"As a man with a lathe, my whole world is getting rounder." You, sir, just earned a subscription. :)

I can solder almost anything to almost anything, and I routinely develop complex modeling and machine learning software that deals with credit and risk analysis, but the woodworking in this video is quite intimidating to me. I thought you'd appreciate the opposite perspective. :)

10 year old me pictures playing with this pretending it is a time bomb made by some evil genius that I must diffuse. I could have spent hours with this as a kid. As an adult I could see throwing a battery source and a shoulder strap to use as part of a SteamPunk cosplay. Good stuff as always Grady!

Hahahah you got me hooked when you said: "As a civil engineer I don't really trust my own sense of style" Brilliant made me laugh because the other week we were chatting about the fact that viaducts, most bridges and aquaducts these days are not styled like the used to in the 20s and 30s where the architects showed off their proud pieces of engineering. Now they need to just be functional I guess. I love the puzzle box simple but cool!

@michael-gary-scott

8 жыл бұрын

"As a man with a lathe, my world is getting rounder" was my favourite quote xD

Modify the code so that there is a time limit and if you fail it changes and after each round there is less and less time and when you win the needles go crazy

@umnikos

8 жыл бұрын

also he can add the conami cheat code so you win immediately

@tempest_dawn

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, put in a buzzer or something to let you know as the time limit ticks down, decrease the time you are given each round - instant difficulty curve. If you're really ambitious have it track high scores or whatever.

@tjja7321

6 жыл бұрын

for the high score, you're better off with a raspi and a little touchscreen.

I can totally picture myself wasting a lot of time playing with it. Learning something new is so much fun. Good job.

@matthiaswandel

9 жыл бұрын

The game play itself is not that important, other than justification for building the neat hardware.

@TimothyHall13

9 жыл бұрын

***** I love the integration of the various skill sets with the personal learning experience you went through.

@gavinhowe9897

8 жыл бұрын

you should buy or build a synthesizer

Honestly one of the coolest things ive seen all year. Beautiful creation mate!

Everything about your project videos is absolutely perfect. Thank you for making them. All the best, Martin

Neat project! I've got that same crappy Weller soldering iron. Put any pressure on the tip on mine and it cuts out. Your new one looks like a Hakko. Thanks for the mention and I'm glad you found the countersink idea useful :)

@MichaelOlsen-Engineer

9 жыл бұрын

I fully agree with you John Heisz. Weller's lower end tools leave much to be desired, and are generally very overpriced for their quality level. In my opinion, Hakko is definitely the better choice for the occasional electronics user. Their quality, performance, and ease of use tends to be well above the Weller's lower end fort a very modest, if any, increase in cost. To be fair however, I should note that Weller has two distinct lines: hobbyist and professional. I have owned and used their professional level tools for many years with great ease, confidence and success. I chose Weller because they had a local dealer for their professional line (most of my systems are +$100), and provided impressive support throughout my military career and training as an electrical engineer. So if it is something you will use daily for "mission critical" work, I would strongly recommend Weller's high end tools, just realize they have a corresponding price.

@JohnHeisz

9 жыл бұрын

Michael Olsen I have a Weller WES51 and it works great. The piece of crap one was a pretty good idea (low voltage, interchangeable tips, heats up fast, has an LED light), but the execution was terrible. Very poorly made, very uncomfortable to use. A lemon! :)

you should make the goal light blink then once you aline it should stay solid and a new light should start to blink. this would make the goal to light all of the lights and the reset should put you back to no solid lights. that way you can play a longer game keeping your attention longer. and if that's not exiting enough make the levels on timers first light is 60 seconds them then take 5 seconds off every level to increase the difficulty if they don't get it it goes back a level. When you get it all done make a little light show and dance the needles with some vibration to celebrate

@dr_knots

8 жыл бұрын

By the way it's a really cool box nice work

"During my shower, my commute and before I go to bed". I know what its like to fiddle with ideas in your mind every waking moment you have for yourself.

Quote of the day, month, year... "As a man with a lathe, my whole world is getting rounder" Great project, the wood adds immensely to the appeal of this project and it turned out looking fantastic, it is hard to beat the look of walnut and maple together!

