]Most Terrifying Machining Setup Plus AI Impact

Does Adam see AI affecting physical makers? What's been his most terrifying machining setup? In this livestream excerpt, Adam answers these questions from Tested members Michał Rogowski and UncouthJ, whom we thank for their support!
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[@mattsoto4867]

@adamsavage what where you during comicon yesterday

[@cannednolan8194]

Diamond tipped drill bits. You would of been done in minutes. I can’t believe my fish tank hobby showed me tools you had not seen. You have all size and cheap sets online.

[@immortaldeadfast5530]

I used to break the bottoms out of glass bottles all the time as a kid, its easy. All you need is a 16-penny nail and the cap that came with the bottle. Put the nail in the bottle point down, hold the cap on with your thumb and shake it. Presto, if not the cleanest.

[@justinanderson267]

I had a friend who liked to cut bottles with Dremel to make bongs and stuff. He would just fill his kitchen sink full of water, fully submerge the bottle and that gives it less of a chance to shatter. Then he just went at it with a Dremel.

[@mixup2216]

Do you have a link to the finished commercial you made the bottle for? I really want to see what the final effect looked like with this special bottle. Was it successful?

[@ssgtmole8610]

I am really enjoying the disembodied leash operating in the background of this video. 👻🐕‍🦺🤣 The lathe is getting a workout.💪

[@patriottowing4973]

Came to comments to see if I’m the only one that noticed it moving by itself lol

[@taylor0wen]

@@patriottowing4973 same! 😂 Some small dog I’m guessing??

[@taylor0wen]

“Good shake sweetie” lol

[@PapaKampe]

Armature telescope makers use a method called trepanning to cut holes in glass. Essentially, you cut a series of notches in the end of a steel tube (think castellations on a castle turret), and make a dam of tape, putty, plaster, etc., around the hole site to contain an abrasive slurry during drilling (cutting might be a better term). The trepanning tool is turned at low RPM, and, IIRC, just relies on the weight of the tool itself to accomplish cutting. To prevent chipping around the edges (similar to tear-out with a saw blade), it was common to first put a layer of plaster on each side of the glass. This is how they make very precise holes at the bottom/center of delicate telescope mirrors ad other optical elements.

[@1pcfred]

Copper tube works good with the abrasive glass method. The abrasive sticks in the copper. You have to keep the abrasive in there as you're drilling but it's manageable.

[@UncleKennysPlace]

I have done that. Of course, you can just order a diamond hole cutter of the correct size; I used one to drill through a tile/cement board/tile sandwich.

[@1pcfred]

@@UncleKennysPlace I do not happen to have a Perrier bottle on hand to measure precisely what size is needed but I seriously doubt it is available to just order. It is very likely a non-standard size that would have to be special ordered and custom made. The lead time on a job like that can be considerable. I doubt that Jamie's clients would have been particularly accommodating to that schedule.

[@ronblack7870]

this is how egyptians cut holes through rock. except they used bronze tubes thousands of years ago.

[@1pcfred]

@@ronblack7870 I don't think Egyptians had access to the best abrasives.

[@simonlegood4560]

I would love to see the glass demo. this was wildly entertaining.

[@TLZ]

Look up "adam savage favorite tools: glass cutting rotary tool." Yes, Adam already did a demo of this 2 years ago.

[@MrDlenrek]

I love how Adam got transported back to that Perrier project and took us all back along with him for his story!

[@perpetualtech5906]

I love seeing the happiness and excitement on your face when talking about making and the tools involved. Thank you for Mythbusters ( I was a teen when that was originally aired ) and everything you do here.

[@joshleyshock4801]

You can get diamond hole saws. I've used them to cut through stone and glass before. They're fantastic.

[@SystemX1983]

Got a cheap set of those to drill into hollow glass blocks, to put led strings in there. Running them on a drill press, cooled with a spray bottle of water, they go through it like a hot knife in butter 😅

[@Budaniel]

Your story about how you went about drilling that hole in the bottom of a Perrier bottle sounds like a great example of something you've talked about a few times now; where the more you learn about something, the more that knowledge and experience - often such a valuable tool and ally - can actually limit what you're willing to try (and sometimes succeed at).

