The fact that Google hasn't been paying Cody ad revenue for 2 years is an absolute tragedy. I have genuinely learned chemistry from this channel where I failed to learn it in school.
I caught 4 of them,, but I was only subconsciously noticing them, I finally knew something was up when I saw the egg in the cactus planters. Wonder if this was meant to be a Easter video but took too long to upload it.
Hey bobby, can't you make some amazinglyawesome art for cody? Maby from the clay stuff he has or something suitable for this base? Love your both's channels and would be awesome with some sort of collab!?
15:32 handheld to stationary shot to visual trick. This is not just a guy documenting a science experiment, this a guy genuinely having fun while doing it. Keep going Cody!
At the 2 minute mark there was a chicken egg Placed in between the rocks. Did anyone else see it? There are chicken eggs placed everywhere in this video. Pretty cool Cody! Thanks for sharing.
Cody, I really hope you are doing good. I know you were struggling there for a bit with your mental health, you are always in my thoughts. You are one of the very few YT channels that completely brightens our day and nakes it that much better when you upload something. You could upload an hour long vlog each day of you just talking or having some type of podcast, and I would be here for it and loving it. Take care and stay healthy my friend!
You're one of the only people who actually gets it. Thank you. People need to get on to his patreon, if we enjoy his content, we should support him. I would pay for podcasts or random Cody chat time. I also hope he is doing better, he reminds me so much of a mate I studied geology with at uni. This mate went off the rails properly and tried to kill himself.
@@veridico84 Thank you for this comment. I was contemplating joining his patreon for a while but never did it. Glad to be a financial supporter (albeit a small amount) of what is some of the best content on YT.
@@veridico84 been on his Patreon for a long time and no matter how much he posts or doesn't, I'll keep supporting him as long as his Patreon exists. Cody's content has always been there for me and I will be there to support it as long as I can. He's the best kind of human and his work will always lift my spirits. Somehow though I feel better with him purifying uranium than knowing he's alone in the desert of Mars with a robot alter ego. Hope you make it home safely, Cody Don.
Hi Cody, just thought I'd give you a suggestion, not sure if you have any goals to improve the land, but if you do stay tuned: I live in a very dry climate with harsh sun as well, not quite as bad as your area but the principles will apply anyway. If you want the cheapest way to improve your soil, I suggest buying a wood chipper. Make sure it has enough power to chew through at least a 3-4 inch log otherwise you'll spend WAY too much time breaking down your dead wood. So here's the strategy, as you move around your property, collect deadwood into a pile somewhere. Once the pile is big enough for a few hours work, fire up the wood shipper and make your own mulch. Then pick an area that you want to improve and start putting down a layer of 2-4 inches of wood mulch. Then, whenever you have some waste water to get rid of (after washing clothes like you did for your compost) dump it on the wood chips. The wood chips will do amazing work protecting the soil. They lower the temperature, lower evaporation and provide shelter and shade for insects and microbiology that you need to kickstart living soil. The reduced evaporation loss alone is worth the effort, but the other benefits are game changes too. Try a small area, maybe 2-4 square yards, and see what happens over the course of 2 seasons as you let the woodchips + water break down. Maybe do a trial with 1 square yard with 2 inches, 1 patch with 4 inches and one yard with 6 inches to see what thickness of mulch would be best for your climate. If it turns out 6 inches isn't enough to keep your soil from turning to dust, then perhaps I am underappreciating the harshness of your climate. Best of luck!
I worked in a fish cannery as a summer job in the late 60's and early 70's. A few cans of fish from the late 40's were found in some lofts. The manager opened them and we sampled them at coffee break. Tasted fine.
It's never worth the risk.... :/ you are literally risking your life over what? 1 or 2 bucks? Never worth it. And yeah, canned food is good waaaaaay past "best before" date, but the further it gets - the more is the risk.....
@@spacejaga When we were clearing out my grandma's house, big house for a little old woman with dementia taking hold, we were clearing out the kitchen & found a jar of glycerin that had a sale date of 1963. They moved into that house around that time. The jar had been sitting in the back of the top cupboard until about 2012 when we found it. It was still usable.
@@TheLonelyBrit I don't think glycerin is as vulnerable to botulism and staphylococcus infestation and toxin contamination as what appeared to be the vegetable soup Cody canned there.
7:56 You dug up that big beetle! he was living the dream burrowed next to the bucket and beneath the big rock. hope you found him another good spot lol
@@Xeroxorex Not a crime, it's their website and they wrote the ToS in such a way that they can deny you payment whenever they want for any reason whatsoever, or even no reason at all. That's how they save a fuckton of money - deny payment, push creators into using Patreon or other things, they still make content for daddy Google, Google earns money.
