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...
I toured an asphalt research lab when I helped lead the second year ASM camp at Rowan University a few years back. Before that I'll admit that I hadn't put much thought into the different compositions that make up asphalt roads or the research that went into 'perfecting' the recipes used in road building.
Today's video introduces us to Green Asphalt, a company that is taking asphalt removed from roads and processing that asphalt into a reusable product, preventing hundreds of thousands of tons of asphalt from landfills every year.
I think I wrote it a few weeks back, but man, we make a lot of waste.
Obsidian...opals...tektites...fulgurites (including their subsets, apparently)...glass sponges
I knew about a couple of those, but I'll admit that I'd never heard of glass sponges or tektites, and I didn't really think of opals being glass.
We produce a great deal of waste. That's not a very debatable statement.
This video visits a London restaurant that is attempting to have zero waste from his restaurant.
From making the pendant shades out of waste seaweed to forming their own pottery on site and glazing that pottery with ground up waste wine bottles, the restaurant attempts to have nothing thrown away from day to day.
They ferment much of their food scraps that would normally be wasted and thrown away.
They upcycle their plastic bags into serving plates.
Somehow the ice cream is made from waste bread.
All in all, it's a place that I would love to study more but that I'm not sure I would actually enjoy. Some of the cuisine seems to be awfully fancy, and I'm not sure that my tastes are in line with.
Check out Silo if you're ever in London - and if you can actually get a reservation.
A Failure of the Imagination from ENGLAND your ENGLAND on Vimeo.
So, a bit of a story...
I was watching this video on trying to build 3d printed objects by using half layer offsets...
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