Adam Savage Builds a Paperclip "Borromean Box" with

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  • @tested
    @tested  Місяць тому +47

    Find Matt's new book, Love Triangle, here: amzn.to/3WWMfEZ
    Watch more of Matt's videos at Stand-Up Maths: ua-cam.com/users/standupmaths
    Zachary Abel's mathematical sculptures: zacharyabel.com/sculpture/

    • @VAXHeadroom
      @VAXHeadroom Місяць тому

      I want to see Adam, Matt, and Cliff Stoll all in a room doing stuff like this...Might be peak internet nerd entertainment...

    • @theadamabrams
      @theadamabrams Місяць тому +1

      @@VAXHeadroom Cliff must have a glass Borromean ring set somewhere, right? My thought was that Steve Mould and Adam Savage need their own collab to complete the set _this week._

    • @michaeljfigueroa
      @michaeljfigueroa 6 днів тому

      Guys get a room already ...

    • @michaeljfigueroa
      @michaeljfigueroa 6 днів тому

      Or do brain candy. Either one is acceptable

  • @JaySay
    @JaySay Місяць тому +536

    19:32 _"I'm enjoying the frustration."_
    The immediate cut to Matt sitting back a bit from the table with what I can only call *defeated contemplation* is so hilarious to me!😂

    • @SeanStClair-cr9jl
      @SeanStClair-cr9jl Місяць тому +12

      LMAO you are so right

    • @maple22moose44
      @maple22moose44 Місяць тому +16

      Never before have I seen an image in which I can so fully relate to both halves of it

    • @MikeJenson
      @MikeJenson Місяць тому

      23:21

    • @muhammad.mohsen
      @muhammad.mohsen Місяць тому +2

      YES!! that snap cut floored me 😂😂

  • @wesplybon9510
    @wesplybon9510 Місяць тому +376

    "I feel like I'm going to make a decision now and I'm going to regret it, but I don't know what the right decision is." - said EVERY engineer EVER.

    • @darrinrebagliati5365
      @darrinrebagliati5365 Місяць тому +6

      Said every engineer, daily!

    • @DominusFeles
      @DominusFeles Місяць тому +5

      Truth!

    • @Yezpahr
      @Yezpahr Місяць тому

      As said by Sheldon Cooper - Big Bang theory.

    • @kingofgar101
      @kingofgar101 Місяць тому +7

      when you start trying to make something of sufficient complexity you often just have to get all the obvious failure points out of the way as fast as possible so that you find out that they are obvious

    • @tristanridley1601
      @tristanridley1601 Місяць тому

      ​@@darrinrebagliati5365 If it's daily, I envy your job!

  • @Paradiso.21
    @Paradiso.21 Місяць тому +371

    I'm a simple man. I see "Adam builds [words I don't understand] with Matt Parker" and I click on the video.

    • @Imperial_Squid
      @Imperial_Squid Місяць тому

      Oh boy! "Adam builds ạ̶̧̧̨̢̱̣̳̲̠̞̲͎̫͙̳͖͍̦͖̫̰̰̥͇͚̲̮̱͙̟̤̦̪̮̥̟̦̳̘͙͊́̆͒̾̓̇̓̀̽̋̿͂̍̽̓̅̾̓̔̌̀̚͝͝ ̵̢̢̧̛̤̱̯̮̪͖̮̙͎͈̝͚̜̖̬̖͍̙̻̄̐̆̽̈́́̿̃̋͊̂̚̕͠ͅc̸̯̰̟̪͚͋̍̏̓͐̇̑̈́͂̑̇͊̾͊̐͛͋̈́͝ư̶̢̨̹͖̳̙̞̩̘̰̼̝͔͕̩̠͎̭̹̰̲̬̬̹̙̳̯͔̦͂͋͑̑̐͌̏̄̃̎͊͌̃̓̾̿̄̒̎̈́̔̿̐̃̓͆̀̊̚͠͝͝b̸̢̧̨̧̧̢̼̝̲̻͉̠̮͚̟͍̩͕̤̙̬̗̖̻̬͓͓̱͉̖̱̪̦̞̖̲̳͓̮̙̗̣̙͓̦͙͔͙͈̽̌̎̽͜e̴̢̨̧̧̛̫͚͎̟̫͓̭̻͙̼̟̻͇͈͈̘͕̥̖̋̃̎̈́̉̒͆͒̉̓̋̇̏͑̅̾̀̇͐̓͘͠ͅ with Matt Parker"? Sign me up!!