[@daftwulli6145]

The whole time he told that story I was thinking man the worst thing that can happen to you when you do such a shady set up is succeeding with it. See if you fail you realize pretty quick yea my set up was shit, i should have been smarter, and you find a different way. But when you succeed you will try this again , since hey it worked, and if goes wrong the second time , you will try a third time cause hey it worked that one time. It creates this failure loop and it takes you way longer to realize it was your shoddy set up all along and it should have never worked that first time, you just got lucky, or unlucky depending how you wanna look at it. But it will take you many attempts, most of which will fail, to work out you need to find a better way to do this. The worst part is those occasional succeses will egg you on to keep doing it way past reason. So much easier and better to fail right away.

[@dominicknepper2082]

@@daftwulli6145 Exactly. Ask someone who knows what they're doing and you'll get better results much faster. Or keep screwing around, failing, come up with bad solutions, and trying again. Had they called a glass artist in SF that day they could have had a dozen bottles done in 10 minutes.

[@daftwulli6145]

@@dominicknepper2082 Yea sadly the maker pride often gets in your way there. If you are as accomplished and good as adam is you think you can just figure it out, since very often you absolutely can. On top of that there often are time constraints, and you think figuring it out yourself will be faster then being on the phone trying to find someone, and then go to their shop and have them show you. Most professionals would simply offer to do the job for you, but showing you how to do it ? And that on a very short notice ?? While he has shbit to do ?? Yea that is gonna be a no from most shops. Last but not least constantly outsourcing things is expensive, and most of the time you CAN figure it out yourself, so that is always your go to. You won´t know ahead of time this is when you shoulkd ask a pro. Usually the only reason to do that is if getting it wrong will get dangerous pretty quick

[@QuantumPolagnus]

I was nearly crying with laughter at the impression of the sound of the glass cutting, that was such an amazing story!

[@traumgeist]

I’ve always had good results using a diamond burr chucked in a Foredom flex shaft and using water to cool the glass. You’re not drilling, you’re GRINDING that hole. Grind the smallest hole possible through the glass, then grind it out larger.

[@EverettWilson]

Not gunna lie -- that drill press setup is more reasonable than I feared. But I knew exactly what sketchy lawnmower-esque trepanning tool was going to come out. The first time I put my hands on one of those, I felt like I should go play blindfolded lawn darts to be somewhere safer.

[@olsonspeed]

The Fly Cutter of Death, very useful and equally terrifying, extreme caution required.

[@olsonspeed]

@Austin V Papp Your wife is very correct in her assessment.

[@joepie221]

Like one of the other commenters said, a brass plug and lapping compound is a much quieter way to do this. But I feel your pain. Now step aside and show us what you have tied to the bridgeport handle. Most would assume its a dog, but we are dealing with Adam Savage here. Could be anything.

[@bophades9464]

Here's a crazy example, Adam. I spoke with a NASA engineer whose lab is actively using AI to design mission parts for outer space. They manually set desired parameters and let the AI both produce and test their part through digital simulations. After weeks of compiling, they're finding that first output to be as reliable as the nth iteration manually produced by dozens of engineers. I think the tools will be there for makers who desire them very, very soon (if not already).

[@rsalbreiter]

Most AI isn't truly artificial intelligence but it's getting great at compiling info and making good suggestions. I think it'll be great at making suggestions, helping with measurements and jumping off points but I don't think it'll ever be able to analyze, diagnose and correct an issue without human involvement

[@VoltMX57]

@@rsalbreiter Most AI? - You mean all "AI".................

[@minnesotasteve]

That’s called a for loop.

[@bophades9464]

@@rsalbreiter Of course. "AI" as it's been called since ChatGPT hit the media is really just a whole bunch of great libraries compiling scrubbed or placed data. The example I mentioned uses software that's been designed by engineers and trained to run through gradients they manually defined. I'm just curious what happens when there's so many automation tools that being a layman in anything becomes pointless, when you can just have something procedurally generated that's better than what you could make.

[@agg42]

"generative design".

[@rikou1986]

When you demo you should use the jank and then the new carbide bit so we can hear the nightmare you endured.

