Video of the Day: Watch this Pyro Board react to sound waves

This Pyro Board takes the general concept of a Reubens’ tube, an antiquated tool that was previously implemented when demonstrating a visual for standing waves, and makes it look like wizardry. The wave that stays motionless contains nodes or troughs, while the anti-nodes are the peaks. This Pyro Board, or“2D Rubens’ tubes,” instead compresses the perforated pyro board tube that contains a grid of 2,500 holes and emits fire that correlates with sound.

The waves are shown on the perforated tube whenever flammable gas is pumped through the tube and a sound wave is pulsed through a speaker. When the frequency is exchanged with music, then the flames directly react to the song’s rhythm. The sound waves switch between high and low pressure zones. The differences the color and size of flames are directly contingent on the frequency and amplitude pumping from the music.

The sorcerers behind this project are Danish chemistry and physics scholars who go by the name Fysikshow on their YouTube channel. Other projects that the talented Fysikshow team has created are liquid nitrogen bottle rockets, a vacuum cannon, and a levitating semiconductor, just to name a few.

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