Building a Computer Controlled Loom
Вставка
- Опубліковано 16 жов 2024
- I built a Jacquard Loom that is controlled from an iPhone. It's built from laser cut plywood, and 3D printed parts. I've open sourced all the design files and software. This isn't really a how to, but more of a "this is what I've done so far".
You can read more about the build at:
retrotechjourn...
You can also look at all the code/designs at:
gitlab.com/ele...
When he started working on this he was clean shaved
lol
Yeah he needs to shave again. Could use it to feed the loom.
hahahahaha
How long it took and what is the cost
He still is. He simply made his beard in the loom
Dear GOD. You understood the machine. Built it. Filmed the process. Edited a video. And did some damn stop motion. HOLY FUCKING SHIT
lol. It is true that this project in particular was so complex that I didn't know for sure if I'd be able to get it working. 100's of moving parts is always a danger sign! I didn't even show the iOS app I wrote to drive the loom. lol. Then again I spent a year and a half making it. I'm always amazed that many UA-camrs can put out videos every week. So I can give the illusion of competence though throwing more time at the problem. ;]
A channel where a person randomly attempts a large undertaking on a whim and showcases the triumphs and pitfalls of the long process in concise, well put-together videos that only show up a couple times each year like an unexpected gift!? Instant subscribe!
Great! Welcome. I'm so pleased you found my videos! Thank you for the nice comment.
This dude looks dangerously smart..
I like it!
I'm a textile designer and your loom is awesome! The video is also skillfully made, so it'a a treat to watch!
I'm glad you liked it! I learned a little bit about textiles doing this project, and a lot about video making. What sorts of tools do you use for textile design? Is there iteration/prototyping of a design? I'm various curious how that works. What is a common size run for a textile? What range of TPI do you design for? God I have so many questions! I've poked around a little looking at open source weaving things like TexGen but really I have no clue how people take a textile from idea to reality. I just wrote the software for the loom to take in images I design in photoshop.
@@dominiquemichaud7945 Wow thank you so much for all that information! I appreciate you taking the time. I will definitely check out some of the links/software/books. It's great to hear from someone doing this professionally.
After reading some, I think that I want to do a design using the Polychrome Taquete technique. I definitely wanted to try something that wasn't using a tabby so that looks like a good option. I'm not sure how I feel about the less interesting uniform almost plain weave look, but it would lend itself well to come programatic design ideas. We will have to see what happens.
@@retrotechjournal Good idea! Taquete is a great way to limit the length of floats. For the "less interesting" parts, you can use another structure, like satin or twill. For that, you will need to use one layer in Photoshop for each weave. I define beforehand each structure as a motif(pattern?) in Phososhop, and bind it after to the layer. Satin will hide the picks for a smoother colour, while twill will add texture. Have fun!
This is the best solo project I've seen in _ages_. I'm humbled by the number of skills you've mastered: mechanics, industruail design, CAD, several fabrication technologies, embedded programming. And all open source to boot! I am humbled! #subscribed
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I love dabbling in all flavors of making. Classic Jack of all trades, but master of non. I actually write mobile apps professionally, and I totally failed to include any footage of the weaving app in the video. lol. Oops.
A lot of UA-cam makers just get things to a barely functional state, but this is a work of art as well as of engineering. I like your personality too, you seem like the kind of person who tries to find joy in everything. Great video.
🙏 I do find joy in making/learning/problem solving. I’m glad you liked it!
Thanks for stopping by my jacquard machine booth at Opensauce. It was great to see you!
Yes! It was fun talking to you about your loom. I love going around and chatting with folks about their projects and yours is clearly close to my heart. ;]
Damn, this is my first video from your channel, but I've never seen an engineer so entertaining and with amazing skill, build quality, patience, video editing all the while making it such a joy to watch. You got yourself an instant sub!
Welcome! I'm pleased you found/like my channel.
Not only is this a great project, but your filmmaking skills are fantastic!
Thanks! Hopefully I've been improving over time. I'm glad you liked it.
