Hey Barnaby, when I first started doing CAD I fell into a similar trap as it seems you have. It seems much simpler to only model your part in CAD, but a huge game changer for me was modeling the object, or part of the object, my piece was meant to interact with first, and then modeling my piece around it. It seems like more work, but I've found it's much less headache in the long run and produces much better products, and even with less overall time somewhat counterintuitively
@LavaSaver get a decent caliper, measure the "action of the piece. Just accurate enough to know if you're going to mash thru things. Like a button in the video here, just get the size of the button, and the space in between. Make a cylinder, the depth of the button doesn't really matter in this case, the "action" only matters on the top.
@@LavaSaver I bought an inexpensive scanner (CR Scan Ferret pro) and the mesh is accurate enough to design around! Sometines I do need to get out the calipers to verify an interference fit, but when dealing with complex curvatures, it really saves time!
Yes!!! I came down here to post just this! Whenever you model what you’re working with you can come up with brand new ideas without really having to start again.
@@barnabydixon fyi, you can also use acetone to slightly dissolve both ABS and PLA (though paint thinners like methylene chloride or ethyl acetate works better on PLA) filaments, which can allow you to stick them together (though this method will require a bit of trial and error to get the pieces melty enough to stick but not too melty)aint thinne
My brain cannot brain like yours does. I am a nurse. I can take care of people for days. I can remain patient in very impatient situations. I can and have been slapped and I don't slap back. But my brain will never brain like yours. Watching the process in bits and pieces of how you make things is positively fascinating Batnaby
Holy bits. Even if your brain does not brain like Barnaby's, you have a tough skin like no other! Im sorry to hear you have been slapped. But I hope you know you have your own strengths to be proud of. Not many can tough it out like you do, I sure cannot skin like you can!
If it wasn't for people like you, our health care would not be as good as it is. All I can say is Thank you! As I have been wheelchair bound for many months after an auto accident, and the many people that helped me get back up on my feet were the unsung heroes in my book! So don't worry if YOU don't think as others, as we can't handle the stuff YOU do! And some of us do things to entertain everyone when we can! I hope everyone realizes our being silly is just for fun and laughter! So enjoy when I break out singing odd bits of a song with totally incorrect words, or talk with mixed up words!
Hi Barnaby this is really great! Way back when, I helped my wife build some adaptive devices to help her clients with disabilities interact with a Q-Chord. I used masks and levers a good deal. All of my stuff was made from hand cut and welded PP sheet plastic. I believe it is often possible to trigger the button functions on many similar instruments with MIDI SysEx messages, so you may not be constrained to adapt to the physical interface. We never built one, but a custom midi pad built from an arduino could give you a lot of customization potential, but perhaps you prefer the mechanical aspects for other reasons as well. Cheers and thanks for the show and tell!
I came here for the lever design, watched through breakfast and some tea. I wasn't intending to stay to the puppetry, but I'm glad I did! That was genuinely delightful and brought a smile to my face. :)
I like how you created your very own niche of content with its very own unique problems to solve! It might sound a little strange but i think we humans are at our best when we find a new way to get into trouble lol. That is where we discover and learn new things. And also the results are so good! I love that each time i see your work you have created something unique and wonderful. Your puppets are so alive with personality. It really gives me joy
3d printing, playing music, and visually impressive puppet. You hooked me with the button prints / engineering problem, but I stayed for the performance. Amazing.
Me over here, I'd be redesigning the circuitboard behind the buttons and reshaping the whole instrument. Cycle time of weeks and investment of hundreds of hours. Meanwhile you did it reversibly, with a surface-attachable mod, in what looks like a few hours of design and printing time. Gorgeous!
Barnaby -- does the fact that he's now always standing a bit like Captain Morgan an issue? Perhaps you *should* build up the note keys so he's got a level "dance" surface!
came here for the 3d printing, but the performance at the end was a fantastic surprise. with a baritone voice like Bowie, Brian Ferry or Brad Roberts from Crash Test Dummies. 👌🏼
The Bambu X1C is one of the best printers on the market! I bought mine a little over a year ago and it has over 4600 hours on it! I’ve only had to replace a few nozzles and the tubes that guide the filament but no other hardware has been replaced! If you get a smaller sized nozzle like a 0.2, you can really print some finer details!
