When he started working on this he was clean shaved

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@BurkenProductions

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah he needs to shave again. Could use it to feed the loom.

@Designsecrets

3 жыл бұрын

hahahahaha

@MySanjeeta

Жыл бұрын

How long it took and what is the cost

@sirmitchellconnor5300

Жыл бұрын

He still is. He simply made his beard in the loom

I don't know why this video popped up on my recommended, but I'm glad it did. I really enjoyed it. I'm an engineer at a company that weaves and knits implantable textiles for multiple surgeries, so I've got some insight into the weaving process. Seeing how you've implemented your design is a marvel to behold. I'm thoroughly impressed by your adeptness in several design and manufacturing disciplines and a great videographer and editor to boot. This is the kind of content I love to see on KZread, a subscription well-earned I think!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Great welcome aboard! Wow, medical textiles must have its own interesting challenges. That sounds really interesting. That's not an area I know anything about. I guess I'd known that stents were make of of what seems like a woven mesh a bit like a finger trap, but I guess that's the extent of my knowledge. lol. What other applications are there? I assume there are big limitations on materials used. How do you even make something that survives sterilization?

@coasterchris01

Жыл бұрын

Same here. No idea how this popped up, but absolutely love it! Well done!

@unicyclingistheshit

Жыл бұрын

@@retrotechjournal Indeed, there are several challenges associated; bio-compatibility, flexibility, and fatigue strength among others (depending on the device of course). You're almost right with the stent analogy, but it doesn't quite work as a finger trap would, despite the way it looks. Stents tend to be implanted via "Endovascular surgery" this means the implant is transported to the implant site via a delivery system and expands in the blood vessel. The stents themselves are made of Nitinol wire as the structure of the stent, - and coated in a woven fabric, normally PET, sometimes PTFE or polypropylene depending on the manufacturer. Nitinol is a fascinating material, you can deform it almost completely, and will revert back to its original shape with the application of heat. There are many applications, I can only speak for what we manufacture which would be; a knitted polypropylene mesh used for treating pelvic floor problems, a woven PET tube that is used for Vascular Grafts and Aortic Root Grafts, and a woven flat fabric that is used for a Heart Valve. The polyprop mesh is a warp-knitted fabric, it's a very open structure with the warp ends being threading at 12 gauge (12 ends, or threads, per inch). I'm trying to think of a comparison and the only thing that comes to mind is the mesh bags that one would get oranges in, that kind of structure, but much lighter. The yarn that we knit with is 80 microns in diameter. The woven tubular fabric is massively different. It's quite a fairly simple plain weave but the numbers are somewhat bigger than yours. We warp 160 ends onto 4 beams for a total of 640 these are threaded so that we have multiple ends coming through each heddle wire. If I remember correctly there are 16 heddle frames on the machine each with 40 or 50 or so heddle wires on each. The heddle frames are controlled by a pattern chain which moves it up or down and by controlling these in a specific way we can weave a tube. The weft yarn is crammed in at 45-50 picks per centimeter to give us a really tight weave. We use PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) for this weave. As for the heart valve, this is still in development, so can't really talk about it, but that is woven too but a much lighter fabric, using 20 dtex UHMWPE. We also do some manufacturing for a customer using PTFE yarn, which is a pain to process due to static. As far as sterilisation goes it's not actually as bad as one would imagine, there are multiple different methods for sterilisation (Heat, radiation, ETO, ....). Ours are processed using ETO (Ethylene Oxide). It has been used for years at this point so it's a known quantity as to what materials are suitable for the process. The sterilisation still needs to be validated though, along with everything else, from materials to processes. Pallets of product get sent for sterilisation and then tested for everything under the sun, from usability, and packaging to Bioburden testing. So sterilisation is usually the last of our worries. More importantly is creating materials that will last for decades after implant. The heart valves that are in development, for example, have to be tested over 600-700 million cycles, to examine the effects of fatigue. It really is quite fascinating. I hope you found reading that somewhat useful, I just kind of dumped a bunch of info without really trying to structure it properly, and I'm a bit high too. Hopefully it makes sense, and if it's raised more questions than answers I'd be happy to try and answer them :)

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

@@unicyclingistheshit Wow, thanks for that long dump of info. That was a fun read. I'd been thinking about the sterilization piece and thinking "I bet radiation is too hard on the plastics to do" I'd never heard of that ETO process. 700 million cycles is SO mind boggling. Amazing. Thanks for the info!