Huge props for open sourcing your designs!
That's the most stylish builder channel I've seen. When searching for how these machines worked, I didn't expect to enjoy the presentation.
Oh thanks! Well of course, commercial machines do the lifting of the threads at crazy speeds, and with a very different mechanism. Still this loom does show the basic concepts of raising and lowering some pattern of threads and then passing a shuttle though. This particular mechanism with the cams is kind of nuts/not very fast. It was simply the result of me tying to solve the thread lifting problem with only 2 motors. Still I hope you did learn some useful bits of info and it sounds like you enjoyed it, so I'm going to declare that a win. :]
Yeah, there's a reason that real jacquard looms were - and modern machine looms are - the size of an entire room. I'm really excited to see how you figure out thread tension and density if you decide to keep going. This was such a cool project. I hope you continue it. :)
I do think that a lot of Jacquard loom attempts over-focus on the raising and lowering of the threads part and entirely ignore/underestimate how important all the other parts of a loom are. Like you said things like tension/proper beating of each pick/even advancement, etc.
Industrial engineer here. I'm floored. Project is badass. Video editing is badass. Very impressive.
I'm glad you liked it! What flavor of Industrial Engineer?
@@retrotechjournal a little of everything really. Controls, electrical, mechanical, process. My team and I build custom manufacturing equipment for med device and food/beverage. I was really impressed with your ingenuity and resourcefulness. I'm going to subscribe.
@@75blackviking Neat, sounds nice and cross-discipline-y. Welcome aboard!
Wow, this is awesome! I love the fun edit too. Given the production, when I went to your channel I was expecting to see a long history of videos, definitely surprised to see this is the first one! Really great job!
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I learned a LOT making that video. :] I'm almost done with another one. I have no idea how people do one video a week. That is crazy talk! Although I really should post smaller videos more often. That would let me learn more/try out wacky things, etc.
@@retrotechjournal I was also sad to find only two videos but I totally get it, the production process to make quality like you present is so taxing. Best wishes and I look forward to more content at any pace!
The grandpa every kid deserves!
Wow, my friend! Congratulations to your work, a thousand times. I´m absolutely apalled and feeling like this was way beyond my comprehension. Some work you´ve acomplished. Keep om showing this kind of content for you are contributing to enrichen our lives, Cheers, my friend.
Thank you for the nice comment!
This was a pleasure to watch. It’s crazy how people are so smart and can do things like this makes me want to push myself to learn more. Thanks for the great content 🙌
Woot. I'm excited it makes you want to learn more. That's always the goal in the projects I do. I try to build things right on the edge of what I think I can do, and that forces me to learn/extend myself. I'm glad you liked it!
So fascinating to watch! What a fun style of editing as well. :) Great job and keep up the awesome work!
WOW... I mean really WOW!
It won't beat a Jacquard loom but this is the best semi automatic digital hand weaving loom I've seen so far.
That was a mouth full lol...
Anyway, well done.
Oh thanks! It’s nice because it’s not huge and what it looses in full automation it makes up in total design freedom. (Any number/kind of warp threads/colors etc). Its main downfall is that it’s slow. I’m glad you liked it.
wow, im surprised this doesn't have more attention. This is like Michael reeves, but wholesome
keep up the good work!
This is a win in so many ways: software, hardware, circuit boards, narration, video editing, and a great project. Thanks for this.
I'm glad you liked it! Yes, a lot of weird different skills went into this one. I'm still learning so much about making videos, so I now cringe at some of the parts, but am proud of other bits. I guess that means I'm improving. I've done a lot of complicated projects before, but this is the first one to have filled an entire notebook.
I was very surprised to see this is the first video on your channel, the production was stellar! Looking forward to more projects, and maybe a look at those tools and equipment.
Oh thanks! I still have a personal channel, but it was a weird mix of stuff for my family: My kids in school plays, 8mm conversions, etc. With only a tiny bit about my projects. Now that I've decided to put some effort into making videos about some of my projects I knew I really needed to make a channel about that specifically. I'm glad you liked it!
