45. You Should be Making | THUNK

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Everybody's had an idea for something cool, but some think that it would be beyond them to make it real. Wrong.
Links for the Curious
Instructables, a fantastic repository of step-by-step instructions for how to make just about anything - instructables.com/
A resin mold casting tutorial - cast-a-walker.blogspot.com/
The Backyard Bowyer, a guy who puts up comprehensive guides to making your own PVC bows - • How to Build a 40 Poun...
The Replica Prop Forum, a community of rabid movie prop reproduction fans who know how to make everything from Stormtrooper armor to movie-accurate Borg cubes - www.therpf.com/

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@joshuasummers7554 Год назад

Dude, how did I just find your channel now??? I needed this content 8 years ago 😅

@THUNKShow Год назад

I deliberately avoid making it friendly to the RU-vid Algorithm, so everyone who finds their way to it was (very deliberately) looking for something like it. It's a way to ensure the comments are nice. ;) And thank you very much, I hope you enjoy the rest of it!

@SbotTV 8 лет назад

I'm a teenager with many ideas, but I never seem to feel motivated to accomplish any of them at the appropriate time. It will be 11 PM and I'll sit up in bed and say "Welp', let's design a 3D printer!" My parents put up with quite a bit...

@josephalcindor61 8 лет назад

Thunk changed my life

@DJPhilTBCollins 9 лет назад

I am a person who solves problems by making or fixing things. This is my defining characteristic as well as my day job. You play the song of my people well. Those looking to learn and build, see if you can find a hackerspace or makerspace in your area. Think of it as your first quest.

@isablondethng 9 лет назад

I share this sentiment completely and encourage people to remember that it can be anything. It can be recipes and clothing just as easily as it can be light-sabers and awesome shelving. Think you're a terrible seamstress with no sewing experience? Balk at the thought of making your own patterns? Buy ready-made patterns and put them together to get what you need. Think you're a terrible cook? Go to Allrecipes and find the kinds of spices that people use together most frequently then try them out in different quantities for yourself! It's never cheating to refer to instructions and references made by others. It's using the tools available to you. ^_^

@nekopariah6306 9 лет назад

Another great way to get started would be by finding a Maker Faire near you. I go to the one in San Jose every year and there are incredible feats of Make on display everywhere you turn. It's enough to inspire anyone.

@miguelsolisbravo 9 лет назад

This channel is awesome, you deserve more subscribers!

@robinlovesmath3980 9 лет назад

I'm sharing this inspiring video with my students!

@THUNKShow 9 лет назад

AWESOME!

@robinlovesmath3980 9 лет назад

THUNK I also sent Thunk 43 You Don't Suck at Math to all of my colleagues in the Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Department here at my university about a month ago, when I first discovered you. It was the first Thunk video I ever saw, and I'm hooked! I LOVE your videos! You are Thunk-a-licious! (Sorry, my calculus students started calling everything Calcu-liscious last semester, and I can't help myself now.)

@THUNKShow 9 лет назад

robinlovesmath No need to apologize, I'm simply thrilled to hear that my videos are circulating at a university! Thank you! ...-licious!

@Ileumn 9 лет назад

I would be interested in seeing vlogs by you, you sound like you have a very interesting life!

@frankhenry-reyes9624 9 лет назад

I love to play a game called Dominion but, because there are so many boxes to carry around, I decided to create much smaller boxes out of wood and was able to add my own flare, distinguishing each box with different colors and such. Has anyone here played Dominion? Do you dig it?

@kraneiathedancingdryad6333 Год назад

Problem: I have awesome ideas. But I'm fumble fingered.... Everything I make looks like utter crap. Cheers to you folks who can actually make stuff.

@akiratoons 9 лет назад

Ok, I could play devil and ask: can I make a real time machine that allows me to travel both in the past and in the future? But I do get what you are trying to say. Still, I am more interested in the software part. At first, doing videos seemed like a chore, I had to learn effects and animations, I had to learn how to work with a video camera and how to use it properly. But now I find it fun. I still have lots to learn, like principles of animation and principles of design, but I have the biggest library in my hands: THE INTERNET. Yeah, seriously, if you know how to search, you can find nearly anything here.