@unicyclingistheshit

Жыл бұрын

@@retrotechjournal No problem! thanks for the amazing content and for reading and replying to KZread comments!

A channel where a person randomly attempts a large undertaking on a whim and showcases the triumphs and pitfalls of the long process in concise, well put-together videos that only show up a couple times each year like an unexpected gift!? Instant subscribe!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Great! Welcome. I'm so pleased you found my videos! Thank you for the nice comment.

That's the most stylish builder channel I've seen. When searching for how these machines worked, I didn't expect to enjoy the presentation.

@retrotechjournal

3 ай бұрын

Oh thanks! Well of course, commercial machines do the lifting of the threads at crazy speeds, and with a very different mechanism. Still this loom does show the basic concepts of raising and lowering some pattern of threads and then passing a shuttle though. This particular mechanism with the cams is kind of nuts/not very fast. It was simply the result of me tying to solve the thread lifting problem with only 2 motors. Still I hope you did learn some useful bits of info and it sounds like you enjoyed it, so I'm going to declare that a win. :]

This is the best solo project I've seen in _ages_. I'm humbled by the number of skills you've mastered: mechanics, industruail design, CAD, several fabrication technologies, embedded programming. And all open source to boot! I am humbled! #subscribed

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I love dabbling in all flavors of making. Classic Jack of all trades, but master of non. I actually write mobile apps professionally, and I totally failed to include any footage of the weaving app in the video. lol. Oops.

This dude looks dangerously smart.. I like it!

Dear GOD. You understood the machine. Built it. Filmed the process. Edited a video. And did some damn stop motion. HOLY FUCKING SHIT

@retrotechjournal

5 ай бұрын

lol. It is true that this project in particular was so complex that I didn't know for sure if I'd be able to get it working. 100's of moving parts is always a danger sign! I didn't even show the iOS app I wrote to drive the loom. lol. Then again I spent a year and a half making it. I'm always amazed that many KZreadrs can put out videos every week. So I can give the illusion of competence though throwing more time at the problem. ;]

Damn, this is my first video from your channel, but I've never seen an engineer so entertaining and with amazing skill, build quality, patience, video editing all the while making it such a joy to watch. You got yourself an instant sub!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Welcome! I'm pleased you found/like my channel.

A lot of KZread makers just get things to a barely functional state, but this is a work of art as well as of engineering. I like your personality too, you seem like the kind of person who tries to find joy in everything. Great video.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

🙏 I do find joy in making/learning/problem solving. I’m glad you liked it!

I'm a textile designer and your loom is awesome! The video is also skillfully made, so it'a a treat to watch!

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it! I learned a little bit about textiles doing this project, and a lot about video making. What sorts of tools do you use for textile design? Is there iteration/prototyping of a design? I'm various curious how that works. What is a common size run for a textile? What range of TPI do you design for? God I have so many questions! I've poked around a little looking at open source weaving things like TexGen but really I have no clue how people take a textile from idea to reality. I just wrote the software for the loom to take in images I design in photoshop.

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

@@dominiquemichaud7945 Wow thank you so much for all that information! I appreciate you taking the time. I will definitely check out some of the links/software/books. It's great to hear from someone doing this professionally.

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

After reading some, I think that I want to do a design using the Polychrome Taquete technique. I definitely wanted to try something that wasn't using a tabby so that looks like a good option. I'm not sure how I feel about the less interesting uniform almost plain weave look, but it would lend itself well to come programatic design ideas. We will have to see what happens.

