Came here from Veritasium.😁 But I must say that I am so glad to have found your channel sooner rather than later. You are really talented and I deeply admire your engineering skills. Subbed at the first video itself. Hope your channel grows exponentially as it is. 😅.
Same here! As you asked to share some about ourselves too - so it might help to know your audience better. #1. I saw you on Veritasium AND I watched your TEDx talk where you talked about your journey from being suicidal (I hope you are no longer there) to understanding the value of emotional capital. So that’s about the connection. #2. Like you I’m biracial (French, Japanese) married, with one kid. My wife is Chinese American (genetically Han) and I am thinking I would love our son to see someone who looks like him that has your character, energy, drive… we live in Hong Kong. #3. Although I’m half Asian, my parents did not “force” me into engineering, they just “strongly encouraged” in creative subjects AND technology. #4. I can’t lick my elbow, so I’m really jealous of your skill #5 I also work in robotics / maker Community. I teach Design, Architecture, and research marine science at the University of Hong Kong. I also started MakerBay which is the local makerspace and we focus on social and environmental tech - especially trying to reach people who generally don’t have access to tech (low income areas, ethnic minorities, refugees…). Currently I’m working on building a robot to map coral reef and I’m trying to build a fully equipped biological lab in the shape of a giant oyster to clean the water (with oysters) produce solar and green hydrogen, with the local oyster farmers. #6 I’m also a TED speaker… #7. I’m really admirative if your candor, and I’m really excited to see what you do next. I really hope you do things that are less guided by what people ask you to do, but rather do the things that you feel are most important to you and the world. #8 I am not one of your Patreon backer YET, but I take the time here to share my warm support for you. I think you are amazing, you have done so much already, and I see so much potential in you as well. #9 I think roombas are super cool but I enjoy too much cleaning with some traditional techniques I learned while in primary school in Japan (broom and wet towel + bucket) #10 I might have given away a little bit in #7 but I’m really passionate about environmental conservation, the ocean I. Particular, and I really wish hyper talented and great communicators like you would spend their talent reversing the Great Biodiversity Extinction event that we are solely responsible for… I am trying, but I think I can still do much better… I think you could so much too… Keep going!!! You champion. And dont Forget to love yourself.
I'm a retired defense mechanical engineer, flat water kayaker, guitar player, experimental aircraft builder and pilot, and I love your channel. Best of luck.
This was so cool! I learned about you after you won Miss Greater Cleveland, and I knew you were an engineer, but had absolutely NO idea how many extra talents you have! I'm so hyped to watch all of your videos and follow your journey on social media!
I just binge watched your whole channel. Could NOT have been a better use of my time! I LOVE what you're doing. You channel is inspiring, heart warming, affirming, credible, dynamic, engaging and informative (just to name a few). Three cheers to Secret Santa and Old Tony. Your first knife? That made me cry. So good! SO SO SO glad to meet you and to have found the channel. Bravo
Your enthusiasm caught my eye, then your skills. You have already done many things at your young age that I at 78 have not. I'm happy to see you building and creating out of wood. My daughter has expressed interest in doing that as well, so I'll be teaching skills with power tools.
I found you via your bullet proof ballgown videos,and any woman that can assemble her own platoon of roombas from the scrap bin is impressive. I'm always looking for female driven STEM content for my daughter wants to be an engineer and I can't wait to show her your channel.
I'm so excited to have discovered you!! I can't wait to see more of the content you produce. I love that you're super intelligent, silly and girly, just like me!! I love finding channels of women being bold and just doing their passion regardless of stereotypes!
My god, Xyla, You're one of the very few UA-camrs that got an audible laugh out of me since I don't even know how long with Your elbow story. I've already subscribed after the canoe video, but this is just as amazing. I guess I just needed more happy positive and natural people in my life. Will make sure to watch more, thumbs up and comment and all that stuff just to help You out with growth here on YT. :D
Love the energy. Love the confidence! Hats off to your crazy uncle for all the encouragement. Being an industrial (bootstrap) electrical engineer (control engineer), love the engineering. Thank you for effort you spend to share all of this! (Hope I can be an encouraging Grampa figure like your uncle!)
Just rewatched the Spite video to show a friend what an inspired talented woman can do (my 3rd viewing). Then we rewatched a couple of your other videos, just because. Now i have rewatched this one, only to rediscover what an amazing human being you are. Please have the courage to keep on doing what you do and being who you are.
Hiya. Just subscribed to your channel based on your canoe build video. Watching you from my home in Scotland! 😊🏴 Best of luck with your channel! 👍🏻
I have blonde hair, blue eyes and I'm American.I'm from michigame.Yeah I don't like I like ladies and gentlemen that's my name it's ryan i'm medford michigan uncle your vote
@Cacao Scotti Inflation. I predict inflation soon. Probably first significant inflation changes will be seen in september through november, with next year either going in full-recovery economic-mode, or going into even more inflation due to the economic depression. Possibly also wars, since USA seems unable to keep national-security-threats in check, with those violent riots and flagrant corruption.
P F lol in Australia we would call her a “Pocket a Rocket” with all that pent up energy 😹😹 she is defiantly someone to watch for the future fun projects 😊
Just binged all your videos... you will go far on UA-cam I’m thinking. We need more women woodworkers here. And then u go and blow us away with your engineering super smartiness :)
Curious about tensegrity and had an idea to make one of my own using bent strips of wood... found your video, blew my mind. The bentwood canoe further piqued my curiosity, beautiful canoe by the way, so I watched your other videos. WOW... I Loved the Resonance video! You had me laughing right along with you on your ten fun facts. These are the kinds of videos I look forward to watching, full of fun and technical knowledge! Subbed!!
Wow, I think your channel will definitely explode. You seem super likable, cute, and your maker stuff is awesome! Also the part about "plasma is not technically fire" was the best story I've heard in a long time (it sounds like the sort of thing I would pull).
