1999-07-15|Sunatori's Kids: Projects [ToDo]

Potential Discovery or Invention

Philosophy

• Do not get preoccupied with the detailed facts of what you are learning. Instead, appreciate that what you are learning is a skill set of problem solving.

• Resist peer pressure.

• show
  • respire before holding breath to extend time
  • exhale infinitely by simultaneous inhale/exhale
  • contradiction in mathematics (1.99 < 2.22, 1:99 > 2:22)
  • place one garlic in the microwave oven, observe spinning by steam jet (electromagnetic energy -> thermal energy -> kinetic energy)
  • paperclip floats in water if placed carefully due to Meniscus effect

• 3-D perspective drawing

• attitude
  • always carry a mini book or dictionary to read while waiting for a school bus
  • always write down ideas!
  • always go to the source of the information (not rumours and speculations)
  • solve the root cause of the problem, not symptoms
  • learn how to think
  • success of projects depends on passion, enthusiasm, ownership

• astronomy
  • observe aurora borealis (northern lights)
  • observe meteor showers
  • observe milky way
  • observe double-rainbow (primary ring and secondary ring)
  • observe solar/lunar eclipses
  • observe sunspots with telescope

• bug repellant
  • artificial blood
  • bug-free field with ionised air by static electricity or laser
  • laser blinding
  • ultrasound modulation
  • ultraviolet blacklight

• make multimedia software to teach how to play the guitar

• build a catapult with repulsion force between 2 rare-earth magnets, 1 electromagnet plus an aluminum ring (eddy current)

• build electronic circuits
  • repeating parrot
  • noise canceller with DSP

• build a bagpipe with a straw (cut for reed), a balloon, a pipe with holes

• build a double-toroidal motor

• build an LED display with motion detector at the front door "No Soliciting"

• build an air hockey with a fan and a plate with holes

• build a 0-point energy SMOT, etc.

• build a permanent magnet train accelerator with C-shaped magnets (Permanent Magnet Motor patent)

• build a 3-D upside-down magnetic pendulum (defies gravity)

• build a pulling machine for ski, ice skate, in-line roller skate, etc.
  • battery, snow tire, single wheel, shaft-less motor?

• build a control system with Macintosh computer (Beehive, EZIO, X10, etc.)
  • control LEGO train (go forward, go backward, stop, etc.)
  • joystick control (4 contacts + ground, etc.)

• build a Harrison dual pendulum with magnets instead of springs

• build a Lego model of a house and future extension plans

• build a honeycomb floor with sheet aluminum

• build a hydroponic/aeroponic indoor garden with pots

• build a jello laser by sunlight

• build a kaleidoscope with 1 convex lens and 3 mirrors

• build a kinetic energy flywheel system
  • hermetically sealed vacuum
  • magnetic levitation

• build a laser demo for Expo-Science
  • detector alarm at room entrance

• build a launcher with eddy current (aluminum projectile)

• build a levitation demo with a pencil lead (thin) above rare-earth magnets (checker board configuration)

• build a machine with magnetic spring power

• build a maglev linear-motor model train (high-temperature superconductor)

• build a magnetic levitator with a Nd magnet and 2 large blocks of beryllium (Be)

• build a magnetic toy following a parallel steel track (YouTube)

• build a metal detector

• build a mosquito trap with a box fan and a mesh (NightHawkInLight)

• build a noise cancellation device for an entire room with a DSP chip

• build a robot
  • Contact: Ramiro Liscano >mailto:rliscano@ieee.org<
  • IEEE
  • IEEE
  • EXN
  • EXN
  • CyberRobots (magazine)

• build a paramagnetism experiment with a grapefruit scale

• build a periscope with a prism/mirror

• build a popcorn robot (kernel counter, pop-number counter)

• build a slide rule (logarithmic scale to convert multiplication into addition)

• build a squirrel trap and trap squirrel

• build a Stable Plasmoid at one atmosphere

• build a potato battery power

• build a prism with glass slide and water, etc.