    • @zaror211
      @zaror211 Місяць тому +2

      For me just seeing any one of them is enough :)

    • @columbus8myhw
      @columbus8myhw Місяць тому +4

      Oh, a "paperclip" is a metal rod bent into a clip shape used for holding paper together. Hope that helps!

  • @grievesy83
    @grievesy83 Місяць тому +414

    9:16 "It looks like you're trying to build a sculpture" - absolutely sent me!
    Long live Clippy in our memories (in scorn, of course).

    • @grievesy83
      @grievesy83 Місяць тому +6

      ('Clippy' was an answer to a question on my episode of Hard Quiz - Aussies will understand)

    • @berend_dijk
      @berend_dijk Місяць тому +10

      Yup, great Clippy reference that triggered me as well 😂

    • @bloodvue
      @bloodvue Місяць тому +6

      The hate this caused in my very soul

    • @GeorgeSanger
      @GeorgeSanger Місяць тому +32

      Top tier joke, completely missed by Adam

    • @zyxwvut4740
      @zyxwvut4740 Місяць тому

      "Clippy Must DIE!":
      ua-cam.com/video/NxcmoLKVd60/v-deo.html

  • @Rubrickety
    @Rubrickety Місяць тому +223

    Hexastix: “Start building it, and keep building it, and then you’re done.” Borromean Box: "Start building it, and keep... um... keep... dammit, just... keep.... nnghh..."

    • @tested
      @tested  Місяць тому +101

      Pretty much. We started the day by filming the hexastix and we were SO HAPPY WE DID.

    • @nanamacapagal8342
      @nanamacapagal8342 Місяць тому +32

      If the hexastix is the beauty of doing math, the borromean box is the frustration of doing math

    • @scoobertmcruppert2915
      @scoobertmcruppert2915 Місяць тому +1

      Where is the Hexastix video?

    • @MrSupahlovah
      @MrSupahlovah Місяць тому

      I had built the "impenatraball" from Zachary Abel's site years and years ago, i still have it on my desk in my office! It was quite a bit of work to get it together, I love it though!

    • @LeoStaley
      @LeoStaley Місяць тому

      @@scoobertmcruppert2915 the video for it was August 21

  • @NicolasMarti-me1xp
    @NicolasMarti-me1xp Місяць тому +312

    At this point Matt Parker should just be a regular on the channel.

    • @tested
      @tested  Місяць тому +230

      Well, he kind of is, and we’re here for it! It just depends on his travel schedule is all; he has an open invitation with us.

    • @VAXHeadroom
      @VAXHeadroom Місяць тому +35

      @@tested Bring in Cliff Stoll with Matt next time !

    • @gabotron94
      @gabotron94 Місяць тому +21

      @@VAXHeadroom Cliff Stoll and Adam Savage together would probably be an almost uncontrollable amount of enthusiasm

    • @JuanGuzzoSantana
      @JuanGuzzoSantana Місяць тому +5

      @@VAXHeadroom Biggest collab of all time! All for Cliff in the channel!

    • @ReedCBowman
      @ReedCBowman Місяць тому

      @@gabotron94 If there's one person on Earth who could make Adam as exhausted with their overenthusiasm as Jamie was with Adam's...

  • @JolynBowler
    @JolynBowler Місяць тому +117

    Thanx for sharing your "play date" with us. Y'all look like you are having entirely too much fun. Oh so good!!! 💙🌻💙

  • @wilhelmineh
    @wilhelmineh Місяць тому +605

    I like Matt's color choice. Blåhaj is just amazing.

    • @wazz_up_dog
      @wazz_up_dog Місяць тому +135

      i saw that and was immediately like: "matt knew what he was doing".

    • @bl4cksp1d3r
      @bl4cksp1d3r Місяць тому +1

      @@wazz_up_dog gosh i hope so!

    • @alexandrarabinovici3826
      @alexandrarabinovici3826 Місяць тому +113

      Trans flag and rasta flag :)

    • @JustKelsey
      @JustKelsey Місяць тому +44

      was gonna comment the same when i saw the colors 😂🦈

    • @steckelton717
      @steckelton717 Місяць тому +35

      It's just so nice & comforting to see :)

  • @FrostCraftedMC
    @FrostCraftedMC Місяць тому +85

    "im having fun! im enjoying the difficulty"
    *cut to matt sitting back away from the table, staring at the project like it insulted his mother*

  • @ApothecaryTerry
    @ApothecaryTerry Місяць тому +12

    I don't think I've ever seen a more perfect demonstration of the gradual descent into insanity.

