killing mosquitoes like its the year 3000 

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You've really achieved something when you make styropyro call something cursed and act genuinely afraid of something.

Well done allen, you've officially scared styropyro

Love that Kevin is credited as "backdoor scientist."

Cool idea here to make this more effective: 1.) Make the square larger, much larger. About the size of a 2x2 canvas. 2.) Weld or attach a hanging hook to two sides of it. Make sure they are opposite. 3.) Change the press and hold button to an "on/off" switch. 4.) Grab some chains, go out on your deck, and center the square in between the railing and the wooden beam directly above it, drill the ends of the chain into both sides, and stretch them taut. Itll hold the square in place and upright. 5.) Get a cheap Lasko fan with an extendable base, a 16 inch or so would be fine, and place it in front of the grid on the deck, as close as you can to the lasers themselves. Face the fan towards you and away from the grid, and turn that sucker on. It'll create a suction vortex that will grab any mosquitoes and other flying pests that wander too close to the grid, and suck them through. Also, you don't need to worry about attracting them. My theory is that the lasers will transfer heat to the metal square, through the mirrors over time. And they will transfer heat to the mirrors themselves. Mosquitos can see thermal energy with their eyes (how they determine if something is alive and has pumping blood), so they will likely see the mirrors and metal being heated up, and fly on in to check it out. You have yourself an automated, laser grid, mosquito zapper.

I'm really glad you got adult supervision for this project

When Styropyro says it’s cursed, it’s *really* cursed

The chaos and fails in this project are just perfect. Love seeing your creative engineering work and having fun with it! 👏🔥

This is awesome! Love seeing the creative engineering work and what fun!

I love how these three creators are slow descending from "Well intentioned backyard inventors" to straight up "Mad scientist villian origin story in the making".

I’ve never had this much fear for a man’s safety since I found an Australian “maker” channel

styropyro is genuinely terrifying. I have to make friends with him as soon as I can so that if he ever has a bad day and snaps..I'll be on the good books

I just want to hang out with these guys some day. Their energy is contagious

When you make Styropyro nervous you're on the right track

Allen saying “Dang, that one works way better” was hilarious

I love you both! Thanks for the content!

if you could build servo mounted mirrors that create a fan pattern pointed away from you, with the laser being guided quickly back and forth within that fan pattern you might be able to get the bugs from an armchair 5 feet away.

I love when RU-vid scientists team up to scare the crap out or each other

Ah, yes! Kevin, the famous "backdoor scientist".

Hope you’re doing well! Can’t wait for more content!

That scene from resident evil kept me up staring at the clock on my wall for a full hour when I was about 12 years old, long with the rest of the movie which also terrified me

I love how the whole video is rendered pointless with the "That one works way better". Allen is a genius.

Allen is the one person who's officially scared styropyro on camera.

How Ted Talk allowed a FAKE idea?

This is really fun to watch. Making that thing is even more fun yeah? I feel so happy whenever science nerds are having fun with their brains combined. More power to you guys!

Notice how Sytro Pyro brought his own laser safety goggles.

Tbh, Allen's laser grid fly swatter was cool af but I think Styro's tesla gun was much more effective at dispatching insect swarm than waving around a death star racket.

I have a practical idea that I made in 2nd grade. Its a hammer, with a magnet on the end, and a compartment in the handle for nails that have holes with magnets that fit the nails in so you can grab them without the rest of them falling out. The prototype was layered cardboard and spray paint, and the nails were glued into their holes.

This would actually be a great video to do a ted talk about, maybe do a presentation on tech hype vs practical application in reality

You should get a super strong air fan, constrain it’s exhaust, and put the laser at the end. So the mosquitoes will get sucked and blasted into their doom. (I think it will be fun with the electric shocker as well)

The tracking laser mosquito net was very real, and was a proof of concept in a "tech to prevent malaria" challenge. It didn't track the mosquitoes by appearance, but by the frequency of their wing flapping. It used a high-speed camera and was so sensitive to this it could even differentiate between species of mosquitoes and kill only ones deemed unwanted (who wouldn't label all of them as unwanted?). With a proper powered IR laser you can easily galvo scan a large area (consumer ILDA galvos can hit 60k points per second) and toast the skeeters.

WOW that TED show idea was my idea before I see it on TED. but your idea is genus too and much more easier to do ... I have learned a lot from your video ,,, Thank you! and for sure "like"

@ 6:01. Kevin - "Backdoor Scientist" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Congratulations to Allen to make Styropyro scared of his laser contraption. An achievement for the ages.

That's quite the achievement for Allen, building a laser that scares RU-vid's best supervillain Man I love Styro's videos, so cool to see him here

God, his humor is so appropriate yet dark. And the outro was the best part. Man that's gold.

here you can see the silicon valley phenomenon play out in its entirety 1) idea for an upgrade or disruption cribbed from sci fi or other speculative nonsense 2) that turns out to be really hard so make a scaled down version that omits the most important part of what made the idea interesting in favor of the thing that seems coolest 3) that's still really fucking hard so you scale it down even further 4) final product is far inferior to the thing it was meant to replace. nobody wins.

