Gadgetory

what's up guys welcome back to another garage worklog these are kind of spotty production value videos that I do to show you my progress in my garage slash studio which I've kind of all built from scratch I am not by any means an expert when it comes to construction or carpentry or anything like that but I like DIY stuff so with that being the theme I have two projects I'm gonna try to get done today one is gonna be mounting a lights from the ceiling via a pulley system that should be kind of fun the other one is a pretty simple solution for actually mounting some little ball head to camera mounts around my set so I can easily connect cameras to those rather than having to use this solution like I'm using up here which is a clamp with a $2,000 camera set to it that that's perfectly sturdy and adequate and nothing can go wrong there anyway but before I get onto that stuff there are a couple projects I'm working on that I was going to post this weekend they're not quite done though so I spent most of the weekend benchmarking this system right here or at least the past few days this is the $3,500 system and it is absolutely a beast it's really really fast I have some benchmarks to share for that and all that good stuff it's looking pretty pretty - pretty pretty yeah although the RGB lighting isn't quite what I had hoped it would be at least as far as controlling it anyway of course more on that video when it comes out I also have this kid of memory over here from a vex ear although it doesn't look that great in this light right now but who cares it is fancy though cuz it's got the plasma and the tubes at the top and I am kind of stoked on this memory because I think it matches pretty nicely with this motherboard that I use on my test bed what do you guys think so my ongoing goal for out here in the work area has been to get stuff up off the ground why well that's where the dogs like to hang out like here was demonstrating right now the dogs hang out down there and every once in a while you know they hear something and they go tearing out this has happened in several of my videos as well as some live streams they go running across right here so I try to like keep stuff like all this nonsense off the floor if I can and give them a clear path to run if that happens to be something that they want to do the other reason is just for cleaning purposes it always gets messy out here there's a lot of mess over there in the corner we're not going to look at that but for that purpose I want to get the lights up off the floor and I also want to provide myself with means of recording from up above because I like the top-down look for that reason I of course built this entire structure up here with you know I got my control panel with switches so I can just turn the lights on and off stand on my tiptoes but you know it makes things easier to turn lights on now there is lights and then of course the overhead camera stuff because you know top down is a great view for doing live streams or just recording stuff so I like to record down to what's going on on this table but I want something a little bit more permanent that I can just slap on there and slap off of there rather than of course this aforementioned clamp solution so I recently picked up a new ball head I got this one obviously because it's fancier than the others anyway this was a on Amazon link is in the description if you guys want to check out it's pretty heavy-duty and I think it was only like eight bucks or something like that hope I'm not wrong about that might have been fifteen bucks however much it was link is in the description so that you can mount with a 3/8 inch screw which is a standard screw size if you deal with photography in photography you actually typically have the quarter-inch thread which is represented by the top half of this thing that's a quarter-inch and then you also have yeah you also have 3/8 inch threading which is the thicker part there at the bottom now you can buy camera gear that has this type of threading on it and stuff and it tends to be very expensive and I've gotten a few of those but I found that by just heading over to my local Ace Hardware I was able to get some of these carriage bolts named so because they're used to construct carriages originally that's probably not true but those will thread right into there it's a standard threading so that's cool I've already tested it out and much less expensive than buying the actual stuff that's like made for camera works so I'm basically going to punch these through some two by fours and then mount to this on the other side of it and then I'll might use some washers I got some hex nuts on there to hold everything in place the other project the one that's a little bit more fancy is going to be using simple machines like pulleys I'm actually using lots of simple machines I got simple machines in the pulleys here tada I have simple machines in I think this counts as a lever that might not count as a lever does that count as a lever anyway it's a hinge I'm gonna call this a lever even though it's probably not a lever that's another simple machine though even my screws over here simple machines because so you going around the outside there that's an inclined plane haha guys didn't think it was gonna be like a physics basic physics class here anything moving on though got some rope to tie everything up and pass through the pulleys I got some pleats as well as some rope loops so I can throw up loop the Rope where I need to loop the rope that's probably enough exposition there's all my hardware let's get to work so that went really well actually not only did I blind guess where the stud was and hit it up there that was awesome but it's like hanging down perfectly right here as far as where it should be to hit me when I'm talking to the camera over there and everything it's just kind of sway and loosely right now but you know it settles down true right about where it should I also have I can still undo this last period so I can move it up and down to give it a little bit of repositioning if I need to and now I just gotta set up the pulley system got my pulley mounted like so it took me a couple tries to find the stud this time and now the roof it's a pulley I got the AC on now sorry about the noise but I think this project is looking pretty much complete it's mounted to the ceiling hanging down right there hinge at the top rope goes up to the pulley over to loop right there and then down to my cleat I think I'm gonna name my cleat cleetus Holly's name your cleat Cletus is a good name yeah so I can just undo this little guy here so now with the rope going up to deploy oh you go sneaky sneaky pull it all the way up hold on hold on I can't do this while I'm filming and now late is tucked away up at the ceiling hey that's actually really like turned out I was gonna make it fancier with like two attachment points at the ceiling and stuff but I think it's totally good for now alright let's move on to job number two okay there it is 3/8 inch bolts going through to the ball head I can still get in here to turn it twist this to loosen the ball head although I'm kind of worrying cameras all right so that allows me to move the camera around and position it however I need it and then of course I would probably be using two hands and I can tighten it down in whatever position I want awesome this one I kind of tried to get fancy with and basically instead of getting those carriage bolts I should have gotten hex bolts that would have been a better idea because right now this is pretty much seized up on either side I tried to mount this little guide to it which allows you to basically shift it back and forth that's actually meant for focusing but I realized that had it so I was like I'll let me mount it up here but now it's seized up and it's just spinning on there so I can still use it right now I just have to keep it centered here so it won't spin but um yeah that was kind of a fail I got to figure out how to get that off the day anyone has any ideas let me know in the comments alright guys that wraps it up for this garage work log if you happen to be one of the few out there who prefers my garage work logs to my regular videos I know there's a few of you definitely hit the thumbs-up button and let me know that you enjoyed it leave me a comment in the comment section down below or if you just happen to like this video you don't have to like it better than my other ones anyway point being leave me feedback and also click links in the description I put links to some of the stuff I used today thanks for watching as always of course and we'll see you next time