Building a realistic artificial sun (for dark winter days)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 30 жов 2020
- In this video we'll be building an artificial SUN! Also, check out KiwiCo.com/DIYPerks50 for 50% off your first month of any subscription over at KiwiCo!
Official forum thread for this project (for help, discussion etc): forum.diyperks.com/lighting/a...
Patreon: / diyperks
Parts links:
Disclosure: These are affiliate links. If you click them and make a purchase from the various merchants they link to, DIY Perks may earn a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to the eBay Partner Network and Amazon Associates.
Recommended LED: www.aliexpress.com/item/10050...
Watercooling components:
Radiator: www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-co...
Pump/Reservoir: www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-co...
Waterblock: www.aquatuning.co.uk/advent-s...
Tubing: www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-co...
Fittings: www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-co...
Coolant: www.aquatuning.co.uk/water-co...
Mirror film: amzn.to/3jL8d8j
Blue Vinyl Wrap: amzn.to/3oE5SQ9
Mini LEDs: store.yujiintl.com/search?typ...
The 500w LED I used: store.yujiintl.com/products/b...
Magnifying sheet: amzn.to/34K9NTB
Here's how to power LEDS: • Building DIY LED lights
OFFICIAL LINKS:
Support me on Patreon: / diyperks
Official Website: www.diyperks.com/
Discord: diyperks.com/discord-server/
Forums: diyperks.com/community/
Twitter: / diyperks - Навчання та стиль
Imagine being this guys neighbour. Trying to sleep at 2am and he starts up his own Star.
xD
xD
xD
xD
😂
This would be very interesting in research stations in Antarctica and in homes at the North Pole where they go 6 months without sunlight.
the ryopt creat the sun skylight, check "artificial skylight ryopt" on UA-cam
It's a long way before it happens but I could imagine this to be really helpful once humans start living on mars where they'd need to be protected from real sunlight
Right? I'm thinking about the alarming suicide rates among Canada's young Inuit population (which, of course, has a constellation of other contributing factors).
They use led- or gas-discharge lamps. The right spectrum matters.
wait what? Houses at the north pole....they would have bigger problems than a lack of sunlight
"Every home should have one of these".
I agree. Start selling them!
On sale yet?
I have seen them on the market for around USD10k
@@blueypink19 because nobody makes them in volume.
Watch this space -- working on that, maybe. Check back here in a few months.
@@blueypink19 Those are great... if you have $40k-90k to spend on one. Even then, the light output is 10x less than daylight. And the "sun" angle is fixed in place. And it's massive, If only there were something better...
DIY Perks sometimes be like:
- You need a small 3V battery for this but I've used a tiny nuclear reactor, it gets a bit hot but I've got a super cooling system with it.
:)
Barış abi sen ölmedin mi
barış manço
@@InancLhuh?
sanane lan yarram @@uganda_mn397
He asked him in turkish if He didnt died. The Profile picture is a turkish musician Named baris manco who died 1999
Matt seems intent on turning his house into the most confusing place in the world for a burglar...
"Where the heck is the computer, and why is the sun out at three o'clock in the morning..???"
😂😂😂😂So true
lol
and then there are the burglars that have watched Matt's videos and now have to spend an extra hour on every gig to double check every piece of furniture every time they come to a house and don't find anything valuable.
Don't forget the ceiling windows on the first floor!
@@santtuisometsa5168 I can picture the scene back at Burglar-HQ now... "You were supposed to get steal the DVD player and all you got was this stupid priceless ming vase!!!"
UK: *rainy and grey*
This absolute madlad: *makes his own sun*
ua-cam.com/video/XVV_-aB1jpg/v-deo.html
Indeed, brilliant comment lad!
Enjoy the power bill XD
...and then uses it as an oportunity to hock cardboard dogshit for nitwits... Very mad.
@@Me-vz1rl so what I was in college I rented a basement apartment and it had a Natural Gas hybrid fireplace radiator meaning there was a window in a metal box they could show you the flames. There was no exhaust. However so all of the carbon monoxide was going into the room. The homeowners wanted me to just open the window a little bit for oxygen but having oxygen is useless when carbon monoxide bonds to your red blood vessel. So back then Yellow Cab did not have any Priuses and you could ask for an even car more car if you know what I mean. I don't know if that was necessary that day but once I did that to move all my stuff and I was successful but because I had live so far off campus I had to call taxis fairly regularly. Anyway I went to Walgreens and bought an electric radiator. The difference between the two heaters is that the electric radiator would overheat very quickly and I wasn't with it back then enough to be brutal and have a fan blowing on the radiator at least when I wasn't home. This is going to get really good in a minute so please don't give up on the boring comment here he quite yet. so I turn the thermostat all the way up and left it on all month long at which point my landlord's complained about the $70 jump in their electric bill. Remember this is about three times as much power as this light that you're complaining about and the light is only about 50 lumens per watt so there is very little talent in the cost engineering behind this project. The sourcing of farts and overall design is a proof-of-concept level despite the long gestation. Our former well what is it called well always lame past and forever goon talks about smaller windows and no windows. This is a ceiling light for people who live in Condominiums. you need to put your solar panel on your balcony and those panels are about what this led consumes except you don't need all the control circuitry that both LEDs and solar panels normally require but you do need to have a friend match up the solar panel and the LED that you use very precisely because you're going to be doing augmentation. Like a pedal-assist bicycle. you don't need to have the trade speed nearly horizontal. People are very cheered by noon Sun the problem with sleeping late is that by the time you get through out of your shower it's already set. Moving into the basement I increased my lighting bill by 2/3 you might say because previously I had use the single light bulb in the ceiling 2 lamp fixture knowing I would get far more light from a single 300 W filament then to 150 bulbs. as a test engineering price point this is providing 22000 lumens and has a very low CRI after the soapy water LOL. a sunnier fixture is available at Home Depot delivered for well under $200. in fact they raise the price $5 recently. It's very lightweight and durable and if you have like many kitchens have an outlet on the top of the wall by the sink with the cord plugging in and then hanging from a hook in the center of the room above the dining table kind of braided through a metal chain to support a kind of umbrella fixture you're good to go.
