Please don’t limit your future builds to only projects the common maker can achieve. Being shown ideas that are currently out of our reach is a fantastic way to stretch our imaginations, and it provides inspiration to grow our skills and climb out of our comfort zones! Keep it up Zack!
Also Hard Agree. If I wanted to make this I’ll know what mistakes not to make. But great to see the thought processes. Might find inspiration for other projects
Came here to say this. Also if a proprietary project gains enough traction, you could decided if you want to dedicate the time to a hobby compatible iteration, or hell, even make something to sell.
"You do not deserve to make progress just because you put in the work." That's a hell of a life lesson in the most straight forward wording, should be taught to everyone doing anything.
While I enjoy seeing you design and make things that I could also print, I love to see your creativity go wild and do your thing. I don’t think you should need to worry if it’s accessible for people/hobbyists to make. You inspire me no matter if I can make the thing you’re making or not.
100%, the occasional inspiration for my own projects is great (Gridfinity is the reason I bought my first printer) but mostly I'm here because I just wanna see smart people make cool shit.
@@hellterminatorthis. Even if one thinks their work can’t be of use to others, it can’t hurt to post it! The greatest thing about Open Source is how others can adapt things in really useful ways! (Also can just be used for inspiration/parts of other projects) But TLDR: No you don’t need to limit your projects to other’s needs (within reason, no gilded doorknobs please), but do still Open Source all the things!
I need this in my life, right now! I have no idea where most if my parts are these days... edit "hallucinating ball bearings again" now that's a mood 😫😫
I have spreadsheets - item/shelf/row/column/layer/etc(brand, use-by, packs,qty/pk) and have to keep it manually, but it works for both the pantry AND my workshop major parts storage. The Litfinity setup would be great.
how are you going to know where the bin with the specific label is... that's the point of the project. on a small scale labels are great. imagine an amazon warehouse not logging locations electronically and relied on employees reading every label in the entire place to find one item.@@iWhacko
@ the ball bearings: I hate that I've been there. I bought some for a spool holder I printed years ago and they've been randomly floating around my workspace(s) through too many moves for years and the 2 times I've gone to look for them I've questioned my memory and my sanity. Then of course they randomly appear on my bench a few weeks after I looked for them and now I can't even remember why I was looking for them in the first place.
Have you checked out the sorters in the chemist, that arm that goes and grabs your prescriptions ? That would be awesome in any shop where you have tons of bits and pieces...
Imagine having your name as your username and people still spelling it wrong. lol. Apparently Zack Freedman and Erik from Internet Comment Etiquette have something in common.
"When you fail, do not try to salvage it. You do not deserve to make progress just because you put in the work. Make it fast. Make it sloppy. Assume it's going right in the trash." Some of the best words of wisdom I've heard in a long time and the ones that need to become widely known these days. For this quote alone I might have to just follow this page. Lol
It would be nice to have access to the source code and models. Even if there is no documentation it could be useful to someone who wants to make something similar.
Here's another version of this project, but with source code & models: th-cam.com/video/y0jUn3OTQTg/w-d-xo.html and it doesn't even use the shittiest tech company's shitty software.
“You do not deserve to make progress just because you put in the work” is a great philosophy. So many people confuse working hard with doing good work.
The absolute best maker channel on youtube. Coding? ✅ 3D printing? ✅ Electronics? ✅ Really bad CNC? ✅ Wackadoodle projects? ✅ Bits of wisdom and project philosophy which helped me personally get a new job a few hours ago? ✅ Ranked alliteration? ✅
If not having to make it accessible means you can do bigger and cooler projects I'm all for it. The fact of the matter is we don't come to your channel for tutorials. We come for entertainment and inspiration. In my mind part of the fun is figuring out how to do things yourself, so when I see a video that talks about a cool thing you make, and you talk in general terms how you did it, going on my own, researching and learning and adapting it to fit my particular need and making it my own is part of the fun
Don't sweat about making sure that your personal projects are community ready. Making these videos is what inspires creators to do what you do! Even if a cool project doesn't have community facing documentation and guides, it's a fun challenge for me to make a concept that I like from a cool video.
All of your projects don't have to be easily re-createable stuff like this is still super inspiring! Granted I have worked on a similar project before, just never got around to finishing it as you've so clearly demonstrated it's a huge heckin' project!
I am cool with you splashing out at long as you don't stop making stuff we can replicate. I hate when a channel starts out resonating with us small guys and then gets to a point where we can't follow along anymore, but you being happy with what you are producing is important and should take at least some precedence in the projects you take on.
I think it's awesome to do these non-repeatable projects from time to time! It brings out a lot of creativity and might inspire more people to prototype and design solutions to their own problems.
Make the bottom of each shelf on the carousel out of acrylic, then put qr codes on the bottom of each tray. Then you just have a camera at the bottom of the carousel that scans all the trays. And then you use a small projector to light up the trays
Might be easier to just keep the barcode from the UPC for each item when purchased and use this instead of a QR code. This could then be looked up via an API to see what it is, where to buy it and how much it costs at your favorite jungle web site.
@@ewasteredux True but then you have to peel of the bar code and stick it on the trays. But mabye you could have a scanner were you just scan the barcode from the UPC and the tray, and then components gets linked to the qr code on the tray.
@@sanderbuschify , Just looking for a way that would not incur as much work (because I personally am lazy). Not sure creating a whole new code would be worth it, but then again, it isn't for me. Maybe Zack would prefer the QR code. Regardless, great outside-the-box thinking!
I come to watch you kick ass with your own projects. Don't limit the difficulty of your projects just so a build guide can be published. I get the most value from seeing how you overcome difficulties. Keep pushing the limit!
