Here's a quick project that anyone can do in their garage.

There was a stretch of time I was looking at videos of budget gaming PC builds and they'd be like "How to build a gaming PC for $150" and a lot of them went like "Buy a used Optiplex for $120, max out its RAM for $30, then use this GTX 2080 I got from nvidia for free because I have two billion subscribers."

There is no world in which that machine is under a million dollars.

You see, there is this unwritten agreement between the creator and the viewer that they like stuff explained to them, but they don't actually replicate anything shown in the video. At best, they half-arsedly order some materials and then never get to it.

Just ran into this like a week ago with a wood working video. "How to flatten a board without a planer!". The whole premise was that planers are expensive, so here a little trick for hobbyist........ The next scene was them using a router table jig that's like 5x more expensive then any planer.

That machine costs well over $381k. We had a much smaller 3 axis lathe installed in the machine shop I worked in during my early 20's and it was $3M. That was 25 years ago, so it probably costs infinity dollars now, given recent inflation. Hell, you probably can't even buy them now, just lease them on a subscription for eleventy bajillion dollars per year.

Point of order, that particular machine costs at least ten times the amount quoted.

I'm the weirdo that has a full cnc machine shop at home. I was a cnc machinist for 20 years, though. Brain fog from covid killed my ability to do it, though. I do miss it, because that is something I truly love doing.

Don't care. I will watch every second of every build project Adam Savage does in his shop.

When repairing my car I snapped a bolt in an awkward place. This really sucked.

Worse, so many of the "guy in a garage" youtubers were like "Yeah luckily I already have the engine block out..."

Or "Grab your handy dandy lathe..."

"Super easy you guys, just get your welding torch..."

What is a consensual non-consent machine?

I miss when youtube had actual diy videos requiring tools most people had just laying around

I remember when it had the opposite problem. "Today, we're going to make a working fusion reactor out of an old HP laptop I found in my garage", and everything is specific to that particular HP laptop.

How to DIY X first just go to your 400 sq foot shed

No way that thing only costs that much, right? I would think double.

Funny maymay though

I have the same problem with most DIY-videos as I don't own a glue gun.

I really appreciate it when they give the quicker option for using equipment, or a slower option if you don't have like a hacksaw or drill press. I think DiyPerks does that?

So there's where Empyrion got the design of their builders from.

"Now I used this 40 thousand dollar rig to save time, but I have no reason to believe you couldn't do this on a table saw"

Meanwhile, Mark Rober accidentally making a guided missile:

seriously

CNC machine

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