Anyways that's going to give you over 50% more light without any glare so you can be seated around the table working on a card game or using clay with your grandchildren anything at all that you are working on on that table in the center of your kitchen 4 let's be honest less than a penny an hour. that fixture is obsolete. they have light bulbs now that have much higher density so you could put them in a say eight bulb bathroom vanity if you upgraded the wiring to handle the current as those are generally spec that 60 to 100 watts each. Again you were going to save so much money on your heat lamps in like a year!
So I got through the winter in that basement and even the summer my father visited me for a few days in fact but my living room was more like a dungeon having an unfinished floor Etc. we didn't use carbon monoxide alarms back then but they claim that the gas company inspected the heater and found it hunky dory. you know because the owners of that house where elderly back then it's kind of unbelievable to me to know that they are long dead but anyway they got the revenge when they left for the summer and rented the house out without telling me. Apparently they investigated my defense about how they were likely not running their oil burner anywhere near as much as I kept my window shut all winter instead of open all winter even if the likely radon gas common in basements might end my days down long before I'm their age back then. the oil burner had a pump that made a huge high frequency squeal which is another reason I moved out besides the radon and the cardinal rule about never doing laundry during sleeping hours being broken.
we make choices in life. it's politically correct to spend tens of thousands of dollars on ground Source heat pump Heating infrastructure just on the demand side hey K within the home instead I'm buying all the cashmere you can possibly enjoy Plus enough of light to grow your own broccoli because watching your broccoli grow as well as the finest cherries not just the Exotic spinach by The Bushel so everybody you know is supplied beats all of the engineering goals of this video.
Taxpayers by the way that means people using resistance electric heat to chill themselves into hundreds of dollars a month of icy existence forcing evaporation on their skin more than any warmth. 300000 lumens is more like it not under 30000 but tenfold more. that's the way to not get depressed under the covers in the dark. It requires printed materials to read if you're stinking rich and don't have people to play with or work to do with your eyes and helpers.
Nobody pays quarters per watt for inefficient solid State emitters unless they're more interested in wowing then actually pleasing with the results of the project.
I had a lot more in the anecdote but my dictation is poor if anybody replies I will provide more buying instructions for the ultimate winter indoor solution Bliss wise.
This would be awesome to do as a sunrise alarm clock. Have it gradually increase in brightness over a period of many minutes to mimic a sunrise
Or it could flash repeatedly until you stop it
Wouldn’t wake me up, but would still love it!
Automatic shades would be cheaper and easier
@@heh_boaner cries in scandinavian winter
@@heh_boaner Yeah, sure, if I had a sun-facing window in my bedroom, or any window at all, actually
Really great to see that Theon Greyjoy has found his stride again after the last winter in Westeros 😊
"Can I have your old satellite dish?"
"Sure, what for?"
"I want to build a sun."
It's the first sun that can get 200+ different channels... Now you just need to hook it up to an LED in that same "window"...
@@helstromh not really since the parabolic reflector is facing inside the room.
@@Mitchel_The_Catalan I understand, it was truly just sarcasm... I know a satellite dish needs to point southward (at least in my locality) with little to no disturbances. Again, just sarcasm to spur on a little humor.
@@helstromh I feel sad. I can no longer distinguish from sarcasm anymore. The internet ruined me.
I have 2 on my roof, and in the US, many homes have multiple dishes that are trash- Each time you have a new tenant, they leave the old one on,
"Ok google, turn off the sun"
"Sure."
yes please
damn it google, not the one from the sky, i meant the one in the hallway you idiot...
I was hyped but not sure I wanted to build one. Now that I saw your comment, I'm convinced ; I WANT an artificial sun
@@origamikira 🤣
@@xhana_ also don't forget about Android Things, it will connect the sun with google
This is going to be very useful on spaceships someday soon.
Specifically, technologies like the CoeLux artificial skylight.
No reason or room for this on a spaceship. Sounds like a shitty idea1
@@zborp Don't be a dick
@@zborp The reason is for the astronauts to feel at home
it does matter as the future astronauts will need to maintain their circadian rhythm, as well as make chores and have a way to know when to wake up and stuff like that, maybe the project would have to be applied to the whole facility as a way to mimic day cycles, mental health in space could be highly degraded without routines and days, the thing that they would want to avoid is the feeling of being locked up in a building.
@@zborp The square cube law would like to have a chat.
it's amazing how the blue hue really makes it natural
This would be incredible for underground bunkers or a long space travel trips
Ethan Grieves and places near the polar circle, where they dont get sun for months!
