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Building Prototypes Dan Gelbart part 1 of 18 Introduction

Building Prototypes Dan Gelbart part 1 of 18 Introduction on HackerTube: recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 separate months, 2015–2022.

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First of an 18-part lecture series by engineer Dan Gelbart on building prototypes. The series covers practical mechanical design and fabrication of precision machines.

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Recommended as a gold-standard free course for anyone learning to build precision mechanical things.

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“series by Dan Gelbart on YouTube which is pure gold”
— dejv, Jan 2022, in “Ask HN: Resources for “Learning” Manufacturing?”

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4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

dejvJan 2022Strongly recommends

There is "Building Prototypes" [1] series by Dan Gelbart on YouTube which is pure gold for anybody that wants to learn how building mechanical things, mostly precision/instrumentation things. Part 12 for plastic forming and casting. [1] ▶ this video

in “Ask HN: Resources for “Learning” Manufacturing?” · View on HN

mikewarotAug 2021Recommends

It sounds like you need to add a "stage" to help position your sample. Flexures are systems that bend to perform motion, and can do surprising things that you can't do with joined together machined pieces. Here's an open source stage project using flexures that will likely help [link] Also, see Dan Gelbart's 18 video series about building prototypes ▶ this video

in “Ask HN: What problem are you close to solving and how can we help?” · View on HN

kbr2000Apr 2020Recommends

Thanks, first time I've heard of them, will be going through those (they seem to be available at archive.org [0]) soon! I'd like to point out another interesting 18-part series of videos about prototyping (in his words "a short course on how to build stuff" :)), by engineer/inventor/professor Dan Gelbart: [1] [0] [link] [1] ▶ this video

in “Using a 1930 Teletype as a Linux Terminal [video]” · View on HN

plumeriaAug 2015Recommends

Nice, thanks for sharing this. His Youtube series about "Building Prototypes" looks interesting: ▶ this video Here is a bio about Dr. Daniel Gelbart: [link]

in “High precision air bearing CNC lathe and grinder [video]” · View on HN

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