Adam Savage's Live Builds: Ghostbusters Gizmo Kit!

hey could this to me it are we up without buffering looks like we're live all right I'm really really sorry I tried to have chat turned on but it's not working so we're gonna have to do this with chat off yeah my apologies everybody I wish it was otherwise but let's give it a shot all right so let's see here is my workbench there we go there we are yeah sorry I'm a little flummoxed by how unpleasant that was flummox just I really I wanted to have the chat all running and everything okay let's try that so no wow what a crazy angle that is that's ridiculous it's like a Batman villain okay Batman villain I just meant like the 1960s Batman you know where everything was at a Dutch angle Dutch angle that's when you tilt the camera like that all right are we good let's see here hey everybody hi happy Tuesday March 24th 2020 for me this is day 13 of sequestration oh good yeah this is day 13 of our sequestration San Francisco is being pretty pretty rigorous about it and here in the cave I am readying up for a another short project for a couple of hours I don't have any more pieces of the hold on just a second just technical I'm just gonna assume it's working okay oh that's why that happened oh right okay now I do this hold on I have to quit all these other things quit quit quit okay that's what I wanted there's my directions and here's my text chat cool let's see here yes we are good okay cool I I have help I have help help me make sure this is all working smoothly but it's not working smoothly it's just working so I don't have any more pieces of the Ghostbusters ecto-1 from Eagle boss just yet I hope to soon yeah they were actually still printing making shooting manufacturing some of the pieces of the final kit but they may be able to hook me up we're gonna find out but I have another I have another Ghostbusters thing to build today and it's one I've been kind of holding back for a one day build this is a gizmo kit now if you remember Ghostbusters right if you remember the costumes in Ghostbusters the guys are all wearing a whole bunch of different things on their belts in their coveralls and one of them is affectionately known as the gizmo it is in fact the it looks like a printed circuit board because it is it is an old-style one it looks like it's got some Nixie tubes because it does and it is the internal guts of a sanyo calculator from the 70s and because Ghostbusters people are sticklers for accuracy right there uh there are none of these calculators left they're rarer than Graflex slash handles and if you can find them hoo-boy they are expensive they they run a fair bit they have a distinctive looking circuit board because it's not green it's actually brown and the thing is is that there is a guy on eBay who makes a kit for the gizmo that is crazy crazy accurate and the degree to which he went before that accuracy is something near and dear to my heart so - - I'm gonna pull out the pieces here it's gonna be a lot of little bits and bobs - this there's a whole bunch of electronics there's actually some working electronics but the centerpiece of this kit that he made and I'm gonna get the name of the seller and let you know they don't always have them available and they're not super cheap but seriously this guy went and had the circuit boards printed manufactured in the correct color he actually found someone that could make be in debt be identical board so like wrap your heads around this for a second this is a piece of 1970s hardware a sanyo calculator with Nixie tubes to fill you in on what Nixie tubes are they are wait is this a mixing tube or is it just a segment display actually this is just a segment display yeah these old glass radio tube vacuum tube segment displays this is piece of computing history right it's an old sanyo calculator sanyo icc - 808 d and if you had one and the board was fried you might be able to buy I guess this prop replica and make it work I'm not sure I'm not sure if the Tracy's look like they work or they actually work but I love this deep blurring of the line where you make something so accurate it's not only indistinguishable from the original thing it could actually become the original thing there's an old I think it's a status law lab short story and if I remember correctly its name has something to do with the princess ineffable and it's about a terrible dictator who is caught captured by his people and imprisoned but because he was unjust and they want to respond to the injustice of his leadership with justice they don't want to kill him this is great so they strand him on a on a tiny little planetoid but they they're not they're not super inhuman they they want him to have something to do so they make a little digital simulacrum of a world for him to rule over in his terrible tyranny they give him a hobby and when they come back twenty years later what they find is that the little simulacrum of a planetoid that they made for him to rule over was so accurate it actually overthrew him and killed him yeah that's the same kind of drill I get out of something like that so I have a very detailed a very detailed instruction set here in PDF form and I am going to start just walking through the assembly I you know you know where this is gonna start it's gonna start with a little bit of no lling yeah to be sure so we're doing a little bit of no lling and then we're gonna start doing some assembly and then there's gonna be a whole bunch of soldering and the best part is there are some lights in this kit but most of the soldering is what I would refer to as low stakes soldering alright we got some we have some wonderful laser-cut acrylic pieces here oh I haven't peeled the paper off a laser cut acrylic chunk in a long time man yeah this is just this was so much a part of my existence at ILM using their laser cutter I've said this story before but I was so addicted to the use of the laser cutter that my nickname was laser boy given to me if you call me laser boy in public that's not cool Tory Belleci I used to call me lazy boy yep here he goes laser boy yeah it's that you know I looking I'm totally aware these smells aren't good for me but they're delightful so in essence while they're maybe you're not healthy in quantity that I know in specificity it's still a comforting smell that smell of burnt plastic don't you laser cut your abs though that's poisonous gases that's no good it is peculiar over the years how much I went all the way into the laser cutter as a mode of construction and then I sort of abandoned it I mean we have a really we have a lovely Trotec laser cutter here at the ah come on come on fingernails we have a lovely big fat Trotec laser cutter at tested and it's very capable machine do half inch acrylic and we do use it for stuff just much less than if you told me in 2000 that in 20 years I'd have my own shop with a laser cutter in it I'd be like cool I'll be using that laser cutter all the time yeah that's how I talk in my projected future voice but that is not the case I do not use the laser cutter all the time I vastly prefer the practice of making stuff by hand and thus I've come all the way around to John Goodson's way of thinking about the modeling there well it's not that I think that laser cutting is an awesome model-making like please don't think I'm suggesting any of the [ __ ] gatekeeping any of the ridiculous gatekeeping that gets done around like 3d printed parts aren't real cosplay that kind of stuff I had no time for that sort of dumb stuff that's bad mojo you're not helping anybody with that kind of gatekeeping there is no advantageous there's no advantage to it advantageous I was getting all fancy Oh Oh always always you always lose something there we go there's a really funny trick if you drop a little nerdy and you don't know where it went and