I saw your videos and shared them with my sister in law who has a teen who was into robotics for a bit. I then thought who am I kidding, Xyla is my hero, not my niece's! So I decided to write this to you. Your father and mother should be very proud of you. If my children have a small fraction of the experiences you have and are as energetic as you are, I will be happy. I hope you have a great day and that you have success upon success and most importantly, happiness WITH success.
You are amazing Xyla! Keep up the great work! My wife and I found your Building a Cedar-Strip Canoe in 30 Days! video and was hooked! You are a natural and will do very well with your new channel! and that is the 11th Fun Fact! ^5
I like your high energy channel and it is fun being young and full of life. I am a retired chemist/metallurgist who worked for a large utility for many years and now restore classic cars for a retirement hobby. I worked with many Asians from all over the world that were mostly engineers except for the chemists in the laboratory and most of us were rather boring and one dimensional.
I was supposed to get stuff done today an then I came across your channel. The canoe build video you did with your uncle is my favourite. I subscribed instantly on the video.
I was pulled to your channel by the red cedar Canoe. I'm up in the Pacific Northwest...lots of red cedar. That and I grew up on the Puget Sound. Got into kayak fishing a couple of years ago, but always dreamed of having a Cedar Canoe...maybe someday. Congrats on becoming a pilot. Though I am not, I have had opportunities to fly small and large aircraft...what a feeling of freedom. Looks like you are on your way to great and amazing things...will need to become a sub to see where you go.
Woo hoo! Case Western! I wanted to go there because of the Michelson-Morley experiment and I'm a huge physics nerd!! Good luck on the channel, you got yourself a subscriber!
@@xylafoxlin Congrats for this new channel, but why didn't you announce on your 'Beauty and the Bolt' channel that you have this new channel? I subscribed to that channel and was waiting for years till someone there mentioned this new one. Perhaps many others were also waiting or more would've subscribed here earlier. Anyway I've just subscribed.
It’s nice to see a young inspiring role model on UA-cam. Love you fun facts. One of my fun fact about me that most people don’t, My husband and I are building LongEz aircraft in are living room. Have you ever thought about building a aircraft?
The algorithm suggested your HPR L2 video. An L2 cert flight on a wooden rocket? I absolutely had to watch. A few minutes into the video, I paused an subscribed. Now I'm working my way through your other videos, and having a blast. Loved your 10 random facts, and especially your answer to a stupid interview question.
Hi Xyla, I just discovered your UA-cam videos on Veratasium. Still have some more to watch. I am totally impressed by your skills, your tenacity, and your playful humor. And I love that you include beauty in your projects. As an old man, when I discover people like you, it renews my desire to help save humanity from global warming. I want to share concepts with you, so here's who I am: I like to invent simple devices that are hard to understand, sometimes even for physicists and engineers. Some are simple to make and some are really difficult to make. Many are just drawings, but a few got turned into new kinds of toys for my craft business (which was making wooden, ergonomic, sculpted, multicolored, ball point pens and mechanical pencils). They sold well, but now I'm retired and I have many left over items that I invented along the way and saved them to be potential products. Now I don't need them any more. Before that I sold a new type of puzzle I invented, and before that I sold delicate costume jewelry made out of industrial materials and parts. My education is an MA in psychology with a minor in theater arts, which is irrelevant except for a couple of visual illusion devices I invented, plus a deep appreciation for the scientific process and scientific values. (And I got performing out of my system.) Ok, so I'm contacting you to offer some of my devices as projects for you. Some of them might make you famous and up your income. Some could be turned into simple products to give you a side business to support your goals. For examples, a simple device made mostly out of wood, and which could be turned into a product, is a demonstrator of how sailing DDWFTTW and sailing directly upwind are possible. If made as an attractive desktop craft item, a lot of people would want one. It's easier to understand that the excellent wheel-cart that Derek built. Since you play the violin, you might be interested in building a musical instrument based on a new principle that creates a fundamentally new class of musical instrument. It might best be played using a keyboard, but you might have another idea. It's called a Sharp Harp. It uses water. It's a floor mounted device for stability, but light. For getting a huge jump in viewers, I can explain how to build a simple device that can sail DDWFTTW and sail directly upwind, both at the same time. A really difficult project is a simple device to prove that it is possible to sail DDWFTTW using only square sails, which any engineer or physicist will tell you is impossible. So that video might go viral if you could manage to build the model to be efficient enough (which, as you know, is difficult) and demonstrate it on a treadmill. An exceptionally difficult project is a new kind of windmill boat that should be able to sail faster than the wind in all directions. There is also a way to do it using windmill land yachts. The concept was validated by engineering professors. My personal favorite projects, are two new kinds of vertical axis windmill that promise much lower energy costs, which makes them well suited to providing clean water, electricity, and heat-for-cooking for poor farmers in the developing world so that women and children don't have to walk miles each day to fetch water and fuel. They will be desperately needed as global warming increases. I invented matching pumps for them. I built lots of models of the windmills, but now I'm too old to test them full-scale and I don't have a test site. The list goes on. So if you would like to know more, you can Email me at sharpencil@sbcglobal.net . Either way, I wish you all possible success. You seem to be doing fine and having a lot of fun. Good for you.
Greetings from Brisbane Australia. I am a multi discipline maker who because I am not an engineer, does not realise that I should not be able to make some things. Well it works for bumble bees. Most of my videos are just simple craft, but every now and again I am allowed to film one of my more interesting commissions. Like most of the others I found your channel via the corset video, and I have to say that while the finished piece looks good, you really made it the hard way. I look forward to seeing what else you build, perhaps an obstacle course for Roombas?
"Those are my 10 fun facts, I want to hear yours!" No, you don't want, compared to yours I've done nothing my whole life! You are such an amazing person!