The tone shift in this video is palpable. I really get the impression you're pushing the boundaries of both your technical knowledge & your methods/best practices. Providing testimony and exposition on unnecessary inefficiencies from within the trenches of a project with so much complexity (along with lessons learned) are exactly what I want to see from someone as passionate and engaged as you. Sorry, but I love to see you struggle and suffer! Please make more videos like this. This one was inspirational. I also can't wait to see this goliath become a seamlessly integrated into your workflow :)
By not limiting yourself to layman accessibility, you open our eyes to what's possible with a little ambition. Your creativity is invaluable. Please continue being you.
Dude, don't limit yourself to only what you think we can build. This is YOUR channel, bro. You do you. If anyone else wants to emulate, let them level up their own skills.
I really enjoy your videos Zach, and the ones about the f*ck-ups are actually really helpful :) The segment about printing a test piece before printing the entire full-size part is one of the most useful things I've learned the hard-way while 3D printing. I would definitely recommend this for things like cases with openings for USB ports, or pieces that interface with each other.
This is awesome! As for accessibility, I'd say keep stuff as accesible as possible, even if it is kind of scuffed or hard to do. You've already designed super complex projects that are made accessible and this is a lot closer to the stuff you've already done. I feel that perfection is the enemy of good in this situation.
I think mix of accessible and less so would be fine. Its awesome getting ideas for things that I could reasonably make, amd would help people get into the channel. But seeing what someone with a good selection of tools & equipment, an approximate knowledge of many things, and the freedom to spend a lot of time fixing problems can make is interesting
I would say it's totally OK to "splash out" sometimes, but some general notes about how we might recreate the concept would be welcome. ie. general pseudocode, STLs (with the understanding that we aren't going to get the same level of strength without god-tier filament)
I think a mix of both is ideal. I love seeing creative ideas that I could potentially do myself. At the same time, you are far more capable than I will ever be and it's a wonderful thing to see. Thanks for all the awesome content Zack!
I swear I just started planning this EXACT project for my electronics components organization. Of COURSE you'd be the one crazy enough to have done it already. Maybe now I can use this to convince my SO I'm not completely insane!
My dude, make anything you like! Making it accessible to others is just going the extra mile! If you do make it accessible to us, great! Maybe a few of us will build it. But even if you don't, the inspiration is still a massive help! I've started quite a few projects off of yours. If you get even more ambitious, so will our ideas! I say go as far as you can! Being a maker is about pushing yourself further, which is hard to do when you're keeping everything simple. Push yourself! See what you can do, and the rest of us can be inspired by it!
I don't think anybody mind you making projects for yourself (not sharing the files and making it accessable for hobbyists) but do share other stuff like stl files on your other projects like you've been doing
I know a lot are just saying go wild but personally I feel projects are at their best when they are as simple, elegant and universal as possible. Also a suggestion, if magnets are going in the base plate and bins, I'd try wiring them up and using contact/continuity sensing. If it works well, then it'd cut down on part count and you won't have to solder to a ton of read switches.
I was making the same but with LED for each row and column (unfortunately not for gridfinity) with wireless NFC reader based on esp32 and web based interface to manage it all but then got distracted by other cool projects(you know what i'm talking about) and newer finished it. It will someday 13:09 - This is the thing that I realized few years ago but there are still people that are very confident with what they doing and their work ends up like in 13:08
Do some that we can do and then the ones that we can’t. It’s all good because I like seeing what you come up with because I’m sure someone else will be able to put in the time and figure it out.
Your wisdom on prototyping helped me today. Build sloppy, build fast, fail fast, iterate fast! I was spending FAR too long on some ridiculous details… thanks 😄
it would be really cool if you spun hobbyist grade content as either a second series or keep it to its own channel/playlist so that "flagship design Zack" can shine. I feel like you have equal passion for both.
Zack, these videos are amazing and this inventory system is something that I have dreamed of. But please please PLEASE don't use the AH49 series for doing simple hall effect switching! There are plenty of hall effect switches, not linear hall sensors, that do the job 10x better. AH175, TLV49645, AH276, every TI hall sensor. Integrated schmitt triggers, hysteresis, programmable trigger points, etc...Those of us using linear hall sensors to do current sensing, position sensing, joystick axes, etc... have a hard enough time finding AH49H/E stocks without sending thousands of your crew to these treasures of sensors to make their own similarly-awesome inventory system 🤣
I think the more advanced projects have a place here. Sure, I do still want to see some that I at least have a chance at making, and arguably I do feel like I personally would prefer it to be the majority (so I can get my moneys worth out of my workbench lmao), but so long as everything is still open source, and more importantly, that you yourself enjoy what you're making, go for it. Full send. You're a brilliant, funny creator, and I don't have any desire to limit you. I'll still get hyped for all your uploads either way.
Thanks for sharing all those fails through the “prototyping” (project). It helps a lot to relate that other go through the same for having more understanding with myself.
You have literally reinvented the modular medication machines - Pyxis - used in hospitals. Which is great, we could use plenty of those for other purposes and less money
It's ok. Use whatever tools you like, and open-source the part you did. Let your hacker audience figure out how to do it with stone knives and bearskins. Database geeks can figure out how to replace Oracle in the project with PostgreSQL or something. And all the hackers are good at figuring out some material to substitute for the unobtainium.
I personally enjoy watching people build complex things that are going to make their life easier. I think its great to make large scale projects only for yourself and its cool to see the upper end of someone elses ideas and projects is they didnt have others in mind
I would say that projects hobbyists could do is great, but I love to see larger than life projects as well. A mix of the two would be wonderful, even if the larger projects only came once a year or even less often.
I enjoy seeing the things that we common folk can't even begin to make simply because of how it's presented. It never feels like a "look at my unobtainable invention whelps!" but rather "Hey guys look at this neat thing I made *smile*". (Yes you say you're smiling out loud.) Seeing the cool ideas for things like this I think if nothing else can grant people inspiration to think "How can I do this with a workaround."
@Zack, I can't build 90% of your normal projects, but your methodology is why I am here... and your videos are fun. Use what you can to make what you can. I will watch the videos if they are still Freedmanesque.
