A few Minecraft ideas: A chest that plays the open and close sounds from in game, a dispenser that dispenses dog food, a piston that raises a standing desk, an observer that automatically controls lights or unlocks a door when it detects a key card, a villager that trades emerald for candy like a vending machine
Love this project... usually i get thrown off by minecraft projects because they are done so imprecisely, the blocks all end up wobbly and misaligned. Your attention to detail is noticeable, and all the minecraft elements in the background of the video are delightful. Especially loved the little lever sound when you turned on machines. Maybe for another project, you could do a shulker box? A chest seems too simple, it might be neat to experiment with a box that has a top that twists off.
Improvement idea: instead of having the acrylic part removable to change the bulb, you could use 1 row of wooden block. This way, you permanently glue the acrylic to the wood and you use something like magnets or ... well, there are many options to fix the first row of blocks to the other parts. I believe it would be more stable and as you have to dig into the first row anyway so the bulb does not stick out, I believe that it will work. Anyway, awesome project!
This is smart. Since the whole thing is squares it doesn't matter at which line of blocks the thing can split open, so it makes the most sense to open it at a wood junction to not have shadows from magnets or whatever is used to hold the pieces together securely... as the tiny weeny piece of wood there is baaaarely holding the thing and it's gonna bump off place super easy.
To get the forstner bit to work you could use some double sided tape, or painters and CA, to affix some 3/4 ply to the top and then drill through that. Once the bit feeds through the ply it'll act as a guide to keep the bit stable to drill through the walnut
I loved the simple idea of a bevel on the wood blocks to give definition. Great idea, worked so well. I am wondering if Epoxy cubes would work for this too. They might also give you more surface area to mount to the base. Just an idea if the top doesn't stay on. I am really thinking about trying this project. My boys are both teenagers but I think my 18 year might think its cool to have a torch in his dorm room. He is going to a tech college after all.
I've found, a tea towel in the bottom of the pot helps keep the piece off of the bottom. I keep it on the stove and have an ice bath next to it. I alternate between the hot and the cold. The hot opens the plastic,, and the cold closes the color in.. the more you dip, the darker it gets. Works great for visors and Jawa Eyes.
That is super cool! My 12 year old son is obsessed with Minecraft. He would love to have one of these in his room. I may have to make one for him soon.
@@Iliketomakestuff I just might. His light switch has two hot wires and two switches. One for the overhead light and the other for ceiling fan controls, which he doesn't have. I could pull that extra hot wire and run it to the Minecraft light. I don't have any experience with dyeing and gluing acrylic but neither did you, so I'm sure I could figure it out. I wonder if just using a sharpie or marker would be enough to color it?
For the coloured acrylic, you could buy small sheets of specific colours and then cut them by size. If you really want to ‘dye’ them then use automotive spray paint. They work great with fibreglass and acrylic. Another convoluted way is to mix epoxy resin with the dye colour you want, coat the squares with it and then lightly sand to get that frosted finish. The torch looks fabulous!!
This is so rad! It's really cool to see that, despite the fact you've been making stuff for so long, you're still experimenting with different "making" methods.
I'm LIVING for all of the Minecraft sound effects -- they're not overbearing and like SUPER obvious but if you play, you recognize it. Great job on the audio editing. Also would love a torch of my own!
thats really cool! do you think that turning every other wood block so that their grain are running perpendicular to one another would have been sufficient to visually differentiate each pixel without having to do the bevel? or do you think it wouldnt have been the look you were going for?
That looks so good! I actually made a 3D printed one and I use it now for 2 years as my night lamp! You know what would be awesome! To have like a corridor of those lights 3 or 4 of them and they would be programmed to flicker sort of like real flame! Imagine going to the toilet at night in that kind of mood :D Btw after watching a fair chunk of your videos in recent months I decided to buy myself a "starter" table saw! I love that thing!