So this is an artistic process, that generates quite unique results and is therefor very much justified. In the interest of sturdyness and reliability for gigs, I'd seriously consider finding a keyboard or drumpads or design your own surface of sorted switches and solder it to the pads of your sound module. Love your voice btw!
Indeed there are at least half a dozen simpler ways to solve his problem with solder and wires. But I probably wouldn't have seen this video if he'd gone one of those routes. I'm glad he chose a more 'interesting' approach.
RUclips recommended me this, and while puppet performances are not really my thing, the design of this adapter is very nice, albeit janky. Liked the idea of using the bed texture as an indicator of the space between the buttons, and if you were to bother, you could design some patterns on the top layer, and make them different from each other if that would help in any way. End result looks good, and it works as intended, so good video :)
Hey, you should look into making one last rendition of this thing now that you've got a working version. You should do a final high quality print with very high precision settings and a very small nozzle, and a slower speed. You can get a version that looks almost like an injection molded part.
A method I've seen for getting text labels to work on 3d prints is to print using a filament colour you want for the text. Then spray paint the whole thing the colour you want the rest of it, then sand the fascia carefully and it'll only expose plastic where the text is.
For lettering, I find it works a lot better to have it sunken into your plane rather than bossed out. It also lets you fill with a paint or ink for better contrast
Instead of the detachable bits (and added blobs) on the bottom of the levers you could model a pattern of small holes, and a couple different inserts for them. One style would align centered with a hole, then have a few different offsets from the holes. This would let you use whichever insert necessary to line up with the button you are trying to press.
If you have any old vehicle wiper blades they have two strips of Spring Steel in them. I've used them in the past melted into plastic they have small cutouts which give a good anchor point. If you put a small nip in them or use a file to rough them up they will get a good purchase when melted into the plastic
A trick so the paper does not bleed through when sealing in resin is first sealing it in modge podge or diluted clear glue. It makes the paper less permeable and stops the weird dark wet looking partches, bleeding, or discoloration. If it survives the modge podge, then resin it.
3D printers have absolutely revolutionized the creative process. In the past you would have had to make this out of wood or machine it from metal. Now you can just draw it in CAD and send it to the printer. Awesome. I think it's time for me to finally jump on the 3D printer bandwagon.
After watching all the 3D printer stuff I was not prepared for 6:35 at all.... I almost pissed my pants laughing when he started singing because I was solely focused on the puppet. 🤣🤣
Am I the only one that can't stop seeing the middle and ring fingers knuckles as if they were some freakishly large "balls"? like I can't be the only one right??? Also first time I see this channel great video!!!
this is the most insane way i could ever imagine to accomplish that task lol. i would have just made a custom keypad the shape i want and then wired it in through a bus cable. or even just drilled holes in the plastic and moved buttons around by glueing in momentary tac switches and then wiring them over to where the membrane's carbon bit makes contact. this mechanical method is so crazy, its like building a sand castle one grain at a time with 10 foot long chopsticks
This was an amazing video. I think you are using a 400nm black light since I see you pretty well. May I recommend getting a 365nm black light to make you less visible and the puppet more visible. Keep up the great quality video production, I really enjoyed this.
You can add embossed text if you use a smaller nozzle (0.2mm), reduce the layer resolution (~0.08mm), and slow the head down (25mm/sec) so the layers have time to cool.
Good work! I hope Yamaha sees this and realizes that there's a better way to layout the keys. I guess you could dismantle the entire instrument, make a new top and reinstall all of the original buttons.
Like all the other software/EE guys watching this, I'm both impressed and horrified that you didn't solder any wires to the PCB. tbh your solution never would have occurred to me
To sing, play an instrument, and manipulate a puppet that well, simultaneously, is the art of a superior being. I commend you, sir!
Basically just whipped together a very specific accessibility aid for one armed DJs.
We need to find the disabled DJs that need this
@@Kavukamari I know a lot of intellectually disabled DJs but none with one arm 🙁
For quick fixes like those nubs on the bottom, I think you could benefit from having a 3D printing pen.
You are an ingenuitive and very clever man. Always impressed with the ways you solve these engineering problems
He is ingenious indeed!
Man, if you ever learn electronics and programming, you'd be unstoppable. Your creativity, talent, and perseverance are wonderful to see.