• build a snow shelter with accordion tube

• build a solar chamber generator with fan and liquid with low boiling point

• build a spy sound collector (parabola) and send outdoor bird songs via FM transmitter

• build a telescope with lens (convex-convex, convex-concave)

• build an ultra-light flying toy to fly over a heat pump air exchanger

• build a vortex smoke gun for remote flame extinguisher with smoke ring
  • hot water in cold weather (-20 C)
  • smoke with ammonia and folic acid, cardboard box, saran wrap

• build a water wheel and a water tower with a pop bottle

• build a wind-whistle power generator (panel of whistles, transducer/speaker)

• build an abacus and use an abacus for calculation

• build an air curtain system with top/bottom or right/left air vents

• build an air gun with a plastic tube and 2 balls and 1 stick for compressed air

• build an eddy current launcher to launch aluminum ring

• build an MHD pump with a straw, rare-earth magnets and a 9-V battery

• build an oscillation machine (motor ON when at top, gravity to pull to bottom)

• build an oxygen concentrator by paramagnetism with tubes and magnets

• build an ultrasound refrigerator

• build a piezoelectric propulsion for ships, submarines

• build a microwave gun (magnetron coupling)

• build ice/snow structures
  • ice wall with spraying water at low temperature
  • ice column with dripping water at low temperature
  • clear ice by layering

• build something with junk compact discs

• buy a gear set to reduce speed of motor

• buy a lamination kit

• buy self-lighting candle

• calculate optimum vehicle speed to reach a destination based on fuel consumption rate (curve graph) and distance

• chemistry
  • boil water with ice on top of an inverted beaker (equilibrium)

• click telephone hook to dial and explain pulse dialling

• compare types of paper under microscope (toilet, tissue, glossy)

• compile statistics of Olympic records for countries
  • total of (summer + winter) Olympic medals in running average

• compressed air energy storage system

• concave mirror to make fire, black and white absorption/reflection

• cooking
  • boil eggs in a bath of water without causing an explosion in the microwave oven
  • cook eggs with vinegar
  • cook pasta with boiled water in thermos (emulate Pasta Express)
  • make pizza pockets
  • invert white/yellow by shaking with a stocking
  • remove shell by shaking
  • remove shell by blowing
  • observe that a raw egg starts spinning again after stopping spinning (c.f., boiled egg)

• calcium oxide in water generates heat

• calculate
  • a bat and a ball cost $1.10. a bat cost $1.00 more than a ball. how much does a ball cost?

• copper chloride in aluminum foil generates heat

• create fractal figures with Fractal Domains
  • find a Mandelbot set for generating figures of human body (206 bones), human hand, etc.

• create new website to sell computer games (MaGnUm)

• create X'mas picture

• create origami stack in HyperCard

• debunk urban myths
  • inventors wrongly credited
  • Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize (not Relativity but Photoelectric effect)
  • Nobel Prize for mathematics (Alfred Nobel's "unmarried wife")
  • toxicity of pigeon droppings compared to other birds
  • in a generation, Bill Gates will be credited for the creation of the Internet (GSS)

• demonstrate 2 kinds of ion oxide, black rust protects from red rust

• demonstrate 3 glasses of water for evaporation(no cover, cover, oil film)

• demonstrate greenhouse effect for Expo-Science
  • domes with air, CO2, CH4 with incandescent lamps

• demonstrate speech recognition and speech synthesis

• design Family Coat of Arms Emblem

• design Family Tombstone

• drawing
  • a distorted image reflected by a cylindrical mirror for an upright image

• do not memorise problems/solutions but master the concept

• do Gro Cards
  • create computer games
  • create websites with HTML programming
  • sell creations via eBay

• do IQ test (software, website)

• do laser light show with a HeNe laser and a mirror on a speaker

• do multimedia projects
  • blue screen (with iMovie?)
  • sound track with GarageBand

• do research on the Internet
  • find hormones and their functions

• draw family Coat of Arms

• drop egg 3.5/10 metre without breaking (parachute, bubble, etc.)

