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@Trevor Knott If it was a "Myth" they would not have shut it down. They would have known it could'nt get hacked and would also have stood by it's side. EVERYTHING can get hacked... most hackers just won't set aside time to do it. (Time consuming)
My soldering station has been signed by five people who educated, entertained and inspired me. It took a few years and a little luck to meet all of the signatories. There was a brief time when I worried about carefully protecting the signatures, but then I concluded the tool should be used to help make new stories. Over time, the signatures have accumulated a few dings and scratches -all of which contribute to the story of this soldering station. Thank you Adam, Kari, Jamie, Tory and Grant. Your tiny presence in my shop continues to inspire my work and creativity.
@@Ropetupa Well, none were particularly hard. It was more a matter of attending events where there was a scheduled meet-and-greet opportunity. There was no waiting outside a hotel or ambushing anyone at a restaurant or anything like that. Everyone I met was gracious, engaging and seemed just as true to their on-screen personality as you would hope. Meeting your heroes is taking a risk, but with this group, it worked out great.
Adam, I find your enthusiasm for and description of the Exploratorium really awesome. I haven't heard of this place (I will definitely look into it now!) but as a museum technician (ie: someone who makes stuff for a couple museums here in Eastern Canada) my team frequently discusses how we can introduce our processes to the museum experience for the public to engage with. Frequently we are doing interesting work in the workshop and realize, this is a cool process that could be shared. I am a museum visitor as well so I always want to know the "whole story" when I encounter an object or an experience. Sounds like the Exploratorium gets it right!
Cool, science museum technician sounds like an awesome job! I've written it in another comment here already: I found the "Deutsches Museum" in Munich, Germany really exceptional, not just displaying historical objects, but having multiple cards of explanation (at different complexity for different audiences), separate from the historical information, and accompanied by interactive pieces that explain how it all works, in detail. And they really try to maintain the exhibits in working condition, and do live demos with the actual historic machines and devices. It's not just aimed at kids, but also at adult audiences of any educational level. Even as a PhD there's still a lot to learn. But I also remember spending 2 days in there when I was 10 years old, having a ton of fun. Far away from Canada of course, but if you ever make it to Europe, I would highly recommend visiting it (maybe even set away multiple days, it's huuuge...)
my first paid job circa my sophomore year of high school was working as an Explainer at the Exploratorium the summer of 1970. I believe it opened in November 1968. While museums today tend to be much more interactive, back then, the Exploratorium was breaking new ground in this, with exhibits that were entirely hands on.
I love the apparently improvised nature of the Exploratorium exhibits (and wish I could sell people exhibits like that - though really hard to do as an independent exhibit manufacturer because of the maintenance issue), though when I visited in 2013 the really old historic exhibits they had out where the electromagnetic ones, which are the ones that have been revolutionised by rare earth magnets, and can now be done so much better with stronger magnets.
Oooh, that was SUCH a good way of telling the story of signing the uranium puck! It was the sound effects, that's what REALLY drove it home. I'm gonna remember that one!
I got a paper plate signed by you and Jamie at IL4 when I was a kid! I still have it pinned to my board. My family was just there for lunch with my dad but one of his coworkers invited us to join him with you two at the table. You and Jamie made me and my brother's day!
Kintsugi/Kintsukuroi in Japan, it’s repairing pottery with metal dust (gold, silver, platinum) in the joint so the repair is visible and becomes part of it’s history.
I couldnt agree more about the Exploratorium. My family went there when I was a kid back in 1978 and it was amazing. I had the chance to go again about 5 years ago, but we only had a couple hours to stop by. Its not enough. I could easily spend a couple days walking around that place. If you are near San Francisco, make time to visit this place.
Find many different ways to approach the procedure for measuring when your cutting mission critical. It gives your keeps your mind working instead of getting in a track and making the same mistake over and over.
