[Nico71] works for a company that makes industrial CT scanners. These x-ray machines look inside a piece of equipment, allowing operators to verify assembly and to inspect for material integrity. It also allowed [Nico71] the opportunity to scan a LEGO servo he had lying around, and which no longer worked. The resulting images look fantastic, and really allow you to look into a closed system and pick apart how it works or why it’s not working. In this case, you can see one of the wires has been damaged.
[Nico71] plans to scan a bunch of LEGO components, comparing (for instance) official LEGO products with shanzhai knockoffs. Which is better constructed? It’s one thing to have thinner or cheaper plastic, or a lower grade of steel, but how is the part engineered?
We’ve covered a surprising amount of CT goodness on Hackaday, including this process for turning a CT scan into a 3D print and a post on improving a homebrew CT scanner.
Ugh, what do you call that genericcy youtube instructable background music style? It’s becoming like the ear rotting elevator music of the early 21st century.
Probably actually that. ContentID tends to take down or take all the money from any video that uses music. Videos are weird without music so Youtube provides an audio library of royalty free music to use for backgrounds. Alternatively there’s a limited set of musicians who can (the record company allows it) give you permission to use their stuff with attribution. In short the actual pool of suitable background music for videos is small.
This musician, Kevin MacLeod, offers good music for free: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html
“Industrious Ferret”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kkcRNCxw6c&feature
This is now the song of my People for if only we could display a flag a free flag.
Kevin MacLeod is the musical hero that YouTube needs.
Dear God, I hope he’s not the one responsible for every ****ing bit of glockenspiel and ukulele music used in every ad anywhere for the last two years.
Oh yah, forgot the DMCA wars had got to such a point that you can’t even get CC from elsewhere without some copytroll leech claiming it as theirs..
YT is getting worse every day.
And even if you paid for music to use in your videos you can get into trouble. Dave Jones just did a video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Syp2uyqtE
Gotta love how everybody’s more focused on the music then the article/video..
Cool trick! wish i had access to this kind of gear to debug my projects.