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  • Where do I get 1 of those cutter thingies

  • @supremeninja10 You have to make them, but it's not too hard. I just uploaded a much updated video about making your own foam. On YouTube search for

    THIN FOAM HOT-WIRE CUTTING PROGRESS REPORT

    There is a linked text page that explains the images.

    Slater

  • This is how to teach physics!

  • The muggles know!

  • As a science teacher I am always looking for new things to use in the classroom. I love this and will use it. I will have to go look at the rest of your videos now.

  • seems like troll physics :D

  • Wow, I will not take the time and effort to make one myself.

  • This must be Hogwarts and the students are practicing the "Wingardium Leviosa" spell

  • great work!

  • all I can think about is how bad I would have wanted to do these when I was younger :P im 19 now and I might actually still try it, but it would have been awesome if I had known about this like 8 years ago :P

  • I think those Gliders just hate the cereal they eat... I would If i was them..

  • Music is the reason for this downvote. Otherwise, Awesome!

    

  • Yer a wizard, Harry.

  • They are teaching the dark arts at this school?

  • What if you used a curved surface to push the air?

  • @zaSpeaker I have not investigated it. It would make for some interesting experiments. I have concentrated so far on the efficiency of the gliders. If you make them efficient enough you can push them with only your hands deflecting the air.

    Slater

  • BURN THEM AS WITCHES!

  • Turns AC on. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

  • Could you not cut the foam blocks into the shape of the glider then slice them off? Very cool vid :)

  • @TheAurtherDent It's a good idea. Yes. You might still have to cut out the pattern to get the folds in the right place.

    Slater

  • Still smarter than walk looking down at your iphone.

  • What sorcery is this?!?!?!

  • all it is is static electricity your hands and miltarials such as cardbord,foam and stuff of that sort poduce static electricity its the same thing as you geting shocked by somebody or taking the packing off of pop corn and it gets stuck to your skin well you can power stuff by that and in this case he is powering the glider with static electricity you can make this your self

  • @imbadson I do have a page about levitation with static electricity. But that's not what's happening in this video. As you move the board, air "relative wind" rushes up and over. If you can keep your glider in that upwash of air, you can "soar" it.

    Slater

  • @imbadson It has nothing to do with static electricity. This is the air that is deflected off the top of the board/hands, that's why if you go faster the glider will go higher until it goes above the air stream.

  • @imbadson Please never have children.

  • How in the world

  • To me the song is catchy!

  • I still don't get it completely. :(

  • escola de super dotados he?

    pq so tem nerd ae kkk

  • hi slater

    

  • Well done! I will take a look at your instructions. Thank You

  • this is so cool

  • @sciencetoymaker where can i get the patterns to do the jagwing glider

  • @axelailton I can't put links into these comments, but in the text explanation above there is a link about surfing foam gliders. Part 6 has a jagwing pattern for foam.

    Slater

  • how can i cut foam sheets? :s

    please answer @sciencetoymaker :))

  • @TheAxel301 Look at the text description to this video (you might have to reload the page because I just added to it). I can't put links here, but it's there: the link to the instructions, patterns, thin foam, etc.

    Good luck.

    Slater

  • @sciencetoymaker

    wheres the pattern for the mosquito glider?

    pls reply

  • @jerielho1234 The Mosquito has evolved into the Baby Bug. I can't put links in comments but see the text just below the YouTube viewer.

    Slater

  • @eightysixthlight Yea im in 7th grade now and honestly i wished i had a teacher like him. :(

  • @ sciencetoymaker G'day, again.... Brilliant. Thanks for doing it open source..! I do that, too.

    For a laugh, check my clip "SunFoil Mk-1 Genesis..." to see the opposite end of the spectrum of Recycled Styrofoam, to make the Core-Block of a Faceted-Aerofoil/Omni-Directio­nal Solar-Array, for automotive-use at 100

    Km/Hr. 'Twas thick, & ckunky, but it worked; drag-neutral at 90 Km/Hr, & reduced the Car's Aero-Drag-burn 1% at 100 Klicks ! Search 'sunfoil', & enjoy!

  • amazing man!

  • so wait the new one flys very slow and is accurate then the other one. please reply slater

  • @kerriechapa210 I've made instructions for origami (paper) gliders. It's a good project, but not for beginners. Even telephone book paper is heavier than thin sliced (.5mm for small gliders) EPS (expanded polystyrene, the white kind) foam. So the paper ones travel much faster than foam ones. It is possible to make a simple hot wire cutter to cut discarded packaging foam. Nichrome wire is very cheap, only pennies per foot.Search for the video Walkalong Foam Glider Progress Report for the latest.

  • hack :/

  • when will you be releasing the instructions?

  • @37123321abc I'm working on them now. I want to get it right.

    Slater

  • Please show me how to make that PLEASE

  • @23BBQ If you click on the link in the text area you can see the recent progress report video. My students are testing the latest designs and I will create the instructions then.

    Slater

  • Please show me how to make that PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSE

  • Outstanding!

  • I love the safe foam wire cutter idea! I made a dangerous wire cutter a few years back which I will now get rid of! Thanks! I will try this.

  • how do i build that

  • @kyvegas00 There is a link to the latest developments in walkalong gliding in the text area.

    Slater

  • But , Will it blend ?

  • @chelu252 no but i think you can use paper from the phone book

  • how thit you build that

  • nc1

    

  • how do you make this?

    

  • Very GOOD!!

  • where can i get the plans?

  • It is a great video,I learn from it and make my walkalong glider. The glider can fly very slowly and stable,it is easy to make and to learn for my primary school students in science class, I chang plastic straws into paper article to adjust center gravite as other video was playing.Thank you so much.

    yehdaryl 1 月 以前

  • Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much

  • 0:50 hes chewing gum referral! lol...

  • wow

    i wish i was in that science class

    all we do in our grade 9 science class is write notes :P

  • That looks really good! I have foam cutting equipment so I will have to try this for sure. Bill Kuhl

  • rad

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