There simply are no words.
I mean throughout this twenty minute video there literally are no words spoken.
Instead, we just watch a knifemaker craft a single, beautiful knife from initially forge welding stacks of steel together to testing the finished knife.
It's mesmerizing.
Mark Miodownik is the author of one of the better materials science books written for a popular audience, Stuff Matters.
In that book he takes a chapter to explore each of the various material categories and some of that category's most common exemplars.
Here, however, Miodownik looks at glass to see why light can pass through it. Turns out it's all about electron transitions.
As always, be careful out there, folks. This experiment does involve running electricity through a solution.
This process does seem to result in some really pretty crystals.
And I'll admit that I kind of enjoy the simple, non-mugging style that the Backyard Scientist has gotten away from over time.
There is so much happening in manufacturing that I am blown away by.
I understand the absolute minimum basics of forging, stamping, casting, and a few other processes, but this concept of slightly deforming a metal sheet by pushing with two (by the company's founders) end effectors without any mold and just using CNC robotic arms is amazing to watch. The process is referred to as incremental forming.
The amount of computing power required to do all of this is stunning to me.
I think manufacturing might be becoming more complicated over time...just maybe.
This second video is ninety-four minutes of behind the scenes footage that Destin edited down into the thirty minute video up top.
This is a very information dense video explaining...