@@retrotechjournal would you consider doing a custom style of loom for a fee? I have an idea for one and either I'd like to have it built or maybe get some helpful tips for building it
Sorry I don’t have time to do commissioned work like that but I’m happy to make suggestions/bat around design ideas.
@@kurtschaefer is there a good way to contact you where i can share pictures?
@@KevinFlores-rc1lq You could post comments/image links to RetrotechJournal.com. I'd also be fine with exchanging email addresses/communicating that way, but I'm not sure how best to communicate that to you...
I'm building a Jacquard Loom in Meccano so this got my attention. Very impressive and much beyond my tech abilities. I would have liked to have seen how quickly (or slowly) each change to the heddle positions happened. Quite a while I would think!
Congratulations on a great build.
You are exactly right that the loom heddle updates aren’t super fast and the wider the material the slower each pick is. For a narrow piece the weaving is sort of normal but that wide weaving at the end took close to a minute to update per pick. Which is a lot of waiting. That is the main disadvantage of this system. The more heddles the slower it goes.
The main advantage is only 2 motors.
The process could probably be sped up a little but never fast enough for high TPI weaving, etc.
I do have an idea for a heddle position switching that would use a Y shaped track and a kind of “track switching” beak in the middle. However I haven’t tried building it as yet.
Good luck with your Meccano build! Let me know how it turns out!
@@retrotechjournal I would love to see a video in real time of the heddles updating!
Really cool! Technical and intricate. You must be a pretty good armchair craftsman to build something so complex, and get it to actually work!
Thanks! My trick for doing really complicated projects is to give yourself a lot of little successes along the way. I went into this one thinking I'd never get the whole thing working but I'd learn a lot designing each of the little pieces. The lifting system/tension-ing system/the electronics/software/etc. Then if I ran out of steam I could stop and call it a success even if I didn't get to a fully cnc loom. This one just happened to make it further than I was expecting. :] I'm glad you liked it!
It a miracle that this weaver still that small ! I’m know nothing about machine but look at this I very impressed at how much engineering it take , and filming too ! Just woah 🤯
It is nice that it's quite compact and folds up. That makes is easy to transport/store, etc.
Came here after Bobs podcast! Great video love the humor. Build seemed very complex but hats off to you for finishing it!!
When I heard Bob talking about me on the podcast I had to pull over! lol. So amazing! Yes when I realized the idea was 7 moving parts per thread I really thought it would never work. Then at low thread counts it was basically fine, so I kept pushing it. :] I'm glad you liked it!
I never watch this kind of content so it never gets recommended to me and this came out of nowhere but I'm glad yt decided I should watch this bc this is amazing, you really deserve more attention man. Amazing work!
I'm glad you clicked though. It's always extra fun to enjoy something you weren't expecting. Thanks for the nice comment.
From the moment you came on screen with your resplendant beard and cheery 'i hope this works attitude', i was subscribed.
Edit: have now watched your whole film. Incredible project... but your filming style is great. You’ve put SO MUCH work into the filming - let alone the loom itself!!! The stop frame animation with the Lego guys(funky disc dance!), the quality of filming, even the little stop frame animated explanation of how a loom works was great. And also projecting onto yourself for the computer scenes made me laugh too. Even if it is a tiny trickle of content, I’m on board. Looking forward to more and checking out your blog.
Awesome! I'm glad you liked it. It's nice that people have actually noticed/commented on the video itself. I put what could only be described as a stupid amount of time into it, and I wasn't sure if that was just going to be invisible to folks since people are used to watching so much highly produced video all the time. I really enjoyed learning about making videos, and getting to put in whatever silliness came to mind. It's great to hear that people can actually appreciate the amount of work that went into it. I guess since many of the folks here have taken a stab at making content it's a much more informed audience, which is really nice.
