 | Smooth sailing across the gulf of Alaska, March 2018 by jesseg |
 | Slightly better test of walking robot Downgraded it to 6 feet (still 12 actuators) and added some flat feet so its less likely to get stuck in a small crack. by jesseg |
 | test of walking robot Actuators are the head voice coil motors out of laptop hard drives. A dozen of them. Running on 3.6v which is not enough. by jesseg |
 | Canoe righting test I've been trying to find a way to get a canoe right side up and empty quickly while out in the lake. This shows some early attempts that are partially successful, however a bit awkward. by jesseg |
 | Strange side play in milling machine motor 480V motor for milling machine. Motor shaft seems to have strange lateral play, but not significant end play. And it shifts back and forth with a characteristic clunk sound, much different then... by jesseg |
 | Another musical engine parts episode by jesseg |
 | Experiments in UV laser with laser printer light path 1 (No description...) by jesseg |
 | Experiments in UV laser with laser printer light path 2 (No description...) by jesseg |
 | Riding lawnmower with no engine bolts Customer said mower wasn't driving forward or backwards very well. Had been working fine, but then just stopped right in the middle of a mow job. Turns out all the engine mounting bolts had fallen out... by jesseg |
 | Hand in water flow Not sure what to say about this one. This is a small Cipoletti weir for measuring the flow of water in an irrigation stream. But the water flow was so smooth you could see right through the top, so I ... by jesseg |
 | Self-righting RC boat by jesseg |
 | My new soldering board (No description...) by jesseg |
 | Making copper chloride ammonia formic acid complex? Some of the pretty colors of copper complexes I guess. by jesseg |
 | Snow Sledding, Alaska, March 25th, 2018 Great snow sledding hill! The snow was about 7 feet deep at least, but when you walked your feet only sank in about 18 inches deep. The park had groomed a nice sledding area so you didn't sink in at a... by jesseg |
 | Linux based CNC user interface Someone I know is making a linux-based user interface for himself. It is not actually on a 20x4 LCD, it's just made to look like it. It really runs on an touch screen 800x600 regular LCD -- or as a wi... by jesseg |
 | Radiant heating of a beaker Test to observe the radiant heating of a beaker. Not the most efficient -- the hot plate is 500W and on high. The element is just barely glowing a dull red but putting off significant invisible radian... by jesseg |
 | Experiment to concentrate and test h2o2 A little experiment to do room temperature vacuum distillation of hydrogen peroxide. I started with actually almost a liter of 3% h2o2 (I know I said pint, but it was almost a liter.) I performed it o... by jesseg |
 | MAX7219 test on PIC16F1829 by jesseg |
 | Finished copper plating plastic sphere All done copper plating the plastic sphere. Kind of let it run way too long, got all bumpy but at least it covered the whole thing. by jesseg |
 | Copper plating a plastic sphere by jesseg |
 | Copper plating a plastic sphere by jesseg |
 | Jig for drying out damp speedometer Ehh yeah, don't use the pressure washer inside your truck or you'll end up with a speedometer that fogs up on cold days. Don't say I warned you. Here's how I'm trying to solve the problem. by jesseg |
 | Snow hike Some friends and I went snow camping for one night, December 26th, 2017. We drove from 200 feet elevation up to 2480 feet, then we hiked up to 3080 feet. The snow was about a foot deep except under th... by jesseg |
 | Generators in a boat - running Video of some generators I was working on in a boat by jesseg |
 | Generators in a boat - Not running Some generators I was working on in a boat. by jesseg |
 | glow in the dark inlay lettering on circuit board by jesseg |
 | Giant toad had popup head lights by jesseg |
 | Ashes ashes Ashes from a forest fire a hundred miles away make lye when you get them wet. by jesseg |
 | Shadow cat The cat taking a walk with his shadow by jesseg |
 | Musical engine valves playing sort of music on an engine head with the valves. For the record, the engine is a 1993 Dodge 3.3L V6 used in the Caravan that year. by jesseg |
 | Why I don't like phenolic brake caliper pistons Phenolic pistons seem to have a tendency to warp. On this set, the open end had gone out of round,causing them to not slide freely in the cylinder anymore, which causes increased brake wear and heat, ... by jesseg |
