When my teenage daughter got her camera out... I knew I had won them over! The goal was simply to have fun and create memories. Thank you for sharing in that with me... and thank you KiwiCo for making these kinds of projects possible. Check out www.kiwico.com/Fielding50 for 50% off your first month of any crate!
You have an awesome channel with just you in the videos alone. The fact that you involve your family makes your channel as a standard to be at for all other channels, in my opinion.
It doesn't get much better than a dad having fun with his kids! When I watch your content I dont just get motivated to be a smarter guy, I get motivated to be a better dad. Thanks Jeremy!
Definitely... I've got a 1 year old daughter and can't wait to start introducing her to computers and robotics. You can't "Engineer Dad" any harder than Jeremy. So much love between him and his kids.
i wish i was raised this way instead of being called destructivee because i took things apart, might have gotten my engineering degree before the age of 27 >.>
@@antman7673 It just needs a little guidance. Maybe a facial recognition module. Scan the faces of managers, bosses, troublesome co-workers into it, and set it up in a main hallway. :-)
I really respect that mention of not wanting to make it feel like every time you do something is for a youtube video.. That's a great mindset and just wanted to let you know I respect that haha
Seeing as you invited it... A healthy respect for things that can kill you, whether that be a tool, robot, animal or anything else like heights is a very good thing to have. It empowers you to interact with it safely. Simply being afraid of these things on the other hand doesn't do you any good. It doesn't give you the opportunity to learn from the experience or to leverage the good that can come out of using equipment or from that moment in time. Imagine standing at the top of a cliff looking out west upon thousands of miles of desert or the sea. If you're too afraid of falling you miss the beauty of the sunset. As for could I take that punch? Almost certainly yes, people are incredibly resilient. Do I want to find out? Hell no.
as for taking the punch, I'm gonna wager it depends a bit where you take it, and how you're stood up while taking it. While the fist isn't swinging super fast, it's not gonna just stop when it hits you. the "conk on the head" swing could easily break your neck I suspect, as your body doesn't have much room to get out of the way in the vertical axis, and thus the full force goes straight into your spine. Most of the other swings are likely survivable with varying injuries unless you're deliberately restrained such that the robot pushes right through you.
As an industrial controls engineer who integrates robotics, one of the key differences in safety considerations is the moral responsibility for the risk and the reward. Safety is different when you're on an adventure into the sunset or working on a project in your own garage as compared to selling your time for a few dollars an hour so that someone else can make money. In the latter case, acceptable risk levels are orders of magnitude lower than risks you undertake on tasks of your own volition. Side note: robots aren't as fast as a boxer, but they are more rigid and heavier. A watermelon is a great demonstrator of how a robot can move to a point and not even notice a squishy human in the way....
I actually got myself almost killed by an industrial robot arm once. We had healthy respect, but no clue, since it was a robotic course at university, and my colleague and I were in the room on our own. We were programming it for the first time ever and the documentation of the programming interface came directly from the 80th programmer hell. Since we couldn't figure out what various functions actually did, we decided to be VERY careful and have it move a single step in one axis only for starters. We eagerly started our program and ... nothing happened. We tried a few times more, assuming that maybe a single step was too minute to see, we tried moving some more steps ... nothing. So, we figured, we needed to know what's going on and I decided to put my ear besides the motor while running the program to listen whether it would make any noise. My colleague was hovering his hand right above the emergency shutoff button, ready to punch it. So we started the program and out of nowhere the arm fully extended itself, moving all of its axis at once, in a split second, a few centimeters left of my head. Had my head been in the way, this thing would have smashed it. The robot arm was only slightly smaller than the one in this video. We were in shock. There wasn't enough time to react to push the emergency power off before everything was over. Some servos actually broke themselves in the process, because of the fast movement of all of them at once (I don't know if they physically broke, or just reached some safety position, where they couldn't back out on their own again). Compared to the punches in the video, that thing had moved at easily ten times the speed. Turns out: our code was 100% correct, but our interpretation of which of the four transmission modes of the archaic proprietary parallel interface to use was wrong. We essentially had send digital garbage to the robot on all attempts, including the last one. For some reason all of the previous ones didn't make any sense to the robot, so he would essentially not do anything, whereas the last one apparently accidentally created a command sequence which created a path he could follow (albeight disabling himself in the process). So, healthy respect is always warranted, even if you think you are doing only minute changes, unless you truely have a full and perfect understanding of the situation. And even then cosmic radiation could be messing up that one crucial command. 😉
Yes, and kinds need to be empowered in learning rather than being given an I can't do this mindset. The everyone must graduate despite qualification because feelings model is critically flawed much like modern reasoning.