"It's like an embrace". That hit me harder than I expected. I'm a pro artist and I find myself torn between what tech can do for me, and what I can do with my own two hands. Things in which you have to go deep into the manufacturing process - from the point of view of myself as a child - felt unattainable and emotionally unconnectable. It was like trying to have a romantic relationship with a brick wall - impossible and unfulfilling. Something about knowing that two hands and some tools can make something complex makes me feel...dare I say it...closer to God.
Adam, I highly suggest you take a trip to the City Museum in St. Louis. It is without question the greatest maker museum, as it was once a shoe factory that became a project of love by a maker using repurposed building materials from demolished structures.
Does your no body parts rule extend to prostheses? I know some people that have had theirs signed, including a prosthetic arm signed by Mark Hamill which the owner thought was very fitting.
When doing something difficult and mission-critical, I actually pull someone else, usually my assistant, and talk to them about the task why it's mission critical. This serves as my re-review and spiritual support as well as being somewhat educational for the other person. Usually the assistant ends up watching on the edge of their seat as I attempt whatever I was gonna do.
More people need to care about each others similarities rather than differences. I love that Adam recognized that. I swear he's an accidental philosopher some times
Most impressive science museum I've been to (Europe): "Deutsches Museum" in Munich, Germany. They have historic exhibits, interactive exhibits, and of course also a huge collection of machines/cars/planes/trains going back hundreds of years. I particularly appreciate that they go the extra mile to really explain how stuff works, not just what it is. What sets it apart is that they maintain a lot of the exhibits in working condition, and do daily live demonstrations of e.g. steam engines, Jacquard looms, electromechanical computers, old tooling machines like a cam-programmed mechanical lathe, high-voltage, chemistry, etc. And it's huuuuge, you can spend several days in there without having seen everything yet. It's definitely a place where kids can have fun exploring, _and_ where adults can still learn a great amount (even, or particularly, if you already know a lot as an engineer or scientist). Highly recommended. I haven't been to the Exploratorium so I can't compare, but certainly curious now if I ever happen to be in the US. I've sometimes been a bit disappointed in other science museums that either dumb it down too much only for small kids (without providing the additional detail for adults), or simply just are a collection of old science-y things on display (i.e. history museum style, without explaining the science). E.g. I remember going to the British Science Museum in London, which also has an impressive collection of historical devices - but fell short explaining the function or science behind it. I remember a display that had a little sign "X-Ray apparatus, belonged to , 18xx" (don't remember the details). That was it. Didn't explain how it worked, where the electron beam goes, or why half of it was missing (I think it was just a power supply for an X-ray machine, but missing the actual tube...). For me it was disappointing because I mostly know how these things work and recognised the lack of explanation or completeness, but for others it's very confusing and boring, as there's no way to figure it out with what was provided. I also didn't see much effort to have devices or machines in working condition, or to actually teach the foundations of science or our industrial age - it was just "look at this old stuff, isn't that neat", and providing some interactive entertainment for kids. I think they could do better - to be a place of learning and education for all age groups, and a library for physical objects that are complete and functional, and can serve as an actual reference of past technology.
The Deutches museum is incredible, and I love it, and is far better than the London science museum, I particularly love it as a designer/builder of science exhibits because there are a lot of exhibits that were built before hands on exhibit building was a big thing, so I can see a lot that can be improved (If any other museums would ever do that kind of exhibit). Technorama in Switzerland is also amazing, essentially a slightly less Californian and more Swiss (very comprehensive and thorough) version of the Exploratorium - I think, ignoring the history, I prefer the exhibits to the Exploratorium. www.technorama.ch/en/home
The British museum has that issue largely because it’s collection size is such that the manpower to provide details for everything is a challenge, especially considering how much of their stuff isn’t on display.
@@CraftQueenJr I think there are a variety of reasons, they probably do have an overhead looking after their larger collections, a lot of the problem is that writing a good label with diagrams is a much bigger job than it looks to the outsider, particularly in a big organisation. Though I think that in a lot of museums the visitor isn't the customer, they are the product to sell to sponsors, and the big cheeses on the museum board and at BP or Shell aren't going to read the labels.
