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youtube channels!

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Lately I’ve been finding some awesome youtube channels with really well-done content to watch and learn about fields I don’t really know much about.

This is Alice and my attempt at the rainbow heart cookies… we tried ^^;

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I haven’t found a good one for sewing / cosplay / diy fashion / theater costumes / movie props / cosmetics stuff yet.

Anyway, the plan is, instead of going to film school, I’m going to watch youtube videos, buy a few books, and make tons and tons of crappy videos.  🙂

 

[edit 13 July 2015] Part II!

I decided to do a more comprehensive post, since why not, I’ve already got them in my bookmarks.

My giant playlist of nails / fashion / clothes manufacturing:

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misc. updates: horrible epoxy rash, rudder, volvo ocean race, sewing machines

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volvo ocean race updates twice a day on their youtube channel, & the short legs are pretty engaging, well, probably mostly team SCA is in the lead right now so I’m more interested than usually 🙂

~~RUDDER~~
re: rudder construction, have not had a chance to sit down & upload/document/write-up everything,

but in brief —

Solid bronze inside. We did CNC foam on a shopboat, laid down fiberglass, the rudder post & pre-stressed the trailing rods[1] , closed the mold and poured 2-part foam-it! 15lb urethane foam, de-molded, three more glass layers to connect the two halves, then gelcoat, install, and antifoul coat.

We also have a nice 3d model of outside of our rudder now (and a renewed complaint list against solidworks):
https://github.com/nouyang/scienceboat/blob/master/boatrudder.STL
& the mold:

https://github.com/nouyang/scienceboat/blob/master/rudder-mold-bottom.STL

[1]  (glassed some GPO3 blocks down, after tack/cure time we tightened some bronze nuts against the gpo3 blocks, checked that the rods were stressed by
i added two pictures to the end of the “rudder skeleton” album
https://picasaweb.google.com/113942194695013581888/SailBoatMay2015?authuser=0&feat=directlink

~~INSTALL~~

the details i left out are: we put so much “gelcoat” (just epoxy layers since our rudder is unlikely to be flexing a lot) on that it we lost clearance on the back edge (oops), so after installing we found it didn’t turn well put rather “popped” to rotate fully since it was catching where it rotated against the keel.

we sawed & scraped until we had clearance and now the rudder turns like a dream now (we can do a sweet 180 turn now) — it’s a little “less waterproof” on that backedge since we had to take off most of the gelcoat layers, but worst case seawater finds its way to the foam, which can sit in water for up to 2 yrs before deteriorating — realistically it has so much glass still that it should be fine.

~~EPOXY~~
also, my face/arms rash is still itchy 1 week from last exposure (which did not even involve mixing epoxy –I was just cleaning up). Do not f*** with mixed / uncured epoxy, folks, and also do NOT use acetone to wash epoxy off your skin.
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i’m using dipenhydramine (over-athe-counter skin numbing agent) & seeing a dr. on wed, but for the record:

5: Do not under any circumstances use acetone to clean up. This is the very quickest way to become sensitised. The acetone will immediately remove any natural protective oils in your skin and take anything it has dissolved, that is ANYTHING it has dissolved straight into your body. If you are going to use acetone to clean up your skin, you may as well just grab yourself a syringe and wack the crap up your arm and be done with it because it is much the same deal.

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~~singer sewing machine, 7442 disassembly / troubleshooting (bobbin did not wind, all lights blink & beeps) ~~

btw if you’re curious this is what the singer 7442 looks like inside when it’s operating, pretty interesting set of cams and mechanisms
https://youtu.be/RASgDLSg3Xw?t=24s

(pt 3 shows the “lights blinking” error https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Cqt1lBxLY)

(pt 1 points out the things we fixed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T47fLW1PscE)

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telephone hold music: analog generator

Recently a friend recounted to me a visit to a cool museum which had, in one exhibit, a “hold music” generator (you know, elevator muzak… here have some Cisco sound samples).

That is, before there was digital recording and playback, telephone switchboard operators wanted to play soothing music to callers while connecting their calls. To do so, they used little analog electromechanical playback devices — what we now think of as those cute music box toys

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but which included very serious and complex devices once-upon-a-time.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_box#/media/File:Baud_museum_mg_8548.jpg
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_box#/media/File:Baud_museum_mg_8548.jpg

Anyway, so it turns out it was the Museum Speelklok (“Musical Museum”) in Utrecht, the Netherlands:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Speelklok
https://www.museumspeelklok.nl/lang/en/

From Zoz comes this photo of the infamous Japanese telephone exchange hold music generator: (original content ahead! whoo)

Electromechanical telephone hold music generator. Photo credit: Zoz at MIT.
Electromechanical telephone hold music generator. Photo credit: Zoz at MIT.

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Footnotes

Some wikipedia articles of interest:

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_on_hold
    Which contains this “lolwut” anecdote:

    > For those still uncertain of the difference between “song title” and “mechanical” copyrights, consider the Capitol Records lawsuit for copyright infringement against Nike some 20 years ago. Nike legally obtained permission to use the Beatles song title “Revolution” from the title’s owner, Michael Jackson. They used the Capitol Records owned recording of the Beatles’ performance, but failed to obtain and pay for permission and use. Capitol Records sued and prevailed because Nike ONLY had a license to use the title and did not have a license to use the mechanical recording

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_music
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_recording_and_reproduction
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sound_recording
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_box
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Speelklok
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange#Sounds

Other interesting links I dug up while hunting for this museum before giving up and emailing Zoz:

  • http://www.telephonetribute.com/pdf/telephone_history_series_rev1.pdf
  • http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/09/history_of_hold_music_how_did_we_end_up_with_handel_tinkling_through_the.html

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