Adam Savage's Maker Tour: Incite Focus 

What an amazingly inspirational and intelligent man, rarely have I heard someone with such practical engineering insight have the same, if not more, insight into the realities of society and how it can be aided. This man needs to do a TED talk

I love how Adam keeps putting his hands in his pockets to stop from touching stuff - he is always so tactile in his Workshop, it must be Hell for him!

I have to admit, the fact they are making these kits pretty mush idiot proof is brilliant. I would so get one of these to take around the country as an RV.

When I first read that sign I though to myself 'damn, get off your high horse.' But I though wrong, what's being done here is nothing short of amazing.

Career sound/audio guy here. Nobody appreciates good audio until you don't have it.

That high pass filter on the audio makes my head melt

Wow, this is really an amazing project, thank you Adam for bringing attention to it!

so thats what adam looks like with protective gear ^^

Does anyone check videos before uploading? Or has this been mixed on a potato and nobody noticed the bad audio?

This is really fascinating. Thanks so much for bringing it to a larger audience!!

Drop the volume a bit with the routing, its quite loud

BRILLIANT!!! really pleased to see this keep up the great work guys.

Awesome video Adam, much love x

2:40 Guy starts taking about machines, Adam makes chuckling hidden reference to Miles Dyson from Terminator. That’s Savage, Adam Savage

19:13 “doesn’t allow you to make a mistake”. Being a skilled tradesman, I’m not sure how I feel about this.

Perfect. I am really happy to see these projects

Simple does not mean easy or soon...the 'L'Unit Booths in Trinidad and Tobago has been used for the past 17 years every carnival. Your CNC approach allows our 'L' Unit to be shared with the world. Thanks for the insight, inspiration...and challenge! Keep up the excellent work.

Very interesting project ! Thanks for sharing this

As I listened to the beginning of this film, I realised how wonderful this maker space is - its ethos is identical with that of the seminal Bauhaus in Germany in the 1930's, whose legacy is with us yet - its with excitement I see these wonderful new ideas.

This is amazing. The tiny house concept brought to more people and even more affordable (ideally) is so cool!

How can we buy one of these "kits"? I would love to test this. I didn't see much info on their site.

this is pretty awesome! hope to see more in the future

This is awesome. You can see the respect in Adams expressions

*Machine working* *Shows their faces* But this is a nice project! Always cool to see people able innovate and simplify with common things

Really neat project set up

Love that phrase 'Never mistake a clear vision for a short distance'!

This is all so exciting and I can't wait to contribute to all of the innovation to come

This is outstanding! What a fantastic project with such a great community behind it. The guy leading it is who I want to be :D

Adam! This is the exact kind of housing alternatives I asked you about years ago on a RU-vid AMA you did. This is some pretty cool tech in the field full of cool tech. I hope this got you looking into more projects like this. :)

I love this guy! What a great program to get going.

What a well spoken man I don't know anything about housing but he was eloquent and good at explaining this to Adam and us.

I love this! Great project.

When i worked in the mines in Northern Western Australia, we lived in rooms like these. They're called "Donga". They where made out of shipping containers and there where 3 rooms per contaner. The only difference is, we had separate bathroom with a toilet, shower and basin. We had a desk with storage and a king single bed. It wasn't bad at all.

More of this!!!! Please.

This is such a great idea. Warms my heart to see people trying to make a difference in the world.

What a meaningful work to do

The director is very clear and precise; a great presenter!

Just amazing. The thought and intelligence that is going into this as well as the intelligence this type of project will breed is just simply amazing and astounding. Can't wait to see the bright future that this type of community will bring forth. Just amazing as I said before. I love it.

We had a 63' Volkswagen HighRoof bus, that had a transforming interior. Daytime it had two sofas and a table in the back. On top of the engine bed, there was.. well, a bed.. that had most of the stuff while driving. when we stopped and set up camp there was cooking possibilities and beds for four people.

That's awesome!

Outstanding ingenuity.

"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail." It highlights how we apply our limited experiences and knowledge to solving problems that require more expertise.

audio man was on holiday for this filming it seems.

I seriously love seeing people things like this. These people, who are making the world a better place.

Has there been any progress on this project?

Adam searched for 'Maker Spaces' but got this guy 'Making Spaces'.

where do you cook in this thing?

Man I do love me some overpowering high pass filters to really make that audio shine

please revisit in the future

"That's really very exciting" was so softly spoken

this is like DIY IKEA build your own house. except without all the small wooden pegs to get lost everywhere, and with obvious physical instructions already in the building material, it basically guides its own construction! brilliant! this is gonna be super useful for disasters such as after hurricanes, to house people for 3-6 months while they clean up and fix their larger houses and businesses.

having built walls etc in my time, ive often encountered the problem of wood stud warping and twisting even if they were straight upon purchase... that issue would throw off the notching alignment i suspect...unless your able to cut and assemble with fresh straight stock right away...?

I really hope you guys go back in a year and see if this has turned into anything. Very much want to see it work, and if anyplace is ready to embrace something new, it's probably Detroit.

Brilliant! I'm curious about how water and electricity are delivered. I assume photovoltaics account for some, but all of the electrics? Water? Also, graywater, waste?

Will you please pause at 11:10 and tell us exactly what is that ride on contraption that resembles a bicycle ??

It's nice to see Adam Savage doing stuff I miss seeing him on myth busters since that is now no longer

i love Adam's "amazed face" mostly because i look just like that when i see something cool.