  • @brianjamesward2150
    @brianjamesward2150 Місяць тому +270

    Not to be confused with the Boromirian box, which is just a normal box that's been shot full of arrows :D

    • @Elwaves2925
      @Elwaves2925 Місяць тому +33

      That reference has a ring to it.

    • @ecksearoh6283
      @ecksearoh6283 Місяць тому +11

      Now I need someone to make a boromirian box out of paperclip arrows.

    • @DefinatelyNotAI
      @DefinatelyNotAI Місяць тому +5

      @@ecksearoh6283 Tiny bows.

    • @genericgamer2003
      @genericgamer2003 Місяць тому +9

      Too soon haha

    • @khendar
      @khendar Місяць тому +13

      I hear that was always his father's favourite box, as opposed to the Faramirian box which was always a disappointment.

  • @snafu2350
    @snafu2350 Місяць тому +61

    Love Matt & Adam collabs :) Let there be more!

    • @tested
      @tested  Місяць тому +28

      We agree!

  • @lujho
    @lujho Місяць тому +135

    They should have pre-clipped the inner part out of each paperclip before even starting, so it was just an oval with only a small amount of overlap of the two ends. That would have solved the issue of one end being too small to fit the other clips into and made the whole thing easier.
    Obviously hindsight is 20/20 because I only thought of this when they were almost done. But that’s what I’d do if I was trying this.

    • @wumbojet
      @wumbojet Місяць тому +21

      I think they wanted to preserve the shape of the paperclips

    • @ikocheratcr
      @ikocheratcr Місяць тому +3

      I was thinking of a special wire bend, but your idea is way better, just cut the inner side, super!

    • @Tentakill.
      @Tentakill. Місяць тому +15

      @@wumbojet I don't think they succeeded haha

    • @pentacleman1000
      @pentacleman1000 Місяць тому +13

      I started thinking that as soon as they hit that problem and didn't do it. All they wanted were ovals, so just cut out the extra bit.

    • @Drakith90
      @Drakith90 Місяць тому +7

      The original they were trying to recreate still had the whole clips so they were trying to stick to the source material

  • @acsetpoint
    @acsetpoint Місяць тому +42

    I love that little Clippy joke, "It looks like you are trying to build a sculpture..."

  • @BlackSoap361
    @BlackSoap361 Місяць тому +84

    Adam tried to slip “any integer” by Matt, Matt gently corrected him to “any whole number.”
    I want to see Adam try to construct one with a negative number of links.

    • @anteshell
      @anteshell Місяць тому +10

      Well.. It was still wrong. All 0, 1 and 2 are whole numbers but you cannot build this with those amounts of loops. It only works with three or more loops.

    • @iambadatcomingupwithcomeba2060
      @iambadatcomingupwithcomeba2060 Місяць тому +3

      It would be any natural number then

    • @antonliakhovitch8306
      @antonliakhovitch8306 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@anteshellYeah. I don't think that was a correction; I think that was Matt throwing in simpler language for viewers who might not know what an integer is.

    • @tinhoyhu
      @tinhoyhu Місяць тому

      I'd imagine that it'd be a complex build.

    • @antonliakhovitch8306
      @antonliakhovitch8306 Місяць тому

      @@tinhoyhu We're talking about a negative, but still real number of links. A complex number is a whole nother level.

  • @linamishima
    @linamishima Місяць тому +51

    Turns out the phenomenon of parker square does in fact extend to three dimensional problems :D Huge love for the colour choices too, appropriate for Matt's excellent taste in t-shirts!

  • @JaySay
    @JaySay Місяць тому +16

    Always love seeing Matt Parker on the channel! As a Stand-Up Mathematician, he's such a "stand-up" guy and always enjoys even the simplest bit of fun in all things science.
    I'm a big lover of all things geometry and the ins-and-outs of shapes, too, so the more of these videos to watch the better!❤

  • @Feralfoundry
    @Feralfoundry Місяць тому +26

    ❤ one of the best examples ever shown of nuero divergent co-play and interaction ever.

