Comments on: Reubens Tube: Fire sound visualization

By: Jack London

Jack London — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:40:58 +0000

Wow. That’s probably the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. I remember, like the commenter above, they did the same thing on mythbusters. It wasn’t as cool the first time for some reason.

By: peter

peter — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:47:30 +0000

im a physics major at Bethel U, and we have one of these things we use for gen. physics demonstrations of waves… its made of some kind of metal pipe about 6″ diameter with holes (about 1 mm across or so) every centimeter or so. its pretty cool, but nothing new… i wouldnt do it with pvc, it just sounds like a really bad idea

By: Kiran

Kiran — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:26:41 +0000

Wow... thats a great nice demonstration!!!

No graphics, no s/w.... absolute real fire dancing along with the music :)

Kiran, (http://trafficsqueezer.sourceforge.net)

By: rescbr

rescbr — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:06:50 +0000

why don’t use a copper tube? it’s cheap and can stand lots of heat

By: Punkisdread

Punkisdread — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:33:45 +0000

::Trying to hook up my iRiver to my Zippo::

By: justifier

justifier — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:21:15 +0000

hrm, i wonder if i can do this in my physics class. what excuse culd i use?

i am an alevel student so ive got access to everything. hmmm could have some fun here

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:57:30 +0000

what a great demonstration!
wow great music choices and everything!

i thank you for it!

By: crgwbr

crgwbr — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:01:27 +0000

pure awsomeness

By: static

static — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:01:00 +0000

Would stove pipe be rigid enough? copper or black steel would be better choices. Mixing air with the propane before it enters the tube should make nicer flames that resist blowing out. Any way now there is a far out use fore those tiny speakers at the surplus sites. In the event smaller diameter pipe(lighter to handle less expensive) would give the same results.

By: Zeek

Zeek — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:58:21 +0000

Wow that looks awesome, If I had a propane tank and pvc tube I would sooo do that. My friend is in physics over the summer. I’m going to show him this and see if he can get his teacher to do this. I’ll ask if we can do this for a lab for when I’m in physics.

By: Alexander

Alexander — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:13:59 +0000

A much safer solution would be to use metal gaspipe that is cheap, and much more resistant to heat. With the added benefit that you can, you know, actually leave it running.

For the best effect, I have found that putting the holes a little farther apart so that individual flames instead of a single line of flames works the best. It does like to flame out every once in a while, so I put a pilot light on the one side (put a T in the gasline before the speaker, and let it constantly burn) so that it would re-light if it happens to go out on a particularly heavy-hit from the bass.

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:42:26 +0000

I remember when they did this on an episode of MythBusters, really cool to watch!

By: sinerasis

sinerasis — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:35:02 +0000

that’s pretty sweet… I would love to see that kinda thing at a heavy metal bar or something, lining the areas just out of reach on the walls. Maybe in the colder monthes of the year as it might make things a bit warm after a while.

By: Urza

Urza — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:46:13 +0000

H H H
H-C-C-C-H
H H H

sweet. time to build one. :)

By: Apothus

Apothus — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:29:20 +0000

he has used Pvc pipe, 2″ diameter then he has covered the holes with silver reflective tape (possible some kind of adhesive tin)

I so want one of these for my next party, a wikid physcial visulisation for the music, the only thing better would be if you could use a laser to project the wave form of the music onto the wall