I describe how I made a stop motion animation of a phonograph needle in an LP groove using an electron microscope. I also show electron micrographs of other recording media. Support Applied Science: / appliedscience
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@AppliedScience5 жыл бұрын
The vinyl record that I cut into sections was actually Johann Strauss (The "CBS Masterworks" label can be seen at 0:26). Switched-on Bach remains intact.
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
Good to hear. Even though your sputter coaster needs work, you are still a man of culture.
@bryceschug4865 жыл бұрын
i got a little nervous for a moment...
@oovalen4 жыл бұрын
great work by the way - just thinking about having a 12" single with recordings on 45 rpm would have been a more spectacular insight as the grooves are in fact a lot bigger than on LP. but anyway some great insights here.
@joeysplats32094 жыл бұрын
...and that capacitance disc... what a great chunk of history.
@4thdimensiontravels8554 жыл бұрын
Around 1987 a good friend of mine had over 50 of the video discs and player. It actually played very well. Awesome to hear you explain how all of these various techs work. Thanks for a great video.
@dickclark56566 жыл бұрын
A rare moment when you click a youtube video and actually receive more than you expected
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
No cheesy background music, no ads, no Fortnite...it's brilliant!
@bobbyvinyle33895 жыл бұрын
Dick Clark ..freakin ayyy
@darrenoates43225 жыл бұрын
Totally agree, this is brilliant
@johnbrevard59665 жыл бұрын
@Mason Gilbert ok, Gilbert Einstien!!!
@MegaDicksplash5 жыл бұрын
Way to much ... but not what I wanted... which was visual gratification of something different
@ollie22444 жыл бұрын
Every note, every frequency, every volume change, every sound that is on a record is a just a series of bumps. It blows my mind!
@paulkrupa4 жыл бұрын
Well, if you digitize it. In the vinyl, it's analog so you have a continuous variation with infinite changes in between.
@mickeypopa4 жыл бұрын
@Bill Williams You can't understand the love affair with plastic? 2 words: Kim Kardashian. :>
@ChuckD594 жыл бұрын
@@TheGreatGadfly There is a style thing to a return to vinyl, but it's nearly the closest we have to actually capturing the full color of sound. Maybe magnetic tape as well. Even high bitrate, lossless digitizing doesn't capture it completely. Think that doesn't matter? Tell that to a person who can tell the difference between violins, or pianos or cymbals of a drum set. I can assure you there's an appreciable difference.
@lobsterbark4 жыл бұрын
@@ChuckD59 It does capture it completely, denying that it does is denying math is real. Any difference you hear between lossless audio and vinyl is a discoloration or distortion introduced by an imperfect player or record.
@ChuckD594 жыл бұрын
@@lobsterbark Wow. I know "math" and I know music as a classically trained musician, and I know a bit about computers (actually a lot). I have to respond saying if you claim a digital reproduction captures all the nuance of an analog source, you may not know what "digital" means. Higher bitrate/depth reproduction come close, but the very definition of "digital" is ones and zeros.
@millroyboy074 жыл бұрын
“Used Needles Bin” has a different definition to 98% of the rest of the world.
@shawnspencer20013 жыл бұрын
I died when he said this. Imagine a blind person listening to this.
@LeeLeeVonMwah3 жыл бұрын
😂
@ArruVision3 жыл бұрын
This is the part of the world you wanna be in!
@lax1dude9403 жыл бұрын
yes
@1mctous3 жыл бұрын
98% biohazardous.
@noahway134 жыл бұрын
It is mind blowing if you think about it. Any sound, from trumpet, to bird, to glass breaking, (x's infinity) can be etched in vinyl and re-played perfectly. Even a thousand people,saying the exact same words, can be differentiated by tone and timbre. An entire orchestra can be duplicated in one groove. I don't understand it.
@iveharzing Жыл бұрын
It's all related to the property of superposition in waves. And I'm not talking about Quantum Mechanics here, it's just the fact that if you have 2 waves, and you add them together, you get a new wave with a different shape, which in the case of sound would sound like the two original waves together. Now to actually be able to create these grooves, that takes a bit more mathematics. That uses a thing called the Fourier Transform, which is a mathematical operation which "picks out" frequencies. It basically multiplies the original signal/function with a pure sine wave at a specific frequency, and then adds up the entire function (integration), so see "how much" the original signal "resembles" that specific wave with that specific frequency. And then it repeats that for every single frequency to get a "frequency spectrum". So if you record a sound, you can convert that to frequencies, which you can then convert back to grooves by adding up waves with all the frequencies you found.
@AlliSinned11 ай бұрын
One way I can wrap my head around it is if you cut out the tiniest blip of an audio clip in a software like Audacity or any DAW, then played that blip back, it would just sound like a tiny click because it's so quick. It's only when those clicks are not surrounded by silence but the context of other "blips" that make it sound like anything.
@Brain_Juice8 ай бұрын
We all live in one big vibrated field of energy, we are all instruments of the cosmos!
@jianhuang01248 ай бұрын
No matter how many instruments in the record, it's still one wave.
@noahway137 ай бұрын
Yeah, thank you Captain Wikipedia. I don't think it's black magic. @@Manul_palla
@1boboloco15 жыл бұрын
I like when he says "you know", it makes me feel like he thinks i understand.