This video was so wholesome, it actually bought a tear to my eye. Not only do you motivate me to get back to my learning, but you're also making me want to be a better person. Great content.
honestly, the fact that you want your kids involved in this kind of stuff, and the fact that they obviously want to be involved themselves, is absolutely awesome. The mark of a good teacher, and an even better father, sir.
I completely agree that exposing them to dangerous tools while teaching them how to do it safely is the best approach. Sometimes kids get hurt or killed because they are told no so they try it by sneaking to it and trying it without supervision. I'm sure your kids know if they want to try something they can come to you and you will let them use the equipment with you watching over them. Don't feel guilty for how you raise your kids. There are so many ways of doing it right and wrong and not everyone will agree.
I love that you are able to do this with your family. Looks like you are truly living the dream! Love your video's, have recommended you to many people because your knowledge is top tier.
The best part of this video is watching you interact with your kids and how much fun you're all having with this. Thank you for sharing this moment. It's obvious that you have many such moments with them off the camera. I feel better having seen that.
What I see (in its exteriority, at least) in this video represents my ideal of what I have (unsuccessfully) hoped could be my family life. I wish you perpetual happiness, Fielding family.
THIS is how people learn to be safe around machines, and get a positive attitude about safety. Fun examples of people who know the field, not a desk jockey. Kudos to you, dad. 👊
This was great for a lot of reasons, but what I didn't expect was to get the most enjoyment out of how this became a family event. Watching your whole family get excited about this engineering project, and you getting them even more into it with the countdowns was so much fun. You seem like a GREAT dad. 🙂🥋
I absolutely love watching you showing the kids all this stuff! I just know that years from now, those kids will all be telling stories about their crazy father and how much fun they had with him and his inventions. You are creating great memories and that is worth the price of admission. I also really like how YOU are having as much if not more fun than any of the kids. This is great stuff, and it's wonderful to see how much you are all enjoying what you are doing. A BIG thumbs up to you and the kids. BTW, they sure have grown up a lot since the kid powered electricity producing machine episode.
I really respect that your willing to not have the camera on all the time when your family is in the shop. I’m sure not all youtubers would do the same. Making sure the shop is fun and safe for them should come first
Another option to get the silicone out is, keep the bottom on, then squeeze the tip from your shop compressor down the side and pop it out with compressed air
Jeremy, you earned my subscription years ago. Your videos were cool then, and amazing now. You took the words right out of my mouth when talking about having your son work alongside you... Your so-called failures are learning events for him. He's getting lifelong memories that he'll treasure, and hopefully pass onto your grandchildren, who might also learn from him and be by your side in the workshop too. Totally awesome fathering.
I can honestly say that I learned so much by watching my Dad not only fail but hoplessly screwing stuff up repeatedly. He liked woodworking and so do I. He was a very proud man but in this case, with his 5 thru 11yo son, he was very generous. He not only admitted to the failures, but took the time to explain what went wrong. He routinely cut rhombus parts to what were supposed to be square cabinet doors. Getting the inside and outside measurenents mixed up often. Subsequently, it's a mistake I don't make. That's just one example of how well watching someone fail is valuable. Almost to the point of, is it really a failure if it teaches so well? When my Dad was home and in the shop, if he turned, he hit me in the forehead with his elbow. I watched EVERYTHING he did. And as was age appropriate, helped.
