A year of failed experiments
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Published 2022-12-09
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==== Misc ====
CAD model for the XY Flexure stage: www.thingiverse.com/thing:5698841
==== Timeline ====
0:00 Intro
1:05 VAST Project
1:56 Nanodiamonds
2:49 Electrochemical Machining
3:24 Pulse Electroplating
3:52 Ceramic SLA
4:47 Laser sintering Silicon Carbide
5:23 Microthruster
6:40 Focus Stacking 3D Profilometry
7:36 Overly complicated Flexures Stage
8:00 Growing KDP Crystals
8:53 Growing WS2 Monolayers
10:00 Paper VdW Transistors
10:35 Creepy Stop Motion
11:03 Nanoparticle Glass
11:33 3D Printed Projection Lithography
12:02 Super-hydrophobic Coating
13:06 Metal FDM Printing
14:15 Polymer Concrete
14:57 Ultrafast Sin
All Comments (21)
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Builds hydrophobic nano coating, accidentally creates the world's smallest sponge.
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Showing failures reminds everyone that technological advansement is only met with a mountain of failures. Thanks for showing your learning experences !
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Thanks for being brave enough to share some of your failures with us. Hope to see some of these get finished whenever they come to fruition. (:
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It was great to get a peak at the projects left unfinished. Every creative person has at least few (more probably, many) half-done projects on a shelf somewhere. Mine give me little pangs of grief when I think about having left them incomplete, so it was nice to know even someone as prolific and motivated as you has left a few that way in favor of more interesting ones.
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Honestly some of this is almost more informative than other videos. I feel like people often don't share their failures, but really often failures are successful experiments. I wonder if you actually need a vacuum, or if you could just flood it with an inert gas, or even just CO2.
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I know I'm not the only one who doesn't finish many of their projects, but it's really heartening to hear about your abandoned projects. It's like how influencers only present the glamorous side of their life, leading to unrealistic expectations in their followers. Thanks for sharing!
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You, "Stuff Made Here", as well as Colin Furze are basically unreachable in terms of dedication and labor poured into your projects!
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The amount of knowledge and experience you gained just from attempting these projects is amazing. Keep up the amazing stuff!
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Frankly, every single abandoned experiment here is impressive on their own already. Much respect for giving us a peek!
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These are some brilliant ideas. I found it curious how excited I got each time you introduced one - but can absolutely see why they became hard to complete.
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Knowing some of the amazing projects you have achieved, it is really comforting to know that far from all of your projects succeed. This makes me want to take on some of my own semi failed projects. Thank you 😃
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I'd personally love to see more of the ceramic and metal printing projects! I've seen a few other channels try their hand at it to mixed results, but I think with your attention to detail you could really nail down a good procedure, which would be awesome for the DIY community!
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Most people pretend to be smarter than they are. This guy pretends to be normal, and is one of the smartest you tubers I have ever found.
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Its nice to see things others have tried and failed at. It makes me feel less bad about the projects I am still working to get right. Certainly tricky to get some papers replicated even if they seem straight forward
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"Every failure is a step to success" - William Whewell Thanks for sharing.
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Sharing your failures is as important as sharing your successes. This is very interesting material and kudos for sharing it with us.
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So awesome of you to share this. Certainly makes me feel better about some of my own projects.
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I love it how you tried to create a super-hydrophobic surface, followed the protocol exactly and ended up with a super-hydrophyllic one :D
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There is great value in "this didn't work" so other people don't follow that path. These are all still really interesting projects. Your flexture creations never fail to be inspirational, even if they don't work the way you wanted. The NLO crystals are really cool. It'd sure be neat to do a DIY freq doubled laser.
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Boxes of projects, image stacking was very new in 2010, helicon focus, i had a free version as a tester and gave them some fly stacks I had made on a 2D rotary stage tried to hack a Cannon lens. no info and failed. metal epoxy for lathe bed repair, W2S moglice recipie. filled a cheap pillar drill stem with concrete and rebar. 3000C, excited. Thanks for sharing all those paths of facinating ideas. we cant go down them all. I feel I share several.