it's called sending out a search party have I talked about this before I really dig this one sending out a search party is you drop a little screw and you stop to try and listen to where it went and you never you just you just never gonna hear it like you're kind of gonna hear it but you're not gonna have enough info years ago a friend of mine it's a computer scientist taught me the trick of sending out a search party you drop one thing don't see where it went take an identical version of that thing and drop it in the same location while watching where it goes now the odds that it's gonna actually go land near the first thing you dropped very very low but it will help you understand how far and wide you might want to look I am continually repeatedly and every day surprised by how far non-round things can skitter underneath tools and tables at the shop it is like amazing how much farther than I would imagine things can travel when I'm not paying attention yeah alright we are almost done knowing the second bag of stuff here and this will just make assembly much easier when I'm looking for the parts on the pieces this no lling is just the most fun part it's like the first relax it's like getting your head in the game right yeah oh yeah oh there's the daughter board he's even got some dry transfers this is great okay there's those oh that's a 9-volt oh yeah okay heat shrink another resistor a little switch oh there's a pot okay I'm just gonna okay so the eBay seller of this kit Thank You kalo the eBay seller of this kit it goes by the selling name of sponge space McGee SPO at GE FAC emcde sponge face McGee sells this insanely great kit for the Ghostbusters gizmo and if you are in the market for one and you can afford it this is the one to get I actually can't quite remember exactly how much it costs but alright I'm gonna move these over here since they were all in a separate bag on the assumption that they might be important for something else oh these might be daughterboard parts that's also the possibility okay so those sandwich bags can go away and Oh couple more pieces oh yeah I think these are daughterboard chunks that's the daughter board the gizmo is connected by it here's the thing about the gizmo it's like you can see it in some of the original costume fittings and it's hard to spot on the belts in in ghostbusters there's not a lot of clear shots of it and one of the clearest pieces that made it out with Zed amours stunt version which is I mean it's delightfully low res for a prop it's almost like someone like drew the prop on a piece of paper and hot glued it together it's kind of that sweet and crunchy okay so are there bulbs in here I thought that I saw you had some oh yeah there's a little bulb okay so I think that might be part of the chipset for actually lighting this thing up I'll leave the Nixie tubes there that's the carrier okay I think we're ready for our first instructions okay here's the parts kit shorts parts first any color codes oh wow Jesus Christ every single one is a different color code I think that that is gonna be something I'm not gonna worry that much about uh yeah let's see you can match the color codes with the parts seen in this photo you can just randomly select the resistors two sets of seven the two sets of seven resistors we used for the stand-up section of parts okay cool so then yeah we're just gonna do this let's see here okay one that goes here resistor Oh resistor bending I remember what you were like okay the first resistor is a yeah hey I wonder if I have a thing I can hold this I do I do have a thing that can hold this I love being useful okay there how do I hold on to this me that's right and look at that look at that it's like I know what I'm doing very exciting okay so we're just gonna start grabbing some of these resistors we're just going to be going for it so one two three and the fourth hole gets a resistor and then one looks right above it I haven't done board soldering like this in a long time and frankly I'm looking forward to it there's something very meditative about the process of making sure you're getting all the instructions right soldering is so easy oh my gosh I heard this great story the other day I think he came up on reddit of a repair shop that had a power supply come in and it was completely dismantled like everything dee soldered from the motherboard of this power supply and it turned out that the owner of said power supply had a kid who was 10 and really into electronics and taking stuff apart which is amazing that's totally fabulous right like taking up things apart that's how you figure out how they go back together and this kid had asked his dad his dad had said he's got a new computer so he can take apart the old one and the kid accidentally took apart the new one and Dee soldered everything off the board oh my god it's great like that's just warms warms the cockles of this makers heart all right that one goes there yeah I'm not worrying about the color coding of other resistors this now is how where you'll see this is the limit of what I consider to be accurate izing like for me for me I totally respect somebody who's gonna go get the original board and like color match every single resistor value that's just not the way I'm gonna do it let's see that is it there yeah okay so that's one two three that's one two three this is one of the most fascinating one of the most common questions I get is you know when do you feel like you've reached the your level of accuracy and the answer is I never know I I really don't I it's not until I'm there and putting the piece together that I discover what my point of view is on how close I'm going to get to the original and it also has to do with the fact that I think I'm looking for something a little bit different than some prop collectors because well I mean I the screen accuracy is really great and I'm also looking for this kind of experience and I just know that if I was hired to work on this we would get and I happen to know some of the people that a lot of people who worked on the new Ghostbusters and the level of accuracy that they got to was crazy great but they still wouldn't have worried about those resistors I just don't think ok solder is dangerous yes you do this a time place all 8 resistors flip the board side of the leads next one add 2 4 diodes oh yeah ok 4 diodes I only see two ah ok I gotcha those to live up and down right there the black stripe on the bottom oh these are yeah copy that this is decidedly harder to talk through then putting together the ecto-1 simply because there's a lot of Direction going back and forth I don't know maybe I was doing the same on that Fecteau but okay so then that one goes there I hope Eagle Moss is able to come through with some more parts because I'd love to keep building that thing and then there's this big yeah that diode oh yeah all right man silver stripe goes down and the silver so this will destroy code I believe the maker of this kit is also included some lights which i think is really oh wow okay and here's the other black diode and where is the oh that's what the that's what it's sorry uh-huh okay and the silver stripe is down right yeah okay silver stripe is down oh man I'm so glad this isn't a real circuit that looks like ah and that seems to live right is it right there yeah right there I'm just I'm moving ahead okay I think tomorrow I might build a stand that I came up with this weekend like you like you I have been visiting everyone I love via video chat and oh look at all that standing resistors oh man that's a lot of work okay like you have been doing a lot of video chatting and zoom is fantastic and I've been really delighting in seeing the shining faces of all of my sequestered friends and family we're moving through different folks every night and it's been really terrific I