Ever heard of 31-year-old Shane Wighton? He runs the ‘Stuff Made Here’ channel on Youtube. What he shows there leaves many people with a passion for technology speechless.
Wim Dewijngaert
Shane Wighton started crafting at a young age. His father introduced him to model building, eventually he became an engineer and for many years he led a team specialized in making 3D printers. His passion even goes so far that he has been able to put a handful of patents to his name in recent years.
Crazy and useless machines
For his YouTube channel, Shane makes the craziest – and most importantly most useless – machines. At the beginning of this year, he designed a basketball hoop that you could always score with. In his videos you can see how he randomly throws a ball into the air, and how the ring, with an ingenious system of pulleys, automatically finds the ball and stands in the right position, even before the ball falls down again. It became his most viewed video to date.
During covid he started working with a robot that cuts hair and for Halloween he used the same machine to automatically carve drawings in a pumpkin. You have to see it to believe it.
The final challenge Shane took on was to solve the Pure White Hell Jigsaw puzzle – an all-white puzzle of a thousand pieces. With an ingenious system consisting of a scanner and a robot arm, this was a piece of cake.
YouTube channel Stuff Made Here
If you want to enjoy Shane’s adventures during a lunch break at work, his videos can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere/videos
Shane at work with one of his machines