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As a disc golfer, if this was brought the the attention of disc manufacturers, it could really benefit the disc golf community. Most flight numbers for discs are decided by the collective agreement of players within its respective company, but if there was a way to have an accurate, measurable, adjustable, and consistant tool to test flight characteristics, then flight numbers could become more/actually true to help players across all skill levels.
So HE is 》 Software engineer 》 Hardware engineer 》 Mechanical engineer 》 Electrical engineer 》 Animator 》 Designer 》 Editor 》 Safety Guy 》A husband who's trying everything to impress his wife And most importantly, A humble person who loves to learn and share his experiences. Much love ❤️ Much respect 🙏
This man is a certified genius. To take so many different concepts from so many different fields and synthesize them perfectly by yourself is incredible. Mathematics, physics, mechanical engineering, software engineering, he's built a distinct style of video for himself that allows himself to build his brand on his own terms. Hes very good at marketing himself, and in he's a phenomenal educator, explaining extremely complicated concepts with ease and accessibility. And on top of all that he's happily married with a wife and kids. Modern day polyglot
In addition to all these qualities, I really admire this dude's determination. Pretty-damned-smart plus tenacity beats pure genius 99 times out of 100.
EXACTLY. I'm doing my BEng rn and I know everything that he's, but being able to use all of it at the same time in the same way as someone who's specialized in that area is insane
This is insane. I'm a mechanical/aerospace engineer whose thesis was on disc flight mechanics. I cant tell you how many times I wished I had something like this. The problem is just so much more complicated than it seems initially. I can't explain just how happy this video makes me personally. Great stuff!
Puts a smile on my face at age 73. My oldest daughter has recently won a regional disk golf tournament in her age class, and I asked her to come show me her stuff. My back lot is about 250', and she had to slow down her drive throw to keep it within the property and not out onto the county road. That's with pure over-50 muscle power, grit, and experience - plus they make great disks for the sport of many types and for many purposes, like drivers, putters, etc. I admit I was sitting here hoping you would break the system into Accel + Spin sections, just based on intuitive logic, and so boy was I gratified to see you had already taken my time-traveled mental telepathy suggestion! Whew, now to go back to my FTL drive, to populate the universe with only cats, dogs, humans, and whatever little critters needed, like millions of types of insects, mammals, fishes, and stuff. The hard part is figuring out what to leave behind on my Interstellar Noah's Ark. I mean, I love spiders, but do we really need to take along Brown Recluse and Black Widow and Cobweb spiders?
😮 This..... is the most wholesome, adorable, whimsical, and all-around pleasant comment i think I've ever read on the internet. As a whole. Never change. I'm so glad the world has people like you in it!
i think your wife has become my favorite part of each video simply because the dynamic is extremely relatable to me as an engineer who is also constantly building gadgets and programs. ive seen that sweet look and heard those encouraging words from my girlfriend as i show her my new project with cracked-out wide open eyes and begin to explain things in a level of detail that is not valuable or important to anyone other than myself.
That sounds like a model railway kind of problem. Or well, clearly not a problem, but situation. It's usually only a problem when it's actual model railways.
Awesome build! If you aren't aware, the company TechDisc manufactures a disc with a suite of sensors on board so you can measure actual velocity and spin rate among other things. Also, typically when thrown by a human, 70mph is good for around 500ft so you should be able to get well over that. If nothing else, you can use the data from the tech disc database to understand typical ratios of speed and spin rate.
I love this! Halfway through I was like "Can't wait for him to make a part 2 where he makes an aiming system, similar to the billiard one." Like one minute later, he announces that he's gonna do just that. You love to see it.
I love how you document your failures and strategies to overcome them. It really shows how engineering is not easy, and how it will never work on the first try, so you have to have the perseverance to keep going.
You should consider reaching out to some of the Disc Golf brands about this launcher. I'm not up to date on how the manufactures currently test their discs, but having a device to consistently launch them in the same way every time would let these companies give better flight numbers and characteristics!
For the cost of one machine, the company can hire one hundred undergrads to chuck discs all day for weed and light beer! Machines can’t compete with desperate undergrads! 😂
@@WilliamHaischyour missing one key aspect of testing, you need consistency if you have a different spin or different power or different release every time you throw the disc any data gathered means nothing
@@venumus1 and on top of that, don't forget that machines don't need lunch breaks, or food or any needs outside of maintenance. I mean you could instead of a 100 people, hire ten mechanics or so to work on the machines. Any company is going to be able to eat the initial lost so long as it turns to long term financial gains.
This is AWESOME. One of the biggest complaints in the disc golf community is the "flight numbers" the manufactures assign to their discs because they are not consistent. You could use this to test those assertions.
@@lanepotter1686 There are plenty of engineering organizations that simply sell their data to buyers. If you can prove you've standardized a control, your data should be useful to someone. At the least could get a few hundred thousand on contract for a year or two long intensive testing.
Your videos are absolutely amazing, brother. I’m one who loves engineering, and loves science. I love to see the mechanics behind the scenes, and you demonstrate so flawlessly. I love how you take your time on your projects and put full force passion into each and every vid. Keep doing what you’re doing. You are seriously an intelligent inspiration for others
I love how this is just a case of “how janky can I get away with?”… turning the motors off the right amount of time before shooting the frisbee should be about the limit… you’re a true engineer 😂
I just admire the genuinely high level of engineering and iterations required, usually reserved for teams with a lot of resources. What you do is inspiring
It's insane to think all this work was done by a single person. The 3D modeling, the machinery, the custom Linux interface, all the software behind it. Really impressive.
The man is a certfied genius. How do you grasp all of the concepts and details of physical engineering, then go to a laptop to write code? He must have a photographic memory. Amazing. These sorts of people make the world go round.
That's because it's the thing he knows. But the differential speeds would have been pretty easy to make using different gear ratios. But, well, it's a different branch of engineering.