    • @IcerCheck
      @IcerCheck Місяць тому +2

      I get what you mean but 😭😭😭

  • @BandwidthMusic
    @BandwidthMusic Місяць тому +30

    I love the "shapes with Matt Parker" series

  • @davedujour1
    @davedujour1 Місяць тому +56

    It looks like they're wiring up some old school computer memory.

  • @1bytesnack369
    @1bytesnack369 Місяць тому +65

    Seems fitting that the Parker cube is as perfect as the Parker square.

    • @Gabu_
      @Gabu_ Місяць тому +7

      It's also Parker-linked - not quite but just a bit

    • @haph2087
      @haph2087 Місяць тому +2

      Exactly what I was thinking.

    • @fbdd5
      @fbdd5 Місяць тому +3

      Can't wait to see how janky the Parker hyoercube ends up being

  • @BoroczBarnabass
    @BoroczBarnabass Місяць тому +35

    Nitinol paper clips return to their original shape when put in hot water after bending. Maybe you could try that.

  • @dralbora
    @dralbora Місяць тому +8

    Absolutely the most fun two makers can share! Perfect! Percussive refinement at the end punctuates the process.

  • @MadMcGlory
    @MadMcGlory Місяць тому +12

    "If everything is sentient, then these are livid" - This for what every reason has me laughing out loud to myself. Ty

  • @DanielCrist
    @DanielCrist Місяць тому +4

    Every single line spoken by these two men could be put in a book of engineering words of wisdom.

  • @michel8218
    @michel8218 Місяць тому +5

    More with Matt please. This is golden to watch

  • @uDidWatt
    @uDidWatt Місяць тому +7

    I can imagine each time you pick them up, you spend more time pressing, twisting, and banging them into shape. We've all been there.. it never gets better

  • @MisterPhish
    @MisterPhish Місяць тому +14

    one way that may be more in the spirit of the Borromean box and less in the spirit of "out of paperclips" could be to snip out the center turn of the paperclip at a height that lines up with the other "tail" of the paperclip wire, so it essentially forms a broken chainlink where both ends line up and can either be taped together or just left aligned. I feel like it could eliminate a lot of the difficulty as well.

    • @pauljohnson2023
      @pauljohnson2023 Місяць тому

      I was fascinated by the way Adam straightened the paperclips and then proceeded to recreate the inner bend that was giving them the most trouble ...

  • @DasGanon
    @DasGanon Місяць тому +39

    9:16 Clippy!

    • @MattHaugh
      @MattHaugh Місяць тому +2

      I chuckled at that too!

    • @3gsFreak
      @3gsFreak Місяць тому

      Came to the comments to say that too! 📎 Clippy 💜

  • @AvNerdVR
    @AvNerdVR Місяць тому +2

    Went down the rabbit hole of Zachary Abel’s “quality side projects to assign an active mind to in a boring office.
    I don’t understand the math on any of them, but enjoy puzzles. Gonna give the poker face one a go this week.
    Y’all are awesome. Been a huge fan of you since I was a kid, Adam. And it is incredibly awesome to me 1. That you’re still having fun doing this stuff, and 2. That you’re sharing your fun with the world.

  • @emolgana
    @emolgana Місяць тому +67

    ok but matt's trans box has some incredible vibes going for it

  • @webbot15
    @webbot15 Місяць тому +13

    They look like hand knitted memory for a 1930's time machine

  • @drumsNstuff79
    @drumsNstuff79 Місяць тому +4

    I saw the thumbnail for his and thought "Oh they are going to do some little trick and bend these paperclips nicely into a perfect cube and it will be symmetrical and neat..", and then here they are with these bent muscled in, broken, compromises of a cube.. An 'A' for effort you two! You did your best.

  • @ChoppedMutton
    @ChoppedMutton Місяць тому +26

    Waited the whole video for the eureka moment when they'd snip the superfluous inner loops of the clips.

    • @RawrLess
      @RawrLess Місяць тому +1

      It’s because the increased the number of paperclips

    • @Drakith90
      @Drakith90 Місяць тому +4

      The originals on Zachary Abel's site all have the entire paper clip so they were trying to emulate that

    • @ChoppedMutton
      @ChoppedMutton Місяць тому +4

      @@Drakith90 When they came to the realization they weren't going to be able to emulate it without mangling the paper clips is when I expected the eureka moment.

