Adam Savage’s Tested is a content platform and community playground for makers and curious minds. On Tested.com, the highly- engaged Tested YouTube channel, and at conventions and events, dynamic makers share ideas and inspire each other to build their obsessions. Led by Adam Savage, the Tested team explores the intersection of science, popular culture, and emerging technology, showing how we are all makers. Adam also takes viewers behind the scenes of films, TV shows, theater, and museums, shining a spotlight on the craftspeople and artists who make the magic we all enjoy.
Tested is also: Norman Chan, Joey Fameli, Josh Self, Ryan Kiser, Kristen Lomasney, Kishore Hari, Sean Charlesworth, Kayte Sabicer, Bill Doran, Ariel Waldman, and Darrell Maloney.
From Adam Savage’s Tested. It’s finally here: Steam Frame is Valve’s new virtual reality headset, and we spend a day at Valve going hands-on with the new hardware, alongside the newly announced Steam Machine and Steam Controller! Here’s everything you need to know about this standalone headset, how it plays both VR and flatscreen games,…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. This is one of the most complex wooden cases Adam has yet to design and build: a traveling box to house and protect his animatronic Grogu while being as compact and portable as possible. It also needs to store the tools related to the puppet’s operation and maintenance, as well as…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. At the@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistoryAdam Savage meets a living fossil, a Coelacanth! And it’s a very special one, too. Department of Ichthyology curatorial associate Ryan Thoni explains. Visit the American Museum of Natural History: https://www.amnh.org/ Follow AMNH on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amnh/ Here’s Why You Love Dinosaurs: https://youtu.be/CYEBcKhZWM0 Adam Savage Meets a Triceratops AND Mosasaur in…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. At the @AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory, Adam Savage learns a new fact from Department of Ichthyology curatorial associate Ryan Thoni that blows his mind. Is Adam alone? Did YOU know this? Visit the American Museum of Natural History: https://www.amnh.org/ Follow AMNH on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amnh/ Here’s Why You Love Dinosaurs: https://youtu.be/CYEBcKhZWM0 Adam Savage Meets a…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. What’s Adam Savage’s position on flathead screws? What’s the best strategy to get your name out as a freelancer? In setting up a workshop, should tools and stock be stored together or separately? In this live stream excerpt, Adam answers these questions from Tested members Patrick Hennessy, Greg Stanton and ADHDMedia,…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. Kari Byron mentioned a drama-stirring producer on her @MythfitsPod podcast. What’s the most memorable thing a producer asked Adam Savage to do? Any more builds planned for the pantograph mill? Does Adam have any advice on how to grind a fuller in an aluminium blade using regular shop tools? In this…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. In this live stream, Adam will be answering Tested member questions on … anything! Note: During live streams, Tested memberships are gifted. In order to be eligible, be sure you’re signed into your YouTube account and you’ve opted to receive gifted memberships! YouTube randomly assigns gifts to people logged in and…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. How do you restore and conserve a bald eagle specimen when possessing a bald eagle feather is illegal? How do you clean feathers or construct toupees for fragile taxidermied birds? At the National Park Service Museum Conservation Lab, organic objects conservator Fran Ritchie and objects intern Elena Best explain some of…
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From Adam Savage’s Tested. Adam tours through the Paramount Pictures film archives, where Executive Director Chuck Woodfill shows us the many types of media inventoried and preserved for digitalization and restoration. Thanks to the Paramount Pictures Archives team for hosting us at their archives! Tested Team Youtube Channel @TestedTeam ASC Video Series: The History of…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. As MythBusters viewers know, Adam Savage LOVES crossbows. At the @metmuseum’s Arms and Armor conservation lab, associate conservator Sean Belair takes Adam Savage through a history of this classic weapon, starting with an artifact from the 1400s and spanning a progression of form, functionality and art. Can you guess which crossbow…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. Adam spends the day at the Paramount Pictures archives, where Executive Director Chuck Woodfill walks Adam through a sampling of the long history of film media that the archives preserves and maintains. Starting with film negatives and prints from the earliest of Paramount Pictures films, we track the progression of media…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. What materials has Adam Savage had bad experiences with? Is Adam working on an OG Alien flashlight? Does Adam have a favorite build using magnets? What’s the most dangerous tool in Adam’s shop? In this live stream excerpt Adam answers these questions from Xalo White, gimmebuilds, Sunshyn and Brian Baker, whom…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. What are Adam Savage’s takeaways from his tattoo experience? What is it like to have people asking questions or making comparisons to work you did years ago? In this live stream excerpt Adam answers these questions from Tested members J Dellarosa and Ozymandias the Bassist, whom we thank for their support.…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. Adam expands his collection of vintage oil cans with a set of finger oilers won from an recent online auction. That means it’s time to roll out the trusty parts washer to thoroughly clean them before putting the cans into service. Adam Savage’s favorite parts washer: https://youtu.be/JFJYbIawnCI Torin Portable Steel Cabinet…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. Adam visits the archives at Paramount Pictures, where he and Joey get to examine and learn about the history of VistaVision film cameras. Charlotte Barker, Paramount’s Director of Film Restoration and Preservation, shows us examples of this groundbreaking widescreen format and the inventive ways that VistaVision made use of 35mm film.…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. What would you do if you had a perfect 3D scan of your face? In an exercise in building animatronic eyes, Adam called up Bill Doran (@punishedprops) to colloborate on a massive 3D printed head. Watch digital design merge with special effects modelmaking in this surreal build! Thanks so much to…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. How do you come up with the physical representation of animals we know lived on Earth, when the evidence of their existence is limited to bone, footprints and skin impressions at best? How do you decide on color? Pose? Scale? Even setting? At the @AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory, curator/paleontologist Roger Benson and senior principal…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. Jesse Velez, practical FX designer and shop owner at Raptor House FX, returns to the cave with a completely redesigned version of his animatronic robot made for the promotion of Netflix’s Wednesday show! This iteration of the iconic Addams Family character has a whole new set of capabilities, including remote puppeted…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. "It would have been Grant Imahara’s birthday on Thursday, Oct 23. Could you please share any stories about Grant’s early days on MythBusters?" In this live stream excerpt Adam answers this question from Tested member Lee Marsh, and shows some images from his first digital camera. Thank you for your support,…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. How did Jamie reaction to seeing clips of Adam making jokes about him on MythBusters? Why didn’t MythBusters do more horror-movie myths on the show, like from Saw or Final Destination? Is prop-making a good business for a middle-aged professional to move into? In this live stream excerpt, Adam answers these…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. With many virtual reality headsets available today, ranging from the Quest 3 to the Vision Pro, advances in dedicated PCVR hardware seems to be more iterative than groundbreaking. We test and compare two radically different approaches to PCVR design: the ultra light Bigscreen Beyond 2 and the feature-packed Somnium VR1. Here…
From Adam Savage’s Tested. The beautiful thing about a historical object is not just the object itself, but what the signs of its use say about that object. In this case, Adam Savage examines the Remington noiseless typewriters that belonged to poet and Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg, with every groove telling a story. At the…