most impressive thing I've seen all week, this guy on YouTube uses watchmakers' tools to fabricate an electric motor that could fit in the eye of a needle. it's hard to even get your head around how small the pieces he's working with here are. tremendously clever and skillful. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x_NMytSA90
i am officially a retard, *electric motor obviously
I just love watching people manufacture things in a proper machine shop. Being a software guy is so lame compared to being able to make machines out of billet and wire.
Cool
I always just want to dive into those scanned electron microscope photos. A whole world unto itself.
Reminds me of that story about the Russian jewelers and the tsar.
Somewhat related, new Applied Science video today. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJLWwbs_cQ Really clever stuff... using diffraction to parse out the amplitude of different frequencies in the image of the sample and then recombining them to achieve a drastically boosted resolution. Just a shame he didn't show more examples (I think because it seems like he only just about got it to work). Maybe there will be a follow on video.