Creating Super Shaped Fruit in My Backyard

[@electrosync]

What shaped moulds should I make for next season’s fruit?

[@john_barnett]

alien shaped limes\

[@Landee]

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[@ramous5182]

Maybe a really oblong orange

[@SYDEWAYSS]

banana shaped lemons

[@Blutankalpha]

lemon shaped bananas

[@canadian_grim_reaper]

"Should hold up to the heat in the garden" You know that's high praise when it comes from the aussie

[@deltatgames]

Woah that vacuum molded 3D printed sheet looks sick! Also this video looks like it took a long time, kudos for sticking to it!

[@JustSomeRando4u]

Cool!

[@tja62000]

Holy cow! The surface texture of the vacuum form at 6:00 is super cool!! I'd love to see what people could do with it especially since you could totally print out different designs rather than just straight lines. Thinking of the cool things you could do is endless. I'm imagining a sheathe for a Damascus knife made of a vacuum formed plastic sheet with a matching Damascus pattern.

[@KnockKnockShows]

For fast growing vegetables you might want to experiment with, try courgettes (zucchini). You'll be able to experiment with a lot of shapes in a short space of time.

[@johnathanmendez3452]

Real facts, or even cucumbers. They just don’t stop growing

[@bekabecatchoo5772]

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[@agepbiz]

Fun video and project! Also I did not expect the 3d printed sheets to look that good after vacuum forming, almost like transparent carbon fiber

[@zyrppa]

You should try small mould when fruit is small and change it to bigger and bigger mould as the fruit grows. That way it doesn't crush itself

[@bacon.cheesecake]

The molded printed sheets look so neat, almost like transparent carbon fibre

[@bluesheepredanimationskind7690]

hearing a man say "The birds were having a feast, but they couldn't get to my armoured fruit" in an australian accent is just perfect

[@ledocteur7701]

To avoid splitting issues in 3D printed sheets I would go with really thin 0.3 mm layers, normally that would make the dimensions really inaccurate due to the nozzle squishing the plastic but here it really doesn't matter, and that way there is more overlay between the lines, as well as ofc 2 intersecting layers. using different top layer fill patterns might also make for interesting results, an hilbert curve, archimedean chords or octagram spiral (all available in prusa slicer) might make for some really nice looking heat forms. The ultimate but probably overkill solution is ironing, most slicers offer it now, if you're not familiar it runs the nozzle across the top layer to remelt it while extruding a tiny amount to fill the gaps, it makes any print top surfaces look super smooth, and for a super thin sheet would essentially remove any weakpoints, at the cost of printing time, lots of it.

[@Xodabeef]

Sure the fruit are cool but can we talk about that incredible photography? So skilled!

[@fnnsjsnnejejdndnxhxjna]

That's an incredible mandarin tree, i'm jealous

[@chrish8941]

"personal use" milk crates? as opposed to.... milk crates for corporate use?

[@john_barnett]

technically milk crates remain the property of the dairies... but that doesn't stop me from having close to 50 of the things

[@keptleroymg6877]

Probably some Australian thing

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

Yep

[@EC-dz4bq]

@@john_barnett odd as they are junk/free in the states. Used for shipping/cheaper to throw away than to ship back for re-use.

[@john_barnett]

@@EC-dz4bq We reuse them here to reduce plastic waste, but go out the back of any servo and there's usually a stack of them you can just grab one if you need

[@ericlotze7724]

What i want to do is grow a pumpkin into an aerodynamic shell / APFSDS Projectile shape for Pumpkin Chunkin lol

[@lupusk9productions]

lmao do it ! that would be awesome

[@WolfieNDolphins]

make it bullet bill!

[@crayder1100]

Pumpkins grow into molds much easier than these fruits, so that would probably be really easy.

[@mwwhatever]

Mandarins have a thinner skin than oranges, that's probably why they filled out better.

[@anotherlemon1053]

I own the same vacuum former and also struggled to obtain those sheets, never thought of printing them though, that's brilliant!

