Open Source Home Organisation: Four FREE systems to engineer order in YOUR home. 

Thank you, you're very kind - I've only been going a few months, so wonderful if you can help spread the word in forums, Reddit and anywhere else that you think people might be interested in my madness!! 🤣🤣

That's not how it will happen. You will get to purchase your printer, but never get to use the darn thing because she will take it over. I hear you now. Buy two printers right? Nope. Now she has doubled her output of creativity while you are still trying to figure out where you went wrong. Ask me how I know. 😂😂😂

😂 - a wife

😚😚😇 Guilty as charged, sir.... 🤭

Brilliant idea - I love these sorts of elegant and simple solutions - as you say, it completely tackles the issue of tangling of cables! Thank you for your kind comments too!

Much appreciated!

Great to hear Jack! Oooh I'm redesigning my home office in the coming weeks, I'll run videos on that too, so let me know if anything you want to solve in particular and I'll try and incorporate, otherwise, hopefully it'll give you some food for thought!!

Thanks!

Great to hear you found it useful - I can certainly see the stars starting to align on these things, so I thought I'd given them a shove... :) I'm also looking at creating open source standards for drawers, cabinets also so you can easily construct these too! I love your silicone mold idea - that's genius! I might have a think about that - the idea of printing one larger container mold and then 'pouring the rest' is a great idea to batch out extra versions....!

@@handsonkatie urethane resins can also cure in like 15 minutes, so they massively cut down reproduction time. Honestly the only thing that has held me back from doing more Gridfinity so far is the print time on my single printer. I definitely want the open standard for drawers too! I use organizational systems when they are in place, but if they're not, I don't organize at all.

Exactly right!! Standards rule!

Exactly the same, hence I had enough ...!

Well F$%#ng thank you! 😅 Lots more coming up, but keep sharing ideas and problems, so I can try and fix them all - love the ideas!

A fine choice indeed - they'll serve you well! I'm going to upload a whole pile of 3d print components that connect to french cleats too - even 3d printed french cleats are helpful themselves sometimes!

I'm no engineer, in fact I'm more of a Necessity DIY'er.. 😂. However, the last thing I made from scratch was French Cleat to store my chisels in my shed....

@@actiondefence Well then you're already 25% of the way there....🤓

Oh, then you'll be well equipped .... and avoid my clamps..... 😂😂

Hey Rebecca! 👋 😊 Brilliant approach and think you're working through it in the right way, ie logically! Multiboard is definitely superior in my view (I played with honeycomb, pegboards and so on) - the holding weight of 20kg+ and the ability to screw is so much more useful. You know there's also honeycomb converters for Multiboard? (Ie so all the honeycomb models will work with it?). Likewise for pegboard, Gridfinity and more. It is overcomplicated, hence my approach to just KISS it all, but the basic system is great! But have a play, it's all free so just test honeycomb, Multiboard etc and go with what works, but you won't regret the french cleats!! (I've got a range of adapters for those too - eg 3d printed french cleat holders etc!!)

Love it Glenn - sounds like you and me think alike! Regarding the shelving units, yes, I find vertical height is often the challenge area - too much air and not enough storage. I often end up building in shallow drawers to allow me to have a stack of them within the cube, then I just rebuild the shelving units myself....!

Great to hear!!

Great to hear you found it useful and thank you, it means a lot - I only started doing videos for the first time a few months ago!!

Oooh awesome example, I know exactly what you mean and they're a great example of what I think is silly!! I'll add that to my kitchen hit list!!! 😀

One of the ways I've tackled this is by getting rid of most of my storage containers and switching to deli containers. They come in various useful sizes, and all use the same lids. They're cheap enough to give away or throw out when they start wearing out, but can be washed and reused many times. Meal prep containers are another answer and come in various depths and with/without compartments. Those don't meet every need, of course. I keep one set of nesting Lock & Lock glass containers for food I'm sure I'll reheat as-is. No need to track down the lids, since they're always on the container. I keep a couple of very large tupperware containers for storing bulk soup, leftover pizza from a party, loaves of bread, large quantities of baked goods for a pot luck, etc. The lids stay under the container. Now, when it comes to mason jars, I'm with you. The best I've come up with is storing the rings on a loop of twine and hanging it up. The rest is just tossed in a basket of various mason jar accessories. Regular and wide mouth just mixed together.