Or guys who play games in basement
it is actually the v2 or v3 he made. i think the first was using light strip and a diffuser,the v2 was using dead laptop screens and this v3 is good but man this dish is huge.....
Or artificial sun..
We wont be making trips in space long enough for this to be needed I dare say never but at least not anytime in the distant future. We realistically don't have the tech to go far enough away from the sun that you would miss it, in fact the sun in space is quite dangerous as too much direct exposure is deadly as you are getting direct sunlight with no filtering which is not good. Would be great for bunkers, maybe even really helpful to those that can't be exposed to direct sunlight on earth for various conditions.
Personally, this is the most valuable and antidepressant-like DIY video on the entire UA-cam.
I agree! Genuinely felt so happy and actually wanted to go outside when he switched on the "sun" I can't wait for winter to be over 😔
There are lamps like this that already exist
@@Mel-nw2ko sure but his version looks undeniably great.
Take vitamin D 🗣🗣🗣
@@desiree7633 brought to you by Theon Greyjoy!
I always come back to this video to watch during the darkest days of winter. Having the sun go down at 4:15pm is rough
I think this would have useful applications for photography and cinematography. Having a realistic light source that is movable and tunable to the needs of a scene would be really useful.
DIY perks in 2013: How to make a cool shelf
DIY perks in 2020: How to make an artificial sun
DIY perks in 2077: How to make DIY eye implants for 100x optical zoom
Reminds me of Cyberpunk 2077…
Reminds me of Cyberpunk 2077…
in 2077 people will be too busy with waiting for Cyberpunk to release
DIY perks in 2119: How to make DIY artificial human.
2077? Did you accidentally type 7 instead of 2?
Watercooled Sun.
* Linus has entered the chat *
U got a like from me
Someone send this to Linus
gaming sun
Give this to linus!!!
Coincidentally, I just watched his review on Phillips and other smart lights.
This is how I got here in the first place, haha.
I’m thinking of this from a studio photographer standpoint and how you could build sets with various windows and literally control the sun for whatever scene you want.
This makes me thing of two possible improvements as well:
1) a control knob or remote (yes I understand this complicates this build more slightly) to decide the color temperature of the “sun” and
2) a “filter” to mimic sky soft box that is a cloudy day
You simply outdid yourself on this one!
Realy nice work!
Matt: “Today we’re building an artificial sun.”
Me: “Oh that’s cool! Maybe this will be a simpler DIY project I can handle and fit in my room. How do we make it?”
Matt: “So to start we’ll build a 6-foot water-cooled death-ray and then an aquarium in the wall.”
Me: “wha-what? … never mind, then.”
😅
Don't forget the soap!
@@__lasevix_ yeah, when he showed the soap dissolving in water I thought oh ok well clearly // jokingly // he's going to just put a big glass of soap water up there... I did not think that was going to happen
I bet no one else has recreated it
@@PrinceJes As with most of his stuff! It's very niche inventions with not so much of a practical use =\
@@ScienceDiscoverer well I mean some would have really pracitcal use but are too big and obviously too expensive & hard to build. Tbh I'd love to have that sun or that super quiet wood-pc lol.. Edit.. okay well upon further thinking about all the videos of him I've watched, you're right, most of it is very niche and not very practical.
It took me this many months of being stuck at home to finally install some LED strip lights in my house, and this guy just takes the dish from the Death Star's superlaser and builds his own sun...
😅🤣🤣😅😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😅😅🤣🤣😂🤣😅😂😅🤣🤣😂🤣🤣😅🤣😅🤣👻👻👻👻👻🌈🌈🌈🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞
You can build your laser!!!! ✌🤞
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Great comment.
Just be careful about using this late at night - I can only imagine how much this could negatively impact your circadian rythm if used improperly. Sunlight is the number one affector of our internal clock, so this would be GREAT for those waking up early - disastrous for those staying up late
I’m looking at it for exactly that reason - helping night workers keep their sleep schedule on days off, so they don’t have to reset every Monday. 🙂
For many, the circadian cycle is already disastrously impacted by improper use of light emitting devices a.k.a. monitors.
Generalyze this statement to technology at large and you've got the source of all our global problems : we use technology improperly.
You feel I am exagerating? Well you are blinded by ignorance and/or egocentric priorities. Look at technologies that spread fast and wide. They all created large scale problems. Not cause they are themselves a problem, but because we use our knowledge and inventions like donkeys. Our moral and social evolution are eons behind our scientific and technical capabilities. We mostly don't deserve what we have.
We do not ALL need such a lamp in our home. That's a techno-enthusiastic donkey point of view. We do ALL need sunlight. We could extract, transform, fabricate, assemble, transport and power millions of such lights. At the cost of so much resources. OR. We could instead make a society where homes, schedules etc. offer access to sunlight.
What is efficiency when we are an entire race of consumers? Shortterm satisfaction of personnal desires or longterm satisfaction of collective needs?
@@pedrosanschaise7429i dont feel like you're exaggerating, of course technology needs to be made and used responsibly and not at the cost of overall human wellbeing, but i think preemptively insulting the people you're talking to over words you've put in their mouth is a BIT unnecessary.
but anyway, personally i would still like to have this device, bc i live in a climate where we get maybe 5 hours of daylight in winter days and it's not even proper direct sunlight, it's a pale gray glow from getting filtered through a permanent gapless blanket of clouds. i think most of the people who would want a device like this are those like me, who live so far north that no amount of housing or scheduling will summon sunlight that isn't there. i wonder what impacts on our collective mental health this device could have.