I think you should build whatever you feel most passionate about. We appreciate the thought of sticking with DIY possible projects, but I think I speak for most of us in saying that we glean the same ideas, inspiration, and entertainment from projects we can or cannot easily build ourselves. Thanks Zak!
Man, I love your content, however you really need to reduce the "productivity or die" mentality. Take this advice as constructively as possible, none of what im about to say is an attack on your character, just what im noticing watching your content. You make so much of a big deal about saving time, productivity this, and productivity that. I get that you are highly focused on that, but it detracts from your videos. I want to hear your experience, but you put way too much emphasis on how you do things only to throw it away, or you over engineer and then bludgeon yourself with the regret. You contradict yourself with the way you view learning moments. Often you will talk about how doing the thing is super important to learning, but then you beat yourself up about spending an extra hour designing functional cable management. "I did this thing, but it was a waste of time" is a running beat in your videos... over and over and over. I understand that some things need to be optimized, we only have so many weekends in life for these sorts of things, but life is not meant to be speedran at 1000mph. At the very least we as viewers don't need to endure the workflow that works best for you at such a fine detail.
Honestly I think both is good. Having content that's like "hey, DO try this at home!" But also "yeah, here's all the crazy stuff you shouldn't do but I did because reasons" can be a nice change of pace. It also puts a little less expectation on the user to fully understand what you are doing, which is good for entertainment.
I feel like your mass production mindset is enough that with enough ambition most people crazy enough to follow will definitely get more than inspired by whatever you build
Your videos make me feel seen. They also make me laugh, feel stupid, smart, joyous, overwhelmed, and inspired. All at once. You are awesome so i will watch regardless of whether the project is accessible or not.
These videos are not only educative and funny, well structured and edited but also they help me learning English as a second language! Here and there I snatch some idioms you use and I’m also now keen to contribute cumulative cascades of colossal alliterations into my regular linguistic usage. Thank you for your work! Edit: „…my channels very third project“ - this is the stuff I love
Zack your content, humor, and way of thinking is what stands out. I mean think about what every other TH-camr does. They attract people based off their content/personality. Your videos are amazing and what you've done for the community is amazing (and a plus that wasn't required). I think seeing you go gung-ho with what your imagination could do would inspire greatly.
I thought about this but very quickly realized it was way beyond my skill level & I'd end up making all of the same prototyping mistakes & then some. Seeing you did it makes me SUPER happy!
My god, it's full of stars... I say go with the preposterous envelope-pushing projects. Even if I or other viewers can't do exactly what you do with what we have, it's still inspiration and we can work to do as similar as we can manage. The way I see it, if you keep your designs open, we all win. I'm sure your designs would be remixed and modified to print on a toaster if somebody needed them to.
I took a lot away from your advice on prototyping, cutting losses, trying the simplest thing that could possibly work, etc. I've been in an adjacent industry for almost twenty years and never heard it put so well. I could have done with this advice two decades ago or even a year ago. Thank you!
I appreciate at least getting enough information to know that this type of organization is possible for a hobbyist to accomplish. I hope that you update with future iterations.
Honestly these higher-level projects are great. I probably won’t be building something like this BUT it has given me a great idea how to solve my wife’s enormous book inventory issue. So even if a lot of this is above my level there’s still something to take away.
Absolutely don't limit yourself to what most people can do at home. We all need something to strive for and there are plenty of builder youtubers limited by there own tools out there and it's fun watching them grow and their projects get more advanced as they accumulate tools. Don't go backward, if you have cool ideas go for it! We'll enjoy them either way!
I think focusing on completing a complex project is a higher priority than making a complex project easily replicated by the masses. First get the project done, then if it's something that's worthy of being broken down to be simpler by the masses, that can be its own project. Maybe not even undertaken by yourself.
7:18 Regarding my opinion of whether you should do projects most hobbyists can build, verses things which aren't typically available to hobbyists, I think the best option would be a mix! It's very interesting and inspiring when you show things most of us can make, but then occasionally making all your impressive projects absolutely peaks my interest, even if I can't do it myself. I think, like with most things, too much of one would become boring for most people. Constant hobby projects become too simple to watch, but then too many complex projects which none of us can make also becomes tedious and might make people think "why am I watching this?" Just like you've done so far, a mix works great! Keep up the great work Zack, you're a fantasic guy!
I saw this a while back, but it came up on my other account (this one, hi.) automatically and when it comes to making projects on your end, just the act of doing the thing , explaining, and documenting what you have done is plenty. You shouldn't feel obligated to creating a how-to guide. If I had to guess, I'd say most of your viewers are MAKERS. With that fact, we all have our own making motivation where just an idea is enough to spark the flood of ideas in both primary, alternate, and alt-alternate plan C on how to accomplish it if one were so inclined. Speaking for myself, I just love to see how you get it done. I learn tons by watching, I think of different and/pr better ways to do a thing just by seeing your work. I have come a long way the last few years of full-scale making (Maker AF) and I have noticed periodically throughout all this time how far I had come at like 6 months along the journey I could program an LED controller, a year and a half how I didn't even know how to troubleshoot my printer and now I can design and build from scratch, how at 2 and a half years, I could look at a thing and understand all the steps in its creation and my soldering skills still suck, but they have successfully accomplished repairs and builds even if it looks like ass, to now when I have only copied and pasted code, I can now troubleshoot it somewhat when I choose to use a device the code wasn't made for, but used what I had and decided to alter the code to match my pins. My evolved abilities have inspired me to work on my own car, which I have been doing for the last few years, as well. I hate getting dirty, but I love saving money. I'm mid audio system install, hoping I don't have to rip out my interior again to wire up dual voice coil speakers and can use the existing wiring, since I bypassed the OEM amp in lieu of one much badder ass. It's all good stuff. Any content you put out is good stuff. Enriching to the gray matter. Inspiring to the creativity. Hell, I'm mid laser cutter build. I've never even used one but decided to build my first one. And if I bought one with all the features, the size and the diode power, it would be in the neighborhood of $700-800 and I pulled it off for $240. You are partially responsible for me thinking I could pull such a thing off. I have misplaced the control board and LCD, but I programmed them and tested them on a single motor and rail, I know it works! Wish I knew where the fk it is because I am READY TO BURN SOME SHIT UP. lol Anyway, do what you do. I'll keep coming back.