I like how Jeremy intentionally messed up the first punch to fake out his kids and show them things don’t always work as planned. Jeremy: You’re the greatest.
You are ‘RIGHT ON TRACK’ with your kids! It’s not only engineers who profit greatly from having an early understanding of tools and mechanical processes. I’ll bet your kids know how to use a tape measure!! Respect!!!
This is indeed a great video to illustrate the need for basic safety when working around machine. You are 100% right; fear is not the answer. We just need to remain fully aware of what we are doing and what can go wrong. Knowledge is key.
Seriously ure mentanility is one of the best , i really like how u spend ure time with ure family away from the youtube and how u try to give life lessons to ure children, u really have my respect 👮♂️
I do a lot of industrial electrical safety training, the first thing I teach is, if you're afraid of it, get away from it. RESPECT the electricity, UNDERSTAND, and CONTROL it. Being afraid only brings mistakes and injury. You got it right man.
It's been so cool watching you going from disassembling scrap in your small shed, to now having your own freaking robotic arm! Thanks for all the helpful and just genuinely great content.
Jeremy, I don't care what you are doing in your shop as long as you and your kids keep laughing together like this!!! Everything else is good, THIS is FABULOUS!!!!!
youre my inspiration in my trade as a stationary engineer. I study your videos intensely to make me better at what i do at work. thank you for such great and educational content my friend.
Dude.. seriously, you are an inspiration.. I won't get too long winded.. but wow, man.. I've been watching you for a couple of years now.. and you are just a seriously impressive man. Like, not that you just know how to do a good video, but your personality, values, attitude, enthusiasm to educate.. just downright impressive..
"I want to teach my kids to have a healthy respect for any tool...I don't want to be afraid of the tool because that's the wrong approach." What you said, I don't think anyone's ever said better. The goal is definitely not to make your kids afraid of the robot or tools, but to understand its capabilities! Fear is the wrong way of doing things. I think your method for teaching this was very effective because it was a fun and memorable experience while also showing them how strong that machine actually is. As they said, give it space and it's fine. I also love how you want your kids to see you fail. I think that's a wonderful way to teach them how to experiment to achieve results.
I first found your channel through Destin, probably like a lot of others, and I have to say this video has blown me away. I'm truly impressed by model you try to give to your family. Plus, you have a great way of explaining things. Thanks.
New father of a 4 month old baby. Mech Engr as a career/hobby. Completely distracted from the video of then robot because I was distracted from seeing your 4 kids!! How do you do it?!? Great video, your an Inspiration to me see you find time to grow/invest your time as an engineer and be a committed/loving father. Thank you for your work.
The true nugget of this video is at 3:20 having your children experience your mistakes. We tend to learn far more from our mistakes than our successes.
Also I would say you are one of my favorite youtube channels. I don't think we desire to build much that overlaps but you have such a engineering mindset without being an engineer which I find educational. I learn a lot by your attitude and your methods.
It’s good to teach your kids not to be afraid of stuff like this. If you’re afraid of something you will never fully be able to utilize it to its ultimate potential. Safety always dances a fine line in these areas. You shouldn’t be afraid, but you should definitely respect the power that machines, tools and systems can have
Great video! Every single safety manager who works in a plant with potential human-robotic interface should show this video in all safety training sessions. This video deserves 10M++ views.
I think everything you do with your kids in the shop is great, especially the failures and the safety, but also the successes. Sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed on the first try, but you never stop learning! And I love that you don't always film everything, even if it winds up being something really cool (like skipping teeth on a belt) - it allows your family to know that the shop is a safe place to be themselves and to be a family. The only thing I might wanna add is maybe y'all shoulda worn safety glasses during the punching. Not that they were necessary, but it's just one of those things you get in the habit of doing.