@nyakwarObat5 жыл бұрын
You mean you love it when your ego gets a good massage 😱😱😱
@powertotherobots05 жыл бұрын
the state of education in your country is appalling
@RayLewisPitt5 жыл бұрын
@@powertotherobots0 I know, right? I understood every bit of it. The average US adult has a lower math education than the average 8 year old Korean child.
@Pvaeerener4 жыл бұрын
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
@James-gk8ip4 жыл бұрын
@@powertotherobots0 yes but we have better pizza so sit on it
@IAmMyOwnApprentice7 жыл бұрын
That's the best condition under which one can hear the phrase "used needles bin."
@madscientistshusta7 жыл бұрын
indeed
@graytonw52387 жыл бұрын
Yeah, when I heard that I thought "best line in the video"!
@caddyguy53697 жыл бұрын
lol
@Snyde917 жыл бұрын
Or shoot a snowball. Hmm tasty
@Puleczech7 жыл бұрын
Is that a fireball from Magic the Gathering?
@dyamondbolden59594 жыл бұрын
I literally typed “how records work”. This was more than I expected and I’m not disappointed.
@owendaulton93163 жыл бұрын
Same here :)
@philip65022 жыл бұрын
You literally typed...or typed it?
@dyamondbolden59592 жыл бұрын
@@philip6502 I mean I searched on KZbin “how records work” and this came up.
@wintersbattleofbands1144 Жыл бұрын
There's more to it than this, but this is Step 1: Needle in groove. It's tiny, but physical, which is why decent equipment and care of your records is vital.
@BobSmith1980.4 жыл бұрын
First time I've ever heard 'used needles' in a positive way.
@dlarremore4 жыл бұрын
It's actually in a negative way. You know... because of the electrons.
@BobSmith1980.4 жыл бұрын
touche
@paulkrupa4 жыл бұрын
I don't know that there is a used needle bin at the record store.
@ThekiBoran4 жыл бұрын
If you need some free used needles find your way to a sidewalk in San Francisco.
@wllm47854 жыл бұрын
@@BobSmith1980. ne touche pas
@multiio14247 жыл бұрын
One of these days this guy will upload a video in which he talks about how he had to use his nuclear reactor to turn toothpaste into gold because his particle accelerator still needed some work.
@magiv42057 жыл бұрын
If I could like this comment multiple times I would
@VhectorDesignStudio7 жыл бұрын
I almost fell of bed laughing with this comment! OMG!!!
@MatthewSmith-sz1yq6 жыл бұрын
multi io dude he's gonna make a tutorial for how to create a fusion reactor. "Now, I'm still trying to get a working heat shield, currently mine is lacking the needed materials as of now because they don't exist, so I had to use multiple electromagnets to try and prevent it from melting itself."
@pepelepar5156 жыл бұрын
multi io you just won the internet for that comment! well done!
@milesmouse726 жыл бұрын
LOLOLOL that would make him an alchemist and I'd love to see that!!!
@keithrowe10074 жыл бұрын
You had me at, “ever since setting up this electron microscope in my shop...”
@2011littleguy4 жыл бұрын
When you cut a 2 x 4 you must make an amazingly accurate cut!
@makeit75794 жыл бұрын
me2
@kennarajora65323 жыл бұрын
apparently a quick google search revealed they can cost something like up to $1,000,000 in dollars. Not something I'd ever get as a birthday gift, let's put it that way.
@etch31303 жыл бұрын
@@kennarajora6532 not this one. He got it for free and just had to pay shipping. It's an older model anyway so could probably be picked up on ebay for under 10k. Still not cheap but not terrible for the capability.
@paulkrupa3 жыл бұрын
@@etch3130 I was curious about what he meant when he said that cd was approaching the limit of the device . . . For now.
@ScotTheGr8 Жыл бұрын
Holy crap. Let’s take a minute and compliment how well this was done. This is pretty amazing. The way you figured out each type of disk and the way you made the amazing video of the plastic phono record. Super well done! Bravo.
@dexterdexter69754 жыл бұрын
Amazing video! I would have given up at the beginning when I realized that the record was an insulator. A great example of how far a person's curiosity can go. Respect!
@KuroHebi Жыл бұрын
It's actually common practice to coat whatever object you're imaging with a layer of conductive material when using an electron microscope.
@garymelnyk93704 жыл бұрын
I once glued macaroni on a card and gave it to my mother.
@AmadeuShinChan4 жыл бұрын
[ die I did. :D ]
@aatishr99084 жыл бұрын
Gary Melnyk 😂 so cute n hilarious at the same time..perfect comment in this geek vdo
@ferrumignis4 жыл бұрын
@Roy G Biv It was last week, and he is 48 years old.
@peterpapanestor94034 жыл бұрын
I ate the the macaroni and glue
@kbcoop32494 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@WAQWBrentwood8 жыл бұрын
As soon as I heard "setup this electron microscope in my shop", I was no longer jealous of my neighbor with the Jaguar....... LOL!
@lemonslice22337 жыл бұрын
I'm sure he got it at a yard sale.
@rerollyadice42247 жыл бұрын
Matrix29bear Why does it matter if you're white?
@junglesbongles85927 жыл бұрын
+Okay bcuz science is racist my niggah
@LiyemEanapay7 жыл бұрын
Jungles Bongles WTF is wrong with you?
