Adam Savage's Live Builds: LEGO Women of NASA!

[@tested]

You can get the Women of NASA LEGO set here: amzn.to/3aKFjQY

[@Fredrikgaard]

The set with Margaret Hamilton is a famous one, you can find it on Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Margaret_Hamilton_-_restoration.jpg It´s a pile of AGC code printings she´s holding. Mvh Fredrik

[@Lethgar_Smith]

Can I suggest Keith Apllpleton's Main Steam Models KZbin channel? I don't know a thing about miniature steam engines or operating a lathe but I find his videos endlessly fascinating and the sound of his voice is very calming as he explains what he is doing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJW5Y4aqhdJqotU

[@carstenkruse8527]

you should think about an overhead cam when you do this things :)

[@spacedout4061]

Adam, they also have a space station, the apollo 13 ship, and the moon lander

[@cjtheevilghost5711]

I got this Lego set for Christmas in 2018. It took me about half an hour to put all three together.

[@LEGO]

We loved watching this, "obvi"!

[@tested]

Thank you for making this great set!

[@BROON71]

LEGO is here?? Rad!

[@spacedout4061]

Awesome

[@henrycampopiano5425]

nice

[@Dak47922]

I'd love to see adam in a LEGO factory or museum(?)

[@marcusdire8057]

I love that however old Adam is, his mom is in his "play room" helping him sort his Legos. 😄 Gives me a warm fuzzy inside. What a wonderful way to spend quarantine.

[@ulrichkalber9039]

you are as old as you feel some days that is good News some days that is bad News.

[@kallisto9166]

For real! Sincere thanks to Adam and all the other KZbinrs keeping us sane through lockdown.

[@nbolin7803]

“Wait right here”... *Adam runs out of frame*...I’m a grown man watching another grown man build LEGOS, where exactly would I be going?? Thanks for another awesome visit Adam!

[@autumnbeds]

Very underrated comment right here!

[@MoZz..]

working at LEGO watching adam loving it, makes me happy for my job.

[@Jayneflakes]

Thank you Adam and the tested team for being so full of joy during this difficult time, these builds are a pure joy to watch. I have that set on display in my office and I love it, it is so inspirational.

[@headzsets4337]

I still laugh every time you make a "So I Married an Axe Murderer" reference. Possibly the funniest Mike Myers movie ever.

[@petracoresage8288]

" You!! Big hed !! DOWN!" yeah it is . Mike Myers channeling his father. A perfect thing.

[@headzsets4337]

@@petracoresage8288 Ooh, that was off-sides, wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow!

[@Scodog1]

Need to have your mom write down her recipes for a cookbook called "Savage Cooking" :)

[@bv905]

I would totally purchase that!

[@lytaylor1204]

Watching Adam building stuff is currently my favorite pastime. It's somehow so relaxing and soothing. Sometimes I just turn it on as background noise while I'm working on other stuff.

Me and my wife watch together and, last night our housemate came out like at the end and said so how long is that and I looked. One and a half hours and felt like 20 minutes.

[@richardsmith5483]

I really hope Adam does a Mark Watney-themed video from lockdown!

[@lytaylor1204]

Maybe Adam can try to grow potatoes in his shop 😁

[@richardsmith5483]

He could design and build a desktop greenhouse that is Hab inspired :)

[@lytaylor1204]

@@richardsmith5483 OMG best idea! Pitch it to Adam!

[@richardsmith5483]

@@lytaylor1204 (Comes into frame wearing his Watney suit) "Alright, Tested fans, its Sol 112. For today's one day build, I'm going to build a desktop greenhouse inspired by the Hab. Let's do the math..."

[@MrSeriousness17]

Did he ever finish the Martian suit?

[@20tauri]

What an immense pleasure to watch you build my set, Adam! Thank you and stay safe :-)

[@ndeep45]

Just a note to let you know that its surprisingly calming to watch you build and the thought process you go through is fun, thank you!