Don't worry Zack - All your projects are reach projects for me, I'll happily watch the crazy ones. The tips for completing projects are very much appreciated
Love the builds, even if I can't build them myself. You do a great job bringing us along for the ride and giving us inspiration, insights, and intuition on our own builds.
Damn you Zack Freedman!!!! I've been procrastinating on an NFC based storage system for 3 years now and you swoop in and actually do work! I feel that it is really bad form to steal this victory away from me, just because you were willing to actually make an effort, where as, I was hard at work, thinking about it!!!!
I'm sure you already know, but it's been proven that most people watching diy/tutorial videos aren't actually going to make the thing. There's a hundred reasons why we still watch them, but the point is you shouldn't limit your projects to be buildable by someone that won't be building it. You could also just make the projects open ended and let the community adapt it into something that everyone can use. Everybody wins!
The amount of effort put into this was incredible! I would LOVE to have a base station like that to interface parts with database and just deal with manually associating with a location in an organized rack. Using convenient RFID scanning for part bins and the database to track and display what/where in itself is its own project-worthy endeavor. RGB optional.
I like there being both ambitious things and stuff others can make. I'd say even 95% ambition, 5% doable would already be pretty generous to the community. Maybe making a little badge for a DIY project so when it happens you can see it on the thumbnail.
I would personally love to see your most ambitious projects. Most people are going to have a hard time doing anything you make anyway. But the inspiration of seeing you do amazing work and the creative atmosphere you generate here are what keeps me coming back. Maybe in the future you can try to do both community and personal projects but I definitely would love to see some big builds.
If I ever get to the point where I have the technical knowledge to do this and the space to do so, I absolutely will. This idea is super unique, and since I have a bunch of random junk it would actually be incredibly helpful in finding certain parts / components
I love to see both hobby level projects and bigger projects like this. This may be above hobby level for most people but it is entertaining and informative. We can still learn from what went right and wrong or what solutions you use.
As someone who got into 3D printing because of this channel... Dont worry about us. I might not make this project, but i learned so many small things I would have probably never even thought to google!! Both would be nice though.
Dude, just make what you want. In my opinion, when I see people do awesome stuff, it gives me ideas for my own awesome projects even if they're unrelated. Oddly enough, I too have ascended beyond rgb into the realm of "THE LED MATRIX". I learned how it worked, ordered 30 panels from china, and bam I built a 5'x2.5' led sign.
bicycle gear sprockets and chain for the rack rotation mechanism, easy to do with hand tools. plus, can start with a pedal for a hand crank, and then upgrade to a motor if it works. or just start with buying a replacement motor for an e-bike as your driver. great work as always.
This vid rocks!!! Not the project exactly, but your general process, both good and bad, was a serious smack in the head I needed. I've got a sorting project for both my shop bits and my minis, and you've put me in the right direction BIG THANKS!!!
Pre-tested library's are the best, I'm currently in the process of building my own set of pre-tested library's as we speak. I like this a lot, I'll probably never build it, but I like it a lot.
I think as long as some projects are still accessible to us, you can totally go all out unlimited on others! I love seeing people achieve stuff that I could never even think of
Hi Zack, met you at the SMRRF this weekend, I was the one with the cute robot (if there is such a thing). Loving your ideas in this video, I too have broken them reed switches and now have a surplus of resin versions in a bin somewhere (I wonder if there's a system to find then easily ;-). Have fun, nice to chat to you at the event. 👊
7:20 Go nuts. We love seeing the possibilities when you're unlimited. Plus, when enough of us then start asking for unobtanium, it gets a little easier to find.
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Please don’t limit your future builds to only projects the common maker can achieve. Being shown ideas that are currently out of our reach is a fantastic way to stretch our imaginations, and it provides inspiration to grow our skills and climb out of our comfort zones! Keep it up Zack!
100% agreed. I would never make this but I still learned a lot
Also Hard Agree. If I wanted to make this I’ll know what mistakes not to make. But great to see the thought processes. Might find inspiration for other projects
@@ajTwistlol😮😊
Came here to say this. Also if a proprietary project gains enough traction, you could decided if you want to dedicate the time to a hobby compatible iteration, or hell, even make something to sell.
Hard agree. Do not limit builds. Just don't go exclusively either direction - build what's cool.
"You do not deserve to make progress just because you put in the work."
That's a hell of a life lesson in the most straight forward wording, should be taught to everyone doing anything.
I literally said "wow" outloud when I heard that. Amazingly well put
@@rajangill5801 I've been preaching it to everyone I know ever since lol
That sums up my entire dissertation process! 😂
While I enjoy seeing you design and make things that I could also print, I love to see your creativity go wild and do your thing. I don’t think you should need to worry if it’s accessible for people/hobbyists to make. You inspire me no matter if I can make the thing you’re making or not.
Plus, most people are too stupid to pull it off anyway.
I'd still appreciate it if he dropped the whole thing as-is when he's done so people can try to figure out if they're interested.
This!
100%, the occasional inspiration for my own projects is great (Gridfinity is the reason I bought my first printer) but mostly I'm here because I just wanna see smart people make cool shit.
@@hellterminatorthis. Even if one thinks their work can’t be of use to others, it can’t hurt to post it!
The greatest thing about Open Source is how others can adapt things in really useful ways!
(Also can just be used for inspiration/parts of other projects)
But TLDR: No you don’t need to limit your projects to other’s needs (within reason, no gilded doorknobs please), but do still Open Source all the things!