@@retrotechjournal "I put what could only be described as a stupid amount of time into it" hahaha We can all see that, that's what's so amazing! Well, that and the fact the loom itself must've taken another unit of 'stupid amout of time'!!! but hat's off to you, all that time really paid off.
the production values and wide rangeing technical ability was out of this world
Thanks!
Oh my goodness what an absolutely delightful video! Thanks for documenting and sharing your project with us, especially open sourcing it. I may have to make one myself!
UA-cam keeps suggesting these great, relatively small channells...always amazed by the quality a one man channel can put out.
Thanks!
Brilliant machine, absolutely love how well you've made it, and that you're open sourcing it
I came here from the making it podcast and man i am so happy Bob recommended it. This video is just awesome and i hope there will be more soon. Please keep up the good work and keep filming it!
I'm glad you liked it! I was so excited when I was listening to the Making It podcast and Bob mentioned me. It was like "OMG upside down world! This is awesome!" I'll certainly do more videos, but life is busy and complicated so it'll probably be a while.
The amount of time and effort this video must have taken to make is a lot, awesome content! Subscribed
Woot! Welcome aboard! It's nice when people appreciate the time it takes to make these things. It's easy for people to say "Make more videos!" but if a video takes 6 months of evenings and weekend to do there's really no way to crank them out. (At least as a hobby)
Absolutely agree, there's a big different between churning out content for the sake of content because you need to please the algorithm and making a video that shows development of an idea or project over time. Your efforts are definitely appreciated! I may try to to tackle one of these myself now
@@EXAPHI Go for it! I think you're entirely correct that it is freeing to not actually have to worry about trying to bend the arc of the algorithm.
Fine job. Nice multi-discipline effort and I applaud your breadth of skills and persistence. Plus, the video was fun to watch.
The biggest movie magic was giving the impression my shop was tidy. ;]
Nice video, project and outcome, thanks for sharing! Scott
First time I've ever seen your content. Blown away, the mix of stop frame, filming, lighting audio and a really great project is so rare - a really great video. Fully subscribed! :)
Welcome aboard!
This is fantastic! What a cool project and a neat video! And your system of clamps to hold the loom to the table is exactly something I would do. Subbed in anticipation of the next fabulous project and fun video, whenever that may be!
Whoever is the video editor, hats off, amazing! Nice video! 😁👍
Wow nice job! Serious dedication.
Also, nice video work!
Ok, this amount of views must be a crime.
So much hard work in design, engineering, and video production. Thank you for everything!!
Thank you for the nice comment! This video is very slowly creeping it's way to 100k views. Some time next year it'll make it. I tell myself "Not bad for my first video!" 😉
Amazing video! Super inspiring and really informative
Great! I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for writing about it!
My dad would've loved this. You remind me a bit of him. Thanks! Thanks a lot.
My dad was very into making films and then later video. He did stop motion titles for our 8mm home movies using construction paper letters on our garage door, etc. Later he switched video and did edits using 2 VCR's and put Zanfir on his Pan Flute as background music. lol. I always think of him when I'm editing. I know he would have loved to talk about how I made the videos/the edit, etc.
that beard is amazing
Normal looms are a pain in the A, but you stuck to an even more complex version. Respect to you.
Can’t tell you how many of those potholders I made in my childhood! LOL. The polyester loops looked neater, but the cotton ones were much better for use as potholders.
Loved your stop motion animations, especially the dance! LOL
Yes. I made a bunch of those as a kid. With some weird bent wire hook. It was fun to get a set again and make one for the video. I think often they are peoples first/only exposure to weaving.
Jacquard loom weaver here, this is an impressive build -- there's a lot going on in these machines and you have a good grasp of it, nevermind your other skills. Thanks for the video!
Neat to hear from actual weavers. I’ve never used an commercial Jacquard loom but the low end ones seem like they might be a maintenance nightmare. :)
@@retrotechjournal There's an art to them for sure! Never the same settings for any different cloth which can be a bit of a bugger, but I've always found them theraputic to work on... (Occassionally a hammer gets involved)
@@Crimzonius 😆
Another great video! I admire your creativity.