If you really wanna try the lights in the corridor I’d recommend getting some ws2812b rgb strips and a pack of wemos d1 mini. Use the easy to install WLED firmware and use the candle effect that’s built in :D WLED in itself is really fun so I’d recommend it if you wanna try it out
I dont even play minecraft really, couple times, but for some reason I got really excited about this video. The wood + electronics sort of felt a little ILTMS nostalgic. Like an arduino controlled dust collector :)
So yeah. I made one. Pix in the ILTMS facebook group. Thanks for the inspiration. Super fun project. Differences: I used sweetgum because it's what I had on hand, and I used epoxy for the topper. Again, what I had on hand. I drilled matching holes in the topper and top block and used nails as dowels to mount the topper. I knocked off the corners for the channel before cutting into cubes, except on top so I could forstner out a cavity for the lamp. If I was going to make another one, I would not bevel the cubes on the outside and instead cut grooves on the table saw after glue up. That way they'd be more uniform.
Any chance to get cool dad points is always a winner. It does look pretty cool and has some neat features and details to distinguish it from other builds out there. Happy New Year and thanks for sharing!
I've been playing Minecraft since May of last year, and have absolutely fallen in love with it :D I love the little Enderman skits in this video :P It would be neat I think to make a Minecraft lantern. You could use the different coloured plexiglass like before, and have lithium batteries inside making it portable. Would definitely love to see this! :D
A neat option might be to make the wall box into a normal outlet and the torch would just plug in. Then have a rechargeable battery and a DC LED in there. You wouldn't get the color change options from the app but you could make it into a power failure emergency light and then any time you pulled it off the wall you could carry it around like a real torch. Then if you ever wanted to remove it you would just have an outlet on the wall.
This is amazing, would love to see more game / movie > real life content like this, question what did you use to secure the "shade" so that it is easily removeable in the end?
I wonder if you could attach a piece of magnet or metal to the bottom of the shade and then recess a magnet in the wood to hold it on? As long as the metal on the shade didn’t cast a shadow
For dying plastics, I had good luck with Ritt dye and using a Sous Vide to keep everything warm.. Had to submerge it for about an hour, and the sous vide was great at keeping things at that magic temp.
I’ve been a subscriber for several years - I always found it hilarious that you insist you “don’t know what you’re doing”, but yet the end result always comes out bloody fantastic. It’s always the highlight of my day whenever a new video drops - keep up the awesome work!!
I'm obsessed with Minecraft 🤣 I love this! I've made a few out of EVA foam and resin for my son! Maybe an actual working redstone lamp? Or a storage cube chest? One of the new (to me) blue flame campfire or a lantern? The possibilities are endless! Please make this a series!
That was awesome - love it! I made one on my RUclips channel but I used pre-cut 1inch wood blocks and I made the light blocks out of coloured resin (I made a silicone mold of the wood blocks to pour the resin into). I carved a hole in the top of the wood blocks to hold one of those little led light thingies and attached the resin blocks to the wood blocks with magnets. It worked really well. But I love the fact yours is mains powered and attached to the wall - something I might have to recreate, especially with that lovely natural wood.
If you ever do this again, might I suggest you just cut and score the acrylic as one piece(taping and painting each square individually for the different colors) so you don't have to reglue the pieces together. You can score deeper on the corners and heat the acrylic to bend into place, then glue the sides together for a lot less work and fewer glued seams. Also for the wood, you could alternate the grain direction or use different stains on the individual blocks to gain that contrast on top of the slightly beveled corners.
That was an awesome project Bob & Crew! The fact that you got your sons approval is a big win! Happy New Year to all of you! Be well and stay safe out there! 👍👍😉😉
Thank you for this! I made one over the weekend :-) I used a flickering flame LED bulb and it really pops! Also, I added square magnets to the corners of the acrylic and then embedded nails to the top of the wood. That way the acrylic lamp is kept on by the magnets.
That’s awesome! I’ve been kicking around doing this for a year now but using the flame bulb Adam Savage uses in his old time lantern prop to get the flame effect.
Something you could have used for the clear plexiglass is clear acrylic paint. That stuff is amazing and can be made darker by adding more layers. Tamiya makes a great version of this and comes in many different colors. After applying the paint.