@dominiquemichaud7945

5 жыл бұрын

@@retrotechjournal Good idea! Taquete is a great way to limit the length of floats. For the "less interesting" parts, you can use another structure, like satin or twill. For that, you will need to use one layer in Photoshop for each weave. I define beforehand each structure as a motif(pattern?) in Phososhop, and bind it after to the layer. Satin will hide the picks for a smoother colour, while twill will add texture. Have fun!

Not only is this a great project, but your filmmaking skills are fantastic!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Hopefully I've been improving over time. I'm glad you liked it.

Yeah, there's a reason that real jacquard looms were - and modern machine looms are - the size of an entire room. I'm really excited to see how you figure out thread tension and density if you decide to keep going. This was such a cool project. I hope you continue it. :)

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

I do think that a lot of Jacquard loom attempts over-focus on the raising and lowering of the threads part and entirely ignore/underestimate how important all the other parts of a loom are. Like you said things like tension/proper beating of each pick/even advancement, etc.

Huge props for open sourcing your designs!

Wow, my friend! Congratulations to your work, a thousand times. I´m absolutely apalled and feeling like this was way beyond my comprehension. Some work you´ve acomplished. Keep om showing this kind of content for you are contributing to enrichen our lives, Cheers, my friend.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the nice comment!

This is a win in so many ways: software, hardware, circuit boards, narration, video editing, and a great project. Thanks for this.

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it! Yes, a lot of weird different skills went into this one. I'm still learning so much about making videos, so I now cringe at some of the parts, but am proud of other bits. I guess that means I'm improving. I've done a lot of complicated projects before, but this is the first one to have filled an entire notebook.

This was a pleasure to watch. It’s crazy how people are so smart and can do things like this makes me want to push myself to learn more. Thanks for the great content 🙌

@retrotechjournal

2 жыл бұрын

Woot. I'm excited it makes you want to learn more. That's always the goal in the projects I do. I try to build things right on the edge of what I think I can do, and that forces me to learn/extend myself. I'm glad you liked it!

wow, im surprised this doesn't have more attention. This is like Michael reeves, but wholesome keep up the good work!

Wow, this is awesome! I love the fun edit too. Given the production, when I went to your channel I was expecting to see a long history of videos, definitely surprised to see this is the first one! Really great job!

@retrotechjournal

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I learned a LOT making that video. :] I'm almost done with another one. I have no idea how people do one video a week. That is crazy talk! Although I really should post smaller videos more often. That would let me learn more/try out wacky things, etc.

@getdirecti0ns

3 жыл бұрын

@@retrotechjournal I was also sad to find only two videos but I totally get it, the production process to make quality like you present is so taxing. Best wishes and I look forward to more content at any pace!

the production values and wide rangeing technical ability was out of this world

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

It a miracle that this weaver still that small ! I’m know nothing about machine but look at this I very impressed at how much engineering it take , and filming too ! Just woah 🤯

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

It is nice that it's quite compact and folds up. That makes is easy to transport/store, etc.

So fascinating to watch! What a fun style of editing as well. :) Great job and keep up the awesome work!

Oh my goodness what an absolutely delightful video! Thanks for documenting and sharing your project with us, especially open sourcing it. I may have to make one myself!

Industrial engineer here. I'm floored. Project is badass. Video editing is badass. Very impressive.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it! What flavor of Industrial Engineer?

@75blackviking

Жыл бұрын

@@retrotechjournal a little of everything really. Controls, electrical, mechanical, process. My team and I build custom manufacturing equipment for med device and food/beverage. I was really impressed with your ingenuity and resourcefulness. I'm going to subscribe.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

@@75blackviking Neat, sounds nice and cross-discipline-y. Welcome aboard!

Can’t tell you how many of those potholders I made in my childhood! LOL. The polyester loops looked neater, but the cotton ones were much better for use as potholders. Loved your stop motion animations, especially the dance! LOL

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Yes. I made a bunch of those as a kid. With some weird bent wire hook. It was fun to get a set again and make one for the video. I think often they are peoples first/only exposure to weaving.