I'm glad I found you through Derek's video , you're sooooo adorable oh my gosh I don't know how to describe 🤩🤩🤩 and after this video I've decided : U can do literally anything. 😄
Just found your channel this week. When someone asks me what's something unique about me, I say that I was adopted when I was 22 two months before I got married. I looked it up. The oldest person to be adopted was Mary Banks Smith who was 76 years old in 2015.
I'm here to watch your canoe build (subbed) but your intro has me really intrigued too. I've built 1 canoe myself and am about to build my 2nd. The 1st one took me 4 years haha. You have very interesting hobbies and experiences - thanks for putting yourself out there. I play the bagpipes; not sure how to play them in the canoe yet lol
Woo mechatronics!! I studied Mechatronics at UNSW in Sydney, Australia! (I feel like you need to have studied mechatronics to even know what it is haha) - my first engineering job had me welding and metal fabricating, i loved that and woodworking so much I'm building stuff as well now :) Subscribed for the kindred spirit...can't wait to see what you share :)
I love your content! One idea, since you asked, would be interesting to see you do some repairs, upgrades or maintenance on your Cessna. In a "how it's done correctly" kind of view :)
The violin musical Tesla coil was cool AF. Launching your own crown into space was also CAF. The table that you built for your friend w/ recycled PCBs was also amazing. Rocket Christmas tree :). Why has no one tried to put a ring on that finger 😍? Just take my paycheck.
Xyla, its great to be subbed to your channel, as for vids all 5 of them are good, I am an artist so those ones will have a special joy for me, but truly the canoe one is so artistic too, seems your ideas are my style of creations, I will be watching, gl moving this channel forward!
I remember when I was young and full of energy, constantly on the go with a project or something, but Xyla you are on of those at another level. How'd I get here? Spite. ;)
It would be awesome and so amazing if you could recreate one of Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical contraptions whether his flying machine, tank, submarine or maybe his flying machine... ;) Xie xie, xie xie ni.
Bit late to the video, but recently discovered you via BPS Space and the energy and knowledge in your video's is just amazing. Also definitely relate to what you said about having super high highs and super low lows. I hope you keep having fun and make great videos, and that you may inspire many young girls to do whatever they want and not what society tells them are "girly" things!!
Great videos, I've watched them all now. Love your goofiness so don't stop. Also totally dig the violin and the whole engineering thing. I would like to see more furniture designs & builds and have you explain the engineering/science behind it. I also like to build furniture and work with lots of different types of wood. I am rehabbing a sailboat right now and run into all sorts of interesting problems. I am an instructional designer by education/training and work a full time job doing that; which is why I am interested in the videos that explain the engineering and the history behind the science and engineering. Great start Xyla, keep it up. The canoe build was awesome; your uncle is awesome. I always have wanted to make one myself.
What a whirlwind of an intro! If I could bet on the success of a youtube channel, I would! Watching this as a mechatronics engineer: "...I should repair roombas" *visions of future with minion army*
I have enjoyed watching you make things :) As a suggestion, how about an elevator for your underground tunnel and room? Or how about connecting it to your garage and have an elevator for your car?
I can’t wait to see your creativity ma’am. Please keep Frost and Fire in the back ground. I simply get lost in never land with you two as a team. And I create. I’m a carpenter by self taught. I’m a quality control supervisor for a hardwood door company I’ve worked for since 1997 and they alone are in business since 1958. Right here in Houston, Texas. We have almost 200 very creative and wonderful employees so...keep it coming. Your humor and mine are synced. Yes I can lick my wife’s elbow. Lol
You are super intelligent and do amazing things! I love to watch you construct. I learn so much. Your willingness to innovate makes it all the more endearing! Now you can fly? Can you do some videos of that? Tell us of your travails through the miss america process please! I am old but you make me feel young because of your beautiful energy!!!!!
I'm glad that Bob mentioned your channel on their podcast (how did all the cool makers find you so early??) and now I need to go and rest after all this energy 😅
Hi. I was going to ask what engineering degree you have but you answered it in this video.. so that was convenient! I have an EE myself. Currently working in the Rockets industry (for a whole 2 months so far!). Continuing with the fun facts.. I've lived in Germany; I've been lost in Prague; I've rock climbed in Tennessee; I've snowboarded in Japan; I've hiked in Switzerland; I have 2 Leopard Geckos and 2 Cats; I'm afraid of heights; andddd I love watching Maker videos and try to do a good bit of making of my own when time/money allow! As far as your channel goes, I've so far seen the Rockets and Danger Cards videos and those were great! Your excitement and energy are contagious.
@Xyla Foxlin >>> FWIW: My _VERY FIRST JOB_ {employment} was working the line crew at an FBO at an airport in Florida, from 1979 to 1980. Good Times...👍👍
Wow... Pilot,maker,woodworker Musician,and star wars fan,oh heck yea i subbed! One strange fact about me,i watched all your videos in reverse order...lol...
Here's an idea for a video to make: a frensel mirror wall, made with wooden supports, bent wood strips, wood glue, tinfoil (or aluminium foil, the one used in the kitchen) and maybe clear outdoors epoxy to protect the reflective tinfoil from scratches and peeling off. You can also use a small pin or a wood splinter to make holes in the tinfoil every here and there, for the epoxy to also get glued to the wood, not only to the tinfoil, further avoiding the peeling of the tinfoil. As for the usage of the frensel mirror wall, you can use it to heat a mug, or a can, or a pan, or a pot, depending on how big you want to make the frensel mirror wall. Technically, you can also use a frensel mirror wall to heat a garden bed, a greenhouse, or even a house during the winter, or at the very least to get more sunlight onto the shaded part of the house, for at least a few hours (with each strip being angled so you get light on your window throughout the whole day). It's also been suggested to be used for making arctic solar panels more efficient, and for gardening in colder climates in general. And since the frensel mirror wall reflects the light, it would mean that the light reflected doesn't get onto the ground behind the frensel mirror wall, thus not affecting the climate significantly or at all, aside from allowing plants to grow in colder climates than they otherwise would. It has also been suggested to be used with anchored hot air baloons, to get sunlight reflected into the arctic circle's night time from a kilometer or more above the ground. Also, I wonder how interesting it would be for the viewers to listen to you listing fun facts about random bits of engineering, like what I just did about the frensel mirror walls.