Very interesting stuff and enjoyable video, ofc pretty strange audio mainly start (dunno if just got used to it), think there is something like this but little bigger done in japan as someone pointed out but should be fun to see where it's headed, seem to try plan it out as much as they can and will no doubt be some changes when people start living in them, but should work well since know some people just go home to sleep/shower.

I can’t stop rewatching Adam’s look at 2:36

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For those who don't think they could ever live in a "micro" house, you should see one in person. You'd be amazed at what you can get used to (and even like!). I'm building a test structure in my back yard that is 13 feet by 13 feet by 13 feet, with two levels, and there is PLENTY of space for two people to live there. Probably even three if one of them is a child.

🏆👍🏼😊 champions and I wish them all the best for the future.

wow! what is up with the levels!! new mixer?

I really hope they look into instead of using trailers, using storage containers. Also they mentioned foaldable bed i hope they look at the multi use and foldable furnature being used in small apartments

I'm interested for sure

How tf did this audio get past qa

3:38 The whole intro here I was wondering when (not even 'if') Adam was going to say something about the sign. :D

Nice Video

man is that so cool

There is no way it's cost effective to CNC every single stud in a house.

Nice camera work at the beginning

Very cool.

This is so cool, I want to work on that man!! Teach me!!!

who did the audio on this im sad but also very picky when it comes to sound

Put the CNC on a trailer so that contractors can use it to quickly make walls. Fit it with an auto loader and off feed table and you would have a sure seller. The mortis and tenon design makes for a very strong wall. Programming, low cost and UI would be paramount.

This is amazing and I love how accessible it is making tiny/small house construction. As a person who would be interested in living in a small house, but having no idea how to approach building my own...this is awesome! It also makes me wonder, with this approach of putting registration marks on the difference pieces, will we see places like Ikea selling things like these? (obviously we'd have to see a lot of legal stuff change that makes it easier for people to find places to live in these.)

Good video 👍🏻📹😁

Pretty cool

One thought that occurs to me here in 2020 - that space looks like it was converted from a hospital, specifically an Emergency Room (check out the indicator lights over each door). I wonder if they had to convert it back for COVID?

Can you put all that onto an old shipping container with solar panels on the roof and a retractable awning with solar panels

i love the jig he made

I would be a test subject for one of these, looks nicer then most of the apartments I've been in

It'd be cool if the shower could fold down like and accordion and become part of the floor when not used.

Carving an epic rock maple staff with Odin's head as a topper. All hand tools. Ever make a staff Adam?

Who are these for?

This project is just amazing! Think of all the people who can finally have their own house :)

If you can make it to where it's easy to build the entire structure, not just the individual pieces, and you find a way to basically flat-pack it; this would be great for disaster relief. Ship small flat-pack temporary homes, and you could easily have a neighborhood on a truck, maybe even enough for a small community. I know FEMA has trailers, I went though a nasty tornado back in 2011, but the deployment honestly isn't that fast and a ton of people end up in hotels for weeks, but flat-packing enough buildings for a small community could vastly increase the speed of disaster relief, since all you have to do is piece together the structure and screw it together. It would also cut down on costs, as FEMA uses literal trailer homes, and this could be flat packed, just the savings in fuel for the trucks would be enough to provide a vast amount of additional homes. This would be even better if there was a way to knock down the home and put it back in a flat-pack format after disaster relief, with a quick inspection, then use it for the next disaster. I also like the idea of making the structure an easy puzzle; piece together a few things, then screw, and you're done. This would work well for people who want to build a cheap home, since time is money, and building structures takes a lot of time in measuring and cutting and assembling; making this the Ikea of houses would cut down on the price a lot. Hell, I might even implement this idea the next time I go out and build something, even if its just a shed. Though I do have ideas for improvement if you scale this to production. One is automated assembling, especially for the frames; it might not take long for a trio to piece one frame together, but labor time for that trio and the amount of tools and accessories needed would grow rapidly when you scale it for production. Another one is getting a stronger spindle with a longer bit, so you could at least double the production on the 2x4s, and sheet good portions could be knocked out quickly when you layer the sheets.

Look at an Airstream Bambi trailer. It's super tiny build but has all the needed functionality to live in a very tight confined space.

I like this for the people who need very cheap housing, but I don't want the world to move to this living style as a whole.

This should scale perfect with all the camper conversions going on lately. Not to mention tiny homes.

A system like this, a method for making quality affordable housing could be a game changer. I would love to see this deployed in South Africa.

When is the Pimax 8K review coming guys?

If only we could start building something like this here in Southern Oregon. We have had a major housing crisis the last few years.

This was way longer than it needs to be.

These houses could do really good in Florida right about now!

I could see this being picked up by IKEA.

Not meaning to minimize the technical challenges this entails but we have the technology to do such constructions for a couple of decades. I think the toughest thing to crack, as he also mentions, are birocratic hurdles but also social norms and an efficient way to put a lot of these in a place. Because a single unit here an there does not solve a lot of problems. This then causes policing problems and neighborhood problems. Maybe with a good technical design they can bring the price down so much that they can fail at tackling some of those tough social problems without jeopardize the project. Besides, you have to have these thing in place for the eventual problems to manifest and be able to start solving them.

lol. the.... gentlemen... who have been unfollowing you on twitter recently because you are a decent human being whereas they are... not so much would fukkin love this :-) great piece and an inspiring project.

I've never seen Adam speechless before.

Sounds like just the sort of thing Reforesting Scotland's Thousand Huts Campaign might be interested in. And Social Bite with their low cost village project actuallly. Both Scottish organisations. Both on facebook if you're ever wanting to look them up. ... P.S. Deadpool