Thomas Burns
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The Great Robot Rescue, and a new workshop!
It's been a crazy few months! We packed up our lives and moved to the other side of the globe, said goodbye to our old workshop, built a NEW workshop, and rescued a forgotten robot along the way. Come check it out!
Support us on Patreon with a $3 contribution!
www.patreon.com/workshopnation
Some of our workbench tools:
Atten Hot Air Station: amzn.to/3ug9gbn
Brymen BM235 Multimeter: amzn.to/3Wk5s22
Ferrule Crimping Tool Kit: amzn.to/3hbu64I
Elenco Hook Up Wire Kit: amzn.to/3DSArYH
Wiha ratchet bit set: amzn.to/3IKZS1X
Deoxit contact cleaner: amzn.to/3IO2pIz
Wire strippers: amzn.to/3m31cn9
Solder: amzn.to/3GFXAiF
Amtech flux: amzn.to/3DSLbGo
Solder iron tip cleaner: amzn.to/31TjH6w
Production tools:
Sony A7iv (main camera): amzn.to/3ug9DCN
iPhone 14 Pro: amzn.to/3Hw7UfH
Aperture 300D Mk II COB light: amzn.to/3T0B5e8
Sennheiser wireless lav mic: amzn.to/3IK0YuS
Matthews C-stands: amzn.to/3u9PZZd
Be sure to check out our retro computing Instagram channel: circuitlords
Thanks for watching!
#workshop #robot
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The coolest robot I've ever built!
zhlédnutí 4,4MPřed 10 měsíci
We turned a boring Alexa Echo device into an animatronic robot! Isn't this what we really want from our technology? Support us on Patreon with a $3 contribution! www.patreon.com/workshopnation Link to build instructions at Hackster.io: www.hackster.io/tmburns/breathing-life-into-an-amazon-echo-device-ed9ea3 Plans for the animatronic eyes, designed by @WillCogley: www.instructables.com/Simplifie...
I built an intercom from vintage rotary phones!
zhlédnutí 46KPřed rokem
We're making an intercom system from two Soviet-era rotary phones (model ТА-68)! This episode also features a visit to the Eliava market in Tbilisi, and a look behind the scenes at Mariam's Computer Repair! Support us on Patreon with a $3 contribution! www.patreon.com/workshopnation Download my schematics for this circuit: drive.google.com/file/d/1mtkKpMnWaaAYrhotfArPxBom9y6hTnwa/view?usp=share...
Soviet CRT TV tester - restoration and upgrades!
zhlédnutí 12KPřed rokem
We're restoring this Laspi TT-03 (Ласпи ТТ-03) television tester and pattern generator, made in the USSR in the early 1990's! Also making a few upgrades to make it more workbench-friendly. Support us on Patreon with a $3 contribution! www.patreon.com/workshopnation Download the manual and schematics for the Laspi TT-03: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jl2Ae11aCrIdmwtArKRFpdhRz6eQvaBW?usp=sharin...
Restoring and Upgrading a Variac Transformer!
zhlédnutí 11KPřed rokem
I picked up this Soviet-made autotransformer for about $20 at the local market. I love the size and design, but she needs some repair, and a few upgrades. Let's restore this variac! Support us on Patreon with a $2 contribution! www.patreon.com/workshopnation Featured tools: Elenco Hook Up Wire Kit: amzn.to/3DSArYH Wiha ratchet bit set: amzn.to/3IKZS1X Deoxit contact cleaner: amzn.to/3IO2pIz Wir...
Scientific calculator restoration! Will her display shine again?
zhlédnutí 28KPřed rokem
Join me in restoring this beautiful 1980 Electronika B3-18А (Электроника Б3-18А)- the first handheld scientific calculator in the USSR! This unit came to us non-functional and missing its non-standard power adapter. Can we restore it? A vacuum fluorescent tube display has never looked so good! Download the schematics: bit.ly/B3-18A Support us on Patreon with a $2 contribution! www.patreon.com/w...
CRT Restoration - How to get Blade Runner onto a Soviet Television
zhlédnutí 12KPřed 2 lety
This week's patient: an early-1980s B/W CRT from the USSR: a Yunost 405 (Юность-405). The antenna ports aren’t allowing a video signal into the TV. Let's fix it! Schematics for the Yunost 405 television: bit.ly/yunost_405 Buy us a cup of coffee by making a $2 contribution to our Patron page! www.patreon.com/workshopnation Featured tools: EEVblog Brymen Multimeter: amzn.to/3tsht9N Elenco Hook Up...
Flip Clock Repair and Plastic Restoration! - Emes Selection
zhlédnutí 6KPřed 2 lety
This week's patient: a 1973 German-made flip clock! This old gal still had a few surprises left in her! What would you have done here? Support us on Patreon with a $2 contribution! www.patreon.com/workshopnation Featured tools: Countersunk machine screw assortment: amzn.to/3v67yr1 Wiha ratchet bit set: amzn.to/3IKZS1X EEVblog Brymen Multimeter: amzn.to/3tsht9N Elenco Hook Up Wire Kit: amzn.to/3...
Nixie Тube Calculator Restoration! - Искра-121
zhlédnutí 18KPřed 2 lety
Join us in restoring this beautiful Soviet-made 1977 Iskra-121 calculator (Искра 121) with a Nixie tube display! Download the technical manual for the Iskra 121 (in Russian): bit.ly/iskra_121_manual Download schematics for the Искра 111и power supply (very similar to the Iskra 121 PSU): bit.ly/Iskra_111i_psu Support us on Patreon with a $2 contribution! www.patreon.com/workshopnation Featured t...
CRT Television Restoration, from the USSR!
zhlédnutí 9KPřed 2 lety
Join me in restoring this beautiful 1991 Electronica 23TB-307D (Электроника 23ТБ-307Д) CRT television. This unit had clearly spent part of her life submerged in mud and water, but she still has a few surprises left in her! Download the schematics: bit.ly/electronika_23TB-307D Check out the video about the VideoSport-3 that's featured in this video: czcams.com/video/9mqXT-zj47s/video.html Suppor...
Retro Gaming Console Restoration! - Video Sport 3
zhlédnutí 17KPřed 2 lety
Join us in restoring this 1991 Electronica VideoSport 3 (ВидеоСпорт-3). This was the Atari of the Soviet Union! Let's see if we can get this piece of history up and running again! Download a hi-res scan of the schematics: bit.ly/videosport3_download Support us on Patreon with a $2 contribution! www.patreon.com/workshopnation Featured tools: Elenco Hook Up Wire Kit: amzn.to/3DSArYH Wiha ratchet ...

