I think of the Wallace and Grommit animations when I watch your machine talk. So delightfully weird. And the bike is really cool. I bet the steel is necessary for the kind of stresses being put on it with a person riding. I like to imagine that he made little bare feet inside each of the tiny shoes.
He actually did make little feet at first that could rotate separately. He found out that they often get stuck on the heels so had to remove them, but kind of funny that this was actually the case in the original design
One of my favorite leak-proof silicone casting tips I’ve seen came from Robert Tolone’s channel. You paint the mould mating surfaces with the same silicone that you will be casting, and then close the mould. You let that cure ahead of time, and it creates a gasket that won’t let any of your main silicone leak through (but it may bond to the gasket instead)
A small speaker would never have been enough. You’d need some air moving through there! Maybe a long throw subwoofer? Lol. Might sound quite demonic though.
When pouring, don't move the pour around the mould, stick to one place so you don't get trapped air. Also pour from as high as you can so you get a thin stream.
The biggest difference between what you made and the real deal is the fact that there's no actual sound being "pushed" out. It's a speaker. It will make noise regardless. Sound travels with air, air is pushed out, also, more than just the tongue and lips create the noise. There's indeed quite a lot going on. IMO, this would've worked day one with one major alteration, a larynx and a small pressure vessel (balloon). A reed in the larynx area would've made the noises (limited) and the larynx would've made the volume modulation. Probably a bagpipe would've worked.
It would work great if you had made a voice box, such as some sort of reed or flexible matirial to push air through. The tone would then change depending on the resonance frequency, wich would be alterable by the mouth and toung. The mistake you made was you used a speaker. The speaker is driven by a fixed tone generated by your computer, and is unafected by the resonance frequency or other variables in the mouth.
Yes, exactly. Our vocal chords produce a very reedy tone with rich harmonics, which the vocal passage filters with two or more "formants" created by blocking, unblocking, or shaping the various cavities. Not to mention we vary the fundamental pitch of the vocal chords as we speak or sing. Air flow per se is not needed, but the harmonics definitely are. So I suspect the apparatus James built is actually a lot better than he thinks -- just needs square or sawtooth wave waveform to the speaker.
I was thinking the same and searched through the comments to see if the point had been made... he showed the bellows experiment, which is a big clue to simulate lung function as the sound source. The vocal cords are muscle-tensioned "reeds" that can be tuned and the mouth shaping as tunable resonator that would be able to tune harmonics. Perhaps a colab with a vocal cord expert like "The Charismatic Voice" channel is in order?
All of the creators did an awesome job with the Secret Santa builds loved everyone of them. Thanks to the tested team for getting me started on this playlist and some new channels to add to my watch list.
Awesome! Just an idea here for the air in the silicone mold: When people cast stuff in concrete, they also need to have a way to get the air out... they use vibration to get the job done. You could try the same using a hacksaw, massager, low freq speakers, etc...
Funnily enough I am just going around watching all the creators in a big loop, and you’re the first one so far to mention that you can do that. Great invention. Well done
I saw a picture that looked like it was *Colin* as the thumbnail and I had to see. I’ve never seen this channel. *Now, I’m subscribed!* *Thanks for the video!*
A manufacturer that once I worked for put vibration motors on a table to vibrate out the air bubbles of resin. We would fill the cavities of the product with resin after sealing it with RTV silicone then put it on the vibrating table. The circuit board inside was also conformal coated. All this was to weather proof the circuitry inside.
Yep, it worked. I watched Colin fuse and the. Subscribed to you and Becky as well. Excellent way for watchers to branch out and find good content providers. I can’t believe Colin’s version of your wheel actually worked so well. Happy Christmas.
You could have your "mouth" learned to speak with an artificial intelligence that listens to the sound emitted with different combinations of servo positions and compares the acoustic signal with a real one. By doing so, he could really speak. It is really an interesting and very feasible project. I highly appreciate the fact that you are able to produce such content at such a short distance from each other.🤙🏻
The problem is not in the software, but in the mouth and servos themselves. Likely there's just not enough control over the shape of the mouth, and too much 'leakage' of sound.