You have invented one of the most important devices for disc manufactures to objectively test the flights of their discs!! With this you could actually come up with a standard for the fight numbers of discs that can be consistent across all disc manufactures.
Saying this guy is a genius is a huge understatement. I like tinkering with electronics, 3d printers, welding and other stuff but this guy is on a whole other level.
he's not a genius, he's an engineer with lots of experience, and most importantly is persistent and doesn't give up working problems until they're solved. anyone could do it if they put in the amount of work that he has (which is far more impressive and admirable than just being born a genius - give the guy some credit past his dna)
Just a week ago my dad talked about making a mechanical disc launcher to track the behaviour of different disks with different spin rate to learn how those properties affect the trajectory (he is disk golfer and retired electronics engineer). And then you deliver this video on a silver plate 😄 Can’t wait to see the follow up video!
@@jishan6992 My dad hope Shane will use the machine to do some low level research on speed, spin, angles and disk types so all those of us that are mediocre at disk golf at least know why.
Finally an engineering channel that I truly enjoyed. Love DIYperks, Zacbuilds and all those guys too, but the workflow and engineering done here has to be my favourite in all of RUclips that I have ever seen.
I understand every single curse you said about those ESCs at 13:55, my whole graduation project was about getting a bunch of those exact motors and escs to control a 2 dof hovering mechanism to 0.1 degree accuracy, needless to say it was hard to do on a 500$ budget but we managed, tip: those ESCs are programmable so you can have your custom frimware with custom paramters on them, also with a little tinkering you can accsess the zero-crossing detection info on them ao you can implement your own accurate feedback control
Imagine how i feel when the girl i like gives mixed signs. And then i am clueless and dont know what to do. At least you resigned and live your life in youtube.
I know you probably won't see this, but I'd just like to say that this is the type of content I love. Where the end product isn't jank at all. It just works, and I think it's better than some other projects you've made (for example, your dunking shoes didn't seem safe or practical at all).
Imagine you're the new guy disc golfing and suddenly hear an airplane. Immedeately one of the regulars goes "yeah, it's that one guy. Just move to the other side of the course to avoid getting hospitalized by strays"
I think the very coolest thing about this channel, even more so than all the awesome engineering, is that it shows how complex and difficult some of the things the human body can do are. Anyone could learn how to throw a disk decently with a few hours of practice. But it takes an excellent engineer weeks/months to design a machine that can accomplish all the physical intricacies.
I'm a mechanical engineering student and I absolutely adore your videos. It's comforting to see a successful professional get stuck in "why didn't it work". We're never alone. At the same time, it means it'll never end ;u;
Do you know how it is made? I mean, how do you make a Linux version graphic operating system compatible with touchscreen? I have previously made a lot of CLI applications, but never a graphic one that too, with touch compatibility
First Robotics Competition is a high school level robotics competition that has students design and robots to play a game, and this year’s game had an element where teams needed to shoot rings (which are really just hollow discs) in order to score points. It’s really neat to see that the solutions that a lot of teams came up with to accomplish that are so similar to what you landed on for this project!
Your video always makes me think about a way to achieve an ultimate solution step by step. I am glad you showed your thinking and improvement in each step. This is the beauty of engineering.
3,600 teams worldwide worked on this exact project this year for 2024 FRC Robotics competition. we shot disc at 40MPH every 10 ten seconds. though that wasnt typical.
Yeah idk if it's because i am an FRC alum and this video is very FRC adjacent or what but this feels like the project where mr stuff uses the most janky solutions and not the ones he probably should be using. I do love the jank though
It's funny that I just had @We.Make.Machines video come across my homepage yesterday where they built a disc throwing machine to break the distance record.
I also seen this yesterday just commented about it it was a great video I think a collab would be really cool maybe go for some sort of trick shot at a quarter mile
This man has won at life!! His passion for engineering, the amount of knowledge and the imagination he has is just so incredible! Giving engineers not only career goals, but also couple goals. You guys are the cutest couple..Wish you both the best for the future!👏❤
out of this world genius as always!!!!!!. I wish i had your brain and your skill sir. Also that young lady has a super model smile and an incredible sense of humor. Thank you, thank you for making these videos.!!!!!!
I mean I haven’t finished the video but I feel like he put to much effort into the wheel idea and honestly he’s over thinking it. If he wants a good thrower he already knows his problem is gripping so why not make a belt design. The disk will always be in contact disk and won’t slip and will just gain speed.
Lovee love your videos. For the record - this video is not too long, it could easily be one hour and would still be brilliant. People watch your videos to geek out on how you solved and build things so don't cut it short. Amazing, inspiring work. Please keep them coming.
This is probably the best example yet of a project being "simple" and "easy" on paper. There's so many minute things that can and did go wrong, it was really awesome seeing how it all came together in the end. Can't wait for V2 and btw congrats on another addition to the family! ☺
I can't wait for the inevitable direct-to-dvd movie in which Paul Mcbeth and a PDGA official stand huddled over a rulebook while the official says "He's right! It doesn't say you can't use a disc-launching bazooka!"
Unfortunately it does (813.02.A: A player must not use any device that directly assists in making a throw), but I like the line of thought. Also a penalty, at least for a first usage, is a +2 and it doesn't say that the throw should be abandoned. So you can technically use your bazooka to park a 1000 ft. par 5 for an easy birdie, I guess.
@@aliakseimemelau3 I’m pretty sure I’d get kicked out of the tournament for observing that this device doesn’t really assist in making the throw. Given his arms don’t move at all and none of the throwing action comes from the player, the device itself is making the throw. Which is arbitrary semantics of course, but how are we going to get a heartwarming cybernetic disc golf movie without arbitrary semantics? 😂
I love how the scientific solution was to break the process down and make it similar to a throw. The acceleration, the flick, and then the follow through.
I’m a professional disc golfer and I love this. We need more data in the sport!! Look at Tech Discs-it’s a small tracker to put on the bottom of a disc to track angle of release, speed, rpm, etc. Might be helpful!