You sir are a mad scientist in the best sense. Just beautiful man! Seeing you with the kids is just awesome! Getting young people involved in creative engineering and making is just great. I can't wait to see what you cook up next! Big ups from Upstate New York ❤️💛💚
Even beyond the engineering, machining, you name it, you're a very smart man to recognize the value of failure. I know that was kinda a minor moment but that line about learning best from failure just really struck a cord. Beyond that though, this was a fun experiment. I'm imagining a setup where you set it up to tenderize meat for some reason.
It reminds me of that comment from a professor in engineering school: two angles are equal modulo 360° until you have a technician standing behind a robot, then you'll pay attention to the actual angle.
Damn son.. you have a great family there.. Having fun with the kids was the highlight of my life.. Now they are off with there own kids.. Which is great again.. Grandbabies are the bomb.. Your a good man Jeremy it shows through your family.. Bravo son.. you should be proud God has blessed you mightily..
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When my teenage daughter got her camera out... I knew I had won them over! The goal was simply to have fun and create memories. Thank you for sharing in that with me... and thank you KiwiCo for making these kinds of projects possible. Check out www.kiwico.com/Fielding50 for 50% off your first month of any crate!
Flavun, hold my monster...And that's how I got flailchest
Grand Rising Family......
What an AWESOME moment
Jeremy....
All The Best Family.....YES
You have an awesome channel with just you in the videos alone. The fact that you involve your family makes your channel as a standard to be at for all other channels, in my opinion.
ROFL! "We broke Joe!" "T h e r e w e g o! P u n c h i n t h e f a c e!" This slew me!
what software are you using to controll the robot?
Nothing says bonding with the family much like robot arm violence. Great video!
As a side effect they will have indirety learned some ethics and capabilities of automation.
It doesn't get much better than a dad having fun with his kids! When I watch your content I dont just get motivated to be a smarter guy, I get motivated to be a better dad. Thanks Jeremy!
The Dad points this man racks up could buy a yacht. Thank you for showing us your beautiful family.
100% agreed! Imagine how much better a place the world would be if every father was as engaged and inspiriting to his children!
Definitely... I've got a 1 year old daughter and can't wait to start introducing her to computers and robotics. You can't "Engineer Dad" any harder than Jeremy. So much love between him and his kids.
Seriously, when he talked about having his son see his failure my heart melted. Such a role model!
These children are blessed. Ready for the future. I want to engage my kids the same way. 🙏🏾🙏🏾.. subbed.
i wish i was raised this way instead of being called destructivee because i took things apart, might have gotten my engineering degree before the age of 27 >.>
@@Fleato You're never too late to get a degree! Congrats on the engineering paper dude
@@tonyhinderman not too late. Just a bit rough being almost 30 and now starting to learn this stuff.
The best part of the video is the family enjoying this organized chaos. Love it.
Jeremy is giving us engineering lessons as well as dad lessons... 👍🏾
Jeremy Fielding: Builds highly-advanced 7-axis industrial robot.
Also Jeremy Fielding: Uses it to punch dummies. 😂
He could rent it out by the hour. There are so many uses in the workplace.
That thing should be in the ring on a skateboard
Battle bots?
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Doesn’t look very precise. It is wobbling a whole lot.
Impressive project, no doubt.
@@antman7673 It just needs a little guidance. Maybe a facial recognition module.
Scan the faces of managers, bosses, troublesome co-workers into it, and set it up in a main hallway. :-)
I would recommend trying to use compressed air to separate the silicone from your mold. Works great for getting stuck buckets apart and the like.
I really respect that mention of not wanting to make it feel like every time you do something is for a youtube video.. That's a great mindset and just wanted to let you know I respect that haha
Seeing as you invited it... A healthy respect for things that can kill you, whether that be a tool, robot, animal or anything else like heights is a very good thing to have. It empowers you to interact with it safely.
Simply being afraid of these things on the other hand doesn't do you any good. It doesn't give you the opportunity to learn from the experience or to leverage the good that can come out of using equipment or from that moment in time.
Imagine standing at the top of a cliff looking out west upon thousands of miles of desert or the sea. If you're too afraid of falling you miss the beauty of the sunset.