there has been a need to move around the monitor right so I built this I took the iMac that we have in our house for the video chatting and I built this kind of thin stand so we can move it around and not have it be not having be too much in the way and it was just like four pieces of plywood and some wheels really really simple build and I think I I think I want to replicate it here because you should see it's pretty cool okay now we've got to do all of this work with these uprights one two three four five six seven and gets a kink into it okay I'll need some pliers you know sure we'll try that so there's oh hold on just a second thanks baby my wife just sent me a picture of said stand and I will copy it and I will send it off to Kahlo and I think we can post this up on test it in the next few minutes if you'd like to know exactly what I'm talking about that was a delightful little feedback all right so those gold yeah no that's the other ones gold you know it is okay so these aren't exactly the same no not exactly I drove my dog that I didn't really care about being exactly the same no I'm like they're not exactly the same okay so I have to do the same little bend over for each of these guys there is a well that's on the colored side there so come around I think yeah I like that that's great yeah let's and I'll do the kink separately this this is where you all discover that I'm way clumsier then the end it might have shown that I actually am alright there we go and I whenever I have to do a repeated operation like this I tend to I tend to assembly line it I have found that it's much faster for me to and by assembly line I mean I separate out each operation and then I perform them in sequence okay so now it gets this little kink at the bottom and that's the fastest way to do that I think I could do it like this Oh keep alright there we go I think if I hold this like this and I do a coin yeah that's not bad oh that's pretty good great so yeah just to fill you in so you don't have to be completely in the dark here is the resistor that I'm working with and I'm trying to put a kink in it that looks like that there you go that little kink there so I got to put that kink in times 14 oh yeah here we go what I really want mm I don't think that I think I'm just gonna have to live with that oh that's much faster yeah yeah much faster so I'm just going to manually do it I don't need two pairs of pliers for it go in and back level yep and we go in and move up and back out and level Oh nope screwed it up I we will so I'm gonna do this again on Thursday Tuesdays and Thursdays will be our shop hangout time together and I swear I'm gonna try and get this um I am going to try and get the chat up and running I know I'm sorry that it was such a crap show this morning I didn't realize it would be so hard but we're learning as we go you know the other thing that I love about the research and props like this is you always you end up learning so much more so like gay brutality who gave this great TED talk on five dangerous things you should let your children do and wrote a book 50 dangerous things you should let your chill and ended up starting a maker based school here in San Francisco called brightworks you know Gaver Gaber is the proselytizer that loves to point out that like if you give somebody a task and something to do as they go through the tasks are gonna learn all this ancillary stuff they didn't expect to while they're going and it's really true because you know when you start to look into if you want to make a lightsaber you got to go get a graph like slash handle that's a one of the old newsy cameras with the battery-powered flat PAH that was literally a controlled explosion as this what I'm supposed to take this this this heat drink here the controlled explosion of a flash and to a certain extent you start learning a little bit more about the history of cameras because you've had to buy some old camera equipment where you had to go to is it in Philly that's that really great weird wonderful camera store yeah you you go to a camera store you talk to the old dudes behind the counter and you learn about it from that way okay before I get on about my all the things you can learn while making props let me just read this cut up the tubing half-inch of tubing for each resistor uh-huh okay oh wow that's a that's a lot of work isn't it okay I I have all these bits of loc-line I have them on my lights I have them on my boat oh hey that's a little better look at that we shed a little light on the situation okay so about a half-inch and we'll thread this on oh man this is gonna be oh that's not so bad Oh not bad at all Oh glory be I was all afraid that that was gonna be a big pain in the butt but it's not okay so two three four five six seven eight nine and eleven twelve thirteen fourteen and fifteen yes cut an extra how do we do on the size here damn pretty darn close to exactly half an inch calibrated eyeball still works okay so now I'm gonna spread the heat shrink on all 14 of these I've only currently bent seven thank goodness it was easier than I thought it was going to be so I was going to get boring [Music] yeah okay I do have to unbend it just a tad again you know doing these some these little bits of tedious work it's funny how much it reminds me of sitting there in a model shop shooting the breeze telling stories and making weird stuff for commercials or films there's so much camaraderie born out of like you're sitting there everyone's doing the same thing and it's crushingly tedious and you build all these great little in jokes man I think it was nice to work with a guy named Kunta or about II hike in de when things fell like you'd be in a shop and something would fall over there kundo and would announce that he had done it with his mind he liked to pretend to be some telekinetic uh oh my god yeah we tell stories about old old dates you know every day we did actually at ILM it was mostly like everyone listened to NPR in the morning on the way into work and then talked about it during the day that was a real that was a really common thread like we're all listening to the same thing oh and then for a long time my mentor Mitch Romanowski and I were both working at ILM and if you're from the Bay Area Industrial Light and Magic their offices were up on Turner Boulevard in San Rafael and when you're heading back from Koerner Boulevard in San Rafael the natural way to go is to take 101 south 2 4 6 2 4 6 8 the natural ways to go south down 101 across the Golden Gate Bridge however I'm here to tell you that on many occasions taking the richmond-san Rafael Bay Bridge is actually faster than the Golden Gate Bridge and it might be nine extra miles but if you're heading to the middle of San Francisco getting from the north end at the Golden Gate Bridge to pretty much anywhere like Central it's gonna take you 30 minutes and that nine extra miles if there's not much traffic that's not 30 minutes so often the East Beirut is faster but MIT Romanowski and I got even more specific about it and we started we started getting um we started a be testing the route and this is how we learned that on the Bay Bridge until you've reached the last of the big upright stanchions you know the suspensions the submission towers until you've reached the last suspension tower on the Bay Bridge the far right lane is always on the aggregate faster than the other lanes there I just revealed this key piece of Bay Area traffic data this is what you should know the far right lane is always going to be the one that that saves you yeah totally true totally true I'll stand by it I still utilize that that knowledge and it would be that like Mitch and I and who else God tony Preciado we'd all be like calling each other from the cars on different routes if we'd agreed to try different things to get home it was we