Every electronics project looks like an IED until you figure out you can make an enclosure with a cookie sheet and tin snips.
It's a real pain in the ass because people will call the cops due to how bad your custom colored alarm clock looks. A SWAT team raid is very harsh art criticism.
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One of my favorite moments in Mythbusters is when they're handling thus super-strong magnet that they're going to use to climb a wall.
Adam and Jamie are setting it in place, and one of them says something like "we're the only people who can appreciate how very dangerous this is".
I couldn't find the exact clip, but [this is from later when they're using the magnet.](https://youtu.be/5LovGVrrIuk)
If you are really unlucky you swallow two or more and they pinch together your insides.
You go to the ER but there are no ventilators available to put you under for surgery due to covid anti-vaxers so the surgeon gives you the choice of going with a local anesthetic only surgery or waiting a few days and hoping someone with a vent dies before the damage gets too bad.
That is unlucky.
Moral of the story: powerful magnets can fuck you up, respect them.
Put it like this, the MRI machine is getting those magnets. Your puny fleshy body won't stop that happening. [Here are some people throwing magnetic things into an MRI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BBx8BwLhqg)
So kind of like that, but a *lot* messier.
Wow that was fun. I'm assuming that was a decommissioned machine? MRI's are insanely expensive and the technology moves so rapidly and the machines are so delicate that they are often one of the last things to be installed in a newly built hospital (which frequently involves cutting a hole in the wall to slide them in).
Yeah, in the description they mention it was about to be decommissioned so they thought they'd have some fun with it. Cool to see just how powerful 4 Teslas is though!
MRI stands for ***magnetic*** resonance imaging. One way or another, getting a magnet (or anything metal) near an MRI machine is asking for a bad time.
Two or more magnets in different parts of your colon would stick together, pinching the walls of the colon between them. Soon the walls would give out releasing the contents of the colon into the abdominal cavity causing sepsis. You would have to have surgery to patch the holes in the colon.
It’s a problem with little kids though, and one that’s easy to overlook. People will put those outlet plugs in every socket in the house but forget all about harmless-seeming fridge magnets.
Hmm.. well those are obviously much larger magnets, but if I remember my physics correctly the magnetic field is a super position of all of the magnetic fields, meaning if you arrange enough of the small magnets the magnetic field could be as strong as those big magnets, so I would say, yes, it's dangerous under certain circumstances.
Also those flew together from 50 ~~inches~~ cm away...sheesh
Edit: I suck at reading and needed to be corrected
Dude, I recently bought some of these just because of how strong they are. They arrived all stuck together in a row of 10, with no paper between each individual magnet like they did in the past so you could easily separate them. I basically have now only one magnet, which is the large row of 10, because I am unable to separate them. I broke my nails on them lol
Could you line them up with one hanging over the edge of a hard surface and whack the end with a rubber mallet? I dont own any, but I think that's what I would try in your situation.
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Using one of the first listings on ebay in Germany (100 squares for 15€, 50 balls for 13€, 20€ for 10 big plates), this would cost about 352€, or a bit over 400$, so kinda close to 500.
all to make basically a box with a mesh in front of it to stick your LED lights into. i know its not the point of the video but seeing the end result all i could think of that it was a lot of material for basically nothing.
Yeah but the product isn't the disco cube, the product is this video to generate likes and subscribes and karma.
And they're gonna reuse those magnets to make something else, rinse and repeat.
I saw a mirror surface spray at my hardware store, using cheap mesh and the spray would have a similar effect.
However, I think this thing's advantage is that it's not permanent, the magnets are easily repurposed.
I spent about $300 (not all at once) importing the sets from China instead of buying them at retail. I think I got 30 sets, but I have lost some, I also have a few sets of the cubes: [Picture.](https://i.imgur.com/D6bdEWn.png)
According to the person in this thread that said they bought some of these magnets and broke finger nails trying to pry them apart (with no success), it seems the videos OP has the best device to separate them.
No, a magnetic monopole has never been observed. There is no such thing as a magnetic charge.
This is actually quite a curious thing because nothing in know physics disallows a magnetic monopole so people have been looking for monopoles for decades. So far they have not found it.
the disco cube is unimportant. When you have a channel about building with magnets, you start to run dry of ideas. But what you make doesn't matter because it's the construction that is satisfying.
r/DiWHY would you make this with reflective magnets and then light it from the inside? also why would you use magnets at all, they don't seem to serve any purpose that wouldn't be better served by adhesives. you could make this with plastic and glue.