He's got the mind and personality for it. Combining music and engineering is very cool
Hey Barnaby, when I first started doing CAD I fell into a similar trap as it seems you have. It seems much simpler to only model your part in CAD, but a huge game changer for me was modeling the object, or part of the object, my piece was meant to interact with first, and then modeling my piece around it. It seems like more work, but I've found it's much less headache in the long run and produces much better products, and even with less overall time somewhat counterintuitively
Do you have any advice for learning how to properly model an existing part?
@LavaSaver get a decent caliper, measure the "action of the piece. Just accurate enough to know if you're going to mash thru things.
Like a button in the video here, just get the size of the button, and the space in between. Make a cylinder, the depth of the button doesn't really matter in this case, the "action" only matters on the top.
@@LavaSaver I bought an inexpensive scanner (CR Scan Ferret pro) and the mesh is accurate enough to design around! Sometines I do need to get out the calipers to verify an interference fit, but when dealing with complex curvatures, it really saves time!
Yes!!! I came down here to post just this! Whenever you model what you’re working with you can come up with brand new ideas without really having to start again.
Wonderful singing voice.
Would a 3D pen have worked for applying the small blobs? It would be more precise, sadly you won't get to play with fire. /s
That's a great idea!
@@barnabydixon fyi, you can also use acetone to slightly dissolve both ABS and PLA (though paint thinners like methylene chloride or ethyl acetate works better on PLA) filaments, which can allow you to stick them together (though this method will require a bit of trial and error to get the pieces melty enough to stick but not too melty)aint thinne
Soldering iron is more accurate
Something like Sugru might work too.
I can hear Adam Savage getting excited about your levers from the southern hemisphere.
Along with all the pauses, the head scratching, the look of awe, the manipulation as he works every piece while thinking, etc.
My brain cannot brain like yours does. I am a nurse. I can take care of people for days. I can remain patient in very impatient situations. I can and have been slapped and I don't slap back. But my brain will never brain like yours. Watching the process in bits and pieces of how you make things is positively fascinating Batnaby
Holy bits. Even if your brain does not brain like Barnaby's, you have a tough skin like no other! Im sorry to hear you have been slapped. But I hope you know you have your own strengths to be proud of. Not many can tough it out like you do, I sure cannot skin like you can!
@@Scrofar Nurses are true "Super Heroes" !
@@Scrofar Your comment to jonawesolowski made mine unnecessary so I've put it on you instead. In summary, Well said.
@@m.maclellan7147 only the ones that are not doing stupid tiktok dances
If it wasn't for people like you, our health care would not be as good as it is.
All I can say is Thank you! As I have been wheelchair bound for many months after an auto accident, and the many people that helped me get back up on my feet were the unsung heroes in my book!
So don't worry if YOU don't think as others, as we can't handle the stuff YOU do!
And some of us do things to entertain everyone when we can! I hope everyone realizes our being silly is just for fun and laughter! So enjoy when I break out singing odd bits of a song with totally incorrect words, or talk with mixed up words!
Barnaby genuinely has one of the most unique singing voices i ever heard
Has a bit of bowie vibes!
I thought he sounded like Willie DeVille. At least a little.
this is such a fun process to follow, thank you!!!
What the fuck hi Ian
Thanks Ian, really appreciated! It was fun to do!
Hi iDubz :)
Hi Barnaby this is really great! Way back when, I helped my wife build some adaptive devices to help her clients with disabilities interact with a Q-Chord. I used masks and levers a good deal. All of my stuff was made from hand cut and welded PP sheet plastic. I believe it is often possible to trigger the button functions on many similar instruments with MIDI SysEx messages, so you may not be constrained to adapt to the physical interface. We never built one, but a custom midi pad built from an arduino could give you a lot of customization potential, but perhaps you prefer the mechanical aspects for other reasons as well. Cheers and thanks for the show and tell!
I came for the diy engineering, I stayed for the blacklight puppetry.
If you haven't already, try a 0.2mm nozzle. It takes longer but you can get a LOT more detail with the thinner bead of plastic.
You were just put in my feed due to 3D printing. I watched this and some others. I love your singing voice.
The OCD in me wants to calibrate these filament profiles .. ;)
Side note, a good sealant for paper is spray acrylic (glossy) coating.
I came here for the lever design, watched through breakfast and some tea. I wasn't intending to stay to the puppetry, but I'm glad I did! That was genuinely delightful and brought a smile to my face. :)
You sir are a modern day polymath. Keep on doing what you do good sir. Everything you do is beautiful!