[@PedanticProfessor]

I started knolling my sets after watching one of your videos years ago. It really adds another layer of enjoyment to building. Thanks for sharing, Adam!

[@Jackrabbit9961]

Thank you for these videos. I have started watching since the stay at home order has come thru and I am now work from home. I am not a craftsman but been binging on all of the tested videos as I am finding them very calming during these times.

[@ChristianoDebarry]

I love Legos!!!! I'm 37 now and recently I gave my pieces to my 4 year old daughter. She's in love with it. Those pieces are almost 30 year old. They look exactly the same as the ones I got her this year. It's awesome. While watching her playing with all that pieces I decided to get a Technic for my self. I got the Bugatti. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! 3600 pieces. Great model. Thanks Lego! You guys rock.

[@lathwellcg6741]

Lego is such a huge part of my life as I am sure it is for many. Making big sets with my dad, lusting over other sets in stores. Building challenges with friends that could be castles, dragsters temples, towns etc. IT club in primary school using a BBC Micro to control inputs into a Technic car. Lego is so important.

[@randy-9842]

Adam, your enthusiasm is almost uncontrolled and extremely infectious! Thanks for that! Note the grin on my face. :D

[@Bad_Wolf_Media]

As a child of the shuttle era, I have to correct a comment that Adam made about Sally Ride (which, since I'm not done with the video, he may do before the end!). Adam said that Sally Ride had a mission on the shuttle in 1978. Ms. Ride (apologies, I don't recall if she was a doctor or not) joined NASA in 1978, but her first mission on the shuttle was STS-7 onboard the Challenger in 1983.

[@svlolalouise9763]

It’s midnight and I’m watching a grown man play with LEGO 😂

[@ThisOldPanda]

16:33 here in the uk.

[@yoisho1347]

@@drev1 come on man be nice were all just here watching a passionate grown man build lego

[@kourtneythornton5149]

We all have a passion for legos and show our passion in our own way. Plus its cool to see everyones passions for it. So let everyone show it in thier way. Were all human and have a connection by legos. Which is badass. ☺️

[@ThisOldPanda]

@@drev1 ooooo youre hard.

Im here in Iceland at 3 in the night doing the same and it's just perfection. So I'm not a Christian person but when I look at this I think there's a point in that the meek will inherit the Earth because I think this is what that meek person is. Somebody that has the joy of a child in such a moment and can by just existing make the world a better place and make somebody else's life better, his attention to functionality and beautifulness of the little objects just makes the world right for a little while.

[@ΚώσταςΜπέκος-ι4ι]

Man, the videos you've put out during lockdown from the cave are pure gold. Please keep it up and stay safe!

[@jakeeumague9353]

Watching your builds is so relaxing. Miss you guys on Mythbusters :(

[@jupekai4601]

I can't start any project without first laying out the pieces exactly like that. Done it since I was little (I'm autistic), in organising the parts and pieces like that, it also puts my mind in order too so I can think straight.

[@mbushroe]

Adam, your shop makes envious! I moved a year ago and still don't the building up or all the shop equipment, supplies, works in progress, and just junk all still packed in a 20' shipping container. For the cast iron milling you might try an air curtain. Put a small source of air blowing towards the working surface and then the larger shop vac sucking all the air plus metal particles away. I am betting that the sho vac through a lot of fine dust into the air. You might try taking a microfilter for a furnace cut out a block long enough to go around the shop vac's filter bag and tall enough to go almost to the bottom on the inside of the shop vac. Sew the ends together to make a tube, then sew a nylon strap on one edge flattening all the corrugations down in the same direction, then cut a circle of some airtight fabric and do the other end. Place it where the bag would go and use a large hose clamp to secure it and prevent air from leaking around it. The furnace filters are designed for high flow rates with little pressure drop, so you should still get good suction. Mike Bushroe (also known as mishabear)

[@gavey100]

These are the best videos for two reasons we get to see you more and the builds

[@refa42]

A cyclone separator in front of the shop vac would be a good idea. A cyclone separates fine dust better than thien-baffle, and helps to keep your vac filters cleaner. Could build one in a shop like that, just remember to have grounding to get rid of static - a wire from the separator+bucket that also touches the ground is sufficient. I've made two cyclones from stainless steel for two metal shops, and it makes cleaning everything easier and you'll do it more often. Cleaning metal burrs from drill press, or grinding dust from a bench grinder and welding area, all makes a neater shop.