[@felixdietzCGN]

Is there any reason you need those brand sheets? You can get any material and size from hardwarestores, craftstores or eBay and just have to cut it to size

[@NoahMakeIt]

2:40 S T R A W C H E R R Y

[@BBspeedy64]

You good he definitely said strawberry

[@fatstupiddinosaur]

@@BBspeedy64they were most likely referring to the shape & stem, being similar to that of a cherry.

[@gerg66]

@@BBspeedy64It's because the strawberry is shaped like a cherry so strawcherry is a play on word

[@BBspeedy64]

@@gerg66 oh sorry

[@ZooD333]

6:43 wow, you must have been very patient to get a perfect shot of an orange dropping from the tree! 😂

[@L14M44]

Yeah saw the string too

[@New_Markos_the_train_guy]

That’s the Bunnings I go to! 0:29

[@FatherAndrew-Scarlet-Priest]

Does bunnings actually sell sausage in bread called a "bunnings snag" or is it just a joke?

[@FBI8625]

@@FatherAndrew-Scarlet-Priest yeah every bunnings does

[@Yeetgod95]

@@FBI8625 they dont all the time, only every now and then

[@Suota14]

@@FatherAndrew-Scarlet-Priestevery Saturday!

[@Imboredandannoying]

I go to that Bunnings too!

[@tetronaut88]

ELECTROSYNC UPLOADED LET'S GO!!!

[@BoyProdigyX]

I'm impressed with your dedication… I wonder how much better the result is when growing them INTO shapes, versus somehow SQUEEZING already ripe/picked fruit into square molds for a day or so. Like putting an orange into a small wooden box, slowly pressing the final 6th side down with weights or something. I think I'm mostly surprised by how difficult this proved to be. Who knew Asia growing their fruit into novel shapes was such a feat of engineering?! 🤙🏽🌺

[@3DJapan]

This is the same way they make square watermelons on Japan.

[@EXMachina.]

But aren't those Square Watermelon made in Brazil and then imported to Japan.

[@torterratortellini6641]

@@EXMachina. 🤓☝

[@_A_Cube]

@@EXMachina.you gonna take that?

[@The_Legend_Of_Kenny]

FR Japan is such a cool planet

[@DanTDMJace]

@@The_Legend_Of_Kennyit's a country

[@G7Animated]

Awesome video! I’d recommend using the Mario mushroom orange for the thumbnail

[@nagiuhti]

Love this! Do you think using different, same shape molds, smaller in the beginning and bigger in the end, to change as the fruit ripens, would help with the shape being more defined??

[@Bababababat]

I think they are all unique and pretty nicely shaped

[@PPYTAO]

I loved this, such a fun idea and awesome results! I wonder if a multi staged approach would fare any better for finer details. You would have to start with a smaller mould, so the fruit is immediately being trained into shape while it is smallest and presumably most easily influenced. Design the mould with the 3d printed sheets to intentionally fall off the fruit when it is ready for the next mould. The medium sized mould would this time have some room to grow into, but because the fruit is already trained it should be much more likely to fill out the intended shape. Also radius all sharp corners/vertex, trial and error will tell you each fruits best radius.Perhaps a 2 stage process will be perfect for some fruit, others may require a 3rd stage with a much more heavy duty mould to try and contain and conform the fruit into shape in it's final stages of growing and maximum skin thickness. Thanks for taking the time to do this and share it! :)

[@anthonystownsend]

"personal use milk crates" hahaha

[@ELMO006]

I have a few of them lol

[@JarydGiesen]

Man, that fruit busting outta the printed molds, would not of expected that much force!

[@ygk3d]

Awesome video! Great idea to print new sheets.

[@MakerMindset]

You could reduce the number of screws by 25% if you put the two sides of the mold right next to each other in the vacuum former. When you are done, you can fold both sides together. Since your vacuum former is small, you may not be able to make two sides of the orange at once. However, it could work for the smaller fruits. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@Artemka2009_SB]

I have a funny story of how a cucumber got stuck in the mechanism of the door to the greenhouse that it was growing in. It was an absolute nightmare to get it out and in the process of getting it out it got a little scared but it also so happened to be that the cucumber itself was very big so it filled out the corners very good and was almost a perfect rectangle with rounded bottom and top. It was also sqare on the inside and tasted like Minecraft.