@joshfilmsstuff97697 жыл бұрын
Jaguars are shitty cars
@Dreamerm62 жыл бұрын
This is incredible. So many times we take small things for granted. How on earth they cut they grooves with accuracy back in the day is beyond me.
@unpluggedtoaster7421 Жыл бұрын
The way it was invented was by recording with the vibrations that then kind of create the grooves but idk if that's how they do it now
@RickrollFoot Жыл бұрын
they molded it to like some sort of master vinyl tihng
@kodinamsinh1267 Жыл бұрын
@@unpluggedtoaster7421they dont use vibrations in the way they did in the early days, as in recording into a horn and letting the vibrations from the sound vibrate the diaphragm and thus the needle. they use massive record cutters that use electronics to make master discs and then stamp all the records using that master.
@klocke5247 Жыл бұрын
The field created by the current of a recorded signal moves magnets mounted on a stylus, pretty much the opposite of a phono cartridge, cutting the signal into a lacquer disk, eventually ending up as a stamper pressed into a hot vinyl "biscuit". Sure it took some work, getting everything to function correctly. But, basically it just replied on physics. The magnet field is an accurate representation of the current that creates it, and a magnet will accurately represent the change in field strength, if that makes sense.
@savage22bolt32 Жыл бұрын
I used to cut my vinyl with a hammer and chisel..
@shinigamilee59154 жыл бұрын
I helped develop optical, electromagnetic and Nand storage so I've seen some of this done before, but this was really well done. There were plenty of challenges to overcome. I think anyone would benefit from watching it if they are studying physics or electrical engineering! Great job!
@tjjt62947 жыл бұрын
I understood some of those words
@typ0446 жыл бұрын
AHAHAHHA!! Killed me with that one !
@rainblaze.6 жыл бұрын
Tyler Jackson i understand the words ok. It's the way he strings them together, that losses me
@ignaciocatalan65925 жыл бұрын
come on it's not that hard
@nicowit88965 жыл бұрын
He goes on like a broken record
@jameszandstra21384 жыл бұрын
"My sputter coder needs some work so I'm using physical vapor deposition" Yeah, me too bro... Edit: numerous replies have corrected me, it's "coater" not "coder"
@DougPoker4 жыл бұрын
I know that feel
@slipperyjk4 жыл бұрын
This guy needs a hobby
@javierantoniosilva84774 жыл бұрын
Don't we all...
@darioorlic19414 жыл бұрын
coater*
@henryambrose86074 жыл бұрын
@@slipperyjk This is a hobby.
@AnthonyFrancisJones4 жыл бұрын
Truly magnificent! Aren't we lucky to have videos like this on KZbin! The 'used needle bin' amused me too! Fantastic work. Thanks so much for making these highly technical but 'no fuss' videos. Other KZbinrs have a lot to learn from how you do things.
@jecoharman2 жыл бұрын
This is what the internet was designed for, extremely accurate information and knowledge sharing. Great video.
@jamesfarrell83397 жыл бұрын
I cannot believe all of the hurdles that you had to go through to be able too do your video. You have incredible problem solving skills.I would not be able to do something like this because of all the different steps that you had to solve. So many problems to be solved that created new hurdles. I really admired that you showed how you were able to get the amazing image's. Without that information you would not understand the difficulties and problem solving that went into creating this video.
@roddoney75687 жыл бұрын
people mostly think they CANT, when they CAN, if they pay attention to simple things like thermodynamics, expansion and contraction. The most basic, yet observable laws of physics.
@Ben_Dover7537 жыл бұрын
+Rod Doney Or even simply continued further with a problem, not quiting prematurely.
@roddoney75687 жыл бұрын
+Kostantinos Kanelopoulos exactly. life is about energy. Including how you use yours.
@Ben_Dover7537 жыл бұрын
I meant that (more precisely) that it is simply not intelligence or idiocy but the depth and density of thought. Maybe some people just do not have the energy.
@MegaSaunier7 жыл бұрын
+Kostantinos Kanelopoulos Relax man
@XxKINGatLIFExX5 жыл бұрын
This video is the complete opposite of clickbaite
@AngelofDeath14314 жыл бұрын
No, that's exactly what it is but put the words bull and s**t together in front of it and you're dead on the mark. I only saw about 2 seconds of needle on vinyl. Much more was expected, but he seemed to be having a love affair with the shiny discs instead.
@troliskimosko4 жыл бұрын
Charles Franceschini like you even need anymore than 2 seconds to understand what’s going on
@davidom76074 жыл бұрын
Yeah, we got way more than we bargained for.
@FUCKINGENIOUS4 жыл бұрын
I agree with Charles I wanted the video to be only what the title said.
@AngelofDeath14314 жыл бұрын
@@troliskimosko Well, having come from the generation heavily entrenched in vinyl, I know exactly what is/was/should've gone on. If ANY title has specific wording, then whatever is being referenced should contain a greater majority of said subject than only a few seconds, don't you think?
@Yoda89454 жыл бұрын
Great demonstration. I knew how these devices worked but actually being able to see them is a great addition to my understanding.
@D800Lover4 жыл бұрын
Wow! I am really impressed, as an audio R&D technician and audio designer, and also experienced in creating new methods of measurements, I am really impressed and especially with the amount of work required to make this possible. Thank you for letting us watch this and I will recommend/show it to others. Nice to see 4.7 million views so far. As another commentator said, this was not clickbait.