Came here after Bobs podcast! Great video love the humor. Build seemed very complex but hats off to you for finishing it!!

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

When I heard Bob talking about me on the podcast I had to pull over! lol. So amazing! Yes when I realized the idea was 7 moving parts per thread I really thought it would never work. Then at low thread counts it was basically fine, so I kept pushing it. :] I'm glad you liked it!

Really cool! Technical and intricate. You must be a pretty good armchair craftsman to build something so complex, and get it to actually work!

@retrotechjournal

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! My trick for doing really complicated projects is to give yourself a lot of little successes along the way. I went into this one thinking I'd never get the whole thing working but I'd learn a lot designing each of the little pieces. The lifting system/tension-ing system/the electronics/software/etc. Then if I ran out of steam I could stop and call it a success even if I didn't get to a fully cnc loom. This one just happened to make it further than I was expecting. :] I'm glad you liked it!

The grandpa every kid deserves!

Whoever is the video editor, hats off, amazing! Nice video! 😁👍

Nice video, project and outcome, thanks for sharing! Scott

From the moment you came on screen with your resplendant beard and cheery 'i hope this works attitude', i was subscribed. Edit: have now watched your whole film. Incredible project... but your filming style is great. You’ve put SO MUCH work into the filming - let alone the loom itself!!! The stop frame animation with the Lego guys(funky disc dance!), the quality of filming, even the little stop frame animated explanation of how a loom works was great. And also projecting onto yourself for the computer scenes made me laugh too. Even if it is a tiny trickle of content, I’m on board. Looking forward to more and checking out your blog.

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I'm glad you liked it. It's nice that people have actually noticed/commented on the video itself. I put what could only be described as a stupid amount of time into it, and I wasn't sure if that was just going to be invisible to folks since people are used to watching so much highly produced video all the time. I really enjoyed learning about making videos, and getting to put in whatever silliness came to mind. It's great to hear that people can actually appreciate the amount of work that went into it. I guess since many of the folks here have taken a stab at making content it's a much more informed audience, which is really nice.

@daedalus372

5 жыл бұрын

@@retrotechjournal "I put what could only be described as a stupid amount of time into it" hahaha We can all see that, that's what's so amazing! Well, that and the fact the loom itself must've taken another unit of 'stupid amout of time'!!! but hat's off to you, all that time really paid off.

Amazing!! 😆😆 It's sooo beautiful! You can work with PCBs, MCUs, 3-D printers, filming, editing, and can make textiles. Your video is a work of art! It's incredible to see first hand how people weave by hand on wooden looms which take many long days of work and here you go and automate the process. 😲

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

It still took an afternoon to weave that Pikachu but it is true the crazy flexibility of being able to do any pattern you want is super fun. 🥰

Thank you for taking the time to film and share. Great job. Look forward to your future projects.

Brilliant machine, absolutely love how well you've made it, and that you're open sourcing it

The amount of time and effort this video must have taken to make is a lot, awesome content! Subscribed

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Woot! Welcome aboard! It's nice when people appreciate the time it takes to make these things. It's easy for people to say "Make more videos!" but if a video takes 6 months of evenings and weekend to do there's really no way to crank them out. (At least as a hobby)

@EXAPHI

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely agree, there's a big different between churning out content for the sake of content because you need to please the algorithm and making a video that shows development of an idea or project over time. Your efforts are definitely appreciated! I may try to to tackle one of these myself now

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

@@EXAPHI Go for it! I think you're entirely correct that it is freeing to not actually have to worry about trying to bend the arc of the algorithm.

The loom is already an amazing feat of engineering but I wanna take a second to appreciate your video editing skills. You probably put a few hours just in stop motion alone!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

So true. Also this was my first big video, so I think only the scenes I made near the end (like the PCB montage) had decent edits. Learning as I go. I'm glad you liked it.

