Black Balloon Burst with a Twist

This instructable and video combine the balloon in a balloon trick with the properties of a Phoenix green laser pointer from Wicked Lasers. Properties of the Phoenix and other lasers can be discussed at the laser forum.

"Posted by Laser Community member: tchplant"

Step 1: List of materials.

You will need a black balloon, crystal clear balloon and a laser such as a 75mW Phoenix green laser. Buy your balloons in bulk. With all of the variations on this theme, you will be going through a lot of them.

Comments

[Trinity]

this has nothing to do with the properties of the laser. it makes the black one bust because the clear one absorbs almost none of the energy form the laser but the black one absorbs almost all of it

[chibiwind]

because of the colour of the balloon or am i missing something?
Kinda like polar bears?

[tchplant]

Can you do this with a flashlight or a steak knife? No, neither have the properties of a laser. However, I agree this also deals with the properties of the balloons. A candle burns because of the properties of both the candle and the match that lit it.

[berky93]

but although this properties of lasers in general affect this trick, the fact that the laser he used is a phoenix has nothing to do with it. I can pop balloons with my phoenix, I can pop them with my core. the only difference is with a more powerful laser they burst faster or without aid.

[Weissensteinburg]

Very cool =]

[Weissensteinburg]

you might upload the video to youtube...38 mb is a lot to download just for a movie.

[Derin]

696 mb is too much for an ubuntu live cd .iso

[chibiwind]

how is this relevant?

[m85476585]

Then download a distro with an online install disk. It downloads only the packages you want. I don't know if Ubuntu has something like that, but I know there is one for Fedora. The ISO is something like 14mb.

[zimmemic25]

but it hads to download all packages during install. so if u install 3 fedoras, it would be 1-2GB and if u install 1000 ubuntus its still 700 MB

[tchplant]

I've taken your suggestion. Thanks!

[Weissensteinburg]

I was hoping you would - now I get to see it =]

[Noodle god]

I would not suggest buying lasers from wickedlasers and chating at lasercommunity. Lasercommunity mutes you for disagreeing with them. Wickedlasers have BAD quality overpriced underspec and bad customerservice.

[davethescubarock]

Where would you recommend then, DragonLasers?

[grue]

no, dealextreme :)

[MadBricoleur]

they don't ship to the US anymore. Something about a problem in the circuit or quality or something...

[grue]

i thought it was a regulation enforced by paypal (their payment provider) and fda

[grue]

the point is that you can't get any lasers over 5mw to us using paypal. so you will probably need a person to recive it for you (preferably in canada or mexico) and ship it to you.

[chibiwind]

Don't fell too bad, in Aus we cant get over 1mW

[MadBricoleur]

yeah. fda (food and drug administration, aka the LAW) prohibits lasers over 5mw without a key switch, time delay, and some other safety features. unfortunately, those features mean more expensive to get US legal lasers. so, yup. you could ship it to a friend in a different country and then ask them ship it to you in a box, which the shipping company probably wouldn't check to see what's inside. Of course, if they do, you're screwed XD

[Pie Ninja]

Just make your own with DVD burners.

[berky93]

darn I really want to try this but my phoenix just went to the great dragon case in the sky...

(if you dont understand that joke don't feel bad, I'm sure most people won't )

[bwool1]

Sorry...

[noobie605]

AWSOME!!! with this trick ill make baloons from bloons tower defence. illput a red in a blue then them in a green then a yellow and then a pink!!!

[jakeonian]

that makes no sense

[Gamer917]

IMMA FIRIN MAH LAZER

[k_man93]

i think the term you are looking for is IMMA CHARGIN MAH LAZER... aww damm, i broke 1 and 2

[Ganoderma]

1&2 only count for raids... And you didn't talk about it ;)

[BlueFusion]

Shh you guys... these people are not familiar with the rules.

[estab]

what do you have against the black ballons

[yummahcupekakez]

AWESOME

[snowboardchamp]

Can you use any laser pointer? or do you have to use one of those high powered lasers?

[grue]

probably at least 50mw, 100+mw is recommended

[snowboardchamp]

thanks, how much are they and where can I get them?

[TH3 R4ND0M H3R0]

Or you could start with the black balloon already popped and then stuff it in the clear and inflate it...

[grue]

lol, that's a really cheap way of doing it

[GEEK1]

amazing

[robo_bob]

that was awesome

[szechuan53]

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[Derin]

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