One of my favorite YouTube channels once again released a fantastic video, on making an instant "thing" peeler using high pressure steam. He doesn't go into quite as much engineering detail as he...
One of my favorite YouTube channels once again released a fantastic video, on making an instant "thing" peeler using high pressure steam. He doesn't go into quite as much engineering detail as he has in some of his other videos, but I still enjoyed the whole thing regardless.
If you just want to see the potato get peeled, it happens just after 17:30 in the video timestamped link
As he mentions in his pinned comment
please do not build or operate a boiler based on anything shown here.
This was an experiment involving a novel and therefore unproven mechanical design. That’s a big deal. The safety practices surrounding boilers and pressure vessels exist because these systems have caused many fatal accidents. I was terrified of it, and you should be too.
Pressurized steam contains an enormous amount of stored energy and can be dangerous in ways that aren’t intuitive. When hot pressurized water is suddenly released, some of it can flash into steam and expand on the order of a thousandfold. A vessel or piping failure can therefore release that energy almost instantly, causing severe scalding hazards.
Stuff Made Here's videos are always an instant watch for me. His sense of humor just clicks with me and it's really charming that each video kinda (jokingly) boils down to a guy trying to impress...
Stuff Made Here's videos are always an instant watch for me. His sense of humor just clicks with me and it's really charming that each video kinda (jokingly) boils down to a guy trying to impress his wife.
My only complaint is that it feels like a lot of his videos have been a part 1 with a part 2 coming... At some point.
I'm also really curious what his full time job is. I can't imagine that with the rate at which he puts out videos he's able to support his family and also afford all that machinery.
At a complete guess, this is it. The guy was a lead engineer at Formlabs for a while. If he played his cards right, with a dual income and decent luck in the American housing market, he could be...
I'm also really curious what his full time job is.
At a complete guess, this is it. The guy was a lead engineer at Formlabs for a while. If he played his cards right, with a dual income and decent luck in the American housing market, he could be effectively retired. Additionally, some of the expensive machinery (e.g. the Tormach(s)) was given to him by the manufacturers in order to advertise them, which likely saved him a few dozen thousand dollars.
Specifically, one of the first 15 employees at what became a 1000 person, billion dollar company. That’s a very good way to end up with a couple of million when your stock options vest (the hard...
The guy was a lead engineer at Formlabs for a while
Specifically, one of the first 15 employees at what became a 1000 person, billion dollar company. That’s a very good way to end up with a couple of million when your stock options vest (the hard part obviously being picking the one that becomes a billion dollar company at all…).
A 5m subscriber YouTube channel is no small income stream either, but given the pace of video releases and the general vibe, I always got the impression that it’s essentially his retirement project too!
Ah yeah I've been watching his stuff since his second video or so (he was riffing off of another channel I enjoyed -- ThisOldTony -- and I liked the cut of his jib). He's had a heck of a career +...
Ah yeah I've been watching his stuff since his second video or so (he was riffing off of another channel I enjoyed -- ThisOldTony -- and I liked the cut of his jib). He's had a heck of a career + life!
I think the first of his videos I watched were the custom lock ones. I saw the Lock Picking Lawyer's video first and knew I had to see the making of the lock.
I think the first of his videos I watched were the custom lock ones. I saw the Lock Picking Lawyer's video first and knew I had to see the making of the lock.
I find it amusing that "instantly" peeling a potato requires a video almost 30 minutes. Granted, I get all the influencer appeal stuff, but I'm also an engineer and most of it is fluff explaining...
I find it amusing that "instantly" peeling a potato requires a video almost 30 minutes.
Granted, I get all the influencer appeal stuff, but I'm also an engineer and most of it is fluff explaining why it works. I still found it amusing.
One of my favorite YouTube channels once again released a fantastic video, on making an instant "thing" peeler using high pressure steam. He doesn't go into quite as much engineering detail as he has in some of his other videos, but I still enjoyed the whole thing regardless.
If you just want to see the potato get peeled, it happens just after 17:30 in the video timestamped link
As he mentions in his pinned comment
Based on his pinned comment I'm wondering if that was because he really didn't want to give people just enough information to be really dangerous.
Stuff Made Here's videos are always an instant watch for me. His sense of humor just clicks with me and it's really charming that each video kinda (jokingly) boils down to a guy trying to impress his wife.
My only complaint is that it feels like a lot of his videos have been a part 1 with a part 2 coming... At some point.
I'm also really curious what his full time job is. I can't imagine that with the rate at which he puts out videos he's able to support his family and also afford all that machinery.
At a complete guess, this is it. The guy was a lead engineer at Formlabs for a while. If he played his cards right, with a dual income and decent luck in the American housing market, he could be effectively retired. Additionally, some of the expensive machinery (e.g. the Tormach(s)) was given to him by the manufacturers in order to advertise them, which likely saved him a few dozen thousand dollars.
Specifically, one of the first 15 employees at what became a 1000 person, billion dollar company. That’s a very good way to end up with a couple of million when your stock options vest (the hard part obviously being picking the one that becomes a billion dollar company at all…).
A 5m subscriber YouTube channel is no small income stream either, but given the pace of video releases and the general vibe, I always got the impression that it’s essentially his retirement project too!
Good point. I didn't know the full details of his history and hadn't considered that he could just be loaded already.
Ah yeah I've been watching his stuff since his second video or so (he was riffing off of another channel I enjoyed -- ThisOldTony -- and I liked the cut of his jib). He's had a heck of a career + life!
I think the first of his videos I watched were the custom lock ones. I saw the Lock Picking Lawyer's video first and knew I had to see the making of the lock.
That was a good one! And to your earlier point, I think he promised a part two that never arrived 😅
@Bauke thank you for fixing my incredible title blunder
Could fix the link too since it includes the tracking code.
I find it amusing that "instantly" peeling a potato requires a video almost 30 minutes.
Granted, I get all the influencer appeal stuff, but I'm also an engineer and most of it is fluff explaining why it works. I still found it amusing.