I need this in my life, right now! I have no idea where most if my parts are these days... edit "hallucinating ball bearings again" now that's a mood 😫😫
I have spreadsheets - item/shelf/row/column/layer/etc(brand, use-by, packs,qty/pk) and have to keep it manually, but it works for both the pantry AND my workshop major parts storage. The Litfinity setup would be great.
how are you going to know where the bin with the specific label is... that's the point of the project. on a small scale labels are great. imagine an amazon warehouse not logging locations electronically and relied on employees reading every label in the entire place to find one item.@@iWhacko
@ the ball bearings: I hate that I've been there. I bought some for a spool holder I printed years ago and they've been randomly floating around my workspace(s) through too many moves for years and the 2 times I've gone to look for them I've questioned my memory and my sanity. Then of course they randomly appear on my bench a few weeks after I looked for them and now I can't even remember why I was looking for them in the first place.
Have you checked out the sorters in the chemist, that arm that goes and grabs your prescriptions ? That would be awesome in any shop where you have tons of bits and pieces...
Spread your wings and fly Zach honestly most of your projects feel to ambitious for a feline like me but always a great source of inspiration
Imagine having your name as your username and people still spelling it wrong. lol. Apparently Zack Freedman and Erik from Internet Comment Etiquette have something in common.
Also funny to see many of his 99.9% ideas 😁
@@DemonReign23tbf it could just be autocorrect
I came here to say the same. Cannonball!
I love you, Gus The Cat
"When you fail, do not try to salvage it. You do not deserve to make progress just because you put in the work.
Make it fast. Make it sloppy. Assume it's going right in the trash."
Some of the best words of wisdom I've heard in a long time and the ones that need to become widely known these days. For this quote alone I might have to just follow this page. Lol
It would be nice to have access to the source code and models. Even if there is no documentation it could be useful to someone who wants to make something similar.
Could be Patreon only or something since it's not as refined as he might want for public
I was going to say the same thing. Access to files, even with out documentation can help us, viewers, make our own projects.
@@KevinCrouch0 Then it should be free ...
Here's another version of this project, but with source code & models: th-cam.com/video/y0jUn3OTQTg/w-d-xo.html
and it doesn't even use the shittiest tech company's shitty software.
@@flagman3116based oracle hater
“You do not deserve to make progress just because you put in the work” is a great philosophy. So many people confuse working hard with doing good work.
You know that someone is good at what they do and excited about a project when you watch a thirty minute video about it and it feels like 5 minutes.
Wait, that was thirty minutes, it flew
Oh my word, it is 30 minutes
Wait, wha- O.O
The absolute best maker channel on youtube.
Coding? ✅
3D printing? ✅
Electronics? ✅
Really bad CNC? ✅
Wackadoodle projects? ✅
Bits of wisdom and project philosophy which helped me personally get a new job a few hours ago? ✅
Ranked alliteration? ✅
Good job on the job!
@@xanderplayz3446 Good job on your job of telling them good job about their good job of getting the job!
This is got to be the most ADHD OCD thing I've ever seen and I am absolutely loving it
We are his core audience I think lol
Lol
It speaks to my soul on the deepest level.
Facts
This seems like an ideal way for me to procrastinate
i love that even Zach falls to the trap of turning Prototypes into projects by accident, looking forward to see where Litfinity ends up going
If not having to make it accessible means you can do bigger and cooler projects I'm all for it.
The fact of the matter is we don't come to your channel for tutorials. We come for entertainment and inspiration. In my mind part of the fun is figuring out how to do things yourself, so when I see a video that talks about a cool thing you make, and you talk in general terms how you did it, going on my own, researching and learning and adapting it to fit my particular need and making it my own is part of the fun
Don't sweat about making sure that your personal projects are community ready. Making these videos is what inspires creators to do what you do!
Even if a cool project doesn't have community facing documentation and guides, it's a fun challenge for me to make a concept that I like from a cool video.
All of your projects don't have to be easily re-createable stuff like this is still super inspiring!
Granted I have worked on a similar project before, just never got around to finishing it as you've so clearly demonstrated it's a huge heckin' project!
I am cool with you splashing out at long as you don't stop making stuff we can replicate. I hate when a channel starts out resonating with us small guys and then gets to a point where we can't follow along anymore, but you being happy with what you are producing is important and should take at least some precedence in the projects you take on.
I think it's awesome to do these non-repeatable projects from time to time! It brings out a lot of creativity and might inspire more people to prototype and design solutions to their own problems.
Make the bottom of each shelf on the carousel out of acrylic, then put qr codes on the bottom of each tray. Then you just have a camera at the bottom of the carousel that scans all the trays. And then you use a small projector to light up the trays
This is such a great idea. Keep the bins and trays as simple and cheap as possible.
i feel like an idiot for not thinking of this
Might be easier to just keep the barcode from the UPC for each item when purchased and use this instead of a QR code. This could then be looked up via an API to see what it is, where to buy it and how much it costs at your favorite jungle web site.
@@ewasteredux True but then you have to peel of the bar code and stick it on the trays. But mabye you could have a scanner were you just scan the barcode from the UPC and the tray, and then components gets linked to the qr code on the tray.
@@sanderbuschify , Just looking for a way that would not incur as much work (because I personally am lazy). Not sure creating a whole new code would be worth it, but then again, it isn't for me. Maybe Zack would prefer the QR code. Regardless, great outside-the-box thinking!
I come to watch you kick ass with your own projects. Don't limit the difficulty of your projects just so a build guide can be published. I get the most value from seeing how you overcome difficulties. Keep pushing the limit!
The tone shift in this video is palpable. I really get the impression you're pushing the boundaries of both your technical knowledge & your methods/best practices. Providing testimony and exposition on unnecessary inefficiencies from within the trenches of a project with so much complexity (along with lessons learned) are exactly what I want to see from someone as passionate and engaged as you. Sorry, but I love to see you struggle and suffer! Please make more videos like this. This one was inspirational. I also can't wait to see this goliath become a seamlessly integrated into your workflow :)
By not limiting yourself to layman accessibility, you open our eyes to what's possible with a little ambition. Your creativity is invaluable. Please continue being you.