@FavioRamirez

9 жыл бұрын

What soldering iron did you end up with? I have had similar frustrations with mine and have been looking for an upgrade.

@dialmformostyn

9 жыл бұрын

Very clever and the box in particular is very neat indeed. And is 'soldering' pronounced 'sawdering' in a North American accent?!

@FavioRamirez

9 жыл бұрын

***** thanks! Fantastic results by the way. Great project to mix your passion for woodworking, electronics, and arduino programming. Love everything about this project.

@hamsta218

5 жыл бұрын

i liked that one and also that items would look more appropriate with some ligneous modifications

Nice work! I am really impressed how you combine your woodworking skills with engineering.

Wow, the enclosure looks amazing. Great work!

Your channel is amzing! Loving all your projects. Keep on, man. =)

Great project. Looks amazing.

This is the coolest thing. Great job! I think my new dream in life is to become you

things you will learn to love: twisty ties, electrical tape, zip ties, and heat shrink. generally on the order of least to most permanent. i like to keep mini boxes devoted to each so the picking is always good.

Really cool one :) Great videos!

I love it! Make it so you can play minecraft on it. (I'm only half kidding)

awesome concept... and great craftsmanship! definitely better than I thought it was gonna be

I really like it. Yes, you dont go to play it for hours but you have a beautifull and vintage like toy that you can put in a place you see every day and you go to stop and play it a little every time.

What a fun educational project. Education in the building. Fun conversation piece at least afterwards.

This was really, really cool! You should definitely be proud of what you've accomplished with this project! :)

That's great Grady! I immediately think of letting the kids try it to help grow their brains with a little problem-solving. Shoot... in that case I ought to try it too.

This is so insanely cool. I love that you made the knobs and remade the button out of wood. Very sharp project.

As an electronic engineer this project appeals to me, I also like puzzles and its uniqueness is great, well done! 👏👍👊

I was just introduced to your channel via Reddit and I am overjoyed

Man ! This is a very good game and project ! Just add more math challenges ! Thanks for sharing !

I gave you one plus.. becaouse I couldn't give you more - this is very nice work and so much work! Great!

Awesome idea! Looks like something straight out of Myst.

wow I'd really love to have one of these. it's a simple concept and would be a great you for fiddlers to have at their desk, doesn't take too much thought but gives their hands something to do.

So cool remaking the button no wait. So cool with the ligneous updates :D Muchly imaginative and inspirational -- keep going.

Wow. Very cool project. Love the whole wooden control vibe. The LEDs shining behind the veneer is a great touch. And thanks to Jay Bates for pointing you out in his weekly newsletter. One thought I had to make it more interesting is some way of keeping score, possibly based on time to solve. And possibly making it multiplayer.

your ideas are incredible

Beautiful work! It would fit in perfectly in the tardis control pnel :D

What a great project! My only change would be to add a speaker and an assortment of sounds to select from randomly as the "reward" for winning. After all, all arcade games have sounds!

Very interesting. Looks like fun to build

Incredible project! I believe that all you need to make this game more addictive is to add cool mechanical counter and a reward system with points. For instance, the counter adds a value when you solve a puzzle, but continuously subtracts it with time, with increasing velocity.

Wow. Just found this channel from AvE... This is really great content, seriously. Keep it up.

I love things that work that have a bunch of wires inside it!!

Great project, and a fun combination of electronics & woodworking. I found this video (and channel) from your reddit post. Thanks for the video, you've gained a new subscriber.

modesty is admirable but you can be a little more forward when your proud of your project. no need to say "its probably nothing impressive" you made something and that is awesome. congratulate yourself with a bit more abandon is all I'm saying. don't worry over how people might perceive your bragging, because you accomplished something and have therefore earned it. Have some DIY pride baby :)

Awesome project. The intersection of woodworking and electronics and programming.

Beautiful!!!

Looks interesting. I would definetely play at least once :)

That is crazy cool!

