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I make a lot of crazy videos every month

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doing all kinds of strange things and

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using skills that I picked up over the

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years I get many emails asking Gerry how

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can I learn electronics or welding or

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machining so I was going to make this

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video about electronics and talk about

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these little electronic kits or kits

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that you can get from Adafruit sparkfun

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evil mad scientist labs there's tons of

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them and I was going to talk about

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getting yourself a good temperature

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controlled soldering iron and books and

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lots of books new books old books and

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learning from the past when engineers

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didn't have as many tools as we have

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today did you know you could make a

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Schmitt trigger out of a couple io pins

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how cool is that and parts and more

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parts and even more parts and junk bins

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full of parts to be harvested I was

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going to encourage you to take

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everything apart you can get your hands

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on and just look inside see what's going

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on and to wrap it all up I was going to

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encourage you to go find community

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someone to share the excitement of your

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projects whether it be your spouse your

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kids or online but instead I want to

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make this video about failing and giving

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yourself permission to fail at some

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point in our life most of us become

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terrified of failing I grapple with it

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every single day but it really doesn't

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make any sense in my own life I can't

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even point to a single thing that I was

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good at the first time so let's take a

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look at some of my failures and I'll

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share what I've learned see the scar

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over my lip this happened when I was

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about 5

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we had a rooster on the farm that we

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called papa chicken papa chicken was a

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giant was huge so one day I tried to

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pick up papa chicken and I got the claw

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to the face

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I learned the obvious thing here of know

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the dangers when you go into a situation

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but on top of that combined with my

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croquet accident that knocked my four

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front teeth out and caused one of my

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teeth become yellow I found out how

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cruel kids could be so thanks to them in

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a roundabout way I tried a lot more

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things than I probably ever would have

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since I was quote-unquote

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ugly weird strange and if you're young

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and listening to this and you're getting

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bullied I just want to tell you that it

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gets much better

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if you have a kind soul you'll always

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have good friends there to back you up I

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went on to do things that many people

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considered impossible I built race cars

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in high school started my own business

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taught myself electronics and built

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chips at home it took me at least three

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years to make my first transistor at

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home and everywhere I look in my shop

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there's little containers with bits and

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pieces of silicon wafer that I have done

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experiments on it represents hundreds if

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not thousands of little experiments that

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all failed okay let's get more into the

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recent few weeks ago I tried to make a

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radio receiver and it didn't work

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no go just static I thought this was

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going to be easy these cups at the end

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of my workbench represent the toxic

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waste that's left over from my

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experiments with glowstick OLEDs after

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four weeks of nothing I eventually made

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a liquid test cell that would light up

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not what I expected but still cool this

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is what happens to your solenoid when

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your pwm circuit runs away I was really

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upset with myself about this because I

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burned up about $20 worth of parts but

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why

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I'll go blow money on other

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entertainment and won't think twice

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about it this is from three days ago I

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tried to pry the glass off the front of

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this image sensor to get access to the

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dye below I wanted to make an infrared

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camera by using phosphorous and

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quenching all the bond wires are still

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good but it doesn't work somehow I

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messed it up I did this two days ago

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this is a 90 megahertz oscillator that

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falls in the FM broadcast band I had a

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theory that I could take parts of an

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electorate the electrode itself and put

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it close to the crystal and FM modulate

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it and make a really really tiny bug it

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didn't work and this is from yesterday

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this is a quartz crystal I have a theory

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that I can make a delay line memory with

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mineral oil I don't know if it's going

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to work but it's worth a try

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in closing I'd like to emphasize that

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out of all the projects I do rarely do

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they ever end the way I expected them to

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end and that doesn't mean they turned

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out bad the following will be my top 5

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suggestions for learning don't be scared

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just jump in there and start

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experimenting keep it fun learn to

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celebrate the mistakes because you're

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going to make plenty

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because people are telling you it can't

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be done that doesn't mean you shouldn't

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try to do it anyway and don't quit

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before I go I want to share this with

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you this was sitting on my water heater

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it was a failed attempt at making zinc

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sulfide nano crystals so I thought it

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sat there for months all the liquid

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evaporated away and when I picked it up

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for this video to show a failure

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I noticed that look like a glow powder

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in the bottom it had that green color so

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I tested it it's the best glow powder

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that I made to date you can reach me at

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scorched chips at gmail.com I always

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look forward to hearing from you guys

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thanks for watching