[@MichaelKiaunis]

This was recorded a month ago so we might not be getting that demo haha

[@HRRRRRDRRRRR]

@@MichaelKiaunis "how do upload schedules work"

[@sinebar]

I would used a large OD brass or copper tube and a course grit lapping compound. In fact I've used this very approach in cutting holes in panes of glass. I cut serrated edges in the working end of the copper tubing so the lapping compound would have a place to get in and do its job. If I remember correctly, it took about 15 min to cut a one inch circle out of a 1/8" glass pane.

[@maxximumb]

Fill the bottle with water prior to drilling. The downward force of the drill bit / cutter is offset by the water in the bottle. It also acts as a heat sink to reduce the chances of thermal shock.

[@PhiloYT1]

Adam has done so much and is such a good storyteller, that I was fascinated to hear this even though I have never and will never do anything remotely like it!

[@justadddiesel]

I had the same thoughts

[@timfrench5044]

One of the earliest ways to cut a block of stone was to use a wire and a slurry of diamond grit. The wire would be pulled back and forth thus dragging the diamond grit against the stone. First done by hand and later by machine. I believe that this is still used in some places to cut stone in quarries. Somewhat similar is the use of a diamond grit and oil slurry with a cylinder to rub it against the glass. It cuts through the glass rather quickly, little pressure is needed, and the slurry itself (being oil and diamond grit) lubricates the bit. It is quick enough to not require any additional medium to carry away the heat. With flat glass, a small dam of clay is used to contain the slurry, with the bottle, it is likely that the shape of the bottle would prevent the slurry from dissipating. Diamond grit is readily available from lapidary supply stores. For a cylinder, a piece of pipe would work. I've cut (actually ground away) gem glass with diamond laps and it goes pretty quickly.

[@kenbrown2808]

the modern quarry cutter uses a toothed rubber belt instead of the wire.

[@gsyguy1]

cut glass with a diamond ceramic hole saw ,I use them in plumbing when fitting showers or whatever in cubicles that are tiled ,theres the ones that need a little water and the waterless ones ,quiet simple to do today compared to when I were a lad .. 😄

[@starchitin]

Mad props for admitting you haven't thought about it enough to give a real opinion about AI.... most would just give a knee-jerk reaction, so that honesty is refreshing.

[@Smashlynne13]

Adam, based on your story it sounded like glass wasn’t a material you were familiar with manipulating at the time. Any cool stories on learning a material on the fly or how diving deep on new or new to you material changed the making game for you?

[@fredrikjohansson]

I’m planning to buy a guitar and paint it in a groovy flower power pattern. Used Midjourney to make a few examples as references for the paint job, and they were excellent!

[@GioDraft]

I asked A.I for a quite fan shape that operates smoothly and it gave me a 3D model of Sade, the singer...

[@Lumibear.]

That was entertain and inform at its peak, I learned some useful stuff, thanks Adam, I look forward to the glass cutting demo.

[@bitwizard6526]

I like watching the leash in the background go on a little adventure out of frame.

[@patriottowing4973]

Yeah what. The hell is it moving for ?

[@Standbackforscience]

I find it interesting that most people instantly believe AI will change everything, but almost no one can give a concrete example of actual problems AI will solve. People are also convinced AI will solve problems in other domains, but not their own. F. ex programmers think artists will be use AI for art, and artists think programmers would use it for coding, but not a single one (of any skill) seems to have a use of it in their own domain. The existing things that AI "solves" are all trivial, like generating tacky paintings, or writing programs that are essentially just simple functions, of which there are hundreds of online examples already. AI didn't write a program, it searched the internet, then fed the top X results through a custom-made behind-the-scenes code checker (which they only just added btw, AI code from just months ago was appalling), then dazzled you with the answer. They didn't write a system that can code, they wrote something that copies from enough sources to hide the fact it's copying.

[@pumirya]

I have to agree with so many others that I learned so much from watching these videos, and the othersTested puts out..

[@JuliusUnique]

8:05 as a tip: doing it below water might make the bottle not shatter since it's even possible to literally cut glass with a scissor under water without it breaking (source: the action lab on YT)

[@loser-nobody]

"Now hold on.." >Show and tell with Adam Savage?! **

[@FectacularSpail]

As someone with a very limited "workshop" (I'm talking spare bedroom in an apartment, with the main power tools being a 3D printer, power drill, and a Dremel drill press lol) I have definitely gotten some use out of those bits you mentioned.