[@mrb3582]

Am i the only one really enjoying tested under quarantine.... all the videos are exactly what I was drawn here for ... Adam doing his thing , actually building stuff so enjoyable Keep this format up good sir! Maybe we should force him to stay in the cave and complete all the kits and all the projects for our entertainment .....his family doesn’t need him do they???

[@philgallagher1]

As kids, whenever my sister and I got a Lego set (Xmas & Birthdays), we only made the thing on the box once, then broke it apart. We had a huge lidded box full of Lego, and we'd just dump the parts in. We then used that box to make all sorts of things. Hours & hours of fun!

[@3DJapan]

I only had one Technic kit while growing up, it was a crane with a pneumatic pump to open and close the jaws. I had fun building it but then I had SO much fun playing with it afterward.

[@TheDamit84]

Listening to Adam talk about tools is one of the most magical things I've ever seen. Like a kid that tells you about his favorite doll or toy car. The pitch of his voice or the glow in his eyes are genuine... I know it is a long way till christmas and an even longer stretch possibility vise, but if you pull me for reddit secret santa, Adam please just send me a single little tool i can use for my model building and a letter to the tool. :D

[@ActualBadEdits]

I love when he just runs off screen for a short time then comes running back, I think it’s great

[@MrChief101]

Consider installing a slide up lip around the far edges of your --current -- work space. You know what I'm talking of-- an elongated hole where the screw fits, allows the wood to slide up and down.

[@QuintonMurdock]

As someone who used to have a vast array of mostly Lego Star Wars and Lego city sets I was very sad when I realize that if I wanted to move out and not have to rent a massive U-Haul or something I would have to getting rid of almost all of my Lego. But I did keep a single set which is a older and a relatively more rare set (I don’t like owning stuff that is so rare that a collector who is truly dedicated to finding this stuff would be missing out on it but I like stuff that rare enough to where I am probably not going to meet another person has it. That’s why the Nostromo Napalmer is my favorite weapon in TF2), It is a big red fighter jet that is at like 95% mini figure scale. Makes you realize how absolutely tiny all of the other vehicles Lego makes are. I also kept a Jango Fett mini figure and a couple of custom starships that I built. I have always enjoyed building really small and using the studs of lego as detail. I am pretty sure the largest starship I have could easily lay on a average wallet and couldn’t be any more than 50 pieces. My favorite one is about the size of those bright pink erasers you would use in school. I really enjoy starships with wings. Usually when building things it is only limited in its complexity in detail by the amount and variety of wing pieces I have and for some reason I usually only have the leftwings

[@Chris-lk3fq]

50:31 - THAT'S HUBBLE! You're building a mini-fig scale desktop model of the HUBBLE!!! OMG, that is SOOO cool! Darn you, Savage! Yet ANOTHER LEGO kit you're making me buy! I love it. I love your banter with the camera. I love that you let us see you at your most personal, most vulnerable, making assumptions and mistakes, wandering off topic... Watching your videos is my "get to." Oh boy! I get to watch Adam build another LEGO kit! Aw shucks, now I have to buy it. :D Love you man, keep up the good work.

[@francomiranda706]

1:57 that "GOTTA BLAST!" is why we love you, adam.