@@bloodgain I've done pretty much the same as you! But I standardized on having only "wide-mouth" mason jars so that every size (I have 4 / 8 / 16 / 32 oz) takes the same lids. Since the mason jars tend to be used for staples (oatmeal, cereals; nuts, dried fruits; honey, other sweeteners, stevia; dried beans, lentils, split peas; rices, pastas; etc., they usually stay in use so the lid storage isn't an issue so far. I have an extensive collection of herbs, spices, special "mixes" (chai spice to add to any tea, "ranch" for salad dressing or dip), and various drink powders (cocoa, coffee substitutes I like, instant ice tea). I'm standardizing those with a) re-used half-size shaker spice jars for items less used (chili powder), b) a set of glass spice jars in a spinner (color-coded with color dots on the lids and a "legend" pasted to the top of the spinner), and c) a drawer of short, wide jars for items used in larger quantities (drinks mixes, extra quantities of favorites bought in bulk). It's not that I'm a gourmet cook, not at all, but I like variety in my food and to experiment (hence the wide assortment of dry goods and herbs/spices), _not_ in my containers and accoutrements (hence the simplification and standardization). 😉

@@nodoboho Yeah, I will probably give all my regular mouth jars to my mom or donate them on Craigslist. I prefer the wide mouth ones now.

Ooh I love these ideas - I'll tackle the crisp idea in the kitchen, got some ideas already - great use case! Thanks for your kind comments too - the nerdiness I can't help, but the editing skills will hopefully improve!

To close the open bags, I use standard office supply binder clips. Commercial products sold especially for bags are harder to use or less durable/sturdy. Simply fold the corners on the open end of the bag in to make a point, fold the point over 3-4 times, clip it. Now where to put those bags...

@@Sylvan_dB I use clothes line clips (not sure if this is the actual name in english), but indeed the "mess" comes more from were to put them. Currently they go on a shelf in the pantry, but it does not seem right, so I'm eager to see Katie's approach.

Oooh yes, yarn (or wool over this side of the pond here!) - I've got plenty of that to organise, so that'll be part of the sewing room rebuild. Linen - will look to work that in too!

Metric wins hands down on any scientific/precise measurement - imperial has it's place as it's based on 'things' so its often more relevant - eg a 6 foot+ man is a tall man, whereas a 180cm man or 185cm man - in this case the precision of metric loses the ability to broadly group. Other than that, metric wins!

Oooh great suggestions - yes Gridfinity 'sort of' works for the wall, but it doesn't really mechanically fix, so for some items you just need screws - multiboard is great for this. On the hanging weights, great idea - although I might go one better and just strength test the lot of them!

@@handsonkatie also, completely off-topic... After watching your previous video and discovering your channel, I went on a bit of a "binge" to see what else you had published, and noticed that you had a few welsh words in some vids - more please, I love learning languages :) Even more off-topic, if you could find a way to slip in that long welsh place name that everyone mentiones but noone can remember (you know the one ;)), said by a real welsh person and then maybe slowly broken down into the sounds so the rest of us can try to remember it, that would be cool (I seem to manage to remember some of the bits in the middle, and of course the end like most people)

​@@chrisdixon5241😂😂😂 My nain and taid lived near there, so of course i can - ill see if i can work it in.... 😂

Awesome - hope they help with the mancaving!!! 🤣🤣

Oooh - open source shelves and cabinets required??? Coming up.....! 🥰

@@handsonkatie nice! I've actually been thinking I'd like to give designing and 3d printing some furniture a go (I need to make a custom shelving unit to fill an odd shaped space in the bedroom - but then I thought... why not do garden seats, maybe a table, ...)

Think you're spot on bloodgain - lack of storage places is exactly where this begins. If our brains have an obvious place to put things, it's cognitively 'easy', if we need to think of a location, it's 'hard' - ie doesn't get done. Your second comment is exactly where I'm been redesigning in this video - it's amazing how unstandardised and unadaptable the commercial storage solutions are....!

For bathroom items, if I have to combine items in a single bin, I try to "batch" them using ziploc bags of various sizes. So maybe toothpastes in one, toothbrushes in another, etc. with all the "oral hygiene" stuff in one bin. I use plastic chests of drawers (Sterilite) of different sizes under my bathroom and kitchen sinks, where they fit well on either side of the drainpipe and keep things organized in that otherwise big, open space.) I, too, struggle with the "too much trouble to figure out where to put this" problem. The clutter and organization books/articles/videos I look at (instead of actually decluttering/organizing) sometimes say that if you don't have room to store all your stuff... _you've got too much stuff_ ! Instead of getting more storage containers, the recommendation is to reduce the amount of stuff to fit the storage space you have. I think they have a point. (I'm working on it....)