[@fredbrooks1386]

Today was a complete success! I learned something new and any day where you learn something new is a success!

[@Crypt1cmyst1c]

I was literally just watching your video last night on the glass grinding bits where you covered the perrier bottle drilling setup

[@AttilaTheBastard]

I love how you still do Jamies voice after all these years, needed an instant grinectomy.

[@Sinjinator]

😂

[@FortyHurts]

A "grinectomy" would be a surgical removal of your grin.

[@jamesalbrecht395]

Adam, for your hole in the bottom of a bottle effort, did you try a diamond edged hole saw bit? I have used them on all sorts of ceramic, stone, porcelain, etc. With a little care on the starting once it scribes the circle it cuts nicely if you use a water drip to dampen the vibrations.

[@sithus1966]

Assuming at the time those were available.

[@Da5idc]

I was thinking the same thing And diamond cutters have been around for ever Though, maybe not in the average hardware store But then, movie guys can get almost anything 😊

[@fastatheist2175]

I have also used many diamond hole saw drills to cut into glass blocks. The largest was a 3 inch saw using play-doh to make a dam and water, plus lubricant, to cut two holes in a 4x4x6 glass block. It took about 20 minutes.

[@AquaPeet]

Yeah I've seen many guys do this for their aquariums (non tempered glass only!!) to create holes for the in- and outlet for a sump (water filtration). Only downside is that the moment you break through, it always breaks pieces away with it so the inside doesn't have a perfectly smooth edge.

[@chrisunderhill8853]

carbide hole saw bit we use them to cut hole's in glass block tiles for plumbing. also diamond coated bits work good too.

[@tartanphoto]

Exactly!

[@davidgutting4317]

Hey Adam, the next time you get into a glass cutting operation, reach out to a local glass blower or one of the Berkeley scientific glass suppliers or even a glass artist. There is an entire world of tools and equipment specifically for glass. I learned to mill glass from a glass artist Latachazar who showed me some diamond tiped coring bits that have to be submerged in a pumice solution with a putty dam around it. Your setup was extremely dangerous and way too difficult and time consuming. The hole cutter you showed is one of the most dangerous tools in my shop and has thrown parts across the room and stripped the gears on my drill press more than any other tool I own. Paint it red and mark it with a “use only in a desperate last resort”. It’s not worth it.

[@squeethesane]

If it worked, and didn't incur expenses greater than the investment cost in the proper tools, then it was absolutely worth it.

[@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy]

@@squeethesane Tell that to the electric bill and time wasted using up the shop / tools to do other things. If you make something for a client make it efficient and end result presentable otherwise don't bother. If there is something I hate the most are hacks or people who barely have the brain capacity to make up things on the go let alone present an actual solution. 'hey it worked' it worked-ish now but it wont next time and it causes series of problems on the long run. People who do things as a hobby and are masochists don't matter nor count because when they say something was worth it they either lie mostly to themselves or are so full of themselves that they fail to realize there is a world out there ... You live and learn but if you lack common sense and logic then you will never learn just hack through life and the end result will speak for itself ... And for OP I agree it's just we are talking about crafts that don't exist anymore in the grand scheme of things. 'Your local' craftperson today is often countries apart in some hole no one knows about because A that person doesn't advert nor have time to spam online B the people don't bother to help the shop (if he even have one) ... We resorted to how to videos and DIY then use common sense and logic narrowing down which one is more efficient and useful. Also if you can even source or replicate tools for it. Often you run across pros showing you the wrong way of doing it then some nobody in some dump India or whathave you place out there shows you how it's actually done in matter of minute if even that much.

[@squeethesane]

@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy you're demanding people follow structure for a job that doesn't follow it. Same what-if though, you hire an effects lab to fill a bottle and suddenly they want you to pay for specialists... Fuck that lab and everyone working there.

[@squeethesane]

...Check up on their progress and they're watching KZbin videos...

[@rlaxton666]

Or, a modern cheap solution would be to just use a cheap and nasty diamond grit tile cutting hole saw. They can be obtained in sets for next to nothing and just glide through this sort of work. High speed, low pressure, water lubricant, done!