@@pedrosanschaise7429this is common knowledge. no need to insult people who haven’t even engaged with you…
I pointed at no one in particular. I expressed common sense : a living being destroying the conditions for their living and/or promoting what destroys those conditons, is ****** (fill the blank, you can do it). If the hat fits, blame yourself.
If you could make this as some kind of large wall decoration/mirror/painting size that can be placed on a wall and have the same function...that would really sell well..
this would be so cool to have connected to your alarm clock, 30mins before your alarm goes off the "sun" slowly gets brighter for a more natural wake up in the morning
or use the real sun...
Sure..
Perfect for people like me who wake up for work at 5am year round. Hardly get to see the sun in the winter. Maybe an hour or so of it on its way down after work.
@@GraveUypo crazy concept, but people have jobs that require them to wake up before the sun rises....
@@GumpterCrayon In winter, that's most of people. Especially those who live above 50°N.
PS. My Philips Wake-Up Light alarm clock does exactly as described. Had it for 3 years now, and it definitely works for me. Also, it doesn't just slowly increase brightness, it tries to imitate sunrise including colour-shift from red to yellowish wight
In conclusion, we are living in a bowl of soap that is surrounded by water cooled LEDs
This comment is both funny and terrifying...
@@MylezNevison Yeah, imagine the bowl breaking! We would all drown in soap water.
@@Yu2beFool maybe you would drown, but not me.
I'm built different.
@@jack-yn1wt I guess you can swim... in every water, no matter how powerful it is (or soapy)... ;-)
They have tried to get through the dome. Can't do it. All the spacecrap is fake.
Just by watching the sunlight I already feel energetic. Truly remarkable as you said!
This would be great for bunkers
"Hey I need a watercooling system"
Employee: "alright on which system are you using it?"
"My sun :)"
chuckling
Lool
Omg is your "son" overheating.
just put him in the pool (:
This man watercooled an led
Started following him for his pc builds next thing I know he's building a bloody sun
Ikr. What a madlad
you only worry when this thing starts orbiting your planet and demanding surrender
talk about transferrable skill sets
Motorize it to simulate sunset and sunrise. You can play with dimming as well. Excellent project!
ryopt skylight can simulate sunset and sunrise, also creat natural blue sky and sunlight.
If you can downsize it, this would be SUPER nice for small rooms. RV or vanlife. Probably nice for Northern North hemisphere places.
I just want it to mess with people. Imagine having someone over while drinking, they go to the bathroom, you toss on a fresh shirt and turn the light on, and when they come back you say "morning"
lol
Hahaha! Do it.
😅
😅
@@Shishou_Shi extra points if you take a picture of their phone sitting out and about half an hour after they leave, you send them the pic with "you forgot your phone"
3:42: I though he was going with: "Or even free if your neighbour isn't paying attention"
Underrated comment
LMAOO I’m dying 😂
This is not I Did A Thing.
he should have said that
This is amazing! If you could shrink that design down and make it something IKEA would sell, you'd be quids in! Awesome result. Looks so real!
Thank you. Now all the children in my basement can enjoy bright sunlight in the morning!
How many children do you have in your basement??
As a person who's into filmmaking, natural daylight is an amazing way to light a scene but the only problem is that it is not consistent and changes constantly. This madlad just fixed that problem
@@ccriztoff This will be wonderful when we're all mole people living underground in bunkers.
Are ya going to create this??
'is not consistent and changes constantly' - From the Department of Redundancy Department.
@@ccriztoff What is great for film making is actually bad for our health. Our circadian rhythm relies on the subtle changes of the sunlight as our inner clock is slightly longer than the 24 hour day. It needs constant adjustments.
@@Princess-dn7mj the modern humans' circadian rhythm have already been destroyed since the advent of electricity and electric lamps
The Sun: “Look what they need to mimic a fraction of my power.”
Nice
Nice
The invincible reference.
Nice
All hail our 🌞
I just love your videos. You’re such a wholesome youtuber, informative, compassionate to the viewers, and honest. I really appreciate people like you out there. Please keep it up!
I've seen many videos on how to make false windows with artificial light. This one undoubtedly remains the best. I wish it becomes replicable for every home in a few years' time. It's so incredibly useful.
So thats what raytracing looks like in real life.
i was wating for this comment
Muhh rat tracing
@TBB747 i have reddit
Fun fact: POVRay includes a light type for just this sort of thing. The "parallel" light type has parallel rays in the direction you specify. No need to make reflectors with photon mapping or put your light sources crazy far away from the scene. Combine it with the "cylinder" light type and you've got a pretty good laser, too.
@@Roxor128
Wait, doesn't any rendering engine with a customizable sun lamp has any parallel lighting?
He's raised the bar of expectations so high that I truly thought he was going to start a thermonuclear reaction from the title.