@jimbeam97887 жыл бұрын
where did you get the electron microscope? I've been to three different Walmarts looking for one
@Port8ble7 жыл бұрын
LOL. Thank you, kind stranger, today has been rough this comment was the first lol I've had all day.
@kayveevee7 жыл бұрын
:D
@MisterLepton7 жыл бұрын
You can often find used ones one eBay (usually in pieces and you'll probably need to buy a few more parts), many of them functional anywhere from $500 USD to $100,000 USD. With enough knowledge and skill I bet you could get one functional in your home for $1000 (maybe less).
@MisterLepton7 жыл бұрын
The device itself is really not as complex as you think at the basic level. It just becomes exponentially more complex as the image quality/res you want increases. I mean, think about it this way: the electron beam part of the microscope is just an advanced version of an old TV CRT. The sensor and the electronics that interpret the signal are probably the most complex parts (unless you're using some super-vacuum pump or something).
@xiangyu15797 жыл бұрын
Lmao what?! Did a double take haha
@trentonr.84287 жыл бұрын
Of course, physical vapor deposition, obviously.
@sqlb3rn6 жыл бұрын
hmm yes indubitably. I use this method all the time to butter my croissant.
@yonidellarocha94126 жыл бұрын
butter vapor is something i never considered, i guess that with a vacuum chamber, some high heat and a very fine butter spraying device you could coat your croissant. now im wondering if all the air in the croissant is going to escape making it look like a balloon under a vacuum. this is what keeps me awake at night, deflating croissants
@hanloncaldwell85715 жыл бұрын
@@yonidellarocha9412 dear God. You have just given me great anxiety
@soggycereal165 жыл бұрын
@@yonidellarocha9412 Great, now I'm contemplating whether croissants deflate in a vacuum. Nothing in the world will be right until I know! DAMN YOU SCIENCE!
@joseluis.colungag5 жыл бұрын
The CVD is a common technique in material coating. It usually involves fusing with the substrate and making the coating part of it instead of just a layer on top.
@JLange6424 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to do such an in-depth presentation of these different media formats!
@markw42062 жыл бұрын
Brilliant production here. Probably more work went into the content of this video than any video I've ever watched. Wow, thank you for this!
@mitcht10267 жыл бұрын
jesus. Listenning to this guy discuss how to use this equipment makes me feel dumb... then I start thinking about the people who actually designed and manufactured the equipment.. now I feel really dumb
@diegodelafuente21427 жыл бұрын
But then you read the comment section on youtube videos and you somehow feel smart again...
@chavakano547 жыл бұрын
You nailed it Diego
@mylesbishop12407 жыл бұрын
Diego de la Fuente hahah nice!
@ArtemLokhovitskiy7 жыл бұрын
Not necessarily dumb, but uneducated. And yes, I'm with you.
@blushingbunny30747 жыл бұрын
lets all be dumb together!
@4200timeB4 жыл бұрын
This is the guy that can make real flux capacitors.
@SarahHogan1003 жыл бұрын
It is absolutely crazy how this stuff works. My mind is blown 🤯
@donlindell1994 Жыл бұрын
Impressed with the experimentation and unique solutions. I can’t believe how simple the CD ended up. Great job
@TheDeadSource8 жыл бұрын
So i started writing a comment about 5 times before I realised that I actually have very little in the way of words to describe the satisfaction I got from your video. So i just liked and subscribed and wrote this instead. Thanks man.
@mozkitolife54378 жыл бұрын
"OK, see you next time.".... ya frickin' genius. "What did I do last weekend? Oh, nothing much, just imaged some storage media with my electron microscope." O.O
@cnrspiller3549 Жыл бұрын
Nice to see the old SEM. I used to operate one of those when I was a lab assistant back in the 90s. Once I found a dead bee on the window sill and when nobody was looking I popped him in. I zoomed in on his eyelashes and discovered they were long, splined cones! Who would have thought? I also got a shot of his knees. I printed that one off and labelled it 'The bee's knees' - (obviously) Happy days. This video took me right back. Thanks.
@scudder9914 жыл бұрын
Not only were the video results fascinating, but your explanations of how these LPs & storage disks work were interesting. Yet your problem-solving processes were best of all! Well done sir.
@SuperPhexx7 жыл бұрын
"My sputter needs some work, so I am using physical vapor deposition." I also want to do stuff where saying things like that is perfectly normal.
@whatsup72025 жыл бұрын
Lol
@theknacke5 жыл бұрын
Haha, right! I want to do some things where things like "physical vapor deposition" is just the norm. lol
@Sunjammr5 жыл бұрын
Just get a job in a resistor or capacitor factory! You'll be saying it 100 times every hour.
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
Flirt with a girl by using that phrase. And let's see if she craves your conductive carbon glue.
@nyakwarObat5 жыл бұрын
@@CaveyMoth 😆😆😆conductive carbon glue
@xcvsdxvsx6 жыл бұрын
Who doesn't have an electron microscope in their shop?
@CNinjaa3 жыл бұрын
I have a profound respect and appreciation for your engineering prowess and informafive and to the point commentary style. 👍
@uba24 жыл бұрын
I'm glad there are still people like you in the world (smart, curious, generous, good educators).
@RimstarOrg9 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Just seeing how the needles fits in the groove is interesting on it's own.