  • @cannibalbananas
    @cannibalbananas Місяць тому +3

    I like the clothespin vs electrical tape methods. Also it was both mentally stimulating, and relaxing to watch you two play w/ giant paperclips

  • @mr.cooper2031
    @mr.cooper2031 Місяць тому +4

    A fine pair of Parker Cubes in the end

  • @sinerealitas
    @sinerealitas Місяць тому +103

    I wasn't sure if it was an intentional choice on Matt's part to pick the trans flag colors for his paperclips, but then I noticed he's wearing a rainbow heart T-shirt as well and that seems very intentional. :0

    • @DavidLindes
      @DavidLindes Місяць тому +17

      I noticed the colors, too... hadn't noticed the shirt until I read this! Seems like we've got some allyship, at the very least. 🏳‍⚧🏳‍🌈

    • @zekanner
      @zekanner Місяць тому +12

      I looked in the comments purely to see if someone else noticed. As soon as I saw him pick the trans flag colours I got excited :3
      It's also just a really good colour scheme.

    • @tassadar7945
      @tassadar7945 Місяць тому +10

      so glad one of my siblings also noticed it! I clicked so fast because i was like "trans cube trans cube trans cube"

    • @SteinGauslaaStrindhaug
      @SteinGauslaaStrindhaug Місяць тому +15

      I've noticed Matt is very consistently referring to people he don't know, particularly viewers/listeners using singular they which is great. It of course just makes a lot of sense to do so with random people from around the world since unless the viewer/listener specified their pronouns, it's impossible to reliably guess someones pronouns from a foreign name. But I've noticed him also refer to people he know or famous people with singular they too; often (somewhat stubbornly) alternating between singular they and the person's presumed preferred pronouns; which I'm sure is a deliberate choice to normalise singular they. So I'm pretty sure he's an ally, and I would not be surprised if he has trans friends or family, so the choice of trans flag colours is probably deliberate.

    • @ezraclark7904
      @ezraclark7904 Місяць тому +3

      The Transcube sounds like a real geometrical concept too

  • @TheBobbytables
    @TheBobbytables Місяць тому +4

    A murder of Crows
    A Parliament of Owls
    ...
    A Mockery of Stationery.

  • @frankbraker
    @frankbraker Місяць тому +2

    "We are very triumphant having done the first step." Great line! It all looks like some sort of strange inductive device.

  • @BlackCatBritt
    @BlackCatBritt Місяць тому +1

    the slow descent into chaos & madness here is hilariously wholesome to watch. I love it

  • @o0superflu0o
    @o0superflu0o Місяць тому +1

    Two of my favourite people on youtube just making things together. I love these collaborations!
    (Also, I love Matt's shirt and the colours he chose)

  • @TheShanir
    @TheShanir Місяць тому +3

    Beautiful Parker Cube

  • @ace.of.space.
    @ace.of.space. Місяць тому +5

    "Sorta" is really the name of the game with Matt Parker

  • @nickiebanchou
    @nickiebanchou Місяць тому +17

    since all you wanted was "rings" basically, i'd have simply snipped the inner loop of those clips 🙃

    • @RyohMadDog
      @RyohMadDog Місяць тому +4

      But that's not all they wanted, they've done a couple videos of shapes with office supplies. They wanted to do it with paperclips and for them to still seem like paper clips

  • @jjm014
    @jjm014 Місяць тому +2

    I remember Adam saying at one point in the past about his work at ILM that "every prop has a hero side", and the statement has never rung truer than right now.

  • @PassionPopsicle
    @PassionPopsicle Місяць тому +1

    "From my friend, Matt Parker"
    I don't have enough words for how much I love this

  • @ikocheratcr
    @ikocheratcr Місяць тому

    Fantastic video, the build is very nice, but the two of you interacting about how to build it, that is priceless.

  • @PiedPiperProjects
    @PiedPiperProjects Місяць тому +5

    There's a chainmaille technique called "Japanese 4-in-1" that can be used to accomplish to same effect with jump rings.

  • @vernhoke7730
    @vernhoke7730 Місяць тому +4

    Oh man, when he said there's a beer in the US that has a logo like that, Ballantine. My great uncle owned a bar back when I was a kid. My father and my grandfather tended bar there in the sixties. The other day, going through a small box of coins, mostly wheat pennies, and a couple of steel ones, I found a small Ballantine 3 ring aluminum trinket that I must-have picked up as a kid.

    • @leeunterreiner
      @leeunterreiner Місяць тому

      In my college days in the 60's Ballantine was 5 dollars a case (24 bottles). It was our go-to beverage.

