29 thoughts on “Flogo – A Floating Foam Logo Generator

  1. Why waste good Helium when Hydrogen might add some effects potential?

    Dyes+ Lasers with enough Testes to provide Foam Ignition- even on a “Per Color” granularity being one path to investigate.

    This is a VERY nice basic concept Hack that may end up spawning many Stunning derivatives.

    I will be trying to clone this someday.

  2. Helium is a non-renewable gas. Any bulk users of helium (eg NASA) are careful not to waste it; not just to keep costs down but because they know it’s non-renewable.

  3. Ok, that’s beautyfull. But… :

    -How much soap did they spread in environnement just to make their demo ?
    -Is hackaday the right place to speak about something that shows its patent number everywhere on the website ?

  4. @notmyfault2000: Helium is refined from natural gas deposits. It’s too light to stay in the atmosphere and eventually floats off into space. Natural gas reserves are directly proportional to helium reserves.

  5. This is a neat machine, would be great at our meetings (not everyone listens) colored bubbles would be great but UV bubble mix would be better and have a much cooler effect at night. Sell these to the ravers and you have your main market.

  6. @Trivino:

    I’m just a working stiff often called a “Senior Engineer” So bear with me a moment while I flesh out the concepts behind my comment.

    In one overly simplistic explanation:

    Dyes WILL burn if you pump enough thermal energy in. Power level= Testes AkA “Balls” in crude terminology..

    I’ve been asked by PM to expand on this for a few folks waiting for me to prototype something.. Be patient on a model- my Real Soon Now list’s a bit full. But for the moment- here’s the fleshing out:

    Your basic “bubble” of any soap based chemistry tends to be mostly transparent at the single bubble level. That “mostly” qualifier applies to effects like scattering and diffraction which in bulk masses of bubbles produce an appearance of “white” as the reflectivity averages a net balance.

    Which makes any color of Laser inherently be reflected plus diffused by each bubble’s inner and outer wall. Further details like power per unit of area calcs are out of scope here.

    The simplest videos showing the effect are those of a red Laser bursting a blue balloon inside a red balloon.

    Thus, dyes could potentially reproduce the effect in dyed masses of bubbles.

    Oh, there’s a whole basic field we could play “Laser Whack-A-Bubble” in. By tuning dye and bubble ratios to interact with Lasers of varied color, focus and beam diameter.

    IF any of us make something AWESOME from all this- do please open source it as a matter of Karma..

    Using 100% O2 in some foam areas and 100% H2 in others could make it go from ignition to detonation..

    Don’t try that one– EVER, lest ye wish to meet Darwin.

    The history lesson to close this for now describes how a Razor blade became a unit of relative Laser power:

    http://www.techrepublic.com/article/geek-trivia-measures-for-leisure/6070431

  7. someone please give idea about how to make helium gas at home with cheap and accident free method. or can we use hydrogen in place of helium, what would be effect if we use home made hydrogen

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