Wow amazing!!! Maybe next you could do Minecraft Item Frames, with some of your favorite items of the game inside to showoff. Or maybe a life size minecraft map made out of plastic or wood or cardboard. If you have space, try making an armor stand and use it as a coat hanger
Putting a 1/4" inner ring of wood inside the acrylic then attach sunken magnets to attach it. No falling off easy to remove and helps stabilize the acrylic
Very cool, but one thought I had, was to instead of mounting it to the wall directly using the box, was to install an outlet, then mold 2 plugs with ground pins into the bottom of the torch. The 6 pins would be able to hold it up, provide power and still allow removing it if needed. Have a little bit of a skirt carved into the wood, so that it covers the outlet and makes it look flush against the wall.
You should make a Crafting Table styled desk, with the textures being accomplished via different veneers. I'm not sure how practical a Crafting Table desk would be since its a cube, but it could serve as a home media speaker stand or as a showpiece to put a game console on top of
I've used RIT dye on PETG plastic sheets and it grabs the color amazingly well. The same plastic you use for vacuumforming. It doesn't really work with acrylic, as you saw.
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A. I saw the enderman and I got scared a creeper would be next!
B. That is super dope.
Thank God a creeper didn't show up in my shop. It took me forever to build out my tool collection.
@@Iliketomakestuff Creepers are the worst!
@@Iliketomakestuff notbalso mention explaining how a creeper got into your shop to insurance 🤣
@@MyrrdynWhitefall obv. because he didn't have enough torches.
@@bigbearnelsonDude not cool. Shhhh🤫🤫🤫🤫💣💥
Shout out to whoever's idea it was to stick in all the Minecraft sounds for various clips. Absolutely brilliant.
That was Anthony. He does more than just film stuff
9:19 That moment is absolutely golden!
The familiarity of these sounds are incredible. No matter how subtle they are, you can tell it’s from Minecraft. Really cool video!
This was so cool!!!
A few Minecraft ideas: A chest that plays the open and close sounds from in game, a dispenser that dispenses dog food, a piston that raises a standing desk, an observer that automatically controls lights or unlocks a door when it detects a key card, a villager that trades emerald for candy like a vending machine
The chest is a good idea.
I really like how you include your trials and not just the "finished" methods. I love learning
Love this project... usually i get thrown off by minecraft projects because they are done so imprecisely, the blocks all end up wobbly and misaligned. Your attention to detail is noticeable, and all the minecraft elements in the background of the video are delightful. Especially loved the little lever sound when you turned on machines. Maybe for another project, you could do a shulker box? A chest seems too simple, it might be neat to experiment with a box that has a top that twists off.
Improvement idea: instead of having the acrylic part removable to change the bulb, you could use 1 row of wooden block. This way, you permanently glue the acrylic to the wood and you use something like magnets or ... well, there are many options to fix the first row of blocks to the other parts. I believe it would be more stable and as you have to dig into the first row anyway so the bulb does not stick out, I believe that it will work.
Anyway, awesome project!
This is smart. Since the whole thing is squares it doesn't matter at which line of blocks the thing can split open, so it makes the most sense to open it at a wood junction to not have shadows from magnets or whatever is used to hold the pieces together securely... as the tiny weeny piece of wood there is baaaarely holding the thing and it's gonna bump off place super easy.
To get the forstner bit to work you could use some double sided tape, or painters and CA, to affix some 3/4 ply to the top and then drill through that. Once the bit feeds through the ply it'll act as a guide to keep the bit stable to drill through the walnut
Josh suggested that after I had finished. I'll keep that technique in mind
@I Like To Make Stuff Typical Josh move. 😜 " You know you coulda just..."
I use a hole saw on a drill press with no center drill bit inserted
GREAT intro! The Minecraft Bob...there should be Minecraft bloopers 🤠⚒🔥❤
There were many.
I loved the simple idea of a bevel on the wood blocks to give definition. Great idea, worked so well. I am wondering if Epoxy cubes would work for this too. They might also give you more surface area to mount to the base. Just an idea if the top doesn't stay on. I am really thinking about trying this project. My boys are both teenagers but I think my 18 year might think its cool to have a torch in his dorm room. He is going to a tech college after all.
It would be extremely cool, especially if he made it myself. That could go in a project portfolio.
@@Iliketomakestuff hadn’t thought about that. Great idea.