Wow. You're the sort of person I might be if I managed to finish more than 10% of the projects I start ;) After building a balsa model glider as a kid I bought an aluminium Estes rocket motor housing for solid fuel and started building a rocket frame out of balsa (don't ask me why I thought that was a good idea, I was only 9 years old). Got as far as finishing the engine mounting cage (way too heavy) and managed to burn it to ashes when I did a static test ignition of the rocket motor in my back yard. I later bought a 1:200 scale Saturn V Estes kit rocket, but haven't around to building it yet (it's only been a couple of decades since I bought it). In high school I started building an HO model railway layout but never finished it (I still have a pile of HO kits in the garage that I can/might do when I retire). I bought a 10" Meade telescope while in uni and have plans for building an observatory at my holiday home - but just haven't started work on it as yet. I did two or three PPL lessons a couple of decades ago, but then lost interest because of the three hour drive to and from the aerodrome each weekend to do a 1 hour lesson. But at least I finished my PADI open water certification, deep and navigation certifications, and did a cave diving certification (but then got married and the wife banned me from ever going cave diving) :) I started out doing a chem eng degree, then dropped out after taking five years to pass about 4/5 of the required courses (mechanics of solids I managed to fail three times!). After a stint at technical college doing a chemistry certificate (while working as an experimental scientist for a private research company that I'd got a holiday job as for work experience while doing the engineering degree), I then did an applied chem degree. Started on a Master of applied chem degree part-time, but then took an early exit with a grad dip in applied chem when the private research company started to wind down and i got retrenched (and my project supervisor also changed unis and went interstate). Changed to a 'real' job in an it/marketing services company. Did another grad dip in industrial math and computing. Did a Master of Astronomy degree (for fun). Started and dropped out of doing an astrophysics PhD part-time (fun and very interesting, but turned out that I'm not smart or hard working enough to do a part-time PhD in astrophysics). Did a financial planner certification (for fun) and decided to get registered as a financial advisor. Currently trying to start up a financial planning business (on the side) while working full-time in my IT/marketing job, and also doing a part-time Master of Financial Planning degree. I'll have another go at doing a PhD part-time starting next year - this time in financial planning (which should be a *lot* easier than astrophysics).
Such a surprise to me while procrastinating for my test and hear CWRU in a random video recommended by UA-cam. I don't think I need caffeine for the rest of the night. This has already wakened me up.
Hi! I'm just curious... when you say this is your new channel, does that mean you had an old channel? Or maybe you were involved in a different channel?
Oh my, beauty and brains all in one adorable package. Watched the canoe build first, because I watch as many of those as I can find, and got instantly hooked! Then the corset, then this one. Wish she had done more! I'll be looking forward to as many as she can make!
WoW You just put a big smile on my face, just saw your canoe video. So first, can your uncle adopt me ? Second cut down on the Caffeine :) Seriously love your style girl, so positive/happy x
Came here from Veritasium.😁 But I must say that I am so glad to have found your channel sooner rather than later. You are really talented and I deeply admire your engineering skills. Subbed at the first video itself. Hope your channel grows exponentially as it is. 😅.
Same here!
As you asked to share some about ourselves too - so it might help to know your audience better.
#1. I saw you on Veritasium AND I watched your TEDx talk where you talked about your journey from being suicidal (I hope you are no longer there) to understanding the value of emotional capital. So that’s about the connection.
#2. Like you I’m biracial (French, Japanese) married, with one kid. My wife is Chinese American (genetically Han) and I am thinking I would love our son to see someone who looks like him that has your character, energy, drive… we live in Hong Kong.
#3. Although I’m half Asian, my parents did not “force” me into engineering, they just “strongly encouraged” in creative subjects AND technology.
#4. I can’t lick my elbow, so I’m really jealous of your skill
#5 I also work in robotics / maker Community. I teach Design, Architecture, and research marine science at the University of Hong Kong. I also started MakerBay which is the local makerspace and we focus on social and environmental tech - especially trying to reach people who generally don’t have access to tech (low income areas, ethnic minorities, refugees…). Currently I’m working on building a robot to map coral reef and I’m trying to build a fully equipped biological lab in the shape of a giant oyster to clean the water (with oysters) produce solar and green hydrogen, with the local oyster farmers.
#6 I’m also a TED speaker…
#7. I’m really admirative if your candor, and I’m really excited to see what you do next. I really hope you do things that are less guided by what people ask you to do, but rather do the things that you feel are most important to you and the world.
#8 I am not one of your Patreon backer YET, but I take the time here to share my warm support for you. I think you are amazing, you have done so much already, and I see so much potential in you as well.
#9 I think roombas are super cool but I enjoy too much cleaning with some traditional techniques I learned while in primary school in Japan (broom and wet towel + bucket)
#10 I might have given away a little bit in #7 but I’m really passionate about environmental conservation, the ocean I. Particular, and I really wish hyper talented and great communicators like you would spend their talent reversing the Great Biodiversity Extinction event that we are solely responsible for… I am trying, but I think I can still do much better… I think you could so much too…
Keep going!!! You champion.
And dont Forget to love yourself.
When I read your name I thought that you are from India and then I saw your channel and got it confirmed
> Thank you so much for being here on day 1
Me coming from Veritasium in 2021: Guilty Puppet Meme
I'm a retired defense mechanical engineer, flat water kayaker, guitar player, experimental aircraft builder and pilot, and I love your channel. Best of luck.