• examine a broken remote-control toy car and a broken telephone sets, use parts

• experiments
  • ANARCHY COOKBOOK
  • break a drinking glass with resonant sound
  • try straws with different cross section to see how easy/difficult to suck

• explain acoustics
  • beats by a tone frequency ((n + m) / 2) and a beat frequency (n - m), use 2 flutes
  • howling, oscillation, etc.

• explain concepts
  • 3-D image inside crystal with 2 laser beams
  • 3-D model creation in epoxy liquid with laser beam
  • 3-D image creation by HeadAche4Days
  • explosion or implosion in chemical reaction (2 H2 + O2 -> 2 H2O)?
  • capillary action
  • force (F), power (P), energy (E = Fd = Pt), momentum, torque, etc.
  • how aerofoil produces lift (wing's shape versus angle-of-attack)
  • surface tension
  • chimney effect in a fire (run downwards, not upwards)
  • DTMF (Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency) in Touch Tone telephone
  • electric power = voltage * current, AC/DC, etc.
  • glass is half empty or half full
  • hardware, software, bloatware, vapourware
  • importance of infrastructure
  • lightening rod
  • LCM: Lowest Common Denominator
  • percent and permille
  • quantum-leap biological evolution
  • quantum-leap technology changes
  • radioactive isotopes and half-life
  • saturation
  • set theory (Venn diagramme)
  • S/N (signal-to-noise) ratio
  • sublimation
  • supply & demand curve
  • telomeres DNA aging
  • waves (electromagnetic, acoustic)
  • percent, permille, ppm, ppb, ppt
  • X % of Y % = (X / 100) * (Y / 100)
  • calculations with different base numbers (10-base, 2-base, 16-base, etc.)
  • non-linearity
  • single source versus version control mess
  • step function
  • monomer versus polymer
  • feedback loop
  • fuse to protect short circuit
  • cost of computer (purchase plus maintenance) for Mac and PC
  • WYSIWIG
  • PC giveaway versus wedding paid as long as it is Catholic!
  • marketable concepts/skills and need to continue/upgrade skills
  • fall-back position
  • active versus passive, dynamic versus static
  • private versus public, for-profit versus non-profit
  • sanity check and proof-read
  • vicious circle

• explain shapes
  • arches, domes, spheres for strength
  • geodesic domes with 11 pentagons and ? hexagons

• explain engines
  • Otto cycle, Carnot cycle, Diesel cycle, Stirling cycle, etc.
  • propeller engine, internal combustion engine, gas turbine engine, rocket engine, etc.

• explain electro-magnetics
  • carbon-14 dating
  • comb bends laminar water flow from tap ("polar" molecule)
  • flow of electricity in pure H2O versus H2O + NaCl
  • linear motor
  • maglev with Halbach arrays
  • MHD in water flow containing ions (H2O + NaCl)??
  • voltage surge

• explain Engineering Ring

• explain grey scale instead of black/white
  • food expiry date
  • human skin colour
  • toxicity threshold (ppm, ppb, etc.)

• explain religion (Sunatorianity)

• find adaptive noise canceller DSP chip and build a noise canceller

• fire trace line drawn with hypo liquid

• Genetic Art (GA)

• go to As-Seen-On-TV store

• go to bibliothèque

• go scrap hunting in construction garbage, junkyard
  • power window motors for robots
  • paraboloidal satellite dish to build a sound concentrator

• Halloween costume
  • 2-headed 1-body monster

• have white flower suck coloured water

• HeadAche4Days 3-D

• how to win a Nobel Prize

• ignite steel wool and swing-rotate with a copper wire for fireworks

• Internet
  • CGI programming
  • HTML programming

• investigate
  • on a sunny day, blink to see bright red (blood in eyelid) followed by complementary bright green
  • liquid nitrogen application

• join local clubs
  • rocks and minerals

• Mac to control house via X11 (USB/ADB port)

• make a chain fabric out of metal rings (washers)

• make and play Vikings board game

• make bubbles with detergent in a straw in a very cold weather (-20 C)

• make rubber from dandelions

• make Ginkgo biloba ornamental frames and sell on website
  • real Ginkgo biloba leaves
  • computer graphics of dinosaurs
  • round frame
  • competitor $80 CAD at UBC botanical garden gift shop

• mathematics
  • make 1000 from (8*((8*8)+(8*8)))-(8+8+8) = 888+88+8+8+8
  • put rice on chess board, doubling on next square to show exponential growth

• measure cholesterol level of blood vessel before/after hot bath, pectin intake, etc.