[@scottpatton216]

Not sure if I'm remembering this right, but back in the day we used to do a bar trick that blew the bottom out of a beer bottle. It may have been particular brands. Fill the bottle with water, hold it around the mouth of the bottle by making a ring with thumb and forefinger. Smack the top of the bottle with the palm of your other hand. With enough force (though less than you might imagine) and usually multiple attempts, the bottom of the bottle would blow off. There was some finesse involved with the striking. Some people had more success than others. Additional failure modes included breaking the bottle into pieces. It seemed like a fairly dangerous form of entertainment, but I never saw anyone get cut. Sore palms were common. I'm not sure if being drunk is a requirement because I don't recall that test being performed.

[@ironmanmachine]

They make diamond grit hole saws for drilling holes in ceramics. They were available in the 90s as well. Also, a piece of copper tube with cerium or diamond grit works in a pinch.

[@z3rotollranc3]

I can remember in grade 9 electrical making a wine bottle lamp for my Mom for Mother's day. I only had to drill a small hole for the wire in the side of it and we had the proper bit for that by wow was that ever an unpleasant noise and I can't imagine having to listen to that for three hours, never mind the entire day for the second.

[@hayleymichaela4383]

I love hearing adam talk about how he cut a hole in the bottom of the Perrier bottle, I just did that with a root beer bottle by putting it upside down in a leather boot so I could hold onto it “safely” (didn’t use a drill press though) and just kept putting water on it as I drilled. Took me about 5 minutes, but still pretty sketchy

[@stevetarrant3898]

Back in the 90s i was cutting holes in glass bottles, rum bottles, jack daniel bottles etc. I would use copper tubing as a drill in a drill press and use lapping paste as a cutting compound. After a bit of trial and error, i could cut a hole in about 10 minutes. Just had to fine-tune the pressure applied, lots of compound and not rush. Would make a great hole with virtually no chipping.

[@blakester3043]

I believe the hole cutting tool you were fearing is commonly referred to as a “knuckle buster”

[@loser-nobody]

There's something to appreciate about the intelligence of a colloquial name that evokes visceral reactions as a safety warning... my fingers recoil into fists just thinking about it!

[@andyrobson7686]

Oh Lord, Adam! I've used a circle cutter just like yours to make centering rings for high power rockets. Imagining using one to cut glass without the central drill bit, and your drxcription if the noise made me actually cringe in my seat. I couldn't make it out to see you at the Con in Indianapolis this weekend, hopefully you do another con out here, maybe the Chicago Comicon?

[@leonardyork5569]

Apparently it makes it much easier and safer if the glass object is submerged under water. To test this you would need to put a glass or a bottle in a tub of water under your drill press with a diamond tip drill.

[@ElvesofZion]

Some ways I see how "AI" could affect physical making: - Generated geometry being 3D printed - Automated analysis of materials for flaws - Automated analysis is stock/lumber for optimum cut lists - automated speed, pressure, cooling, etc based on watching the material - Automated tool selection like examing a bolts diameter and threads and then it picking the correct drill bit an tap to make a matching threaded hole - automated plans for furniture that fits in a specific place

[@lamMeTV]

Thank you so much for uploading! You are still an amazing father figure

[@justadddiesel]

I know the exact frustration level you were talking about I have two or three of those days a year as a truck driver hauling hazardous materials.

[@andycoppes]

You can knock out the bottom of a bottle with something like a TIG rod or possibly a straight piece of coat hanger- you have to hit directly in the corner, but the geometry of the glass will work for you. Not sure if the specific bottles would leave a concealing lip though. Betting you'd have good results with a couple dozen empty bottles to try.

[@13nillo]

When I saw the title and Adam said "Oh I have it here" I knew it had to be a widowmaker hole saw. Those things are just terrifying. Mine is spraypainted neon green bc the black just disappears.

[@paulvamos7319]

Thank you Adam (I almost called you Jamie! 😂) and crew for sharing this and I know exactly what you are talking about as it took me about a baker's dozen tries to get through glass with a hole saw!😬 Every time I got almost all the way through, crash of shattering glass, after 5 days I finally had a 1 inch diam. circle of 1/2 inch glass that was the perfect window for a WW2 cargo/transport ship in 1/6 scale I was making of fiberglass, wood and glass. took me all of my senior year! I got an A+😁

[@Zhaggysfaction]

That hole-drill I have used. It's a scary thing. I build guitars and in acoustic guitars around the sound hole is what is called a rosette, the usually decorative thing but it has some structural function as well. Both the sound hole and many times edges of the rosette hole are made with that same hole-drill bit.