The amout of effort is close to that though 🙂
*“Lumos Maxima”* /*
This is magical! And every student needs a teacher like you. The way you illustrated every detail of this scientific phenomenon in a perfect way ❤
good light really makes a lot of difference. I have got a really nice led bulb which their lab data claims to be cri 98-99, I really feel more energetic working under it. Also, I find it more comfortable when the light is slightly on the warmer end (around 4000k-4600k I think) rather than standard white at 5600k
Yes, good skylight, ryopt skylight can simulate natural sunlight and color of day from sunrise to sunset.
maybe you can follow this UA-cam channel, you can find more details about it. www.youtube.com/@rongyangoptlightibg525/videos
What bulb is this?
I love how all your projects amount to "what if I water cooled some very hot LEDs?" and the result is you can experience television out in the sun and experience the sun inside at night.
At least now he has a TV he can comfortably watch in his fake-sunlit room :)
And even further, he could watch tv outside nice and clearly in daylight at 2am!
Short term low budget option: Replace the LED with an arc welder. Now your DIY-sun can even give you sun tan and cancer, just like the real one.
Lol Next Video ( HOW TO MAKE ARTIFICIAL OZONE LAYER)
Eh, cancer takes too long. How do I modify this to just fucking immolate me?
@@theandroidguy6032 after that (HOW TO PUT SINGLE OCCUPANCY TINY PLANET INTO ORBIT)
It's the sun-SCREEN that causes cancer. The natural sun is not harmful if we don't over-do it.
@@mr.blackhawk142 Cancer is a fault in DNA in such a way that the DNA creates cells that lack the instruction to kill themselves when they get too old and faulty. These immortal cells expectedly break over time, but instead of dying and being reabsorbed into the host body, they selfishly live on and do nothing useful, only creating more faulty copies which waste resources.
One of the ways in which the DNA can come to lack this instruction is by being modified by an external energy source. Most forms of energy which we come into contact with on a day to day basis - sound, visible light, ambient temperature, etc., are either too low energy, or don't penetrate the body's defences enough to cause any damage to living cells.
The exceptions are things like natural sunlight, which contains a good amount of ultraviolet light, which _does_ penetrate our epidermis, the outer layer of skin, and affect the living layers. Evidence of this is stuff like sun tans, and skin cancer. This is why you don't get a sun tan from regular room lighting - it contains no UV wavelengths.
Naturally, if the sun was an instant cancer death ray, humans would have died out as soon as we shed our fur, but we can actually tolerate quite a bit of it. Some of us who evolved in sunnier places can tolerate a lot more, evidenced by darker skin. Like you said, it's not harmful if we don't overdo it.
Sunscreen is literally just "black" UV paint. In the same way that black paint absorbs most visible light, reflecting very little, and appearing black, sunscreen contains chemicals which absorb most UV light, not allowing it to penetrate your epidermis as much, essentially causing each second in sunlight to count for less, extending the time for which you can safely be exposed. When looking at someone wearing sunscreen with a camera that can pick up UV light, it looks like they're wearing black or dark brown bodypaint. I believe Veritaseum has a video on this. Unsurprisingly, this mimics the natural protection the aforementioned people who evolved in sunnier places have.
I don't know where you got this idea that "sunscreen causes cancer", but it's completely false. If the cancer threat vector is prolonged sunlight exposure, sunscreen _prevents_ cancer.
I have the utmost respect for people like Matt who not only share their knowledge, but also take the time to carefully impart it in innovative and inquisitive ways
Respect++ for this guy, does his work so passionately and with utmost perfection
As a photographer I'd love to make a scaled down version of this for a "portable" sun.
I'm with you! I'm not a photographer but I paint (furniture) and nothing is better than sunlight to show you what you've missed, etc.
I am a photographer and it would be amazing to get shots when it is pure nighttime
As a photographer this modifier probably won’t be bright enough for portrait but would be good for video.
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand.
*niko from oneshot intensifies*
This is such a British thing to need to do. :)
oh, vechs, hey
I just need it for a zombie movie to shoot at night s nobody walks threw the cene
ok didn't expect vechs to be here
Ah yes the time honored british tradition of making fake suns.. how could I have forgot lol stfu
@@unou588 because britain is always raining yknow stfu
I love when I come to a video to learn one thing and walk away with 50. Great work, man. Truly brilliant, in every meaning of the word. 🌞👍
3 years later, this is still my fav diyperks video ❤
This is crazy I’ve never seen such a thing and I think this would be so practical for photoshoots, I wish I could buy one!!
My wife would absolutely love this for her studio. It would be insane to have.
you can! the firm that is building these is called coelux :)
I mean, he just told you how to make one.
I felt the same way, i can imagine the way i could completely change a location's feel with just this
DIY Perks- shows us how to make this.
Sami Loft- I wish we could buy one somewhere
Part 2 - Overclocking the sun with liquid nitrogen cooling.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good luck overclocking LED
He doesn't do that 😂
@@Dhruv.Wadhwa you do know you can overdrive LEDs right?!
Oh, Matt. Matt, matt, matt. You bring such joy. I don't think I've seen you happier with an invention. It's really lovely to see ❤️
Amazing use of a Dish!! Great!
I'll suggest a crazy enhancement: create a pump system for the "aquarium" that pumps different liquids throughout the day. So you could have a darker liquid simulating clouds, and a denser liquid in the evening that scatters the light more giving a sunset effect.
That is a solid idea and it also provides some justification for using liquids instead of solid filters, other than "we couldnt find anything solid that is easily available and provides the same effect" lol
And make a cloudy day...