  • @jacoerasmus591
    @jacoerasmus591 Місяць тому

    Really enjoying these videos with Matt!

  • @jsharpvideos1861
    @jsharpvideos1861 Місяць тому

    I appreciate the colors that were chosen!!

  • @agucci-e8x
    @agucci-e8x Місяць тому +50

    really should be a "feat Matt Parker" in this lol

    • @amphicorp4725
      @amphicorp4725 Місяць тому +1

      My thoughts exactly

    • @Antipico
      @Antipico Місяць тому +4

      Your comment rocks!

    • @JaySay
      @JaySay Місяць тому +4

      ​@@Antipico-It didn't when he commented it... You can edit them without taking down the video.-
      I guess i'll play along and edit my comment, too.😘

    • @Antipico
      @Antipico Місяць тому

      @@JaySay 😁

    • @JaySay
      @JaySay Місяць тому +2

      @@Antipico Is something wrong?
      Are we playing a game of "comment tag" now or something?🤨

  • @mahmga1
    @mahmga1 Місяць тому

    Man, how cool to be able to call up Adam Savage for a hang-out. I mean that's just beyond awesome, for both no doubt.

  • @laskey2175
    @laskey2175 Місяць тому +1

    I'm loving Matt's UA-camr collaboration lately. 👍

  • @brettevill9055
    @brettevill9055 Місяць тому +21

    Cut off the redundant inner loops,

    • @microwrx
      @microwrx Місяць тому +2

      Exactly. The outside loop is still complete and the inside loop isn't even part of the 3 intersecting ellipses anyway.

  • @CarJul666
    @CarJul666 Місяць тому

    Thanks for sharing your frustration with us. It's very entertaining to watch.

  • @MetallicCopperToad
    @MetallicCopperToad Місяць тому +2

    I love when they collab.

  • @garychaiken808
    @garychaiken808 Місяць тому +1

    Great job guys. Thank you 😊

  • @R.B.
    @R.B. Місяць тому +1

    At one of my jobs in college, I used to build paperclip structures like this. I never made a cube, but there are some interesting properties when you link them in the right way.

  • @Chaotic_Pixie
    @Chaotic_Pixie Місяць тому

    I am an artist. A fiber artist… who pursued a math degree… and this is SO inspiring. You’ve got my analytical & artistic brains going and now I want to play instead of work on the birthday gift I’ve been working on.

  • @streetstomper
    @streetstomper Місяць тому

    man I love these kind of raw videos. so much fun to watch

  • @robertthompson3447
    @robertthompson3447 Місяць тому

    The collaboration that I have been waiting for. 🤩

  • @jsharpvideos1861
    @jsharpvideos1861 Місяць тому +1

    Being an Artist is a Mindset too

  • @paulj3781
    @paulj3781 Місяць тому +2

    "My metric for success has gradually been relaxing" 🤣

  • @c016smith52
    @c016smith52 Місяць тому

    I’m so excited, I enjoyed the hexastix video (and did that project myself, so fun) and can’t wait to try this! Thanks

  • @baileescott401
    @baileescott401 Місяць тому

    The way how everything is interlocked but not knotted reminds me a lot of crochet! Or knitting for that matter. The last step is securing the piece with an actual knot, because the fabric it'self is a matrix of slip knots that form the fabric. It appears to be all held into place. but if you don't finish your work by securing it, everything can come undone!. But with yarnwork in it's simplest form it is a single continuous line that loops in and over back over and through itself continuously. I find a lot of beauty in that. And the skill has become easier than riding a bike to me, so it's quite satisfying as well

  • @visualdragon
    @visualdragon Місяць тому +2

    9:15 "It looks like you're trying to build a sculpture..." Clippy reference FTW!

  • @robertoats1517
    @robertoats1517 Місяць тому

    I love these collabs with Matt Parker.

  • @TobyWanKenobi-1
    @TobyWanKenobi-1 Місяць тому +2

    I enjoyed this problem and wondered about 20 minutes in, should they have used their first 3 sets of groupings as the very center and worked outwards which may have made the linking easier

  • @skullium
    @skullium Місяць тому +11

    I would have just clipped off the smaller loop of the paper clip, problem solved!

  • @JXZ2
    @JXZ2 17 днів тому

    I love this, it's something anyone could try to do, and it looks very impressive.

  • @eirikmellesdal
    @eirikmellesdal Місяць тому +1

    Another savage video.xP Great work from both Parker and Savage.