also found out that if you're bumping up and over the city and again this is the early aughts traffic light patterns might be totally different but if you're heading up through the middle of the city the dissenter Lane on Franklin is faster going north you know all sorts of little bits of institutional knowledge like that that we gleaned over that time yeah I just made two whole stories about commuting how are we doing here awesome this is uh this is I'm definitely not gonna finish this kid today I don't think yeah we're already 45 minutes in that's I mean the thing that the coaster crew will tell you is that I'm never right about how long I think a one-day build is gonna be I'm just never right so now when they asked me how long is it gonna take I I think they know not to actually believe me or in many cases they're actually probably better than me at figuring out how long it's going to take like they have more remove or distance because there's just there's there's totally different speeds if you're documenting something versus not documenting something which is why I end up doing so many weekend builds in here well obviously I love making stuff and telling stories about making stuff but I also love just making stuff like you know coming in this weekend and solving a problem for the house oh my god there's this it's there's a singular pleasure towards making a piece of equipment that makes your life a little easier and sometimes I can't I can't figure out the problem that I can't figure out the solution I'm looking for while I'm in front of the camera there's a one of my favorite painters in the world is the abstract or often abstract painter Gerhard Richter and there's a documentary about him is it on HBO I think it's on HBO there's a documentary about Richter in which he attempts to paint on camera and Richter is my god he's amazing but watching him try to paint on camera he has a really difficult time with it and he says it's because the way he's thinking through the problem-solving it's fundamentally different because there's a witness look I am NOT equated my making of a television stand with one of the greatest living abstract extraneous living painters I'm not equated us to things at all however experientially I'm saying I kind of understand and there's you know there's a different creativity to being on camera this different view it's not like you're solving different problems that's just it's it's this this it's a mindset all right so there that's good we're gonna move move it along quickly on the resister front the resistance I think I didn't cut these bits of wire long enough but that's okay I'm not I'm not gonna fret about it because in the end it's still gonna just be this bit of visual wonderful visual cacophony I can't even tell you how much I appreciate that this guy went and found a company that could print Brown circuit boards that is so it's above and beyond but it's right it's right in my wheelhouse okay here we go now we can place these bad boys so what do we got we've got those okay it's one two three okay so four of four of these one juhu yeah I'm gonna Sutter all this when we're done that's gonna be much more fun especially all the snipping and they yeah soldering this after the fact it's gonna be a friggin delight okay so it's seven okay so there's one missing there are also some wonderful gizmo kits out there that you can buy where people have just printed a photo of this board which is completely sufficient to making a gizmo on your belt that looks fantastic that looks totally spectacular and that was actually the path I was going until I think it's I can't remember but I think mark Du Bois my good friend and fellow prop fanatic mark turbo is the one that found this kit for me and told me that this insane person was making the super accurate beautiful thing there we go oh that's great and then seven of the red ones seven of them so one of the difficulties with this workbench is I can't get my knees under it so I'm still quite a distance from it this is my workbench game is weak right now I must admit my workbench game is not as good as it could be and it needs some rejiggering this guy here this one this it's just it's a piece of garbage and it's it's it's messing with my existence okay and so it's a long way of saying I think I'm gonna I think that's going to be a key build this year is making super solid work benches that they do what I actually need them to do like actually provide I put everything on wheels which is great but what it ends up doing is it ends up meaning that everything lobs a little bit and while I love things on wheels I think it's time for me to give up the idea that I'm gonna have to move this workbench at a minutes notice and realize that I have pry bars and Jimmy bars and dollies and I can move it at my leisure I don't have to have the ability to get it into a taxicab this afternoon much as I would much as I am comforted by the idea of that level of mobility it is not necessary oh I guess ya go one two three and we'll straighten them all up at the end I have lost one well hold on yeah the mouse makes it clear to me that I would do really well with a third arm a third arm would be very useful model making tool okay so now these guys are in well that's a rat's nest I feel like I feel like okay yeah mm-hmm how do I do this I guess they're not falling out all right let's um I think it's time to do a little bit of soldering because I've done a lot of placement and perhaps it's time doesn't move on to something new okay let's start you up let's get the solder going and you over here and 300 there we go okay right flush cutters there get this stuff over here Oh Oh ladies and gentlemen a good solder joint it's something that is so lovely to achieve they don't even have to be good but it's nice if they are Oh glory beauty this is me I'm encouraging myself every step of the way you did great nice one boss all right this is no okay I wouldn't go to these down here because all those stand up ones are a bit of a rat's nest oh yeah these these pieces are settling in nicely the heat of my soldering iron is ideal at 300 and lovely lovely you know what I get really excited about okay so you know I said like you I'm doing lots of video chatting also like you I am trying to find silver linings and the difficulties that are happening and such an understatement there were difficulties but I'm trying to find silver linings and one of them that I've believe is a great silver lining it's a number of people who are realizing just how hard it is to teach children the all of my friends with young children are sort of losing their minds with the homeschooling it is so not easy and homeschoolers the world over know this you know but maybe maybe as a silver lining when we're all done with this that people will realize that teachers should get paid a lot more than they're currently getting paid yeah would that be awesome there are a whole host of other silver linings that I've been thinking about but a lot of them are quite political and let's just keep this on the hanging out in the shop kind of doing our thing sort of vibe all right that is my feeling about what is needed here there's plenty of time to yell about politics later I hope oh I guess I should tell you guys what I'm doing if you're just tuning in this is Adam Savage I'm here in my cave in San Francisco it's day 75 of the quarantine a day like 12:00 but it feels like day 75 and I am building a ghost clusters prop here in my cave it is a kit I picked up off of ebay and it involves it involves some real electronics and some fake electronics and most people even experience people might not even be able to tell the difference between the two once all is said and done and I'm doing this on Tuesdays and Thursdays now from 1 to 3 p.m. Pacific time if you'd like to join me put