@@nodoboho I definitely have too much stuff! I don't want to just toss meds, first aid stuff, and toiletries that will be good for years, though. I should probably donate a bunch of it. If I had a basement, I'd buy some used store shelving and build my own little stop-and-shop in it!

This is a great chat - probably a video in its own right. There's this quantum of 'need' - ie there's rarely any issue with deciding about whether to keep those things you use all the time, nor those things you never need. The vast majority of stuff is in the variable value space - all those nuts, bolts, washers, meds, brackets, tapes and so on are pretty low value most of the time.... but when you need them for that broken bracket, sore head or whatever, they're super valuable to have and actually very expensive to not. Eg having to stop the project, drive down to the big box store (time/cost), buy a bag of bolts (high cost) and drive back. I love the idea of a stop-and-shop - wouldn't it be amazing if we could 'share' online all the components and bits and bobs we're happy to share with neighbours...!

@@handsonkatie Oh, gosh, yes, like a shared maker space but for sharing bits and bobs that only have value in avoiding a shopping trip for one little thing! I just saw a post on the local subreddit where somebody was looking for a local source for a Raspberry Pi and some 74-series chips, and a couple of people chimed in to say they had some they'd trade for if the OP couldn't find any.

Brilliant thinking here and you're spot on - I've got a video this week showing how I've applied it to my craft room that touches on your exact points (eg frequency of use and so on). Remember with a 3d printer, it's not your time and energy - you'd hit 'print' on 25 boxes and leave it to work away overnight!

😂😂 Silly billy!! 🥰

Ooooooooh!!!! Now I tell you, I thought about this as I was making some of these 3d models!! I don't really do miniatures myself (although not sure why not as I love board games/gaming in general and love all the intricate details!), but I was thinking about how I could create the 'ultimate miniatures set' at some point - could have organisers for all the paints, brushes and storage drawers for the finished miniatures themselves, think it'd be a great project! Drop me an email on my site and we should brainstorm some ideas - I think a lot of the systems I've covered should work really well for you, but I'm happy to model any 'gaps' that you need solutions for!!! Love the idea though - it's a perfect project! PS I've also got a 'Smart Gaming Table' project on my backlog too, I've been listing all the features I want to include and then I can build it!

Thank you, you're lovely!! 🥰🥰🥰 I use Bambu Labs P1S mainly!!

I've got a few ideas for those - agree cables are an endless battle though!!! 🫣

Mine usually stay organized when looped and slid into a toilet paper tube (or section if the cable doesn't fit well) or else wrapped around the tube, then ends tucked through. The tube could be covered in nice paper or something to standardize or color-code or just make it pretty. Or just write what it's for on the tube with a marker and throw the thing into the "cables" bin/drawer/box with the others.

This is a great idea - I've designed something very similar, you can get slightly more space efficient than circles if you use honeycomb-style designs - I'll upload these in the near future once I'm happy with the sizings! But love simple solutions when they're available too - I'd actually probably avoid covering/papering them - it does look less polished, but suddenly you move from an endless supply of cable organisers being produced 'automatically' (without getting into your toilet habits!) to a chore that you need to maintain! If you want something nice, then I'd go with a 3d print that you can fire and forget in seconds, if you don't mind it being a bit rough and ready (eg storage in your attic or out of sight), then toilet roll rubes are a brilliant idea. You could also use kitchen roll tubes which are twice the length for any larger usb cables.

@@handsonkatie Well, I'm also pretty frugal and I've seen other possible uses for them, so I've been saving them up; paper towel ("kitchen roll") tubes as well. At this point, I think I've run out of cords and cables to put in them, so I can start using them for supposedly plantable seedlings cups or pitching them into the recycling bin. I'm also big on efficiency and also lazy, so I was just using the ones that were white and smooth (not the gray cardboardy ones) and hand-printing a short label on it with a marker. They are out-of-sight in a bin that fits under a shelving unit.

​I just hit 'print' on a bunch of usb cable organisers that I just designed based on your thoughts...!! Love the idea of the planters, would degrade nicely and much better than those shop ones that degrade, but constrain the roots at the base. I'm gonna pinch that idea!! ❤❤❤😊

Hey thanks HikerDad - I try my best! What's your thoughts on the NeoGrid option - more than happy to model anything required or you're welcome to have the design files too, just struggling to picture what you're describing, but I like a challenge! Do you use discord? We could chat in my server there I've set up so I can share files/pictures easier?