  • @njones420
    @njones420 Місяць тому +13

    Faramean box next week?

  • @NoVIcE_Source
    @NoVIcE_Source Місяць тому +1

    its lovely to see adam and matt together

  • @antimattered3921
    @antimattered3921 Місяць тому +2

    adam parker and matt savage. lovely

  • @cmygamelife
    @cmygamelife Місяць тому

    I love how you tell me how and why it works then you show me. Best way to learn because by the end i somehow catch on thanks to all the pieces together.

  • @thomasleathrum7156
    @thomasleathrum7156 Місяць тому +4

    Speaking from experience, Borromean rings make for fun 3D prints.

  • @danielbender4327
    @danielbender4327 Місяць тому

    I loved this descent into madness

  • @johnrobie7444
    @johnrobie7444 Місяць тому +5

    How about a follow-up episode with you and Matt but you bring in Zachary Abel to help?

  • @jamespeltzer5380
    @jamespeltzer5380 Місяць тому +1

    This duo is awesome

  • @SirJoshuaTree
    @SirJoshuaTree Місяць тому +2

    @17:43 "There's at least two ways!" Such a mathematician's way of looking at the world. "We've proven two, but there could always be more!"

  • @hyperverbal
    @hyperverbal Місяць тому

    I liked that way you brought Matt into the Frame❤ 🖼️

  • @NotMyActualName_
    @NotMyActualName_ Місяць тому +13

    Just looking at the thumbnail I knew Matt Parker would be in the episode

  • @debbenjo5875
    @debbenjo5875 Місяць тому

    Fascinating to watch!

  • @chriskondak1867
    @chriskondak1867 Місяць тому

    I love this. I've seen 2 others... Staples: take lengths of staples that are as long as 3, and slide them together into a cube. Also Business Cards: fold in half and assemble into cubes. With a whole box of cards you can interlace the cubes into shapes!

  • @xLewleit
    @xLewleit 6 днів тому

    Matt's Clippy reference at 9:15 was *chefs kiss*

  • @laurenmp7486
    @laurenmp7486 Місяць тому

    The beginning with the loops reminded me of Matt's Royal Institution lecture where he talks about the Ballentine's beer logo, and then Matt brings up the logo.

  • @danielgebert4556
    @danielgebert4556 Місяць тому +2

    Adam’s looks like something an electrician would carry around when doing some kind of industrial wiring.

  • @ares395
    @ares395 Місяць тому +4

    31:10 Me with every project I start. Ever.

  • @ivanheffner2587
    @ivanheffner2587 Місяць тому

    I’d like to see Adam build a working trebuchet out of office supplies. Pencils and rubber bands would be the minimal set of supplies necessary. To improve the performance, a pen cap or barrel can help reduce friction at the joint(s). Depending on how one classifies office materials you can use some basic string or twine; or if you really want to put some time into it, take the strings off some intra-office mail envelopes to braid into some rope for lashing it all together and making the sling.

  • @goddessSue13
    @goddessSue13 28 днів тому

    +10 for Clippy reference "looks like you're trying to build a sculpture " 😂😂

  • @pinklemonade6597
    @pinklemonade6597 Місяць тому

    I could watch them just tinker and try stuff for hours!

  • @spyersecol0013
    @spyersecol0013 Місяць тому

    Watching this while high from a joint... EXCELLENT!

  • @quintdegraaf1710
    @quintdegraaf1710 Місяць тому

    i love that you have given office workers someting to do

  • @1bytesnack369
    @1bytesnack369 Місяць тому +7

    The journey was clearly the point of this build.

    • @tested
      @tested  Місяць тому +6

      Very true!

  • @WolfRose1Studios
    @WolfRose1Studios Місяць тому

    This definitely feels like one of those things where the ratio of the wire size to the dimensions of the paperclip needs to be taken into account like how the ratio of the inner diameter to the wire size determines what type of chainmail that you can make from it.

  • @fusionofhorizons
    @fusionofhorizons Місяць тому +6

    the Tested version of the Gordian Knot

  • @zakuraayame5091
    @zakuraayame5091 Місяць тому

    I read boomerang box at first; was wondering how that would work! A box that could shoot a paperclip, have it come back, and catch it would be quite the marvel!

  • @philipzielinski
    @philipzielinski Місяць тому +4

    9:30 Clippy has entered the chat. 😂