Dude, don't limit yourself to only what you think we can build. This is YOUR channel, bro. You do you. If anyone else wants to emulate, let them level up their own skills.
I really enjoy your videos Zach, and the ones about the f*ck-ups are actually really helpful :)
The segment about printing a test piece before printing the entire full-size part is one of the most useful things I've learned the hard-way while 3D printing. I would definitely recommend this for things like cases with openings for USB ports, or pieces that interface with each other.
I love the patron reel at the end of each of these, your dedication to reading them all out no matter how ridiculous makes it amazing.
This is awesome! As for accessibility, I'd say keep stuff as accesible as possible, even if it is kind of scuffed or hard to do. You've already designed super complex projects that are made accessible and this is a lot closer to the stuff you've already done.
I feel that perfection is the enemy of good in this situation.
I think mix of accessible and less so would be fine. Its awesome getting ideas for things that I could reasonably make, amd would help people get into the channel.
But seeing what someone with a good selection of tools & equipment, an approximate knowledge of many things, and the freedom to spend a lot of time fixing problems can make is interesting
I would say it's totally OK to "splash out" sometimes, but some general notes about how we might recreate the concept would be welcome. ie. general pseudocode, STLs (with the understanding that we aren't going to get the same level of strength without god-tier filament)
I still need an update, i love seeing all your cool builds
I think a mix of both is ideal. I love seeing creative ideas that I could potentially do myself. At the same time, you are far more capable than I will ever be and it's a wonderful thing to see. Thanks for all the awesome content Zack!
I swear I just started planning this EXACT project for my electronics components organization. Of COURSE you'd be the one crazy enough to have done it already. Maybe now I can use this to convince my SO I'm not completely insane!
My dude, make anything you like! Making it accessible to others is just going the extra mile! If you do make it accessible to us, great! Maybe a few of us will build it. But even if you don't, the inspiration is still a massive help! I've started quite a few projects off of yours. If you get even more ambitious, so will our ideas! I say go as far as you can! Being a maker is about pushing yourself further, which is hard to do when you're keeping everything simple. Push yourself! See what you can do, and the rest of us can be inspired by it!
I like the wisdom about prototyping. maybe I'll apply it whenever I quit this first job I've ever had
I don't think anybody mind you making projects for yourself (not sharing the files and making it accessable for hobbyists) but do share other stuff like stl files on your other projects like you've been doing
I know a lot are just saying go wild but personally I feel projects are at their best when they are as simple, elegant and universal as possible.
Also a suggestion, if magnets are going in the base plate and bins, I'd try wiring them up and using contact/continuity sensing.
If it works well, then it'd cut down on part count and you won't have to solder to a ton of read switches.
I was making the same but with LED for each row and column (unfortunately not for gridfinity) with wireless NFC reader based on esp32 and web based interface to manage it all but then got distracted by other cool projects(you know what i'm talking about) and newer finished it. It will someday
13:09 - This is the thing that I realized few years ago but there are still people that are very confident with what they doing and their work ends up like in 13:08
Have you considered M.I.M.O.S.A It's basically what you've described.
Do some that we can do and then the ones that we can’t. It’s all good because I like seeing what you come up with because I’m sure someone else will be able to put in the time and figure it out.
Mix it up dude, show us what you can do but just don't forget to keep the kids entertained with some new toys too
Your wisdom on prototyping helped me today. Build sloppy, build fast, fail fast, iterate fast! I was spending FAR too long on some ridiculous details… thanks 😄
it would be really cool if you spun hobbyist grade content as either a second series or keep it to its own channel/playlist so that "flagship design Zack" can shine. I feel like you have equal passion for both.
I really like how much of this video focused on 'its a prototype, not a project, and here's what I did wrong.' Its a good mindset to teach
Descending into madness in the most organized way 🥰
@ 7:28 - My opinion.... you have genuine engineers subscribed to this channel. We are big boys and girls, publish what you have and let us learn.
Love seeing these kinds of projects! Can't wait to see an update on how it's working!
Zack, these videos are amazing and this inventory system is something that I have dreamed of. But please please PLEASE don't use the AH49 series for doing simple hall effect switching! There are plenty of hall effect switches, not linear hall sensors, that do the job 10x better. AH175, TLV49645, AH276, every TI hall sensor. Integrated schmitt triggers, hysteresis, programmable trigger points, etc...Those of us using linear hall sensors to do current sensing, position sensing, joystick axes, etc... have a hard enough time finding AH49H/E stocks without sending thousands of your crew to these treasures of sensors to make their own similarly-awesome inventory system 🤣
I think the more advanced projects have a place here. Sure, I do still want to see some that I at least have a chance at making, and arguably I do feel like I personally would prefer it to be the majority (so I can get my moneys worth out of my workbench lmao), but so long as everything is still open source, and more importantly, that you yourself enjoy what you're making, go for it. Full send. You're a brilliant, funny creator, and I don't have any desire to limit you. I'll still get hyped for all your uploads either way.
Thanks for sharing all those fails through the “prototyping” (project).
It helps a lot to relate that other go through the same for having more understanding with myself.
I think it's ok to ball out every once in a while like this, but I think most of your videos should be something we can all build
I have used Alex Chapell's grid system for years And thought of doing this, glad someone did it.
Nice project but Dude, Oracle? Really!
You have literally reinvented the modular medication machines - Pyxis - used in hospitals. Which is great, we could use plenty of those for other purposes and less money
It's ok. Use whatever tools you like, and open-source the part you did. Let your hacker audience figure out how to do it with stone knives and bearskins.
Database geeks can figure out how to replace Oracle in the project with PostgreSQL or something. And all the hackers are good at figuring out some material to substitute for the unobtainium.
I am 100% sure that sqlite or even a simple key-value pairs list is absolutely fine.