I like how you created your very own niche of content with its very own unique problems to solve! It might sound a little strange but i think we humans are at our best when we find a new way to get into trouble lol. That is where we discover and learn new things.
And also the results are so good! I love that each time i see your work you have created something unique and wonderful. Your puppets are so alive with personality. It really gives me joy
Awesome! The triangular stop inside the two flexures is smart.
I came for the 3D printing - I stayed for the puppetry! Bravo!
It's been years since I've seen your content, and i think this is the first time I've heard you sing. You have a wonderful voice
Bravo, Barnaby !
You are so willing to go the extra mile to get your music & puppets to be top-notch !
Love that Dylan song and your rendition! ❤
3d printing, playing music, and visually impressive puppet. You hooked me with the button prints / engineering problem, but I stayed for the performance. Amazing.
Me over here, I'd be redesigning the circuitboard behind the buttons and reshaping the whole instrument. Cycle time of weeks and investment of hundreds of hours. Meanwhile you did it reversibly, with a surface-attachable mod, in what looks like a few hours of design and printing time. Gorgeous!
I love that a love that a little bit of Dabchick came out when the car horn interrupted you.
You absolutely can get the words on your print.
You just need the right print profile with the 0.4 nozzle or get the 0.2 nozzle.
I’m delighted by how specific the need and the fix were. Bravo!
Barnaby -- does the fact that he's now always standing a bit like Captain Morgan an issue? Perhaps you *should* build up the note keys so he's got a level "dance" surface!
agreed, at least visually this is a little bit weird
what this guy said.
Instead of embossing text, try sinking it into the model. Then fill the sunken letters with paint.
So cool, everything, the print, the song, the puppet. Thank you!
That was great, and the puppet dance at the end was really sweet. Well done!
came here for the 3d printing, but the performance at the end was a fantastic surprise. with a baritone voice like Bowie, Brian Ferry or Brad Roberts from Crash Test Dummies. 👌🏼
That voice the music demeanor creativity. It all fits so well. So too the new keyboard. Thanks B.
The Bambu X1C is one of the best printers on the market! I bought mine a little over a year ago and it has over 4600 hours on it! I’ve only had to replace a few nozzles and the tubes that guide the filament but no other hardware has been replaced!
If you get a smaller sized nozzle like a 0.2, you can really print some finer details!
Holy moly, very clever design!
I love humanity, there are so many ways to fix this issue but this is so awesome and creative
Talking about merch, I can thoroughly recommend the hoodie!
That is genius!
The song is AWESOME!
Ah the joys of melting blobs of plastic, lol!
Nice job! Fab music too! 📐📏
Excellent application of a parallel leaf spring mechanism. 😊
You're amazing! It's my first time seeing a puppet performance like this.
I love that you are still innovating and creating exciting new ways to make cool stuff. ❤
You never cease to amaze!! Thanks for sharing!!
So this is an artistic process, that generates quite unique results and is therefor very much justified. In the interest of sturdyness and reliability for gigs, I'd seriously consider finding a keyboard or drumpads or design your own surface of sorted switches and solder it to the pads of your sound module.
Love your voice btw!
Indeed there are at least half a dozen simpler ways to solve his problem with solder and wires. But I probably wouldn't have seen this video if he'd gone one of those routes. I'm glad he chose a more 'interesting' approach.
To learn why things DON'T work is super informative, thank you
RUclips recommended me this, and while puppet performances are not really my thing, the design of this adapter is very nice, albeit janky.
Liked the idea of using the bed texture as an indicator of the space between the buttons, and if you were to bother, you could design some patterns on the top layer, and make them different from each other if that would help in any way.
End result looks good, and it works as intended, so good video :)
Great singing, too!
This is so very niche and wonderful.
This is so niche and specific. I love it
This guy does what I do... solves problems that nobody has.
Hey, you should look into making one last rendition of this thing now that you've got a working version. You should do a final high quality print with very high precision settings and a very small nozzle, and a slower speed. You can get a version that looks almost like an injection molded part.
Clever work. Loved it. Thank you British Michael Cera
Brilliant. Also I'm jealous of how you say lever as lever.
Wow, talk about marble machine levels of iteration and complexity. Nice work!