 | One-man brake flushing jig, home made Here's a simple jig I made for flushing brakes by myself. by jesseg |
 | 1993 Aeromate stepvan I've recently purchased an old worn out 1993 Aeromate step van which I'm intending to use as a work van. It's powered by a Dodge Caravan 3.3l v6 front wheel drive engine and powertrain, it has rubber ... by jesseg |
 | Throwing a stone in a glassy pond This is a very calm pond above Goat Lake (47.839562, -123.191654). The video shows the reflection when a stone is thrown into the lake. by jesseg |
 | Building stainless water electrolysis plate array Over the past few years I've been working on building a better water electrolysis system, and this was what I did the other day. by jesseg |
 | Using cardboard templates for plasma cutter I've found that cardboard works reasonably well for templates to cut out shapes with a cheap plasma cutter. You just have to measure your tip diameter and offset the edge of your cardboard pattern to ... by jesseg |
 | Eddy Arnold cattle call 8 track 38 year old motor home Got the old 8 track tape player in my 1979 motor home working. by jesseg |
 | Cigar box electronics enclosure This cigar box can phone home because it has a cellular modem bolted to the top! by jesseg |
 | CNC PCB Drilling drill setup, drilling holes. by jesseg |
 | Water level reported via cellular modem New prototype I built and installed. by jesseg |
 | Temporary cardboard electronics enclosure Not much to say, except it's quick and cheap. by jesseg |
 | Plasma blaster Makes a blast of plasma. I was attempting to plate copper into PCB through holes, but it did not work. Generated too much heat I guess. Plasma has quite a lot of latent heat, it seems. by jesseg |
 | Silvering a mirror I used the typical DIY method: 1 gram silver nitrate 1 gram sodium hydroxide in about 360mL of distilled water which makes a big brown slurry. then stirred slowly added ammonium hydroxide 3% till the ... by jesseg |
 | Dog jumping fence My dad's dog jumping the fence. by jesseg |
 | Stirring coffee labratory hotplate Needed a stirring hotplate but not bad enough to pay $300 for one. Made one out of an old coffee pot instead. Also, I had to replace the steel plate with an aluminum so the magnet field could make it ... by jesseg |
 | Magnesium shavings burning A small machining project produced some shavings of Magnesium so I figured it would be prudent to have a little fun. by jesseg |
 | Plated through holes Some holes in a PCB I plated through, although I was not able to get a good camera angle that showed them. by jesseg |
 | First PCB in Gallon jar PCB through hole electro-plating setup you-name-a-LAX Laxative that is carried at all drug stores and many big chain stores that have any pharmacy. just make sure it says Polyethylene Glycol 3350 on it. Just because you can buy all... by jesseg |
 | First test run on gallon-jar copper electro-plating system Oh blah. I see that some browsers are playing the video sideways. Sorry about that, I'll have to re-shoot another day. by jesseg |
 | Cat who uses and flushes the toilet Not much to say except this was one smart cat. by jesseg |
 | Testing a Tekton torque wrench This torque wrench is rated from 10-150 foot-pounds. It's an inexpensive import I got from amazon for around $45 delivered. It looks great, operates great, and includes an amazing single manual which ... by jesseg |
 | 25 year old honey, pouring slow motion Found some 25 year old honey still in the honey comb from when my folks used to keep bees. I extracted the honey, filtered it and pasteurized it. It has an amazing good taste! by jesseg |
 | oven assembly video Trying to sell this old stove on craigslist, and thought it'd be good to make a video showing how it goes together since it's kind of like a puzzle! by jesseg |
 | 100+ year old car ignition magneto condenser We were trying to get this old car running, and the condensor for the points was bad so we put in a modern condenser. Too early to know if that fixed it, but it did spark more reliably by hand. by jesseg |
 | 100+ year old car ignition magneto condenser in it which had failed. We put in a regular modern ignition system capacitor and that seemed to help. The loud snapping in the video is from the spark which was striking, but it often... by jesseg |