Fun fact: the founder of Toyota got his start designing high-speed automatic looms. My son works at the Toyota plant in Princeton, IN. They give public tours of the facility and in the lobby of the main building one of his fascinating looms is on display. If you are lucky, the tour guide will fire it up. Over 80 years old and still works like a fine Swiss watch.
Amazing. I didn't know that about Toyota. I do know someone who runs an amazing vintage weaving company, and visiting her place was incredible. Large scary vintage machines firing wooden shuttles back and forth, etc. Really a treasure.
Amazing!! 😆😆
It's sooo beautiful!
You can work with PCBs, MCUs, 3-D printers, filming, editing, and can make textiles.
Your video is a work of art!
It's incredible to see first hand how people weave by hand on wooden looms which take many long days of work and here you go and automate the process. 😲
It still took an afternoon to weave that Pikachu but it is true the crazy flexibility of being able to do any pattern you want is super fun. 🥰
First time seeing your channel. Clicked out of curiosity and planned on skipping through because how interesting could a loom be? I am blown away, man! The determination and hard work this must have taken! The 3D print design, laser cutting, the stop motion animations, bro, you pasted and individually placed components on a custom board!!? Are you crazy!? No you are just that much of a legend! Please keep making videos! 100% Subscribed forever dude
It is true that the loom was a year and a half of nights and weekend. Kind of crazy really. I do love taking on projects that I’m not entirely sure I’ll be able to do. lol. That keeps me up to my eyeballs in problem solving. I’m glad you found my channel. Welcome!
Thank you for taking the time to film and share. Great job. Look forward to your future projects.
Some serious challenges there, must have been fun. Nice work.
*tips hat*
The production quality is crazy. Kudos mate
I'm currently enrolled for Robotics Engineering and this kind of "huh, that would be cool" projects are exactly what I love to do!! Your process is a bit more spontaneous but I really appreciate the walkthrough of challenges and triumphs throughout the building of this :)
Great! I do love robotics, such a wonderful blend of software/hardware/mechanics. I once TA'd a Robotic Arts Studio course at CMU and the enthusiasm/creativity/effort that the students brought to that course was magic! 🥰
I was obsessed with looms as a child so you have no idea how excited I was to see this video pop up!
I'm glad you found the video. I had a tiny plastic loom. I think we got it at a yard sale? My dad made me a bigger wooden one. (That was also very primitive) Plus I was always weaving plants/sticks together for fun. I'm glad you liked the video!
I don’t know why I was recommended this but how glad I am for the recommendation. Great content and lovely editing
Great that you found the channel!
That's a lot of knowledge from start to finish. It's awesome. I like how you get all the theoretical stuff figured out so accurately that you didn't need to stop it and rework the design three or four times like I've seen other people do with their projects.
Well that still goes on but I try to keep the testing/verification at a small level. Like early prototypes before committing. Like I made a very simple version of the carriage just enough to learn I needed linear bearings vs plain bearings. Etc. I probably did 3 versions of the levers, etc but at a small scale the revisions are fast. Of course there’s always the danger of things that work ok in your prototype but fail at scale. Those are the worst. Lol
@@retrotechjournal Of course. It's always good to test your parts. I just see a lot of videos of people putting things together, not knowing why things don't work, taking the whole thing apart, testing individual parts, putting it together again, stopping it because it's doing something wrong, taking it apart again, changing the housing and the design, and putting it back again and hoping it works.
For something with a lot of moving parts, software, and delicate assembly like this, it's more difficult to account for things that go wrong before they do, even checking the parts before they are assembled into a single machine. That's what's impressive to me.
@@whyisblue923taken Yes, totally. I call that "integration testing hell" :] I did do some tricks like 3D printing little gaps in the cam spacer collars, so I could actually see where the cam was, and better diagnose jamming issues. Because "not being able to tell where the thing is or why it's jamming" was 100% going to happen. lol.
That stop animation is next level! Your videos are fun to watch :) I'm very impressed with the loom, that's a TON of pieces
Yes, that was an insane number of parts. So many rounds of 3D print!