So she's done more in like 5 years than I have done my entire life. Awesome.
never too late to start, even though it seems impossible👍
@@khasmosis That's a pretty ableist statement.
@@mynamesjudgesounds like a pretty victim like statement
Oh my goodness, another kindhearted maker!
Maybe you should restart the hugging mecha company again. The world probably needs it more, now
This was so cool! I learned about you after you won Miss Greater Cleveland, and I knew you were an engineer, but had absolutely NO idea how many extra talents you have! I'm so hyped to watch all of your videos and follow your journey on social media!
Ooh, I'm excited to see what else you build! I loved seeing the corset build and it came out looking so badass. I can't wait to see your canoe!
You had me at Xyla Foxlin. How cool are your parents! 🤣
I just binge watched your whole channel. Could NOT have been a better use of my time! I LOVE what you're doing. You channel is inspiring, heart warming, affirming, credible, dynamic, engaging and informative (just to name a few). Three cheers to Secret Santa and Old Tony. Your first knife? That made me cry. So good! SO SO SO glad to meet you and to have found the channel. Bravo
Can’t wait to see your work! That corset is a sculpture.
Your enthusiasm caught my eye, then your skills. You have already done many things at your young age that I at 78 have not. I'm happy to see you building and creating out of wood. My daughter has expressed interest in doing that as well, so I'll be teaching skills with power tools.
I found you via your bullet proof ballgown videos,and any woman that can assemble her own platoon of roombas from the scrap bin is impressive. I'm always looking for female driven STEM content for my daughter wants to be an engineer and I can't wait to show her your channel.
I'm so excited to have discovered you!! I can't wait to see more of the content you produce. I love that you're super intelligent, silly and girly, just like me!! I love finding channels of women being bold and just doing their passion regardless of stereotypes!
Fellow engineer and pilot here. Your channel is fascinating! Subscribed and can't wait to see what you come up with next!
That plasma vs fire "read the fine print" made my day
My god, Xyla, You're one of the very few UA-camrs that got an audible laugh out of me since I don't even know how long with Your elbow story. I've already subscribed after the canoe video, but this is just as amazing. I guess I just needed more happy positive and natural people in my life. Will make sure to watch more, thumbs up and comment and all that stuff just to help You out with growth here on YT. :D
I feel that somewhere, Xyla is amassing a horde of mecha-enhanced roomba soldiers to take over the Greater Cleveland metropolitan area.
"The rules said no fire, but nothing about other forms of plasma"
And that was when I decided to subscribe :D
If you can get them to name a new rule after you, that counts as winning.
In before this channel becomes massive. Your videos are awesome, keep up the good work!
your energy pulls like magnet. I'm subscribing and hitting that bell
Why am I just now learning about your channel? This is exactly the kind I love.
Love the energy. Love the confidence! Hats off to your crazy uncle for all the encouragement. Being an industrial (bootstrap) electrical engineer (control engineer), love the engineering. Thank you for effort you spend to share all of this! (Hope I can be an encouraging Grampa figure like your uncle!)
Just rewatched the Spite video to show a friend what an inspired talented woman can do (my 3rd viewing). Then we rewatched a couple of your other videos, just because. Now i have rewatched this one, only to rediscover what an amazing human being you are.
Please have the courage to keep on doing what you do and being who you are.
Hiya.
Just subscribed to your channel based on your canoe build video.
Watching you from my home in Scotland! 😊🏴
Best of luck with your channel! 👍🏻
I love your channel it helps me wind down before I sleep, i love the cool stuff you build!
Who are you?? You're like THE MOST interesting person I've ever come across and I really want to see more videos
I like a date.My name is Ryan stuff.Well, I'm taking a camp.I'll wait.For you though
I have blonde hair, blue eyes and I'm American.I'm from michigame.Yeah I don't like I like ladies and gentlemen that's my name it's ryan i'm medford michigan uncle your vote
I like I do suave mix.No but physical how will reduce the amount
But you got me there.I'm afraid of heights
I'm i'm in the start damn tdo I like scotty
I predict this channel is going to be huuuuge :)
I can confirm your prediction. Two months later, she has 28.2K subs. And the channel will keep growing!
@Cacao Scotti Inflation. I predict inflation soon. Probably first significant inflation changes will be seen in september through november, with next year either going in full-recovery economic-mode, or going into even more inflation due to the economic depression. Possibly also wars, since USA seems unable to keep national-security-threats in check, with those violent riots and flagrant corruption.
@@SapioiT 28.5k now
only 2 days after your comment
@Mike Oxlong We called it!
This Human is DYNAMITE! She could host TED talks on self motivation alone! You are AWESOME Xyla!
P F lol in Australia we would call her a “Pocket a Rocket” with all that pent up energy 😹😹 she is defiantly someone to watch for the future fun projects 😊
Just binged all your videos... you will go far on UA-cam I’m thinking. We need more women woodworkers here. And then u go and blow us away with your engineering super smartiness :)
Curious about tensegrity and had an idea to make one of my own using bent strips of wood... found your video, blew my mind. The bentwood canoe further piqued my curiosity, beautiful canoe by the way, so I watched your other videos. WOW... I Loved the Resonance video! You had me laughing right along with you on your ten fun facts. These are the kinds of videos I look forward to watching, full of fun and technical knowledge! Subbed!!
Wow, I think your channel will definitely explode. You seem super likable, cute, and your maker stuff is awesome! Also the part about "plasma is not technically fire" was the best story I've heard in a long time (it sounds like the sort of thing I would pull).
You are insanely talented! Can’t wait to see some more builds!
Congratulations on the new channel, Xyla! I’m a CWRU grad also, worked at Tommy’s Restaurant on Coventry Road. Good luck to you!
I saw your videos and shared them with my sister in law who has a teen who was into robotics for a bit. I then thought who am I kidding, Xyla is my hero, not my niece's! So I decided to write this to you. Your father and mother should be very proud of you. If my children have a small fraction of the experiences you have and are as energetic as you are, I will be happy. I hope you have a great day and that you have success upon success and most importantly, happiness WITH success.