​@@handsonkatieI sent you a message on your Let's connect webpage

🤣🤣 oh no, it's just keeping up with all my projects that's the challenge!! It's coming soon! (Been ill for a couple of weeks too as an excuse! 🤒🤒🤒)

Great comment - yes a lot of this is seemingly common sense (indeed as I highlight, much like the Agile Manifesto was seemingly common sense when it launched) - but the reality is there are no standards in home organisation, so this creates cognitive friction. Definitely lots of other points like travel - I'll cover these in the individual room videos - this is key, especially in workshops. I think I lean much more to the neuroscientific view on why these systems fail - ie people don't just stop adhering to the maintenance, there's a bit more complexity - much like people don't just gain weight because they 'want to'.....! Time and focus are other factors that weigh in too in this!

Super - have some stuff on this in plan after my pc build series. Also might do a short on the VoC point, have some smart sensors for this...! Although they're actually really not a problem since filaments like ABS went out of fashion and filters/enclosures became more common...! Might be worth keeping an eye out for that test!

Thank you!! Glad you found the video useful and you made me smile!! 😁😁

Hey, thanks Leona! 😊Do you know which printer your dad has? They've certainly leapt forward in speed in the last couple of years - ie it's quite likely they're 4-5x faster out of the box, then there's also lots of tricks to speed things up further - eg layer height, larger nozzle etc. but they'll continue to get faster without a doubt...!

He has an anycubic Kobra 2, embarrassed that he got a 3D printer before I did, and I'm the one in IT;) 🤣

That's a great use case, I could see loads of cool uses that you could apply!!

Brilliant examples and I love the toilet roll example, I might invent a 3d print for that I think! I've just published a new video that might bring some of this to life even more!

@@handsonkatie actually, I think it could be a module for Gridfinity, 42x42 is a good size for most cables (e.g. Audio). Some cables are a bit too big and too stiff for one toilet roll (e.g. 240V cables), instead I would use two Gridfinity rectangles for these. Some small cables could also be two per rectangle. I guess such boxes already exist? May be not the necessary height? the boxes do not need to be round

@@handsonkatie I have some quite old assortment boxes with a see through cover. Those contain little boxes sized by a base raster, some with a multiple of the raster, but no grid at the bottom. I always wanted more of them, but never found an alternative product. I should probably create my own and use Gridfinity raster for them. Mine have an inner size of 29.2mm x 22.8mm (well 30 x 23.5 outside with cover, it's a practical size, full of screws they are still not too heavy. A box has an inner sie of 7.2mm x 5.6 mm, so most screws fit inside (I use them for screws, mainly for the 3D printer, and for electronic parts)

​@@aribowellexactly right, I already do this! Watch out in future videos and I'll show them. But it's also a nice idea to use toilet roll, I was thinking I could create a little 3d printed cap and Gridfinity base and then you could just clip them onto toilet rolls to turn them into more rigid containers!

​@@aribowellthat could be a great use - and if you do the maths, you can work out what Gridfinity pattern fits best for them and have them inter compatible! 😎

Of course! - there's also an fusion 360 file that others have used to adjust themselves, but happy to pull together. Do you want to drop me an email on my website (www.handsonkatie.com)? I'll send you a test version so you can check it fits neatly - I suspect you'll actually want something like 3.1mm for a tight, but not too tight fit!

Oooh I've got loads of ideas - I've got horizontal and vertical stores for caulk/silicone tubes. Rollers, sleeves, paint trays are larger items, so I'd just build neogrid dividers for these myself. For small hand roller sleeves, you could design a Gridfinity solution - let me know if any urgent ones and can share files or model something specific, otherwise this will be covered in my workshop videos!!

Awesome. I'm only 5-6 drawers into my 30+ drawer solution so I'll prioritize around these for now. Excited to see what you come up with!

I've done exactly this in my workshop, so watch out for that video and I'll share more details! But yes you can get freestanding attachments like this: thangs.com/search/%22MB25%22%20creator%3A%22Keep%20Making%22?scope=thangs&view=list&affiliateCode=hendricks Is that what you mean?

@@handsonkatie Yes, right this. I'm asking myself how stable the Multiboard is when it's freestanding. I'm looking forward to learn from your workshop organisation!!