As for could I take that punch? Almost certainly yes, people are incredibly resilient. Do I want to find out? Hell no.
I don't think that could have been better said Daniel
as for taking the punch, I'm gonna wager it depends a bit where you take it, and how you're stood up while taking it. While the fist isn't swinging super fast, it's not gonna just stop when it hits you. the "conk on the head" swing could easily break your neck I suspect, as your body doesn't have much room to get out of the way in the vertical axis, and thus the full force goes straight into your spine. Most of the other swings are likely survivable with varying injuries unless you're deliberately restrained such that the robot pushes right through you.
As an industrial controls engineer who integrates robotics, one of the key differences in safety considerations is the moral responsibility for the risk and the reward.
Safety is different when you're on an adventure into the sunset or working on a project in your own garage as compared to selling your time for a few dollars an hour so that someone else can make money. In the latter case, acceptable risk levels are orders of magnitude lower than risks you undertake on tasks of your own volition.
Side note: robots aren't as fast as a boxer, but they are more rigid and heavier. A watermelon is a great demonstrator of how a robot can move to a point and not even notice a squishy human in the way....
I actually got myself almost killed by an industrial robot arm once. We had healthy respect, but no clue, since it was a robotic course at university, and my colleague and I were in the room on our own. We were programming it for the first time ever and the documentation of the programming interface came directly from the 80th programmer hell.
Since we couldn't figure out what various functions actually did, we decided to be VERY careful and have it move a single step in one axis only for starters.
We eagerly started our program and ... nothing happened. We tried a few times more, assuming that maybe a single step was too minute to see, we tried moving some more steps ... nothing.
So, we figured, we needed to know what's going on and I decided to put my ear besides the motor while running the program to listen whether it would make any noise. My colleague was hovering his hand right above the emergency shutoff button, ready to punch it.
So we started the program and out of nowhere the arm fully extended itself, moving all of its axis at once, in a split second, a few centimeters left of my head. Had my head been in the way, this thing would have smashed it. The robot arm was only slightly smaller than the one in this video.
We were in shock. There wasn't enough time to react to push the emergency power off before everything was over. Some servos actually broke themselves in the process, because of the fast movement of all of them at once (I don't know if they physically broke, or just reached some safety position, where they couldn't back out on their own again). Compared to the punches in the video, that thing had moved at easily ten times the speed.
Turns out: our code was 100% correct, but our interpretation of which of the four transmission modes of the archaic proprietary parallel interface to use was wrong. We essentially had send digital garbage to the robot on all attempts, including the last one. For some reason all of the previous ones didn't make any sense to the robot, so he would essentially not do anything, whereas the last one apparently accidentally created a command sequence which created a path he could follow (albeight disabling himself in the process).
So, healthy respect is always warranted, even if you think you are doing only minute changes, unless you truely have a full and perfect understanding of the situation. And even then cosmic radiation could be messing up that one crucial command. 😉
This video proves why this is one of the best engineering channels.
Healthy respect the way to go, fear cripples learning. You have a great approach to encourage your children we need more educators like you.
Yes, and kinds need to be empowered in learning rather than being given an I can't do this mindset. The everyone must graduate despite qualification because feelings model is critically flawed much like modern reasoning.
This is great! Thanks for sharing this!
Honestly impressed the silicone worked to cast aluminum! Is this a special kind of 2 part silicone that can withstand that heat?
@@JordanV It was bismuth, not aluminum.
@@johnabruce ohhhhhh. Didn't realize that. Thanks. Didn't know bismuth had that low of a melting point honestly, but I've never worked with it before.
"When I mess up is when I learn the most". Absolutely! The best take away from this video! I wish more people understood this.
This video was so wholesome, it actually bought a tear to my eye.
Not only do you motivate me to get back to my learning, but you're also making me want to be a better person. Great content.