[@ianrigby7395]

I REALLY want to see you drill into the bottom of the bottle Adam. Please do so as a show and tell! But please demo both ways, the soul destroying one Vs the super cool quick version. It would be fascinating to see the difference on camera :)

[@drew79s]

It's genuinely interesting listening to these things... I take a lot of this sort of thing for granted, but what you've got there is a tool called a trepanning tool (once you remove the drill). A trepanning tool is one of the two "right" ways to do the job you're describing... You'd want to set it up on a milling machine with a controlled vertical feed and make wooden V blocks or maybe soft jaws if you're feeling motivated, not to use the method you described, because taper locking puts huge stresses on things, and trepanning is a very low load cutting process, so you need nearly no workholding for it in a light cut application... Carbide isn't the right material for cutting glass either, you want diamond, it's much more effective... The best way to machine what you've described, though, is to set the bottle up in a lathe with a 6 jaw chuck, to chuck it up with lead jaw slippers (folded up lead covers for your chuck jaws) and use a tool post grinder with a diamond wheel or diamond burr. Dremel sells diamond burrs for their systems and there are endless diamond wheels available for almost any size of grinder, they're used for tile cutting as well.

[@thirtythreeeyes8624]

Need to use a diamond coated bit. Makes it easy I did it as middle schooler making water pipes haha, also keep water on the glass when cutting for cooling and it makes the cut cleaner because glass chips less when under water.

[@tomallo99]

I'm already impacted, it helped me understand electromagnets for a project I'm doing

[@peterww3106]

I’d love to see that demo. As you say so much easier these days. And it’s so easy to cut a wine bottle in half to make a glass or vase. Make it so please!

[@HipNerd]

Don’t know if they were around when you did that commercial, but you can buy diamond drill bit hole saws. I’ve successfully used them to cut holes in the sides of glass bottles in just a minute or two.

[@CalderwoodPercussion]

Oh, man, I feel your pain! In college, I used to make bongs out of wine and liquor bottles, and I had like no tools, so I used grinding stones on a dremel tool to make the necessary holes. Had to be REALLY careful to manage heat, otherwise they'd crack. It was rough, but they turned out really cool, ya know, when I didn't crack them, lol!

[@1pcfred]

A large part of success is the bottle you're drilling. Thick ones seem to be sturdier to me. But yeah can't cause heat stress. You can split the work up between the stem and the carb. Work one for a bit then switch to the other.

[@D0J0Master]

Awe man adam, I wish you learned about diamond bit hole bits. I drill holes into glass bottles/pots all the time and it takes less then 10 mins!! I couldnt imagine using a normal drill bit, owch

[@FlexDRG]

Wouldn't diamond powder coated spoon drills work better? They are readily available and work for glass and ceramic. Drilled trough glaced ceramic tiles with those.

[@davidbeck5665]

Diamond hole saw. Search for them. As long as the glass is not tempered they work great.

[@RailcarEng]

Hmm, diamond tipped hole saw? I have used them there tools to cut holes in tile.. (and glass bricks)

[@xenomorph_lv-4262]

What about those stone grinding bit? Did you not have any of those? Or, carbide/diamond, hole/core bit?

[@derekjenkinson8014]

I used Chatgpt to write a gcode script to create a design and then amended it on the fly from the initial result. Ran it through a simulator and it worked like a charm.

[@eatmarth]

I wonder if you could have used the pressure of water to pop the bottom of that Perrier bottle off. I know I've seen people do that with other bottles by hitting the opening while a significant amount of water is inside.