Here's an idea for a game. The meter will show light up a random LED, and you have to turn it to it. Each time you do this successfully, it will show the same LED, then another one, and you have to point it to both. So each round, another LED that you have to point to would be added to the sequence. To make it more interesting, you could use LEDs from either meter, so you'd also have to remember which meter the LED was on. When you lose, it will vibrate and reset. So so it's basically Simon with more buttons

That game is really really awsome!!!! The knobs move the needles differently every time? Please sell these

Amazing good job buddy!!!

Great Idea!!

I didn't understand a thing you were talking about, but I'm really amazed by this box and i think i would really love to own one^^

heres how i think how this could be more fun. people will have a limited time to aling the needle. the time up alarm could be the vibration motor. maybe strong enough to give the person a jump scare. the button could be used to something more game related like finish the puzzle. if the needles are aligned the the person dont push the button in time the game is over. maybe a flip switch could be added to do the reset work. very sorry for the typos.. im using a keyboard the size of a remote control in a but of a hurry. lunch time. great channel, btw.

And THANK YOU for rejecting the lazy, downright ableist use of "OCD" in the sense of "preference for neat and tiny". God, it kills me. Thank you

Great !! Well done :)

this is pretty cool

Nice project, wood and electronics really goes together. I never used an external microcontroler board, I find I can do more by designing my own circuits. You should try it. I keep my good soldering iron at my cottage, I can rely on using a crappy one. I solder with one at home.

I think it’s a great idea!!!

I actually kinda love this design. It reminds me of something that would be a puzzle in an old Resident Evil game or something. If you reworked it to make the wiring setup a bit more...managable, you could make it like a treasure box, or a way to open a secret passage in your house or something.

oh thank god you teld me the resistors prevent some led from burning thak you helped me alot when did not watch this vid i did not know what does resistors do

There are ton of "puzzle boxes" out in youtube. What about a box which had many, many knobs, buttons and sliders!

This is cool!

that looks like a fun fidget device

Awesome project. Have an arduino a good friend gifted to me sitting around that i haven't done anything with. MIght just try this out in the future.

Great toy and a great video. Really enjoyed watching this marriage between woodworking and electronics. The only thing I would have done differently is to use end grain for the face plates rather than long grain. That would have let a lot more light from the LEDs through the wood. End grain veneer is extremely brittle, but the face plates are protected anyway.

I'd make the leds go up and down according to a sine wave of random frequencies and phases, and the three knobs have a random effect on the frequency of each meter needle, and it's your goal to synchronize the motion of the needles to the lights. For variety, you could switch, per game, whether the knobs control the lights or needle

I've sold SO many of those Hakko FX888D's at work. It's a solid piece of equipment.

I don't usually think 'wow' when watching these kinds of videos, and puzzle boxes rarely hold my attention, but this was really cool! I'd love to see it so that you could but an actual box underneath that opened when the puzzle was complete, someone with your abilities probably wouldn't find it hard to do at all.. It just feels as though it should have some kind of function, or reward for completing. Nice job, truly, well done. Love the buttons too. If I had the skills, or equipment, I'd love to coat all of my electronic buttons with wood (thinking amplifier here :D)

Great video! (All your video’s are awesome). How about a video on PID’s (Proportional Integral Derivative)? Or: How does an Arduino work?

love the smell when working with walnut..

Looking at that, all I can hear is Atrus' voice, over and over, saying, "Try moving the slider." Ahh, memories.

Very cool. Looks like a minigame that you find in modern games. Like opening a door or activate a machine

@NU-ph1zx

8 жыл бұрын

It reminds me of picking locks in Thief.

@bryang9495

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much this exact puzzle is used in the Resident Evil 2 Remake when restarting a generator in the sewers. Can't remember if it was also in the original game.

Hi fleb. Iv always c9nsidered myself pretty smart....but just avarage guy smart lol your intelligence blows me away. I love to watch your ideas and builds. And listen to what you have go say while solving. You deserve alot of respect. You rock! Much love crom New York. Ohh yeah where are you from my friend

That is an awesome game

I take electrical engineering and ATM i'm doing my final project with arduino. And yet you... doing a lot of things already, I envy you, especially to the tools that you have. I love your content anyway