I've found, a tea towel in the bottom of the pot helps keep the piece off of the bottom. I keep it on the stove and have an ice bath next to it. I alternate between the hot and the cold. The hot opens the plastic,, and the cold closes the color in.. the more you dip, the darker it gets. Works great for visors and Jawa Eyes.
Thanks for sharing!!
That is super cool! My 12 year old son is obsessed with Minecraft. He would love to have one of these in his room. I may have to make one for him soon.
Do it! You'll earn some dad points
@@Iliketomakestuff I just might. His light switch has two hot wires and two switches. One for the overhead light and the other for ceiling fan controls, which he doesn't have. I could pull that extra hot wire and run it to the Minecraft light. I don't have any experience with dyeing and gluing acrylic but neither did you, so I'm sure I could figure it out. I wonder if just using a sharpie or marker would be enough to color it?
Minecraft sounds made this video very relaxing 😄
Love the sound effects throughout!
Thanks! Anthony did a great job.
I love the fact that you put as much effort in building as in banter.
Great job indeed!!
For the coloured acrylic, you could buy small sheets of specific colours and then cut them by size. If you really want to ‘dye’ them then use automotive spray paint. They work great with fibreglass and acrylic. Another convoluted way is to mix epoxy resin with the dye colour you want, coat the squares with it and then lightly sand to get that frosted finish. The torch looks fabulous!!
The added Minecraft SFX are the best part about this video - and the whole video's already pretty damn amazing.
This is so rad! It's really cool to see that, despite the fact you've been making stuff for so long, you're still experimenting with different "making" methods.
I'm LIVING for all of the Minecraft sound effects -- they're not overbearing and like SUPER obvious but if you play, you recognize it. Great job on the audio editing. Also would love a torch of my own!
Thanks! Anthony is a huge Minecraft fan and this was a really fun edit for him.
Great job with the pixelated look. Chamfered edges worked out perfectly
I thought so too, thanks for noticing!
thats really cool! do you think that turning every other wood block so that their grain are running perpendicular to one another would have been sufficient to visually differentiate each pixel without having to do the bevel? or do you think it wouldnt have been the look you were going for?
That looks so good!
I actually made a 3D printed one and I use it now for 2 years as my night lamp!
You know what would be awesome! To have like a corridor of those lights 3 or 4 of them and they would be programmed to flicker sort of like real flame! Imagine going to the toilet at night in that kind of mood :D
Btw after watching a fair chunk of your videos in recent months I decided to buy myself a "starter" table saw! I love that thing!
That is awesome!
If you really wanna try the lights in the corridor I’d recommend getting some ws2812b rgb strips and a pack of wemos d1 mini. Use the easy to install WLED firmware and use the candle effect that’s built in :D WLED in itself is really fun so I’d recommend it if you wanna try it out
I appreciate all the Minecraft effort for the Minecraft effects!
Anthony was in his happy place editing this one.
As a 56 year old Minecrafter and woodworker I would like to say that is an amazing project I wished I’d thought of building. Great content.
I dont even play minecraft really, couple times, but for some reason I got really excited about this video. The wood + electronics sort of felt a little ILTMS nostalgic. Like an arduino controlled dust collector :)
So happy to see ILTMS and Peter Brown attempt this. Minecraft was a huge part of my later childhood
Great build & fantastic animation!
Thank you! Cheers!
The sound effects in this video were a great touch
So yeah. I made one. Pix in the ILTMS facebook group. Thanks for the inspiration. Super fun project.
Differences: I used sweetgum because it's what I had on hand, and I used epoxy for the topper. Again, what I had on hand. I drilled matching holes in the topper and top block and used nails as dowels to mount the topper. I knocked off the corners for the channel before cutting into cubes, except on top so I could forstner out a cavity for the lamp.
If I was going to make another one, I would not bevel the cubes on the outside and instead cut grooves on the table saw after glue up. That way they'd be more uniform.
Any chance to get cool dad points is always a winner. It does look pretty cool and has some neat features and details to distinguish it from other builds out there. Happy New Year and thanks for sharing!
I know nothing about Minecraft, but that lamp is freaking cool! Nice work!!!