This is one of the best maker channels: it's funny, it's educational, it's problem solving, it takes you on a journey, and more. Just wish the release dates were closer together but I know it's a lot of work, I can see it in the videos. Keep it up.
That's a cool concept! I see you're already using some RC car stuff, so here's a few more ideas that the speed run community uses: foam wheels, and sensored BLDC motors. Foam wheels can handle much higher velocities before disintegrating than rubber ones (could be useful for the latter stages if it turns out they do not have as much grip), and sensored BLDC motors have a hall sensor built in that can accurately tell the position and RPM of the rotor, so you can accurately gauge and control the velocity they are spinning at. Also you could probably run beefier RC car ESCs for more power to the wheels.
What I hate is when you try to help the hardware & manufacturing guys out by trying to fix a problem in software, and when it doesn't go perfectly, they all yell 'software bug'
The two of you, Mrs. And Mr. Stuff Made Here, are absolutely made for each other. It's terrific to see the stuff you make AND how amazing those things are! Thanks so much for posting.
Your wife's non-stop encouragement amid tepid enthusiasm is a favorite part of these videos. Did you consider a chain-driven system with different gear sizes to control the speed of the wheel sequences? It would sidestep the need for so many motors and the power ramp-up sequence.
Spot on. While I love the video and the discussion of everything that went wrong, I'm considering showing it to my engineering students on why we start with ideation and not implementation!
My initial reaction to this idea was positive, but when I thought a bit more I see a lot of problems with this approach. Chain-drive couples the inertia of the flywheels, and the braking effect from the disc hitting each acceleration stage would be robbing momentum from the system. More importantly, he wouldn't have been able to use the startup sequence that avoided large amp draw, and would have been boxed into using a much larger motor. A larger singular coupled inertia system would also be more hazardous for a person to be around. I'd rather risk serious rugburn from contacting a single flywheel than a full degloving incident, personally.
There's a disc company called MVP that would absolutely pay you for this machine. They've been trying to build one for years but haven't gotten it down. There are machines that throw fast but are not accurate and have no spin control. You should definitely give them a call.
As a disc golfer, the solution to your spin problem makes a whole lot of sense. The disc only really spins at the end of the throw when your arm circles around the disc (at least for backhand). Awesome video!
The similarities to the recent FRC and VEX (highschool robotics competitions) games which involved shooting disks is uncanny! I do think the rollers on the underside is a bit weird, allowing the disk to vibrate and such. I think a continuous surface with Teflon tape on it would be both simpler/cheaper/lighter and maybe actually faster because the lightweight disk doesn’t have to put energy into spinning up all the passive rollers.
Dude, I'm hooked for life. Can't wait to see what you try next! Integration hell is likely my favorite parts of your content, struggles are real and making something new has a lot of hidden nuance... Love what you do
This dude is a genious😮 Just wow, how can a single person be able to tackle all of these different problems, and then explain it like its a 5 year old building a lego star wars set. Incredible!
And yet theres someone on here who, made an even, better one that shoots them 150 mph. So, if you think this guy's a genius, what does that make the guy with the better one? 🤷🤦 The hilarious part is that all these BS comments get liked by him but when I try and point him to someone who made a better one for more ideas, it gets ignored. 🙄🤦
"Now that I have this, I think there might be a simpler way to do it. But, is there a cooler way?" That is the most engineer-question I've heard this week. 😂
For the ESCs you could use drone escs running bluejay firmware (most sold with blheli_s can be flashed) or blheli_32. These are still cheap and you can use 4 in 1 escs for reduced wiring. They have a feature that sends telemetry using dshot (afaik there are libraries for the protocol). These are very high frequency and accurate, since they are used for dynamic filter midpoints in betaflight. A 4in1 esc with 50A at 6s is under 50$, but there are also individual ones for about 10$.
Another masterpiece video!!! HOW are you this good at engineering, problem-solving, programming, dedication/stubbornness, physics, teaching, creativity, story-telling, comedy, video/sound editing, pacing +++ while seemingly being the most chill/nice person ever?!? I don't get it.
Nice! We Make Machines posted another disc launcher vid a couple days ago. It would be really neat if you guys do a collaboration to see if you can do some sort of back and forth on the concepts and maybe try to create a third type of machine together.
I looked at your channel 6min ago and couldn't believe you still haven't uploaded anything. Here you are! I'm aware that these projects take ages. Quality over quantity
This is nuts! Engineering at its finest. I would have taken a more human like approach with a mechanical arm that swings the disk, but I doubt it could achieve any type of accuracy. Love your content and can't wait for pt2.
RPM could be detected with a voltage divider and optoisolator on a phase of the motors. Ie, instead of the hall effect sensor. A micro controller may not be able to sense every pulse on all motors all the time, but it could cycle through each input and check the time between pulses.
Been watching casually for many years. First thing I said at 15:19 was BABY!?!?! Congratulations man, I'm genuinely very happy for you! I know you already have at least one (the hotwheels) but it doesn't make it any less special.
I don't think I ever clicked a video faster! Banger after a banger after a banger!, ever since your first video, I've been a huge fan, the amount of effort you put into these videos is SECOND TO NONE! Truly one of THE BEST channels on YT, you sir are criminally under rated!
Dude, your videos are absolutely incredible! I love seeing what you come up with and enjoy seeing the process even more. I legitimately get upset when something doesn't work the way you expected it to. You're creativity and problem solving are fantastic and it's a lot of fun for my kids and I to watch. Thanks for all of the cool videos!
You may be interested in this year's FRC game. A lot of teams built robots similar to this,and they ran into the same things you did in the design process. Good to see two groups independently come to similar solutions!
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how is no disc company sponsoring this video?
As a disc golfer, if this was brought the the attention of disc manufacturers, it could really benefit the disc golf community. Most flight numbers for discs are decided by the collective agreement of players within its respective company, but if there was a way to have an accurate, measurable, adjustable, and consistant tool to test flight characteristics, then flight numbers could become more/actually true to help players across all skill levels.