​@@senjos4805super, well let's see and I can obviously design a super stable version if needed! 😊

@@handsonkatie ☺☺

@_handsonKatie2440 So many hearts 🥰

Yes, great point - fdm printers can print transparent filament, but they'll be more opaque than glass-like. Few ways I'd approach this, I use window boxes like this: images.app.goo.gl/JWTqZ3M9LTSoGa6c8 and as in the video to allow this. The other option would be to just use your transparent boxes and create Gridfinity bases for them so you get the best of both worlds! Might include this in one of the room videos!

🤣🤣 glad you enjoyed and go get that printer...!

😅😅😅😅😅😅 Let's face this battle together!

French cleats - watch this space, it'll naturally come into its own in my workshop video where there's masses of 'heavy items'. In short, I've got 3d printed cleats, gridfinity mounts both in wood and PLA and more....! Software assistant - yes I agree, I'm musing something similar - the challenge is universal tracking, eg it's easy to track where your phone is as it's a smart/connected device, you can add a tag to your keys, but your glasses, your shoes etc etc? At some point I was plotting using image recognition to have a play with 'last spotted' events for certain objects - not convinced it'd work well enough for small objects yet, but could be a fun project.... until then, watch my sewing room video coming next week that'll dive into more of this and will at least explain how I structure things to make finding them as easy as possible!!

Hehehe! I'll keep working on you then! Excellent point though on the brain, that's actually something I'm going to cover in an upcoming video or two - it's something that's really interesting to me!!

Just ordinary PLA - more than strong enough for this. Think this was elegoo from memory!

..not just that, but the silly USB standard is poorly demarcated - does that USB cable work with data or is it just a power cable for example?? I have just the solution for both, keep an eye out for upcoming videos for this. I might even do a dedicated video on cables - it seems a very common challenge!!

@@handsonkatie Agreed. Also, while it's a good idea to have set of spare cables for various cases, it likely would be an idea to cull away some older cables that has some duplicates and never will be used again.

Agree, although it's one of the mysterious laws of physics that the moment you do that, you'll suddenly have a need for more and be one short..... 🤣

@@handsonkatie Yes! There is a reason I still have sooo many cables :D also a big box of random PSUs because they make come in handy "on day"

I might do a video on this as quite a common question - I'd start with Bambu A1 if you want to start cheap or go to a Bambu P1S if you want to spend a little more....! Both are super reliable and fast!

Ah, the cognitive challenge.... that's actually something I'll cover in future videos - whether I can fix your other half is another question (she may just do it deliberately to annoy you.... 😅😅😅 ) - but I'll have a go!!

​@@handsonkatie if you're willing to try then I will give it a go.😂🤣🤣🥳

My name is GuitarGrin and I've a messy garage.... admitting it is the first step... 😅😅😅

Thanks Carl - yes, the various converters between Gridfinity and Multiboard have been essential I'd say - I'll tour these in detail in upcoming videos. As for Neogrid, well the design is parametric, so very easy to fit any width of material, so if you can find some consistent similar material in the US and state the width, I can easily generate all the files to fit. I've used 6mm MDF for example in testing it and it works great!

I look forward to more instructional videos on integrating these organizational systems. I am teaching myself F360 and will try to find an appropriate material to test neo. I have been building boxes out of 3mm cardboard using a similar set of connectors.

Yes you're right - there's a great comment above that suggests creating 'molds' using 3d prints - I might try this. It's too time and money prohibitive to print larger boxes on current FDM. I'm also designing open source container systems - think cabinets, drawers and the like with automatic gridfinity grids, slot grooves and more. I could add a box system too potentially that might tackle some of your challenge - it's amazing that there's just no standard sizes in these things, then it'd be easy to find a solution!

Well it's a challenge indeed - although the challenge is more my ignorance! You able to ping any links or describe the sort of stuff you have? By description, it sounds like a perfect fit for gridfinity (small parts), NeoGrid (larger pieces like wings or engines) and possibly even a french cleat wall mount for the actual aircraft??

Ah, I just went strict on that and bought a set of square, stackable plates, bowls and so on! Bought them years ago and still going strong!

Well I've got er... five ..... 😂😂 First was a Prusa Mk3s, second was a CR10 Max (huge size but I had to basically rebuild it completely to get it to be reliable) and latest are Bambu P1S - I liked the first one so much, I bought two more....! Highly recommend them or their A1 range, you'll be amazed at speed difference Vs Balco....!

@@handsonkatie holy moly! you are really into your 3D printing. Yeah, i can see how you would be able to produce that many items now. The Balco is something like 10-70mm/sec compared to 500mm/sec on the P1S?! crikey! no comparison!

Yes and it's even more of a difference in reality due to all the input shaping and optimisation - highly recommend!

@@handsonkatie Katie you've clearly invested a lot of time and effort fine tuning your 3D printing process! I'd love to see a video that describes what you think are must-haves in a 3D printing set up. I'm yet to take the plunge into the 3D printing world but can see that following your channel might just tip the balance and having your thoughts would be of immeasurable value. "Immeasurable." 🤔Is that metric or imperial?

@@bobthekelpie sounds like a topic for a video in future!

Amazing comment - thank you so much for this - helpful at some many levels! Taxonomy/ontology - oh great question and could be an hour video on its own (although you and me might be the only ones interested!!). At its basis I've actually avoided being too ontological - I think this was a mistake in the past. Much like the web spent too much time in Information Architecture design, before shifting onto tag-based constructs, facets search etc. In very short terms, don't try and define things too much, but focus on letting its ontology adapt if you need to - this is a key part I covered - so if those pliers are now better suited to the workshop, then great I just pick up their container and I know it'll fit in the relevant spot. One driving point is around work optimisation - ie measuring the time it takes you to do a task and seeking to minimise that in your design (are those scissors in reach for cutting the thread, where's my needles and so on). I hope I'll cover this in future videos, so hopefully that will help answer the question in more clarity. On videos - thank you very much for your kind comments and great ideas - oh there's loads I'd like to do more of. I agree with the extra shots, it's actually loads of work - not least as I'm totally incompetent still having only started video editing/filming for the first time a few months ago. To give you a measure of my ineptness, I actually had to re-film the whole thing as I'd forgotten to plug in the microphone correctly..... idiot! I definitely want to do more visual variety as you say - it's a bit of an odd habit to develop as I've always just ploughed on with projects, so I'm trying to build the habit of filming as I go (I keep forgetting, but I'll try harder!!). Topic titles/categorisation is definitely something I want to do going forward - although it does require me to know what the heck I'm doing in the first place.... 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks again for taking the time to comment, I love comments like this - they're so helpful!

@@handsonkatie Uh, oh, it sounds as if we both work in the same industry for our day jobs. 😅You're right that it might be a pretty limited audience who would want to do a deep dive on ontological discussions. Well, we'd have fun geeking out, at least. I should take a step back and look at some of my repetitive tasks and kaizen [cough, cough] them. But, I am chaos at heart. Organizational nirvana may always remain out of reach for me, but you've piqued my interest. Maybe I can start printing some items, but, oh my word, it will take forever to do it! How entrepreneurial do you feel? Time to get mass production of some of your designs so lazy people can simply purchase them? Hmmmm?????? Your video production skills are actually quite excellent. It's surprising how short a time you've been doing this work, because your lighting, alone, is fantastic, and that's not an easy thing to get right. All of the graphical components have been high-quality and have a consistent aesthetic. These are things that generally take a long time to develop. (My skills are certainly still under development.) Pat yourself on your back, you have done exceptionally well. The content portion is the most difficult thing to nail. How do you pace it, how do you break it up, how do you determine the right length, how do you summarize to make sure the right points have been conveyed? It's just like presentations for our day jobs. I think you're doing really well with your content and am just being picky about wanting greater visual variety. I've been learning this the hard way, myself. To make you feel better: Although I am a very technical person at heart, I am just as prone to ineptitude as the next person. I was making a video on installing recessed lights and shot this bit of me in our upstairs hallway with a laser level painting a line down the center of the ceiling, as I extolled the virtues of the level. Thought it went OK, packed the camera up and cut a ton of holes in the ceiling. Two months later I looked at the footage. No audio. I asked my wife if she could read my lips (I'm rubbish at that) to see if I could maybe lip synch myself there, because I certainly couldn't reshoot it, since the lights are already installed. Argh! I still don't know what I'm going to do. So, know that you have a brother in arms. As for getting extra footage, boy do I understand. I thought I would do a video on our extensive kitchen remodel, but bringing out the camera made everything take twice as long and there was SO much to do. I finally decided to keep the camera in the other room and just get the work done. I might regret that. That's why I was thinking if you simply put a camera on a tripod and let it run unattended, it might provide you with the cutaways you need, but without too much extra fuss. > although it does require me to know what the heck I'm doing in the first place You're not fooling this guy with such statements! Thanks for being open to receiving comments. I wish you great success!

When you least expect...... 🗜️🗜️🗜️🗜️🗜️

Need some help in the bedroom - no problem, a panel of sex therapists can sit on the sofa or at the round table and observe and give live reccomendations.

😅😅 You're right, it'll never catch on!

Hey Jon - yes, I've got a whole series coming up which dives into more detail as I tour each room - I thought this would bring it to life more easily! Given there's about 300+ custom models I've built for all the various solutions! To answer your question, I'm doing both - it's really handy to have 3d printed cleat holders for some things (saves buzzing out pieces on the table saw) and then I've cut plywood cleats for lots of other stuff. It's the combination of the two that becomes really powerful - you'll see this in the workshop tour and I've got laser cut and CNC cut patterns for gridfinity, so you can have french cleat shelves with wooden gridfinity bases for example! Oh and I'll do a dedicated neogrid video too in a bit to walk you through that also!

@@handsonkatie I feel like my OCD-like uber-organizing brainworm may keel over in excitement. I know I'm showing my age, but I struggle with most instructional or walk through video's - I just want to read how to do the thing, then get to work on the thing immediately, even though I know there are skills and techniques that really only translate in person or by video. I'm glad I stuck it out and watched this one though & I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

@@jonparker2353 good to hear and keep watching, loads more to come on this..... 😎

Yes, I touched on that lightly in the video - Gridfinity has such an enormous ecosystem that multigrid is a bit like betamax Vs VHS - definitely has advantages, but loses out on sheer ecosystem size...!

Hey everything's on this page: handsonkatie.com/neogrid-organise-your-big-items-with-this-free-and-open-source-system/ Will update the link in case anyone else struggles to find it!

@@handsonkatie Ah, under projects, not downloads. Thanks for pointing it out!

Hey Scott - main factors were really smart multi format (ie it works with Multiboard, honeycomb, pegboard and more) and strength - very strong format, holds 20kg+ so gives lots more flexibility (and tied to this, the ability to screw in fixtures makes it much stronger than push fit designs)

Well they've certainly got an awful lot faster in recent years, but there's a subtlety to how they operate that I probably need to cover - ie they can work away non-stop and don't need any attention, so they can be running away through the day and night - I'll try and cover this in a future video!

Came to write this. The first 10 minutes is a longwinded and slow paced talk about stuff that may or may not be tangentially relevant but I was skipping ahead 2 minutes at a time until I got to the point where some actual content appeared.

This is a great approach - I should have added a 'if you just want fed the answer, jump to 10:10' and if you want to understand the context and broader thinking, then settle in. I'll pinch that for future videos! But the words of Stolen Focus, The Anxious Generation and many more rings true, so I'd definitely lean towards longer form broader content if possible!

Ooh, have a solution already for this!! Will feature in upcoming videos!

Paperwork is on the list for the home office rebuild....! So yes!!

Well the short answer is Douglas Adams - as in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.... I did analyse this myself as I'd considered looking at alternative dimensions (eg 50mm, 25mm etc). It actually works pretty well as a number with a high number of divisible factors and it works well with both imperial and metric (as a close fit to their standard sizes at lots of common size points) - so in short I think, relatively arbitrary, but it was surprisingly effective as a size!

@@handsonkatie Nice. The "ultimate answer to everything" also came to mind when I was watching. LOL 😀... I'm looking at doing something similar but for a laser cutter instead of 3D Printing . Great vid, thanks.

@@DesignAlign ooh, I'm building some designs for both laser and CNCing for the same, so keep eye open in future as I'll share the files!

I almost entirely use PLA - which is compostable/biodegradable at high compost temps - I also have an air monitor that I use just to keep an eye on them (more for workshop than 3d printer as it turns out as it's close to zero emissions) - so, I'd certainly be sensible as you should be with any material (eg I wouldn't use 3d prints for food items), but I'm not overly concerned.

🤣🤣🤣 Pessimism is nearly always right and optimism is rarely so, yet all the steps forward come from optimists... 😉

No this is not bad, this is good. Chaos is the nature of the universe. As they say, that Einstein said, that only a fool needs in order - genius dominates the chaos. = ) As it was said (in that video) nature mixes all up, erodes, destroy, create, and mix once again. And only people strive to create structures. Just like Sisyphus did. (Or who knows, may be he is still trying to roll the stone to the mountain)

Of course, entropy is nature's way, but saying that we should stop striving to standardise is surely nihilism at its purest.... :)

I did not say that. (It all those people, who says about what Einstein said = ) ) I mean, trying to standardize something, people create chaos of different standards. I think this is magnificent! = ) For example under last video there is a couple of links, some of which does not work now, and some will stop working someday. This if life. To be fair, nature equally mixes order and chaos which were created by people. And nothing comes for free. But everything goes... Well it's kinda philosophic matters. But never mind it does not really matter, until we are alive we always can replace those batteries to prolong the infinity = )

btw "You know, I am kinda an organizing system creator myself" Thing 5773479 But it is no squared, sorry = ) It is more on the entropy side of the universe.

This is a good instinct to have and think it's certainly something to look out for...! I think the balance you describe has echoed through humanity since day zero - indeed this is very much the topic of the enlightenment and romantic eras. Of course, there's truth in both and the balance is the secret - for project building though, chaos in organisation rarely helps and I find organising the chaos allows me more creativity in my designs - it's too exhausting to be creative if you're searching for that chip, bit or screw for hours....! And your point on plastic waste is another area of interest - I prefer PLA from 3d printers (made of plants and compostable at higher temps) to the heavy oil manufacturing plastics - still I think the next innovation 'just' about to enter mainstream is the ability to grind down old projects and turn them back into filament to print again - this will be truly amazing. At the moment it's doable, just a bit error prone - give it a year or two...!

Great to hear your thoughts, I've covered this in comment below - but 4 mins is an interesting attention span to reflect on....! I could create versions for short attention spans and longer form for more focused types - there's so much interesting research in this space!

Yes, it could've been a 10 or maybe even 5 minute vid. Way too much irrelevent stuff imho.

Great observations - and I think you might be right in this video, I put a couple of theoretical sections in and I know 'immediate gratification/attention spans are something people struggle with these days. It's actually something I'm toying with at the moment. I definitely want to appeal to longer-form, broader thinkers - not just the 'what', but the 'why'. I mean neurological attention spans have been hammered down in the last decade from 2mins 45 to 75secs at last count - so I think there's a lot to be said for slowing people down and getting them to think more broadly, rather than machine gunning the short term answers at them - Jonathan Haidt's new book covers the impacts of this in detail: The Anxious Generation. I might even do a video on it... it'd be a study in itself to see how long people can focus... :)

So, you have a thin skin. I've enjoyed some of your other videos, and given you likes for those. And I didn't give a thumbs down on this one, because I respect the effort you put into making videos. You should respect our time. Edit out the superfluous. Don't take cheap shots at constructive criticism. I have found that deep thinkers typically want to get to the point, so they can think deeply about the topic, instead of sorting through the fluff.😘

Not at all, think you might be suffering from the limits of text interpretation on the web! A lot gets lost - re-read my comment, I literally said 'great observations' and 'I think you might be right' - I actually agree with you on this, but I'm conscious there's lots of other comments and messages that disagree, so I'm keen to be analytical and not take either my view or your comment as autocratic...! I think there's a neat balance and I can work it out with the right feedback, so I thought your comments were great - which is what I said! I disagree on the deep thinkers being 'to the point' - if you have any studies here, that'd be great to see - most of the psychology/neuroscience I know points the other way - in very crude terms the fast-paced thinkers are 'to the point' types, but these are great to cater for - I like the idea of a 'skip' flag that I could mention in videos - so if you don't want to understand any of the 'why' in my thinking, you can just jump to the 'answer' - this might cater nicely for both types! Welcome your thoughts though, I don't profess to be any expert in this - I'm just conscious of the research into 'short sharp content' has hardly been praiseworthy for learning, so it's something that interests me! Really do love the feedback though - I just like to debate /analyse things, so don't take it as anything other - think you're great!

@@handsonkatie Perhaps the _" 'skip' flag[s] "_ could be included by adding timestamps in the video description? 🤔 I know it takes a bit of extra work (if there's not already an automatic 🤖 A.I. tool for it ). Which is why I've posted timestamps in the comments, on a couple of your videos. But if the video creator adds them in the description, then the RU-vid player will show them as 'chapters' (not unlike in ye olden days of DVDs 📀🤭). And you could of course mention in videos (or thrown in some overlay text post-edit), for "people in a hurry / having a short attention span" they can fast forward to a certain time. 😁 Anyway, my personal opinion is that I do enjoy the storytelling format. With some funny bits (like at 15:35 🙈🤣) thrown in, every now and then.