I've been playing Minecraft since May of last year, and have absolutely fallen in love with it :D I love the little Enderman skits in this video :P
It would be neat I think to make a Minecraft lantern. You could use the different coloured plexiglass like before, and have lithium batteries inside making it portable. Would definitely love to see this! :D
That's really fun, Bob. I like it. A lot.
That turned out great! You all knocked it out of the park! Happy New Year see you in 2022!
You're saying you're cool for making that is so wholesome
This is amazing, i wish more modern houses even rentals allow this kind of personalisation
A neat option might be to make the wall box into a normal outlet and the torch would just plug in. Then have a rechargeable battery and a DC LED in there. You wouldn't get the color change options from the app but you could make it into a power failure emergency light and then any time you pulled it off the wall you could carry it around like a real torch. Then if you ever wanted to remove it you would just have an outlet on the wall.
That turned out way better than expected. Well done bob.
This is amazing, would love to see more game / movie > real life content like this, question what did you use to secure the "shade" so that it is easily removeable in the end?
I glued in some taller "wall" pieces so the flame wouldn't slip off.
I wonder if you could attach a piece of magnet or metal to the bottom of the shade and then recess a magnet in the wood to hold it on? As long as the metal on the shade didn’t cast a shadow
For dying plastics, I had good luck with Ritt dye and using a Sous Vide to keep everything warm.. Had to submerge it for about an hour, and the sous vide was great at keeping things at that magic temp.
Good to know. Maybe I didn't keep it in the water long enough. I'm not a patient person.
Very clever! This turned out fantastic, I like it a lot!!
Nice! I mean the "Cool dad" thing! And the lamp is also a pretty good project!!! 😄
Thanks
Absolutely awesome... my daughter has really gotten into Minecraft lately.. so i may need to try this.
You'll definitely earn some cool-dad points
I’ve been a subscriber for several years - I always found it hilarious that you insist you “don’t know what you’re doing”, but yet the end result always comes out bloody fantastic. It’s always the highlight of my day whenever a new video drops - keep up the awesome work!!
I'm obsessed with Minecraft 🤣 I love this! I've made a few out of EVA foam and resin for my son! Maybe an actual working redstone lamp? Or a storage cube chest? One of the new (to me) blue flame campfire or a lantern? The possibilities are endless! Please make this a series!
We considered making it a series, but we have to see how well this video does first
Possibly an ended dragon head if your going for a whole decor theme too
That was awesome - love it! I made one on my RUclips channel but I used pre-cut 1inch wood blocks and I made the light blocks out of coloured resin (I made a silicone mold of the wood blocks to pour the resin into). I carved a hole in the top of the wood blocks to hold one of those little led light thingies and attached the resin blocks to the wood blocks with magnets. It worked really well. But I love the fact yours is mains powered and attached to the wall - something I might have to recreate, especially with that lovely natural wood.
If you ever do this again, might I suggest you just cut and score the acrylic as one piece(taping and painting each square individually for the different colors) so you don't have to reglue the pieces together. You can score deeper on the corners and heat the acrylic to bend into place, then glue the sides together for a lot less work and fewer glued seams.
Also for the wood, you could alternate the grain direction or use different stains on the individual blocks to gain that contrast on top of the slightly beveled corners.
That was an awesome project Bob & Crew! The fact that you got your sons approval is a big win! Happy New Year to all of you! Be well and stay safe out there! 👍👍😉😉
This is the highlight of my week so far...
Awesome!
10:15 clamp champ!!?? More like rubber band champ!
As usual, a great idea and a great execution. Keep it up!
Yes! Thank you!
Minecraft series?! Would be pretty awesome!!!
I think so too. We'll see how well this video does first
Awesome build idea, keep the Minecraft coming
Awesome torch...love it! Thanks for trial & errors so we can do it without the same mistakes!
such an awesome project great job looks perfect
this is amazing!!!
That’s beautiful happy new year 🎆
Find your nearest sign shop and buy some offcuts of translucent vinyl. Comes in loads of colours and is easily applied.
That's a great idea!
Nice work y'all! I also liked your names of your characters in the game lol 😆
Thank you! 😄
Fun video to watch! I appreciate you including the active problem solving in the video. Happy New Year!