You are amazing Xyla! Keep up the great work! My wife and I found your Building a Cedar-Strip Canoe in 30 Days! video and was hooked! You are a natural and will do very well with your new channel! and that is the 11th Fun Fact! ^5
I like your high energy channel and it is fun being young and full of life. I am a retired chemist/metallurgist who worked for a large utility for many years and now restore classic cars for a retirement hobby. I worked with many Asians from all over the world that were mostly engineers except for the chemists in the laboratory and most of us were rather boring and one dimensional.
I was supposed to get stuff done today an then I came across your channel. The canoe build video you did with your uncle is my favourite. I subscribed instantly on the video.
I was pulled to your channel by the red cedar Canoe.
I'm up in the Pacific Northwest...lots of red cedar. That and I grew up on the Puget Sound. Got into kayak fishing a couple of years ago, but always dreamed of having a Cedar Canoe...maybe someday.
Congrats on becoming a pilot. Though I am not, I have had opportunities to fly small and large aircraft...what a feeling of freedom.
Looks like you are on your way to great and amazing things...will need to become a sub to see where you go.
Woo hoo! Case Western! I wanted to go there because of the Michelson-Morley experiment and I'm a huge physics nerd!! Good luck on the channel, you got yourself a subscriber!
Yayyyyy so excited for your new channel!
Awwww thank you Kent! Can't wait for our video to go live :)
Whats the old channel?
@@Skunkwurx there's a channel named beauty and the bolt , maybe that's her old channel....
@@xylafoxlin Congrats for this new channel, but why didn't you announce on your 'Beauty and the Bolt' channel that you have this new channel?
I subscribed to that channel and was waiting for years till someone there mentioned this new one. Perhaps many others were also waiting or more would've subscribed here earlier.
Anyway I've just subscribed.
It’s nice to see a young inspiring role model on UA-cam. Love you fun facts. One of my fun fact about me that most people don’t, My husband and I are building LongEz aircraft in are living room. Have you ever thought about building a aircraft?
The algorithm suggested your HPR L2 video. An L2 cert flight on a wooden rocket? I absolutely had to watch. A few minutes into the video, I paused an subscribed. Now I'm working my way through your other videos, and having a blast. Loved your 10 random facts, and especially your answer to a stupid interview question.
Hi Xyla, I just discovered your UA-cam videos on Veratasium. Still have some more to watch. I am totally impressed by your skills, your tenacity, and your playful humor. And I love that you include beauty in your projects. As an old man, when I discover people like you, it renews my desire to help save humanity from global warming.
I want to share concepts with you, so here's who I am: I like to invent simple devices that are hard to understand, sometimes even for physicists and engineers. Some are simple to make and some are really difficult to make. Many are just drawings, but a few got turned into new kinds of toys for my craft business (which was making wooden, ergonomic, sculpted, multicolored, ball point pens and mechanical pencils). They sold well, but now I'm retired and I have many left over items that I invented along the way and saved them to be potential products. Now I don't need them any more. Before that I sold a new type of puzzle I invented, and before that I sold delicate costume jewelry made out of industrial materials and parts. My education is an MA in psychology with a minor in theater arts, which is irrelevant except for a couple of visual illusion devices I invented, plus a deep appreciation for the scientific process and scientific values. (And I got performing out of my system.)
Ok, so I'm contacting you to offer some of my devices as projects for you. Some of them might make you famous and up your income. Some could be turned into simple products to give you a side business to support your goals.
For examples, a simple device made mostly out of wood, and which could be turned into a product, is a demonstrator of how sailing DDWFTTW and sailing directly upwind are possible. If made as an attractive desktop craft item, a lot of people would want one. It's easier to understand that the excellent wheel-cart that Derek built.
Since you play the violin, you might be interested in building a musical instrument based on a new principle that creates a fundamentally new class of musical instrument. It might best be played using a keyboard, but you might have another idea. It's called a Sharp Harp. It uses water. It's a floor mounted device for stability, but light.
For getting a huge jump in viewers, I can explain how to build a simple device that can sail DDWFTTW and sail directly upwind, both at the same time.
A really difficult project is a simple device to prove that it is possible to sail DDWFTTW using only square sails, which any engineer or physicist will tell you is impossible. So that video might go viral if you could manage to build the model to be efficient enough (which, as you know, is difficult) and demonstrate it on a treadmill.
An exceptionally difficult project is a new kind of windmill boat that should be able to sail faster than the wind in all directions. There is also a way to do it using windmill land yachts. The concept was validated by engineering professors.
My personal favorite projects, are two new kinds of vertical axis windmill that promise much lower energy costs, which makes them well suited to providing clean water, electricity, and heat-for-cooking for poor farmers in the developing world so that women and children don't have to walk miles each day to fetch water and fuel. They will be desperately needed as global warming increases. I invented matching pumps for them. I built lots of models of the windmills, but now I'm too old to test them full-scale and I don't have a test site. The list goes on.
So if you would like to know more, you can Email me at sharpencil@sbcglobal.net . Either way, I wish you all possible success. You seem to be doing fine and having a lot of fun. Good for you.
Really cool.. a friend of mine is the VP of hardware engineering at iRobot. I hope your experience was wonderful..Keep up the ingenuity!
144K subs right now. Congrats Xyla‼️🥰
Greetings from Brisbane Australia. I am a multi discipline maker who because I am not an engineer, does not realise that I should not be able to make some things. Well it works for bumble bees. Most of my videos are just simple craft, but every now and again I am allowed to film one of my more interesting commissions.
Like most of the others I found your channel via the corset video, and I have to say that while the finished piece looks good, you really made it the hard way.
I look forward to seeing what else you build, perhaps an obstacle course for Roombas?