the computer at the end of your workbench and build alongside we could make some props together because also like you I've been wondering what the hell I can do what what what what can I do and obviously you know I'm getting reached out on the maker front and we've been putting some people together and helping people find resources etc but seriously the the thing I realized this weekend is right that the civic duty here is to stay the stay indoors just just sequester stay away from people there were too many people in Dolores Park on the Sunday night a couple of nights ago we need to stay in and like okay so you're asking how do I know there are people don't take my dog out for a walk but seriously like the dog walkers are not the problem here it's it's it's the yeah anyway your civic duty is to stay indoors what you do with that time is up to you I don't feel a huge need to be crazy productive my motivations been all over the place okay I'm gonna cut some of these away however you know apparently if everyone in the world just stopped moving for two weeks that would do a lot to eliminate this thing right away and boy I hope we can eliminate it I hope we can flatten the curve I hope we can stop the suffering or at least lessen it I would be I would be very grateful for that but the best way you can lessen it right now is yep you guessed it staying indoors okay that's the end of my proselytizing about sequestration and sheltering in place oh that smell that great smell all right I know these are not beautiful solder joints but then I'm pretending I'm a lab technician somewhere in Texas in the 1970s putting this together or sanyo so now I'm in Japan okay let's say you know I can clean some of that up okay now it's time for the transistors and they live where do they live I think that is that and okay oh yeah this is gonna be it's gonna be fun let's see yeah transistor has three leads and so it's a little bit of a it's a threading it's a threading deal did I just put that in backwards huh I did classic move cookbooks that's definitely been one we've been using a lot more of lately and pulling out cookbooks and throwing some different things one two three one two three all right I guess it's just that is it three in a row yeah and they're all facing on the inside there they are Maggie is still my shop assistant today she's being very quiet she's hanging out over there on her sound blanket I took her out on a walk just before just before we left I saw this very funny headline yesterday that said jump dogs are really excited about whatever the hell is going on so so exactly like that yeah Oh Maggie she's so deaf it makes it kind of great deafness I didn't know what a what a dog calming mechanism deafness is but it made Maggie I'm much easier dog to deal with she used to just like lose her mind if anyone rang a doorbell on television oh my god right each night I keep thinking we're gonna watch a movie and each night we kind of don't have the energy to watch a movie it is the emotional toll of this time it's really it's hard to overstate isn't it it's just so peculiar all right let's see here I can see that let's get some solder joints going two three four five six nice Oh having things to hold oh this is lovely I love this kind of rhythm like when you got your work all properly set up and you're welding into a corner and like everything is just properly distanced and you feel physically in the right spot ah it's the best it's actually during making doing a weld like that that I got my worst sunburn I've ever had we were we were making doing some story out on Mare Island on the mare island dry dog what was it I think it might have been the the skydiver landing on the other side of the seesaw and sending a little girl flying we did it all with crash test dummies but I was well to sitting on an I beam welding this thing to the i-beam with a stick welder and it's just in this perfect position getting that's great oh I mean just perfect action right just like everything's falling into place and what I didn't know is that I had this hole in my jeans right here and so the UV that they bath of ultraviolet light from my welds was causing this silver dollar sized sunburn in my leg that I'll probably have to deal with later it was yeah it was a really really bad sunburn I had no idea I was even getting it yeah welding sunburns are brutal all right okay flush cut the transistors let's see yeah that's all right okay next stage ha already got that one in but I can put the last transistor up there and it goes you know and those three okay what do you want to bet I'm putting it in backwards nope got it right well 5050 broken clock is still Right twice a day lovely mmm I also I am also noticing a proclivity to not want to get out of bed and it's really important to get out of bed like I left to my own devices I could easily see entering a situation in which I'm like going to bed at like 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 in the morning and sleeping until noon that is that's just not good for anybody okay capacitors let's see here where do these go they go all the way across okay so right okay okay so it goes like this yeah oh okay it goes to the right of each of those holes each time okay so do that and yep okay I see now there we go I guess if experience is any teacher will just past an hour and mega show up in about half an hour and say I don't necessarily think that's how Maggie talks I'm pretty sure yes she's like I love it I have baby baby now it's a little bit softer because she's like an old lady you know she's she's almost just like thirteen and a half yeah this is an old broad yeah that's definitely Maggie sounds like a muppet I'm pretty sure of it is there's this great bit on a Muppet documentary I was watching watching their Muppet ears pick up a puppet and just start working through voices with them and trying all these different sounds until something hits so awesome okay so now we're going to solder the capacitors in I love this soldering iron so much this is going to be this is going to be much easier than the other ones or come on that's it now you see that yep and a little bit for you okay moving on good take that one great excellent okay moving on oh yeah I keep going home every day thinking I want to do some drawing and for the life of me I can't get interested in drawing although I played so much pistol-whip I the oculus oculus quest VR I played pistol-whip for a couple of hours and my legs are on fire fire that is yeah Will Smith reminded me of what a good workout pistol-whip is so I jumped into it yesterday and I'm suffering a little bit from it this morning I must tell you about to tell you ok great great great great and the capacitor is oh wait one lead left my passengers are in next step is Oh for Christ's sake goodness gracious is what I meant to say oh my god the integrated circuit part kit assembly oh right that's right there's these like fake IC circuits in here yumpin yiminy ok the angled gold portion will end up being the visible part of the lead for the IC right okay I gotcha I gotcha okay oh alright I had just working through this okay so those end up coming all the way out to the end and they are in batches oh my goodness there's a lot there's a lot of work okay oh my god oh that is there's a lot going on there two four six eight ten twelve fourteen sixteen sixteen months of nine do I literally have enough all right so he started this is gonna be fascinating so they're set at the right distance which is good I think I got you are there your longer ones and shorter ones no they're all the same size and I've got four of these which means each one can make four that would be my assumption and so they're in batches of nine nine okay let's Niner two three yep that's it one okay cool so he's got this whole protocol for how to make this