[@marshw000]

The level of chaos in this videos intro... I felt that. Adams mind is going a million miles a minute and it was great

[@jeffk5062]

Adam you gotta get a little used manual surface grinder.they are super cheap on eBay and most look rough but are usually actually perfectly fine because people took good care of them. You’ll fall in love with it and you’ll think of so many awesome things to make. It would also just be awesome to watch you run one. And then maybe you could do a collaboration with Tom Lipton from OX Tools now that would be awesome.

[@benl5909]

Lol, ok the first 3 minutes of this video and I'm... look the squirrel Hammy when he drinks a Red Bull. (from the Edge movie) Ha ha ha Wow! Confinement does not serve well over here.... Keep doing those vids, they are great !!!

[@Mr.Fabulous-1990]

Can you please put the flat, blue 2x2 lego piece on top of the "paperpile" from Margaret Hamiltons display? I can't tell you how bothered I am by the non-flat white part sitting on top.

[@BeyondtheBrick]

Hi Adam, we love your LEGO building videos. Could you join us for our weekly LEGO live stream? Please get in touch!

[@sarasegador8998]

Hi Adam, I love watching your video's. I have Asperger's and I love NASA and Lego. I have dyscalculia but I hope to make it in the engineering industry. You inspire me to do so, and remind me that it's so fun. Thank you, keep being amazing!

[@wrorchestra1]

I remember seeing Dr Mae Jameson as a special guest extra on Star Trek: The Next Generation playing a transporter operator

[@SlugCouture]

Thank you adam, You inspire me to create everyday!

[@3DJapan]

49:02 This reminded me of working at a VFX studio. Most days I had to 3D model something boring long lottery balls but a couple times I got to model fun stuff like a lacrosse stick or a transforming basketball net. I don't even like sports but the details on those things were really fun to do.

[@oishisakana]

scrape it square! I dunno why but watching people scrape things is oddly satisfying. seriously nice work

[@JC_R8MEOW]

11:20 Muad'dib reference; all I could do was shout out "She shall know your ways as if BORN to them!" while laughing hysterically. I really needed to laugh at something out of genuine amusement, and this helped. A lot. Thank you for that.

[@ulrichkalber9039]

the smooth round pieces on the Bottom of the shuttle are called "carpet gliders" they allow a model to glide over a carpet.

[@inactive67]

Funny you say that about the shuttle. I had the same reaction, glad its just up in Hell -A. We go to Randy's doughnuts and then hit the science center for special exhibits.

[@ThisOldPanda]

My phone needs to charge, cant wait to watch this!

[@drewshine627]

I'm not the biggest mega blocks fan but some of their specialty pieces open up so many design possibilities

[@edrcozonoking]

My 7 year old daughter who loves all things space has this set. So glad Lego made it.

[@DenysSene]

I need that! Seriously, I need that tiny vise.

[@compirate]

"Does that just sit there?" "Follow The Instructions" - Emmet Brickowski, 2014

[@TheArchking3]

i love watching video like this or machining video. as cad drafter. watching how things are made, helps you design for other jobs

[@mikemckenzy]

Maybe one of the best San Francisco movies ever. Might have been a big part of the reason I spent 6 years of my life in the City. Head, pants, now! Nice movie quote, Adam. Brilliant!

[@RevUnstableBoy]

I loved this set, they have a pride of place up on my shelf in my living room... except for Margaret Hamilton, who stays right next to the saturn V rocket she help get off the ground. another set that is really satisfying and great looking is the ship in the bottle.

[@pmjd42]

IBM used to made ferrite core memory frames that had cores that were a bit bigger than what you suggest. The X and Y wires were installed by machine, but the "control" wire was "stitched" by hand. IIRC, by Spanish embroidery artists, until a machine could do the job.

[@RND_ADV_X]

There used to be a little cafe between downtown Seattle and cap hill called Cyber Dogs. The feisty older lady who owned the place was a former NASA employee. She had a thick Russian accent and I couldn't help but wonder how NASA recruited her. I can't remember what section she said she worked in, but I believe it was in engineering or calculations? Anyways just thought someone might appreciate that lore.