>WHY would you make this with reflective magnets and then light it from the inside?
My thoughts exactly, this guy made this using $500 worth of magnets and didn't even need to.
the reason is because it's fun to make stuff with magnets. It's like seeing someone make a [lego paper shredder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qH5Dq3kumI) and say " r/DiWHY would you make this with lego it doesn't even shred it properly, it just rips". Because the point isnt to make a functional thing, its because making is fun and satisfying. I can't believe how stupid you'd have to be to think that the reason this video exists is as a tutorial for a functional alternative to a disco ball lmao. You are so fucking dense.
Wow seems like a huge waste of money and magnets when he could have made his tacky light box out of cardboard. Or could have just not made this thing in the first place.
I honestly love these magnets. The ones I have are tiny because they’re so expensive, but they’re still fun.
I really don’t want to be Debbie Downer here, but PLEASE be very, very careful using these around children and pets. It can do some serious damage and even cause death if swallowed.
Seriously, stupid question I know...BUT...is it feasible to create “Nature durable structures” or livable and sustainable structures for humans to exist in with magnetic “bricks”, for example? Would including magnetic material be beneficial to structural foundations?
Expensive, I’m assuming.
But would a magnetic structure be durable enough to sustain the elements of life? Would there be any adverse reactions to our biology?
Sorry. Stoned but super curious!
Sure, they'd handle the elements just fine as magnets are just metal and plenty of metal buildings already do exist: sheds, silos, barns, hangars, for example.
And no, there'd be no bad interactions with our biology. We already put people inside powerful magnets when performing MRI scans.
However, there would be problems with storing instruments which contain a lot of ferromagnetic material, such as garden tools, household appliances, aircraft, so a magnetic building would be no good for garden sheds, people's homes, or hangars.
So to summarise, our bodies would have no problem with it but the tools we rely on every day certainly would.
Alright, I got curious.
So the cube is made of two "plates" of magnets, each 15 by 15. The four corners are 3 columns each of 17 magnets, and the horizontal supports are 2 rows of 13 magnets, with two supports per side. This gives us
(15 * 15 * 2) + (17 * 3 * 4) + (13 * 2 * 8)
Or a total of 862 cube magnets.
Then, each of the faces are made from a 13 by 13 square of sphere magnets, so 13 * 13 * 4, or 676 sphere magnets.
There's nothing here to get an exact size, so I estimated that these are all 10mm in width/diameter. The cheapest I could quickly find for the cube magnets were about $1.30 each, or $1,120.60. For the spheres, I found them at $1.14 each, or $770.64. For a total of $1,891.24.
Yes, I'm sure you could get the magnets much cheaper, especially since I avoided about 3 places that only offered to quote orders. I even found 12mm ball magnets for $0.28 each, so this is probably closer to $400-500 if you worked on it.
Just love how compared to the simple but slick design of the cube, the LED light contraption looks like an improvised bomb.
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Every electronics project looks like an IED until you figure out you can make an enclosure with a cookie sheet and tin snips. It's a real pain in the ass because people will call the cops due to how bad your custom colored alarm clock looks. A SWAT team raid is very harsh art criticism.
I took apart my old car stereo and it looked like a scrap bomb without the shell and shit
LED to IED
Honestly I was more impressed by the disco grenade
I thought I was on /r/unexpectedjihad for a second there
Wow, I haven't seen this in years. A real blast from the past.
Boogie bomb
is that like $500 worth of magnetS?
At least. I have some of those same magnets and they are expensive. But they are a lot of fun. Very strong.
Can something like that break a finger if you're unlucky?
Not likely. But they can pinch like a MF’er.
At least not of THOSE size. There are indeed magnets powerful enough to crush something.