 | Solar Tracker 2016 PCB - CNC Engraver Routing out a new printed circuit board. It's for a new PIC-based solar panel tracker control module I'm working on. by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - Walk around, teardown (No description...) by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - Fits under an E-Fence Gate (No description...) by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - FPV setup Didn't have a water proof or gopro, so I wrapped up the handycam in cling wrap, with a single taut, flat layer over the lens but many layers thick everywhere else. Worked OK. by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - First Person View It does pan up to see the horizon after a little while. I had intended to initially video the front wheel but with the camera wrapped in cling wrap, and the bright sunlight, I was unable to see the di... by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - 60x speed - better view (No description...) by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - 60x speed - turning, good color, hose caught in wheel (No description...) by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - Startup procedure 3 (No description...) by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - Startup procedure 2 (No description...) by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - Startup procedure 1 To clarify, the phone is used to trigger the sprinkler to record the waypoint, which is actually recorded in the control box on the sprinkler. by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - 60x speed - Close-up (No description...) by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - Demonstration of phone app control When I say "Left drive" I'm referring to the drive mechanism which turns it left -- which happens to be the right hand sprinkler. It steers like a bulldozer. It's not really an app I'm using - the con... by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - Demonstration of right, and left drive system (No description...) by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - Slow motion by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - Slow motion - backlit The sun was behind and above the water spray, making it stand out. by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - 30x speed - moving forward (No description...) by jesseg |
 | GPS Guided Sprinkler 2016 - 60x speed - turning Here the GPS guided robotic sprinkler reaches a waypoint and turns 180 degrees to face the new waypoint, then begins navigating toward it. by jesseg |
 | Goat eating banana peel (No description...) by jesseg |
 | Pretty day at the river park Just out exploring the river area by jesseg |
 | What happens when those cloth garden hoses break inside Yeah, like the title says, when those cloth garden hoses break inside which doesn't seem to take them too long, they make a nice distributed watering system. by jesseg |
 | Don't need a garbage disposal in your sink when you have a goat Yeah, the goat is quite happy to eat any trimming scraps from the kitchen. Shown here some fresh fig skins going down the hatch! by jesseg |
 | Friendly honeybee I picked this dandylion while the bee was in it, and she didn't seem to care! by jesseg |
 | Going green - lawnmower modifications In this episode, I convert my riding lawnmower to be a truly green machine by removing the engine and hitching up a goat. Yeah it was a joke. I actually had the old motor out to install a new motor fr... by jesseg |
 | Slow motion - Remote controlled speed boat - Memorial Day 2016 Remote controlled electric speed boat. Slow motion video. by jesseg |
 | Slow motion - Remote controlled speed boat - Memorial Day 2016 11.1V Lithium Ion, 20-30A by jesseg |
 | Self-turning-back-flushing irrigation screen A prototype to test the concept. by jesseg |
 | Northern Lights, early Mothers Day 2016 (No description...) by jesseg |
 | Super small scale goat milk filteration system - 2 of 2 Walk through of my super small scale goat milk filtering system See Part 1 here by jesseg |
 | Super small scale goat milk filteration system - 1 of 2 Demonstration of my one-goat milk filtration system. See part 2 here by jesseg |
 | silly piano tune It popped into my head for just long enough to play. Don't blame me! by jesseg |
 | The wild cat getting more friendly by jesseg |
 | Cats eating from my hand The shorter haired cat is very friendly. Crazy friendly. The longer haired cat is young also, but grew up wild, and is starting to learn to be a little bit friendly when it comes to feeding time. Othe... by jesseg |
 | New lead weight for cheap lamp This very cheaply made lamp came with an XTronix soldering station. The lamp was a "Free" promotion. The reason it was listed as free is because the weight in the base, which was made up of ground up ... by jesseg |
