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Director's Commentary: Egg Cracker
Hey everyone!It’s time for another patron-only director’s commentary livestream!Join me on Thursday, September 11th at 4:45 PM Eastern as I walk through the egg cracker video, share behind-the-scenes details that didn’t make it into the final cut, and answer your questions live.Thanks so much ...
New video: automating egg cracking
I've always wanted an egg cracking tool. You can buy them, but they all seem to have various shortcomings. It's not surprising because egg cracking is one of those problems that's super simple to understand but rather complex to do reliably.The trickiness of the problem convinced me that...
Director's Commentary: No Edge Pan
Hey Everyone!I'll be hosting a patron-only Director's Commentary livestream for my latest project - the no edges brownie pan!Join me Tuesday, June 10th at 3:30 PM Eastern as I go watch through the video and constantly pause to share details that didn't make the final cut . I'll also ...
New video: building an edgeless brownie pan
Hey Everyone!I just wrapped up my latest project: building a brownie pan that bakes without any hard, chewy edges. What started as a simple idea turned into a pretty involved build - with a lot of machining. The designs came out great, and the results were surprisingly fun. Hope you enjoy the video!...
Kinetic helicopter: livestream wreckage analysis
Hey everyone! This Friday 3/7 @ 4pm EST, I’m hosting a patron only livestreamlooking back at the kinetic helicopter project. I’ll be sitting down with some tools and going into much more detail as I take apart its wreckage. I’ll also be answering your questions in the chat. I expect it will be...
New video: kinetically powered helicopter
I had a simple idea for a simple project: try to spin one of those little propeller-on-a-stick toys really fast to see how high they can go. Of course one thing led to another and the next thing I knew I was building an extremely not simple helicopter, complete with collective pitch and an onboard c...
Camera project directors commentary livestream
Join me for a patron only livestream this coming Monday (Dec 30)! I'll be going through my latest project video (approximately) frame by frame and discussing all the details that didn't make the final cut. I'll also try to answer any questions you have live as well. It's always catha...
Raw image data from single pixel camera
If you're interested in messing around with the raw image data from my camera, here it is! Trying to render it into an image is a fun exercise with a lot of potential ways to doing the projections. The data is packaged extremely inefficiently (but extremely portably) as JSON with the following f...
New video: Camera with a software controlled lens
I just wrapped up a project where I build a very strange type of camera. It can only take a photo with one pixel at a time but it can build up complex images by combining a ton of 1 pixel “pictures” that it takes over time. If you’re familiar with software rendering, one way to think about thi...
A very technical teardown of a 3D priter
Earlier this year I visited FormlabsHQ. I used to work there and spent countless hours developing SLA 3D printers. During my visit they offered to let me tear down their latest printer the Form 4.I was really keen on this because I wasn't involved in developing it, so I was really curious what w...
Directors commentary livestream this week!
Hey Everyone,Join me this Thursday at 3pm ET for a directors commentary livestream on my lil' bikes project. I'll be going through my project video and sharing details and anecdotes that didn't make the final cut. For example the fact that I actually had to redesign the frame of the smal...
New video: The pursuit of the smallest bike
As an avid cyclist I've always loved bikes. As an R&D guy I like the idea of making stuff that doesn't have a clear solution. I decided to put those two passions into a blender and the result was my latest project: seeing just how far I can miniaturize a bike while keeping it ridable. It tur...
New video: Disc Launcher V2
After havingthe idea for this project living rent free in my mind for almost two years, I decided it was time to finally build it. I've documented the overall process with all of its ups and downs in my latest video.My first generation disc launcherwas cool, but it left me unsatisfied in many wa...
Dunk boots commentary livestream next week!
As with most of my projects, my pneumatic dunk boots had a TON of details that got left on the cutting room floor. Although they didn't make the final cut, I still think they're interesting so tune in Monday Feb 12th at 3PM Eastern as I watch through the video live and pausing constantly to ...
Dunk Boots!
I just wrapped up my latest project: tall self extending stilts with the goal of dunking as high as possible / becoming inspector gadget. If you're interested in seeing the video you can check it out here!Fig 1: My project mission statementAs usual this project morphed from something I thought w...
Directors commentary Tuesday 10/17!
A lot happened in the process of building all those pencil sharpeners. After fitting 2.4TB worth of footage and 10 sharpeners into the video (4 didn't make the cut), there was a lot of details and interesting stuff left out. It's time to remedy that, at least in part.Join me next week Tuesda...
New video: 6 unusual pencil sharpeners
I've been keeping a list of weird pencil sharpening ideas for several years so I finally decided to build the coolest ones! This was a lot of fun and a neat way to make a variety of mechanisms grounded in a problem that everyone understands.Your support enables me to make things like this, so th...
Exciting news!
I thought you might enjoy this little sneak preview from my upcoming project. The rest of the video is being edited and should be done pretty soon!- Shane
Thousands of postcards: trials and tribulations
My postcard robot project is an excellent example of the difference between a prototype and a real product. After getting the robot writer working and making the video, I set out to have it produce thousands of cards. It was exciting to finally see my robot in action, that is until it ran into someo...
AMA This Week!
Join me this Thursday 8/17 at 4pm Eastern time for an AMA! If you haven't been to one before, I'll be going through and discussing whatever topics or questions that you have.You can drop questions in the #ama channel on discord, the comments this post, or in the live chat. The earlier you ca...
Last call for addresses!
If you'd like a pseudo-handwritten postcard from the super duper handwriting robot and you haven't yet put your address into patreon, this is your last chance! The robot is currently working through everyone's cards and when it is done, I'm going to be taking the robot arm off to be ...
The handwriting robot
Finally! I've made it through the fire and the flames of a most painful edit & export process and the video is live!There's a lot that I could say about this project, but I'll save it for the upcoming directors commentary livestream. I'll be scheduling that soon to watch through the ...
The export from hell
The past 24 hours have been a letdown. I finished editing the video for my latest project and I was pumped because I wasn't up against a deadline. In fact I was still working out some details with the sponsor which put me in a very rarified situation: having time to spare. My plan was to post a ...
Livestream AMA!
Hey Everyone,I'll be hosting a livestream AMA next Wednesday 3/22 at 3PM Eastern time. If there is anything you're interested in having me discuss feel free to ask it in the #ama channel on discord or in the comments on this post.This is patron only and one of the ways for me to say THANKS f...
New Studio!
After moving out of my rented warehouse in September, I haven't really had a workspace. I crammed way too many tools into my garage and then jammed the rest of my tools and small parts into shipping containers. I thought it might be OK, but it has been a very inefficient setup for getting projec...
Puzzlebot Part 2 Directors Commentary
Hey Everyone,It's time for the long overdue directors commentary for the second installment of the puzzlebot. As usual I'll be watching through the video and pausing constantly to share details that didn't make the cut and answer all your questions.Hope to see you there! It will be this ...
Interview with the CEO of Formlabs
A couple of months ago I sat down in my densely packed garage with my old boss Max Lobovsky. We talked about my time working at Formlabs, doing YouTube, a bit about cycling, and the general state of tools. It was a fun conversation that I think you might enjoy. I've linked it above if you want t...
Puzzle robot part 2 is done!
It is done! We'll technically last week it was done. And also there is a lot of features that I didn't get to... but I made a video!If you haven't already seen it, here's a link to Puzzle Bot Part 2.I was worried that breaking a project like this into two parts might not work, but I ...