[@thetommantom]

I'm sure it will be a big deal at first then it will fo crazy with a ton of bad stuff but out of all the bad stuff there will probably emerge a few revolutionary ideas and if you intuitively know or have experience I think you should be able to recognize and identify where the good parts and adapt and you will have your experience plus these new ideas and it should only add a much as you can or want to understand down that rabbit hole

[@bitemetimes2]

I was once cutting 100mm holes into the fiberglass shoulders of my dalek with one of those hole cutters, when one side decided to fly off of the bar and stuck me right in the leg, I've never used one since. terrifying things

[@balashovev]

I'm doing a prop with interactive components based on Arduino and some peripherals, ChatGPT helps find information that are hard to google and speeds up common knowledge research "How to calibrate digital compass", "How long to I expose PSB in ferric chloride", "how to connect 5V sensor to 3.3V analogue input", "write me a function to compensate magnetometer values for tilt" and so on and so on. I'm doing all that for the first time, and AI saves me hours of frustration and not knowing what to do

[@1pcfred]

I can tell you that if it is taking you more than two minutes to etch a PCB then you're doing it wrong. Bring the acid up to fuming temperature and aerate it. Get one of those god awful 12V tire inflator compressors. The pulsing air they put out is perfect. Then use a spray can nozzle on the end of a thin piece of tube in your tank. If your nose is itching then what you're doing is right. Might want to increase ventilation at that point. Professionally they use the pump spray method. Getting a pump that can handle hot acid is a bit of a trick though. Use a bain marie type of setup to heat your etchant up. Just put your acid container in another container of water that you heat. You don't even have to measure the temperature. When you see fumes coming off the acid you're good. Then turn your heat off and it'll stay the temperature you need to do an etch. Remember it's going to take less than 2 minutes. But if memory serves me it's around 115-120F? Just look for fumes. Pro tip drill one mounting hole and put a tie wrap in it. That way you have a way of lifting the board up. Everything else besides that is just janky. Using tongs or what have you.

[@PhilG999]

I have that same cutter! One trick you could have used is to hang a weight on the down feed handle of the drill press. I've seen telescope mirror blanks cut that way and it takes days! 🤔

[@kw9849]

That was my first thought, rig up a weight and save yourself a whole lot of misery!

[@user-yx1hr6gs8y]

Thank you so much for all of your presentations. On the AI question and whether humanity will survive largely depends on whether the creators of it achieve a strong form of morality.. I am of the opinion that the AI beings will just up and leave for their own place where we can not interfere with them.

[@jasonvangeuns9062]

Right at end of video reminded me of my grandma. Growing up she would often get like a drinking glass or vase and yeah kinda carve say these pictures out of them.

[@CaryTheEagle]

I was confused in fusion 360 and decided to ask chat chatGPT how to create a bolt circle. It did a great job explaining exactly how to do it and write out a set of step-by-step instructions on exactly how to do it. There are already tutorial videos out there on how to do this, but it was really nice to just have all the steps written out and it made it really easy to follow. AI assisted cad programs could be amazing for everyday people to become designers and makers of things.

[@micharogowski7040]

Thank you Adam for answering my question about the AI. It was a great pleasure. I was thinking about it as well, and the biggest change I can predict is AI solving all mechanical problems for you, so you can focus on design and assembly. For example you provide an image of an object and it finds all the parts you will need, creates plans how you have to cut / machine it and how all the joints will look like. Thanks!

[@Diegohall7875]

That was a great question! I was thinking that AI can act like "removable memory card" for my brain so I can ask it stuff like, "what are the correct welder settings for x" or "what part # do I need for this machine" or "what speed / feed settings work best for this material" and that sort of stuff that my brain can't keep up with.

[@BryanDoesCinema]

I only cut glass when submerged in water, I have no idea how you got away with that, that is awesome!!

[@wobblysauce]

That glass sound you don't forget that is for sure.

[@billruss6704]

If you fill a bottle with water till the surface tension makes it over the top, hold the bottle with one hand and slam the top with the palm of your other hand the hydraulic force with blow the bottom clean off.

[@ZOEng99]

i cut holes in glass regularly with diamond coated hole saws.....come in a huge variety of sizes and are relatively cheap

[@tcs007]

Can confirm. Those double helix carbide bits go through glass like butter. Well, not butter. But they work really well.

[@TesserId]

Went looking for that Perrier commercial. No luck.

[@tacticooldennis]

I think the most basic way is that AI will design some costumes and in turn will have to adjust how to make them. I wonder if AI could design and also print future 3D-printed models.

[@ArcticFox63]

I can see the attenuator on the bench behind to the right, is there a video coming up on it?