Oh, my god! The Trident console at 1:43 is BEAUTIFUL! As is that Marantz 2270 ... Easily my favourite video of the channel ... so far. It was a combination of an early childhood fascination with buttons, switches, faders and anything electromechanical, and making stupid noises in interesting sounding spaces that led me to become a researcher in acoustic and electroacoustic engineering. Much to the chagrin of my parents, this meant I never shut up or stopped disconnecting and reconnecting the stereo components, the television, VCR and all those things that seemed like total magic to a 4/5 year old mind. I can remember sitting there staring at the stylus in absolute amazement that the huge sound I was hearing came out of a groove you could barely see in a piece of plastic; how the VU meters swung in time to the transients in the audio; or that little pieces of iron positioned by magnets onto a tape could reproduce any sound you wanted (not exactly true, but I wasn't aware of the bandwidth and dynamic constraints/losses of recording media aged five). Thank you for evoking those wonderful memories, which only further reassured me that I'm probably "on the right track" with my life (at least in some way). I don't know how many people end up doing the thing they were obsessed with as kids ... and I don't take that immense privilege (and a lot of hard work, obviously) for granted. And is there anything a Dremel CAN'T do? One of my favourite toys ...

Hey Great video...I want to do some electronic projects by myselfe and i need some pre projects to get the stuff to know better.. you have been a great source for that..... Have a great day you desire it ;)

***** This thing is super cool. Great project!

All you need to make it fun is a countdown timer that restarts your score at 0 if you don't match it in time (maybe 10 seconds per round). After several successful rounds, the speed increases and you only have 7 seconds to match the dials. Like a Bop-It!!

Wow........ Just.. epic..

this looks like something that amateur radio operator would love to play with

Anybody thought of Data from Star Trek TNG trying to train is cat: "This is down. Down is good. This is up: Up is no."

Very cool idea and nicely executed. I love those animated 3D designs of yours. What software do you use for those?

@PracticalEngineeringChannel

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Those were done in Sketchup

Awesome! Grabbing a sub, this is a great project. Out of sight out of mind for the internal wiring stuff. I'm great at soldering but I've never been good at making my fly wires look like they weren't a rats nest. haha You could always add a time factor for the game too. Make the buzzers tick time down(buzz once a second or so) so that the user knows that they are running out of time. Since you didn't use the UART lines, its always fun to throw in an ESP8266 into the project and make it connect to the internet. I don't know what you would do from there, make it tweet something, grab new puzzles from online. Great work.

I love this

Its awesome! srsiously, it does look Awesome and want it when you have nothing better to do =P

this looka like an awsome game

I still want to make a puzzlebox, but I haven't decided what it should do. But it should have lot's of buttons, and maybe GPS :) This is some good inspiration anyway

Great! (I'm not sure about the "game" but I love the wooden knobs etc)

I have a fear of chewing gum while lying on my back

I'm coming into this very late, but adding a countdown timer to the game would make it more challenging and a way to count successful solves before running out of time would make it more competitive.

I'll be graduating in 5 months and watching your videos makes me feel like I don't know nearly what I should. What is your drive and strategy to learn new things, e.g. multidisciplinary things?

Hey man that looks like an awesome project. I have a suggestion. You could probably simplify the electronics quite a bit by removing all the LED resistors. Instead, solder all the negative LED ends together into one resistor that connects with gnd. I know how deceptively long it can take to solder and insulate 10 resistors :P. Also, it would be really neat if you made your Arduino play a sound through a small speaker when you win. Take a look at Examples -> Digital -> toneMelody.

You’re so cool!

this would make a good escape room prop. once the needles are lined up, a door opens somewhere

haha love it!

you should use low voltage controls and transistor to be able to choose a different game just by touching a screw

Love it, ...now, if you replaced the buzzer with an open/closed switch it could lock/unlock a drawer or door? Add one more set of controlled dials inside that drawer, ...or maybe a set of 6 push button switches that turn on/off your ability to turn on the power to the next section, etc. Brother, I could do this all day!

you could add a speaker or just the audio out (via a follower op amp) so that in addition to the visuals you can have an audio puzzle as well. You could also add a midi output, so that you can use it as a real midi controller.

36 dislikes? Those sure are the people who don't understand the function relationship between the knobs xDD. Awesome project, concept and explanation. Really inspiring. Keep making things (y)