@tonybowers94904 жыл бұрын
Seeing this years after it was published. Have watched many of your videos and have always been impressed. This video is no exception. Amazing to see the image at 5:02. Thanks for going through your process, explaining a bit how a record player works, and sharing the information. Thanks!
@24theMoney Жыл бұрын
So cool. Its amazing how good the fidelity is on vinyl...an analog system. Loved the SEM pics and video. Thank you!
@sybo104 жыл бұрын
This is what a real stable genius looks like
@Treddian4 жыл бұрын
Don't underestimate the POTUS. The Trump family has some very high-profile scientific minds on their tree. John G. Trump, Donald Trump's uncle, inherited Tesla's work. Donald Trump was privy to some now mainstream science before it was mainstream.
@Paid2Win4 жыл бұрын
@@Treddian There is what OP was talking about, and then there is what you're talking about.
@Treddian4 жыл бұрын
@@Paid2Win Ah, I love a good condescending attitude. Thank you.
@Treddian4 жыл бұрын
@Graham Hancucked You're obviously so disconnected from reality that you don't even know conspiracy theory from official government record.
@Paid2Win4 жыл бұрын
@@Treddian Just pointing out the obvious bucko
@mollyclock82387 жыл бұрын
what amazes me the most, is not the fact that you are an order of magnitude more intelligent than anyone watching this video, it is simply, that your intention, is to increase the knowledge, of the great unwashed masses, and you speak to us, as some sort of, equals. (...you are very rare...)
@jamescarter31965 жыл бұрын
Wow, that's a lot of pseudo-poetic crap falling over itself with triteness. "you are an order of magnitude more intelligent than anyone watching this video"-- seriously? You really think NOBODY else who sees this could possibly be more intelligent? Wrong. Your limitations of intelligence aren't matched by everyone else. "'great unwashed masses"-- maybe you're a great unwashed mass but speak for yourself. I showered recently.
@ScootaReader5 жыл бұрын
@@jamescarter3196 Somebody's been watching a little too much Rick and Morty. Isn't it past your bedtime?
@dasaauto20245 жыл бұрын
James Carter Yeah, chill out. She’s just passing alone a sincere comment. (We can all imagine that tomorrow’s Einstein might possibly have watched this vid too-but that’s not the point.)
@jamescarter31965 жыл бұрын
@@ScootaReader Despite being in the target demographic for that show, I can't get into it, but I'm sure that wasn't your point. If someone wants to waste space for passively self-congratulatory poetry, they deserve to be ridiculed for it. They were probably drunk at the time; no sober person over age 12 would use a phrase like "great unwashed masses" and expect to be taken seriously. Dasa Auto, how about you just don't make any requests about my behavior since I'm "just passing alone a sincere comment" also. Why should stupid people get to waste space in public without retaliation? How about you get your priorities straight?
@jumbo64985 жыл бұрын
Thanks,
@Peter-pv8xx2 ай бұрын
Thank you Mr Edison for so many remarkable inventions, i think you'd be amazed and proud to see your work used and improved on through the years.
@TorrentUK4 жыл бұрын
"okay, see you, bye!" - how all youtube videos should end! (and some should start)
@im1who84u4 жыл бұрын
I love the way you end this video. You just explained and showed something way over most peoples head and then you just simply say, "Okay, see ya next time."
@tone83013 жыл бұрын
ahah for sure
@dnxx5032 жыл бұрын
Yeh
@Stay___Strong6 жыл бұрын
I don’t understand anything he’s saying, but I’m still fascinated.
@tcb97754 жыл бұрын
@MDS 😂 it's 50 microns
@Gregorio4164 жыл бұрын
MDS for the technical aspects going on he is most definitely using layman’s language. There’s no reason to insult him just because you feel insecure
@nathanwahl92244 жыл бұрын
@@Gregorio416 Yes, it is indeed sad when people celebrate their own ignorance proudly in public.
@stevenpike78579 ай бұрын
It's amazing looking at those grooves and how it captures a person's voice, music, and melodies.
@tmatheson54 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Being involved in engineering for over 40 years I immensely enjoyed that. Great job!!!
@phrenzy18 жыл бұрын
This is the geekist thing that ever happened. I have no words, it's so pure, it's almost zen like geekery. I am so deeply impressed as to not even try and enunciate an actual comment on the video. just wow.
@SamiJumppanen8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's one way to put it. Similar feeling!
@WAQWBrentwood8 жыл бұрын
+1!
@Vlican7 жыл бұрын
+1 awesome geek is awesome!
@etiennecouture15527 жыл бұрын
He's not a Geek, he's a Nerd.
@cizzlen078 жыл бұрын
"Ok. See ya next time. Bye." Lol great video
@AwesomeRobot158 жыл бұрын
Yeah the ending was kind of abrupt, wasn't it.
@brehoffm8 жыл бұрын
+cizzlen07 By far the greatest part of this video! Haha, great video though, very informative.
@MrChhetri8 жыл бұрын
yea, it sounded odd maybe because he didn't say "click subscribe button" or similar shits we see in every videos these days.
@animamundii7 жыл бұрын
I love these kinds of youtubers. Quick and to the point. Unlike most youtubers reminding you to subscribe in the intro, outro and 5 times in between. Great channel really!!
@Slickskelm2 жыл бұрын
I am speechless. You sir, have blown my mind with your novel approach to dissecting various media for the benefit of folks that would never come into contact with an Electron Microscope. For this I thank you ....awesome video.