"Modified sine" inverter is a pure square wave. Put some big inductive load in the circuit, like a blender, and see if the induction plate behaves. You can also get a pure sine inverter.
I've also seen this tip to smooth out square wave inverter outputs (fancier electronics really don't like square waves and will behave weirdly). An inductive load like a big electric motor can also be useful as if you put some form of flywheel on it you can use it to soak up spikes in load that would cause problems but overall average out to the nominal power rating.
I was going to post the same thing, but you have a typo in there, modified sine wave is NOT a pure sine wave. You could run a motor to use the inductance, but you'd want an induction motor moreso than a blender which is a brush type universal motor.... which will eat more power just doing nothing. Even an unload induction motor is going to consume some magnetizing power for the coils. Your best bet would be a one to one isolation transformer, or even a variac set to nominal line voltage. Way less losses. Or as the other fellow suggested, get a pure sine inverter.
I don't think an induction hot plate should have a problem with modified sine. It's not a 60Hz induction coil... you can tell because it's smaller than a house. The current is rectified and probably feeds a resonant half-bridge driving the actual induction coil. It will probably run just fine off straight DC from 3-4 of his panels in series, in fact, and be 20-30%+ more efficient doing so without the double conversion loss. It's actually inductive loads that have the most problem with modified sine, all of the harmonic distortion power becomes excess heat and pop goes the motor. The inductive load cleans the bus for other loads by dissipating the harmonic distortion as heat, essentially. "Fancier electronics" usually have a rectification and voltage regulation stage which decouple completely from supply, if not several, and are the most tolerant of modified sine. The exception I believe would be power conversion stages with certain active power factor correction implementations overly optimized for cost and efficiency. In short, I would guess it's probably boned, but it's also most likely a hilariously simple circuit and has probably popped the transistors of the coil drive inverter and can be resurrected for a couple dollars on Aliexpress. It's also possible that the inverter phase, frequency or voltage drops out with the step load change, resets the induction hot plate's microcontroller, and recovers before anything else notices -- a loose battery connection could cause this behavior, or a bad inverter design.
That inverter probably has a pretty dirty sine wave output and the induction top doesn’t like it. If you also hook up a reasonable sized resistive load in parallel (100w ish) that will often smooth out the inverters output. Of course there goes the efficiency gains, probably just get a basic resistive hot plate until you get a better inverter.
you might be able to add an incandescent light bulb on an extension strip, just to start it going. Once it’s going it’s probably going to draw enough itself and then you can turn the lamp off.
On the induction cooktop - Some appliances can be very sensitive to the waveform created by the inverter. If your model is creating a stepped approximate sine wave, the cooktop may not 'see' the power as being sufficient. If this is the case, not much can be done, the equipment just isn't compatible.
Or one could DIY an induction range by plugging a series RLC circuit directly into the output of the inverter. By selecting the appropriate resistance value, one could critically dampen the resonant oscillation at typical inverter frequencies, flattening the frequency response and minimizing the reactive impedance
@@thomashowe855 not as easy as capacitors although maybe a big inductor/capacitor/inductor filter could do it, you probably just want an inverter that's designed for it to begin with. Or a Rube Goldberg non-inverter power source, to fit the base theme :)
Yep, these induction cookers run on unsmoothed DC internally, so with a "modified sine wave" (aka square wave) inverter it sees no power for about half the time and probably trips a protection feature (power-good). There are really not that many devices that run properly with one of these inverters. Improving the inverter is basically impossible as well.
"I guess things are looking more and more like Mars every day" Man, I was grinning ear to ear through the whole video till this line hit me. Keep up the good work tho. It's truly inspiring.
What a wonderful bowl, Cody! If you're okay with drippy, random-colored glazes then I'd recommend you use an ash-based glaze. It takes high temps to melt it but you can make it from your plants! Especially those plants with a high silica content as they will have better adherence to your pots. Edit: Adhesion? Adherence? It done stick gud.
I recently watched a video on glazes and you can cook egg shells to make a substance that replaces whatever ‘whiting’ is in glaze recipes, and it has real nice results.