Indeed.
Deal of the century
And it wil be a game changer for the pizza delivery too! Can't wait to see the future!
As a disc golfer, I just wanted to see Albert Tamm wielding this bazooka
Golf ball manufacturers pretty much all use the same robot shot hitter for this purpose exactly. 👍
So HE is
》 Software engineer
》 Hardware engineer
》 Mechanical engineer
》 Electrical engineer
》 Animator
》 Designer
》 Editor
》 Safety Guy
》A husband who's trying everything to impress his wife
And most importantly, A humble person who loves to learn and share his experiences.
Much love ❤️ Much respect 🙏
He is a also a Dad
Aka legend
Also a fine art connoisseur (22:15)
I am really envious of a lot of the skills he has.
And a mathematician too.
That “yes, always” to “are you impressed with me?” tells everything. You guys are a lovely couple😊
Yea, their banter is the best.
25:24 "is that a disc launcher or are you just happy to see me?"
The « after me » also 24:08
Yes, agreed but letting my intrusive thought win:
I can’t believe they have had, ya know
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This man is a certified genius. To take so many different concepts from so many different fields and synthesize them perfectly by yourself is incredible. Mathematics, physics, mechanical engineering, software engineering, he's built a distinct style of video for himself that allows himself to build his brand on his own terms. Hes very good at marketing himself, and in he's a phenomenal educator, explaining extremely complicated concepts with ease and accessibility. And on top of all that he's happily married with a wife and kids. Modern day polyglot
polymath
@@SteveJohnson-p5c oops, u right
Lovable polynerd.
In addition to all these qualities, I really admire this dude's determination. Pretty-damned-smart plus tenacity beats pure genius 99 times out of 100.
EXACTLY. I'm doing my BEng rn and I know everything that he's, but being able to use all of it at the same time in the same way as someone who's specialized in that area is insane
Classic Stuff Made Here intro: "A few years ago, I made this _____. It was supposed to _____, but it just ended up being extremely dangerous."
"... It also didn't really work."
"and so i made this....."
yeah here people get thrown in jail for less than this
It's weirdly similar to I did a thing's intro, except he makes it more dangerous and less reliable instead of less dangerous and more reliable.
for sure
This is insane. I'm a mechanical/aerospace engineer whose thesis was on disc flight mechanics. I cant tell you how many times I wished I had something like this. The problem is just so much more complicated than it seems initially. I can't explain just how happy this video makes me personally. Great stuff!
soooo you study UFOS?!
@@bobedwards8896😂😂😂😂😂
So am i understanding you correctly that you have contact to professors who should contact him?
Would you be open to sharing your thesis? Sounds like an interesting read!
@@bobedwards8896 you could say that 👀😂
The satisfying slow mo slicing 👌
52 likes bro fell off 😔🤞
ARE YOU EVEN WAITING@@imnotabearr?
Puts a smile on my face at age 73. My oldest daughter has recently won a regional disk golf tournament in her age class, and I asked her to come show me her stuff. My back lot is about 250', and she had to slow down her drive throw to keep it within the property and not out onto the county road. That's with pure over-50 muscle power, grit, and experience - plus they make great disks for the sport of many types and for many purposes, like drivers, putters, etc. I admit I was sitting here hoping you would break the system into Accel + Spin sections, just based on intuitive logic, and so boy was I gratified to see you had already taken my time-traveled mental telepathy suggestion! Whew, now to go back to my FTL drive, to populate the universe with only cats, dogs, humans, and whatever little critters needed, like millions of types of insects, mammals, fishes, and stuff. The hard part is figuring out what to leave behind on my Interstellar Noah's Ark. I mean, I love spiders, but do we really need to take along Brown Recluse and Black Widow and Cobweb spiders?
😮 This..... is the most wholesome, adorable, whimsical, and all-around pleasant comment i think I've ever read on the internet. As a whole.
Never change. I'm so glad the world has people like you in it!
no, we do not need to take along the murder spiders
i think your wife has become my favorite part of each video simply because the dynamic is extremely relatable to me as an engineer who is also constantly building gadgets and programs. ive seen that sweet look and heard those encouraging words from my girlfriend as i show her my new project with cracked-out wide open eyes and begin to explain things in a level of detail that is not valuable or important to anyone other than myself.
That sounds like a model railway kind of problem. Or well, clearly not a problem, but situation. It's usually only a problem when it's actual model railways.
@@SophiaAstatineis that a variation of the trolley problem?
Can totally relate 😂
Funny how people's opinions can vary. I wish he'd stop including that charisma vacuum of a wife in his videos.
"Well I'm happy that you are happy :)"
I sometimes think: “When’s the last time StuffMadeHere posted? It’s been ages.”
…then I watch a video and realize, ‘yeah, that would take time!’
Next time the baby will be one year old :))
WORTH IT!!
Righttt. Probably in the middle of an integration hell montage rn
Awesome build! If you aren't aware, the company TechDisc manufactures a disc with a suite of sensors on board so you can measure actual velocity and spin rate among other things. Also, typically when thrown by a human, 70mph is good for around 500ft so you should be able to get well over that. If nothing else, you can use the data from the tech disc database to understand typical ratios of speed and spin rate.
I love this! Halfway through I was like "Can't wait for him to make a part 2 where he makes an aiming system, similar to the billiard one." Like one minute later, he announces that he's gonna do just that. You love to see it.
I love how you document your failures and strategies to overcome them. It really shows how engineering is not easy, and how it will never work on the first try, so you have to have the perseverance to keep going.
@@SystemsPlanetnever?
You should consider reaching out to some of the Disc Golf brands about this launcher. I'm not up to date on how the manufactures currently test their discs, but having a device to consistently launch them in the same way every time would let these companies give better flight numbers and characteristics!
I wonder how many of the Disc manufacturers are watching this and seeing how close he got to what they made internally....
