Burning wood with electricity

It's hard to decide what's crazier about this story — that Winston Kemp didn't notice being struck by lightning or the fractal scar left behind.

Fire up the Bunsen burners!

The art of burning wood with electricity produces fragmented designs, burnt into the surface of the wood. These designs are called “fractiles,” after the statistical principle of the same name. Without getting into complex descriptions of the mathematics behind the fractile, the basic idea is that each succeeding section is smaller than the previous.

I show how I made my Lichtenberg wood burning machine from a microwave oven transformer to burn lichtenberg figures or fractal burns. If you would like to donate to my channel so I can upgrade my video equipment here is the link https://paypal.me/DoublerenoMore videos on my YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/doublerenoHere is a link to products I used from Amazon: The Lighted Pilot Switch: http://amzn.to/2slOCWLThe Steel Outlet Box: https://amzn.to/2pjE06aThe Outlet Cover…

Ever heard of a Lichtenberg Figure? It’s the branching electrical discharge you can sometimes see on an insulating material… That’s right — when the voltage is high enough &…

Woodburning With Electricity: If you have ever tried woodburning, you know that it can be time consuming and rather uneventful. This instructable aims to change that. Let's create beautifully intricate fractals in seconds using high voltage electricity. In order to create this d…

Using my Lichtenberg Figure Wood Burner Here are a few photos of how I set up the wood burner converting from 120volt USA to 240volt Australia. Firstly I...

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All the parts mounted to a piece of plywood

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Introduction While idly browsing Instuctables, I found a neat project about using high voltage to burn wood into interesting “lichtenberg figures.” The source of high voltage could be anything, lik…

Using something Gary cobbled together from an old microwave and car battery.

This is how to extract a microwave transformer to make a Lichtenberg fractal wood burning machine. This is a DIY style video. This is how I did it and I show...

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