Even with the automation, setting up a loom is a big job! Warp, weft, beater bars, shuttles, oh my!
True enough, but at least with this kind of setup I don't have to worry about threading a zillion patterned heddels, the single peg warping system makes warping fairly easy. That and the large size/low count warp, makes the actual setup comparatively painless. :]
You sir are a godfather of sweet creativity. Thank you sir for posting, I struggle and the way you display your invention helped me idealize the concept and mechanics so smoothly. I hope you are in good health and wish you well. Thank you
I'm glad you found the video, and that it was clear. I always hope to be both entertaining and educational, so it's good to hear that the ideas came across well. Have a happy new year!
@@retrotechjournal
Oh my goodness! I never expected a creator's reply and especially one on short notice.
I am a do-it-yourself enthusiast and was highly interested in a way to produce fabric in a fast paced manner. Your humor combined with quality visuals is such a delight for the brain to see and comprehend. I enjoy the stop motion Lego humor bits as well, they make intervals very memorable. Thank you so much for replying to my comment. I hope to see more of your channel and gain more knowledge. Thank you!!
I'm impressed by the stop motion and sound effects, that must've taken so long
Yes, exactly right. I think I often spend more time adjusting the timing/sound design for the stop motion than shooting the stop motion. Which is kind of crazy. I'm glad you liked it.
omg, youtube hide this gem for years!
That's me. Hiding in plain sight. :) I'm glad you found me.
The loom is already an amazing feat of engineering but I wanna take a second to appreciate your video editing skills. You probably put a few hours just in stop motion alone!
So true. Also this was my first big video, so I think only the scenes I made near the end (like the PCB montage) had decent edits. Learning as I go. I'm glad you liked it.
Absolutely love the stop motion! Just discovered your channel and can see it blowing up very soon
I'm glad you liked it! I suspect that my content creation rate is way to low for my channel to "blow up" but I enjoy doing it, so I'll keep at it. Thanks for the encouragement!
Great project and awesome presentation of it :D
Thanks!
Holy Crap! You are on a whole different level of Makers!! Amazingly complicated work and beautiful engineering skills! Please continue making!
Thanks! Don't worry I don't think I could stop making if I tried. I've been doing it my whole life. Mostly I've just been struggling to document any of it. Projects go much more slowly when you're trying to shoot video of it. I can only hope the pace picks up a bit as I get better at it. I used to think writing a blog post about a project was onerous. That was peanuts compared to UA-cam. lol.
I just came across this video, and it looks like maybe the channel and website aren't really active now but I just wanted to say this is amazing and you're essentially the kind of person I aspire to be one day, if I can get smarter and learn this kind of stuff.
Thank you for sharing this, and I will go through your other content soon!
I'm still active, but I do put more time into the videos than the blog these days. God when I think how easy a blog post is compared to a video I almost want to just go back to that. :] Still I'm excited to be getting folks enthused about making! It's a muscle, so just start and you'll get better at it over time.
Otherworldly, this is awesome, slow and steady always wins.
Gotta love your style for videos. You can just feel passion through it
Thanks. I just follow that passion around so I don’t really know what I’ll be building next. Lol. I’m glad you liked it.
Your channel is underrated. I admire all your talents!
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Damn dude, I am really impressed at the circuit board you made, the enclosure you had, the entire loom, but mostly the quality of this video! All that stop motion animation must have taken forever, but a nice touch to help understand how everything worked. Bravo my friend.
Thank you! Yes this one was particularly cross discipline, but of course the best projects are! :)
I'm a weaver, and that's a pretty cute electric loom, spacers would help alleviate any jamming of the hook things, I think it's pretty neat I'd build one if I new more about the computer side of the electronics. Thanks for sharing.
Oh thanks! Yes I'd say this is a pretty hard build. There's an iOS app and firmware. I did make it all open source, but the true is that weaving with it is fairly slow, so it's not super satisfying to use. I do have some ideas for how to make it much faster, but I've been working on other projects recently.
