Yeah, it’s like you expend all you effort getting the thing semi-functional, realize how much more effort would be required to get the last 10% finished, and then tell yourself you’ll return to it someday (when hell freezes over and finishing really complicated problems suddenly seems more fun than just winging it like you did originally).
"that's a fire hazard, I shouldn't keep that in a bin" bein immediately followed by "this is all the stuff I took from the house when it burned" just.. just really solidifies the first point lmfao
You know, some people actually do have chronic anxiety issues stemming from traumatic events. If that's you, I suggest seeking professional help. Looking for sympathy from strangers on the internet won't help you.
@@icecreamget but seeing that strangers on the internet also have trauma makes you feel as if you're not alone in this world and also i can already trace all my inner problems to some part of my childhood trauma, which is pretty neat. Also i hate my father.
Of course there are a lot of people that have way worse trauma than me that practically cripple them in everyday live which should seek help. But luckily mine is only bad not crippling. Edit: i should add that I'm not looking for sympathy nor do I think that the original commenter was.
The screen printing thing is really good! You just need some sort of a stop block or something to automatically ensure that every screen is lined up the same way every time and it would be totally usable. That's great. When I had my wisdom teeth taken out, I played Tetris for hours and rediscovered a painting that was on the wall for years. You were building things and using power tools.
you put a + target sight in the drawing in the right position of every screen for multi color. Then you do targeting. Try to match all the + visually then test print it to make sure all the colors printed in the + are overlapping perfectly. Then its all targeted and set up. You take masking tape and cover up the + on the back side that lays against whatever you want printed and start printing. You can have a 20 color printer that is automated and does the printing but its human hands that does the targeting and loading and unloading whatever youre printing onto the printing board. The problem is the ink fumes are bad for you when you start curing the ink to make it stick and not wash off.
One thing I've found that personally helps me get rid of old things that I built or made is to do a nice photoshoot of them. Often, the reason that I kept them around is a combination of: what if I want to finish this thing someday, and I want to remember this thing. By taking nice photos, and then compiling a small album of each, you can keep the memory of the thing without needing the physical object laying around.
Just ordered that amazing hat, and I swear to christ, if I get a piece of burnt silverware, I'm gonna be so effing happy. Then I'm going to brag to my friends, and they'll say "Oh wow! Why? That's so dumb." and I'll just smile, with my fat cat fishing hat and my Big Willie burnt fork. Oh, what a time to be alive! :D
as someone graduating in EE and having an "automated farming" startup idea I feel called out, never farmed a day in my life but I'm sure it'll work out lmao
3:43 I had those exact same twistable Crayola pencils when I was in elementary school. I thought those were the coolest things ever and is what partially got me into mechanical engineering. You just unlocked a memory of my childhood I almost forgot.
I don't usually leave comments, but just want to thank you for your videos (both on the first and on the second channel). I've always found them uplifting and relaxing to watch. On my not-so-good days, I list down 'nice things' in my life - your videos go on that list along with Star Trek and other videos by your friends Allen Pan, Peter Stripol, Michael Reeves, Ididathing, etc. Hope knowing that your videos brighten someones day somewhere also brightens your day too :)
This was really cool and fun. Also answered some questions I had that I didnt wanna ask. Its always great to either look through or watch someone else look through old science junk drawers. Its kinda like christmas
My parents just got divorced, and my dad threw out all of the stuff my mom had been saving since I was in preschool, so this is a pretty cool video for me to watch right now 😭👍
I love how the psychological breakdown covers all aspects of life. This episode, we take a blast to the past and take a look at where everything went wrong: childhood
Man I know you do much bigger videos these days but I'd love to see one exploring making that screen printing machine actually work, if nothing else than for educational purposes. That design would probably be pretty useful for today's 16 y/o's in highschool!
You are such an inspiration! I wish I had access to the tools to be able to do stuff like you when you were a kid. Engineering is so fun but so difficult to do without the tools. Thanks for giving me ideas for my life!
Gardening sensors that water your plants for you or tell you when to water have been common in nurseries since like the mid 90's. Definitely not a failed product.
That screen printing setup reminds me of about 10 years ago when I used to watch folks like Kipkay, and the video the official Make Magazine did on screen printing. Good times.
I just came back from a spontaneous night time road trip to my childhood hometown, driving around thinking about all the places I used to hang out with friends and stuff, and then I saw this video. Good timing. The nostalgia is strong with me today, it seems.
I still have burnt silverware from when my own house burned down 12 years ago. my mom also has an old phone hanging on the wall that survived being dropped in the fireplace, being completely submerged in water multiple times, being submerged in blood once, and being run over by a car many many times. that phone also "survived" the house fire, although it's not functional anymore because they stopped supporting it decades ago and the company she bought it from went out of business. why are mementos of an extremely traumatic fiery experience so fun to hoard
these videos are gold and only gets better with whatever measurable amount of quality content is correlative to one unit of enjoyment of creation you have throughout it.
I think it'd be really neat if you did a limited run of t-shirts printed with your highschool printer contraption - maybe even use one of the old designs for em.
Wow, memories. I think you can make a video or series of remaking these childhood ideas. especially the scooter one and the shirt one for catwarehouse.
Okay, STOP! There is NOTHING to be ashamed of by having an aperture science T-Shirt print-screen. It is a truly timeless classic that in many regards holds up to and surpasses most modern tripple A titles. Maybe it does date you having it, but it is something to be proud of, I will die on this hill!
I have a spare bedroom that is literally filled with boxes like that. Just boxes upon boxes of random shit from my teen years. But lots of the boxes have tools in them so I can't just throw them out. I keep saying I will sort through them but my internet addiction and laziness wont let me. Oh also in one of those boxes is one of the lasercut record CD's things with the he-man heyya william song on it william made like7 years ago. I won one of them so that was cool. Every now and then one of my friends will come across the "can laser cut ice" video and message me telling me I won... years later. I know guys, I have the record somewhere.
One of my proudest achievements to date was constructing a small scale trebuchet (frame 1.5 ish feet tall, w/ arm about 3 feet tall) as a 12 year old. I didn't have solid designs to build off of, just a bunch of half baked blueprints I found online, and then stitched together into a somehow functional tiny trebuchet. I used a lead counterweight from my dad's antique grandfather clock (a big no no) but when I set it up on a baseball field, it hurled a golf ball all the way from home base to almost the edge of outer boundary of center field. it was amazing. I wish I still had the damn thing, but I took it apart and used the wood for other things that didn't work nearly as well.
The editing on this video was very tight. Great overview of the really important parts of the construction. For what it's worth I'd vote for pressure testing the firebox separately since you alluded to how impossible fixing it would be after assembly.
Dude no way !!! I remember seeing you (didn’t know it was you at the time) riding that cart around Arroyo Verde. That’s awesome man, childhood memory unlocked