I had a lot of respect for you as an engineer and teacher but now I have gained a hole new respect for as an awesome father.
honestly, the fact that you want your kids involved in this kind of stuff, and the fact that they obviously want to be involved themselves, is absolutely awesome. The mark of a good teacher, and an even better father, sir.
I completely agree that exposing them to dangerous tools while teaching them how to do it safely is the best approach. Sometimes kids get hurt or killed because they are told no so they try it by sneaking to it and trying it without supervision. I'm sure your kids know if they want to try something they can come to you and you will let them use the equipment with you watching over them. Don't feel guilty for how you raise your kids. There are so many ways of doing it right and wrong and not everyone will agree.
I love how you are giving your kids a learning experience but it is really great to see you having fun with them.
I love that you are able to do this with your family. Looks like you are truly living the dream! Love your video's, have recommended you to many people because your knowledge is top tier.
Soon after this video started, I thought "If a person is standing there, it's going to be a bad accident". This is a valuable lesson about safety.
The best part of this video is watching you interact with your kids and how much fun you're all having with this. Thank you for sharing this moment. It's obvious that you have many such moments with them off the camera. I feel better having seen that.
What I see (in its exteriority, at least) in this video represents my ideal of what I have (unsuccessfully) hoped could be my family life.
I wish you perpetual happiness, Fielding family.
It always amazes me how much detail the silicon mold captures, every single layer line and imperfection!
THIS is how people learn to be safe around machines, and get a positive attitude about safety. Fun examples of people who know the field, not a desk jockey. Kudos to you, dad. 👊
This was great for a lot of reasons, but what I didn't expect was to get the most enjoyment out of how this became a family event. Watching your whole family get excited about this engineering project, and you getting them even more into it with the countdowns was so much fun. You seem like a GREAT dad. 🙂🥋
I had a grin from ear to ear watching this whole thing. Great content Jeremy. Never underestimate the effectiveness of a good throat punch.
I absolutely love watching you showing the kids all this stuff! I just know that years from now, those kids will all be telling stories about their crazy father and how much fun they had with him and his inventions. You are creating great memories and that is worth the price of admission.
I also really like how YOU are having as much if not more fun than any of the kids. This is great stuff, and it's wonderful to see how much you are all enjoying what you are doing. A BIG thumbs up to you and the kids. BTW, they sure have grown up a lot since the kid powered electricity producing machine episode.
My daughter and I had a great time watching this. Thanks, Jeremy.
What an awesome family you have! They’re lucky to have such a great father.
these kids have the coolest possible dad. just imagine being their age and your dad is like " i made a punching robot, wanna come watch"
What a great man, his children will have such fond memories for life, CONGRATS Jeremy
I really like that your kids are involved AND that you balance respect (not fear) with learning.
Just can't stop smiling when you bring your beautiful family into the shop with you, you're a great guy Jeremy.
I really respect that your willing to not have the camera on all the time when your family is in the shop. I’m sure not all youtubers would do the same. Making sure the shop is fun and safe for them should come first
Absolutely… and thank you.
What a great Dad. Get involved with the family and teach them skills to be successful in Life and have fun!
One more thing.
The most difficult thing I have had to do in life is to learn how to learn. This is why I can relate to you.
Another option to get the silicone out is, keep the bottom on, then squeeze the tip from your shop compressor down the side and pop it out with compressed air
What a beautiful family. You’re a great father and your kids are really lucky to have you!
Jeremy, you earned my subscription years ago. Your videos were cool then, and amazing now.
You took the words right out of my mouth when talking about having your son work alongside you... Your so-called failures are learning events for him. He's getting lifelong memories that he'll treasure, and hopefully pass onto your grandchildren, who might also learn from him and be by your side in the workshop too. Totally awesome fathering.
- Fun and teaching moments with my kids are some of my fondest memories. You Sir, are a good Dad!
"Ok....
I have no idea what I'm doing."