You continue to amaze and inspire me Kurt!! Loved the video - the stop-mo, the humor, the ingenuity and the overall storyline of your project, not to mention your end product!! Congratulations!

@kurtschaefer

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I'm glad you liked it! Great to hear from you. It was fun learning about video making. I've got another in the works. I'm going to be doing some claymation later today! lol

Wow nice job! Serious dedication. Also, nice video work!

that beard is amazing

First time I've ever seen your content. Blown away, the mix of stop frame, filming, lighting audio and a really great project is so rare - a really great video. Fully subscribed! :)

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

First time seeing your channel. Clicked out of curiosity and planned on skipping through because how interesting could a loom be? I am blown away, man! The determination and hard work this must have taken! The 3D print design, laser cutting, the stop motion animations, bro, you pasted and individually placed components on a custom board!!? Are you crazy!? No you are just that much of a legend! Please keep making videos! 100% Subscribed forever dude

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

It is true that the loom was a year and a half of nights and weekend. Kind of crazy really. I do love taking on projects that I’m not entirely sure I’ll be able to do. lol. That keeps me up to my eyeballs in problem solving. I’m glad you found my channel. Welcome!

I came here from the making it podcast and man i am so happy Bob recommended it. This video is just awesome and i hope there will be more soon. Please keep up the good work and keep filming it!

@retrotechjournal

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it! I was so excited when I was listening to the Making It podcast and Bob mentioned me. It was like "OMG upside down world! This is awesome!" I'll certainly do more videos, but life is busy and complicated so it'll probably be a while.

My dad would've loved this. You remind me a bit of him. Thanks! Thanks a lot.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

My dad was very into making films and then later video. He did stop motion titles for our 8mm home movies using construction paper letters on our garage door, etc. Later he switched video and did edits using 2 VCR's and put Zanfir on his Pan Flute as background music. lol. I always think of him when I'm editing. I know he would have loved to talk about how I made the videos/the edit, etc.

The production quality is crazy. Kudos mate

I don’t know why I was recommended this but how glad I am for the recommendation. Great content and lovely editing

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Great that you found the channel!

Even with the automation, setting up a loom is a big job! Warp, weft, beater bars, shuttles, oh my!

@retrotechjournal

2 жыл бұрын

True enough, but at least with this kind of setup I don't have to worry about threading a zillion patterned heddels, the single peg warping system makes warping fairly easy. That and the large size/low count warp, makes the actual setup comparatively painless. :]

KZread keeps suggesting these great, relatively small channells...always amazed by the quality a one man channel can put out.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Otherworldly, this is awesome, slow and steady always wins.

Holy Crap! You are on a whole different level of Makers!! Amazingly complicated work and beautiful engineering skills! Please continue making!

@retrotechjournal

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Don't worry I don't think I could stop making if I tried. I've been doing it my whole life. Mostly I've just been struggling to document any of it. Projects go much more slowly when you're trying to shoot video of it. I can only hope the pace picks up a bit as I get better at it. I used to think writing a blog post about a project was onerous. That was peanuts compared to KZread. lol.

Man...! This is the best video I've seen on KZread in a LONG time. So cool! I'm going to check out the rest of your videos!

Holy crap this is amazing. It's well made and edited, it does go into the details of how it's made, this is great!

Normal looms are a pain in the A, but you stuck to an even more complex version. Respect to you.

Your stop motion skits are incredibly well directed, and the sound effects design is amazing as well, wow Also Jesus Christmas this whole project & execution is genius.