@67kemo4 жыл бұрын
This was so fascinating, I sent the link to my artist/metallurgist wife. She almost went into anthropological art (the art of reassembling skeletons and stuff, whatever that field is) and I think she would find the mix of technology and art in this just as compelling. Great work!
@jeffmojica99346 жыл бұрын
When looking for a video to fall asleep too, this actually made me stay awake instead because it's so damn interesting.
@CaveyMoth5 жыл бұрын
I'm just LMAOing to all the comments.
@JT_82834 жыл бұрын
Exactly I tried changing the channel but the batteries in my remote are dead so I'm stuck watching this but now I'm intrigued and am going to finish watching it
@dnxx5032 жыл бұрын
Look up a video
@cekdark9 жыл бұрын
This has got to be my favorite youtube channel. No waste of time, 30 second long intro; every video is extremely interesting and novel; no begging for subscriptions or thumbs. Keep up the good work, I'll be supporting your Patreon. Thanks
@AppliedScience9 жыл бұрын
cekdark Thank you!
@dnxx5032 жыл бұрын
@@AppliedScience sup
@Art_Music_and_Ideas9 ай бұрын
Brilliant presentation. Low key, informative, and certainly beyond my comprehension, yet quite enjoyable to watch and listen to. Thanks!
@PetarBozic4 жыл бұрын
Amazing work man! Thank you for this, I wanted to see the grooves and you showed me the grooves!
@mickblock7 жыл бұрын
I made a bird house in my garage once. Out of a coffee can.
@WSADKeysGaming7 жыл бұрын
Nice.
@FerociousSniper7 жыл бұрын
I made a megaphone once out of a dead squirrel, some rope, and a mega phone.
@madscientistshusta7 жыл бұрын
+Quintus Aurelius Symmachus serial killer art
@theawecabinet7 жыл бұрын
I made a snake house in my garage once. Out of cardboard tube.
@WSADKeysGaming7 жыл бұрын
I made a slightly successful KZbin channel with a keyboard and my hands... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@rockenrollbass8 жыл бұрын
This guy is BRILLIANT, he understands physics/engineering and audio/video and graphics, well balanced left and right brain activity.
@rdizzy18 жыл бұрын
+rockenrollbass No such thing as left and right brain activity. He is extremely intelligen though.
@gui18bif7 жыл бұрын
rockenrollbass fucked IT up with the brain thing
@Tesseract18876 жыл бұрын
Well I mean he does have an electronic microscope so he is probably with sine kind of university electron microscopes are expensive and it is very difficult to buy one yourselg
@brett84c6 жыл бұрын
rockenrollbass I agree. Speaks intelligently and clearly and is able to explain stuff in lamens (for the most part, heh).
@kelcritcarroll2 жыл бұрын
Wow!I am just amazed how all of this cool stuff was figuered out….and you have explained how this works wonderful! Thank you!
@benqu71094 жыл бұрын
Wow that is very impressive! Thank you for your hard work and efforts! 👍
@rideswithscissors6 жыл бұрын
This was fascinating! Thanks for going to all the trouble. Wikipedia explains it, but you _show_ it.
@gayxor5 жыл бұрын
rideswithscissors wikipedia doesnt even manage to explain most scientific things due to terminology
@dnxx5032 жыл бұрын
@@gayxor what’s that
@ferociousgumby4 жыл бұрын
Peeling and separating that DVD was my "satisfying moment of the week" (if not the year).
@markpenrice62534 жыл бұрын
I didn't even know it was possible. I'm going to have to buy some random terrible (but still dual-layer) movie that I don't care about down at the thift shop and see if I can scalpel that apart the same way. Make a couple of conversation-piece coasters out of it.
@philip65022 жыл бұрын
@@markpenrice6253 I already own some like that, unfortunately.
@francis36032 жыл бұрын
Wow the sheer dedication and expertise this guy has in order to make this work
@goddamnit Жыл бұрын
Wow, I'm glad I stumbled upon this video after doing some research on how CDs work, this was amazing to see, thank you!
@stuey21125 жыл бұрын
Always assume that if someone owns a sputter coater , they are really smart . Knowing how to jimmy rig something else into a working version of a sputter coater ? ... priceless
@DougPoker4 жыл бұрын
Hard to find a reliable sputter coater repairman nowadays. They all just want to sell you a new one instead of fixing it.
@dixonpinfold25824 жыл бұрын
@@DougPoker Just more horseshit from the big sputter coater repair companies.
@kendallevans40794 жыл бұрын
I have one. They run the gamut on complexity (and thus price). The concept is pretty basic. Pull a vacuum, melt or evaporate material to where it is vaporized and is deposited on a part, usually some sort of sub-straight. Complexity/price go up dramatically depending on the vacuum needed, measured in negative atmospheres and size.
@calvinscheuerman7 жыл бұрын
the one thing i know i will never fully comprehend is how grooves in a record can actually produce complex sounds. that's always going to be witchcraft to me.
@calvinscheuerman7 жыл бұрын
***** no, i mean i understand how it works; i'm just really incredulous that it actually works. every time i think about it, it just blows my mind.
@daviddrake68757 жыл бұрын
What blows mine is the Reed-Solomon Code and error correction!!!!
@calvinscheuerman7 жыл бұрын
+David Drake - What is Reed-Solomon Code and error correction?