@@ChrisWijtmans he turned off the ads because he wasn't being paid, so why should we have to watch ads that don't benefit him, when/if google starts paying him again he'll probably put the ads back on, but that doesn't seem likely
@@christofferlarsson2088 In a previous comments replies Cody said he thinks its some kind of bug in the system that hasn't effected enough people for google to care
@@doggfite The shape of his focus only really matters if he is intent on directing all the energy to a single point which I believe is what you were referring to by single area. But you can still take plenty advantage of non-parabolic reflectors and for some tasks they may even be preferable. (e.g. if you want to distribute your energy over a larger area as to avoid melting a hole in a larger target which would otherwise have to surround/ignore your focal point anyway) I'm not quite sure of his shape but it may be great for heating a tall cylinder of water for example. But in the case that a he would prefer a parabola (say he wants to melt rock or maybe boil a kettle of water quickly) it may still be easier to approximate a parabola using that as a base than building on from scratch so it seems like a win win.
Even if it's not perfect it could still be more than effective enough to heat water or cook. Let's not forget the shoe box solar cookers that we build in elementary school. We were able to cook hot dogs to the blistering point in about 4-6 mins using just foil, shoe box, metal clothes hanger, and plastic wrap.
This might sound strange, but try the induction heater with a small incandescent bulb or that box fan to provide an initial load and to dissipate energy in harmonics from the inverter. I am thinking that the waveform under no load is not pure enough, and a little load might help a lot.
@@Gandalf-The-Green You've got it backwards. Powerline AC is a sine wave. The cheap inverts put out a chopped up square wave and the square wave is what appliances and computers don't like.
For the metal stands you could cut them in half, and bolt them foot to foot, cut out the internal supports(maybe reuse them as legs to weld on?), cover it in canvas or tarp and have a pretty cool and strong shelter.
Regarding your pottery. You don't necessarily need glazing. Try smoothing the surface with a smooth object like a polished stone or a spoon when the clay is still leather hard. This will close the pores and give a shiny and almost waterproof surface. I can highly recommend Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery Channel when it comes to this topic. Thanks for this series btw I love it so much
The main issue I see with going unglazed is he has said he wants to be able to store foods and make bowls and dishes to eat from. The glaze makes the safe for food and beverage storage since clay will never be fully sealed on its own.
I've made my own home-dug clay pottery and I've used the polishing method, while it's certainly less porous than a rough clay surface it's definitely not even close to watertight either. That being said, ash glazes aren't hard to make from scratch, he would just need to experiment with the ashes of different materials in different quantities to find one that produces a wetting melt once fired to temperature. It's lots of work and keeping track of variables while experimenting, but once he has a working formula he could produce enough glaze to make a thousand jars pretty easily (assuming he has the ash-producing material in good quantities).
@@zaxarispetixos8728 yeah, but if you don’t glaze the clay, it will completely dissolve on contact with water instead of it being a solid absorbing small amounts of water.
@@Blandge I get that, what I was saying is that he can put ads in his videos, and I would not mind. I am just curious as to why RU-vid isn't paying him much for ads.
The last scene was beautiful. I wish I could sit there and watch that sunset! Love the new additions and energy at CHB! I hope you're doing well and looking forward to more :)
This is the one series on youtube where I don't get a video for months but I never forget about it. Always waiting in anticipation. I would love to do something like this. Amazing cody love you and your stuff
I’m sad to have missed so much of this project but I’m glad to see it back in my recommendations Cody your a one of a kind creator and I cannot wait to see more from you.
Yeah, run another small load on the inverter to get it up and running, then turn on the induction plate. AvE explained it in some video when he was sailing with Dewclaw, can't remember the reason, i think the plate checks for line voltage before starting.
Hey Cody, I just finished reading Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary" and you're in the credits! LOL Good job! The novel is super enjoyable I'm glad you could help! ^_^
What!? I had no idea! It's a great novel, I'd definitely recommend it to anybody who is even remotely interested in sci-fi. Did Cody help sort out some theories in the book?
You inspired me to make my own chicken hole base at home. It helped me realise just how much I love gardening. Thanks Cody. You are an incredible human being.
I was always skeptical that they would survive in that environment. I grew up in Salt Lake and was quite familiar with the western desert regions, so I was pretty sure the experiment would fail. There's very little native fauna in those regions specifically because it's a very tough place to live.
cody really is a gem amongst rocks. the world definitely needs more people like him. its a shame the algorithm doesnt like him but we all know why that is. certain kinds of knowledge are dangerous to certain systems.
So Sad to hear about RU-vid demonizing you. You are one of my favourite channels. I'm now following you on patreon. I hope the RU-vid situation gets sorted
If I had the funds myself, I'd be a patron, but I just hope that he can get his money from RU-vid, some day. I really enjoy all of Cody's content and can't wait to see where chicken hole is headed.