@retrotechjournal

3 жыл бұрын

Oh thanks! I'm glad you liked the sound design. I think my actual animation skills have a long way to go, but I try to make up for it with extra effort in the sound design. :] I think sound is so important and is often overlooked. I'm excited you noticed!

you have some of the most well thought out videos and most amazing projects!! I am SO HAPPY I found your channel.... I TOTALLY understand how hard it must be to pump out videos regularly but from what I have seen, your end products are WELL WORTH THE WAIT!!! I only wish I was in a better spot in life to toss you some bones to show my support..... hopefully in time I'll be able to :)

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

No worries. The main issue is simply that a project I document becomes 2 projects. The video and the project and that makes the whole thing take a lot more time. There are times when it’s just nice to be cranking along in my shop without a thought for lighting/camera position etc. lol. I really respect those engraving videos etc where you think “my god they are doing that with a camera half blocking their view!” Amazing.

Fine job. Nice multi-discipline effort and I applaud your breadth of skills and persistence. Plus, the video was fun to watch.

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

The biggest movie magic was giving the impression my shop was tidy. ;]

Wow! What an amazing video. Everything is mind-blowing, from the construction of the loom to the production values of this video. You deserve a million subs!

@retrotechjournal

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.

I just came across this video, and it looks like maybe the channel and website aren't really active now but I just wanted to say this is amazing and you're essentially the kind of person I aspire to be one day, if I can get smarter and learn this kind of stuff. Thank you for sharing this, and I will go through your other content soon!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

I'm still active, but I do put more time into the videos than the blog these days. God when I think how easy a blog post is compared to a video I almost want to just go back to that. :] Still I'm excited to be getting folks enthused about making! It's a muscle, so just start and you'll get better at it over time.

Wow! This build is amazing, and your video production is impressive.

Wow, this is amazing! I’m teaching a weaving loom class to our kids and their friends in our garage during COVID while schools are closed, and we’re going to watch this as a modern example of weaving.

@retrotechjournal

3 жыл бұрын

Great! I'm glad you liked the video. Awesome that you're doing some extra teaching during COVID. I think knowing a bit more about weaving really makes people look at all the cloth around them differently. My dad build me a super simple loom when I out grew pot holder weaving and the process really stuck with me.

Another great video! I admire your creativity. Fun fact: the founder of Toyota got his start designing high-speed automatic looms. My son works at the Toyota plant in Princeton, IN. They give public tours of the facility and in the lobby of the main building one of his fascinating looms is on display. If you are lucky, the tour guide will fire it up. Over 80 years old and still works like a fine Swiss watch.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Amazing. I didn't know that about Toyota. I do know someone who runs an amazing vintage weaving company, and visiting her place was incredible. Large scary vintage machines firing wooden shuttles back and forth, etc. Really a treasure.

Gotta love your style for videos. You can just feel passion through it

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Thanks. I just follow that passion around so I don’t really know what I’ll be building next. Lol. I’m glad you liked it.

I'm currently enrolled for Robotics Engineering and this kind of "huh, that would be cool" projects are exactly what I love to do!! Your process is a bit more spontaneous but I really appreciate the walkthrough of challenges and triumphs throughout the building of this :)

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Great! I do love robotics, such a wonderful blend of software/hardware/mechanics. I once TA'd a Robotic Arts Studio course at CMU and the enthusiasm/creativity/effort that the students brought to that course was magic! 🥰

You deserve more recognition, your work is engineering art at it's finest.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, you're very kind. Weirdly I've gotten more recognition in the last 2 months than in the previous 3 years, so that's kind of amazing. I just like doing it because it's fun. The sudden recognition is kind of making me feel a little weird actually.

That stop animation is next level! Your videos are fun to watch :) I'm very impressed with the loom, that's a TON of pieces

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that was an insane number of parts. So many rounds of 3D print!

I appreciate all your effort doing this

Some serious challenges there, must have been fun. Nice work.

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

*tips hat*

I never watch this kind of content so it never gets recommended to me and this came out of nowhere but I'm glad yt decided I should watch this bc this is amazing, you really deserve more attention man. Amazing work!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you clicked though. It's always extra fun to enjoy something you weren't expecting. Thanks for the nice comment.

i love the way u illustrate the experiment, awesome channel.

your talent deserves more than 6.7K likes in 3yrs :( Awesome Amazing Job 🙏🏻 Thanks for sharing

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it!

