In this week’s super-sized episode, Adam answers questions submitted by Etsy users, including how he finds the best stuff on Etsy, how the indie crafts movement stacks up to mass production, and whether it’s possible to swim in mayonnaise. Enjoy!
One Day Builds
Adam embarks on one of his most ambitious builds yet: fulfil…
Show And Tell
Adam recently completed a build of the royal St. Edwards cro…
Making
Viewers often ask to see Adam working in real-time, so this …
One Day Builds
Adam and Norm assemble a beautifully machined replica prop k…
One Day Builds
One of the ways Adam has been getting through lockdown has b…
Making
Adam unboxes and performs a quick test of this novel new hel…
Making
When Adam visited Weta Workshop early last year, he stopped …
One Day Builds
Adam tackles a shop shelf build that he's been putting off f…
Show And Tell
Time for a model kit build! This steampunk-inspired mechanic…
One Day Builds
Adam reveals his surprise Christmas present for his wife--a …
Here is the knolling photo.
Cutting mats are both inviting and helpful for achieving ultimate knolling-precision. 🙂
Thanks for sharing this photo of what Adam was knolling, Norm.. 🙂
That is awesome! Great episode again as well.
Wow! Adam just dropped a Buckaroo Bansai reference out of thin air.
Adam talks about “blowing things” not being his preferred thing on Mythbusters (even if he likes that). I, for one, don’t actually like that on the show. It’s… I don’t know, maybe boring.
Maybe they do that because, I suppose, Discovery “demands” it. You know, “blowing things up in the name of science”, the host have said that very phrase quite a few times. But…eehhh… IMHO, Mythbusters would be better without that bit (which in fact is quite a chunk of the show).
I’ve been glad to see the world move towards Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age at least in part. I don’t want the world to be separated further between the haves and have nots, but people giving hand made products more praise than those produced on a grand scale, as well as the possibilities of printed production for providing cheap universal items.
wow this is beautiful
Wow, I could never do that. I’m the exact opposite of OCD.
On the topic of the mayonnaise, I’ve always wondered if you could swim in a giant vat of Jell-o.
I get the feeling that Adam would get an entirely different type of enjoyment out of Resident Evil games than most people.
I’d also say a major thing that will keep computer controlled driving from being mandatory is the failure of humanity as a whole to accurately weigh nebulous risks vs personal control. Even if it is demonstrably safer for a society as a whole to not have sleepy, drunk, distracted, angry, etc drivers, people want the control because its only those other jerks on the road that make mistakes and they’ll be damned if some computer gets them killed.
Looks like a police sketch artist’s version of a motherboard.
I expect computer driven cars will come in a couple waves with accident prevention and ‘enhanced’ driving coming first, and full automation later as the tech gets cheaper. There’s already affordable technology to allow a computers lightning fast reflexes to react before the driver, taking partial control for a split second to keep them safe. If this were combined with a basic wifi connection between cars I think better traffic flow could be achieved without expensive Lidar on every car (and when the Lidar is cheap enough cars could share data to fill in blind spots). In the case of full automation I think the ‘killer app’ won’t be the car driving you but the car driving itself when you aren’t in it. Get dropped off, send the car to park, then use its app to find you again even if you ended up sloshed on the other side of town.
I believe that whoever asked the “sinusoidal” question was thinking of “synesthetic”.
I wouldn’t mind knowing if Adam is synesthetic.
Or he/she might have meant to ask if he goes back and forth between the making and testing part of his brain, creating things and collecting data, at a steady frequency (as in a sine curve/wave)? Hard to say.
I have a serious problem with the fact that Adam gives 98% of his attention
to Will and only 2% to Norman. While Will might be leading the conversation, Adam
seems not able to even look Norman in the eye.
I however have no objection to the information and wisdom
dispensed in any of these episodes.
Please ask Adam to answer this question and what his opionon of the answer is, If a tree fell in a forrest and nobody was arounf to hear it, would it still make a sound, and how would he go about testing it scientifically
A fan, Coventry, England.
Adam might find this interesting, but he’s probably already seen it… http://www.amazon.com/Things-Come-Apart-Teardown-Manual/dp/0500516766
Disassembly and Knolling of “everyday” objects
I find that both in youtube and etsy I find myself falling into “wormholes” as we call them. I have two etsy stores of my own as well as shopping on etsy myself. I will find myself in a shop, when that shop leads me to another shop, then to another, then another and another, because of the items themselves I am searching. It’s like falling through a wormhole. I feel this is one of the best ways of exploring etsy.
As long as I am here I might as well pimp myself. I make lamps out of the old and forgotten.
Z Lighting and Design
ABK
A Always, B Be, K Knolling. ALWAYS BE KNOLLING.
I have a question regarding the little acrylic plaques Adam had made for the Microscope Case. He mentions in that segment that they were made by a shop on Etsy, which is why I am posting this here as well as on that video. I’m guessing this is a case of not knowing the right term to search to find what I want. My name for the material is Microsurfaced Acrylic and then I’ve been searching plaques, badges, tags, plates, etc and not finding what I want. Its those “proper name goes here” plaques in and on the case. They’re black with engraved white lettering. If you can straighten me out on my search and/or give me the shop information I would be grateful the rest of my days. I’d also be happy to share their application as my project moves along.
Exact Moment in the video when its mentioned (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXzxEqdvuIE&t=4m16s)
Thanks in advance,
Steve