[@GriffinForte]

Lol

[@Swingylad]

yummers

[@jaydubb01]

This was a really cool and well-made video, nice job!

[@darkmage7771]

I’m curious if you tasted them? Did it change the profile at all? I would assume the orange would be more juicy when you bite into it because the juices were more compressed.

[@Chef_1Aziz]

Dude just unlocked new power of 3D printing! 😅😂

[@jessi330]

This is so fricking cool. First you grow fruit trees! Then you do cool stuff with 3d printers.

[@Slavic_slovenian]

Wake up electrosync uploaded

[@Chaos-Devil51]

Seeing this gives me an idea if you can make the molds reusable that would be great for keeping fruit for away from pest.

[@d.lawrencemiller5755]

3:27 seems like if you changed the part orientation you wouldn't need support material

[@Gary-b6b7f]

The ending of this video is hysterical 🤣

[@bird_b0nezz]

fuckin’ love that bunnings was included in this already sick video, an aussie classic

[@DamiaanJansen]

Love the effort! keep it up!

[@ramous5182]

I tried that once with a plastic bottle and some zucchini, worked reappy well!

[@MatejBeranek]

kinda strange thath i rediscovered this chanel and the first thing i notice is a new vid thath just dropped an hour ago. great to see another upload after seven months!

[@john_barnett]

sounds like the algorithm discovered it lol

[@meangreanbean]

love this. going to have to try it out!

[@Mr-Mojo92]

Wow my god that turned out excellent and I love that video That is cool and inspiring 😊😁👍

[@electrosync]

Thanks for watching!

[@れもん-h6v]

楽しい実験ですね 日本では西瓜を型にはめて四角く作ることがあります また、りんごにシールを貼り、日光を遮ることで模様をつけることがあります どちらも贈り物用です☺️

[@SpaghettiEnterprises]

Quick question, do the molds need to be transparent for the fruit to grow correctly? Could you use like, wood or something stronger than plastic

[@electrosync]

No, they don’t have to be transparent. But, you kind of need to see inside to track growth. So it helps.

[@SpaghettiEnterprises]

@@electrosync Okay, cool then my suggestion is cinder block cantaloupe.

[@ricknite261]

Make a phalic shaped mold for avacados so you can have guaq and balls 😂

[@PandasAreCooI]

nice video bro keep doing good stuff

[@DhonduWani]

Nice to see fruits in different shapes for a while,fewer times Regular farmers approach playing against nature.

[@Schöenebuddy]

Spookley the square pumpkin!

[@somaskanda2010]

I had the same issue with Mayku here in India. I ended up buying 6 ft × 3 ft pet sheets from a local supplier and cut them up. It works great for a fraction of the cost.

[@electrosync]

I think that’s what I’ll do when I find a local supplier.

[@Loaf2]

You could try to use bigger and bigger moulds as the fruit grows Also dodecahedron moulds would be cool

[@OnliPhans_Kenobi]

I wonder if making the flat surfaces of the molds slightly concave would cause more of the fruit to move toward the corners. An extremely concave mold would be interesting too

[@heakhaek]

Gardening and 3D printing was something I never expected lmao also goofy ahh sounding bot comment

[@Volotroth]

You got me with the "orange cubed" joke

[@NEXTLOOKING]

4:10 when the zesty ones start weightlifting

[@edht2]

You could try a metal mould, I think that would be more than strong enough to fold the fruit in place. But then again, you can't see how ripe the fruit is while growing.

[@SocialistSociopathPK442]

After a long time seeing you again

[@jakipop3397]

I feel like this would work a lot better if you slowly increased the mold size bit by bit, switching it out gradually so the fruit has time to adapt and shape properly. I feel like that would produce much cleaner shapes and also help with the issue of misjudging the size.

[@felixdietzCGN]

Great experiment!