work and it's what we're doing is there's these big integrated circuit chips on the face of this board and they're they need their leads coming off of them and he's figured out this wonderful way to do fake leads which is brilliant it simply requires heating look he's got this thing of heating these up but I think I can do it without that yeah I'm pretty sure I can okay so let's cut all 16 of these yeah six it's going to be a fast way to do this now this is pretty much it Oh seven and oh wait guys lose it three six nine ten okay here we go that's it I continue to find the west wing to be the most comforting television imaginable but last night what was I watching last night I was watching a lot more people building stuff last night that's um yeah that's one of my that's my go-to people making people making stuff oh oh it's one what no that's correct sighs yeah that's my go-to on YouTube is people building stuff whether it's a crisp from clickspring or john plant from primitive technologies or jimmy to Russa chin beard bulb in over all the guys oh my god there's people there's I'm just realizing there's a call I should needed to return yesterday and totally forgot to I usually reserve that kind of stressing out for the end of every day okay so now we're doing we're doing let's see notice it depends oh no what's yours right right right solder them down and they're doing the outside ones first ignore those two sorry about this just gonna take me a second to wrap my arrow only the top and bottom pins are soldered and it just depends their level in horizontally right so a black portion is slanted okay no right now if I do that and then I do the second set wait a second oh right I guess it will huh all right well let's see this is going to be definitely super tedious because I've got 16 pieces with 9 150 some odd yep good okay that's working nicely I'm glad I have the right tool for that job which is just a pair of needle nose pliers that are allowing me to adjust the position of these pins so I do that and I do that business okay right I guess it makes sense because then once I soldered those in yeah once I soldered those they no wonder if I can do it like this I wonder if that's possible okay let's try let's see if nah wait a second wait a second is this this is this a recipe for disaster no I was watching when he injured himself don't really it happened right in front of you okay do it let's see yeah so when I'm doing stuff like this it part of the equation is always asking myself is there a better way I could be holding this thing could I put it off angle do is there a pair of pliers that are better could I put a notch in the pliers like the question is always one of em I at maximum efficiency or is there something I could do to get better at it okay so those guys in there that's great that's that's pretty great yeah I could actually those are staying so I could do that soldering of all yeah of all eight of those first ones okay so now how fast can I make this you know what I bet Flyers would make this go a little faster because I could do two at once let's try that oh also dropping parts has been made more complicated by the fact that I'm wearing these as my microphone but it also means that my already crappy ambient hearing is now pretty much non-existent Oh much better I can do two things that whoa look at that three pins at the time okay excellent okay so I think I can do this in two batches yep ah awesome look at how fast see that this is why you always ask yourself that question could I be doing this in a more efficient way cuz I'm just cutting large chunks of time out of how long it would have taken to do this manually or with that original pair of needle-nosed it's funny because there are times when I solve a problem and I'm it's like it's not a perfect solution but at least it's a solution and I like putting that problem away but then there are these other times when I'm just constantly wondering if there's a better solution that I hadn't currently thought of this is great so what I'm trying to do here is slide these these little IC pins that way in their plastic housing and did I just drop something that I just leaned over something and then drop it is that what happened I heard something fall see two four six eight ten twelve yep one fellow what a dope okay before I let go of this one let me just finish it up okay so that's one two three four five six seven eight two four six eight oh no I didn't think honest I've done that more times than I can count that's for sure I'm also taking tons of out now I definitely didn't see where that one went because I pinched the hell out of my finger all right two four six eight no I guess I just dropped it right there my clearly my expectations of my own performance are very lowered today they're not dropping as much as I think I am it's the lack of sleep yeah I couldn't get to sleep some nights I'm getting a lot of sleep some nights I'm not last night only got about six and a half I can do that for a couple days but I'm gonna have to nap to bring things back into order soon I the other thing I appreciate about the wonderful weird specificity of having this board printed in the right color is that the guy didn't just do it for himself but he made it into a kit and here's the thing I said the kids a little bit spendy and it is but I don't think that our dude is making very much dough on this there's a lot of moving parts to it there's a lot of if you've ever had to do fulfillment it is non-trivial and then of course when you're making something publicly available and you're selling it you've got to do your customer service it's just it's a whole thing and it's very generous to take your research and go ahead and make it available to others like like this that's something I really appreciate come on there we go and the last one it's coming this way you know five leads at a time very exciting oh I think this one is not nine I think this one is ten that's why one of my lead cut offs was three instead of four let's see here one two three four five six seven eight ten bingo pajama alright so now you can put all these in yep excellent yeah I think I'm gonna get some tape to hold these in while I do a solder across the back and we pull off the plastic excellent excellent oh that one almost went in the wrong set outside outside outside outside inside it's okay good let's boot you up again get some tape after we're done with this I'm gonna go back to machining some cast iron yeah it's a little harder to stream when I'm doing that because it's just all over the place it's like I'm working on the mill I'm working on the lathe okay you guys can all live there happily and we will get this guy soldered in here we go okay he recommends you do one end of either run of pins and then just double-check the squareness and make sure everything is happy hunky-dory this is fantastic advice born of someone who's made the mistakes and doesn't want you to make the same ones so that is those done that way and so now let's double check and see that they're good you do seem pretty darn fine yep yep yep okay I think we can continue on and we can just button it all the way down oh yeah stitch and stitch and Stitch what a pleasure oh you know we watched a couple nights ago which I'd seen in the theaters is late night Mindy Kaling's movie with the completely inimitable Emma Thompson oh my god it is so good it's really really sweet it's you know it's a weird time there's no more romantic comedies they seem to be disappearing or they seem to have disappeared and this feels like a return to form almost full of some great performances really good writing Mindy Kaling is always the best but holy hell Emma Thompson if you're watching I love you I don't think Emma Thompson's watching I'm just gonna hazard that guess but she should know that she's a [ __ ] treasure excuse me I'm streaming I forgot yeah in my normal life I curse like a sailor anyway Emma Thompson a treasure totally amazing and late night a fine and wonderful movie okay so that's the first half of the IC chips in IC chip leads so now you have me I think he wants me to pull these now off completely yeah okay and then a second set of these goes in there yeah dude it's working okay that's awesome so now I need to figure out how to get all these off okay that's one ooh that's a screw-up there's some I didn't solder whoops whoops how do I fix that that's gonna that's that's that's uh it was so pretty for a second everything was so great everything was just crackling along nicely then I had to go screw it up okay so how do I fix that I think I do it by soldering it from the top from up here it's not going to be as pretty but I need a tiny gap that's why I need to just a little something rather there yep okay great I okay this is this is that was a mistake born of not checking my work that's for sure what's funny in the directions is as he's talking about doing stuff you can actually see and he's talks about mistakes that he made in the construction process as he went and like exhorts you not to make the same mistakes that is freaking fabulous customer service right there okay so straighten those out all right I'm getting every other one off here oh I see that's from that now one two three four one two three four five six seven well that's problematic now it seems like I'm missing one hang on got to find a lost soldier here one two three one two three four five six seven yep alright so no okay you know what wait I figured it out I know how to do this I've got these I've got all these extra force I can cobble it together out of that okay so I still need to remove these guys okay that's doable yep great okay another one bites the dust excellent oh good awesome come on this is the last one yeah you can do it come on be cooperative there ya go oh another couple of lost soldiers here once did not get fully embedded in I missed to Sutter's so let's get that in and this is really wonderful that he's figured this out because almost every other way you could achieve this would be a super big coin in the ass and by making this kit utilize these pre line sets of gold colored pens like this isn't how the original was built the original had these icy chips on it but he figured it out that's genius okay so one and Chu good and three and four that's awesome oh dude it's so lovely [Music] six seven and here comes the up right sorry got to stretch this out a little bit that's one oh come on there we go you know and here comes the last one okay so now it's time to Sutter all these puppies in place like you're taping them down okay let's try not to forget some key part of this shall we it's always a good idea so inside inside inside inside that's what we're working on yup that's you yeah that's the position yep better awesome fabulous good two three good oh this is going beautifully yeah I you know the meditation of tedium man there's a few things that are kind of more absorbing I just it's something really delightful about it I mean yeah that whole thing you know lose yourself in your work it's a lot of people often think that has to do with being like you know doing super creative stuff but I find just as much sort of that meditative thing from the tedious stuff right we just passed the halfway mark now and burning through it literally burning through it a 300 degrees Celsius awesome oh I'm getting their text let's see what we say oh yeah I agree I hear you I'm getting feedback maybe I should show what I'm doing a little more often yeah I know it's harder to do on this one than it is on the on the ecto-1 simply because it's like I know I edit or eeeh lysing right I'm thinking no one wants to just look at the close-up of an icy board but then maybe I'm wrong I mean that is what the people want all right so yeah thank you very much everybody so that is that parts mostly done so here is so far the icy board with the leads in it that will end up being the I see chips that will sit on there like that and it'll look like it's wired in but it's not those are the capacitors transistors all those beautiful little resistors here yeah I am continuing on I don't think I'm going to finish this today I don't think I'm gonna finish it today but we will get a fair bit down the garden path yeah 20 more minutes okay so now that those guys are all in I got a pull out yeah these I don't think you go up that's interesting actually do I need to do that okay so they point upwards upwards yeah they kind of do need it don't they how do they okay got it I'm just gonna flush cut past the black here that's how I'm going to deal with this oh yeah great that's actually not bad at all I'm not sure my flush cutters will work on the second level but we'll see that's good it's good and clean yeah [Music] I'm in trouble getting around there but let's see if I can't yeah that's actually about that bad oh good pair of flush cutters makes the world go round what are flush cutters okay these are flush cutters these are model makers flush cutters so you see how right there that cutting edge it cuts super flush this handle I built but this is a product you could get in micro mark I think it was Michael mark yeah it was micro mark oh I think Mike remark is actually still around that was some of the most fun was comparing notes with other model makers right like sitting there with lauren peterson and going over your like your favorite heat gun stories seriously this is what model makers talk about they're like oh man i get to use this german heat gun once like yeah you just you remember every time you come across something where someone's designed a tool with real Verve and love and they've solved a problem for you man you just never forget it it's that it's the Aesop's fable of the thorn in the paw right someone was super useful some thing some device and then you get to share you share that with others right it's like you spread the you spread the knowledge oh dude it's just the best now we have the cosplay community for that okay so these come yeah so that goes in there like this oh look he's actually already sandblasted or done the backside so it looks great that's delightful alright we're going to use a little cyanoacrylate glue to put these in and then oh they get these little labels Wow that is awesome okay so yeah let's get some glue there I got some CA glue and some zip kicker the old face up great oh I see I bet you guys well getting in the way sorry about that all right let me get that back up and yeah better better better much better all right ladies and gentlemen that is that's a really impressive solution it's nice and simple easy to implement and best of all looks frickin fantastic this solution gets my my deep respect and the last one excellent okay we hit this with a little zip kicker the carbon dioxide from my breath is also an accelerant for CA glue and now we have these little stickers that's sakes and you know oh my god they got a pair of tweezers for these this is okay so these all face that direction right like that yeah oh look at that printed on metallic sticker this is this is above and beyond man okay I'm gonna show it to you of course I promise oh hey you're not supposed to fall off yeah let's get a little dirty but that's fine getting a little dirty that's kind of my brand okay look at that look at that this is looking like a real thing welcome to the 1970s big ol white IC chips that's fantastic okay he decided to do oh my god right he's rub-ons okay so now we have these guys which are these little black nubbins they're laser cut out of what looks like quarter inch acrylic and they get these little labels dry transfer I have not used dry transfer in so long I can't even tell