@@Pfooh Surely the mouth itself has great limitations but my advice was aimed at making the most of the existing system and in addition it would be an automated way to calibrate future versions of this project.😉
I've used 3D printed stuff as a silicone mould before. If you want to get something out really quickly then pour some hot water over the plastic, makes it much easier to pull things out rather than chipping away with pliers!
2 things I thought about while watching your video. First I would have tried a vibrating fixture to agitate the silicone and let the air bubbles rise similar to the process of using a concrete vibrator to get the air bubbles out of a foundation wall. Second I would have tried using airflow through your mouth tube and used either vibrating cords or something similar to a flute type instrument to generate the sound. For fun I would have also experimented with lighter/heavier gasses to change the tone as well.
0:05 The secret santa single big loop is not a guarantee unless the drawing is done in a specific very way: choose someone to draw first, the first drawer. The first drawer's name is excluded from future drawings - otherwise someone might draw the first drawer's name and close the loop prematurely. For i s.t. 1 < i < n where n is the number of people participating, the ith person (1-indexed) to draw is the person that the (i-1)th person drew. The nth person is automatically assigned/becomes the secrete santa of the first drawer, thus closing the loop. If not done this way, it's possible that you end up with more than one loop.
a good tip for the lack of vacuum pump to draw out the air bubbles for the mold is to attach a drill with a lopsided weight on it to a table and leave it running so it's vibrating :)
The next time you pour silicone, get on a ladder and pour a tiny stream into the mold very slowly. The bubbles pop on the way down due to the long thin stream.
It's gotta a nostalgic aesthetic. Reminds me the Sesame Street's Martians. "Yup, yup, yup" Hey, Merry Christmas, James. Praying for all the best for you in 2022.
If you pour in the silicone from a lot higher up, you'll get a thinner stream and, although it would take longer to fill, it would eliminate most of the air bubbles.
I’m here from Colin Furze I’m very surprised how well the wheel works I thought the friction and weight would sicnificantly slow down the moment the peddles stopped
I had a free preview of a japanese channel ten years ago. They had documentaries... odd documentaries. Topics included... adult toy research. They had almost the exact device that you showed in the beginning lol. It had servos all around to mimic muscles. The funny thing was when the powered it up the processor would boot and when it did all the independent rather powerful servos to all grip... FORCEFULLY. It made me cringe. Lol. Dont be surprised if your build is "opensourced" and repurposed by a foreign company.
James your video came on after Colin’s. I wasn’t paying attention (sorry) but when I looked up and saw what it *looked like you were building* I had to re look. I don’t need to say anymore. 😬
I think for version 2.0, you should give it teeth. Teeth are important to press the tongue against, and they are the source of much of the white noise we make blowing air past in a particular way. Also you could give it a larynx, just a tube you blow air through with some sort of vocal cords, rubber band-like, and the cords can be tightened with a servo, and a controllable source of air. Either a big fan behind a lot of baffles to get rid of the noise it makes, or maybe compressed air with something similar.
Though I greatly admire Colin Furze, cycling over a 2 inch thick beam is something a regular wheel does too, as was shown by your hindwheel. The real question is...does it do stairs???
I think the reason it didn't work properly, or at least a significant part of it, is that you are driving it with a speaker. Because of that, you only have sound waves moving through it, but no actual airflow as in a real mouth (or the utterance machine).
I think the major flaw is that a speaker doesn't work the same as a larynx. A speaker has air that oscillates back and forth whereas a Larynx has air passing through it - like a wind instrument. It should be much better if you just replace the speaker with a fan and a reed.
In the future. If you need to get air bubbles out might try vibration of some kind? Or am I off about it? In science class we made vacume chambers out of plastic fish tanks mounted on plywood with a hole in it. Just used house hold shop vacs to get some vacuum
And you all made the naughty list for what you're thinking about this build! Shame on you it's Christmas! Lol. Now that everyone's been properly shamed, you sir are a certified genius ! Your videos always blow my mind how it seems all the details you speak of just seem to be normal everyday stuff, like a recipe for ice cubes lol while I'm over here googling every other term to (unsuccessful) follow along with some assemblence of understanding, to only be amazed with every video! Long compliment short..great video!!!
3:40. Vibration gets rid of air in concrete...... should work in this situation also. Oil or diesel works with shuttering. Perhaps olive oil would work on molds?
