Why Science Is Fun

Hey kids!  Do you have your own ground-to-space-satellite communication system in your bedroom and want to prove to your friends how your antenna works but get so wrapped up in radio wave pattern geekspeak that your friends quickly get bored and want to go back to texting their virtual friends about who-saw-whom-doing-what-where-behind-the-school?

Haven't we all?!

But now there's a fun way to simply show your friends you have power they can't see.  No, you're not auditioning for "Anti-Heroes" or "Last of the Harebenders."  Instead, you've got this supercool way to show how you talk with the satellites circling overhead or even bounce a signal off the moon (your communications with the beings coasting in outer space between here and Alpha Centauri you keep to yourself, of course).

Well, here 'tis:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/seeing_radio_waves_with_a_light_bul.html

Pretty soon you'll have bunches of ways to demonstrate the existence of radio waves around you, adjusting a rainbow of LED light output sources according to signal strength and wavelength.  Then, your friends'll really want to get the party started!  Throw in a theremin for some old school fun and watch the party kick up a notch.  You don't need no DJ Hero 'cause you're the Science Hero who can throw down tracks ain't nobody never heard in this dimension of sight and sound.  The party is the music is the party!  Party on, dude!