@@danielgoodchild4852 he can't get logged into his adsense account. So he has years of money just sitting in there that he can't use. Follow him on Twitter he talks about it all the time. He also talks about it at the end of this video, when he thanks his patrons.
Making good progress on the base. I'm curious if you and RC intend to do some permaculture terraforming to try and save the area from the draught. Maybe a pond or two on the high ground, some ditches, and berms winding around the base might give any rainwater you do get the chance to saturate, enrich, and cool down the regolith. Maybe even some canopies to help protect against the sun.
As far as the induction cooker goes, try having another load going at the same time. My inverter does not like having certain indivual loads but will work with a light resistive load.
@@dj_laundry_list not sure. It's one of those things that once I figured out the order I stopped worrying about it, it does seem like be bigger issue with how "smart" the appliance is.
I'm looking forward to the next update on the ChickenHole Base! Your clay bowl turned out super cute. Sad to hear you had to give up the bees for now, but also looking forward to seeing new projects and experiments at the base!
Hey Cody, that big round stand might be a good structure for making a solar cooker from it. If you align all the mirror segments carefully enough you are maybe even able to fry the egg in the middle of the cacti without hurting them. But better try with cactus dummies first.
Some devices don't like square waves. You have several options. Commercially, VFDs, or Rotary Converters. There are also fancy inverters of course. More applicably DiY, a Microwave transformer with the secondary cut out as an inductor in series, and then a microwave capacitor in parallel with the load. If you'd like a diagram, and/or a mockup. I can do that, but it's going to come with safety warnings, and disclaimers. There's also something called an RC network that is used for signals, but the components to make a high power one would be prohibitively expensive, and if you make it more complicated than that to save on parts you're basically just designing a whole new inverter/signal generator/power supply.
3:50 Bird has plastic bag caught on it's wing and it's panic running lol Cody: "Oh!.. bird.. :(" Cuts to new segment... Cody: "Anyway..." (We all know Cody took care of the chicken, but the cut was perfect lmao)
I got patron just to support you a couple of months back. I'm so sold on CHB and really hope to see it become reality. You and your work are interesting, educating and inspring
Hey Cody! I have an amateurish suggestion for the hatch cover where you're storing the power wagon (@30:00). Instead of using a washer and nut to secure the door, if you drill a small pin hole through the threaded bolt, then place the washer over the bolt past the pin hole, then insert a cotter pin through the pin hole, would that make opening and closing the hatch easier with gloved hands? The cotter pin could be secured to the hatch cover with a small chain or cable, making it less likely to get lost while the hatch is removed. If you want to get really wiggy with it, you could put a grommet on the hole of the hatch cover to eliminate the need for a washer, and not have to worry about misplacing the washers, too. I'm loving this project. You're living the dream.
This is by far my favorite RU-vid channel. It has that old school feel to it. Its one man doing fun projects that have value. I wish there were more channels like it. But I am forever grateful this channel exists. Keep mining Cody, keep growing your greens, and never compromise on being yourself.
In RVs with smaller inverters running off a battery bank, you usually install a soft start (basically an ac capacitor bank). Your induction range may require an extra short term power surge. Or, your inverter could be producing a modified sine wave and the induction range may require a true sine wave to start up.
I was already worried because I bought an inverter and an induction plate, which looks similar (just a local brand name, which labels it). I hope my Chinese pure sine wave inverter is pure enough. How picky are they in the end?
@@maxmustermann2596 I bought a Chinese pure sine wave and it works fine just get one over rated so my induction hob is 1000w I got one rated @1500w just to be sure and it works fine
@@lrrromicronpersei8294 Thanks. I didn't plan it through, so my hob is 2000W, and the inverter is Chinese 4000W Peak and 2000W permanent. However, a 2000W hairdryer worked for a while, and the only thing which stopped it was apparently a Chinese 150A fuse tripping. It seems to be common knowledge that the values have to be halved. Your post gave me some confidence that it might work out :). I just hope the stove doesn't produce peak consumption higher than 2000W. Then, I hope to use it at lower power than maximum to not overwhelm the inverter.
@@maxmustermann2596 my original inverter would just make the hob beep then nothing. I have seen people use the 2000w induction hob but only power up to half way.. if you get a power meter that the appliance plugs into then the meter plugs into the mains you can see how much power it needs then increase the power on the hob so you can see how much power it uses at different power settings…
The stuff you added was essentially grog, which is ground up, previously fired ceramic, and it works in the same way, reducing the shrinkage of the clay from plastic to bone dry
For the induction stove, you may check if your inverter is a full sine wave, or simulated sine wave, If it is not a full sine wave you may have problems with running induction loads like motors, and transformers. And some Electronic with active PFC control. The ones designed for a statinonary off-grid use are usually full sine wave.