Making the unit was amazing in its own right... but then to do some stop motion action along with amazing editing puts this over the top. Well done. Looking forward to the next video.

Great project and awesome presentation of it :D

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Love your video's, the humor, the use of Lego :-) and the way you approach and explain things. Nice work! You deserve more attention and followers.

@retrotechjournal

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm glad you like them.

Just popped up in my feed too! Strange the way it’s popping up now but very much enjoyed it!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Yes. I have no idea why the algorithm has suddenly picked up my channel but suddenly folks are flooding in. I’m glad you liked it/found my channel.

Wow! Amazing project and excellent video editing! I Can't wait to see what else you do!

I'm impressed! You have an iron will... Congratulations! Well done!

Wow, brilliant production value and personality. You've put a lot of effort into this. Great work!

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

Oh thanks! I love digging into all the details on projects, and making this video was its own BIG project. I learned a ton doing it. Hopefully future videos won't demand quite the amount of time this one took!

Glad I found your channel, super informative, entertaining, and well put together.

10/10 editing probably the best I've seen on KZread ever

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Oh thanks!

Absolutely love the stop motion! Just discovered your channel and can see it blowing up very soon

@retrotechjournal

4 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you liked it! I suspect that my content creation rate is way to low for my channel to "blow up" but I enjoy doing it, so I'll keep at it. Thanks for the encouragement!

This was a great video, I loved your commentary and cannot wait to see more of what you create!!

Fantastic video. Amazing machine. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and making it open source.

It's incredible how old and at the same time, young you look.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

I never thought of myself as old until some of these comments here. I guess since my beard turned grey I look older. It just never occurred to me. Some commenters think I'm retired! lol. I guess that is the down side to having a lot of folks projecting onto you based on a video or two. *shrug*

Oohh man, you did an amazing job ! The video was really pleasant to watch, and the loom is really nice ! Thanks for sharing !

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

My pleasure. I'm glad you liked it.

This is amazing. Excellent work. Thanks for sharing and for making it open source.

@retrotechjournal

5 жыл бұрын

Oh sure. My pleasure. I love building things/taking on wacky design challenges. I'm happy to Open Source the stuff. I'm going to have to work on some ideas for making the whole thing faster. It works fine, but is more of a Turn Based Strategy Game than speedy weaving.

So long as he doesn't get it caught in the loom. Awesome video, glad I watched it.

@retrotechjournal

7 ай бұрын

😆

This is AMAZING and you are AMAZING for figuring this out and building it!

@retrotechjournal

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. *beam*

Good stuff man! This is the first of your videos I've seen, please post more!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad you found me. I am working on another video. My family is going to be out of town next week, so I'm hoping I'll buckle down and work on it while they're away. I'd meant to work on it this long weekend, but instead I've been designing a brass tubing cutting rig. *sigh* 😄

Jacquard loom weaver here, this is an impressive build -- there's a lot going on in these machines and you have a good grasp of it, nevermind your other skills. Thanks for the video!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Neat to hear from actual weavers. I’ve never used an commercial Jacquard loom but the low end ones seem like they might be a maintenance nightmare. :)

@Crimzonius

Жыл бұрын

@@retrotechjournal There's an art to them for sure! Never the same settings for any different cloth which can be a bit of a bugger, but I've always found them theraputic to work on... (Occassionally a hammer gets involved)

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

@@Crimzonius 😆

Seriously wtf this is absolutely amazing!! Loved the video!

Man, nice video! I can smell all that creativity. Hope to see more videos like this here

You sir are a godfather of sweet creativity. Thank you sir for posting, I struggle and the way you display your invention helped me idealize the concept and mechanics so smoothly. I hope you are in good health and wish you well. Thank you

@retrotechjournal

5 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found the video, and that it was clear. I always hope to be both entertaining and educational, so it's good to hear that the ideas came across well. Have a happy new year!