Congrats Allen! I think I can speak for many of us mosquito haters who feel that it is very important that you continue to pursue improving upon this technology until you create a version that can be submitted to the retail sector. Do it for humanity, bro! 🙂

Allen, Backyard, and Styro in one room making a sketchy laser, truly a match made in oblivion.

Allen, I’m sitting on a pile of ideas and videos. I am inspired by your work and have been watching since 2015- watching super backer I had a question… What do you do about demonitized videos ? How can you afford to make these videos without monitization ? Are sponsors your only source of funding ??? What are the benefits to making videos that you love vs videos that the algorithm loves ??? I know you may probably never respond… But even being able to manifest these questions- was enough motivation for me to move forward- Even though you tricked me into believing you were Canadian with your news network… I still love ya ❤ Biggest boomer~ Ani ❤

I love seeing Styro act naturally, I want more of that side of him in his own videos!

Dude basically made a protosabre, purpose built for mosquitoes. I love humanity sometimes.

I'd love to see a version 2 with a tighter grid pattern over a larger area with a UV light mounted behind to attract the bugs through!

9:51 bold to play with laser fly swatter next to a propane torch

Bugs are attracted to lights, right? Turn the normal light off and just leave the laser on.

an obvious improvement to the efficiency would be to have proximity sensors on the racket so the lasers only turn on for a split second when the mosquito is within the grid.

You probably could set it on a jar with an intake fan underneath to try to use a bit of air current to pull them in.

I had one of those electric fly swatters that you tried to convert. I love that thing, but the weirdest thing is that they usually don't kill the flies. They get back up again after about an hour, so i think it just stuns them.

Allen, styropyro and Kevin(backyard scientist) is trio that should have never been. Well done Allen, you have literally scarred Styropyro for life..

Allen, make one that has a tiny LED light in the center and make sure it's well-sealed, then set it on a rotating motor and the LED light will attract bugs and we saw it hits more bugs when in motion, so I feel that may help without having to do a huge rebuild, sick invention, btw

I love how he bring the idea we all imagine only, to real life

Dude I seriously thought you would end up with A Time Machine by the end of the video! NICE WORK!!!

instead of using opencv or similar for image tracking, just track the difference in pixels and black spots, it will be way more accurate this way, basicially having an angular resolution equal to the pixel density and distance of the object. Then just accept the fact that it will zap anything in front of it.

You should take the microwave generators and try shortening the wavelength to short enough to kill a 1mm fly. Basically making a high density infrared beam of bug killing destruction (but more likely to shock and kill the user)

I really like this collaboration, you guys should do more of them. Pretty please! 🤔🤙

What if you used an revolver style set up for the iron man hand blaster? Using 22.c blanks like you did for the jumping thing? You would be able to make it offset so the chamber is centered. And for the thrust you could also use the gas to. So pushing gas through an separate tube maybe a small 5-10mm tube which ould cause for the affect of the fire ball. And the force of the 22.cal blank could fire out a projectile. Which you could use an resin round with an ld and an small cell battery to make it like it. Using an magnet to separate the cell from the led inside the resin round and then when it fires it releases so it looks like an bright white or blue bolt firing. There's also another youtuber who is the chemistry guy who uses lasers and electricity. He recently did one video where made points about current etc. He could make the one the bad guy had with the whips. Iff he made an fiber glass style whip with long strands of conductive metals inside (hair thin) and made then separate an say one inch gaps and just close to he surface. The lightning bolts would travel along the surface allowing for the arcs to travels. When he whips it to the grown or an metal object it would create the plasma sparks. The projectile for the Aron man glove is fair given he used micro missiles on the top section (from the back of the hand). Also as an fuel what about using an mixture of gas an O2. It's an 15% methane to 02 ratio for an explosive reaction (variable). There are solid state fuels but you could make capsules like he co2 capsules to hold the hydrogen and O2. And using the switch system you could press one to fill the other to fire. I'd say using the finger switch to fill with the gas and the one on the wrist to fire both the gas and the blank. This would mea that you could make it to fit in the exact sizing as the iron man suit. If you wanted to be more technical you could like at firing plasma bolts. If you can find an way to separate plasma (as matter) and using an electromagnetic setup to reverberate this matter bac and fourth under an smell area. This would create an large pressure (void) which when you cancel out the opposing force you release all this stored energy in an quick burst. The problem with the plasma is well is plasma. But you could also consider using an non magnetic metal with an magnetic jacket and using em fields to create it to spin at an high speed and then use propulsion to fire it out. Like the 22.cal idea but using either the gas of even an low size high energy rail gin affect. If you was to line the arm section with capacitors to store the energy you could use these to create an high release of energy. Maybe even using electro magnetic plates. Causing them to smash together to create the energy. Thi could also b use in space. Using the funnel in the middle and releasing an small amount of gas (even co2) could create enough of an vacuum inside to allow the fluctuations to push the gasses out at an high force. As an engine this would work because it's an larger source of power. Which can use the solar power to store power. As an hand held device air resistance would affect this so it'd not b as good. Like an em drive.. You could also use atomisers to create H2O and O2 from water as an continual source of gas to power the system. Though I think it'd be better to have capsules which you can change out like the co2 capsules. I hope thi all makes sense.. Kind regards Rachael-Louise.xx

When the backyard scientist and styropyro are terrified of your invention, you’ve made something truly hunting 😂

Allen, styropyro and Kevin(backyard scientist) is trio that should have never been

Been watching Naked and Afraid, the bugs in the places far south from me are horrendous! Now we need to ship these in bulk to lower North America, all of Central America, and the upper half of South America.