Absolutely eff-wording brilliant!
Your brilliance is endless, Barnaby Dixon!
Sorry for being all bro-ey. I can’t help it. I’m American.
A method I've seen for getting text labels to work on 3d prints is to print using a filament colour you want for the text. Then spray paint the whole thing the colour you want the rest of it, then sand the fascia carefully and it'll only expose plastic where the text is.
Well done, you! great to see your innovations, and talent. Be Well
For lettering, I find it works a lot better to have it sunken into your plane rather than bossed out. It also lets you fill with a paint or ink for better contrast
sooo talented and cute 🥹
Sometimes you can't help but appreciate how someone goes all out just to make others smile!
Instead of the detachable bits (and added blobs) on the bottom of the levers you could model a pattern of small holes, and a couple different inserts for them. One style would align centered with a hole, then have a few different offsets from the holes. This would let you use whichever insert necessary to line up with the button you are trying to press.
I love your problem solving.
In case anyone was wondering, this is what talent looks like. 10/10
The demo was awsome!
If you have any old vehicle wiper blades they have two strips of Spring Steel in them. I've used them in the past melted into plastic they have small cutouts which give a good anchor point. If you put a small nip in them or use a file to rough them up they will get a good purchase when melted into the plastic
That is the finest puppet played music I have ever heard.
A trick so the paper does not bleed through when sealing in resin is first sealing it in modge podge or diluted clear glue. It makes the paper less permeable and stops the weird dark wet looking partches, bleeding, or discoloration. If it survives the modge podge, then resin it.
3D printers have absolutely revolutionized the creative process. In the past you would have had to make this out of wood or machine it from metal. Now you can just draw it in CAD and send it to the printer. Awesome.
I think it's time for me to finally jump on the 3D printer bandwagon.
My goodness! This is genius in a very weird way. I would have opened the device and soldered a bunch of wires connected to an external panel.
Very nice voice - reminds me at least few great singers
what on earth have i just stumbled upon?? This is the coolest thing i have ever seen!
After watching all the 3D printer stuff I was not prepared for 6:35 at all.... I almost pissed my pants laughing when he started singing because I was solely focused on the puppet. 🤣🤣
WTF, I was not expecting you to sing like that. Amazing.
Am I the only one that can't stop seeing the middle and ring fingers knuckles as if they were some freakishly large "balls"? like I can't be the only one right???
Also first time I see this channel great video!!!
Great Little Ingenuity!
You said button/s 16 times in this video. 😂
this is the most insane way i could ever imagine to accomplish that task lol. i would have just made a custom keypad the shape i want and then wired it in through a bus cable. or even just drilled holes in the plastic and moved buttons around by glueing in momentary tac switches and then wiring them over to where the membrane's carbon bit makes contact. this mechanical method is so crazy, its like building a sand castle one grain at a time with 10 foot long chopsticks
Incredible talent.
Love this project it was fun to watch.
Also love your voice, reminds me of David Bowie.
Good solves. This was fun to watch.
It may seem simple, but it is amazing. Great one
This was an amazing video. I think you are using a 400nm black light since I see you pretty well. May I recommend getting a 365nm black light to make you less visible and the puppet more visible. Keep up the great quality video production, I really enjoyed this.
I'd say that qualifies as "epic" way to go!
You can add embossed text if you use a smaller nozzle (0.2mm), reduce the layer resolution (~0.08mm), and slow the head down (25mm/sec) so the layers have time to cool.
I love your little creatures
Good work! I hope Yamaha sees this and realizes that there's a better way to layout the keys. I guess you could dismantle the entire instrument, make a new top and reinstall all of the original buttons.
I wish a had such a multitasking overclocked superior brain like yours. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Well done!
Gettin David Bowie sounds from this guy! I love it!
this is an excellent video. 10/10 no notes
happy to be alive at the same time as this guy
Really cool, but I can't help but feel that your little friend needs some sort of support garment
You are brutal!!! Very inspiring always!!
I like your singing voice! Very nice!
Man you’re a creative genius I don’t even know how you come up with these things
What a wonderful performer. Your voice reminds me of the intro song of over the garden wall. I wonder if you could do a cover.
that was pretty cool !
Like all the other software/EE guys watching this, I'm both impressed and horrified that you didn't solder any wires to the PCB.
tbh your solution never would have occurred to me