For the cost of one machine, the company can hire one hundred undergrads to chuck discs all day for weed and light beer! Machines can’t compete with desperate undergrads! 😂
@@WilliamHaischyour missing one key aspect of testing, you need consistency if you have a different spin or different power or different release every time you throw the disc any data gathered means nothing
That's what the weed is for @@venumus1
@@venumus1 and on top of that, don't forget that machines don't need lunch breaks, or food or any needs outside of maintenance. I mean you could instead of a 100 people, hire ten mechanics or so to work on the machines. Any company is going to be able to eat the initial lost so long as it turns to long term financial gains.
This is AWESOME. One of the biggest complaints in the disc golf community is the "flight numbers" the manufactures assign to their discs because they are not consistent. You could use this to test those assertions.
That’s actually a great idea, if only the PDGA would do it.
@@lanepotter1686 There are plenty of engineering organizations that simply sell their data to buyers. If you can prove you've standardized a control, your data should be useful to someone. At the least could get a few hundred thousand on contract for a year or two long intensive testing.
Your videos are absolutely amazing, brother. I’m one who loves engineering, and loves science. I love to see the mechanics behind the scenes, and you demonstrate so flawlessly. I love how you take your time on your projects and put full force passion into each and every vid. Keep doing what you’re doing. You are seriously an intelligent inspiration for others
I love how this is just a case of “how janky can I get away with?”… turning the motors off the right amount of time before shooting the frisbee should be about the limit… you’re a true engineer 😂
"D I S C" not frisbee.
My favorite part too! Best part about this FRISBEE video
"Honey where's the hot wheels toy?" "Ah yes that's now a deadly weapon"
The best use case
@@DyslexicMitochondriahiii. Nice seeing you here. Love your content bro
“Known for …, wife, …” 😂
Reminds me of unreal tournament
a...dadly weapon
I just admire the genuinely high level of engineering and iterations required, usually reserved for teams with a lot of resources.
What you do is inspiring
He is engineer, R&D, mechanic, programmer, Comedian, video editor. Dad and husband. I agree that bro is inspiring.
I like how a "do not do this at home" disclaimer is still included in this video like being able to build a disk launcher is common
It's insane to think all this work was done by a single person. The 3D modeling, the machinery, the custom Linux interface, all the software behind it. Really impressive.
The math
The man is a certfied genius. How do you grasp all of the concepts and details of physical engineering, then go to a laptop to write code? He must have a photographic memory. Amazing. These sorts of people make the world go round.
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No he doesn’t need photographic memory.
Awesome dude though.
That's because it's the thing he knows.
But the differential speeds would have been pretty easy to make using different gear ratios. But, well, it's a different branch of engineering.
You have invented one of the most important devices for disc manufactures to objectively test the flights of their discs!! With this you could actually come up with a standard for the fight numbers of discs that can be consistent across all disc manufactures.
That would still need to rely on the plastics and weights, just like it currently does.
Dude just made something really important for that industry. He could completely change the way we view flight numbers!
The pizza delivery society gonna be very interested too!
@@Manu-nc9tlhaha well done
@@Manu-nc9tlactually, he might have union trouble on his hands. A crowd of angry ex-pizza delivery people storming his place smashing thing up.
Saying this guy is a genius is a huge understatement. I like tinkering with electronics, 3d printers, welding and other stuff but this guy is on a whole other level.
usually the people really good at the mechanical design aren't as proficient in software but he's really good yeah
@@SwainixFPV Well, he studied both, so that's probably why.
Agreed!!
Absolutely incredible video, as always.
WOW!
he's not a genius, he's an engineer with lots of experience, and most importantly is persistent and doesn't give up working problems until they're solved. anyone could do it if they put in the amount of work that he has (which is far more impressive and admirable than just being born a genius - give the guy some credit past his dna)
I feel like RUclips creators have a secret agreement to focus on a single topic for a while. Right now, it's disc golf. 😊
Just a week ago my dad talked about making a mechanical disc launcher to track the behaviour of different disks with different spin rate to learn how those properties affect the trajectory (he is disk golfer and retired electronics engineer). And then you deliver this video on a silver plate 😄 Can’t wait to see the follow up video!
Send him the video and see what he thinks of this conception.
Show the video to your dad and tell us his reaction
@@jishan6992 My dad hope Shane will use the machine to do some low level research on speed, spin, angles and disk types so all those of us that are mediocre at disk golf at least know why.
So much talent, so much engineering, so much time, put into something utterly useless.
Gotta love it.
Impossible. Nothing he's done is useless.
Making bank off of advertisements to 4.5 million subscribers is not useless.
Except this isn't useless and could be a game changer for the industry of disc golf.
@@John-zj9ur that video will be coming within 5 years "I uploaded my consciousness to AI and built a robot army and put myself in 100 robots"
"Are you impressed with me?"
"Yes. Always.", with no hint of sarcasm.
*You better get her something REALLY NICE for Mother's Day!*
That’s the kid’s responsibility! (But, yeah. She’s a solid spouse and mother-make sure she knows how loved and appreciated she is.)
Don’t need to get her something nice, but heck they’re amazing together.
@@mykeljmoneyisn’t the kid still waiting to pop out?
wasn't expecting SMH content to make me feel so single.
Disc bazooka is really nice
Finally an engineering channel that I truly enjoyed. Love DIYperks, Zacbuilds and all those guys too, but the workflow and engineering done here has to be my favourite in all of RUclips that I have ever seen.
I understand every single curse you said about those ESCs at 13:55, my whole graduation project was about getting a bunch of those exact motors and escs to control a 2 dof hovering mechanism to 0.1 degree accuracy, needless to say it was hard to do on a 500$ budget but we managed, tip: those ESCs are programmable so you can have your custom frimware with custom paramters on them, also with a little tinkering you can accsess the zero-crossing detection info on them ao you can implement your own accurate feedback control
‘Is that a disk launcher or are you just happy to see me’ I think that was about to be at the end. What a pair of brilliant people
That launcher is launching more than just discs. Great to see a "happy ending".