 | Hand carved 6-foot windmill So some friends and I were camping at Lake Ozette many years ago, and there was a lot of drift wood blown up onto the shore so we carved a 6 foot wind mill power generator using a hatchet. Unfortunate... by jesseg |
 | recorder in the echo room So this newly completed empty room was an irresistible invitation to see what sort of a racket I could be made with an alto recorder. The power was out so that's why it was so dark. Anyway, a racket w... by jesseg |
 | Falcon catching a rabbit -- half speed Just like the description says. That hawk or whatever it is caught a rabbit! Played at half speed. by jesseg |
 | sliding hay bale down a ladder (No description...) by jesseg |
 | DIY Electrochemical Machining Titanium 1000W power supply for power, and a low pressure circulating pump for water flushing. The process does create scale on the surface which protects it from erosion, so I think maybe more waterflo... by jesseg |
 | Doggy helmet cam test - failed So we tried the newly made doggy cam helmet. Seems like it might be a good idea, but she's not used to it so she just shook it off. by jesseg |
 | Polishing a torque converter My old 1986 Ford Aerostar van was leaking transmission fluid, so I took out the torque converter and there was a surprisingly deep groove worn where the rubber seal rides. So I sanded down till finall... by jesseg |
 | Hoist limit switch Here's working on my 1986 Ford Aerostar van, on friend's hoist. Notice the foamboard panels on the ceiling - we rigged those up with micro switches on each corner so if any part of the car hits the ce... by jesseg |
 | Hydra? No, just 7 snakes down a well. Came across a rather old hand dug well that's not in use anymore. Looked down and my first thought was "Is that an octopus?!" But no, it was about half a dozen garter snakes who'd gone for a deep drin... by jesseg |
 | Amazon Dash + Raspberry Pi + Ubitquiti mFi So Amazon came out with this cool wifi transmitter called the Dash. You press the button, and it orders supplies from Amazon.com and they show up 3 days later. It logs into your wireless 802.11 router... by jesseg |
 | Screenshot video of my newly released Open Source 2D Cad program for Linux This is a video showing the capabilities of my very primitive 2D cad program. I started writing it over 12 years ago I suppose, but did a full rewrite a year or two ago. It actually operates much more... by jesseg |
 | Steam vacuum stretches plastic wrap See here as the steam condenses creating a vacuum under the plastic wrap, which gets pulled down to touch the food. This is essentially what happens with canning. by jesseg |
 | Screw type 3D printer extruder Sorry for the length and clumsiness. I wanted to get on to test it instead of spending half an hour editing footage. This is my first attempt at building a screw-type 3D printer extruder driver. This ... by jesseg |
 | Dreamliner 787 flying with spotter plane Saw this today from Sequim, Washington. by jesseg |
 | Random vs Regular misfire - open circuit spark plug cable This engine had a random misfire. By shorting individual coil outputs, and by checking peak voltage at the coil, it was determined that a certain spark plug cable had a break in it and was causing a r... by jesseg |
 | RC fan Boat day and night 2 "Children" + two days on vacation + a few odds and ends = RC fan boat. Notes: Yes, the red and green lights on the boat were on the wrong side. And there was no white light. But it was only for two ... by jesseg |
 | AR.Drone 2.0 flight - Geese, pond, cows Went out to record some video of the geese and ducks in the pond. When they got bored with that, chased the cows around till I ran into a tree. by jesseg |
 | My 3 lovage sprouts getting their morning drink by jesseg |
 | Really cute pseudoscorpion Found this really cute pseudoscorpion around someones house. They are harmless and eat other smaller bugs that live in your house. They are fun to hold on your hand because they crawl around with such... by jesseg |
 | Setting sun with sunspots The sun was setting and was very dark red. You could safely watch it with the unprotected eye. It looked like a big red ball. You can also see sunspots! by jesseg |
 | Blowby test of HEUI HPOP pump All the pistons were jammed due to ingesting too much Babbitt particles. See internal pictures here by jesseg |