"Screw holes" "Ooze out of" "Mould cavity" "Slosh it around" "Bang it on the table" "Locked in by the base" "Rubbery tongue" "Lovely licky tongue" "Lip at the front"
This is AWESOME!!!!! THANK you!
👋
No you
@@namelessalias0007 this is the best "no you" i have ever seen
Awesomeness!
Alternative title: I made Adam Savage a fuck toy.
My friend you've made a flesh lite with a bunch of servos and a speaker. Pretty fun though.
That was my thought as well. . .
It's the Boner Simpson Fleshlight model featured in this video
explains why he DIDN'T use the flesh pigment for the body of the thing ;-)
When you turn it off the message please wash me plays
🤣🤣🤣
I sure didnt have James making a fleshlite for Adam Savage on my bingo card.
It's Boner Simpson 😂
I think of the Wallace and Grommit animations when I watch your machine talk. So delightfully weird.
And the bike is really cool. I bet the steel is necessary for the kind of stresses being put on it with a person riding. I like to imagine that he made little bare feet inside each of the tiny shoes.
He actually did make little feet at first that could rotate separately. He found out that they often get stuck on the heels so had to remove them, but kind of funny that this was actually the case in the original design
I'm not making any jokes about Wallace, more cheese and this Fleshlight....
With a bit of tweaking this could be the best realistic fleshlight out there 🤣
It's the Boner Simpson Fleshlight model featured in this video
The Japanese are probably already on it already
Wow, this thing is crazy awesome weird! Great work, James! Happy holidays!
I can't help feeling like this could be something for lonely guys.
Thanks
How is it your account isn't verified, get on that UA-cam
Hi @Becky Stern, nice to see you over here on this channel, you make some really great stuff as well, you are a top creator Becky 👍
Most. Advanced. Fleshlight. Ever.
Not just me whose first thought was this.
Whatever a fleshlight is….. 😬
@@GeeTheBuilder I thout the same thing that would be interesting to use but I dont know what a fleslight is 🤔🙄
The "Brut-on"
It's the Boner Simpson Fleshlight model featured in this video
I would assume that the R&D department in the company that made Fleshlight might have something even more advanced.
One of my favorite leak-proof silicone casting tips I’ve seen came from Robert Tolone’s channel. You paint the mould mating surfaces with the same silicone that you will be casting, and then close the mould. You let that cure ahead of time, and it creates a gasket that won’t let any of your main silicone leak through (but it may bond to the gasket instead)
also powder the hell out of the mold... at least it would make your life tearing it apart easier... or harder... *confused pointing *
A small speaker would never have been enough. You’d need some air moving through there! Maybe a long throw subwoofer? Lol. Might sound quite demonic though.
Honestly i would add some loud computer fan with speaker coming like from the side. That way this strange think could also wisper
A fan would work
Bet that vibration from a sub would be a bonus
@@quinn860 facts
Introducing the Animatronic Fleshlight Magnum... The first adult toy that can both get you off and tell you off
When pouring, don't move the pour around the mould, stick to one place so you don't get trapped air. Also pour from as high as you can so you get a thin stream.
Pouring down the stick also helps prevent air entrapment.
Is no-one going to make a joke about what this could be used for? 🙈
Thanks man, I thought I was the only one !
It’s where my mind went first
Thank goodness I wasn't the only one.
There is no way anyone should stick anything in that nightmare fuel!
Yes lets talk about the elephant in the room 🤣
James definitely didn't make a fleshlight for Adam Savage
The tracks that bicycle leaves could easily be the plot of a whole X-Files episode :)
Nice one buddy 👍
Your talking machine keeps making me think it's experiencing a "shocked dentist visit", love it!
Looking forward to the rest of the makers' works!
7:20 "there's not really gonna be much load on it" from the look of this thing, I wouldn't be surprised if it was covered in load
The biggest difference between what you made and the real deal is the fact that there's no actual sound being "pushed" out. It's a speaker. It will make noise regardless. Sound travels with air, air is pushed out, also, more than just the tongue and lips create the noise. There's indeed quite a lot going on. IMO, this would've worked day one with one major alteration, a larynx and a small pressure vessel (balloon). A reed in the larynx area would've made the noises (limited) and the larynx would've made the volume modulation. Probably a bagpipe would've worked.
everything works day 1 with hindsight.
