Hey! I've built something that seriously scares the crap out of me.
I don't mean that literally: I can still keep my crap inside.
Or, I mean, I do let it out, but then it's in a planned manner, in the bathroom.
Four years since the last accident, and counting.
But it was in Mexico, so that was kind of expected in its own way.
To the point! Introducing, the Chopping Machine!
[slicing sounds]
It started off pretty innocent: I've been a vegetarian almost my entire life and I chop a lot of vegetables.
And my solution to almost every problem that I have is to build a machine that can do it for me
and tadaaa!
This thing is actually pretty strong.
It has two knives and I've test run it a little bit and it's actually chopping its way through the cutting board!
There's like wood splinters everywhere. Only that is terrifying in itself!
So basically how this works is that I have these continuous servo motors.
They lift the knife like that and then at the bottom of the knife there's a spring that just
[TERRIFYING CHOPPING SOUND!] pulls it back down!
And I'm having an Arduino Nano control everything, but it's actually embedded into the metal structure.
And I got all the parts for the chopping machine, including the continuous servo motors
from ServoCity, so big thanks to them for sending me all these parts.
[coughing: this time they did sponsor me] [clap!]
As scared as I am, I'm also so ready to try this thing out.
And I've bought a bunch of vegetables for us to chop.
First up we have [lettuce hits floor] lettuce.
And since I'm not THAT stupid, I have these tongs that I'm going to feed it with.
[dramatic exhale]
♪ epic music ♪
[electric whirring]
[weak solitary chop]
OK, let's try a carrot!
♪ cheerful action music ♪
♪ cheerful action music ♪ [loud chopping]
♪ [loud chopping]
It's all wet and gooey.
♪ cheerful chopping music ♪
So good!
♪ cheerful chopping continues ♪
Don't mind me! I'm just working on that Darwin Award nomination of mine.
I am officially out of vegetables!
And I still have all ten fingers left! What a bonus! I'm pretty impressed with myself.
But I must admit that using this thing made me sweat. A lot.
It's good that people can't smell you over the internet. It's kind of like nobody can hear you scream in space...
But nobody can smell your sweat on the World Wide Web.
If you're interested in knowing more about how the Chopping Machine was built,
there's a blog post about it in the description, and if you like this video, I suggest you press the "like" button,
or subscribe to my channel,
or...convince somebody else to subscribe to my channel,
or...write me an email.
Yeah!
I reply to almost all...
oops, to almost all emails I get, and not just telepathically.
I have a few projects on the way, so...see you soon. Ish.
The holidays are coming up, and I have a family to attend to.
Not like a family of my own production.
Like, I mean, not from my own uterus, but a family, as in, like, a mom and dad and a brother and a sister.
If I don't see you before that, happy holidays, see you on the other side.
That does not mean what I want it to mean!
Nobodys going to die, OK!
[cucumber hits floor]
[crunch!] Bye-bye!
Oh, I just dropped that one on the floor.
[exclamation of disgust]
[dropping sound] Again!
♪ spacey electronic music ♪