Thank you for this! I made one over the weekend :-) I used a flickering flame LED bulb and it really pops!
Also, I added square magnets to the corners of the acrylic and then embedded nails to the top of the wood. That way the acrylic lamp is kept on by the magnets.
Minecraft themed or not that looks smart and it's given me an idea!
Using plywood patterned blocks.
That is the best Minecraft torch IRL build I have seen on RUclips. Make a Minecraft lantern next.
really cool, very nice job Bob. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep making. God bless.
Id like to see if you could make a red stone lamp from minecraft as well
This was a cool project
Thanks!
I like that you keep in some of the stuff that doesn't work, helps to see the whole process
loved the enderman cameo, top job fellas!
Absolutely brilliant
That’s awesome! I’ve been kicking around doing this for a year now but using the flame bulb Adam Savage uses in his old time lantern prop to get the flame effect.
It is totally doable!
Great sound effects!
Loved the video and a really nicely made project, also love your demeanor and attitude, and so just had to subscribe !!!!
Never knew you and the team play minecraft, Its such a good game for creativity.
Maybe next try to bring some of the mobs to life? the warden maybe?
Awesome project, love it!! Great Job Bob
Glad you like it
Looks awesome!
Looks amazing! Well done! ✨
Something you could have used for the clear plexiglass is clear acrylic paint. That stuff is amazing and can be made darker by adding more layers. Tamiya makes a great version of this and comes in many different colors. After applying the paint.
Nice video! Happy early new year!
Thanks! You too!
Wow amazing!!!
Maybe next you could do Minecraft Item Frames, with some of your favorite items of the game inside to showoff. Or maybe a life size minecraft map made out of plastic or wood or cardboard.
If you have space, try making an armor stand and use it as a coat hanger
Please make more minecraft gadgets like this
Oh you made my sons’ day with this video!!! We had to watch it twice ♥️ Thank you!! This is fantastic.
Edited to add: a “chest” toy box!
Great main video content as always. Props to those that edited this video though. Nice work! 👍
You did a good job with the new bathroom
Thank you!
You are a cool dad. I am definitely trying to attempt to make this torch for my friend's son who is really into Minecraft.
I love how you can make it Yellow, Red and Blue like normal torches, red stone torches and soul torches
Love this!
Thanks!
So cool!
Thank you!
Ok, this was very cool. Well done. happy New Year
Thanks! You too!
I really love this torch, You should make a real minecraft furnace or chest.
Fantastic work, Bob! It really turned out amazing! 😃
Happy new year! And stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Awesome! Would love to see some usable redstone and blocks! Like a comparator or observers!
Putting a 1/4" inner ring of wood inside the acrylic then attach sunken magnets to attach it. No falling off easy to remove and helps stabilize the acrylic
This was awesome !! Do you think it would be worth hollowing out the entire piece to make it lighter or was the weight of it ok?
Could use a light bulb that mimics an actual flame to add even more effects to the torch, nice work!
I would love to make one as well. Great video👍
Very cool, but one thought I had, was to instead of mounting it to the wall directly using the box, was to install an outlet, then mold 2 plugs with ground pins into the bottom of the torch. The 6 pins would be able to hold it up, provide power and still allow removing it if needed. Have a little bit of a skirt carved into the wood, so that it covers the outlet and makes it look flush against the wall.
You should make a Crafting Table styled desk, with the textures being accomplished via different veneers. I'm not sure how practical a Crafting Table desk would be since its a cube, but it could serve as a home media speaker stand or as a showpiece to put a game console on top of
This was pretty lit to do. Maybe that pun was intended. Also Anthony that was pretty cool you included some Minecraft clips in this video.
You could put a very narrow row of acrylic on the bottom of the upper piece, with holes for wooden dowels to hook into on maybe front and the back.
I've used RIT dye on PETG plastic sheets and it grabs the color amazingly well. The same plastic you use for vacuumforming. It doesn't really work with acrylic, as you saw.
That's a great idea!
You should make one of those exploding puzzle alarm clocks that is a minecraft TNT box.
Nice! Love that!