The drumheller museum in Canada which is all about dinosaurs lets you watch archeologists work on fossiles with dremel tools in a lab like zoo animals behind a glass wall its amazing
Loved the question about imagineering! Such a unique insight into. Id love to see a video where you explore an imagineering shop, or have a one on one conversation with and imagineer. The two different experiences but same mindset would be a fascinating dynamic.
Ok I had the greatest respect for you Adam, but your "No body parts" stance just pushed it up another several notches. Besides, signing a puck of depleted uranium is a WAY better story than any body part could have been.
Adam, how you describe the Exploritorium it reminds me of the Japanese art of kintsugi. It is an art form for repairing broken ceramics using lacquer and powdered precious metals so as to highlight the cracks. This is done to show the history of it as opposed to trying to hide the cracks and making them more how they use to look.
Adam-I was lucky enough to visit the Exploratorium in the 8th grade (1983) and it was a highlight of my life. In OKC we have a similar museum, The Science Museum Oklahoma. I would love for you to visit it and hear what you think. If you have never visited it, June would be a good time since that is when SoonerCon is held and you could do both!
Adam would love St Louis's City Museum! It's basically a giant playground in an old shoe factory made out of junk. It's creator Bob Cassilly was making an even bigger place called Cementland, but unfortunately he was murdered and the place was never completed..
Heh, yeah. It's hard to articulate what City Museum or Cementland is without it being a 5 page comment. And Bob was such a creative genius, it's really the world's loss that he's gone.
The Oregon Rail Heritage Center is somewhat similar to the Exploritorium the workshop where the restore and repair the trains is open to the exhibit floor so you can see the work being done.
The NRM in York had a similar thing where you could look down at the shop floor(I believe that is gone now. ) Whitehead RM also has viewing platforms of some of the workshops.
I was lucky enough to get invited to 2 different parties at the Exploratorium many years ago. This was during the MacWorld and AOL prime days when HSC/MetaTools did parties there. I remember meeting Sinbad and Ler from Primus... I think it was Bryce/Primus related for MacWorld. I'd love to go back!
On a completely different note, based on your incidental and perhaps accidental endorsement, I just ordered a six pack of Bundaberg Ginger Beer, only I went with original instead of diet. Hoping it gives me Super Powers; it obviously works for you.
Hi Adam. A serious question... Do you ever think they will invent a real flux capacitor and make time travel possible... what are your thoughts!? I only ask cause my young nephew (Jae) asked me the other day if you would know. He also enquired about a cement truck and a few bags of expensives. Couldn't help him with that one unfortunately. He's a huge fan of Mythbusters, you'd 10000% make his day if you would reply. 😉
I have been to the Exploratorium with a past girlfriend and her family. Was amazing and fun so see a bunch of stuff I grew up around and explaining how it worked to them and helping her Mom set up plans for ger Maker space at her Elementry school in Manteca, CA. Was around the time Adam was making his Strandbeest down there but we missed out by a day. Still was amazing to explore and See the USS Pampanito (The sub used for Down Periscope: The Stingray). Also highly suggest the Musée Mécanique fun place full of arcade machines over the decades.
If you are ever in St. Louis, you NEED to visit the City Museum. Everything is built by the makers from leftover industrial and architectural pieces. Slides, climbing trees, caves, it's just so much to take in!
I'm a little sad that Grant never got to bust out crazy acrobatic robot on like a Mythbusters revival or something. Like the Buster B-1000 for some crazy myth. Not that Disney'd let him I'm sure, but still....
As I watch this I look to my right at a framed flight manifest with yours and Jamie's names circled and next to them "Stay Curious A Savage" and "Be Safe J Hyneman".
Some years ago at one of our Maker Faires here in the Bay, we had Adam sign one of the Maker Faire posters after one of his appearances. Still have it. Thanks Adam!
Back in 6th grade (13 years ago for me) my friend went and saw you guys at a convention and came back talking about how he tried to get you guys to sign his forehead but you wouldn't because of the no body parts rule. I clicked on this video specifically to see if you mentioned it, apparently he wasn't lying about meeting the mythbusters like we all thought he was!
My friend Peter was at The Harvard Coop during his lunch break in the mid 1980s when we both worked near there. Douglas Adams was doing a book signing. Peter bought a towel and got Adams to sign it.
I wanted to add something on how to deal with being frustrated with a mistake as someone who makes alot of mistakes, starts all over, and dosnt usually get upset with myself. The key for me is to view my mistakes as a nessecery part of the process, so it's not a mistake really. It's not inaccurate. There will never be a time where you can proform all tasks perfectly every single time. You're gonna be making mistakes, fixing them and learning from them for the rest of your natural life. How you deal with mistakes in art is often what gives youre work a unique style, as everyone comes at there weaknesses from a different angle. Mistakes, repairs, remakes, teach you more then if things went right the first time every time. They are essential. Annoying. Frusterating. But essential.
In reference to mistakes being discouraging, my grandfather, who used to be a carpenter and fabricator, used to say that true skill was fixing mistakes, not avoiding them in the first place.
As a former Science Museum professional, most museums barely have enough funding to keep the lights on let alone restructure/remodel for a hands on workshop.
Haha I totally thought that was a jar of paint thinner, or stain, or some sort of chemical. Then you picked it up and took a drink making me do a double take. Haha right I'm guessing that's tea or juice or something.
Omaha is building a new science museum on the riverfront that's designed by the same folks as the Exploratorium. I haven't heard if it has the same setup or not.
that box behind you is ready to fall out. . I want to reach into the screen and just shove it in. Its that brown box next to the metal on the left, your right.
you should track down a song by the SF Bay Area A Capella group "The Bobs", probably 20 or 30 years ago, "Sign my Snarling Doggie", the lyrics are pretty funny, and on topic for this vid.
Hiller Aviation museum in San Carlos CA includes a shop where new exhibits are being made. Also, Palo Alto Children's Museum seems to have adopted some of the same ideas. It's nice when a good idea is duplicated widely.
My wife surprised me with tickets to the exploretorium. It was an adults only night, had bars everywhere ect. My favorite night ever. The fire alarm went off (which was funny) and at the end of the night she again surprised me with an exploritorium whiskey glass. I just broke it, and we are literally planning a trip to visit her family in the Bay area mostly just to buy a new glass
That Exploratorium (did I spell that right?) sounds rather like our National Railway Museum in York, as the workshop has a viewing gallery up top where visitors can look down and see the maintenance and repair work going on. Some old kit from the famous 'shops like Doncaster in there too I believe. Unfortunately it's being closed and converted into (I think) a kids play area. Disappointing as the Workshop has always been an interesting part of the museum for me, for the reasons you gave here.
I love the observation windows of the resortion bay at the Smithsonian Museum in Chantilly VA because you can watch the resortion of the planes and such happening. This is one of my favorite parts of all the Smithsonian Museum and wish they would build similar things in more of the museums.
Thank you for being human and explaining your process with perfection. So often we see the final product and never the work that goes into a project. Your channel and this video are huge resources for helping me realize that even the greats make mistakes and it is ok to do so.
I remember when I attended the LAST annual Punkin Chunkin, I believe 2016 I got to take a photo with Kari. I had no paper available so I asked her to sign my cast for my broken arm and she was kind enough to make it work somehow, I thought it was a cool experience on top of the already awesome engineering based event that year.
Oh man the feeling of signing that uranium after the story that you told about it you probably felt like / feel like such a boss for that. That is though truly epic! Boss level respect
A piece of advice for making a mistake late in the process. In software development many follow Agile processes. One of the main features of Agile software development is the concept of fail early. This requires some thought of the things that could lead to catastrophic failure and to do those as soon as you can.