@skierpage7 жыл бұрын
Calvin Lee The groove walls oscillate exactly as the sound wave compresses-expands the air, so all you have to do is amplify the signal (well there's an "RIAA equalization" to the sound because the vinyl medium is better at capturing some frequencies than others). It's an elaboration of the earlier gramophone and Edison cylinders in which the oscillating needle is simply connected to a horn, no electronics. What is impressive is how good such a crude method can sound.
@skierpage7 жыл бұрын
Calvin Lee The groove walls oscillate exactly as the sound wave compresses-expands the air, so all you have to do is amplify the signal (well there's an "RIAA equalization" to the sound because the vinyl medium is better at capturing some frequencies than others). It's an elaboration of the earlier gramophone and Edison cylinders in which the oscillating needle is simply connected to a horn, no electronics. What is impressive is how good such a crude method can sound.
@JakeBiddlecome3 жыл бұрын
I go back and rewatch this video every few months. One of my favorite videos from this channel. I'd love to see more from his SEM - even if it doesn't have the resolution of modern scanning electron microscopes, it's still cool to see what he does with it. If I had this machine I'd be spending all day every day just putting random things in it.
@gaius_enceladus Жыл бұрын
Wow! Seeing the surfaces of the CD and DVD was mind-blowing! Amazing!
@ImplodedAtom7 жыл бұрын
This guy just Tony Stark'd the shit outta this!
@lmeza19837 жыл бұрын
Andy Hale Stark is fake as fuck
@MajorHavoc2149 жыл бұрын
Though I have seen electron microscope images of a phonograph needle on a record before, this was the first time I have seen them in motion.
@AppliedScience9 жыл бұрын
Mok214 Me too! I've been really interested in seeing stop motion and also realtime video from a SEM. I've got some projects on the way to show more of this.
@AliMirjamali9 жыл бұрын
Applied Science It was really beautiful to watch. Looking forward to watch 3.5" Floppy and specially the MO Disc. I wonder if it would be possible to see helical scan patterns of VHS tape.
@whitcwa9 жыл бұрын
Ali Mirjamali In the early days of videotape editing , we used Edivue tape "developer" on 2 inch quad videotape to see the tracks. The developer was a suspension of carbonyl iron particles in carbon tetrachloride. With a Smith splicer, you used a microscope to align and trim the ends before applying splicing tape. The tape ends had to be trimmed so that the splice was made just after vertical sync. There was always some disturbance on playback. Luckily they invented electronic editing after a few years.
@AppliedScience9 жыл бұрын
Ali Mirjamali I haven't actually tried to view magnetic media in the SEM yet. The MO disk and floppies are for another project. But I can't believe I didn't realize that the magnetic areas would interfere with the beam in such a way that the information would be visible. I'll bet it will work! Thanks!
@AppliedScience9 жыл бұрын
Anvilshock That's a good point. Having true high-speed SEM video would be incredibly useful!
@jaymakormik6779Ай бұрын
WOW,MAN!!! You went all out to do this and it's phenomenal!
@PhilRead802 жыл бұрын
This video was amazing. Incredible work.
@lolmysteries6 жыл бұрын
In a CD/DVD/Blu-Ray, the data information is molded into one side of the polycarbonate substrate. The aluminum, silver or gold metallization is used mainly to reflect the three lasers (two tracking, one data) as they go thru the smooth polycarbonate side, then bounce off the metallized data side, and back to the laser heads. The lacquer coatings are purely for protection of the data side of the polycarbonate. Your method of tearing the aluminum is giving you only an embossed image copy of the data that is imprinted in the polycarbonate substrate. Retired Media, Manufacturing Engineer and Equipment Designer for Technicolor.
@whatsup72025 жыл бұрын
Huh. Didn't know that.
@cliffstanich34015 жыл бұрын
That's what I say
@wyldanimal25 жыл бұрын
What is really interesting is that all of the Media he tested is Stamped or Pressed. A Gold of Nickel coated master plate is made, From this a negative image is made, and then used to make positive duplicates in a press. This is called surface replication. The Replicated surfaces, depending on how it will be read, might need a reflective and or protective coating.
@Dubz04085 жыл бұрын
Cool, a lady yelled at me and got herself fired at Technicolor. Not going to go into detail on that one lol. Funny thing is i learned what you just said, not from technicolor, but from researching playstation 2 discs and trying to figure out why they were black when I was a kid lol.
@Dubz04085 жыл бұрын
Tyrant Patrol No prob!!! I will even spare you the research lol. He talks about it about 4mins in: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jobahIKchpZ3acU
@noshok74364 жыл бұрын
You are thee coolest nerd on this planet my friend. Very interesting stuff, keep up the good work.
@CashewBestofNuts4 жыл бұрын
I believe he is a true or two above your standard nerd, definitely far beyond spazzoid too.
@DietterichLabs4 жыл бұрын
This is a really impressive video that I'm glad to have seen. It's cool that this kind of thing is available for free on KZbin.
@randallcromer664 жыл бұрын
Dude this one of the most interesting video on KZbin. Thank's for all the information and just to let you know you have some really cool equipment, I'm very impressed with how amazing your complete workshop was setup. I appreciate your time and effort in making this video. 👍💯👍
@w2aew9 жыл бұрын
Fascinating stuff as always, Ben!