Words to live by
I can honestly say that I learned so much by watching my Dad not only fail but hoplessly screwing stuff up repeatedly. He liked woodworking and so do I. He was a very proud man but in this case, with his 5 thru 11yo son, he was very generous. He not only admitted to the failures, but took the time to explain what went wrong. He routinely cut rhombus parts to what were supposed to be square cabinet doors. Getting the inside and outside measurenents mixed up often. Subsequently, it's a mistake I don't make. That's just one example of how well watching someone fail is valuable. Almost to the point of, is it really a failure if it teaches so well? When my Dad was home and in the shop, if he turned, he hit me in the forehead with his elbow. I watched EVERYTHING he did. And as was age appropriate, helped.
I like how Jeremy intentionally messed up the first punch to fake out his kids and show them things don’t always work as planned.
Jeremy: You’re the greatest.
You are ‘RIGHT ON TRACK’ with your kids! It’s not only engineers who profit greatly from having an early understanding of tools and mechanical processes. I’ll bet your kids know how to use a tape measure!! Respect!!!
This is indeed a great video to illustrate the need for basic safety when working around machine. You are 100% right; fear is not the answer. We just need to remain fully aware of what we are doing and what can go wrong. Knowledge is key.
Seriously ure mentanility is one of the best , i really like how u spend ure time with ure family away from the youtube and how u try to give life lessons to ure children, u really have my respect 👮♂️
Your family is so blessed to have you. Keep teaching them! Thank you for sharing these moments with us.
I do a lot of industrial electrical safety training, the first thing I teach is, if you're afraid of it, get away from it. RESPECT the electricity, UNDERSTAND, and CONTROL it. Being afraid only brings mistakes and injury. You got it right man.
Great video Jeremy. You’re an excellent father to your children and I’m sure they will grow to be first class engineers and citizens.
It's been so cool watching you going from disassembling scrap in your small shed, to now having your own freaking robotic arm! Thanks for all the helpful and just genuinely great content.
I love watching people involving their family the way you do. I was smiling the whole video.
Hundreds of hours to build that robot arm, just for a few moments of laughter. Time well spent lol
Nominating you for Father of the Year... this is so fun! Your kids grow so much by involving them in the fun things you do.
This is the most wholesome engineering channel on youtube
Bless you and your wonderful family, Jeremy.
What a great best dad moment to capture. You sir are a hero.
Jeremy, I don't care what you are doing in your shop as long as you and your kids keep laughing together like this!!! Everything else is good, THIS is FABULOUS!!!!!
It's nice to see a family having fun together and learning something at the same time.
youre my inspiration in my trade as a stationary engineer. I study your videos intensely to make me better at what i do at work. thank you for such great and educational content my friend.
The best part of this video was watching a family have fun together! That was a blast.
You are an incredible engineer, and seemingly, an even better father.
That punch might not be fast, but what follow-through!
Dude.. seriously, you are an inspiration.. I won't get too long winded.. but wow, man.. I've been watching you for a couple of years now.. and you are just a seriously impressive man. Like, not that you just know how to do a good video, but your personality, values, attitude, enthusiasm to educate.. just downright impressive..
"I want to teach my kids to have a healthy respect for any tool...I don't want to be afraid of the tool because that's the wrong approach."
What you said, I don't think anyone's ever said better. The goal is definitely not to make your kids afraid of the robot or tools, but to understand its capabilities! Fear is the wrong way of doing things. I think your method for teaching this was very effective because it was a fun and memorable experience while also showing them how strong that machine actually is. As they said, give it space and it's fine.
I also love how you want your kids to see you fail. I think that's a wonderful way to teach them how to experiment to achieve results.
I agree with you. Respecting tools is important. Fear is not. Respect the power, speed, etc. Know how to be safe when using them.
man you are a great dad!
thank you!
One of my favorite family friendly engineering channels on youtube!! I love it keep up the great work!
I first found your channel through Destin, probably like a lot of others, and I have to say this video has blown me away. I'm truly impressed by model you try to give to your family. Plus, you have a great way of explaining things. Thanks.