After seeing the awesome build you made for Verirasium I swiftly subscribed.
"Those are my 10 fun facts, I want to hear yours!"
No, you don't want, compared to yours I've done nothing my whole life! You are such an amazing person!
Yay! I already know this channel is going to be awesome!
I'm glad I found you through Derek's video , you're sooooo adorable oh my gosh I don't know how to describe 🤩🤩🤩 and after this video I've decided : U can do literally anything. 😄
Your creativeness is inspiring and your videos are fun to watch.
Just found your channel this week.
When someone asks me what's something unique about me, I say that I was adopted when I was 22 two months before I got married.
I looked it up. The oldest person to be adopted was Mary Banks Smith who was 76 years old in 2015.
I'm here to watch your canoe build (subbed) but your intro has me really intrigued too. I've built 1 canoe myself and am about to build my 2nd. The 1st one took me 4 years haha. You have very interesting hobbies and experiences - thanks for putting yourself out there. I play the bagpipes; not sure how to play them in the canoe yet lol
Hahaha. I'm sure there's a way. Check out tinyboatsessions on Instagram and see if they'd take a bagpipe submission 🙃
OMG I just found my new favorite channel !!! Best of luck Xyla!
Fun fact: your welcome video did pretty well at setting us up for more than wood videos. Looking forward to building of cool shtuff!
Woo mechatronics!! I studied Mechatronics at UNSW in Sydney, Australia! (I feel like you need to have studied mechatronics to even know what it is haha) - my first engineering job had me welding and metal fabricating, i loved that and woodworking so much I'm building stuff as well now :)
Subscribed for the kindred spirit...can't wait to see what you share :)
Wow this channel is definitely going to blow up. Such fun facts!
I love your content! One idea, since you asked, would be interesting to see you do some repairs, upgrades or maintenance on your Cessna. In a "how it's done correctly" kind of view :)
The violin musical Tesla coil was cool AF. Launching your own crown into space was also CAF. The table that you built for your friend w/ recycled PCBs was also amazing. Rocket Christmas tree :). Why has no one tried to put a ring on that finger 😍? Just take my paycheck.
Congratulations, 277K subcribers in 1 year and less than 30 vids is amazing! Keep fabricating, learning and sharing.
Xyla, its great to be subbed to your channel, as for vids all 5 of them are good, I am an artist so those ones will have a special joy for me, but truly the canoe one is so artistic too, seems your ideas are my style of creations, I will be watching, gl moving this channel forward!
I remember when I was young and full of energy, constantly on the go with a project or something, but Xyla you are on of those at another level. How'd I get here? Spite. ;)
I'm just putting it on record that I was here at the beginning. This channel is going to be dope!
So: Good fortune with everything you plan and do!
It would be awesome and so amazing if you could recreate one of Leonardo da Vinci's mechanical contraptions whether his flying machine, tank, submarine or maybe his flying machine... ;)
Xie xie, xie xie ni.
Lovely energy, and I really like the projects you're doing. You have something special and you're using it in the right way.
Bit late to the video, but recently discovered you via BPS Space and the energy and knowledge in your video's is just amazing. Also definitely relate to what you said about having super high highs and super low lows. I hope you keep having fun and make great videos, and that you may inspire many young girls to do whatever they want and not what society tells them are "girly" things!!
Great videos, I've watched them all now. Love your goofiness so don't stop. Also totally dig the violin and the whole engineering thing. I would like to see more furniture designs & builds and have you explain the engineering/science behind it. I also like to build furniture and work with lots of different types of wood. I am rehabbing a sailboat right now and run into all sorts of interesting problems. I am an instructional designer by education/training and work a full time job doing that; which is why I am interested in the videos that explain the engineering and the history behind the science and engineering. Great start Xyla, keep it up. The canoe build was awesome; your uncle is awesome. I always have wanted to make one myself.
Wow! You are such a talented young lady. Can't wait to see your video's. Good luck on your journey. Cheers from Canada.
What a great personality! After seeing the corset video I thought there would be dozens of more to watch but she is just getting started! :o
Stay tuned!
my exact train of thought with the Ruben's Tube Video...
What a whirlwind of an intro! If I could bet on the success of a youtube channel, I would!
Watching this as a mechatronics engineer: "...I should repair roombas"
*visions of future with minion army*
I have enjoyed watching you make things :) As a suggestion, how about an elevator for your underground tunnel and room? Or how about connecting it to your garage and have an elevator for your car?
Wishing you all the best in this new channel and all your ambitions :)
I can’t wait to see your creativity ma’am. Please keep Frost and Fire in the back ground. I simply get lost in never land with you two as a team. And I create. I’m a carpenter by self taught. I’m a quality control supervisor for a hardwood door company I’ve worked for since 1997 and they alone are in business since 1958. Right here in Houston, Texas. We have almost 200 very creative and wonderful employees so...keep it coming. Your humor and mine are synced. Yes I can lick my wife’s elbow. Lol
You are super intelligent and do amazing things! I love to watch you construct. I learn so much. Your willingness to innovate makes it all the more endearing! Now you can fly? Can you do some videos of that? Tell us of your travails through the miss america process please! I am old but you make me feel young because of your beautiful energy!!!!!
Xyla, keep up the high energy and positive energy 😁👍. Cheers, Sean
Ok, so I thought the corset was awesome, followed closely by the canoe, but then you mentioned the Roombas and I'm sold!
Cool. Also hugs are great, they make me happy :)
Smart, fun and cuteness overload..................Ringing the bell
I am SO here for this!!
I'm glad that Bob mentioned your channel on their podcast (how did all the cool makers find you so early??) and now I need to go and rest after all this energy 😅
You have enough confidence for the entire nation. Yup, it’s a good thing!