[@rubricmarine6857]

Holy shit! The way I've organized my Lego sets before the build, my entire life, is the same way Adam Savage does!

[@claudiocesar3041]

it is always a pleasure to see your videos, thanks for sharing .. keep taking care of yourself and your loved ones in this quarantine ,, greetings from Argentina

[@MrMichkov]

What knolling eliminates is that wonderful sound legos make when you are searching for that one piece in the bowl you poured all your parts into.

[@danjason3876]

My lego sorting tip: Unless it is for someone who is color blind, don't bother sorting by color. It is easy to pick out the red, for example, lego from a jumble of lego, but hard to find the 2 stud full height with a hole. This may seem obvious but it took me a while to realize it.

[@ryanphillips5688]

Adam we want a video about your watch collection!!!!!!!!!!

[@krisdog88]

Funny you mention organizing your collection... I'm in the process now of doing exactly that! I keep my sets separate in storage boxes, but I also just have a ton of random stuff with what seems like a millioin tiny pieces! it's tough, but it's also really fun! I need more storage, though!

[@chrismason963]

THANKS for Parliament FUNKADELIC!! - Been blasting it in may art studio!! :)

[@mrKleen1]

I came here for the LEGO build but I can't stop thinking about that ruler... man that thing is nice

[@tungsten8290]

Definitely looking forward to Adam's discussion on tools!

[@BeardedNerdSE]

There is indeed a lot of planning going into how many new parts and new colours can fit within the production budget, and usually you see a specific new part being used in several different themes at once, like how they made new quarter circles for the VW Beetle and then used the same part on other vehicles and also as a donut sign. Designers also help each other out with using parts that someone else really needs for their own designs so that there's more incentive to produce it. People like Jamie Berard mention this in interviews. In general, they keep track of this much better nowadays. In the early 2000s, they went nuts making new specific colours and some parts that were only ever used once, and sometimes sets had a higher production cost than the retail cost. This nearly killed them, as you can imagine.

[@dandesjardins937]

Funny, Mom is helping little Adam put away his Legos. What cool flashback memories.

[@StephenTurnerVlogs]

God, that's a great video Adam. I love your passion. Also I just figured out a punchline in a Robin Williams joke where he references Margaret Hamilton, i.e. the wicked witch. 🤣🤣🤣 Also, I'm writing this as I watch, on my phone 🤣🙃 I am totally going to use 'Get to day's got the rest of this lockdown! It's a really cool idea and way to feel gratitude for the little things. I love your maker stories from the movies you work on. A.I. was just a beautiful film. Sad but so sweet and innocent. Onto part 2! 😁

[@billybobbarklow8289]

Adam I've thoroughly enjoyed your LEGO builds thus far. Recently I've built some Megabloks kits, yeah I know "that's not LEGO". My kids looked at my kinda funny. I explained to them its NOT just considered a toy but also a 3D puzzle, lol. And boy does the time fly building them. Castle Grayskull took me 10 hours at one sitting, I didn't null. Lol. Totally addictive. Great job. Build on Brother....😎

[@Logiwonk]

Much love for Brad Dourif, he did a really great episode of Babylon 5 back in the day that I always loved.

[@claudius0350]

I really love watching your recent LEGO building streams/videos. Maybe the new Star Wars UCS A-Wing, which just released yesterday would be something for a new video.

[@jimmyeolsen]

its fantastic that brigs made in the 50s still fits the brigs in the 2020s the engineering standards of lego is amazing

[@mathias3168]

As a Dane, it's really hard to not twitch whenever English speakers say LEGOs. LEGO is uncountable, like money. It's always just LEGO. That being said, I'm loving the videos.

[@mattyp80]

If you've never been, when things get a little less restrictive, you need to visit the Tecnik Museum at Sinsheim in Germany and it's sister museum at Speyer! the Sinsheim one has the Russian shuttle in!!

