Upshot: Got myself a kitchen frycutter, not to be confused with an endmill flycutter. Overall, I give the design a 4/10, and the functionality a 7.5/10. There are loads of stupid things about the way it's built, but it does handle sweet potatoes, which is the important thing. I've gotten the chance to use it half a dozen times now (it took me way too long to upload this shit), and it does make quick work of 6+ potatoes, which is insanely slow to do by hand. The key thing is to only do half of a half (at most!), make sure your potatoes are fresh and stiff (an older potato will buckle under the load), and give it a strong, sudden push. You want to build momentum on the front part of the stroke to help get the potato all the way through as it widens out. You are gonna get a bunch of little potato slivers while using this - anywhere the potato just barely reaches into a new 1/4" sector of the blade block. You'll want to keep those out of the fry oil, since not only do they cook too fast, but they'll fall through your strainer, burn in the oil, and make it go bad faster. I haven't tried this yet, but it may be worth quickly cutting back all the rounded faces of the (sweet) potato so it's less like a football and more like a box. For 1-2 potatoes, the mandoline is the ticket. The one I got is a Bron Couke professional model, which you can briefly see in the video intro.The vertical slicers on it are utter garbage and have a silly selector lever instead of a replaceable design, but the main slicing blade is great. It's just one hunk of stainless that you can sharpen on your whetstone again and again. It'll cut disks for chips in no time at all, and the clean-up is easy. Just be careful, since it's easy to get carried away slice your fingers too! There are special cut-proof gloves you can get specifically for working with these. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzMx7oxxuSg

Upshot: It's effective, easy, and affordable. Topic Index: 00:00 - trying it out 01:45 - overview 04:17 - walkthrough, features 09:56 - how strong is this stuff? 13:12 - cost, where to buy 15:41 - why I'm carrying it 21:35 - hey, I hit 1k subscribers - thank you! 22:17 - audio clips & extra One addition! It turns out you can remove the interior can by tugging on the key ring and popping the bottom off the case. (It snaps back on when you're done.) This has the full labeling, with the expiration date, contents, use instructions, CYA's, etc. So if you have any labeling legal requirements in your jurisdiction, that probably has you covered, much better than the exterior sticker. Credit to Lucky Gunner Ammo's smorgasbord review for demonstrating that. LGA video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oK1d_tBp9Q Home Depot: https://www.homedepot.com/p/SABRE-Pepper-Spray-with-Flip-Top-Key-Case-Black-F15-BKOC-02/308599145 Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082LW2JTR Active Self Protection: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsE_m2z1NrvF2ImeNWh84mw ASP's channel is a big proponent of pepper sprays and has a bunch more content about them. Sabre Red used to be one of the corporate sponsors for a long time too, though now he's sponsored by POM. I'm pretty sure either is going to be equally effective - it's the exact same amount of spice inside. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zto03K_BfLw

Upshot: This has some potential for super-janky homebrew ECM. That would be sweet. Topic Index: 00:00 - intro 00:59 - common uses, electrochemical machining 02:42 - example piece 04:38 - parts to mark 05:52 - where to buy it 06:10 - EEVBlog reviews 07:00 - assembly notes 07:38 - protocol versions 08:22 - modbus, high level view 09:06 - compared to basic arduino serial 09:59 - structure of a message 13:49 - function codes, hexadecimal, specifying parameters 17:11 - test setup 18:18 - packages and drivers 22:38 - basic use 28:39 - another tangent on the CNC applications 29:43 - more use, quirks at the high and low ends This item on AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32821185351.html An ECM etching example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DINs7eMw7IQ EEVBlog videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2rvAoO-MIA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwdnGbI5ls8 Permalink to the code in this video (never stuff may be available in the latest version of the repo): https://github.com/swolebro/swolebro-youtube/blob/1ee19ed1800bf823392585fa56924ddfbb223ebe/arduino/dps5020.ipynb Donations help me make more cool shit: http://paypal.me/swolebroshopworks ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoTV7003glU

FreeCAD and STL files for an AR-15 lower milling jig. This is a living prototype (based on other prototypes), but good enough for release and testing. Check the README file for extra info, this channel for any videos posted on it, and this GitHub for any issues: https://github.com/swolebro/swolebro-youtube/issues