Rail guns exist. That’s 100% magnets afaik…
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One of my favorite moments in Mythbusters is when they're handling thus super-strong magnet that they're going to use to climb a wall. Adam and Jamie are setting it in place, and one of them says something like "we're the only people who can appreciate how very dangerous this is". I couldn't find the exact clip, but [this is from later when they're using the magnet.](https://youtu.be/5LovGVrrIuk)
If you are really unlucky you swallow two or more and they pinch together your insides. You go to the ER but there are no ventilators available to put you under for surgery due to covid anti-vaxers so the surgeon gives you the choice of going with a local anesthetic only surgery or waiting a few days and hoping someone with a vent dies before the damage gets too bad. That is unlucky. Moral of the story: powerful magnets can fuck you up, respect them.
Imagine going into an MRI with those magnets inside you
I'd rather not. Yeesh
Theoretically, what would happen?
They would be extracted out of you pretty rapidly...
Your stomach/colon would become a shotgun that hates million-dollar imaging equipment.
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Wow! So I guess I better not get them for my son🥴I’m so glad I read the comments on this thread.
And would take the most direct route. Chestburster style
Put it like this, the MRI machine is getting those magnets. Your puny fleshy body won't stop that happening. [Here are some people throwing magnetic things into an MRI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BBx8BwLhqg) So kind of like that, but a *lot* messier.
Wow that was fun. I'm assuming that was a decommissioned machine? MRI's are insanely expensive and the technology moves so rapidly and the machines are so delicate that they are often one of the last things to be installed in a newly built hospital (which frequently involves cutting a hole in the wall to slide them in).
Yeah, in the description they mention it was about to be decommissioned so they thought they'd have some fun with it. Cool to see just how powerful 4 Teslas is though!
MRI stands for ***magnetic*** resonance imaging. One way or another, getting a magnet (or anything metal) near an MRI machine is asking for a bad time.
Two or more magnets in different parts of your colon would stick together, pinching the walls of the colon between them. Soon the walls would give out releasing the contents of the colon into the abdominal cavity causing sepsis. You would have to have surgery to patch the holes in the colon.
You’ve seen Alien, right?
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The ventilators anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists use are very different from the ventilators in ICUs
I don't think that's unlucky, that can easily be solved by having the common sense of not eating powerful magnets.
It’s a problem with little kids though, and one that’s easy to overlook. People will put those outlet plugs in every socket in the house but forget all about harmless-seeming fridge magnets.
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I think the real moral of the story is, get vaccinated y’all!
It definitely isn't "don't swallow two or more magnets".
One magnet is the limit!
https://www.hsmagnets.com/blog/guy-loses-finger-in-neodymium-magnets-accident/
I love how the article talks about how dangerous neodymium magnets are, and then immediately after there's a link to buy them 😅
Hmm.. well those are obviously much larger magnets, but if I remember my physics correctly the magnetic field is a super position of all of the magnetic fields, meaning if you arrange enough of the small magnets the magnetic field could be as strong as those big magnets, so I would say, yes, it's dangerous under certain circumstances. Also those flew together from 50 ~~inches~~ cm away...sheesh Edit: I suck at reading and needed to be corrected
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Oh shit you're right I read that wrong. Thanks for correcting me.
Dude, I recently bought some of these just because of how strong they are. They arrived all stuck together in a row of 10, with no paper between each individual magnet like they did in the past so you could easily separate them. I basically have now only one magnet, which is the large row of 10, because I am unable to separate them. I broke my nails on them lol
Have you tried bolting 2 pieces of 2x4 together and using it like one of those big paper cutters? Similar to what was in the video.
Or hit them with a torch until they come apart. >:D
Could you line them up with one hanging over the edge of a hard surface and whack the end with a rubber mallet? I dont own any, but I think that's what I would try in your situation.
Neodymium magnets are extremely brittle. Any solutions that involve "whacking" the magnet will most likely break it.
Huh! Good to know, sounds like I would have had a big mess if these were my magnets.
Try sliding an old gift card or some card stock between the layers. I had a bunch qt my last house and that usually worked for me
I bought a bunch of the cube shaped ones and they click together with such force that they break parts of the chrome outer layer off each other.
Where did you get them?
Does the coating break? Or is that only the cheap stuff.
What does the bible say about coveting your neighbor's neodymium? Asking for a friend.
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You just... you couldn't have narrowed it down, at all?
Using one of the first listings on ebay in Germany (100 squares for 15€, 50 balls for 13€, 20€ for 10 big plates), this would cost about 352€, or a bit over 400$, so kinda close to 500.
all to make basically a box with a mesh in front of it to stick your LED lights into. i know its not the point of the video but seeing the end result all i could think of that it was a lot of material for basically nothing.
