Turning industrial materials into art

[@TonyFabris]

Massive props for pronouncing "Giger-esque" correctly. Every time someone pronounces his name correctly, a demon gets its phallic, pallid gray wings.

[@TiredKnitter]

I appreciate the pivot to perfume review videos.

[@Attoparsec]

The funny thing is, 2 of the 3 ingredients listed on the Tap Magic Aluminum Cutting Fluid SDS are actually used in perfumes: aliphatic ester and cinnamaldehyde

[@christopherkelley2061]

You really cemented the industrial design with that concrete aesthetic, that was the right step for that part of the project. Also liked how you chained together woodworking, arduinos, and molding.

[@realnutteruk1]

add a fifth motor, to create 4 loops, and it could also tell the time! Maybe not always, but it could interrupt regular programming every few minutes and spool the chain around such that the length of each loop represented each digit of a digital clock.

[@jonasl.4810]

I was thinking this all the time. Just have a ruler-ish scale between each of the motors and have it hang down a certain amount each for hours, minutes and maybe also seconds. This would be a great clock

[@realnutteruk1]

@@jonasl.4810 exactly what I had in mind!

[@julianoberhofer3550]

I would have made this as a clock. Add one more Motor for Hours and Minutes. Or 3 more for hh:mm:ss. Also adding corresponding numbers between the motors. How to tell time? The numbers that are just above the chain. But as is, nicely done.

[@engineerable]

Not everything needs to be a clock 😂, although it would make a cool one. The final motion was inspired by nature's clock, the tide. To add on to your clock idea, hollow sprockets can roll inside the bottom of the chain. The numbers are viewed through the hole in the sprockets. Or the sprockets in the bottom loop have numbers engraved on them, and the number at the top indicates the time.

[@DanielSimu]

This is super cool! Both the end result and the documentation :D

[@pacman10182]

there's no reason the core has to come out if it was a hollow MDF box with threaded inserts, the front and back plates could be mounted directly to it

[@maxximumb]

I could imagine something like this as a clock. The piece is beautiful.

[@smellsofbikes]

I love the overall project but I'm really impressed by your demo illustration, where the model stepper was moving the right amount as a function of the model step line. Also yay old english dymo t-shirt!

[@Attoparsec]

That was a fun animation! I actually set it up as a pair of expression controls for dir and step, with events directly on the timeline, and then wrote expressions to draw the graph lines and do all the stepper animations in response. A bit more work up front, but then I could easily tweak the timing of everything to feel right. Plus, just more fun to do the scripting than all the finicky micro-editing!

[@smellsofbikes]

@@Attoparsec watching that run is *almost* as pleasing as watching the final thirty seconds of the full video, where the loops are doing their thing. So snaky.

[@alexanderwatson9845]

That's really cool

[@MCTheTrash]

Cool project. I was wondering if it might look even better if the chain was in constant motion as all the change occur. Did you ever test that out?

[@nigeypants5500]

Was thinking the same thing. Would be nice as a big loop that's constantly spinning. Would need a lot of length

[@starlite528]

I absolutely could see this in a museum of contemporary art!

[@calbars]

Massive! This somehow remind me of the Norns in Götterdämmerung. Patrice Chereau would have like it in his 1976 Brutalist Wagner Ring. VSCode is nice but I spend more time in Helix editor nowadays except when fixing merge conflicts.

[@w0rthless6]

beautiful work man. hugely inspiring project. ive been working on a few sculptural works that incorporate roller chain and you elevated it to such an elegant conclusion.

[@TankR]

Small addendum to servos: they dont so much know where they're at per se, they can detect if their position is above or below where the incoming signal tells them they should be. There is a potentiometer inside that tracks with the output shaft (thus why you dont see servos with greater than 270-ish sweep....except constant rotation servos, which dont have positional capabilities and are more motors with an H bridge that spin in one direction or the other but not necessarily to an exact position). The internal logic compares this potentiometer value with the incoming signal (via a complex capacitor discharge voltage divider topology...its not important, but interesting if one is interested in how they go from pwm input to motion and position), and via an H-bridge if pot > signal turn this direction, if pot < signal turn that direction. Without a signal (and assuming no EMI on the signal wire that 'looks like' a signal) they'll usually jump to the center position on start up. Its usually best to assume as close to the powered off neutral state in the signal before power on to avoid much of the jumping. Also remember, servo signals are one direction, from controller to servo. The controller just sprays out a PWM signal and the duty cycle tells the servo where in its sweep it should be. They're pretty complex little doodads when you get into the nitty gritty of how they do the voodoo they do do. And the explanations of how they work tends to be over simplified leading to confusion. It took me a good week or so studying JUST servo control and operation to get my head around it, so its totally understandable for explanations to get crossed from time to time. Its not an easy thing to explain in a 5 second elevator pitch. Either way, with that bit of pedantry out of the way, still, awesome content mate! A little ticked off that KZbin took so long to recommend your channel, going to have to troll around your backlog a bit, real interesting stuff in there! Keep on keeping on, man! 😎👍

[@natezwainlesk]

Where's the link to the unlisted video of it just running? Preferably set up so that it can be looped seamlessly?

[@StripeyType]

I think I said so on Mastodon but YES. Very Ganson'y! Also very,very cool

[@gabrielcain8975]

Sweet project!

[@jorsanflo]

The intro captions 😂😂😂

[@irkedoff]

💜

[@TheChillieboo]

Killer!