Komentáře

  • @Tdude1997
    @Tdude1997 Před 13 hodinami

    AI kill us all

  • @nicknixon275
    @nicknixon275 Před 18 hodinami

    WE NEED THIS WITH GPT 4o

  • @vagabondvinlandsagashamoan2046

    How did you learn to do all this?👍

  • @realkabecio
    @realkabecio Před 20 hodinami

    SO COOL!! WHAT A GREAT ROBOT AND I SO LOVED WATCHING HOW YOU BUILT IT!!!

  • @ShigmaChannel
    @ShigmaChannel Před 23 hodinami

    That one blade runner quote... still amazing. Fits so well.

    • @ThomasBurns
      @ThomasBurns Před 22 hodinami

      Thanks for watching!

    • @ShigmaChannel
      @ShigmaChannel Před 19 hodinami

      @@ThomasBurns Projects with passion like these are the things that are worth watching. Keep it up!

  • @chemicaldeath9866
    @chemicaldeath9866 Před dnem

    This is 100% Tobor from Shark Boy and Lava Girl 🤖🤖

  • @DirtyMike124x
    @DirtyMike124x Před dnem

    "Like tears in the rain" haha had to add the "the" so you didn't get copyright struck eh? I tease I tease

  • @DirtyMike124x
    @DirtyMike124x Před dnem

    "Have you seen anything interesting in your life?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I knew what mr. robo's answer was gonna be!!!! Idk how, my nerd senses weren't just tingling, they were vibrating like a broken rumble pad. I love that, I certainly don't always accurately guess what will come next. But today, I very uncannily did lol.

    • @ThomasBurns
      @ThomasBurns Před dnem

      Thanks for watching, Mike!

    • @DirtyMike124x
      @DirtyMike124x Před dnem

      @@ThomasBurns I greatly enjoyed this. You are immensely talented and skilled. Thank you for sharing.