you it's such a blast on the past what is dry transfer dry transfer is a mode of image transferring in which an image is actually printed onto the backing of a translucent piece of paper and you actually use pressure to apply it yeah it used to be the way in which we did everything in graphic design when we were doing prototype because there's not a lot of other ways and I used to order it there used to be a place here in San Francisco called Pink's where you got your dry transfer from I used them for dozens of commercials all sorts of different things but no one doesn't anymore I'm not even sure where the hell he found someone to do it that's completely amazing to me that he found this so we're gonna just try this and yeah you just use a pencil to transfer the image down and you rub it down and you'll see like this is this right you wanted to know what typeface would look good you just bought a full sheet of it and then you like transfer the letters down yourself so look at that this is from a prop standpoint look at that look at that yeah see that there's just there's nothing else that will get you that look it's very it's a very I'm very nostalgic about that look all right we're gonna do we're gonna do the others here so it's just a matter of holding it down yeah you're just kind of transferring it from one from one piece of paper to the thing that the piece of paper is sitting on top of there used to be these kids books you could buy where it would include like pictures of environments and then you had dry transfers of characters and you could populate those environments with those characters you guys remember those that was so much fun funny note the graphics on the space suits the labeling graphics on the space suits from 2001 we're all done with dry transfers and most of them can't even be seen in the film they're so small however I managed through some of my sources when I was making my silver clavia suits to get some high-res images of costume tests from the set and that's when I was actually able to read some of the labeling on the suits that I had never been able to see before and when I was able to read that labeling what I noticed was it wasn't actually anything that was written for the film so there's this part on the blue suit sorry on the silver suit which has a blue front pack a blue front control pack there's like this black section here and in the black section there's this like paragraph of writing what does it say well when I finally got these high-res photos and got to read it what I saw that it said was it was the legalese text and the product letras that when you bought a sheet of letter set this was like the bottom right hand corner legally is like all copyrights reserved above all United States are manufactured under license of blah blah yeah and they like so the prop master like knew you're never going to be able to read it but you wanted the detail he wanted the layering of the detail that I love okay now it's time okay rub downs I got to find out where he had these manufactured I have several props I'd love to do some dry transfers for and again just take a look just take a look at let's take a look at how beautiful those are right I mean yeah just gorgeous I actually even went so far as to try and buy a make-your-own dry transfer kit it's just not quite as good as I was hoping okay so let's see here okay so these four guys they live here and they all face upwards or so they're upside down effectively so it goes one oh okay great great more glue so Momo yeah focus on this glue here ahead and we will place these hello sweetie give me just a second all right I'll be right with you Maggie I promise I told you she was gonna show up soon right she's a very good shop assistant she's very predictable okay Oh sweetie oh it's okay Maggie got a haircut this weekend she was getting a little shaggy remember a couple years ago and it was like a hundred and five in San Francisco remember when weather was our big concern oh my god anyway a couple years ago during that ridiculous summer Maggie was just sitting in the coldest part of the house just like and it was like you have too much fur and so I took her over to cave and I shaved a bunch of that fur off of her and that's what we discovered that underneath the like rough exterior of a wire Terrier is not soft fur is a smooth dog inside yeah so now she's all smooth yes we're gonna go out in a couple minutes and then yeah it'll be time for dinner actually your timing is perfect Maggie we just I only have about seven or eight minutes left also I like the fact that whenever I shave her it looks like someone cut her angel wings off I know that's sort of gruesome but I mean mmm that's what I think all right sweetie yep I'm gonna get you a treat give me just a second everybody sweetie all right we are burning through it okay now some more resistors displays circuitry parts kit that's all at the top of the board there are seven components okay I see all these gotcha gotcha gotcha alright so it's just moving through it and yep okay I see that's where those resistors all are okay yeah so that's one of the screws oh wait right does that it maybe it doesn't well we will see I'm gonna leave that for a minute so let's see we've got the pot that's it's there does that look correct actually actually better better gotta tape that down to put it in let me just hold that like that and I will oh you need to eat up sorry gotta wait gotta wait gotta wait I don't like waiting it's fine you still have to wait but what if I don't have to wait but you do have to wait you're seventy five to eighty six three hundred we're getting we're in okay we're in the room and we're it lovely Oh fabulous Oh marvelous okay and then we get a little switchy Pooh where's that I saw it ah here it is switch this right there right yeah I'm not even taping it in I'm just doing it oh so this is the mounting point and then I can also Sutter in here why not why not okay then we've got little IC chip thing okay yeah good chip socket that's what it is chip socket Sales Manager okay no like it's no I got all four corners so now I can just finish out the soldering oh so much fun I don't think I'm going to continue this one on camera I'm noticing the level of concentration it takes at the lack of my ability to show you interesting progress might mean that this is not the most ideal project for hanging out with me in the cave here however I'm a learning computer so I think I'll have a more fun thing to build Thursday that we can go over come on there we go beauty that's great I really I I think we're wrapping this up here yeah we're gonna wrap this up I really appreciate you guys joining me for this I hope that this provided some solace and some succour during this weird time remember your civic duty is stay home stay away from each other we can get through this together we can get through this together don't let the forces of evil divide us seriously I again thanks for joining me in the cave it is delightful knowing that you're watching and that we are all stay away from each other together yeah I would love to see pictures of what you are working on in your shop in your cave in your craft closet where it whatever you are doing I'd like you to post pictures of it and because again we're all in this together let's share what we're what we're working on even if what we're working on is pillow forts for the kids and dinosaur videos to keep them out of your hair that is a completely reasonable form of child rearing thank you guys so much I will see you on Thursday at 1:00 and big virtual hugs from the Mission District in San Francisco now I'm gonna take my dog for a walk thanks everybody right okay well now you get a little bit of that let's see here and we're done you

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Published: Tue Mar 24 2020