😂😂😂
I didn’t catch that until my second watch.
I’d be excited to see her!
She had me dying at "is that a disc launcher or are you..." 😂😂😂
You're amazing man, keep it up!
agreed! Also perfectly cut and followed up, to be over before your brain goes "wait did she just..?"
I didn't get it ...
@@dexterman6361 one could assume she might have said "or are you just really excited to see me"
@@forest1144 Okay I watched the video again and I got it this time lmao. Hahah nice couple, cute :)
that disc getting split by the blade is honestly one of the best and most satisfying slow mo things I have ever seen
Blows my mind how good at engineering one person is.
Its absurd. All of this stuff would take averages teams months to get working I'd say.
i know, he’s good
Grammer good you are
@@klikklak6099 speaks queen's English I will
It would be cool to sharpen the frisbees, and cut stuff like watermelon.
“Disc Operating System” is a super underrated joke
Dos
I did not pick-up on that. Good catch (see what I did there, lol).
That one flew right over my head, like a frisbee 🥏
@@theanarchonazbolinquisition it's called a disc
He just HAS to name the thing "Nate."
This has quickly become my favorite channel on youtube. Not favorite engineering channel, or DIY channel. Just channel. Full stop.
Right now I got the perfect balance of engineering/diy/nerd vs people eating fast food. Life if bliss.
This and I Did A Thing. Same kinda projects but wildly different approaches.
Imagine how i feel when the girl i like gives mixed signs. And then i am clueless and dont know what to do. At least you resigned and live your life in youtube.
I know you probably won't see this, but I'd just like to say that this is the type of content I love. Where the end product isn't jank at all. It just works, and I think it's better than some other projects you've made (for example, your dunking shoes didn't seem safe or practical at all).
Guys wake up Stuff Made Here posted!
Guys tell your Beas Stuff Made Here just droped a new vid
Thank you! Almost slept past it
Chill dude, stop yelling so loud... I'm awake and running to my tv!
Same reaction 😂
THANKS @mlgbro02
HEY MOOOOM STUFF MADE HERE POSTED I’LL BE LATE FOR DINNER
I got my dad (A disc golf enthusiast) to watch this video and he LOVED the disc vs frisbee explanation
His wife just cracks me up every time. Perfect deadpan, carefully chosen words. The look at the camera at 24:04 has me howling.
She is definitely an underrated feature of this channel.
She’s adorable. He did very well. Props.
Your wife, "yea, you look totally normal. Take it onto the ol disc golf course." That was too funny. Freakin love your channel bud.
Imagine you're the new guy disc golfing and suddenly hear an airplane. Immedeately one of the regulars goes "yeah, it's that one guy. Just move to the other side of the course to avoid getting hospitalized by strays"
FORE!!!!!!
Cept it is not that crazy 400ft 90mph is less or equal to top pros in speed and much shorter.
@@randmacfarlane1456 90mph is a lot higher than pros throw. Even at max distance competitions they dont reach that high, on the course not even close
@@randmacfarlane1456 90mph is crazy, 450ft is not.
@@ludvig7473A select few have thrown 90mph
I think the very coolest thing about this channel, even more so than all the awesome engineering, is that it shows how complex and difficult some of the things the human body can do are. Anyone could learn how to throw a disk decently with a few hours of practice. But it takes an excellent engineer weeks/months to design a machine that can accomplish all the physical intricacies.
I'm a mechanical engineering student and I absolutely adore your videos. It's comforting to see a successful professional get stuck in "why didn't it work". We're never alone.
At the same time, it means it'll never end ;u;
You're the smartest person on RUclips. No one can top this.
11:10 SMH DOS - Disc Operating System - awesome!
Thats a nice Disc Throw Distro
That's a really good joke.
Do you know how it is made? I mean, how do you make a Linux version graphic operating system compatible with touchscreen?
I have previously made a lot of CLI applications, but never a graphic one that too, with touch compatibility
First Robotics Competition is a high school level robotics competition that has students design and robots to play a game, and this year’s game had an element where teams needed to shoot rings (which are really just hollow discs) in order to score points. It’s really neat to see that the solutions that a lot of teams came up with to accomplish that are so similar to what you landed on for this project!
In 2014 (I think), it was real frisbees for the game elements. Obligatory shoutout to team 2521 ❤
shoutout to team 4497
@@Chronospectrum 2014 obviously for babies instead of men (and women!)
This video validated a lot of my thoughts about 2024 shooter design. It's good to see smart people come up with the same solutions as me.
Integration hell is real for FIRST teams too 😅
I love how realistic these videos are! Rather than showing the happy path, SMH is showing the real world of iterative development. I love it!
Your video always makes me think about a way to achieve an ultimate solution step by step. I am glad you showed your thinking and improvement in each step. This is the beauty of engineering.
3,600 teams worldwide worked on this exact project this year for 2024 FRC Robotics competition. we shot disc at 40MPH every 10 ten seconds. though that wasnt typical.
Our shooter broke, had to go for amp ):
Yeah idk if it's because i am an FRC alum and this video is very FRC adjacent or what but this feels like the project where mr stuff uses the most janky solutions and not the ones he probably should be using.
I do love the jank though
I think 2013 might be a little more similar.
our 2013 team hit 60 mph with those giant Frisbees (yes it was terrifying)
@@Sman16 yeah the idea of frisbees with modern FRC motors scares me.
The disc golf community has waited for this one! Insane!
It's funny that I just had @We.Make.Machines video come across my homepage yesterday where they built a disc throwing machine to break the distance record.
I also seen this yesterday just commented about it it was a great video I think a collab would be really cool maybe go for some sort of trick shot at a quarter mile
Disc golf community has been real quiet since this dropped
We have been waiting and we are thrilled
I saw the same video yesterday and it’s wild how much the goal of distance vs accuracy influenced the design of each approach
This man has won at life!! His passion for engineering, the amount of knowledge and the imagination he has is just so incredible! Giving engineers not only career goals, but also couple goals. You guys are the cutest couple..Wish you both the best for the future!👏❤
out of this world genius as always!!!!!!. I wish i had your brain and your skill sir. Also that young lady has a super model smile and an incredible sense of humor. Thank you, thank you for making these videos.!!!!!!