I personally enjoy watching people build complex things that are going to make their life easier. I think its great to make large scale projects only for yourself and its cool to see the upper end of someone elses ideas and projects is they didnt have others in mind
I would say that projects hobbyists could do is great, but I love to see larger than life projects as well. A mix of the two would be wonderful, even if the larger projects only came once a year or even less often.
I enjoy seeing the things that we common folk can't even begin to make simply because of how it's presented. It never feels like a "look at my unobtainable invention whelps!" but rather "Hey guys look at this neat thing I made *smile*". (Yes you say you're smiling out loud.)
Seeing the cool ideas for things like this I think if nothing else can grant people inspiration to think "How can I do this with a workaround."
why not have a random "f*&# it friday" where you go over things the community can't readily build?
@Zack, I can't build 90% of your normal projects, but your methodology is why I am here... and your videos are fun. Use what you can to make what you can. I will watch the videos if they are still Freedmanesque.
Sooooooo we should totally add Alexa or Google home to this…
I think you should build whatever you feel most passionate about. We appreciate the thought of sticking with DIY possible projects, but I think I speak for most of us in saying that we glean the same ideas, inspiration, and entertainment from projects we can or cannot easily build ourselves. Thanks Zak!
Man, I love your content, however you really need to reduce the "productivity or die" mentality. Take this advice as constructively as possible, none of what im about to say is an attack on your character, just what im noticing watching your content. You make so much of a big deal about saving time, productivity this, and productivity that. I get that you are highly focused on that, but it detracts from your videos. I want to hear your experience, but you put way too much emphasis on how you do things only to throw it away, or you over engineer and then bludgeon yourself with the regret. You contradict yourself with the way you view learning moments. Often you will talk about how doing the thing is super important to learning, but then you beat yourself up about spending an extra hour designing functional cable management. "I did this thing, but it was a waste of time" is a running beat in your videos... over and over and over. I understand that some things need to be optimized, we only have so many weekends in life for these sorts of things, but life is not meant to be speedran at 1000mph. At the very least we as viewers don't need to endure the workflow that works best for you at such a fine detail.
As Zack's wife, thanks for backing up like everything I say all the time. I'll be reading him this comment while looking at him pointedly.
Honestly I think both is good. Having content that's like "hey, DO try this at home!" But also "yeah, here's all the crazy stuff you shouldn't do but I did because reasons" can be a nice change of pace. It also puts a little less expectation on the user to fully understand what you are doing, which is good for entertainment.
I feel like your mass production mindset is enough that with enough ambition most people crazy enough to follow will definitely get more than inspired by whatever you build
Your videos make me feel seen. They also make me laugh, feel stupid, smart, joyous, overwhelmed, and inspired. All at once. You are awesome so i will watch regardless of whether the project is accessible or not.
You are an entertainment: you don't do tutorials, you do stuff that are awesome. Keep having fun and show us the results of your crazy ideas.
These videos are not only educative and funny, well structured and edited but also they help me learning English as a second language! Here and there I snatch some idioms you use and I’m also now keen to contribute cumulative cascades of colossal alliterations into my regular linguistic usage. Thank you for your work!
Edit: „…my channels very third project“ - this is the stuff I love
Zack your content, humor, and way of thinking is what stands out. I mean think about what every other TH-camr does. They attract people based off their content/personality. Your videos are amazing and what you've done for the community is amazing (and a plus that wasn't required). I think seeing you go gung-ho with what your imagination could do would inspire greatly.
I thought about this but very quickly realized it was way beyond my skill level & I'd end up making all of the same prototyping mistakes & then some. Seeing you did it makes me SUPER happy!
My god, it's full of stars...
I say go with the preposterous envelope-pushing projects. Even if I or other viewers can't do exactly what you do with what we have, it's still inspiration and we can work to do as similar as we can manage. The way I see it, if you keep your designs open, we all win. I'm sure your designs would be remixed and modified to print on a toaster if somebody needed them to.
I took a lot away from your advice on prototyping, cutting losses, trying the simplest thing that could possibly work, etc. I've been in an adjacent industry for almost twenty years and never heard it put so well. I could have done with this advice two decades ago or even a year ago. Thank you!
I appreciate at least getting enough information to know that this type of organization is possible for a hobbyist to accomplish.
I hope that you update with future iterations.
Zack, please release this for the public eventually, this looks so cool.
Honestly these higher-level projects are great. I probably won’t be building something like this BUT it has given me a great idea how to solve my wife’s enormous book inventory issue. So even if a lot of this is above my level there’s still something to take away.
Absolutely don't limit yourself to what most people can do at home. We all need something to strive for and there are plenty of builder youtubers limited by there own tools out there and it's fun watching them grow and their projects get more advanced as they accumulate tools. Don't go backward, if you have cool ideas go for it! We'll enjoy them either way!
I like this type of project where you don't have to worry about what other people can do. It's just you and a goal.
I think focusing on completing a complex project is a higher priority than making a complex project easily replicated by the masses. First get the project done, then if it's something that's worthy of being broken down to be simpler by the masses, that can be its own project. Maybe not even undertaken by yourself.
Came for the project, stayed for protoyping wisdom. Thanks for sharing your lessons!
@24:12 I have never won anything and I, the one they call Kyle, am absolutely honored. No really I am beaming :D
7:18 Regarding my opinion of whether you should do projects most hobbyists can build, verses things which aren't typically available to hobbyists, I think the best option would be a mix! It's very interesting and inspiring when you show things most of us can make, but then occasionally making all your impressive projects absolutely peaks my interest, even if I can't do it myself.
I think, like with most things, too much of one would become boring for most people. Constant hobby projects become too simple to watch, but then too many complex projects which none of us can make also becomes tedious and might make people think "why am I watching this?"
Just like you've done so far, a mix works great! Keep up the great work Zack, you're a fantasic guy!