 | Northern lights in a jar. Or pretty close to it. NOTE: For best results, watch at night in a dark room. Much better that way. (It was hard getting the exposure right without washing anything out.) Pictured here is a quart canning jar with a hole dr... by jesseg |
 | Blown headgasket 1988 Nissan Stanza Wagon 2.0L So my 1988 Nissan Stanza Wagon with 2.0 liter engine blew me a head gasket at about 244k miles. There did not seem to be any significant coolant loss or pollution, but there was some oil loss, but no ... by jesseg |
 | Portable Mechanic's shop by jesseg |
 | birdies (No description...) by jesseg |
 | My alcohol stove attempt 3 Attempt 3 on a tin can alcohol stove. This time burning isopropyl alcohol, which normally burns a very sooty flame. by jesseg |
 | AR.Drone video Just a short demo of the AR.Drone 2.0 video as recorded to android tablet. by jesseg |
 | 1 inch suction dredge test Testing my 1" suction dredge. It "worked" except it really doesn't move that much material per minute - I think I do better with a shovel. Found two tiny specs of gold in the sluice-box however. 2HP B... by jesseg |
 | DIY Pick and Place Primitive pick and place system I built from an old Graphtec XY Pen Plotter. Vacuum pump is not as loud as the camera makes it sound. Vacuum lifts the tip. Rotation is done by moving head along a spri... by jesseg |
 | Color show from LCD being pried apart Had an old LCD so I tried to separate the layers. Unfortunately, the glass broke in the process, but lots of pretty colors were produced in the process. Sounds are rain pounding on tin roof, cat buggi... by jesseg |
 | Serenade for C Ended when memory card got full. by jesseg |
 | A snail's tooth As we all know, snails (as well as slugs) can quite easily chew up plants that are harder then they themselves are. How do they do this? They have a hard and sharp "tooth" if you will (Probably really... by jesseg |
 | CNC V-Slot 1.5m square Plasma Cutter progress Video survey of my CNC XYZ project. Rails are 1.5 meters for X and Y and 2.5 inches for Z. Actual distance moved is much less in X and Y, especially while I'm using 36 inch leadscrews. Lord willing, I... by jesseg |
 | CNC Engraver test Depth stop was not quite deep enough so some areas didn't get engraved. by jesseg |
 | Plasma cutter project 2-13 stainless boltstock, and feedscrew nuts are HDPE plastic. Maybe not the toughest, but highly self lubricated. by jesseg |
 | Brand new baby calf lets me pet it This morning I was riding along the fence on my ATV to check for problems, and found that one of the cow's had just had a baby calf - who was almost still damp! The neat thing about calves when they a... by jesseg |
 | V-Slot project started and so far it's looking really neat. Shown is the Z and X axis. Y axis not yet built. I kind of cheated on the tensioning mechanism for the V slot rollers. Specifically, I didn't put in any ad... by jesseg |
 | Pet Snake, on thermometer The thermometer is double stick glued to the inside of the glass tank. The snake likes to climb up on the thermometer. by jesseg |
 | CNC PCB Milling This is an old CNC engraver which I updated to be controlled by my own PCB and perl script to run simple NC files. It is grinding out a simple prototyping PCB, which I drew on my very primitive CAD pr... by jesseg |
 | Water cooled Royer induction heater Previously, I showed an induction heater circuit I built. It worked well but was bulky and the heating coil tended to get hot since it was not water cooled. So I tried using litz wire but that didn't ... by jesseg |
 | My first Phantom Quad flight My Employer let me fly his new toy, a Phantom Quadrocopter, with an attached GoPro Hero Cam. Nothing fancy about the flight, just going up, moving around some to see how it felt. Very much fun. by jesseg |
 | Slow motion bird flying from hand This little swallow got in my house then forgot where the door was, so I had to catch him to release him! I used the slow motion setting on a small camera to capture the release. by jesseg |
 | How to get sick cat out from under bed My cat got in a fight with something - probably a raccoon - and had some serious infected puncture wounds. Since he thought he was going to die, he just went under the bed and stayed there. I had to ... by jesseg |
 | Full Bridge Royer Oscillator Induction Heater Operational demonstration and short description of the operation of my very simple full H-Bridge Royer oscillator which is driving an induction heating coil. It delivers a 10-12vac 200Khz voltage to t... by jesseg |