Part 2: I had to completely redesign the whole thing
That's usually how it goes.
I mean I haven’t finished the video but I feel like he put to much effort into the wheel idea and honestly he’s over thinking it. If he wants a good thrower he already knows his problem is gripping so why not make a belt design. The disk will always be in contact disk and won’t slip and will just gain speed.
Lovee love your videos. For the record - this video is not too long, it could easily be one hour and would still be brilliant. People watch your videos to geek out on how you solved and build things so don't cut it short. Amazing, inspiring work. Please keep them coming.
It's also easy to fast forward the video
This is probably the best example yet of a project being "simple" and "easy" on paper. There's so many minute things that can and did go wrong, it was really awesome seeing how it all came together in the end. Can't wait for V2 and btw congrats on another addition to the family! ☺
I madly want a collab between Mark Rober and Stuff Made Here
Mark rober is peak cringe, and seems to mostly rely on clickbaits than great engineering now
I can't wait for the inevitable direct-to-dvd movie in which Paul Mcbeth and a PDGA official stand huddled over a rulebook while the official says "He's right! It doesn't say you can't use a disc-launching bazooka!"
I can see it in my head playing out hahaha
Unfortunately it does (813.02.A: A player must not use any device that directly assists in making a throw), but I like the line of thought.
Also a penalty, at least for a first usage, is a +2 and it doesn't say that the throw should be abandoned. So you can technically use your bazooka to park a 1000 ft. par 5 for an easy birdie, I guess.
Is the bazooka mounted on a golden retriever?
@@aliakseimemelau3 I’m pretty sure I’d get kicked out of the tournament for observing that this device doesn’t really assist in making the throw. Given his arms don’t move at all and none of the throwing action comes from the player, the device itself is making the throw. Which is arbitrary semantics of course, but how are we going to get a heartwarming cybernetic disc golf movie without arbitrary semantics? 😂
Albert Tamm is ahead of his time. Been using his Bazooka for all these years (although 450 ft is nothing for him)
I love how the scientific solution was to break the process down and make it similar to a throw. The acceleration, the flick, and then the follow through.
This comment is SUPER good insight for engineering
@@miracledip5123 thanks. Disc golfers probably enjoyed it 🙂
I’m a professional disc golfer and I love this. We need more data in the sport!! Look at Tech Discs-it’s a small tracker to put on the bottom of a disc to track angle of release, speed, rpm, etc. Might be helpful!
Dude you and your wife are so cute together, I love it when you show her your new toys. It always makes me chuckle.
This is one of the best maker channels: it's funny, it's educational, it's problem solving, it takes you on a journey, and more. Just wish the release dates were closer together but I know it's a lot of work, I can see it in the videos. Keep it up.
That's a cool concept! I see you're already using some RC car stuff, so here's a few more ideas that the speed run community uses: foam wheels, and sensored BLDC motors. Foam wheels can handle much higher velocities before disintegrating than rubber ones (could be useful for the latter stages if it turns out they do not have as much grip), and sensored BLDC motors have a hall sensor built in that can accurately tell the position and RPM of the rotor, so you can accurately gauge and control the velocity they are spinning at.
Also you could probably run beefier RC car ESCs for more power to the wheels.
this guy: "we'll fix it in software"
me, a software engineer: "that never goes wrong"
Cough cough
737 max
Cough cough
@@Woodie-xq1ew☠️☠️💀💀
What I hate is when you try to help the hardware & manufacturing guys out by trying to fix a problem in software, and when it doesn't go perfectly, they all yell 'software bug'
@@sometimesleela5947 Gotta blame the infra and network guys first then jump to the devs.
"One has to imagine Stuff Made Here happy." 16:03
The two of you, Mrs. And Mr. Stuff Made Here, are absolutely made for each other. It's terrific to see the stuff you make AND how amazing those things are! Thanks so much for posting.
Your wife's non-stop encouragement amid tepid enthusiasm is a favorite part of these videos. Did you consider a chain-driven system with different gear sizes to control the speed of the wheel sequences? It would sidestep the need for so many motors and the power ramp-up sequence.
Spot on. While I love the video and the discussion of everything that went wrong, I'm considering showing it to my engineering students on why we start with ideation and not implementation!
Definitely violated the k.i.s.s principle with this one 😅
My initial reaction to this idea was positive, but when I thought a bit more I see a lot of problems with this approach. Chain-drive couples the inertia of the flywheels, and the braking effect from the disc hitting each acceleration stage would be robbing momentum from the system. More importantly, he wouldn't have been able to use the startup sequence that avoided large amp draw, and would have been boxed into using a much larger motor. A larger singular coupled inertia system would also be more hazardous for a person to be around. I'd rather risk serious rugburn from contacting a single flywheel than a full degloving incident, personally.
There's a disc company called MVP that would absolutely pay you for this machine. They've been trying to build one for years but haven't gotten it down. There are machines that throw fast but are not accurate and have no spin control. You should definitely give them a call.
I'd be happy to see one of Stuff Made Here's thing make it into actual commercial use.
Disc golf companies need to start using it to get accurate flight numbers. It needs the ability to launch on hyzer and anhyzer. Awesome engineering!
@@jordonthompson3647 You could just build a tiltable stand for it to test hyzer angles
Love this first hand detailed view into single life.
As a disc golfer, the solution to your spin problem makes a whole lot of sense. The disc only really spins at the end of the throw when your arm circles around the disc (at least for backhand). Awesome video!
The similarities to the recent FRC and VEX (highschool robotics competitions) games which involved shooting disks is uncanny!
