Building Prototypes Dan Gelbart part 1 of 18 Introduction

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a gold-standard free course for anyone learning to build precision mechanical things.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Dan Gelbart

Topic

prototyping and manufacturing

Format

course

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• There is "Building Prototypes" [1] series by Dan Gelbart on YouTube which is pure gold for anybody that wants to learn how building mechanical things, mostly precision/instrumentation things. Part 12 for plastic forming and casting. [1] [VIDEO]

• Nice, thanks for sharing this. His Youtube series about "Building Prototypes" looks interesting: [VIDEO] Here is a bio about Dr. Daniel Gelbart: [LINK]

• Thanks, first time I've heard of them, will be going through those (they seem to be available at archive.org [0]) soon! I'd like to point out another interesting 18-part series of videos about prototyping (in his words "a short course on how to build stuff" …