Another animation.

Star The Rat

This evening my beloved Star had to be put down. He had had a tumour for a few months, but in these last few days it had been getting so big that poor Star couldn't even walk properly. After a couple of days we knew that he had to be put down. There were two choices on how we could go about doing this. Either we could take him to the vet and have him do it, or we could do it ourselves. In the end I decided that we would do it at home, mostly because it would be quite stressful for him to take him to the vet.
The way we did it was we put him in an aquarium with carbon dioxide, which is a nervous system depressant. We used baking soda and vinegar to make the carbon dioxide. Star passed peacefully with my hand on him. After he died, my sister and I wrapped him in one of his rat cloths, and then we dug a hole next to his late brother Mercury, and put him in it. We used lots and lots of flowers and we put a big flat stone on the grave, just like Mercury. We sang a song that goes like this:
    Of all the ratties there could ever be, the ones I love most are called Star and Mercury!
  They run and they jump, and they find food to eat, and when they are tired, they go to bed to sleep.

After we buried him we went inside and ate dinner. I made a rat toast.

Underwater pictures

you can see frog eggs in this one!

I like this one the most.

The Kale Rainforest on the Planterbox Plateau

This is the kale rainforest.

A beautiful haven on the planterbox plateau. 

This is a very rare type of alligator.

And here is a photo-bombing ape!

Apes are very clean.

Some terrestrial penguins...

They belly slide on mud!

These animals' homes are all being threatened....

...by people who want to make farms...

...and big oil companies.

This is terrible! Stop it from happening!

The Self-Drawing Paper

Bees

I love bees. I love bees for so many reasons, like that they make honey, and that they help plants make fruit, which tastes good and is healthy, and good for the plants.







 

I found this odd little bumble bee on some borage while watering the garden.

Tesla coil

I made two Tesla coils with some friends and a mentor called Reed. It took a couple of months.

 A Tesla coil is a huge transformer which makes small lightning (Gigantic sparks).

        

                                        

First, the electricity goes into a transformer, which raises the voltage.

Then, the spark gap and the capacitor(s) give the electricity a certain frequency.

Next come the coils. There is the primary coil, and the secondary coil.

The primary coil goes around the secondary coil, with a layer of  in between. These to coils are a very very high voltage transformer. On top of the secondary coil there is ether a metal ball, or torus. If it's a ball, as on our coil, there is a stiff little wire on top, which emits the sparks.  Otherwise the sparks come out of the torus.      

the coils

bottle capacitors

the finished coils

the set up finished coils

AMAZING!!!

                                                                   THANKS REED!!