@AppliedScience9 жыл бұрын
***** Thanks! And thank Tek for sending me the oscilloscope. I've been planning to build a direct-to-computer digitizer for the SEM, but using the oscilloscope has been so convenient and adjustable, I'll probably continue with that for a while.
@flufanga4 жыл бұрын
Good GAWD I hope that you're on OUR side!
@djtomt Жыл бұрын
As a vinyl junkie from way back, I thank you! I've always wondered what that would look like up close. Astounding!
@MrLuigi770474 жыл бұрын
This guy is a master scientist. This video is very very cool. I felt privileged to get to watch the video and to marvel at this guys knowledge. Great job.
@NoEgg4u6 жыл бұрын
When my sputter coder was being serviced, rather than loading the slide into a vacuum chamber and evaporating silver metal onto the pieces of the LP... ... I interaxelated depolarized tri-polymer plasma into a recursion matrix, by way of a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (with the promo-dynamic module set for differentially charged polaric ions), which left a quantum signature in the vinyl. This gave me zeta particle derivation compliance, and allowed for precise flow rate adjustments of positronic neural peptides.
@tomeverett22126 жыл бұрын
Perhaps I gotta put my hip boots for this one.
@peterbustin86046 жыл бұрын
Perhaps do what ?
@rigidfinger6 жыл бұрын
I find that hard to believe. Where is the video?
@CrazyPigeon8346 жыл бұрын
Sounds like you knocked that one off an episode of star trek
@buddyclem73285 жыл бұрын
CrazyPigeon834 Or possibly Rick and (BURP) Morty.
@samykamkar9 жыл бұрын
Yet another awesome video and explanation, and some really cool closeups/video of different recording media.
@DavidMcMillan8882 жыл бұрын
Great to see someone making things, creating devices, solving problems and presenting all that as images. Good to be a human sometimes, and congratulations.
@rasmuslundin199 Жыл бұрын
I have watched this 20 times since it was released, still golden.
@seabulls696 жыл бұрын
Brilliant. For those not well versed in small stuff, a human hair can be anywhere between 17 and 180 microns. When I worked at HP, we had "dicing" saws that would "singulate" die from an 8" diameter silicon wafer. Those blades varied in width from 10 microns to 250, or wider. Imagine being able to literally "split hairs".
@jamescarter31965 жыл бұрын
Funny, someone else left a goofy pseudo-poetic comment about how 'nobody else seeing this video could be as smart as this guy' and you just proved that comment wrong. Some people think their own low bar is everybody else's. I'm not a scientist but did get to use an electron microscope at HP in Corvallis one time in the '80s (middle-school enrichment class) and saw some of what you're talking about. We got mis-printed wafers to cut up and look at.
@andrewosei3285 жыл бұрын
I feel like an arts student that stumbled into the wrong lecture hall and got stuck
@akicitaa.82335 жыл бұрын
And yet my HP printer can't finish a job without a jam.
@barneyboy77715 жыл бұрын
You think about a meat slicer, then, there is such fantastic equipment built by fantastic people out there. Love it.
@PBnFlash9 жыл бұрын
There are a lot of really great science youtube channels (and you somehow are subscribed to all of them) but yours is by far the best.
@TheAyrCaveShop Жыл бұрын
Very cool..Enjoyed ! It's amazing how well the old LP record technology actually worked...
@mbluetyphoon7 жыл бұрын
A-freaking amazing! This has been the most interesting, educational thing I've seen in a long time. Thank you, Applied Science!
@bobadkins73774 жыл бұрын
This was very interesting! Thanks for taking time to break all of this down. I enjoyed the view of the LP and stylus in particular.
@gsau30004 жыл бұрын
The fact that vinyl works the way it does is amazing.
@BullCricket754 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting. I've always been fascinated by this stuff.
@kenolsen87746 жыл бұрын
I used some tomatoes, olive oil and onions to make spaghetti sauce today. I feel somewhat inadequate.
@williamvandervalk83695 жыл бұрын
Haha...:-)
@matthewb.71725 жыл бұрын
Well, look at Mr fancypants over here with his fresh spaghetti sauce, making the rest of us look bad!
@Beatlefan675 жыл бұрын
Yeah I know ho you feel. I need a lie down.
@MrTruth1115 жыл бұрын
yes rightly so, you should have also used parmazan and basil, :)
@ae41645 жыл бұрын
@@MrTruth111 More like garlic!, basil, oregano, and a few bay leaves. The _parmesan_ goes on top of the finished product while it's fresh.
@mikehartmann51877 жыл бұрын
Having caught up to this video, I would say that anybody who can build an electron microscope in his garage is fully capable recreating the lost works of Dr. Emmett Brown.
@docbrown84045 жыл бұрын
I made a time machine out of a train! Steam powered time travel! A refrigerator out of scrap parts! The flux Capacitor! The rocket powered drill! I love a good competition though!
@ericblaire83844 жыл бұрын
Something I've always been curious to see up close like that. Thanks so much for this!
@MikeHughesShooter4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much, can’t wait to show my kids this. Your efforts do not go unappreciated!
@speciesunknown82795 жыл бұрын
So damn cool!! I always wondered what the vinyl grooves looked like up close... Thanks fine sir!
@JayDee-xj9lu4 жыл бұрын
I took apart a cassette tape once and I was looking closely at it. And I told some one that you can see the words if you look close enough. It fooled a couple of people. lol