I watched your video with my VR headset on and at the end I was convinced bugs were crawling on my arms!

"Dang that one works better" had me crying

Stryo is a legend.

1. You only need one kill laser. 2. You don't need perfect squares. 3d print something you can fine tune with screws. Glue the mirrors on that. 3. That laser engraver is far too strong. You only want to kill bugs. 4. Make the frame bigger. 5. Pulse the laser. 6. Add a second low power cheap infrared laser. This detects something crossing its beam, and immediately pulse the bigger laser. This means you can leave this running 24/7 without eating up the lifespan of the kill laser. The detection laser is lower power, last longer, and is cheaper to replace. And using lower power and pulsing means you can use regular cheap mirrors, so you frame can be as big as a door.

instant subscribe if when he picked it up and turned it on to see where the leaks were, that brawny pack behind them just burst into flame

YAY! more Allen! Alright, that was awesome. Galvos are expensive and annoying so I think what you did was a really good solution! Next up, make an even bigger and tighter grid that can fit in a door frame, then add some high voltage being pulsed in as the laser slightly ionizes the air.

Going through all the pain to improve something just to find out that you made it worse hits different (10:07)

This is literally one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen

In Brazil we have this thing that it's like a tennis racket but it's with metal wires connected to some sort of battery. It pretty much fries the mosquitoes when they get touched

Styropyro - Creates death lasers and deadly chemistry recipes. Does 1 colab with Allen - Fears for his life. Love it.

You know it is sketchy af when styropyro himself is scared for dear life.

@allen Action Lab did a video where they shot a laser through cylinders. With not very many of those you end up creating a plane instead of a grid - then there wouldn't be any sneaking through. You should try it!

“Kevin - Backdoor Scientist” LOL

Glad to see Styropyro isn’t dead.

7:25 “I want one” Backyard Scientist, 2023

And here i was sloving my mosquito problem with dragons breath shells.

I have a better idea that needs only one laser and one mirror. Attach a small front mirror to a small motor and aim the laser to the rotating mirror so the ray covers the whole "hole" of the racket. That way you don't need to form a grid. Dangerous anyway, but you always need to stop the laser somehow with something black like you did with the grid. You could try it first with a low power laser to check the result.

3:34 Gotta say, mad respect for how calm you are considering how close you came to lasering your own dong

I suggest you motorize the laser so that the reflected beams make a virtual surface instead of a grid with holes.

someone probobaly mentioned this but to perfectly cut glass, you can cut it under water. it stops it from shattering

Great job! I was thinking how cool it would be to have a bowl of the insects favorite food with the lasers mounted above it!

"That one works way better" lmao. That is a terrifying tool. I was also very dissatisfied with computer vision for detecting bugs, maybe in 20 years when camera and computers are better/faster

Well done Allen, you have literally *scarred* Styropyro for life.

5:52 the backdoor scientist 🤣🤣 *its Kevin the backyard scientist*

7:15 just imagine if he dropped his phone...

It’s always a riot to see a bunch of my favorite channels working together

8:22 the moment Allen Pan sterilized two youtubers at once

"styropyro - youtube laser god " epic hahaha love this guy im guessing that's why im seeing this video now subbed

Maybe check more into the TED talk , remember reading about it years ago, it was patented but bought by patent trolls and shelved I could have change the game for areas that struggle with malaria

oh god, i recognized the beginning music as the music from mr whiskers, that point and click horror game

lmao 9:41 havent seen styro laugh that hard in any video. hes loving it

thoughts: 1) I would have 3d printed the racket. That way you could go larger and get the right angles you needed easily. 2) prototype with a green laser pointer, one of the good ones that doesn't leak IR. I would only add a higher power laser as a final step, once I had a really tight mesh. 3) Investigate how low a power setting you can go with and still do enough damage to ground them.

1:33 Thank you Allen

You can add a fan to this construction on one side, or if you have a hairdryer on hand, it will be faster and easier. Then the air currents will take mosquitoes with it

RIP that brave man for science he donated his body for something he truly loved

Id love to be a mosquito in Allen's house ❤❤

"I was shooting holes into my boys" 🤣

I thought I saw that presentation, I was under the impression that they used the frequency of the wingbeats to identify and target the target (the wings would reflect light which the camera detected as a flash). That's all that the camera could pick up, which means they must have used specific lighting to achieve it.

The genuine wholesomeness of this is so heartwarming.. Well done Allen, you have literally scarred Styropyro for life..

love you bro

Make a wind tunnel/funnel maybe with a fan to draw in more bugs?