{"id":29912,"date":"2017-10-20T14:09:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T21:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=29912"},"modified":"2017-10-20T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T21:13:19","slug":"simon-quellen-field-ceo-of-kinetic-microscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/simon-quellen-field-ceo-of-kinetic-microscience\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Quellen Field, CEO of Kinetic MicroScience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our guest this week is Simon Quellen Field. Simon is a chemist and former Google software engineer and is the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2yAmP5R\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">author of over a dozen books<\/a>, including Gonzo Gizmos, Return of Gonzo Gizmos, Culinary Reactions, Why is Milk White, Elements Vault, Why There&#8217;s Antifreeze In Your Toothpaste, Electronics for Artists and, most recently, Boom!: The Chemistry and History of Explosives. He&#8217;s the author of the science toy website <a href=\"http:\/\/scitoys.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SciToys.com<\/a> and several novels.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/347840767&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/cool-tools-show-and-tell\/id605920446?mt=2\">Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feedpress.me\/cooltoolsshow\">RSS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1HaPph24lAmTdjKe5v4PwheGn7u1LeG2jfG2Gop1a1ck\/edit?usp=sharing\">Transcript<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/7810\/7149151\/347840767-cool-tools-94-simon-quellen-field.mp3\">Download MP3<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/tag\/cool-tools-show\/\">See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Show notes: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29914\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/LD10-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"LD10\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/LD10-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/LD10-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/LD10.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2znpn4P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Wharton LD10 Aluminum Liquid Dewar<\/a> ($638)<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m often asked to demonstrate scientific toys and things at different science conventions, like the Google Science Fair \u2026 and one of the things that they love when I show off is all of these fun things that you can do with liquid nitrogen. And, of course, it lasts a lot longer if you keep it in a big Dewar. So, I\u2019ve got this thing, it\u2019s about 2 feet tall, about 10 inches in diameter, And holds 10 liters of liquid nitrogen, which I get locally from a place called Nitroderm. And we do all kinds of fun things with it. Put some liquid nitrogen in a bowl and squirt some whipped cream out of a spray can into it, freeze it really hard. Kids pop it into their mouth and crunch on it and fog comes out their nose like a dragon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29915\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/mastercool-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"mastercool\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/mastercool-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/mastercool-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/mastercool-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/mastercool.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2zAWpzD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mastercool 90066-B Vacuum Pump<\/a> ($130)<br \/>\n&#8220;I have a vacuum chamber, and this vacuum pump, this one does six cubic feet per minute, which is pretty good. It used to be that vacuum pumps were really expensive, but once the smog dealers needed them in order to take the Freon out of your air conditioner for environmental reasons, everybody needed one and they got cheap. But, with this vacuum pump, I can put some liquid nitrogen into a small thermos and put it in my vacuum chamber and start sucking the air and the nitrogen vapor out of that chamber. And after about a minute or so, you get solid nitrogen \u2026 and then you disconnect it and let the air rush in and in about 3 seconds, it\u2019s liquid again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29917\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/tekpower-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"tekpower\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/tekpower-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/tekpower-870x1024.jpg 870w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/tekpower.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2gRf3eH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tekpower TP3005T Variable Linear DC Power Supply<\/a> ($80)<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s got a nice LCD display on it and you can set the current or the voltage to be constant. And what I use it for is electroforming. You take a solution of copper salts and a few other magic ingredients. Usually, it&#8217;s a proprietary mix, they don&#8217;t tell you exactly what&#8217;s in it. But you can start electroplating something and if you let it go, it will make a thicker plating \u2026 So, for example, suppose I took an egg. I could paint conductive paint in a pattern on the egg, like a filigree or a tree or whatever. And then I could submerge that in the plating bath and plate it for 20 minutes or so and get a thick enough copper plating that I can dissolve the egg away and now I can hold this filigreed Faberg\u00e9 egg-like thing in my hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29913\" src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/Beofeng-122x300.jpg\" alt=\"Beofeng\" width=\"122\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/Beofeng-122x300.jpg 122w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/Beofeng-418x1024.jpg 418w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2017\/10\/Beofeng.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 122px) 100vw, 122px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2zB1sjz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baofeng Ham Two-way Radio<\/a> ($35)<br \/>\n\u201cI picked this up recently, when I was going up to see the eclipse up in Oregon, and we knew that there would be so many people in these little towns that only had cell phone bandwidth for a tenth as many people as were going to be there and so, we wanted to stay in touch and be able to chat with other HAMs on the road about traffic conditions, which we also expected to be a nightmare. \u2026 And this little gadget \u2026 It\u2019s got 128 memories that you can easily program with all of the repeaters for all of the HAM radio repeaters on the mountains and stuff and it just works \u2026 It does everything you want and it\u2019s tiny. \u2026 It\u2019s probably good for anywhere, 5 to 20 miles. But once you hit the repeater, now the repeaters are networked, so I can talk to people in Portland, Oregon or in San Diego.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool Tools Show 094: Simon Quellen Field<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1559],"tags":[1555,1472],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29912"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29925,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29912\/revisions\/29925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}