@kimonosnail5363

5 ай бұрын

@@retrotechjournal Oh my goodness! I never expected a creator's reply and especially one on short notice. I am a do-it-yourself enthusiast and was highly interested in a way to produce fabric in a fast paced manner. Your humor combined with quality visuals is such a delight for the brain to see and comprehend. I enjoy the stop motion Lego humor bits as well, they make intervals very memorable. Thank you so much for replying to my comment. I hope to see more of your channel and gain more knowledge. Thank you!!

This is absolutely incredible! Great job! Hope to see more from you!

@retrotechjournal

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!

Damn dude, I am really impressed at the circuit board you made, the enclosure you had, the entire loom, but mostly the quality of this video! All that stop motion animation must have taken forever, but a nice touch to help understand how everything worked. Bravo my friend.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes this one was particularly cross discipline, but of course the best projects are! :)

I'm impressed by the stop motion and sound effects, that must've taken so long

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly right. I think I often spend more time adjusting the timing/sound design for the stop motion than shooting the stop motion. Which is kind of crazy. I'm glad you liked it.

I'm building a Jacquard Loom in Meccano so this got my attention. Very impressive and much beyond my tech abilities. I would have liked to have seen how quickly (or slowly) each change to the heddle positions happened. Quite a while I would think! Congratulations on a great build.

@retrotechjournal

10 ай бұрын

You are exactly right that the loom heddle updates aren’t super fast and the wider the material the slower each pick is. For a narrow piece the weaving is sort of normal but that wide weaving at the end took close to a minute to update per pick. Which is a lot of waiting. That is the main disadvantage of this system. The more heddles the slower it goes. The main advantage is only 2 motors. The process could probably be sped up a little but never fast enough for high TPI weaving, etc. I do have an idea for a heddle position switching that would use a Y shaped track and a kind of “track switching” beak in the middle. However I haven’t tried building it as yet. Good luck with your Meccano build! Let me know how it turns out!

@bertspeggly4428

9 ай бұрын

@@retrotechjournal I would love to see a video in real time of the heddles updating!

That's a lot of knowledge from start to finish. It's awesome. I like how you get all the theoretical stuff figured out so accurately that you didn't need to stop it and rework the design three or four times like I've seen other people do with their projects.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Well that still goes on but I try to keep the testing/verification at a small level. Like early prototypes before committing. Like I made a very simple version of the carriage just enough to learn I needed linear bearings vs plain bearings. Etc. I probably did 3 versions of the levers, etc but at a small scale the revisions are fast. Of course there’s always the danger of things that work ok in your prototype but fail at scale. Those are the worst. Lol

@whyisblue923taken

Жыл бұрын

@@retrotechjournal Of course. It's always good to test your parts. I just see a lot of videos of people putting things together, not knowing why things don't work, taking the whole thing apart, testing individual parts, putting it together again, stopping it because it's doing something wrong, taking it apart again, changing the housing and the design, and putting it back again and hoping it works. For something with a lot of moving parts, software, and delicate assembly like this, it's more difficult to account for things that go wrong before they do, even checking the parts before they are assembled into a single machine. That's what's impressive to me.

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

@@whyisblue923taken Yes, totally. I call that "integration testing hell" :] I did do some tricks like 3D printing little gaps in the cam spacer collars, so I could actually see where the cam was, and better diagnose jamming issues. Because "not being able to tell where the thing is or why it's jamming" was 100% going to happen. lol.

Dude puts in the effort of someone with 200x his sub count, I love it!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

2 Months ago I only had something like 8.5k subs. Things have really been taking off recently. I always put it the effort, because it's fun. Posting the video is almost an afterthought, although it's good way to mark the video as "totally and completely done stop messing with it" ;]

The production value! Great video man

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This video means a lot to my student research. I love the video and the design. You rock!

@retrotechjournal

2 жыл бұрын

Great. I'm glad you're getting something out of it!

Amazing and inspiring, great job with the loom and excellent video.

Your channel is underrated. I admire all your talents!

@retrotechjournal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it!