts of electric potential.

Here is how to light up an LED and power a calculator using some loose pocket change!

I found this link that helps explain the reaction and why it works: http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/c123/battery.html

Basically, a galvanic cell consists of at least two half cells, a reduction cell and an oxidation cell. Chemical reactions in the two half cells provide the electrons for the galvanic cell operations. Copper ions gain electrons (reduced) while zinc ions give them up (oxidized). = (redox)

An electrolyte like salt water or vinegar helps get the metals into ions. Electrons flow through the electric conductors connecting the electrodes, as ions flow through the salt bridge.

The overall reaction of the galvanic cell is: Zn + Cu2+ = Zn2+ + Cu

Be the coolest person on the block by making it rain candy!! This is how to up-cycle sprinkler parts into a high power Candy Cannon that will launch candy 100 feet in the air!!! It’s cheap to make, and a huge hit at birthday parties.

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This was an original design

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Can you actually make it rain candy? This gives new meaning to the term chocolate rain, and you can bet this is a project that will make you popular at birthday parties.

Introducing the Candy Cannon.

Not really ninjas .. 🙂 Just a group of friends trying to stay in shape and have fun. Here’s some activity in 2012. Thanks to everyone who dropped in and worked out some energy!

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Today we’re doing some kitchen chemistry using common household items. This is the type of cooking that gets me excited, because I’m experimenting with recipes for solid-state rocket fuel.

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Thanks to NightHawkinLight for tips and troubleshooting on getting my first rocket to launch successfully! http://www.youtube.com/user/nighthawkinlight

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Smoke Bombs: http://bit.ly/HomemadeSignalFlares
Metal Melter: http://bit.ly/MetalMelter
Exploding Water: http://bit.ly/H2OExplode
Paper Rockets: http://bit.ly/PaperRockets

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http://www.jamesyawn.net/skillet/large/index.html

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This recipe calls for a 60/40 mix of KNO3 and white table sugar by weight, and I’m going to make a 100 gram batch, so I’m adding 60 grams of stump remover first, followed by 40 grams of granulated white sugar.

I’ll need some sort of container to hold this in, and I’m thinking these Mega Block Legos might work. At this point, the mixture is just runny enough that it can be coaxed into the container. It takes about 60 grams to fill this red block, and when I’ve cooked up a little more, I’ll add that to the blue one. It’s darker in color because it cooked longer, and generally speaking, I think the less it is cooked, the better.

Another batch was made using a mix of 58% Stump Remover, 29% Sugar, and this time I used 13% Corn syrup, and 30mL water. The water was cooked out the same way as the last, and then about 1 gram of homemade rust powder was added, and stirred in throughly. When it was ready, it looked like a creamy chocolate frosting, and I packed that into the green LEGO. I may have accidentally trapped an air bubble inside.

Overall I think I’m happiest with these mixtures using the rust. With a different homemade casing that actually has a nozzle, I was able to get a successful rocket launch that I think went a couple thousand feet high.

Here’s a way you can turn a mousetrap into a powerful handgun that shoots up to 40 feet! It launches projectiles with both power, and precision. Cheap, easy and affordable! Cost about $1.00

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Candy Cannon: http://bit.ly/CandyCannon
Gravity Puzzle: http://bit.ly/GravityPuzzle

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Grant Thompson – An original idea.

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I used the Tomcat brand of mousetraps because of the little yellow bait pad that came with them. I’ve since found the Victor brand carries a similar pad that would probably work as well.

All you really need to convert these into a mini handheld catapult are some simple tools, 2 screws, and a small piece of wood to use as a handle.

Projectiles like Airsoft BBs shoot forward over 40 feet, with speed, and relative accuracy.

I printed off a simple target, and glued it to a cardboard frame to use for practice. Amazingly, the gun fires very consistently with regard to speed and direction.

Here’s a microwave oven transformer that’s been modified into a dangerous little device. Now it can pump out 800 amps of electrical current, so let’s use it to melt some metal!

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Microwave Hack: http://bit.ly/MicrowaveHacking
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Stick Welder: http://bit.ly/HomemadeStickWelder
Spot Welder: http://bit.ly/SpotWelder

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Project Inspired By:

codemsan

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Burning galvanized metal may release toxic Zinc Oxide fumes. This project is extremely dangerous and should not be attempted without adult supervision and adequate training. Misuse, or careless use, of tools or projects may result in severe electric shock, cardiac arrest, serious injury, permanent damage to equipment and property, and/or death. Use of this video content is at your own risk.

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By modifying the secondary coil on a MOT, the transformer is converted from a high voltage/low current device into a low voltage/high current metal melter. The first MOT in the video produces just over 500 amps, and the second one is capable of nearly 800 amps.

Any metal that can conduct such low voltage electricity acts as a resistor between the electrode wires, and heats up due to the extreme electrical friction.

I plan to make a new project turning this into a more proper and useful spot welder, although I can find very little use for a spot welder at the moment.

You can look, but don’t touch! These arcs of plasma are lethal enough to kill on contact! In this project We’re using an old Microwave Oven Transformer (MOT) to extract some traveling electric arcs.

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Music by Jason Shaw (Essense2-1)
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codemsan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yYnaOoCfQ&feature=share&list=UU5ajgGDvaAmOEA71jO9QD8Q

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You probably shouldn’t try this at home. This project is extremely dangerous and should not be attempted without adult supervision and adequate training. Misuse, or careless use, of tools or projects may result in severe electric shock, cardiac arrest, serious injury, permanent damage to equipment and property, and/or death. Use of this video content is at your own risk.

PLEASE NOTE: If you attempt to duplicate this project, I suggest wearing THICK INSULATED RUBBER GLOVES, and using a piece of PVC TUBING for your chicken/safety stick. The gloves I wore, as well as the wooden safety stick, are poor insulators and I used them only because they were what I had on hand, and I was aware and comfortable with the risks, but I cannot recommend they will protect from electric shock. In any case, always keep one hand behind your back when dealing with HV to reduce the risk of an electrical current from traveling through your heart and sending you into cardiac arrest.

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By tapping into the secondary coil of an unmodified Microwave Oven Transformer (MOT), and hooking up to a makeshift diverging spark-gap, it’s possible to extract a visible short circuit!

These high voltage arcs are probably over an amp in current, and at over 1,000 volts, can be instantly fatal if touched.

As the arc is formed, the surrounding air is ionized and heated, causing the arc to rise. It will travel up the diverging spark gap, sometimes called a “Jacob’s ladder” until the arc is so weak it breaks.

This project is dangerous and isn’t of much practical use as far as I can tell, but was a way to visibly see electricity in plasma form.

Because the MOT is unballasted, you can expect the current draw to get so high that the breaker will trip every-time if allowed to continue for an extended period of time.