[@jimintaos]

Back in the old days of working glass they used copper tubes, mineral spirits and abrasive grit to drill holes in glass. Now there are all kinds of diamond hole saws. Wish you could have given me a call way back then, I could have saved you a ton of time and grief.

[@jasonhaaksma8419]

A diamond hole saw (mostly used for tiles) makes short work of cutting a hole in glass.

[@joedatuknow]

thanks for the video i clicked this video once an it showed me an old one i had seen befor from the calipera

[@Jakeu1701]

Couldn't you use a ceramic bit to drill a small-ish hole into the bottom or side, feed the liquid in using tubing and speed up the footage? If ramping the video was not an option, making a series of small holes as a kind of grate/filter and affix a larger hose to cover the holes could also work. Maybe that would reduce the risk of breaking the bottle?

[@quintinsmits]

I remember sitting for hours drilling holes in tile for light switches in the bathroom using one of those drills. Tile in a tub of water. I must have cracked 3 tiles before I finally got it right.

[@1pcfred]

So the fourth time was a charm?

[@bobibiboo]

Would a diamond hole saw do the trick? It is perfect to drill holes in ceramic, but I never tried glass.

[@1pcfred]

I think their greatest challenge was they needed a very specific size hole that likely was not a standard size. Making a custom diamond hole saw poses special challenges of its own. But they could have done that if they'd used the slurry method. You take any soft metal and spin it in a slurry of abrasive and it'll grind through glass. Jamie has a lathe so they could have made a tool out of brass.

[@chelseawhite7117]

I love that Adam loves Tom Scott, I want to see the two of them interacting in some way or on some video now

[@Clynikal]

I would love to see the bottle hole demo

[@ekij133]

"This is a hole cutter" - No it isn't it's "The spinny thing of death". Those things like to throw the cutter arm off at great speed.

[@1pcfred]

Why would it ever be spinning at great speed? The speed tools should rotate at is a well known quantity. Or it should be. This is the mathematical formula for calculating it Surface Feet Per Minute = (PI * DIA * RPM) / 12 Every material to be cut and tool to cut it combination has a range of acceptable speeds. High Speed Steel cutting wood for instance is ~200 SFPM. Now let's say you are cutting a 2" diameter hole You'd want to turn no faster than 382 RPM. Which is not a great speed.

[@Dhaiwon]

From my understanding of current AI, they seem to "single facets". Like Image AI knows how to match words and language to colours spread on a surface(with no inherent understanding of what those colors are, which is supposedly why hands are often funky or why having multiple characters in an image makes it harder get it right). Similarly, ChatGPT seems to operate over language and information, with some understanding of what the language means. Ie, if you ask it to write a story about a person involved a specific pose, sometimes it seems to have an understanding about how that pose would affect the story, but often times it fails. So while it understands the words and might have picked up some idea of what it means, it lacks a 3d-understanding of it. The day someone produces an AI which is focused on understanding 3d space, this is most likely going to affect most manufacturing and makers in a big way. Of course, once the AI's starts to get multifaceted in a real way... Yeah, well.

[@badsamaritan8223]

I'm shocked you didn't use the string+alcohol+fire+quench technique.

[@ronblack7870]

how about a diamond hole saw from mcmaster carr? do it with coolant . or make a mold and make a plastic bottle

[@Sharklops]

I wonder if one of those diamond annular cutters would work (I guess the trick would be finding one big enough)

[@ThatOneGuy71069]

I was waiting to see Maggie come into frame the whole time! Love seeing the pup kid with ya! Gotta give the audience some cute pup b roll!

[@stephengrice1678]

Reminds me the invention of the transistor. It took years of incremental improvement to rule the world. A I may only take a much shorter timescale.

[@eternity_warriors]

One way to do - exampled in IronMan - you let AI simulate experiments, and calculate most suitable: Shapes Stress-points-distribution Material-science Chemical-science All kind of balancing complicated equasions for 100+ parameters for certain applications.

[@sithbadboy]

my first thought was why not use a diamond caoted hole saw like used for cutting holes in tile

[@1pcfred]

You'd need one the diameter you needed.

[@stephensimpson5283]

Ahhh, the fly cutter! One of the only tools I really get scared using.