Have you ever wondered why your microwave oven has a rotating turntable, or what exactly makes water boil inside a microwave? This week, we’re joined by Zeke Kossover from The Exploratorium to demonstrate an experiment that visualizes microwave energy in the form of a light show. Plus, we show how glass can absorb microwaves by melting a soda bottle!
Watch Our Stop-Motion Animation Sequence!
Thanks for joining us this week as Frank, Sean, and I tried our hands at some basic stop-motion animation with 1/6th scale figures and DragonFrame software. Here are the two action sequences we created, along with some time-lapse of our animation. We’ll have Frank and Sean back for more weeks of builds this month and next! Don’t miss an episode by joining the Tested Premium Member community, and thanks for supporting us!
Shop Tips: Know Your Hot Glue Guns
Every time Frank comes up to San Francisco to work on a project, he criticizes our hot glue guns. So we had to visit his shop to learn about Frank’s favorite hot glue guns. For this week’s Shop Tip, Frank explains the difference between high and low temperature hot glue, and how he uses each.
Shot and edited by Joey Fameli
Adam Savage’s Custom Sewing Table
For his most recent One Day Build, Adam got to utilize his new sewing station he built from scratch. This cave infrastructure project also allowed Adam to experiment with a new kind of tabletop surface!
Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Puppy Car Seat!
For this week’s One Day Build, Adam designs and fabricates an accessory for his new car to make rides more comfortable for his two dogs! Making this doggy car seat is going to require sewing, which lets Adam utilize the cave’s new sewing station. Awesome!
Shot and edited by Adam Isaak
Tested Builds: Stop-Motion Animation, Part 4
The animation is complete! It turned out pretty well, and now we have the bug for animating. In this next part, the gang tackle a second scene, and try to get silly with the action. (Thanks for watching this week’s build! We have a special video going up tomorrow, don’t miss that by joining the Tested Premium member community!)
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Tested Builds: Stop-Motion Animation, Part 3
Frank, Sean, and Norm finish up their first stop-motion short depicting a lightsaber duel between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker. Animating the scene is a painstaking process, but we’re having fun and learning along the way! (Follow along the rest of the week by joining the Tested Premium member community!)
Hands-On with DJI’s Phantom 4 Quadcopter Drone
We go hands-on with DJI’s latest quadcopter, the Phantom 4! The newest Phantom drone improves on last year’s model with three big features: much longer battery life, active obstacle and subject tracking, and a high-speed sport mode. We chat with DJI about how these features work and then put the drone in the sky for a test flight!
Shot by Adam Isaak and edited by Norman Chan
Tested Builds: Stop-Motion Animation, Part 2
Time to start animating our stop-motion short with these Star Wars figures! Frank, Sean, and Norm plan out their characters actions, and get to animating! (Follow along the rest of the week by joining the Tested Premium member community!)