How would you KEEP both liquids separated?
He could also automate the LED light temperature throughout the day. Imagine waking up every day to an orange light of about 2500K that gradually becomes 5600K.
hell yeah dude
This would also be great for artist to study and set up daylight setups to learn
This is awesome. I sleep in a room with no windows, I’ve been trying to create a false window for a while now and this is literally perfect for it
As a photographer I can tell you recreating sunlight in a studio is considerably more complicated and nuanced than you might think. There’s a lot more to it than just parking a light in the air. Matt covers the issues pretty well and his light is frickin awesome!
Do you think either of his solutions could work in the studio?
@@TemporalOnline I think the big one would. But it would have it’s limitations f stop/d.o.f wise - and you would only use it to simulate sunshine. Something I’ve done maybe half a dozen times in 20 years... So good for that particular effect if the videos any indication but it’s not something most people are going to use very often. I guess you have to way that up...
To achieve a similar effect I lit the white studio walls and ceiling with gelled light to work as my big blue sky reflector for the colder shadows, and use a snooted head with a grid spot, at high ceiling level, to simulate the sun. Once you get the balance of brightness and colour right, that worked well (although long shadows lost focus a little too quickly). I used that technique to shoot a family and photoshop them into a field with dad’s arm around a cow - yes, a milk campaign. : ) The designer was sceptical at first, but it worked well in the end. But I really had to fine tune the lighting to match the previously shot cow. The sweet spot was surprisingly small. Adjustments were down to tenths of a stop before it looked right.
This dude seems so happy because he's completely eliminated season depression from his house
I don't wanna be that guy, but I think you meant, *seasonal depression. Season depression is what an Indian would have when eating at a white person's house.
Also, vitamin D
But seasonal depression is caused by the lack of vitamin D that people tend to have in the winter. So your doctor saying go outside literally means get some vitamin D because that helps seasonal depression a ton, NOT CLINICAL DEPRESSION THOOOO :3
Haha good one
@@JAL_EDM so your saying this thing to help with the general gloom of winter and take some vitamin d supplements and i won’t have seasonal depression on top of my regular depression? amazing
As somebody who moved from a sunny place to a colder darker place, this is so bizarre to me. I’m so happy I don’t see the sun that often anymore.
this is such a brilliant video, and the forum discussion is so useful too! even if i may not be able to build this in my apartment anytime soon it's a real treat to get this knowledge and content.
It's actually kinda obnoxious how well this works.
I'm merely watching this through my computer screen and it's noticeably making me feel more awake and alert ...
... It's almost 2AM and I have to work tomorrow.
😂😂😂
yeah, it also works for me by just watching it through the computer! crazy!!
* today
for extra anxiety
There are companies who make Realistic skylights, using HD LED tv panels. Check it out! But cost a small fortune.......
*wakes up blinded by the sun*
“Crap I forgot to turn off the sun again”
I fell asleep with a VR headset on, and woke up to rainbow colors swirling all around me. Thought I woke up into another dream lol
Video's like this are right up my street
Man i love your content, everything about it is so professional and relaxing to watch. Thanks for you hard work!
16:37
British people when it stops raining for 1 second.
also people in the Pacific Northwest. I remember living in Portland and when the sun came out i'd stop what i was doing and just stand in it lol
hahah
@@jessicabrackett1034 I know this feel from living in Vancouver for a few years lol
lmaoooo
@@Jakey4000 NO wonder it is called British Columbia 😂😂
Neighbors outside are like "Damn he really stole the sun"
despicable matt...
Me : did you see my son (sun) ?
Random : you have son ? i thought you werent married yet ?
@@bokunochannel84207 Do people still believe one needs to be married to have kids?
@@jase_allen That's the least of our worries, this man stole the sun and its dark out
@@jase_allen they should. to decrease human population grow rate
This was super interesting! Thank you!
We have four hours of light midwinter here so thank you! (We also have a midnight sun in summer which is lovely.) I’ve never felt light deprived though and love my aero gardens which help. Good lighting really helps and meditation chases any blues away so it’s never affected me. I’m an artist so your design really impresses me and it would be incredible just for painting. How wonderful if would be if you could find a way to develop and market this and do it in a way everyone could easily and safely use anywhere! Maybe even in space. ☀️
Introverts: Well isn’t this bloody wonderful
I swtg I'm building my own house which will have a sun room ❤️
Introverts without money or space: "God dammit. Thwarted yet again..."
UA-cam makers: put shutters before that sun, we are filming
This guy can literally recreate reality with a few parts and scraps he has in his room... and it's amazing
has alot of fancy scraps, from fancy projects.
It's even great for artists since painting from life can giver very different results than the limited range of a camera. But it's always a race since natural light changes relatively quickly! Using artificial light visually flattens things and adds an unnatural final look because of the shadow blurring and the color temperature. Our brains are so good at seeing light and shadow that even an untrained eye can typically spot art that was painted with an artificial light and it looks "wrong" or "not as good" to the average person VS pieces painted from life with natural light. Some artists in the past would only work on certain paintings for one hour per day for years at a time to make sure the lighting and colors matched (which of course was messed up on overcast or rainy days).
This guy reminds me of Steve Mould a lot. Right down to the water between two sheets of glass!
This idea can literally save people lives that get depressed in European countries for example where sun does not appear for them for months..incredible !
You should be able to get a upside-down umbrella 30000 lumens lightweight fixture ready to plug in to the regular outlet all set up totally complete on clearance for 50 bucks. If you must have it by there for tomorrow just spend about $155 which is the now 2 or 3 year old full price for the down 30000 Lumen from any hook. You can even hang it from a clothesline that you run from one side of the ceiling to the other by using shower curtain rods against the wall to securely attached to the ends of the clozeline to the ceiling. If you want special light colors you can put whatever films you want under that lamp. This isn't complicated. When the light light is not bright from outside day or night you don't need to pump the heat out of your house you need to convert the electrons to photons and depression cares about a glare but not about what Toshiba and other scammers Shout. You have to trust me on this.
For under $100 at Home Depot I think they have a 300 watt regular light bulb socket bulb. I tested that bulb in the Home Depot using one of their common table lamps as a fixture. Yeah that bulb was 170 Watts but the equivalent of a 500w discharge high intensity plasma output it's speciously claimed.
Again I'm talking about stuff that's been available at retail for years. inside the box is a mogol lamp adapter since that's what people normally have on their ceiling LOL but the bulb itself is as I proved two employees that were just in shock despite technically knowing the facts it would work and work so well the one dude that help me out almost slapped me when I said you can put it in a 3 lamp table fixture LOL or even as I mentioned 8 bulb vanity every city in the world has in their dumpster at most thrift stores.
Before most of the people on the planet were born the Germans were talking about the theory of s a d depression being relieved by photons. it's what you do in the light that cures you because being tortured at the light will not give you as much joy even if brighter. I normally mock government Regulators regarding lighting but this project seeking the highest wattage old school projector bulb available ineptly redeems the shift to sourcing based upon lumens instead of wattage. we cannot detect collimated light. I have that denim Recycled Fiber shipping insulation because it's wrapped in mylar on the floor by my divided light door and there is a nearly privacy but transparent curtain which has Sunshine shining out the gap on the bottom and that the d call mates the Sunday meme sunlight gloriously so it bounces off my popcorn stucco ceiling in the center of my long Studio which is quite large by the way just a few square inches of sunlight bounced off marlar kicks ass but that's because I'm not in Germany or even Michigan or Illinois Etc.
that's what copper is good for you can very inexpensively connect solar panels to diodes and for those who want actually engineered equipment and our spunky enough to spend a fortune on even used appliances please go to B&H they have an excellent app if you're not in New York City. with what you save on your heating bill pick up a pair of rad binoculars but always check their you Jim and Tori of used items in whatever category first! it's their used inventory that has me endorse them and their app, don't hire an interior in director decorator save the fortune and spend real money on quality Hollywood grade if absolutely by Hollywood fetishistic nonsense awesome unbelievably awesome works of art no less when it comes to lighting. there is one more thing to say. Going to the landfill as we speak and for several years now are billions of dollars of Mercury and sodium vapor discharge systems. they have been on Public Surplus for a dollar each when still brand new.
Blame UA-cam. Walter Cronkite is a school but without any news organizations to hire the graduates lives are in fact being lost as entire medical school libraries are hauled off to landfills despite India being willing to fly them overnight to wear the price of light does not involve nonsense at night
Bringer of sol
@@electronicmusclebike idk what you were trying to say with all that but is there a link to that $50 set ?
@@masha5444 I hate to break it to you but I think @Rick Sillik's comment was generated by a bot. It's very impressive how relevant to the context the start of it's comment was. So the first sentence might be written by a human but the rest definitely seems generated.
@@interflashz you're not going to get rhyming from any bought like I brought but a bot would say such a thing as you have and that's not just a thought
this guy: *exists*
human circadian rhythm: _focc_
at this point, mine can only improve
man wish i can mimic nighttime, sounds and everything
@@pollosasadosalcarbon close the curtains, put crickets on speakers
nah man i also need a neighbour playing loud bassy music and maybe some gunshots
@@pollosasadosalcarbon oof
Truly an amazing project!!! As someone that lives in a northern country, I wish this was available to purchase!!!
This is amazing! Thanks for building this and inspiring me!
Haven't even got into how you put this together yet, but I've got to congratulate you on the result alone. Incredible job! That's unbelievable. I don't know of any light that can do what you've just accomplished.
you are incredible as well my good sir,you achieved making rubis in a freaking microwave 😁
I wonder if your parabolic reflector from space blankets would work as well
😍I understood your following all of my favorite youtubers
I think this means you must now find a way to use parabolic mirrors to generate ruby.
They exist.... And are EXTREMELY expensive (like, around 20 grand).
Now, if we could please build an artificial night to fool my brain into actually falling asleep instead of insomnia. Thanks.
try curtains
@@sandorkocso1798 curtains for the eyes?
@@brianfunt2619 Like ones was in Tom and Jerry
How bout replacing the led with black light (uv)😏😏
try closing your eyes. some of us evolved to have eyelids. maybe you can force them to grow?
I need this to be a more compact commercial product. Especially since I live in the Pacific Northwest where I need to turn on bright lights during the day for these rainy winter months
I absolutely love this channel
"LEDs will never be bright enough for lighting" my high-school physics teacher in the early 2000s...
Explains why he or she is a teacher and not University Professor, UA-camr or working for NASA as Engineer.