I do think the rollers on the underside is a bit weird, allowing the disk to vibrate and such. I think a continuous surface with Teflon tape on it would be both simpler/cheaper/lighter and maybe actually faster because the lightweight disk doesn’t have to put energy into spinning up all the passive rollers.
Dude, I'm hooked for life.
Can't wait to see what you try next!
Integration hell is likely my favorite parts of your content, struggles are real and making something new has a lot of hidden nuance...
Love what you do
You have crazy skills. I mean you are doing mechanical, electrical and software engineering. On top of that running a successful RUclips channel.
This dude is a genious😮 Just wow, how can a single person be able to tackle all of these different problems, and then explain it like its a 5 year old building a lego star wars set. Incredible!
And yet theres someone on here who, made an even, better one that shoots them 150 mph.
So, if you think this guy's a genius, what does that make the guy with the better one? 🤷🤦
The hilarious part is that all these BS comments get liked by him but when I try and point him to someone who made a better one for more ideas, it gets ignored. 🙄🤦
@@J.C... are you really crying about not getting enough attention?
"Now that I have this, I think there might be a simpler way to do it. But, is there a cooler way?"
That is the most engineer-question I've heard this week. 😂
24:33 that's the grin of someone who did something really cool and is making sure everyone else saw it
For the ESCs you could use drone escs running bluejay firmware (most sold with blheli_s can be flashed) or blheli_32. These are still cheap and you can use 4 in 1 escs for reduced wiring. They have a feature that sends telemetry using dshot (afaik there are libraries for the protocol). These are very high frequency and accurate, since they are used for dynamic filter midpoints in betaflight. A 4in1 esc with 50A at 6s is under 50$, but there are also individual ones for about 10$.
Another masterpiece video!!! HOW are you this good at engineering, problem-solving, programming, dedication/stubbornness, physics, teaching, creativity, story-telling, comedy, video/sound editing, pacing +++ while seemingly being the most chill/nice person ever?!? I don't get it.
Curiosity. Dedication. Tenacity. Talent and most likely an insanely high IQ!
Haven't you watched the sponsored segment? ;)
@@Makujah_ Hehe
Nice! We Make Machines posted another disc launcher vid a couple days ago. It would be really neat if you guys do a collaboration to see if you can do some sort of back and forth on the concepts and maybe try to create a third type of machine together.
disc golf competition!!
My new favorite sentence, "It's basically a mechanical railgun."
Sadly the principle here is that of a coilgun instead of a railgun.
23:41 fantastic shirt!
the number of stupid puns and visual gags you throw into your videos is just amazing. "Drawing board"
He truly knows how to communicate with us. "fly wheel"
Disc Operating System
omg i didnt get that :-,))
"The Bean" was a possible method of transportation.
SMH for Stuff Made Here, or how he really feels making some of these devices
It's always a good day when Stuff Made Here is at the top of my subscriptions box.
Mrs. Made Here is so funny. Love their little clips at the end. “Is that a disc launcher?” 😂😂
You guys are a RUclips juggernaut. I love your videos. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
"Is that a disc launcher, or are you just happy to see me" I'm dying
Man seriously, the funniest line in the video
I'm still laughing
"Is that a disc launcher underneath your cloak..."
I looked at your channel 6min ago and couldn't believe you still haven't uploaded anything. Here you are!
I'm aware that these projects take ages. Quality over quantity
And like a year or two ago, his was was pregnant.
Since that moment, the upload frequency has dramatically reduced.
This always happens with me
@@nicnl255well you would if you had a kid, wouldn’t you.
Still, literally nothing in 4 months is just shitty, just a short update or ANYTHING is not that much to ask for
@@rasmustapper9994 bro you commented on this video in 3 places complaining about "4 months". You okay?
She was totally about to say, "is that a disc launcher or are you just happy to see me?" Haha. 25:21
I think she was trying to say it, but couldn't keep a straight face long enough. ;-]
I was going to say the same thing
Yes, that is the joke.
the correct answer is "both".
This is nuts! Engineering at its finest. I would have taken a more human like approach with a mechanical arm that swings the disk, but I doubt it could achieve any type of accuracy. Love your content and can't wait for pt2.
Showing your failures is the best part of the channel for multiple reasons
RPM could be detected with a voltage divider and optoisolator on a phase of the motors. Ie, instead of the hall effect sensor. A micro controller may not be able to sense every pulse on all motors all the time, but it could cycle through each input and check the time between pulses.
“I’ve modified this hot wheels track to take a die grinder” 🤣 starting off strong, gonna be a good video!
Thank you Rick Moranis. Can't wait on the shrink ray build video. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
When he has the baseball helmet on at the end my first thought was.. "I see your schwartz is as big as mine"
Idk which would provide more value, this man solving the worlds problems, or the joy he brings all of us.
"is that a disk launcher or are you just happy to see me" lmaooo
Been watching casually for many years. First thing I said at 15:19 was BABY!?!?! Congratulations man, I'm genuinely very happy for you! I know you already have at least one (the hotwheels) but it doesn't make it any less special.
Noticed the baby bump also. I just didn't wanna say anything in case I was wrong.
24:15 it was at this point, I felt it was safe to assume
I knew there had to be someone out there somewhere that knows how absolutely everything works. So cool that he also makes RUclips videos.
I don't think I ever clicked a video faster! Banger after a banger after a banger!, ever since your first video, I've been a huge fan, the amount of effort you put into these videos is SECOND TO NONE! Truly one of THE BEST channels on YT, you sir are criminally under rated!
Same
Dude, your videos are absolutely incredible! I love seeing what you come up with and enjoy seeing the process even more. I legitimately get upset when something doesn't work the way you expected it to. You're creativity and problem solving are fantastic and it's a lot of fun for my kids and I to watch. Thanks for all of the cool videos!
You may be interested in this year's FRC game. A lot of teams built robots similar to this,and they ran into the same things you did in the design process. Good to see two groups independently come to similar solutions!
I was thinking the same thing. I love FRC, it’s so fun