Hi. I was going to ask what engineering degree you have but you answered it in this video.. so that was convenient! I have an EE myself. Currently working in the Rockets industry (for a whole 2 months so far!). Continuing with the fun facts.. I've lived in Germany; I've been lost in Prague; I've rock climbed in Tennessee; I've snowboarded in Japan; I've hiked in Switzerland; I have 2 Leopard Geckos and 2 Cats; I'm afraid of heights; andddd I love watching Maker videos and try to do a good bit of making of my own when time/money allow!
As far as your channel goes, I've so far seen the Rockets and Danger Cards videos and those were great! Your excitement and energy are contagious.
Aww, hug! 🤗 Thank you, that was very nice.
@Xyla Foxlin >>> FWIW: My _VERY FIRST JOB_ {employment} was working the line crew at an FBO at an airport in Florida, from 1979 to 1980.
Good Times...👍👍
Miss xyla you are amazing! And you are the most beautiful UA-camr
Wow... Pilot,maker,woodworker
Musician,and star wars fan,oh heck yea i subbed! One strange fact about me,i watched all your videos in reverse order...lol...
Why are we literally the same person. I look up to you so much!
Here's an idea for a video to make: a frensel mirror wall, made with wooden supports, bent wood strips, wood glue, tinfoil (or aluminium foil, the one used in the kitchen) and maybe clear outdoors epoxy to protect the reflective tinfoil from scratches and peeling off. You can also use a small pin or a wood splinter to make holes in the tinfoil every here and there, for the epoxy to also get glued to the wood, not only to the tinfoil, further avoiding the peeling of the tinfoil. As for the usage of the frensel mirror wall, you can use it to heat a mug, or a can, or a pan, or a pot, depending on how big you want to make the frensel mirror wall.
Technically, you can also use a frensel mirror wall to heat a garden bed, a greenhouse, or even a house during the winter, or at the very least to get more sunlight onto the shaded part of the house, for at least a few hours (with each strip being angled so you get light on your window throughout the whole day). It's also been suggested to be used for making arctic solar panels more efficient, and for gardening in colder climates in general. And since the frensel mirror wall reflects the light, it would mean that the light reflected doesn't get onto the ground behind the frensel mirror wall, thus not affecting the climate significantly or at all, aside from allowing plants to grow in colder climates than they otherwise would. It has also been suggested to be used with anchored hot air baloons, to get sunlight reflected into the arctic circle's night time from a kilometer or more above the ground.
Also, I wonder how interesting it would be for the viewers to listen to you listing fun facts about random bits of engineering, like what I just did about the frensel mirror walls.
Minor correction: I think it's "fresnel," not "frensel."
Wow. You're the sort of person I might be if I managed to finish more than 10% of the projects I start ;)
After building a balsa model glider as a kid I bought an aluminium Estes rocket motor housing for solid fuel and started building a rocket frame out of balsa (don't ask me why I thought that was a good idea, I was only 9 years old). Got as far as finishing the engine mounting cage (way too heavy) and managed to burn it to ashes when I did a static test ignition of the rocket motor in my back yard. I later bought a 1:200 scale Saturn V Estes kit rocket, but haven't around to building it yet (it's only been a couple of decades since I bought it). In high school I started building an HO model railway layout but never finished it (I still have a pile of HO kits in the garage that I can/might do when I retire). I bought a 10" Meade telescope while in uni and have plans for building an observatory at my holiday home - but just haven't started work on it as yet. I did two or three PPL lessons a couple of decades ago, but then lost interest because of the three hour drive to and from the aerodrome each weekend to do a 1 hour lesson. But at least I finished my PADI open water certification, deep and navigation certifications, and did a cave diving certification (but then got married and the wife banned me from ever going cave diving) :)
I started out doing a chem eng degree, then dropped out after taking five years to pass about 4/5 of the required courses (mechanics of solids I managed to fail three times!). After a stint at technical college doing a chemistry certificate (while working as an experimental scientist for a private research company that I'd got a holiday job as for work experience while doing the engineering degree), I then did an applied chem degree. Started on a Master of applied chem degree part-time, but then took an early exit with a grad dip in applied chem when the private research company started to wind down and i got retrenched (and my project supervisor also changed unis and went interstate). Changed to a 'real' job in an it/marketing services company. Did another grad dip in industrial math and computing. Did a Master of Astronomy degree (for fun). Started and dropped out of doing an astrophysics PhD part-time (fun and very interesting, but turned out that I'm not smart or hard working enough to do a part-time PhD in astrophysics). Did a financial planner certification (for fun) and decided to get registered as a financial advisor. Currently trying to start up a financial planning business (on the side) while working full-time in my IT/marketing job, and also doing a part-time Master of Financial Planning degree. I'll have another go at doing a PhD part-time starting next year - this time in financial planning (which should be a *lot* easier than astrophysics).
Such a surprise to me while procrastinating for my test and hear CWRU in a random video recommended by UA-cam. I don't think I need caffeine for the rest of the night. This has already wakened me up.
Hi! I'm just curious... when you say this is your new channel, does that mean you had an old channel? Or maybe you were involved in a different channel?
I'm so happy to have stumbled upon your channel. Engineers rule!
There's so much overlap here with a bunch of the other creators I follow and I can't believe I only found you now!!
Oh my, beauty and brains all in one adorable package. Watched the canoe build first, because I watch as many of those as I can find, and got instantly hooked! Then the corset, then this one. Wish she had done more! I'll be looking forward to as many as she can make!
WoW You just put a big smile on my face, just saw your canoe video. So first, can your uncle adopt me ? Second cut down on the Caffeine :) Seriously love your style girl, so positive/happy x
ahahah this was recommended TODAY, luckily I discovered you thanks to Joe!
Pretty much the coolest, love it! Gearing up for a canoe build, first one!! Get it right?! Maybe I'll manage making a solo too??
Adam Savage always wears cool hats, cool hats are big in the creating world.
How have I not heard about this human before? Looking forward to watching your content!