I saw this a while back, but it came up on my other account (this one, hi.) automatically and when it comes to making projects on your end, just the act of doing the thing , explaining, and documenting what you have done is plenty. You shouldn't feel obligated to creating a how-to guide. If I had to guess, I'd say most of your viewers are MAKERS. With that fact, we all have our own making motivation where just an idea is enough to spark the flood of ideas in both primary, alternate, and alt-alternate plan C on how to accomplish it if one were so inclined. Speaking for myself, I just love to see how you get it done.
I learn tons by watching, I think of different and/pr better ways to do a thing just by seeing your work. I have come a long way the last few years of full-scale making (Maker AF) and I have noticed periodically throughout all this time how far I had come at like 6 months along the journey I could program an LED controller, a year and a half how I didn't even know how to troubleshoot my printer and now I can design and build from scratch, how at 2 and a half years, I could look at a thing and understand all the steps in its creation and my soldering skills still suck, but they have successfully accomplished repairs and builds even if it looks like ass, to now when I have only copied and pasted code, I can now troubleshoot it somewhat when I choose to use a device the code wasn't made for, but used what I had and decided to alter the code to match my pins.
My evolved abilities have inspired me to work on my own car, which I have been doing for the last few years, as well. I hate getting dirty, but I love saving money. I'm mid audio system install, hoping I don't have to rip out my interior again to wire up dual voice coil speakers and can use the existing wiring, since I bypassed the OEM amp in lieu of one much badder ass. It's all good stuff. Any content you put out is good stuff. Enriching to the gray matter. Inspiring to the creativity. Hell, I'm mid laser cutter build. I've never even used one but decided to build my first one. And if I bought one with all the features, the size and the diode power, it would be in the neighborhood of $700-800 and I pulled it off for $240. You are partially responsible for me thinking I could pull such a thing off. I have misplaced the control board and LCD, but I programmed them and tested them on a single motor and rail, I know it works! Wish I knew where the fk it is because I am READY TO BURN SOME SHIT UP. lol
Anyway, do what you do. I'll keep coming back.
Don't worry Zack - All your projects are reach projects for me, I'll happily watch the crazy ones. The tips for completing projects are very much appreciated
I can confirm vertical carousels are the best. Love this idea!
Love the builds, even if I can't build them myself. You do a great job bringing us along for the ride and giving us inspiration, insights, and intuition on our own builds.
Damn you Zack Freedman!!!! I've been procrastinating on an NFC based storage system for 3 years now and you swoop in and actually do work! I feel that it is really bad form to steal this victory away from me, just because you were willing to actually make an effort, where as, I was hard at work, thinking about it!!!!
I'm sure you already know, but it's been proven that most people watching diy/tutorial videos aren't actually going to make the thing. There's a hundred reasons why we still watch them, but the point is you shouldn't limit your projects to be buildable by someone that won't be building it. You could also just make the projects open ended and let the community adapt it into something that everyone can use. Everybody wins!
I love everything about this. The chaos, the organization, more chaos. It sings to me.
The amount of effort put into this was incredible! I would LOVE to have a base station like that to interface parts with database and just deal with manually associating with a location in an organized rack. Using convenient RFID scanning for part bins and the database to track and display what/where in itself is its own project-worthy endeavor. RGB optional.
I like there being both ambitious things and stuff others can make. I'd say even 95% ambition, 5% doable would already be pretty generous to the community. Maybe making a little badge for a DIY project so when it happens you can see it on the thumbnail.
I would personally love to see your most ambitious projects. Most people are going to have a hard time doing anything you make anyway. But the inspiration of seeing you do amazing work and the creative atmosphere you generate here are what keeps me coming back. Maybe in the future you can try to do both community and personal projects but I definitely would love to see some big builds.
If I ever get to the point where I have the technical knowledge to do this and the space to do so, I absolutely will. This idea is super unique, and since I have a bunch of random junk it would actually be incredibly helpful in finding certain parts / components
I love to see both hobby level projects and bigger projects like this. This may be above hobby level for most people but it is entertaining and informative. We can still learn from what went right and wrong or what solutions you use.
As someone who got into 3D printing because of this channel... Dont worry about us.
I might not make this project, but i learned so many small things I would have probably never even thought to google!!
Both would be nice though.
Dude, just make what you want. In my opinion, when I see people do awesome stuff, it gives me ideas for my own awesome projects even if they're unrelated. Oddly enough, I too have ascended beyond rgb into the realm of "THE LED MATRIX". I learned how it worked, ordered 30 panels from china, and bam I built a 5'x2.5' led sign.
bicycle gear sprockets and chain for the rack rotation mechanism, easy to do with hand tools. plus, can start with a pedal for a hand crank, and then upgrade to a motor if it works. or just start with buying a replacement motor for an e-bike as your driver. great work as always.
Someone actually did that.
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This vid rocks!!! Not the project exactly, but your general process, both good and bad, was a serious smack in the head I needed. I've got a sorting project for both my shop bits and my minis, and you've put me in the right direction BIG THANKS!!!
you do plenty of projects that we can build ourselves, you can make projects for yourself as well. It's still fun to watch
Pre-tested library's are the best, I'm currently in the process of building my own set of pre-tested library's as we speak. I like this a lot, I'll probably never build it, but I like it a lot.
It's not the destination, but the journey that matters. This was so entertaining and a great lesson for all. Thanks
I think as long as some projects are still accessible to us, you can totally go all out unlimited on others! I love seeing people achieve stuff that I could never even think of
Hi Zack, met you at the SMRRF this weekend, I was the one with the cute robot (if there is such a thing). Loving your ideas in this video, I too have broken them reed switches and now have a surplus of resin versions in a bin somewhere (I wonder if there's a system to find then easily ;-). Have fun, nice to chat to you at the event. 👊
7:20 Go nuts. We love seeing the possibilities when you're unlimited. Plus, when enough of us then start asking for unobtanium, it gets a little easier to find.
Go ham, Zach! Even if a project is a bit out of reach the ideas and concepts will still be useful, and will certainly still be entertaining.