@amremam8937 6 лет назад

I have some ideas but I need mechanical design guidance. Is there a public sites that provide help similar to sites for programming?

@stefanklisarov4053 8 лет назад

4:05 That turbo had an engine attached to it

@alexgray5305 9 лет назад

I love you.

@oliviagallup6172 8 лет назад

omfg so accurate especially now with things like khan academy and youtube...

@michellem6457 8 лет назад

my buddys working on a patton to use wifi to charge your phones and possibly harness the energy and power everything. do you know any limitations for that. if wireless power is possible why isnt it popular

@THUNKShow 8 лет назад

I think you mean "patent." :) Wireless power is certainly possible, but the thing we like about it is the thing that makes it difficult to design: it's not constrained to cables. With WiFi, because you're transmitting in all directions, the amount of power in the signal decreases rapidly as you move farther away from the transmitter. While a wire loses some power due to the resistance of the metal inside, it's much much better at maintaining power from the source to the object you want to power. WiFi signals transmit at around 200mW (which isn't a lot to start with) & their maximum receiving power (what your laptop/phone sees) is on the order of 100 µW. In comparison, your phone takes about 5W to power. Also, when you're not constraining power transmission to cables, you have to start worrying about other things, like how it will affect stuff that it might come in contact with (like people), how it will respond to dynamic conditions (like people moving around & into the transmission path), that sort of thing.

@blablasijus 9 лет назад

I have a dream of making my own wooden rubics cube. But the main spining parts needs to have springs and also be narrow enough to place other parts, driling hole that small and finding appropriate spring for that seems mission impossible for me. Am im wrong, are there simple ways to create rubics cube with tension?

@THUNKShow 9 лет назад

I've seen them made with neodymium magnets, which makes it pretty easy (if dangerous to wave around hard drives). www.instructables.com/id/Magnetic-Rubik-s-Dice-Cube/ There's also the option of using the guts from an existing cube. As for making the mechanism from scratch, I'm not familiar with it, but I'd be happy to take a look this weekend & see if I can't think of something!

@Xartab 9 лет назад

Thanks, now tell me how to deposit a patent. If I wanted to make a living out of the hundreds of ideas that my mind throws at me, I would need to patent those. Unfortunately, in my country the patenting process costs thousands of dollars (euros), money which I don't have. I could move to another country, but apart from it requiring even more money, I should leave my home (which I will eventually do, but that's beside my point). Or I could find a job, good luck with that in the current economy, and good luck with finding time once you get said job. And if I just wanted to build a prototype, well, regarding the materials, it's not like they throw the aerogel at you; and you would need SOME tools, sometimes you just can't screwdriver your way out of a vacuum pump. Now, I'm sure you've got some money from your mechanical engineer thingy, but I don't. Which makes me sad and makes the world a slightly less fun and comfortable place because of the lack of my projects.

@String.Epsilon 9 лет назад

Does programming count? Good. Learn programming. "There is literally no technology that you can't build". I get the message, but that is not really true. Building a modern hard disk drive or CPU on your own without access to a fab would probably eat up your entire lifetime without any good results. Even opening a hard drive without damaging it requires some expensive equipment (expensive in dollars or time to build / buy yourself) - but I'm just nitpicking :)

@Benmester91 9 лет назад

Well yeah, but you wouldn't want to build a modern HDD on your own, a typical project would be to build a functional HDD. Heck, that is in fact an awesome project - even if it only has a few (maybe a hundred?) bytes of memory. (damn gonna look into that :D) It's quite amazing what sort of stuff can be built at home - Check out the Applied Science channel - he made x-ray machines and electron microscopes and stuff.

@THUNKShow 9 лет назад

You're right, there's certainly technologies that would require many years of investment to make at the level of sophistication achieved by multimillion-dollar organizations, but it's totally achievable to make a hard drive or a CPU. (Someone had to the first time, right? ;) ) cpuville.com/ www.ed-thelen.org/RAMAC/

@SbotTV 8 лет назад

+String.Epsilon I'm sure you could simulate one on a computer (assuming you had the time to design the architecture) and run tests without ever having to go to a fab.