Your stop motion skits are incredibly well directed, and the sound effects design is amazing as well, wow
Also Jesus Christmas this whole project & execution is genius.
Oh thanks! I'm glad you liked the sound design. I think my actual animation skills have a long way to go, but I try to make up for it with extra effort in the sound design. :] I think sound is so important and is often overlooked. I'm excited you noticed!
your talent deserves more than 6.7K likes in 3yrs :( Awesome Amazing Job 🙏🏻 Thanks for sharing
I'm glad you liked it!
10/10 editing probably the best I've seen on UA-cam ever
Oh thanks!
Amazing work on that loom! Loved the video too. I don't think I would have found you if you weren't Bob's recommendation for the week on the Making It podcast, but I'm subscribed now!
I just hear that last night as I was driving! It felt like I'd fallen into Bizarro World to have Bob talking about me on the show. I almost had to pull over! So nice of him to give me a shout out. I'm a life long Maker, but fairly new to making videos. I'm glad you liked it!
So long as he doesn't get it caught in the loom. Awesome video, glad I watched it.
😆
Highly impressive. The baked surface mount components and the dreaded brick wall of design implications always remind me of my many many PCB prototypes. Wrong voltage here, broken component there.
The design mostly went smoothly but then when I was trying to unify the motor and logic supplies into a single supply I cheaped out on the DC to DC conversion bits and got something that would work for a while, but then eventually some spike on power up would fry the whole thing. Which was horrible. Oops. Going for a $2 more part could have saved me two entire dead boards and a lot of wasted time.
@@retrotechjournal That's one way to deal with it. I've usually solved that problem by putting a clamp/filter on the step down after diagnosis. Of course, that required a board revision and all of my money on the first stock of prototype boards just goes up in smoke. One way or another, a check will be signed.
It's incredible how old and at the same time, young you look.
I never thought of myself as old until some of these comments here. I guess since my beard turned grey I look older. It just never occurred to me. Some commenters think I'm retired! lol. I guess that is the down side to having a lot of folks projecting onto you based on a video or two. *shrug*
Ok this was epic. The complexity of all the moving parts reminds me a lot of Wintergaten's marble machine
Really great video edit too, it was engaging all the way through. Subscribed for more content as it trickles in
Ja when I started working on that thing I assumed it would never actually work. Too many moving parts for me to have any confidence. Still it seemed like there would be lots of fun design challenges/things to learn so I did it anyway. Oh I'm glad you liked it!
Wow! What an amazing video. Everything is mind-blowing, from the construction of the loom to the production values of this video. You deserve a million subs!
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
I'm impressed! You have an iron will... Congratulations! Well done!
i didnt even finish the video, this is the first thing i've seen from your channel, but already one minute in and I have to subscribe. 10/10
Update for the end of the video: still in
Awesome. I like how these comments were a bit like a dramatic story. I'm glad it turned out ok in the end. ;]
@@retrotechjournal haha me too! But it’s because at the end of this video you mention your post schedule is infrequent. Didn’t deter me at all
You continue to amaze and inspire me Kurt!! Loved the video - the stop-mo, the humor, the ingenuity and the overall storyline of your project, not to mention your end product!! Congratulations!
Oh I'm glad you liked it! Great to hear from you. It was fun learning about video making. I've got another in the works. I'm going to be doing some claymation later today! lol
Wow, brilliant production value and personality. You've put a lot of effort into this. Great work!
Oh thanks! I love digging into all the details on projects, and making this video was its own BIG project. I learned a ton doing it. Hopefully future videos won't demand quite the amount of time this one took!
dude.. ur channel is way underrated
Thanks! I think I just don't make enough content to actually rate. If I could put out a video every week I'd probably have more subscribers but that is not something I can do considering how long it takes me to make one of these things. :) I'm glad you like it.
Good stuff man! This is the first of your videos I've seen, please post more!