It would work great if you had made a voice box, such as some sort of reed or flexible matirial to push air through. The tone would then change depending on the resonance frequency, wich would be alterable by the mouth and toung.
The mistake you made was you used a speaker. The speaker is driven by a fixed tone generated by your computer, and is unafected by the resonance frequency or other variables in the mouth.
100% agree 👍
Yes, exactly. Our vocal chords produce a very reedy tone with rich harmonics, which the vocal passage filters with two or more "formants" created by blocking, unblocking, or shaping the various cavities. Not to mention we vary the fundamental pitch of the vocal chords as we speak or sing. Air flow per se is not needed, but the harmonics definitely are. So I suspect the apparatus James built is actually a lot better than he thinks -- just needs square or sawtooth wave waveform to the speaker.
@@Graham_Wideman you are most likely correct now that i think of it.
I was thinking the same and searched through the comments to see if the point had been made... he showed the bellows experiment, which is a big clue to simulate lung function as the sound source. The vocal cords are muscle-tensioned "reeds" that can be tuned and the mouth shaping as tunable resonator that would be able to tune harmonics. Perhaps a colab with a vocal cord expert like "The Charismatic Voice" channel is in order?
That first talking tube made me slightly embarrassed 😁
That thing looked wired
All of the creators did an awesome job with the Secret Santa builds loved everyone of them. Thanks to the tested team for getting me started on this playlist and some new channels to add to my watch list.
You riding Colins present looked awesome, all those little boots just spinning around 🤣
So what if the feet were pointed the other way?
im knocking on the back door!.. will it let me in?
James, thank you!!! It’s sooo awesome. And seeing behind the scenes how all the mechanisms work adds a whole other layer of amazement!! Merry merry!
Yes, it does, that is what I love about Jame's videos.
Awesome! Just an idea here for the air in the silicone mold: When people cast stuff in concrete, they also need to have a way to get the air out... they use vibration to get the job done.
You could try the same using a hacksaw, massager, low freq speakers, etc...
Funnily enough I am just going around watching all the creators in a big loop, and you’re the first one so far to mention that you can do that. Great invention. Well done
I saw a picture that looked like it was *Colin* as the thumbnail and I had to see. I’ve never seen this channel. *Now, I’m subscribed!*
*Thanks for the video!*
I cant stop thinking about you know what.
A manufacturer that once I worked for put vibration motors on a table to vibrate out the air bubbles of resin. We would fill the cavities of the product with resin after sealing it with RTV silicone then put it on the vibrating table. The circuit board inside was also conformal coated. All this was to weather proof the circuitry inside.
Oh look jaws that won’t get tired.. from talking I mean of course..
How many of you Naughty minds thought it looked like an automated Flesh light! Merry Christmas Adam Savage!!
Anyone else thinking giant fleshlight? Awesome idea though!
Giant? Nah, a bit small…..😂😉
It's Boner Simpson.
The wrapping on the bike somehow feels so on-brand for Colin! This is such a cool initiative, btw! Love it.
The forbidden robussy
Yep, it worked. I watched Colin fuse and the. Subscribed to you and Becky as well. Excellent way for watchers to branch out and find good content providers. I can’t believe Colin’s version of your wheel actually worked so well. Happy Christmas.
Woah, that's insane! Very impressive!
-Ruth & Shawn
“So being something Colin made, of course it’s made of metal!” 😂😂😂
one of my favorite quotes, HaHaHa, 👍
You could have your "mouth" learned to speak with an artificial intelligence that listens to the sound emitted with different combinations of servo positions and compares the acoustic signal with a real one. By doing so, he could really speak. It is really an interesting and very feasible project. I highly appreciate the fact that you are able to produce such content at such a short distance from each other.🤙🏻
The problem is not in the software, but in the mouth and servos themselves. Likely there's just not enough control over the shape of the mouth, and too much 'leakage' of sound.
@@Pfooh Surely the mouth itself has great limitations but my advice was aimed at making the most of the existing system and in addition it would be an automated way to calibrate future versions of this project.😉
I see you James Bruton and your 13:37 minute long video :D (Love it!)
Right down the middle of the uncanny valley. Excellent! 🤣
I was gonna buy a fleshlight but now I totally want one of these instead 😂🤣😂🤣😂
HaHaHaHa, 👍
Cool construction. Don't give up on getting it to work properly. It may just be a matter of blowing air through it rather than using a speaker.
Looking forward to photonicinduction on the secret Santa next year.
Just realised I can make my own Fleshlight.
Best Xmas gift ever. Thank you 🙏🏻
I get the feeling you will need a large volume of Air / sound waves. for your gobOmatic thingummy to work. A tiny speaker has no chance.
Colin introduced me to your channel with this series, definitely a great idea, got my sub!
Yes, Janes and Colin are the masters.
I've used 3D printed stuff as a silicone mould before. If you want to get something out really quickly then pour some hot water over the plastic, makes it much easier to pull things out rather than chipping away with pliers!
2 things I thought about while watching your video. First I would have tried a vibrating fixture to agitate the silicone and let the air bubbles rise similar to the process of using a concrete vibrator to get the air bubbles out of a foundation wall. Second I would have tried using airflow through your mouth tube and used either vibrating cords or something similar to a flute type instrument to generate the sound. For fun I would have also experimented with lighter/heavier gasses to change the tone as well.
I imagine it doesn't work so well because your not moving air through the mouth having the cavities produce the actual soundwaves
0:05 The secret santa single big loop is not a guarantee unless the drawing is done in a specific very way: choose someone to draw first, the first drawer. The first drawer's name is excluded from future drawings - otherwise someone might draw the first drawer's name and close the loop prematurely. For i s.t. 1 < i < n where n is the number of people participating, the ith person (1-indexed) to draw is the person that the (i-1)th person drew. The nth person is automatically assigned/becomes the secrete santa of the first drawer, thus closing the loop. If not done this way, it's possible that you end up with more than one loop.
1:04 erm......... that looks like the most amazing 'fleshlight' ever 😅
a good tip for the lack of vacuum pump to draw out the air bubbles for the mold is to attach a drill with a lopsided weight on it to a table and leave it running so it's vibrating :)
The next time you pour silicone, get on a ladder and pour a tiny stream into the mold very slowly. The bubbles pop on the way down due to the long thin stream.
"Theres not going to be much load on it" you sure about that, James?
Seeing Colin in two thumbnails is shocking and awesome haha
Yep, hahaha 👍
If I built that bad boy there's no way I'm giving it away!!
The fact it’s 13:37 long speaks volumes. Bravo
My favorite day of the year, when I get to be disturbed and fascinated to no end by some of the most inspirational engineers out there
Well said, I fully agree 👍
It's gotta a nostalgic aesthetic. Reminds me the Sesame Street's Martians. "Yup, yup, yup"
Hey, Merry Christmas, James. Praying for all the best for you in 2022.
If you pour in the silicone from a lot higher up, you'll get a thinner stream and, although it would take longer to fill, it would eliminate most of the air bubbles.
You can use pressurised air as lubricant to remove cores stuck in silicone. Should take a just few seconds.
Where can someone buy one of the human noise making machines? Asking for a friend...
Tell your friend to try Lovehoney to find this Boner Simpson model in the video 😉
I’m here from Colin Furze
I’m very surprised how well the wheel works I thought the friction and weight would sicnificantly slow down the moment the peddles stopped
I had a free preview of a japanese channel ten years ago. They had documentaries... odd documentaries. Topics included... adult toy research. They had almost the exact device that you showed in the beginning lol. It had servos all around to mimic muscles. The funny thing was when the powered it up the processor would boot and when it did all the independent rather powerful servos to all grip... FORCEFULLY. It made me cringe. Lol.
Dont be surprised if your build is "opensourced" and repurposed by a foreign company.
James your video came on after Colin’s. I wasn’t paying attention (sorry) but when I looked up and saw what it *looked like you were building* I had to re look.
I don’t need to say anymore. 😬
HAHAHAHAH I just started watching and I love where this is going 🤣
well, you win the creepiest fleshlight toy contest.
I think for version 2.0, you should give it teeth. Teeth are important to press the tongue against, and they are the source of much of the white noise we make blowing air past in a particular way. Also you could give it a larynx, just a tube you blow air through with some sort of vocal cords, rubber band-like, and the cords can be tightened with a servo, and a controllable source of air. Either a big fan behind a lot of baffles to get rid of the noise it makes, or maybe compressed air with something similar.
"poke it in, poke it around and bang it on the table."
Still thinking, "noooooooooooooo..."
Though I greatly admire Colin Furze, cycling over a 2 inch thick beam is something a regular wheel does too, as was shown by your hindwheel.
The real question is...does it do stairs???
I feel very immature staring at the rubber mouth 😂
It's Boner Simpson 😂
"Give me that invention!" "But sir?!" "I said give👏me👏that👏invention!!"
You've inspired my workshop! I'm in an apartment, so I'm limited in what materials I can 3D print; but I can 3D print molds! TY! ❤️
Just make sure to use good ventilation for some types of resin - AFAIK some of them may be quite bad for you or neighbors in an apartment
@@Rotem_S I'll have to avoid those. However, I have the same problem with 3D printing anything except PLA. Not ready to spring for a fume extractor. 🤣
hm... yes a "talking" machine thats exactly what and only what it can be used for👁👄👁
Cool flashlight!
Please tell me there's a Mr potatohead moustache accessory
My mind went to all the wrong places when I saw this. Lol.
This feels like a good video to be introduced to a new channel with
Yes it certainly does,
👍
The pedrail bike seems to adjust the hub quite well for a gag project, I wonder how much the extra heft from the metal helps that
excellent introduction (so far my personal fav out of everyone's) & all in 1 minute sharp!
It needs a 'vibrato' option for...stuff
I came to see if it was sponsored by flashlight
It's the Boner Simpson Fleshlight model featured in this video
I think the reason it didn't work properly, or at least a significant part of it, is that you are driving it with a speaker. Because of that, you only have sound waves moving through it, but no actual airflow as in a real mouth (or the utterance machine).
I think the major flaw is that a speaker doesn't work the same as a larynx. A speaker has air that oscillates back and forth whereas a Larynx has air passing through it - like a wind instrument.
It should be much better if you just replace the speaker with a fan and a reed.
You built a masterpiece, and you received one too. Excellent.
Not gonna lie, I was originally watching this with no sound and thought the utterance machine was something I should put my old chap in.
ok does anyone else think that rubber mouth looks like a device that some guys would use for other uses! or... do I have a very dirty mind!
This is just the kind of ridiculous gift that's perfect for its recipient.
1:05 Its used to make sounds? I thought something different on first glance...
In the future. If you need to get air bubbles out might try vibration of some kind? Or am I off about it?
In science class we made vacume chambers out of plastic fish tanks mounted on plywood with a hole in it. Just used house hold shop vacs to get some vacuum
You need to make a tunable vibrating fixture to release the bubbles. Would work across media. Also, fairly straightforward.
For your next project, you should build an EMMI from Metroid Dread.
Of course without all the dangerous stuff, but it’d be pretty cools to see.
Hi @jJames Bruton, nice to see you making these fun Robots as always, keep up the good work👍
the forbidden fleshlight...
It's the Boner Simpson Fleshlight model featured in this video
@@jonbraid2520 as far as i know, this is the only one in existence
And you all made the naughty list for what you're thinking about this build! Shame on you it's Christmas! Lol. Now that everyone's been properly shamed, you sir are a certified genius ! Your videos always blow my mind how it seems all the details you speak of just seem to be normal everyday stuff, like a recipe for ice cubes lol while I'm over here googling every other term to (unsuccessful) follow along with some assemblence of understanding, to only be amazed with every video! Long compliment short..great video!!!
Never thought about this. I'm sold for a 3d printer. Make models, invert them and use them to cast resin.
Impressive, the ultimate fleshlight.
It's the Boner Simpson Fleshlight model featured in this video
Dude, this is the strangest gift I've ever seen given 😅
HaHaHa :-)
Some of the things you’ve said really matches the making the flesh lite
3:40. Vibration gets rid of air in concrete...... should work in this situation also.
Oil or diesel works with shuttering. Perhaps olive oil would work on molds?
"Screw holes"
"Ooze out of"
"Mould cavity"
"Slosh it around"
"Bang it on the table"
"Locked in by the base"
"Rubbery tongue"
"Lovely licky tongue"
"Lip at the front"
1:14 an automated fleshlight? Noice! 👌🏻🙂