  • @ajnur69
    @ajnur69 Před dnem

    3:56 CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME THE NAME OF THIS OPERA

  • @LifeLess1999
    @LifeLess1999 Před dnem

    you didn't have me sold until you said chat gpt

  • @LifeLess1999
    @LifeLess1999 Před dnem

    it looks like corporate greed and laziness

  • @stickflux
    @stickflux Před dnem

    now to just mount one of these to the top of an Atlas...

  • @matsis01
    @matsis01 Před dnem

    eye mechanism reminds me of Breaking the Ice (1987)

  • @ArchSpawn
    @ArchSpawn Před dnem

    Jimmy neutron alien vibes.

  • @R2D800
    @R2D800 Před dnem

    This is an ultra-competent man who understands many things on many levels.

  • @E_blanknamehere
    @E_blanknamehere Před dnem

    From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither and you'll beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the machine is immortal

  • @ban6809
    @ban6809 Před dnem

    This video has great editing, got my adhd brain engaged the whole video

  • @oShadowkun
    @oShadowkun Před 2 dny

    Cool, Just a fancy alexa with eyes i guess?

  • @PatrickMitchell-fn3mm

    This feels like something in a sci-fi movie! Imagine: the characters find found footage of the early development of their now highly advanced and intelligent robot friend, and he gets to watch the old videos of his creator building him. As he watches, he’s moved… he was to young at the time to appreciate how much his creator loved him, but now, after all he’s been through and learned, he can understand and appreciate this, joy. Silently, he watches the last clips of the video play, and he blinks rapidly a few times. If he had tear ducts, he might have even cried. Quietly he whispers to the ghost of a man he’d learned too late how to love, “thank you, father”

  • @zlosov5817
    @zlosov5817 Před 2 dny

    now weld it on top of a roomba, also, you forgot to add a degauser for the screen

  • @Mr.O2183
    @Mr.O2183 Před 2 dny

    8:40 that’s an ibm Selectric 1 and it suffers from the keys locking up and the clutch breaking in a half which could be identified by a clicking sound when turned on.

  • @Mr.O2183
    @Mr.O2183 Před 2 dny

    This stuff is my dream!!! I could be in that room for hours!!

  • @MadastheHatter13
    @MadastheHatter13 Před 2 dny

    If you used chat-gpt it would be a communisim-bot.

  • @oSCHWINGINATORo
    @oSCHWINGINATORo Před 2 dny

    With this Milestone u have achieved u should be able to bring the 4 Think-Tanks of Big MT to live of the Fallout universe. Just imagine: 4 of those with unique Voices interacting and discussing with each other. Here and there some Shitchatting of course^^ Hilarious! WELL Done Sir, love and greetings from Germany <3

  • @John_Falcon
    @John_Falcon Před 2 dny

    If you have an Alexa, please stop pretending to have some kind of interest in technology. At this point, you aren't even concerned with your own safety and well being. Please, get help immediately. Whether it's an a therapist, or an exorcist, or just a small hand held EMP device to deactivate it, or the mind controlling nano-dust in your body.

  • @John_Falcon
    @John_Falcon Před 2 dny

    I came for a robot, and got an adorably irrelevant lecture on stonks and margins instead of your video.

  • @bekabeka4969
    @bekabeka4969 Před 2 dny

    It's so optimistic video 👍👍

  • @davidhutton5306
    @davidhutton5306 Před 3 dny

    I would love something like this sitting on my coffee table.

  • @kyosokutai
    @kyosokutai Před 3 dny

    I was half expecting the robot to answer your query of "Do you hear me?" with just.. screaming. And never stop screaming. In absolute existential crisis. Maybe I am just messed up.

  • @RobertClaflin
    @RobertClaflin Před 3 dny

    How much and are you going to be selling him if you make another 🤔

  • @insanitywolf-vh1hn
    @insanitywolf-vh1hn Před 3 dny

    How did I know it was going g to be the blade runner soliloquy before it even spoke ?

  • @optroncordian7863
    @optroncordian7863 Před 3 dny

    Another self retaining relay, activated when both phones are picked up, which temporarily turns off the AC current. It must disengage when both phones are hug up. The idea is to not have any phone ringing when hanging the other up. You need the AC only at the beginning ...