• measure pH level of mouth throughout day/night for cavity by acid research

• memorise
  • memory aid technique (synonym, antonym, acronym)
  • dinosaur names
  • Greek alphabet
  • Internet website home page URL
  • mathematical formula (2*pi*r, pi*(r^2), etc.)
  • periodic table of elements

• modify roof fan for wind generator

• observe a pattern on the surface of the water in a coffee cup

• observe international space station Alpha in the sky with naked eyes
  • International Space Station
  • Heavens-Above

• overlay music pieces and segments on magnetic tape to make orchestra

• participate in activities:
  • Course de boîtes à savon
  • INTEL Science Fair
  • Sand Castle Contest
  • Snow Sculpture Contest
  • Student Paper Competition (IEEE, CCECE, etc.)

• pick and work on entries to Expo-Science, VirezNet, ExploraVision
  • NSTA Static Content
  • Toshiba

• picnic at Chaudière Falls

• play CD-ROM
  • Scientifix (Beppo)
  • Canadian Geographic Explorer

• play with Neural Net software

• play lottery $1 CAD/week

• practice touch-typing

• programme
  • a graphical hamburger ordering system
  • airplane seat assignment software

• programming with AppleScript Studio

• put a frog into liquid nitrogen

• put baking soda in boiling vegetables to preserve colour, may destroy vitamins

• put ultrasound room measure to car front

• read newspaper clips on Science, Engineering, Technology

• reverse engineer broken telephone, radio, etc. to circuit diagramme

• scratch aluminum in water and observe bubbles (Al + H2O -> H2 + ?)

• scientific experiments
  • centrifuge to separate materials

• send message to Luc/Max for HyperGames download

• send letter to Discovery You Asked For It (mutated tree)

• set daily alarm clock at 20:30 to go to bed and read

• set priority to avoid obsession
  • learning Pokemon games OK, not memorising character names
  • Spice Girls songs OK, not individual spice girls

• show infinite images of self with 2 parallel mirrors

• show slinky

• solve Rubik's Cube

• start coin collection

• start stamp/coin collection

• study chromosomes and make it a DNA organism evolution game

• Subject-Verb-Complement/Object

• view and make holograms

• visit places
  • Diefenbunker ($10 CAD/person)
  • Laflesh cave ($12 CAD/person?) in winter

• visit the court house and observe court proceedings

• visit websites
  • UQAH BD programme
  • Schoolnet/Rescol

• what is science?
  • imperfect naming ("-" for electron, species, etc.)
  • nature is nameless
  • Rosalind Franklin didn't share in the Nobel for DNA. Maurice Wilkins stole her crystallography from Rosalind Franklin's lab and passed it on the Terrible Twins.

• White Swan toilet paper joke

• Who were the real inventors/discoverers?
  • airplane (Wright Brothers or Langley?)
  • DNA double helix (James Watson & Francis Crick or Rosalind Franklin?)
  • FM radio (David Sarnoff or Edwin Armstrong?)
  • geodesic dome (Buckminster Fuller or German dome & soccer ball?)
  • light bulb (Thomas Edison, Joseph Swan (England) or William Sawyer?)
  • radio (Guglielmo Marconi or Reginald Fessenden?)
  • telephone (Alexander Graham Bell or Elisha Gray or Antonio Meucci?)
  • television (David Sarnoff or Philo Farnsworth?)