 | Baseball Cap Camera Mount 4-20 bold and another spacer to clamp it against the end of the bill. I also taped a small laser pointer to the camera so I could see approximately where it was aiming. by jesseg |
 | Oregon Solar Installation 2013 On July 4th, I went down to Oregon to install a crude sun-tracking solar panel system which I had designed and built. I had not done the sun tracking angles exactly correct, and as it turned out, in t... by jesseg |
 | Glide Test of 16 foot wingspan glider This is the first test of my new wings and new tail together. The wings are 16 feet long, and the fuselage is carbon fiber fishing rod tubes. It was very tailheavy because there was nothing at all sti... by jesseg |
 | MSR Dragonfly at night by jesseg |
 | Wind Generator in Sequim, Washington A wind generator in Sequim, Washington, spins happily in the breeze, after sunset. It was by far more pretty before the sun set, but I didn't have my camera with me then. by jesseg |
 | Waking up the cat by jesseg |
 | BORING - How to repair plumbing in third world countries Don't waste your time. by jesseg |
 | Pretty green, red, and gold click beetle Found this beautiful creature crawling on the window. It looked to be a member of the click beetle family. If you know the specific type, please let me know with the "report this video" or "contact us... by jesseg |
 | Port Angeles, WA, tries to blow up tower The City of Port Angeles is clearing some land for a new business, but there's an old steel reinforced concrete smokestack. So they try to blow it up. At first, almost nothing happened. Then, nothing ... by jesseg |
 | Turning Nylon in Lathe Do you think I was turning too fast? Anyway, the nylon streams out and piles up neatly, then invariably gets sucked back into the mess and wound all up on the workpiece. Sorry about the camera shake -... by jesseg |
 | Boring in acrylic with simple boring bit Had to go carefully or acrylic would melt. by jesseg |
 | My simple cad program This is a screen capture video of my simple cad program in its current stage of development. Most of the menu items don't actually do anything yet, and there is currently no way to create items, but i... by jesseg |
 | Solar panel sun tracker working Finally, a sunny day that fell on a weekend day, thank the Lord! I was able to test my sun tracking solar panel array platform by rotating the sensor to trick the system into thinking that the sun wa... by jesseg |
 | Model airplane video from the air This was taken using a cheap little flip video camera device, which was taped up in front of the wings, looking forward and down. by jesseg |
 | Video feed from model airplane The high pitch tone is the RPM indicator of the electric motor. That way I could keep tabs on my motor RPM. The low buzzing sound is the RC controller pulse so I can hear if the receiver is having tro... by jesseg |
 | Hand launch of model airplane This was a test flight after a crash. On the previous crash, some 2 inch wide tape running across the top surface of the right wing had come loose in the middle, but I did not know it. On the ground, ... by jesseg |
 | Water from pipe When it's done playing, click the valve and more water will come out! This water is gravity feed in a 1 inch pipe. The drop is about 34PSI worth and the open flow is about 6GPM. The pipe is 900 feet l... by jesseg |
 | Cardboard Airplane This is a model airplane built from cardboard and tape. It was outfitted with remote control and servos so it could be flown as an RC glider. It did fly but had a tendency to stall. by jesseg |
 | Chicken Mites These chicken mites are sealed in between two layers of clear plastic shipping tape. They are stuck slightly on top and bottom sides but still have room to move their legs but they cannot go anyplace.... by jesseg |
 | Salamander This little orange and brown critter was living with a bunch of his pals in a seasonal pond. by jesseg |
 | Model airplane landing into fence This was my first scratch built foam model airplane. Pilot didn't see the fence coming. by jesseg |
 | Terry Smith, Far Side Banks of Jordan (No description...) by jesseg |
 | Peacherine Rag - 3 mode bottle band All three modes for a bottle - blown, struck, and decorked. by jesseg |
 | Singing in Church Us all singing in church - except I wasn't singing, I was playing the harmonica. by jesseg |
 | Big kyte flying in the park Fellow in my home town, flying a kite he built. by jesseg |
 | Big Band (No description...) by jesseg |
 | World's youngest conductor Amazing by jesseg |
 | Buddy Green at C. Hall The fellow holding the microphone is Bill Gaither. by jesseg |