I'm glad you found me. I am working on another video. My family is going to be out of town next week, so I'm hoping I'll buckle down and work on it while they're away. I'd meant to work on it this long weekend, but instead I've been designing a brass tubing cutting rig. *sigh* 😄
Wow, this is amazing! I’m teaching a weaving loom class to our kids and their friends in our garage during COVID while schools are closed, and we’re going to watch this as a modern example of weaving.
Great! I'm glad you liked the video. Awesome that you're doing some extra teaching during COVID. I think knowing a bit more about weaving really makes people look at all the cloth around them differently. My dad build me a super simple loom when I out grew pot holder weaving and the process really stuck with me.
You deserve more recognition, your work is engineering art at it's finest.
Thank you, you're very kind. Weirdly I've gotten more recognition in the last 2 months than in the previous 3 years, so that's kind of amazing. I just like doing it because it's fun. The sudden recognition is kind of making me feel a little weird actually.
Oohh man, you did an amazing job ! The video was really pleasant to watch, and the loom is really nice ! Thanks for sharing !
My pleasure. I'm glad you liked it.
Just popped up in my feed too! Strange the way it’s popping up now but very much enjoyed it!
Yes. I have no idea why the algorithm has suddenly picked up my channel but suddenly folks are flooding in. I’m glad you liked it/found my channel.
Holy crap this is amazing. It's well made and edited, it does go into the details of how it's made, this is great!
Super underrated video. Respect
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
Fantastic! I imagine every one who has some technical knowledge can engage in making one.
I'm glad you liked it! It's certainly doable. It would take a weird mix of skills though. I think the main problem with the current design is it's pretty slow and it's a bit sensitive to very careful construction. The heddle wires often have a bit of a twist to them, and I had to kind of manually straiten them by eye. I have some ideas for making the thing a lot faster, and less sensitive to variations in part thickness, etc. I don't really know if I'll be able to find the time to make/troubleshoot that version.
I googled for "jackard weaving DIY machine" and got to your video. did not know the word "loom" so google did a great job showing your video at the top. I did this after visiting a museum where I saw huge black and white tapestry from an artist friend. He draws branches and then gives his designs to laser cutting, looming and what not shops to make enormus metal, wood, silk or paper art. I am more into DIY so I will like to experiment with looming. Maybe I will to make your machine. Will read your instructions and if I understand how you made it I will get into Jackard looming! Thanks!
@@alexecheverria Cool. Yes be warned that although I have open sourced the boards/code/designs that doesn't mean this project is anything like a "kit". The design files are undocumented, and there's nothing like "instructions" or anything like that. lol. Making one of these that was fully documented and easy to build for others would be a giant task. With very different design constraints. Also because there are a lot of 3D printed parts I think sending those out to be made would be prohibitively expensive. If you have a 3D printer and are comfortable building surface mount PCBs/compiling iPhone apps then feel free to take a stab at it and I'll answer questions. Just be warned that I like to make things I can just barely build so this isn't super easy.
This is legit cool, I weave among other fiber arts and it is impressive to see the quality you were managing to get with this!
Thanks! I definitely caught the sewing/knitting/weaving/tatting/quilting bug from my mom. I’m kind of devastated that my kids are old enough to no longer want Halloween costumes. It was so fun to do pattern design/sewing projects for them every October.
i love the way u illustrate the experiment, awesome channel.
Very entertaining video! I loved the animation sequences. And the loom has some very lovely design elements. But having to disassemble/reassemble that thing every time you want to make changes would drive me crazy!
Yes, that is the down side to something with 100's and 100's of pieces. Not as easy to iterate on it. That's one of the reasons I built an injection molding machine. Still you do have to do a lot of disassembly/reassembly for core changes. I tried to do most of my iteration when I only had 8 or 16 sections so it was fairly painless.
Very cool, impressive thought process and the level of work gone into designing that
Thanks. Yes, this was a particularly thorny build. I never really expected to get it fully working. I learned a lot doing it.
Man...! This is the best video I've seen on UA-cam in a LONG time. So cool! I'm going to check out the rest of your videos!