• write "Who Am I?" biography (Integrated Science) for website home page

• write own obituary as a career guide or a list of lifetime goals

• write down ideas in a notebook

Expo-Science

• Michelson interferometer
  • 1 laser pointer, 2 prisms glued together (beam splitter), 2 mirrors, 1 projection lens (photodetector)

• Artificial Muscle to push a wheel

• Sunatori's Laminar-Flow Standing Wave

• Sunatori's Scotch-Tape Luminescence
  • head cover for a mini dark room

• microwave oven (cup of water, too, for safety)
  • cook a CD-ROM (eddy current sparks)
  • light up a light bulb
  • explanation of polar H2O molecule by a comb bending water stream
  • cooking eggs SAFE or NOT? (demo)

• an egg trick
  • put it into a pantyhose, rotate it many times until the shining light does not differentiate white/yellow inside, then cook it (YouTube)
  • one egg in water to sink, another egg in salt water to float
  • upright egg with salt particles
  • detection of uncooked/hard-boiled cooked egg by spinning
  • crack the pointy part before boiling for easy shell removal
  • put the boiled egg in a glass and shake it for easy shell removal (YouTube)

• fruit fly eggs in coffee beans
  • microscope demo
  • hypothesis of surviving heat/pressure of re-entry of Space Shuttle Columbia

• HeNe (red) laser's internal workings

• Guitar playing robot (actuators for strings)

• determine cost effectiveness of ground beef
  • microwave oven to drain fat
  • regular, semi-lean, lean, extra-lean

• invent flowerless clover by genetic control of flowering (turn off genes)

• Science Hobbyist: Exhibit Ideas

• do an experiment, put an ice cube in microwave oven in outside temperature -20 C to see if heating mechanism by polarised H2O is true

• build an LED array with Edison socket for integrated door light and street number (parallel Vdd/Vss matrix throughout)

• build a wind power generator with a storage battery (spiral type on the roof!)

• build an eddy-current gravity brake (elevator safety device)

• open batteries and compare different types (chemicals) and draw diagrams

• skating music control with CD remote control
  • study range of remote control

• Science of Pokémon
  • use SI (MKS) system throughout
  • pick 10? Pokémons?
  • make a table of Pokémons of characteristics
  • mass (kg), weight (kgw), height (m) of each
  • force (N) based on mass and gravity
  • colour in frequency (Hz) and wavelength (nm)
  • sunlight absorption
  • make histograms for random/Gaussian distributions
  • probability of winning
  • names start with alphabet
  • demonstration
  • HeNe (red) laser absorption "Laser Attack"
  • motor for a rotating magnet "Dancing Pokémons"
  • free-fall speed ranking (independent on mass, dependent on area for air friction)
  • mapping to element on Periodic Table of Elements

• Tree Growth Algorithm (HyperGames)
  • different tree growth patterns

• compare science fiction predictions and real science
  • how much old movies correspond with today's reality achieved

• design dome house (igloo, geodesic, etc.)

• plastic cards (magnetic strip, smart card, RFID)

• analyse music and develop algorithm to categorise into Hard Rock, Easy Listening, Jazz, etc.

• stuff a balloon
  • H2O
  • a soft teddy bear
  • Smarties package

• build a homopolar motor
  • a rare-earth magnet at the bottom of a battery, an M-shaped copper wire

• build World's Easiest DIY Electric Train - YouTube

• blow breath into a cup to fog the surface, then suck air to magically defog the surface

• demonstrate Scotch-Tape luminescence (triboluminescence)

• use a laser pointer (red only) to turn off street lights

• explain space-shuttle tiles

• explain aerogel

• plot specific gravity versus time (days) in wine-making

• mercury (Hg) drop in a magnetic field (ring magnet?) to slow down descent

• cloak with 4 lenses
  • convex - concave - concave - convex
  • place an object at the focal point

• take a photo of a remote control LED with a smartphone to show visibility

• How to Scramble Eggs Inside Their Shell - YouTube

• How to Quickly Peel a Boiled Egg in a Glass of Water - YouTube

• visual greenhouse effect demonstration
  • 2 transparent domes with one air, the other CO2 (CO2 cartridge)
  • 2 thermometers
  • window film for infrared heat control

• think how to use thermal inertia and convection to keep the interior of the house cool in summer

Solar Car Race

• install a switch

• add a flywheel energy storage

• add a wind turbine

• add an inclining solar panel for optimal direction

Websites to Visit

• European Space Agency (ESA)

• Canadian Space Agency (CSA)

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

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