After the very long setup on the video for the actual project (ignore the side quest), she does a pretty prominent Glowforge featuring project that’s pretty cool (would be a great science class/design studio) project. One of her other ideas of materials+project wouldn’t have worked because the hour and minute flip of the original clock are linked so you’d simply get the same 12x60 combinations repeatedly which ruins the random nature of it (in the same way that there is a 23 minutes of every hour).
For the spolier: it’s a phase of the moon flip-clock. What is interesting from a design standpoint, is each flip card must weigh a different amount (unlike a clock) so the little tooth that prevents early flipping takes a variable force (hence her 6 versions). What would be an ultra cool variation would be to put a clear (or frosted even better) acrylic on the back and have a mechanism to push a cold white LED onto the back and have one shine down from the top and backlight the moon (or boringly front light it). Then all you need is a pawl mechanism (rather than a 1RPD geared motor) to let a servo/solenoid flip each day at 24H and you have a cool glowy moon in phase.
I haven’t watched this one yet, but Simone Giertz does some fun stuff. I enjoy that she shares so much of her process, including the failures and dead ends, and how she works through them.
Although she is now a more mainstream maker (like her whole project with that keeping track of things board). I loved her “Sh%^^Y Robots” projects that she used to do, which were as whacky as can be, and just was pure love of hacking in the workshop, some of which were really, really absurd, but cool. Like the automatic spoon that just totally coated her face with food, and the Tesla project where she made a Tesla Pickup out of a regular Tesla was truly amazing (although not as whacky as the other projects). And I get she had somewhat burned out and then had the brain tumor (benign, other than it required brain surgery) and confronting your mortality does tend to put a damper on being carefree, but I do miss the old Simone videos, especially since she had enough self-knowledge to understand the absurdity and that was on brand.
It was that project I had in mind when they announced they were doing an official truck and then to see the monstrosity they came out with rather than the absolutely beautiful one she designed was heartbreaking.
Of course the CEO went off the rails before their truck ever hit the market so I no longer cared as much
Yeah, and even if somehow the design fell into your aesthetic it is objectively a worse truck; I constantly get better snow driving performance than the cyber trucks in my neighborhood do in my model Y. The Silicon Valley notion that anything old must be definitionally bad or obsolete makes a lot of the functionality of the truck be a bad truck. So Ford obviously went as close to the general truck design honed over a bajillion trucks sold and just changed the drivetrain from a design honed over many decades, Rivian made a refreshed design for a pretty traditional looking truck (sort of in the style of a RangeRover). And they perform just like you would expect a traditional truck to perform being a truck. It’s similar to the door hinges, on my model Y even in my essentially flat driveway (there is a slight incline to let water drain) my doors don’t stay open except at the very far extreme of open, which is not reachable by normal arms to close, a problem solved since the 1930s by Detroit, but sure let’s redesign something that worked just fine, for no particularly good reason. Or god help you if you raise the headrest on the front seats like my wife did once, and the back of the seat fell off (getting it back on - thanks YouTube for showing where the secret catches you need to depress to let the posts go back in, while holding the back in place) No other auto seats that I’ve ever seen use the posts of the headrest as the only mechanism to hold the seat clamshell together. But yeah I expected something like her design, or more akin to a Subaru brat EV than the meme-truck they built.