    • @ThomasBurns
      @ThomasBurns Před 3 dny

      That’s a great idea! Thanks for watching, Optron!

  • @GuillaumeLT
    @GuillaumeLT Před 3 dny

    I envision him in a little sleepy owl costume, placing a beak over the camera to hide it, and leaving the display exposed on his belly like a Teletubby.

    • @ThomasBurns
      @ThomasBurns Před 3 dny

      Hahaha I love it! Thanks for watching, Guillaume!

  • @Par-Crom
    @Par-Crom Před 3 dny

    I didn't want to rant on this, but... I can't just say anything and move along. I really see a problem here. Home applications like Alexa are an innovative cancer (technologically useless, expensive in precious ore, principally used as a toy for adults, and is a spy that helps big companies to have a better grasp at your wallet), and you take that for "a friend". I'm not blaming you for living your best life, I'm blaming society for what it becomes, thanks to the perpetual hammering of the capitalist/globalist machine. Don't get me wrong I think the final look is amazing for a "80's punchline parrot", since I prefer when they don't actually look like real humans. Now from a philosophical standpoint, I get it why we want to create sentient beings (short answer : because we can!). But I will NEVER understand why we would want to create them human-like lol. We're not even trying to let these beings become their own species, naaaah they must limit to "our" perception of life. So egoistic (so "human", some would say). 😂👌 What's your point of view on the subject? I think if we're going to give life to another form, we MUST prepare to that properly, because we've never experienced anything of that sort before ; like we never shared our Earth (Solar System?) with another sentient being. You guys are better understanding that these sentient robots aren't "us", they'll most probably not consider themselves as one of us. They "may" become friends, but they'll have their own perception of live eventually due to the sum of their "biology". They'll have ambitions and needs to fulfill, new ideas probably, but oh boi, humanity must be prepared for if robots think that we're getting in their way.

  • @user-hn3rw2eg3m
    @user-hn3rw2eg3m Před 3 dny

    wow, this is truly a great video. Amazed by the geniues behind.

  • @alt0v14
    @alt0v14 Před 3 dny

    0:39 penis-like robot spotted

  • @oceanism-
    @oceanism- Před 4 dny

    Is this what adult incels do with their free time?

  • @bekabeka4969
    @bekabeka4969 Před 4 dny

    Would be cool built small Step by step telephone exchange, because in Georgia still doesn't exist telephone exchange museum.

    • @ThomasBurns
      @ThomasBurns Před 3 dny

      That’s a great idea, Beka!

    • @bekabeka4969
      @bekabeka4969 Před 2 dny

      ​@@ThomasBurns I'm looking for telephone lovers that do it together 🙂

  • @penegakkeadilanpembasmikej5022

    Listen to Bayyinah tv to understand deeply about the Quran

  • @redeye8892
    @redeye8892 Před 4 dny

    Wall-E lmao

  • @eddieholly648
    @eddieholly648 Před 4 dny

    Id buy an amazon product spy device if it looked and acted just like this

  • @vfxsoup
    @vfxsoup Před 4 dny

    Never wanted an Alexa until now

  • @elwiken00
    @elwiken00 Před 4 dny

    You are awesome. No more needs to be said. Thanks for this masterpiece

  • @A_Biscuits
    @A_Biscuits Před 4 dny

    Now stick some wheels on it and take it to a battle arena.

    • @ThomasBurns
      @ThomasBurns Před 3 dny

      Hahaha no battle arena for this guy, but v2 will have wheels! Thanks for watching!

  • @HeyoitsJay
    @HeyoitsJay Před 4 dny

    how's the project going?

  • @bannedtwice7767
    @bannedtwice7767 Před 4 dny

    "What is my purpose." "You pass butter." "Oh my god."

  • @quandaledingle395
    @quandaledingle395 Před 4 dny

    Brian

  • @slothman4922
    @slothman4922 Před 4 dny

    add wheels that you can move not the robot

  • @radicalsweatshop1558

    it would be cool to put that on a boston dynamics robot dog

  • @t3chnicolor
    @t3chnicolor Před 5 dny

    Welcome back! Moving across the world is no easy feat. Looking forward to more videos! Cheers.