• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    84
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    You see, there is this unwritten agreement between the creator and the viewer that they like stuff explained to them, but they don’t actually replicate anything shown in the video. At best, they half-arsedly order some materials and then never get to it.

    • clif
      link
      fedilink
      431 year ago

      I feel personally attacked by this comment.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
      link
      fedilink
      English
      91 year ago

      Some of us watch those videos to actually do stuff. I built a FPV racing drone from parts off BangGood with zero experience thanks to those YouTube DIY videos.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        71 year ago

        man you’re following the wrong channels then, there’s a good chance any food videos i watch will at least give me ideas for how to improve my own cooking

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    141 year ago

    I really appreciate it when they give the quicker option for using equipment, or a slower option if you don’t have like a hacksaw or drill press. I think DiyPerks does that?

    • IninewCrow
      link
      fedilink
      English
      15
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Or I just watch the YouTube channel ‘Primitive Technology’ … of some young guy that goes into a jungle with nothing and starts building things with his bare hands.

      I know it’s a set up situation and made for entertainment but I’m indigenous Canadian and my dad was a hunter trapper who was born in the wilderness in northern Ontario. In his prime in his 20s, I have lots of relatives who told me that dad would leave the community with a little pack, a knife and an axe in the autumn and come back after Christmas with a supply of furs to sell. Then head off and come back two or three times in the winter to deliver more furs. Then come back in the spring to live in town before going out again in the fall.

  • Ricky Rigatoni
    link
    fedilink
    1761 year ago

    There was a stretch of time I was looking at videos of budget gaming PC builds and they’d be like “How to build a gaming PC for $150” and a lot of them went like “Buy a used Optiplex for $120, max out its RAM for $30, then use this GTX 2080 I got from nvidia for free because I have two billion subscribers.”

    • Overzeetop
      link
      fedilink
      631 year ago

      Me: Should I buy a prebuilt 3D printer?

      Reddit 3D printing sub: Oh, heck no. I put mine together for $18.22 plus some spare parts from seven printers I got of craigslist for $1 from some widow. Only took me three weekends to do it, plus a couple hundred hours to update the firmware to match the parts and troubleshoot it.

      Me: Uh, so does it print better than the one I could just buy?

      Reddit: Well, I’m still tuning it for all my filaments. I’ve been through about 40kg, and I’ve got a trashcan full of benchys though. The last few have been pretty good.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        21 year ago

        There is something to tinkering your own machine to the best of its ability on a budget.

        But if you just want to 3d print, nowadays there is no need to build your own. Premade are pretty great.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        461 year ago

        Building a 3d printer is really its own hobby. You don’t build a 3d printer because you want to print stuff, you build one because you want something to tinker with

        • Overzeetop
          link
          fedilink
          2
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          Yeah, I made nearly that mistake. Twice, actually. First with a monoprice, then a creality. I probably have more money in upgrades on my CR10s than I have in the purchase, and I still haven’t upgraded the board. I keep thinking I’ll fix it but I’ve resolved to strip a couple of parts and throw it away. My Prusa XL preorder came last month. I made one update to it (for better TPU performance), and printed one QoL add-on (nozzle wipers). That’s it. I’m done. It prints like a dream, multi-material supports are indistinguishable from magic, and even swapping nozzles is fairly quick and easy. Now I’m (almost) exclusively printing things for my other hobbies rather than worrying that something on my CR10s will fail or need re-tuning.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        151 year ago

        Yeah those communities are wild. Before I bought my own printer I thought 3D printing is mostly fixing your printer and buying better parts and bed leveling and tuning etc.

        Wasn’t looking forward to it so I bought an off-the-shelf printer with minimal assembly from a “boring” Chinese brand - couldn’t be happier with it, it just prints without any hassle and I have no urge to switch firmwares or tinker with the printer itself instead of with the printed stuff. To each their own I guess.

        (Still plugged in a raspberry pi for octoprint and did some initial calibration for the filament of course …)

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
    link
    fedilink
    English
    561 year ago

    That machine costs well over $381k. We had a much smaller 3 axis lathe installed in the machine shop I worked in during my early 20’s and it was $3M. That was 25 years ago, so it probably costs infinity dollars now, given recent inflation. Hell, you probably can’t even buy them now, just lease them on a subscription for eleventy bajillion dollars per year.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      91 year ago

      Or, maybe you can still buy it. It still runs! Maybe it only costs $100,000 now!

      …but there’s very specific high-impact parts that are no longer made and the since-abandoned software only works on Win95 with a proper license and some kind of bizarrely proprietary serial port connection…

  • Sippy Cup
    link
    fedilink
    491 year ago

    Point of order, that particular machine costs at least ten times the amount quoted.

  • Overzeetop
    link
    fedilink
    311 year ago

    Don’t care. I will watch every second of every build project Adam Savage does in his shop.

    • Captain Aggravated
      link
      fedilink
      English
      241 year ago

      The wacky thing about Adam Savage’s shop is that he doesn’t have a multimillion dollar CNC machine, but he has every single ordinary tool made by man. The dude has a run of the mill engine lathe and 4,000 pounds of jigs and tooling for it, plus more hardware than the average Fastenal.

      • jawa21
        link
        fedilink
        14
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        The real value in his shop is all the various materials he has squirreled away after decades.

    • Annoyed_🦀
      link
      fedilink
      111 year ago

      Adam savage is a godsend, his build tend to use the tool that’s either inexpensive or it can be replicated with another tools. His philosophy is always “hiding the crime” so the imperfections is always either out of view or is part of the charm. Perfect role model for a maker just starting out.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      101 year ago

      His machines aren’t that insane. He has a machine lathe and a mill, but neither is CNC.

      Watch Stuff Made Here. He has CNC mills and routers, powder 3D printers, a freaking 5 axis water jet, and more.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        41 year ago

        Adam just got a 3D printer, it took him until late last year to get one.

        Granted his passion is the process to make things and a 3D printer just skips all of that to make something inferior in 1:100th the time and effort, but you would think a gadget lover like him would have had one for years. I can’t wait to see what he does with it.

        • Overzeetop
          link
          fedilink
          11 year ago

          As a modeler, 3D printers are a bit like AI art to an artist. It’s fast, it can do some things that are nearly impossible to replicate, but it feels like a hack or a crutch at times. Part of the thrill of old-school modeling (for which I’m neither old enough nor patient enough) is taking very basic, simple shapes and making something realistic out of seemingly nothing. Adam is absolutely from that school. And - like AI art - to go from almost good to presentation quality is nearly as much work - or more - that just building from scratch. As a long time model rocket enthusiast, my printer is an amazing utility. But for some of the really intricate models, I have a lot less pride in the final product because I know I just pressed a button and it popped out.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    121 year ago

    “Now I used this 40 thousand dollar rig to save time, but I have no reason to believe you couldn’t do this on a table saw”

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      41 year ago

      I love when: “This is tedious and should take a few hours, so I spent 40 hours designing and fabricating this huge hyper specific jig that I made from the 80 square feet of ‘scrap’ MDF i had just lying around the shop, and will require at least 16 cubic feet of space to store!”

  • jan teli
    link
    fedilink
    81 year ago

    Meanwhile, Mark Rober accidentally making a guided missile: