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16 thoughts on “Ask fran: intro music, kits friggin kits, and gravity”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars robert croft says:

    Ive been to every store in southern ontario and nobody has any yadda yadda.?

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kollective Radio says:

    admit it fran, you're gonna outlive us all,having rebuilt yourself an analog cyberbody powered by steam and nimo tubes

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Michael Moore says:

    Anyone who can assemble and solder a pedal kit can likely build one pretty easy. Enclosures, switches, components, etc. are easy to get and cheap. I have an old RCA Solid State Hobby Circuits Manual from 1968 that has a fuzz pedal project, microphone preamp project, audio mixer/compressor/line amplifier project. And more.
    I built the fuzz pedal…its awesome. Youn can get custom boards cheap, perf board whatever. I actually make my own from fiberglass.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars claire lawson says:

    “In my lab.
    🎵🥰☕️🤓👩🏻‍🔬🎵
    Doing stuff,
    🎬🛠🧲
    Making somethin.
    🧨🔭🦠
    In my lab,
    💃🏻🔬⚗️
    What I’m doin?
    🎶👩🏻‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬🎵
    Workin’ out,
    📈🧪🥊🤸🏻‍♀️
    On the bench.
    🏋🏻‍♂️🍼
    In the lab.
    🦎🦕🧤
    Yeeeah.”
    😎💃🏻🤓

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars claire lawson says:

    Everything about this intro song is GOLD

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars TheMrFish says:

    You can’t underestimate the gravity of the situation Fran, I think I’m falling for the earth.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Hola! Matthew Suffidy says:

    Today everyone seems to agree with Einstein and he must really be good at selling a theory, But the main idea is a curved, twistable space of some kind is the cause of gravity. The relationships between the passage of time and proximity of the speed of light is not necessarily something Einstein noted, but Lorentz. Hopefully there is such a deformation of space, but the idea of gravitational wave detectors kind of confirms it. Orbit, I don't think is a centrifugal force, but just a speed vector vs the gravity track. It is the path that gravity is taking you though. Orbit has a centrifugal aspect when you want to in fact leave it due to too much velocity but are tethered, like in the case of a space elevator.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Grandpa 82547 says:

    Finally someone tells the truth: Gravity is not a force. (Also, Bernoulli doesn't make airplanes fly.)

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ian Gough says:

    Cool that the intro is totally improv!
    Kits would be great, but you'd be doing less creating and that would be a shame.
    Physics – yes, would be great to be around when some massive leaps in understanding/discovery are made and we can look back at ourselves of today and scornfully say, "how did you not get that?".
    Good that you've found youtube explaining helps for lack of people interaction and good that I got to enjoy listening your gravity talk.
    There's more conversation in my place since I finished my smart lighting yesterday, each of the light bulbs has its own personality, speaking to them really brightens up my day.
    Next time just pick up your phone and give us a call 🙂

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ViCareyous says:

    Gravity does have an opposite. It is called comedy.

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Peter Milanovski says:

    This just goes to show how little we actually know about gravity! You said that we have models but those models are only useful for escaping gravity! They still don't tell you what it is!
    We walk around on this earth with birds flying overhead like a crab with fish over it's head…
    The atmosphere definitely play's a part and the atmosphere is also electrically charged! It could be something as simple as we being electrically attracted to the earth like styrofoam ball's to a cat!

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars k34561 says:

    I think the prices are thinking about putting on the kits are to low. They prices should be somewhere are 75% of the fully assembled price.

    For Example the gold standard for 3D printers: Over half the sub $1000 3D printers are based on the design.
    Original Prusa i3 MK3S+ 3D printer:
    Kit $749
    Assembled: $999

    Nixie clock kits on Amazon seem to run from $169-$229. There are cheaper, but they are sans tubes, etc.

    For example I would expect a kit of one your pedals to be around 3/4 the price of an assembled pedal. Same parts unnassembled circuit board, painted case. Yes case painted with original artwork. I think the looks of the finished kit are actually more important for the kit. People like showing off what they made.

    Theft of IP in China is rampant. If the kit is assembled in China, I would expect your plans and designs would be directly used for the knockoffs. I have heard of cases where the actual injection molds payed for by the designer where used to mold the knockoffs.

    First hand example of a kit build. I bought for my wife "Ben Eater's" "8-bit breadboard computer kits" $280 for Christmas. My wife got it up and running. She figures not more then a handful of people ever got it to work. There are bugs in the kit. My wife had to redesign parts of it to get it to work. She is now upgrading the overall design. Widen and upgrade the bus. More memory. More opcodes. Programmer (Program it from an Arduino or Raspberry Pi. Convert portions to circuit boards.

    Her latest order of circuit boards was cheaper then I expected. Basically $60 for 30+_ circuit boards of 4 designs. The biggest cost was DHL. All standard 2 layer boards. All rectangular, but odd sizes. The biggest board is larger then a standard bread board. It is a bus laid out flat to make debugging easy. It connects 4 breadboards and two other bus boards. (2 on each side), and the bus connector at each line. The computer will have 4 of these running down the center with 7 breadboards on each side.

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Phillip Wigley says:

    Love Your channel Fran! Phill from England UK here. Just Got myself a science fair computer trainer. Have you had a dabble with one? It's the one with the speak and spell chip. Lots of fun! kindest regards Phill W

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tony Sever says:

    thanx

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tony Sever says:

    Fran you are ,May reference Wyle E.Coyote, A Super Genius..The most understandable desciption. But …KISS …keep it simple stupid. this works for most> but us technical Folk can read hru the lines.. The times..they ae a changing .. and you should too. . Most excellkent

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tony Sever says:

    dude i had no idea we had so many numbers,, excellent!

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