I’m glad it was useful. There days with more and more people having access to 3D printing it makes it easier to share designs.

Thank you!

I’m glad you liked it!

Thanks!

Yes, it’s basically classic stop-motion. Weaving the strands in incrementally and taking a photo for every frame.

That’s very kind. I have the Father’s Day note he wrote me right here on my bedside table. Parenting is by far the hardest project I will ever undertake. Thank you for writing this nice note. 🥰

Thanks! Those are my twin goals, so that's great! I do love my shop. I always feel better when I step out there. 🥰

Thanks! I’m glad you liked it. I spent a whole day just doing the shot where the camera follows the bandsaw blade! I had to make a coupler so I could drive the bandsaw with my drill! So crazy. 😅

Oh thanks! It’s nice because it’s not huge and what it looses in full automation it makes up in total design freedom. (Any number/kind of warp threads/colors etc). Its main downfall is that it’s slow. I’m glad you liked it.

Yes! It was fun talking to you about your loom. I love going around and chatting with folks about their projects and yours is clearly close to my heart. ;]

Thanks. I’m glad you liked the editing. I put a lot of work into it. I’m not actually a senior though (yet). 😅

Hi! Nope, I haven't built such a machine. Good luck! Sounds fun.

I’m glad you liked it!

Wow, 1/2" door that's serous. :] Thankfully I can run the CNC out in the garage because it makes quite a bit of noise for a LONG time. ;] That and the air compressor cycling really makes for a "I'm not going to stay here and watch this the whole time" kind of experience. Although all that Fusion adaptive cut path stuff is always fun to watch. I am pretty happy with the way the enclosure turned out. The only down side is that if I open up the compartment that has the electronics in it, it also removes the legs on that side, so I have a piece of wood I prop up that side with if I have it open. Which isn't that big a deal. Also I made the sides out of mdf, but I really should have used plywood. I just happened to have the mdf. Not that it's been a huge issue, but if I ever break off a leg I'll be sad.

​@retrotechjournal Whoops! That's a typo 😅 I meant to say 1/4". Well, it looks great! I'll be keeping an eye out for your content. Nice work here.

@@user-mq4ui6qw5i lol. I was thinking "Oh, they must have had some extra 1/2" scrap from something." ;] Thanks! I'm glad you like it. I don't put out a ton of content, but try to have it all be fun/generally interesting even if it's not all on the same topic. I love building all manner of things. Good luck with the injection molding!

Wow, sounds like a neat project. I haven’t had to deal with that much weight. I’m sure you’ve noticed that as the weight goes up the size/cost of the rigs go up. Not sure what a hacky cheap solution might look like. Depending on the shapes/range of motion you need you might be able to suspend some of the weight with a line/pulley/counterweight but that won’t work if the object is doing ninja flips. :). I’d love to hear what you come up with!

Great! It's fun to hear from others having adventures with injection molding. I haven't tried resin molds.

​@@retrotechjournal If your aluminum molds are working for you, and you don't have another need for a resin printer, I would not recommend switching. The resin mold is great for prototyping a couple dozen parts. The lettering & fine details come through. But if I inject at more than 195℃, some delicate parts of the mold break. I'm using Siraya Tech Sculpt Clear, which is their cheaper 180℃ resin (not the expensive 250℃ white). It's detailed, smelly, and good enough for dozens of parts. Your aluminum mold should handle thousands of parts, so I'll probably switch after my design is finalized. Thanks for the video!

⁠@@nathanbanks2354 I can definitely see the value is being able to prototype more quickly. I’ve gotten decent results with my cnc but tiny details can be difficult. Interesting to hear about your experiences. I’ve learned a lot doing the AL molds but it is a complicated enough process that I can’t just make a mold on a whim.

Thanks! This weekend I was off in the garage recording the sound of my feet slipping on concrete. 😆 sound design always makes things better! I’m glad you noticed!

🥰 If I can bring someone some Tranquility in all of this, then I have exceeded my goals. That is lovely to hear. The only way I can trick myself into putting in the time to make a video is to have each of the shots be something that I think is kind of fun, and interesting. It's not unusual to spend a whole weekend just putting together some 15 second sequence. There really is no way to do it fast. It's kind of a trick getting it done at all. I have been producing a lot of sequences recently, but still a long way to go. Thank you for the lovely reminder that it's fine that I'm just pottering along at my own speed.

Great! Inspiration is the best possible outcome for a video. Good luck with your injection molding adventures!