New father of a 4 month old baby. Mech Engr as a career/hobby.
Completely distracted from the video of then robot because I was distracted from seeing your 4 kids!! How do you do it?!?
Great video, your an Inspiration to me see you find time to grow/invest your time as an engineer and be a committed/loving father.
Thank you for your work.
you're my dad hero. great work, having fun with the kids and getting them excited about STEM.
The true nugget of this video is at 3:20 having your children experience your mistakes. We tend to learn far more from our mistakes than our successes.
Also, makes me nostalgic for when I was a kid helping my Dad fix dirt bikes in the garage or build a swing set.
This is awesome on every level. Fun, family, sharing, learning.
Also I would say you are one of my favorite youtube channels. I don't think we desire to build much that overlaps but you have such a engineering mindset without being an engineer which I find educational. I learn a lot by your attitude and your methods.
The Fielding bot is the only hope we have to defeat Elon's robot army.
And the Hacksmith Power Loader, once it gets AI.
3:26 he is going to grow/learn so much. Well done!
It’s good to teach your kids not to be afraid of stuff like this. If you’re afraid of something you will never fully be able to utilize it to its ultimate potential. Safety always dances a fine line in these areas. You shouldn’t be afraid, but you should definitely respect the power that machines, tools and systems can have
Great video! Every single safety manager who works in a plant with potential human-robotic interface should show this video in all safety training sessions. This video deserves 10M++ views.
Awesome family! I really appreciate your approach to safety - a healthy respect for machinery, but not a fear of machinery.
Great to see the whole family involved!
Your kids are incredibly lucky to have a father like you !
Keep going the great work !
I think everything you do with your kids in the shop is great, especially the failures and the safety, but also the successes. Sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed on the first try, but you never stop learning! And I love that you don't always film everything, even if it winds up being something really cool (like skipping teeth on a belt) - it allows your family to know that the shop is a safe place to be themselves and to be a family. The only thing I might wanna add is maybe y'all shoulda worn safety glasses during the punching. Not that they were necessary, but it's just one of those things you get in the habit of doing.
You sir are a mad scientist in the best sense. Just beautiful man! Seeing you with the kids is just awesome! Getting young people involved in creative engineering and making is just great. I can't wait to see what you cook up next! Big ups from Upstate New York ❤️💛💚
Even beyond the engineering, machining, you name it, you're a very smart man to recognize the value of failure. I know that was kinda a minor moment but that line about learning best from failure just really struck a cord.
Beyond that though, this was a fun experiment. I'm imagining a setup where you set it up to tenderize meat for some reason.
Not only do you deserve accolades for ingenuity and intellect, but I'd vote you for Family Man of the Year too.
The slowed down audio sounds like something out of a horror movie flashback
That was one of the funniest parts to me LOL
Yes. Understand and respect your tools. Don't be afraid of them. They do what you make them do. There's nothing to be afraid of.
It reminds me of that comment from a professor in engineering school: two angles are equal modulo 360° until you have a technician standing behind a robot, then you'll pay attention to the actual angle.
You do a great job with the engineering, RUclips-ing, and family time. Good stuff, sir!
Damn son.. you have a great family there.. Having fun with the kids was the highlight of my life.. Now they are off with there own kids.. Which is great again.. Grandbabies are the bomb.. Your a good man Jeremy it shows through your family.. Bravo son.. you should be proud God has blessed you mightily..
The bane of every cool video: the safety police.
Anything that is fun or exciting usually has an element of risk to it.
Great teaching .... love every bit of it... they see the danger and have fun with out being scared by it
Great video. My kids are now 20 to 42 years old. I wish I had spent more time getting them interested in technical stuff.
Dad of the year i love your content thanks for all you do.
Parent of the Year nomination!
I'm always a little jealous when I see people being good fathers, I never had that. Keep up the good work Jeremy!
That’s definitely a reasonable testing scenario - cool :D
I will try this with my robot arm in small as well when it’s finished
It's always a delight to see you and your family having fun!