[@Bob-n8h4x]

You should make orange Russian nesting dolls I think it would be possible?

[@PhilipNiedermann]

try to get access to a Tangelo tree .. the fruit is softer than a normal orange/lemon/lime and probably would lend itself better to be shaped

[@suranjanotti]

What if you made the mold surfaces concave? Maybe the end result would have sharper edges?

[@afaangrewal1427]

Nice video - do you think if you grew them like this 100 times that they would grow like this or more like this without the mould if on the 101st time you left them to grow without the mould? or would they just grow regular?

[@jakubpluhar4914]

@electrosync From the 3d printed sheets I got an idea. How about creating texture molds. Basically create grooves and points in some sort a pattern all around the fruit and then the fruit would grow into the hills and valleys of that shape. Basically if you look at your 3d printed sheet, and then you made all those lines into big or small grooves/peaks. Also this is fantastic, I adore this content so much, I would wish for you to be able to grow all your bounty 20x faster so you could spend all the time managing the garden, harvesting etc.. Truly peak content.

[@marcydoodle]

Sumos! 🧡

[@segment932]

Extra life gained? What about growing them in steps? Like first print a smaller container and then a larger so that it first grows in to the small one and then you change it to a larger?

[@elliottonyt]

Pretty sure you should be able to get pet-g from Bunnings or most plastic/acrylic suppliers locally

[@Tagnat]

THSTS THE SAME GODDAMN BUNNINGS I CAN DRIVE TO

[@blasphemer_amon]

The Orange Box 2 lookin good

[@ArchTalonMC]

0:29 Bunnings Rydalmere there’s a maccas next door

[@bubu88134]

good video keep it up!

[@2blox4bots]

0:06 “Free fruit at jungle” lookin ahh lemon

[@Dr._A_edits]

BUNNINGS WAREHOUSE! -davidsjones

[@vjcp-9014]

Now we can get a Cuberry! :)

[@asitallfallsdown5914]

I wonder how well this will work with apples, and of various varieties. Maybe tomatoes- square tomatoes could be perfect for sandwiches.

[@Rev_Erser]

you should make a normal sphere mold, but just a *little* too small for the fruit compact him.

[@jesca4855]

Bro causally owns a whole farm

[@cyrkielnetwork]

Maybe you could try smaller forms first and then replace them with bigger ones, so the fruit will get it's shape from the beginning.

[@ucexjuice710]

Does microplastics come in to play with the molds ?

[@measureonceprinttwice]

Bunnings!

[@rubenverster250]

Make one that is a dice shape. With the beveled edges The 1 side face can be where the stem of the fruit goes in

[@merkel_user]

When among us shaped fruit XD

[@tazzitek]

My dude is gonna start the Chunks company

[@MPGfan-s7y]

8:43 is that the mushroom from Mario or am I seeing things

[@sussdood]

a couple seconds before he called it a super mushroom

[@almosthuman4457]

I wish I lived somewhere warm enough to have citrus trees that actually make fruit.

[@TPS-js4im]

You could make a climate controlled garden (no idea how to do it)

[@Fudgywffle]

Anyone else think that this could become a multi-million dollar business???

[@Watermayelon]

OMG he goes to the same Bunnings wear house as me!!! (Edit nvm he’s in Australia I guess they all look the same)

[@PowerPointGaming]

fruits with 3d printed armour a fruit of armour if you will

[@tapiocajack3004]

You should make fruit that shaped like other fruit

[@Osky-Bosky]

very cool

[@WoolyCow]

how about a LO O O O O ONG mandarin...

[@Jandodev]

Fruit grow maximum angle test plz :)

[@Hecticgon]

4:45 haha funny lemon joke, cause you weren’t **sour** with the lemons.

[@ChristopherFalletta-rh9jf]

I hope those molds are food safe

[@Inthewyld]

Disney does the to get some shaped fruit. Mickey shaped pumpkin. Their molds are a lot thicker

[@TheChosenOrange]

0:07 hey! why am i a square?!

[@malyck]

Man's alive

[@danniellek8132]

no cross section of the mushroom orange? D: