I really like the shift to problem-solving-type videos. Watching your thought process through the project highlights the “what” and “why”, and is more than just the “how”. Thanks, Bob!
Lol @ 1:10, "I'm not gonna do that." Good for you! I love solving little problems by creative thinking, not by spending money, even if the problem's already been solved. The joy is in the journey. I guess your channel name sums it up!
I congratulate you for not turning to the internet's favorite "engineering" solution and just slapping magnets onto everything. Seriously, I appreciate the thought put into a mechanical solution.
@@DS321oI have a magnet that are about the size of a nickel that I have on my 20v Milwaukee drill that I use to stick it to my bench, it won't come off without force. It will absolutely hold a pole and a camera like that with zero issues.
That's a good suggestion but it's very wasteful when it comes to material. Bobs solution, as usual, not very time efficient 🤣 but, saved loads of waste.
@@simonolphin, A couple dozen 1" x 1" steel plates screwed into the ceiling and a 3D printed adapter/base with an embedded magnet sounds pretty efficient and effective to me.
Been watching you for years now and as much as i really love your project videos, I REALLY like these "got a problem, chill with me while i figure a solution" style you've been doing more. I hope you keep sprinkling these in as you encounter them, its really great to see someone else's problem solving mind at work. Thank you Bob
I love watching the problem-solving process. Instead of watching you come up with a solution that may not apply to me, my brain is engaged, thinking of possibilities and ways I can solve similar problems.
Picture the broom handle holders that feature a captive rolling piece on a ramp. The broom handle is inserted from the bottom, pushing the rolling stop up. when the space is big enough, the broom handle slides past the roller. Then as you let go of the broom handle, the combination of the rolling piece and the ramp, wedges the handle in place. If your "clamp" was two of these facing each other and the largest space between the rollers was just wider than the thickness of the joist closest to the clamp and narrowed as you moved towards the end, you could twist the entire contraption just enough to get the rollers to catch on either side and wedge it in place. Releasing would just be lifting it up and letting gravity pull the rollers down, releasing the clamp. No need for any hardware other than the 1/4x20 needed to mount your camera adapter.
@@ToddRafferty me too! There was a compliant mechanism video from… someone (I forget who)… where they talked about how to design that part and 3D print it out of TPU.
I'm 2:30 in, and I already like this. I love problem-solving videos like this. Even if the problem is not necessarily that big of a problem. I just like seeing the creativity and ingenuity involved in reaching a solution.
Of note when you're using that 3d camera for future shots; because the image is stitched together from multiple cameras, plus the housing and whatever, the software in the camera does some trickery to blend the shots together - particularly when you pan the shot up so you don't see the pole, or directly opposite from that looking "down" (in the orientation you're using it, anyway). You can see the distortion particularly well with the cut mat you have under there. So it might be useful to have the camera rotated if you want to capture a horizontal surface below the camera. Or reuse that solution with a slightly different camera mount to get top-down shots of small parts if that's what you want. Really cool build!
You forgot about another force... Squeeze. You could have a handle with a cable connected to it like a brake lever to transfer the force to the clamp. ❤
Only issue there, is that he wants to use the telescoping nature of the camera pole. If you size the cable to be long enough for full extension, when shortened the cable may then hang down into shot. Obviously that can then be managed as well with an elastic that always pulls cable slack up, but it does mean making the think jamnkier, more complicated an ugglier.
I’ve really been enjoying these types of videos you’ve been making lately. It gets my brain working to try to find creative solutions to issues. My art studio is basically a 60 square foot clean room off of my workshop. Filming in there is a chore.
You can do the same thing with zero moving parts by exploiting some leverage. I have some "self gripping hangers" I got from Amazon that demonstrate this principle wonderfully. They can be moved around with ease, but as soon as you put weight on them they lock in place and will not let go. The more weight you put on them the tighter they grip. You can search for the product above, but I will try and put a link in a reply comment to this one (it will probably get flagged as spam). I think if you built a hook with the camera pole offset from the hook by a few inches that would give you more than enough leverage to firmly grip the device to a rafter, and there would be zero moving parts to wear or get sloppy. Take a look and see if it works.
He is reinventing the wheel. Your log skidding tong example is also represented in ironwork to lift steel. They're called Plate Lifting Clamps -- essentially a gripper that translates pulling effort into clamping force. Tongs are great, too.
The two solutions that immediately came to mind for me were a large magnet and a push latch mechanism like what you might use for a self locking cabinet. I think your prototype 1 is basically that latter solution. Cool to see it made from scratch! Great if you need a custom size.
Love seeing the process! Go ahead and search lifting clamps, they use gravity instead of tension and I think it could also be a great fit if you wanna do something similar in the future
My impression is you might have less issues with the foot geometry of the bulk of the foot was on the inside side of the pivot rather than the outside side, this way it would self correct into place more readily
Consider printing a TPU band for the "spring". Then you don't have to source the perfect spring. The bands tension could be set by varying the infill percentage and/or by selecting narrower/wider groves along the clamp to anchor the band in. It could pretty much be a rectangular rubber band that stretches over the clamp arms and seats into groves on the outside of each clamp arm.
Bob, you've really been singing my song these last two videos. I love this idea. I think there are so many folks that are inspired to make little videos - maybe they upload them, maybe they don't - but the bare joists / studs in many of our garages really really lend themselves to something like this. Kudos.
Hey Bob, long time watcher here. I hope a little critism is in order. I really enjoy your videos. There is almost something to learn or at least enjoy in your videos. This one i s no exception..... BUT thumbnail and title gave me no indication on what this video is actually about. So much so that I only clicked on the video as it was suggested for the fifth time and onyl because I had nothing better to do at that very moment. I know that your trying out different title and thumbnails over time. To see which one performs the best. I get that. That is why I am writing a comment. For the first time if I am not mistaken. Had I seen that the video was about clamping stuff, clamp geometry or something along those lines I would have reacted sooner to the video. But as I said I had no idea what the video was about. Anyways... thanks for your content and best Regards from Germany, Daniel
I was thinking more of a flexible TPU featherboard clamp which releases when you push it up onto the joist further. Much more complicated, especially when factoring in the release mechanism and printing of the featherboard.
I would have loved this about 10 years ago: videoing a band in a run-down house with multiple cameras mounted from the joists. It involved a lot of being on a ladder and moving cameras around.
Love this style of video as well. Different design with less moving parts: 2 prongs to straddle the joist rigid in place. rotating cam on each prong with light spring to pull to the inside. pull string attached to the other end of cam to one string to end of handle. pushes onto the joist easily, the more weight pulls down the tighter it gets. push up slightly and pull string it releases both cams and slides easily off joist. less printing, less moving parts. the larger the cams and wider the forked prongs the larger the object or joist it will hold onto. make it out of metal and it will hold hundreds of pounds.
Personally, I would have counter sunk strong magnets into the bottom of the joists, then have another mounted on the bottom of my arm(s). Then you can add more if needed. I have small coin sized magnets that would gold that without issues.
My idea would be thin steel plate on the ceiling and strong magnets for the arm of the camera mount. You could do individual spots of steel or a long thin piece of steel to give you more options for positioning. We have this at work on the wall with magnets for vehicles to hold up heavy vinyl sheets at our sign shop.
I was kinda expecting for the solution to be more akin to how tree pruning scissors work with the Blades situated on one end of the Pole and the Grip on the other... In this case though you'd use the Grip to open the normally closed Clamps instead of the other way around.
nice solution; first thing that came to my mind at the beginning was (very unrealistically): build some kind of monorail network on your ceiling, so you can "hang" the camera-mount on it easily (like a ropeway) and also move it around the shop.
What if you stuck multiple steel plates on the ceiling every few feet, and just got a magswitch type of connection on the pole. Repositioning might make it smoother
Did something similar in my workshop for streaming. Used big magnet on bottom of monopod and some iron plates screwed into the joists at particular locations
Put metal plates on the joists where you want the camera. High strength magnetic tape or rare earth magnets on the mount and you’re done. I’ve done this with a go-pro and it’s been fixed to a semi trailer (run for thousands of miles) and on an off road rig and it’s never fallen off. The solution in this video is ridiculously over complicated.
Shows how then you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. You have a woodworking shop and a 3D printer, so this path seemed obvious to you. I have neither, but I do have some parts I took off my bike so I would probably stay with the off the shelf clamp you considered at the beginning and add a cable and a brake lever to acuate the clamp remotely.
The simplest solution is actually just mounting cheap steel sheet/plates everywhere and using a strong magnet on the end of your camera rod. Cool idea though!
@@mikebond6328 Why would you do the entire shop? That's silly. Yes his solution is more flexible because it can go anywhere, but realistically you wouldn't need more than maybe 10 places.
I highly recommend looking into 3d printed springs. It will be easy to test with your printer and can be scaled for many of the applications you've been using. Keep up the great work! I always look forward to seeing your projects!
2:37 in hooks. just some simple nails or screws and a attachment to the stick where you can easily hook and un hook the camera. or magnets. or a simple french cleat. lets see the over enigeneerd part
Loved the video for sure. Inventing something like this to solve an issue for yourself is what it's all about. I to love problem solving, Gives the brain a little workout.
It was a non-issue for me. The actual amount was found to be 550 mg if I'm not mistaken. Which is like 1/10th of a teaspoon. Safe dosage searches online say 10 to 30 GRAMS per day. I don't seem to have any blood sugar or hyperglycemia issues from that amount. They also have unflavored versions. IIRC the maltodextrin found in LMNT wasn't an added sweetener by them it was in a flavor they used.
Not sure if you know but LMNT has maltodextrin in it. If it doesn’t bother you then no big deal, but for some it is a deal breaker. No dodgy ingredients should include maltodextrin.
Very well done Bob, I was wondering if a piece of spring steel like a tool holder could be used to clamp onto the ceiling ? I do enjoy your "problem solving" videos.
Thinking of another 'you-specific' solution: A two-piece bracket. The 'male' piece attaches to the camera mount. It would be 'L' shaped, with the vertical leg having a 'V' shaped slot that would engage with the corresponding 'V' slot on the 'female' piece. You could print a bunch of the female pieces and just screw them into various places around the shop. To disengage, you simply lift up the camera mount a couple of inches to separate the two pieces. (We're talking about a modified 'French Cleat' here, where gravity keeps the pieces together......)
Always love the problem solving, but me I'd just 3d print 6-8 mounts and spread them through out the shop. make it similar to power outlets, then you can move the camera easily from one spot to another.
Bob, would some type of grip tape (sand paper, tread tape) on the surface that fits against the joist improve how it hangs? or maybe the flexible filament you printed with is enough to do this now?
Hey Bob have you thought about making a pocket hole jig type clamp but with longer arms? One with the width set to grab your joists like the material the jig holds to drill the holes into
I really liked this video. I would say this is one of your better ones you made,. What is the make and model of your camera? I’m looking for one for myself. You could remove all the nuts from the part and save weight by having the parts threaded. And use flathead cap screws might save a little weight too.Kind of give it a cleaner look too. Look forward to your next video.
Brilliant, Bob! Fantastic work! 😃 I need to create something similar... But different. My shop has normal selling, it's not like yours. It's going to be way more difficult... 😕 Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
@ with all due respect, duh. Something like a magnetic washer, or “o”-shaped magnet that can be screwed to all the possible wooden surfaces is what I referring to.
@@jacobdmBut then you'd either have to reach the rafters to nail in some washers where you want to place your camera or use the places that already have some steel hardware large enough to be grabbed securely by the magnet. I don't know Bob's workflow exactly, but with a shop this size I imagine there are either too many spots he might want to film from or they are changing all the time for him to consider this path.
@@RoachRider, perhaps, but steel washers and screws are quite cheap and 15 minutes on a step stool would have nearly every plausible location in the shop covered. Lots of ways to solve this problem.
Really enjoying the video, but I think you missed a great opportunity for a joke at about 9:00. Right after the printer made some spaghetti, then you plopped down the ready parts, you could have plopped down the spaghetti, and pantomimed trying to use it. I don't know that it would have improved the video, but I would have enjoyed the laugh, in a portion of the video where it wouldn't have been downplaying the message of the rest of the video. Also, I don't think I've said it, but I LOVE the life messages you've been working into some of your videos, and I plan to use them with my son's Scout Troop.
It's just Forby and I now, everyone has moved on to new jobs in the last year and is doing well 👍🏼 We all talk constantly and get to hang out on a fairly regular basis.
Love your videos I wonder if instead of the thing - use strong magnets and a steel plate in appropriate places would be more simple as some people may not have exposed joists
Maybe try forming gears on the bottom of each finger. Then their motion is synchronized. Then all you need the tension for is clamping, and not worry about them flopping over.
What is the quick attach mount you are using? I use peak designs for my camera gear but would like something I can just clip into and mount i wonder if the mount will work with peak design clip.
Everyone is talking about magnets yes they work but they are the most common solution don’t forget the core idea of the channel is making stuff and being creative with different solutions to problems.
Smart but to complicate, I think Magnets are The easy way, stick some on strategic locations in the beams and one on the camera stick and you are good to go
This made me think of cammed edge clamps so gravity provides the clamping force and you just have to lift it up to make it release. And maybe a button to hold them open but that would be very low force
glad to see i am not the only one who immediately thought.....just use magnets....even if you were worried about not having strong enough magnets, and wanted to over engineer a simple task....electromagnets are insane and you can use it with a switch or remote controlled.
3 videos solving the problem of how to film with our a camera person. If your next video is a tool to create camera person sized hole in the ground. I will watch the entire video before calling the cops. 😁 I love these design videos.
I really like the shift to problem-solving-type videos. Watching your thought process through the project highlights the “what” and “why”, and is more than just the “how”. Thanks, Bob!
Yep I came here to say the same thing! Very interesting the see the thought process and the evolution!
Lol @ 1:10, "I'm not gonna do that." Good for you! I love solving little problems by creative thinking, not by spending money, even if the problem's already been solved. The joy is in the journey. I guess your channel name sums it up!
I congratulate you for not turning to the internet's favorite "engineering" solution and just slapping magnets onto everything. Seriously, I appreciate the thought put into a mechanical solution.
metal strips along the joists and then a strong magnet on the camera pole.
that wouldn't work at my house once my mother-in-law visits because the joist would violently shake and potentially drop the camera
Not a bad alternative
@@DS321oI have a magnet that are about the size of a nickel that I have on my 20v Milwaukee drill that I use to stick it to my bench, it won't come off without force. It will absolutely hold a pole and a camera like that with zero issues.
That's a good suggestion but it's very wasteful when it comes to material. Bobs solution, as usual, not very time efficient 🤣 but, saved loads of waste.
@@simonolphin, A couple dozen 1" x 1" steel plates screwed into the ceiling and a 3D printed adapter/base with an embedded magnet sounds pretty efficient and effective to me.
Been watching you for years now and as much as i really love your project videos, I REALLY like these "got a problem, chill with me while i figure a solution" style you've been doing more. I hope you keep sprinkling these in as you encounter them, its really great to see someone else's problem solving mind at work. Thank you Bob
I love watching the problem-solving process. Instead of watching you come up with a solution that may not apply to me, my brain is engaged, thinking of possibilities and ways I can solve similar problems.
Picture the broom handle holders that feature a captive rolling piece on a ramp. The broom handle is inserted from the bottom, pushing the rolling stop up. when the space is big enough, the broom handle slides past the roller. Then as you let go of the broom handle, the combination of the rolling piece and the ramp, wedges the handle in place. If your "clamp" was two of these facing each other and the largest space between the rollers was just wider than the thickness of the joist closest to the clamp and narrowed as you moved towards the end, you could twist the entire contraption just enough to get the rollers to catch on either side and wedge it in place. Releasing would just be lifting it up and letting gravity pull the rollers down, releasing the clamp.
No need for any hardware other than the 1/4x20 needed to mount your camera adapter.
This was my first immediate thought too. Glad I'm not alone
@@ToddRafferty me too! There was a compliant mechanism video from… someone (I forget who)… where they talked about how to design that part and 3D print it out of TPU.
I'm 2:30 in, and I already like this. I love problem-solving videos like this. Even if the problem is not necessarily that big of a problem. I just like seeing the creativity and ingenuity involved in reaching a solution.
Of note when you're using that 3d camera for future shots; because the image is stitched together from multiple cameras, plus the housing and whatever, the software in the camera does some trickery to blend the shots together - particularly when you pan the shot up so you don't see the pole, or directly opposite from that looking "down" (in the orientation you're using it, anyway). You can see the distortion particularly well with the cut mat you have under there. So it might be useful to have the camera rotated if you want to capture a horizontal surface below the camera. Or reuse that solution with a slightly different camera mount to get top-down shots of small parts if that's what you want. Really cool build!
You forgot about another force... Squeeze. You could have a handle with a cable connected to it like a brake lever to transfer the force to the clamp. ❤
Only issue there, is that he wants to use the telescoping nature of the camera pole.
If you size the cable to be long enough for full extension, when shortened the cable may then hang down into shot.
Obviously that can then be managed as well with an elastic that always pulls cable slack up, but it does mean making the think jamnkier, more complicated an ugglier.
I’ve really been enjoying these types of videos you’ve been making lately. It gets my brain working to try to find creative solutions to issues. My art studio is basically a 60 square foot clean room off of my workshop. Filming in there is a chore.
You can do the same thing with zero moving parts by exploiting some leverage. I have some "self gripping hangers" I got from Amazon that demonstrate this principle wonderfully. They can be moved around with ease, but as soon as you put weight on them they lock in place and will not let go. The more weight you put on them the tighter they grip. You can search for the product above, but I will try and put a link in a reply comment to this one (it will probably get flagged as spam).
I think if you built a hook with the camera pole offset from the hook by a few inches that would give you more than enough leverage to firmly grip the device to a rafter, and there would be zero moving parts to wear or get sloppy. Take a look and see if it works.
I enjoyed seeing your practical attempts before moving into fusion to figure out the problems!
Take a look at how log skidding tongs work, the weight of the "pull" locks them in. A similar mechanism would work very well here.
He is reinventing the wheel. Your log skidding tong example is also represented in ironwork to lift steel. They're called Plate Lifting Clamps -- essentially a gripper that translates pulling effort into clamping force. Tongs are great, too.
The two solutions that immediately came to mind for me were a large magnet and a push latch mechanism like what you might use for a self locking cabinet. I think your prototype 1 is basically that latter solution. Cool to see it made from scratch! Great if you need a custom size.
Love seeing the process! Go ahead and search lifting clamps, they use gravity instead of tension and I think it could also be a great fit if you wanna do something similar in the future
My impression is you might have less issues with the foot geometry of the bulk of the foot was on the inside side of the pivot rather than the outside side, this way it would self correct into place more readily
Perhaps a larger version of a jewellers vice would work
Two feather boards that go around the joist. Shove it up, pull it down. No moving parts and it could be printed in one go.
I see also some possebilities with a few pieces of iron and some strong magnets
Consider printing a TPU band for the "spring". Then you don't have to source the perfect spring. The bands tension could be set by varying the infill percentage and/or by selecting narrower/wider groves along the clamp to anchor the band in. It could pretty much be a rectangular rubber band that stretches over the clamp arms and seats into groves on the outside of each clamp arm.
Bob, you've really been singing my song these last two videos. I love this idea. I think there are so many folks that are inspired to make little videos - maybe they upload them, maybe they don't - but the bare joists / studs in many of our garages really really lend themselves to something like this. Kudos.
I don't like 360 cameras because there's a distortion at the edges of the frame and it gives me serious vertigo
Loved hearing you talk through the problems and possible solutions
Hey Bob, long time watcher here. I hope a little critism is in order. I really enjoy your videos. There is almost something to learn or at least enjoy in your videos. This one i s no exception..... BUT thumbnail and title gave me no indication on what this video is actually about. So much so that I only clicked on the video as it was suggested for the fifth time and onyl because I had nothing better to do at that very moment.
I know that your trying out different title and thumbnails over time. To see which one performs the best. I get that. That is why I am writing a comment. For the first time if I am not mistaken. Had I seen that the video was about clamping stuff, clamp geometry or something along those lines I would have reacted sooner to the video. But as I said I had no idea what the video was about.
Anyways... thanks for your content and best Regards from Germany, Daniel
What are you criticizing?
@@mikebond6328 that neither thumbnail nor title gave me any idea what the video is about. ;-)
thanks 👍
Sick! I love the solution you came up with. Moving it from joist to joist almost looked effortless!
I was thinking more of a flexible TPU featherboard clamp which releases when you push it up onto the joist further. Much more complicated, especially when factoring in the release mechanism and printing of the featherboard.
I would have loved this about 10 years ago: videoing a band in a run-down house with multiple cameras mounted from the joists. It involved a lot of being on a ladder and moving cameras around.
Love this style of video as well. Different design with less moving parts: 2 prongs to straddle the joist rigid in place. rotating cam on each prong with light spring to pull to the inside. pull string attached to the other end of cam to one string to end of handle. pushes onto the joist easily, the more weight pulls down the tighter it gets. push up slightly and pull string it releases both cams and slides easily off joist. less printing, less moving parts. the larger the cams and wider the forked prongs the larger the object or joist it will hold onto. make it out of metal and it will hold hundreds of pounds.
Personally, I would have counter sunk strong magnets into the bottom of the joists, then have another mounted on the bottom of my arm(s). Then you can add more if needed. I have small coin sized magnets that would gold that without issues.
My idea would be thin steel plate on the ceiling and strong magnets for the arm of the camera mount. You could do individual spots of steel or a long thin piece of steel to give you more options for positioning. We have this at work on the wall with magnets for vehicles to hold up heavy vinyl sheets at our sign shop.
I was kinda expecting for the solution to be more akin to how tree pruning scissors work with the Blades situated on one end of the Pole and the Grip on the other... In this case though you'd use the Grip to open the normally closed Clamps instead of the other way around.
nice solution; first thing that came to my mind at the beginning was (very unrealistically): build some kind of monorail network on your ceiling, so you can "hang" the camera-mount on it easily (like a ropeway) and also move it around the shop.
What if you stuck multiple steel plates on the ceiling every few feet, and just got a magswitch type of connection on the pole. Repositioning might make it smoother
Because that would be too simple
Another great problem solving video. I love this. Thanks for sharing Bob
Did something similar in my workshop for streaming. Used big magnet on bottom of monopod and some iron plates screwed into the joists at particular locations
You sure that you don't create problems just so you can solve them? 😁 Love to watch your thought processes anyway. - Chris
I mean, probably, yeah. But I love to solve problems 🤷🏻 That's like a musician only listening to music, instead of also playing it themselves.
Put metal plates on the joists where you want the camera. High strength magnetic tape or rare earth magnets on the mount and you’re done. I’ve done this with a go-pro and it’s been fixed to a semi trailer (run for thousands of miles) and on an off road rig and it’s never fallen off. The solution in this video is ridiculously over complicated.
That was literally an advertisement on how bad the camera quality was, even a Samsung phone has less pixelation
I didn’t see any pixelation. Are you watching the video on a samsung?
Shows how then you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. You have a woodworking shop and a 3D printer, so this path seemed obvious to you. I have neither, but I do have some parts I took off my bike so I would probably stay with the off the shelf clamp you considered at the beginning and add a cable and a brake lever to acuate the clamp remotely.
The simplest solution is actually just mounting cheap steel sheet/plates everywhere and using a strong magnet on the end of your camera rod. Cool idea though!
You think it would be simpler and cheaper to cover the entire shop ceiling in steel plate?
@@mikebond6328 Why would you do the entire shop? That's silly. Yes his solution is more flexible because it can go anywhere, but realistically you wouldn't need more than maybe 10 places.
So basically one of those wall mounts you use for your brooms?
I highly recommend looking into 3d printed springs. It will be easy to test with your printer and can be scaled for many of the applications you've been using.
Keep up the great work! I always look forward to seeing your projects!
Great job Bob, Problem Solving at the great level
Dude your last fire videos have been top tier. You inspire me to make more thangs and finally buckle down on starting my own videos
2:37 in hooks. just some simple nails or screws and a attachment to the stick where you can easily hook and un hook the camera. or magnets. or a simple french cleat. lets see the over enigeneerd part
really enjoying these iterative design process videos!
Loved the video for sure. Inventing something like this to solve an issue for yourself is what it's all about. I to love problem solving, Gives the brain a little workout.
10:22 Did LMNT fix their maltodextrin issue?
It was a non-issue for me. The actual amount was found to be 550 mg if I'm not mistaken. Which is like 1/10th of a teaspoon. Safe dosage searches online say 10 to 30 GRAMS per day. I don't seem to have any blood sugar or hyperglycemia issues from that amount. They also have unflavored versions. IIRC the maltodextrin found in LMNT wasn't an added sweetener by them it was in a flavor they used.
Not sure if you know but LMNT has maltodextrin in it. If it doesn’t bother you then no big deal, but for some it is a deal breaker. No dodgy ingredients should include maltodextrin.
Can you explain what maltodextrin is. Why it is bad. How much is in LMNT and what safe dosage is?
Very well done Bob, I was wondering if a piece of spring steel like a tool holder could be used to clamp onto the ceiling ? I do enjoy your "problem solving" videos.
Thinking of another 'you-specific' solution:
A two-piece bracket. The 'male' piece attaches to the camera mount. It would be 'L' shaped, with the vertical leg having a 'V' shaped slot that would engage with the corresponding 'V' slot on the 'female' piece. You could print a bunch of the female pieces and just screw them into various places around the shop. To disengage, you simply lift up the camera mount a couple of inches to separate the two pieces. (We're talking about a modified 'French Cleat' here, where gravity keeps the pieces together......)
Always love the problem solving, but me I'd just 3d print 6-8 mounts and spread them through out the shop. make it similar to power outlets, then you can move the camera easily from one spot to another.
Bob, would some type of grip tape (sand paper, tread tape) on the surface that fits against the joist improve how it hangs? or maybe the flexible filament you printed with is enough to do this now?
Love your solution! Much more exciting and modular and educational than my thought of stainless steel and magnets.
Stainless steel is not very magnetic.
@mikebond6328 looks like some types of stainless steel are magnetic and some aren't! and some can become magnetic after being cold worked.
Excellent!
Hey Bob have you thought about making a pocket hole jig type clamp but with longer arms? One with the width set to grab your joists like the material the jig holds to drill the holes into
did you consider having a grab handle at the bottom. think trash pick up tool. Reverse it to open when you squeeze, and close when you let go.
Magswitch for the win
I really liked this video. I would say this is one of your better ones you made,. What is the make and model of your camera? I’m looking for one for myself. You could remove all the nuts from the part and save weight by having the parts threaded. And use flathead cap screws might save a little weight too.Kind of give it a cleaner look too. Look forward to your next video.
Thanks! It's the X4 from Insta360.. happens to be on sale right now (affiliate link) amzn.to/4hVYT0B
Marius Hornberger made edge clamps that would have sufficed.
Things and stuff, two of my favorites!
Brilliant, Bob! Fantastic work! 😃
I need to create something similar... But different. My shop has normal selling, it's not like yours. It's going to be way more difficult... 😕
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Why not just use Magnets? Seems odd you never thought of that.
Was just going to comment this. Magnets seem to be the easiest option
Because magnets don't stick to wood.
@ with all due respect, duh. Something like a magnetic washer, or “o”-shaped magnet that can be screwed to all the possible wooden surfaces is what I referring to.
@@jacobdmBut then you'd either have to reach the rafters to nail in some washers where you want to place your camera or use the places that already have some steel hardware large enough to be grabbed securely by the magnet. I don't know Bob's workflow exactly, but with a shop this size I imagine there are either too many spots he might want to film from or they are changing all the time for him to consider this path.
@@RoachRider, perhaps, but steel washers and screws are quite cheap and 15 minutes on a step stool would have nearly every plausible location in the shop covered. Lots of ways to solve this problem.
Something like a sheetrock grip could work too. Use the weight of the camera/stick as the leverage for the clamp.
What about a magnetic system
Another great problem-solving video, Bob~!
I’m really enjoying these problem solving videos, I have zero use for the thing you made but really enjoyed the video ! 🎉
i'm one of these guys with the exact same (ish) problem . very nice solution Sir !
Really enjoying the video, but I think you missed a great opportunity for a joke at about 9:00. Right after the printer made some spaghetti, then you plopped down the ready parts, you could have plopped down the spaghetti, and pantomimed trying to use it. I don't know that it would have improved the video, but I would have enjoyed the laugh, in a portion of the video where it wouldn't have been downplaying the message of the rest of the video.
Also, I don't think I've said it, but I LOVE the life messages you've been working into some of your videos, and I plan to use them with my son's Scout Troop.
What happened to the camera guy and the new office?
It's just Forby and I now, everyone has moved on to new jobs in the last year and is doing well 👍🏼 We all talk constantly and get to hang out on a fairly regular basis.
The clamp champ got even better!
Love your videos I wonder if instead of the thing - use strong magnets and a steel plate in appropriate places would be more simple as some people may not have exposed joists
Like it! Good job‼️
Great demonstration or working the problem, not chasing a solution!
Just finished jimmys video now time for bob
Bottle caps, Glue, some short drywall screws, n some old hard drive magnets?
Maybe try forming gears on the bottom of each finger. Then their motion is synchronized. Then all you need the tension for is clamping, and not worry about them flopping over.
I wonder if grabber reacher tool with some kind of locking mechanism would do the trick
What is the quick attach mount you are using? I use peak designs for my camera gear but would like something I can just clip into and mount i wonder if the mount will work with peak design clip.
I think it would be cool for you to have something like the ceiling mounted track system Brandon @ Inheritance Machining and others have made.
You went through a different thought process than I would have, but it worked well enough when you were done.
Everyone is talking about magnets yes they work but they are the most common solution don’t forget the core idea of the channel is making stuff and being creative with different solutions to problems.
STOREHOUSE Self-Gripping Hanger from harbor freight could have worked
Very nice! I’ll take one! 🙌
your stuff really works
The clamp with spring is a good idea, but i would have done the clamp using gravity for the clamping.
Nice video tho!
Smart but to complicate, I think Magnets are The easy way, stick some on strategic locations in the beams and one on the camera stick and you are good to go
This made me think of cammed edge clamps so gravity provides the clamping force and you just have to lift it up to make it release. And maybe a button to hold them open but that would be very low force
Every time I watch one of your videos I think “ I need to buy a 3D printer”! Clever idea as always!
love the content, but chill with the commercials!
Nah. Scrap all this, what you really need is one of those dinosaur chompy arm thingies.
i loved this. thanks! :)
glad to see i am not the only one who immediately thought.....just use magnets....even if you were worried about not having strong enough magnets, and wanted to over engineer a simple task....electromagnets are insane and you can use it with a switch or remote controlled.
12:40 “…let’s get this out on to a tray”
I’d love to see you work on your Vespa!
It's coming! (One of these days)
I'm gonna need one of those.
An overhead monorail made of unistrut going down center of shop with a pivoting arm attached to trolley and magnetic camera mount
3D print a track for the ceiling?
3 videos solving the problem of how to film with our a camera person. If your next video is a tool to create camera person sized hole in the ground. I will watch the entire video before calling the cops. 😁 I love these design videos.