[@deraldporter3828]

What an awesome set to build, thanks for sharing this. I was just reading how Mae Jemison was inspired to be an astronaut by Nichelle Nichols on Star Trek; in later years she made an appearance on TNG. Amazing.

[@5055hunter]

If you're interested, Smarter Every Day has a video on those tiny computer donuts. Destin actually does an interview with one of the guys who designed that computer.

[@DQuartermane]

I really want Adam to ask all of his Lego questions! These are things we need to know!

[@jupekai4601]

I've been doing that with my toys (inc Lego) since I was little (as an adult now it's with nearly everything), but I'm autistic and organising (simple or complex) is a trait. For me it's a ritual that brings peace and calm, plus it's incredibly satisfying.

[@simonemaria4467]

I would love to see some organisation of parts of the cave, just small parts or tools would be interesting to see!

[@spacemanspiff2137]

16:11 After watching the falcon video, I tried joining LEGO together while sorting. I can confirm that it’s a bad idea: Even though 3 people were working on a small table, parts were still lost

[@literallyjeff]

not just knee deep by p-funk will always have a place in my playlists, good taste Adam!

[@toddback]

Are we getting a complete Lego collection video after everything is organized?

[@1000dots]

I've always used yellow in my Lego builds for the safety stripes and high visibility stuff just because of availablity. From now on I'm going to be super conscious that it's yellow not orange

[@mothrust5969]

Have you ever heard of a Tensegrity Table? They are so cool im sure you would like the floating table

[@andrewcakebread3317]

Talking about the core magnetic memory. I'm sure I read somewhere that it was called LOL memory where LOL stood for little old lady memory. It was because NASA employed seamstresses to construct the memory because only they had the dexterity to thread the cores together.

That would be so cool

[@krsanth-4142]

From all the vids I've seen, which are awesome, I haven't seen such a skipped detail, That's The Hubble, not just "....a satellite."

[@daanwilmer]

I was mentally screaming this to my screen every time Adam mentioned "a little satellite". It's the Hubble Space Telescope!

[@earmstrong88]

Built a set of a y-wing from the new trilogy last week because of these builds.

[@Jemppu]

"Except for the green shirt, I'm following these instructions exactly."

[@Ratchetdude099]

How are you sorting your collection? Would love to see what you use for storage!

[@Isgrimnir]

If you love orange, I suggest you do come to the Netherlands on april 27th (Kingsday)

[@WhyWouldYouDrawThat]

hey. love the video. request: when you setup the shop vac as an extractor, can you test the particles coming out into the air? i’m keen for your shop and lungs to have clean air. you might need to build some custom air filters 😀

[@darrensim295]

Nice to know Adam still needs mum's help to organize... makes him far more relatable.

[@scottmadore4502]

i know this was posted 3 days ago...but my question is, If you have a load of legos in a box, in which you decide to do an inventory. Is there a way to see possible builds you can create with the inventory that you have?

[@BROON71]

I can't be the only person who wished that Adam took a second to wash his hands/face before building this set... We all know that he has a sink right about the corner.. lol

[@Steelgeek]

He probably did. Cast iron dust gets into your fingerprints and stays there. My hands look dirty for days after working with it.

[@aws459]

I love the Mike Myers "So I Got Married To an Ax Murderer" blurt. Rare. I love that movie. "I'm not kiddin. It's like Sputnik!"

[@sceimyname9091]

Hey adam! I love watching your videos where you look at cosplay accessories or people who make and craft for a living! One thing I've been really interested in lately are digitgrade stilts, I was hoping you had a video of them but I didnt see any! I saw some cool extendo-fingers though!

[@Flux83]

I NEED to have a Tested Video shot with a 360 camera setup in the center of the shop and just have Adam running around building.

[@TheTalonts]

Have you built the LEGO Technic Shuttle? A wonderful older set.

[@JonatasAdoM]

More LEGO YES! Thank you so much