I miss the good old days when cody uploaded videos more often, I hope he's doing ok! At the end he mentions that his youtube channel hasn't paid him for a year and half so that might explain it. Good thing he set up a patreon account to help him finance his projects and ideas! keep up the good work cody, your videos and ideas are truly one of a kind! 👍
@@WastedDad RU-vid rarely makes sense when it comes to demonetization or doing other shady stuff, like unsubscribing people from certain channels without telling the subscriber. I think the topics Cody covers on his channel are too "controversial" for RU-vid, like making gunpowder, playing around with mercury or other things that RU-vid considers inappropriate.
@@WastedDad it also isn't necessarily the content he made, it's that people reported the content. RU-vid's appeal process is nonsensical and falls under the "it's who you know" way of getting things done. A bunch of chemistry youtubers have had their content flagged.
I had no idea google wasn't paying you and really wondering why you slowed your videos down. You had a time when you were making content I loved and pretty regular. I really miss that. Your catalog still must generate a lot of traffic for them. I hope somehow you can monetize that. You really can make fun engaging videos sometimes.
@@lightdark00 apparently google cares only about falsely paying scamners and taking payments from advertisers not paying the people on here. I feel like I should just stop watching stuff on here
RU-vid really didn't like his mining with explosives videos. Yet they're perfectly fine with videos on how to make deadly lichtenberg machines that use microwave transformers so one tiny mistake during taking the transformer out or use and you're instantly dead. RU-vid is funny like that. And by funny I mean greedy, because we all know they intentionally pushed RU-vidrs to use Patreon instead so they don't have to pay them, while still having them create content.
Im so glad you mentioned sweet potatoes because my sister asked me to grow some next year, so i have to research how to do that. Also fresh peas....love gaeden peas that miraculously never seem to make it out of the garden. But if you want to do long term food preservation that you might accidentally leave for too long, i highly suggest dehydration with thorougly sterilised water stored separately. It probably wont taste great after reconstituting but it will still be safe to eat. Also always have some dried peppers to help hide any off taste such survival foods might have.
It’s not a failed experiment. You had a hypothesis the bees could do well in this environment. And through your experimentation you concluded that your hypothesis was wrong. That’s good science Cody keep it up you’re a really brilliant human being
21:00 Seeing as you already have a vertical stand, any thoughts to setting up at least one of these tanks to collect water? Put it up at a high enough elevation and besides collecting water it could have enough pressure to be useful without pumps. Well, assuming that area gets enough moisture/rain to make some sort of water tank worth it. ( Sorry not sorry for the second comment )
Rainwater tanks need to be lower than the collection zone - normally a roof, so the water flows in. Water tanks for pressure up high need to be pumped into. The area looks very dry and hea does not currently have a roof/catchment setup.
@@dmk_games have you never seen a tarp put above an object? The frames they originally sat on coud go ontop and the tarp would make a funnel above it draining straight in.. but he wont be collecting rain on mars so im not sure hell be interested in it as it has no value to his research.. he could also use the dessert humidity trap to get water like they do in the sahara and dubai, or he could use the air compressor to condense humidity and collect that, but again no humidity in mars so hell likely not be interested..
setting the pumpkin head onto the stand (presuming it will fit) and turning it into an observation/aux-hab/expansion some with more regular windows using the stand as the window-frame could be an interesting option. the hole is too small to get through but that doesnt prevent all use.
@@LordDragox412 It can stand in lieu of a device that produces water via heating and distillation of Martian permafrost. I actually suggest to additionally consider making one of the tanks into a urine distillation device. The ISS currently extracts water from the urine, sweat, and breath of the astronauts within it. Every drop of water that can be saved should be in order to reduce the amount of water rocketed up to replenish them. I am not sure if they extract the water from their feces, but it would make sense. Feces is 75% water. All I know is that their feces and urine remnants are bagged and ejected into space, hopefully as dry as possible. They even put their wet cleaning cloths and sweat rags up against return air vents to dry them fully before putting them in the trash. :)
Pretty cool solar wagon :) If you add some doors that swing out from the solar panel, they could protect the panel to some degree when it's not collecting, even when it's not docked in the hab. And when it is collecting, you could line them with foil to use as reflectors if the panel can handle the extra energy input.
Hope all is well Cody! I always love watching your videos, they're definitely something exciting when they pop up in the subscriber queue. Thank you, looking forward to see what you do next!