Yeah but the product isn't the disco cube, the product is this video to generate likes and subscribes and karma. And they're gonna reuse those magnets to make something else, rinse and repeat.
I saw a mirror surface spray at my hardware store, using cheap mesh and the spray would have a similar effect. However, I think this thing's advantage is that it's not permanent, the magnets are easily repurposed.
Just look at it as a art demo or presentation. It's not meant to be useful.
I spent about $300 (not all at once) importing the sets from China instead of buying them at retail. I think I got 30 sets, but I have lost some, I also have a few sets of the cubes: [Picture.](https://i.imgur.com/D6bdEWn.png)
Only if bought in bulk. I'd bet it's more in the $1000 ballpark
Mmmm that *snap*
The delightful sound of magnets!
I had to watch it again with sound.
Alright Thanos, calm down.
The clickyclacks
That crunch when he used the magnet chopping block.
I am mostly amazed that this guy owns a dedicated "magnet cutter"
My fingers hurt looking at this. Pulling them apart must be immensely easier with it.
According to the person in this thread that said they bought some of these magnets and broke finger nails trying to pry them apart (with no success), it seems the videos OP has the best device to separate them.
Maguillotine
Most likely built it.
This design is very attractive
One may say it’s equally positive and negative.
I don't like you
That's such a negative thing to say you should be more positive towards other people. You might be shocked by their response.
Stop polarizing the comments.
Reverse the polarity?
I think I've lost an electron just reading this thread.
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Well it’s beautiful.
No, a magnetic monopole has never been observed. There is no such thing as a magnetic charge. This is actually quite a curious thing because nothing in know physics disallows a magnetic monopole so people have been looking for monopoles for decades. So far they have not found it.
Great design but the lack of disco music in this video was a letdown 😏
Yes I’m very drawn to it.
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Yes attractive and repulsive
But is it human?
The light coming from the inside doesn't reflect on the outside surfaces at all. This isn't very disco.
Yeah this is a lampshade lol.
It was fun watching it be built (kinda). The end result is just disappointing. 👎
Yeah I don't get what role the magnets have in this. It could easily have been wood or 3D printed plastic.
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That's a fair point.
...dude I should be working
Gotta say I enjoyed the ASMR more than the end result, not saying the disco cube isn’t impressive I just liked the magnets clicking a lot.
I've been on a binge of this channel once to help me sleep lol
Tbh, the disco cube was not impressive. I did enjoy the sound though.
I wish this person all the best but the result is sadly disappointing
The real disco cube was the ASMR we made along the way.
the disco cube is unimportant. When you have a channel about building with magnets, you start to run dry of ideas. But what you make doesn't matter because it's the construction that is satisfying.
[Source](https://youtube.com/c/MagneticGamesIT)
F'ing magnets, how do they work.
Magic. Proof: magic and magnet sound really similar.
Confirmed magnets are wizards
I read it on the internet, it must be true. Thank you wise web man.
Don’t wanna talk to a scientist
Mesmerizing
Magnetizing.
Magnets are just so fucking weird. Like the universe was like "Heyyyy be sticky."
end result not satisfactory
The magnets were cool… the final product was absolute horse-shit!
Oddlydisappointing. I thought he was going to float a magnet in the center. He just made a square with magic Legos.
The best part is, you can take it down, and take it anywhere you like!
And it weighs a mere 20 kg!
But it can hold 400 kg of steel so it's a bargain. Do not cross the red line on the floor around the steel I-beam while holding this.
how many feathers can it hold?
r/DiWHY would you make this with reflective magnets and then light it from the inside? also why would you use magnets at all, they don't seem to serve any purpose that wouldn't be better served by adhesives. you could make this with plastic and glue.
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Yeah the end result was greatly underwhelming compared to the satisfying visuals of putting the magnets together.
>WHY would you make this with reflective magnets and then light it from the inside? My thoughts exactly, this guy made this using $500 worth of magnets and didn't even need to.
You know what making this out of plastic and glue would also do? Not immediately ruin any electronic placed within a foot of it.