Oh thanks! When I first started, I was a bit worried that the effort would be invisible because everyone has been soaking in a zillion hours of high production video, but that is one of the great things about YT. Lots of viewers have also made videos so they can appreciate the insane amount of time I put into these things. I just spent all weekend producing 24 seconds of my current video project. Thank you for the kind comment, and good luck with your injection molding!

Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it!

Yes, it’s all just me. All the filming/editing/sound/stop motion/etc is actually a bigger project than the projects the videos are about! (Well except for the loom). I’m glad you liked it! Thank you for the nice comment!

I’m glad you liked it! Thanks for the lovely comment!

I'm glad you found it and enjoyed it!

I think that's how we all start. 😉

I'm sorry, I didn't document doing that. I was lucky I shot those few shots of one part of the enclosure glue up. The truth is projects that I document take 50x as long to do, so often when I want to get something done and move on, I do it off camera. I seem to remember I shared the cad for the enclosure here in the comments some place, but I think there are a few flaws in it like the fan (once it came) was a little bit different size, and I had to drill different mounting holes, etc. So not super cleaned up for sharing. Also, my particular mod sacrificed a bit of Z travel for better rigidity, which was fine for me since I was mostly doing short AL billet stuff, but that part of the mod might be annoying for general 3018 users.

@@retrotechjournal I understand. I've been looking at building one also.

Someone else told me about that. That concrete can embed in the parts/dull tooling. So that's good to know. I wasn't aware of that before. I don't in general do that, short hot parts fall in my chip catcher, and longer parts I'm there to snag, but it certainly is good to know about.

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!

It does seem like, with enough interest, there should be import versions of this sort of thing that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg.

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I'm always aiming for a mix of entertaining and instructional.

Thank you for the nice comment! I enjoy all sorts of different disciplines, and so my videos are a mix of all sorts of different things. I'm glad it came out as entertaining. I just end up trying to tell the story in any way that I think is fun. There's no telling where that will go though. lol.

And you succeed. It was a good story and lots of fun. Really enjoyed it. Thanks@@retrotechjournal

Oh thanks! Well of course, commercial machines do the lifting of the threads at crazy speeds, and with a very different mechanism. Still this loom does show the basic concepts of raising and lowering some pattern of threads and then passing a shuttle though. This particular mechanism with the cams is kind of nuts/not very fast. It was simply the result of me tying to solve the thread lifting problem with only 2 motors. Still I hope you did learn some useful bits of info and it sounds like you enjoyed it, so I'm going to declare that a win. :]

You're welcome! Thank you for the nice note!

Thankfully with the adjustable exhaust ports you can adjust injection speed separately from max injection pressure. (I didn’t really talk about that in great detail). I’ve been building that shop up my whole life, and I always feel better when I step out there!

@@retrotechjournal this is what I dream of. I have nice quantity of hand tools, few power tools at my small flat, plus micro belt grinding machine and 3d printer.

@@andreyansimov5442 I have a friend who is a jeweler, and I would show her all my giant projects, and then she would show me her projects. They all were deeply amazing sculptures in wax, and fit inside a film canister! Her shop was a desk in their apartment. I was always a little bit envious because she could fit her entire craft in such a tiny space. These days with a 3D printer and a small number of support tools you can do a great deal in terms of projects. Many of my side projects are 1 day 3D printer builds. Enjoy building no matter what the space/tools are. I did some great project in college with only some hand tools + a moto-tool. Enjoy!

Yes, I have a watch on eBay for one of those pneumatic/hydraulic intensifiers. :] Those would be just the ticket for consistent automatic clamping.

Thanks!

I am working on another video. They take a long time to make! I don’t think I’ll ever reach 100k subs. I think in part because I don’t post a lot of videos my stats just very slowly creep up. Maybe I’ll make it to 100k by 2034. 😅. I’m glad you like the channel!

Interesting. Yes, I've though there aught to be some ways of taking a "many actuator bank" and mechanically muxing it to control many more lines. (At the cost of overall speed) I think if I were to revisit the loom I think the main goal would be more speed without getting too expensive/complicated. I've had a few ideas along those lines, but so far nothing compelling enough to do another build. Checking out knitting machine mechanisms sounds like a great place to look for inspiration.

@@retrotechjournal it's definitely worth looking up an in depth description on the mechanism, but the abridged version is that they use a matrix of gates that open/close to allow the needle to move forwards or backwards. If they are blocked, the needles are pushed down by the carriage so they are bypassed. You could use the gates to enable the reeds from lifting, then use a spring to lift them. That way if they are blocked, the spring can deform instead of breaking. It is an idea I toyed with then decided it is probably a project way above my skill level because the matrix aspect confuses me.