Wednesday 26 June 2013

Bizarre liquids: Ferrofluid.....

Have you seen Terminator 2? So you've probably asked yourself : 'Could I build a homicidal, shape shifting, robot?'

No? Oh, Ok, it was just me then.  

Um.

Anyway, one way to get that morphing effect might be using ferrofluid.

Ferrofluid, despite sounding like a doomed advertising scheme for shower gel, is a liquid that can be controlled by magnetic fields - and under the influence of a magnetic field it will do things like this:

 

....And, just case you are thinking about building a shape shifting super-assassin, here's how to make your own:


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