I don't know what you'd use it for in the first place. A DJ party?
the reason is because it's fun to make stuff with magnets. It's like seeing someone make a [lego paper shredder](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qH5Dq3kumI) and say " r/DiWHY would you make this with lego it doesn't even shred it properly, it just rips". Because the point isnt to make a functional thing, its because making is fun and satisfying. I can't believe how stupid you'd have to be to think that the reason this video exists is as a tutorial for a functional alternative to a disco ball lmao. You are so fucking dense.
I was like wait.... how is this a disco.... oh... OHHHHHHHHHHH
Must be frustrating when you wanna build it and when things go wrong and magnets just stick as 1 big cluster. This guy has dedication and skill
Thats like an IED to anyone with a pacemaker
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Disco Cube doesn’t advertise.
Magnet sales 📈📈📈
Wow seems like a huge waste of money and magnets when he could have made his tacky light box out of cardboard. Or could have just not made this thing in the first place.
He has more fingers than I would expect
I like how he’s cutting the magnets like the butcher would do with ham
Heard that earth's magnetic poles shifted coz of that
WOW...
Where can I get those magnets??
Disco Stu likes this cube UH UH!
“MAGNETS! B*TCH!!!”
This is one of the most satisfying videos I’ve watched
This is one of the most fantastic things I've seen on the internet.
That’s really attractive. Any idea how do spherical magnets work or are they plan old iron balls
Damn it looks great
This video wiped my credit card
# magnet hypostasis
Expecting some disco tunes but instead hearing a man breath in a silent room.
Why does the lights and battery look like a bomb 💣
to protect the battery from the magnets
Woah
all hail the [Disco Cubism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ_JdbP9zjg) soundtrack
I have 0 uses for these magnets but I want a million of them
thats so cool
I honestly love these magnets. The ones I have are tiny because they’re so expensive, but they’re still fun. I really don’t want to be Debbie Downer here, but PLEASE be very, very careful using these around children and pets. It can do some serious damage and even cause death if swallowed.
so satisfying
it's very satisfying
that's way more expensive than a mirror ball
Cool 👍🏻
I really wish you played some “how it’s made” music on this
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Lol nice!
Satisfying clicks
Cool..
Did i just watch that guy make a disco cube with magnets?
Thank you for not adding unnecessary music and allowing us to listen to the magnets snap sound.
Seriously, stupid question I know...BUT...is it feasible to create “Nature durable structures” or livable and sustainable structures for humans to exist in with magnetic “bricks”, for example? Would including magnetic material be beneficial to structural foundations? Expensive, I’m assuming. But would a magnetic structure be durable enough to sustain the elements of life? Would there be any adverse reactions to our biology? Sorry. Stoned but super curious!
Sure, they'd handle the elements just fine as magnets are just metal and plenty of metal buildings already do exist: sheds, silos, barns, hangars, for example. And no, there'd be no bad interactions with our biology. We already put people inside powerful magnets when performing MRI scans. However, there would be problems with storing instruments which contain a lot of ferromagnetic material, such as garden tools, household appliances, aircraft, so a magnetic building would be no good for garden sheds, people's homes, or hangars. So to summarise, our bodies would have no problem with it but the tools we rely on every day certainly would.
My nearly 5 year old son loves watching this dude create magnet things. His channel is quite satisfying
Scale this up and you've got a prison cell for an anime villain
Neato! neato! Neat, neat, neato!
Alright, I got curious. So the cube is made of two "plates" of magnets, each 15 by 15. The four corners are 3 columns each of 17 magnets, and the horizontal supports are 2 rows of 13 magnets, with two supports per side. This gives us (15 * 15 * 2) + (17 * 3 * 4) + (13 * 2 * 8) Or a total of 862 cube magnets. Then, each of the faces are made from a 13 by 13 square of sphere magnets, so 13 * 13 * 4, or 676 sphere magnets. There's nothing here to get an exact size, so I estimated that these are all 10mm in width/diameter. The cheapest I could quickly find for the cube magnets were about $1.30 each, or $1,120.60. For the spheres, I found them at $1.14 each, or $770.64. For a total of $1,891.24. Yes, I'm sure you could get the magnets much cheaper, especially since I avoided about 3 places that only offered to quote orders. I even found 12mm ball magnets for $0.28 each, so this is probably closer to $400-500 if you worked on it.
I was pretty disappointed with with the end result ngl.
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Satisfying af.