Lol!
Remember also when teachers used to tell us not to be so reliant on our calculators, as "you're not going to be able to carry around a calculator in your pocket in real life!"
Oh yeah, Karen? **whips out mobile phone** What's this then? :P
I wonder if those teachers feel really stupid about saying that now?
@@TheMurlocKeeper
I mean, it's not that bad, cuz mental calculations also help training your brain.
My old professor was quite free with calculator, but she emphasised in "how to make it to the point of using a calculator" possible, like "I don't care how you do it, give me the number and an acceptable formula", 90% of us don't get the credit that year.
I argued with people on the internet in the late 90's about whether there would ever be a computer or video card fast enough to push 60fps on a super VGA resolution (800x600). Lots of people were saying it was just impossible because of some technical limitations. I said they were nuts. They never apologized.
@@TheMurlocKeeper Dude, how old are you ? I have tiny Casio pocket calc, bought in 1984, size of a bank card and no thicker than a passport.
This would be perfect for a basement.
Or an underground apocalypse shelter.
@@The8bitbeard It would also work on nuclear submarine. I just figured more people have basements...
@@oggyreidmore lmao
Yeah I’m sure she’s gonna love it there, it’s always dark in the basement.
you would need something like this: ua-cam.com/video/aJ4TJ4-kkDw/v-deo.html
A lot of effort went into this fine presentation, much appreciated!
Beautiful job
Boris: LOCKDOWN FOR EVERYONE
Matt: DIY sun
Next project: make the arm holding the LED swivel over a long period of time to fake the daytime cycle 👀 you could even have the LED dim in the last hour to fake the fun going down 😬 amazing work man!
I thought about a color change but this Idea is awesome!
I always thought something like this would be awesome, especially for someone living in a basement apartment! I really hope DIY Perks looks into doing this!
And then program AC unit to blow cool/warm air based on different seasons of the year to create fake weather
youre videos are just insane ❤
I almost wached this one 5 times 😊
This is going to be an amazing aquarium light.
How to ruin your circadian rhythm speedrun any%
(jokes aside this is really impressive :D)
any bright blue light would do the trick tbh
It's already far beyond repair. I'd love one of these to turn on at like 2 in the morning.
This would actually help your rhythm in places that get periods of time without any light
Right!!! Use it before Noon on
cloudy rainy days.
My circadian rhythm's already fucked. This would actually fix it.
I was like, okay I'm gonna make this until he brought out a satellite dish lol.
Same
You can still make a more diffuse version using computer/TV back lights
Makes you wonder how the sun actually works if you recreate it realistically, you need a curved bowl to reflect the light?
@@bleckybob the bowl just simulates the far distance of the sun
Im like: Yeah, i just need additional room in my apartment.
I have been obsessed with this since I saw it for the first time. I was wondering if there was any way I could buy one? I know making it is the whole point of this channel, but I feel like the whole water-cooling thing makes it too advanced and time consuming for me. But I do live in London and the lack of sun basically 9 months a year is the one thing that kills me. I need this! Has anybody made one successfully?
coelux
I would like to buy one too!
It’s incredible
As winter approaches, I would LOVE a guide on how to build a smaller version of this for practical apartment use.
well, use a smaller led and antenna as he said in the video?
I think he has a previous video where he upcycles old laptop screens into a fake window. A bit less convincing but definitely easier and smaller
Wish he had done it as a realistic light to start with its so bright and electricity heavy that I am only watching fully for the science and wonder of the build even though I'm here to diy a low watt realistic faux window build lol
I feel like the easiest way to achive this is to substitute the led with one of those strong flashlights or use a weaker LED. Then paint an acrylic sheet with "milk paint" which is just elmers glue mixed with a little bit of white acrylic.
I’ve actually built this with a 100W LED and a 90cm wide sat-antena:
Upsides:
- it really looks like daylight, amazing.
- relatively cheap
Downsides:
- it takes lots of space
- the cooling fan for the heat sink is loud enough so that it’s annoying and a reminder that the light isn’t sun light (I just ordered an ultra quite fan, let’s see what happens)
- a 90cm wide antenna will give you an illuminated area of just about 0,6 m2, which is not much, and if you put a squared window in front with the nanoparticles solution, it will cut the corners and make it even smaller.
The powerful LED, the big SAT antenna and the water cooling really make sense: more light, less noise. But it still has the space consuming problem.
All in all really cool thing and I don’t regret building it.
Did you video it?
@@monkeytrumpet11 yes I did..., it’s in my cellar and can start t any time. My cellar is however my workshop and is currently fantastically messy. Perhaps in the future I could post something.
on the contrary, real sun takes way much more space 😎
I imagine the diffuser gives more illuminated area.
How much did it cost you to make? :)
This project taught me things that I have never thought of. Loved the video. Thank you!!!!!!!
Lumie make lights, smaller but fantastic, helps amazingly with the winter blues!
I started watching this, thinking I could do this. As it went on I'm thinking cutting a hole in the house might be easier.
@@mezzb make it waterproof, mount it outside your actual window
You mean a window?
actually I think a couple 100W LEDs with 80cm dishes on a double height space would fare surprisingly good and could be somewhat easily concealed by using drywall plus no need for water cooling @100W, I have already drafted how it could be achieved, now I just need the house with the double height living room