Some of you asked for a video of nubmer changing. Here it is completely behind the scenes with visible mechanics, enjoy:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/cjvngsya64m5bb7/rhei-prototype-num...
Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
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#102Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#103Call the cops he has a clock!!! j/k... What a wonderfull piece of engineered art.
Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#104Call the cops he has a clock!!! j/k... What a wonderfull piece of engineered art.
Thank you, the making of presentation coming soon!
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#105Re: Show HN: I spent a year making an electro-mechanical prototype of a liquid clock
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Higher viscosity filler fluid and/or a ferro-binding compound to dampen the "springy" vibrations and ferro "spikes"? Btw: Comes off a labor of love and insanely-awesome attention to design and detail. Outstanding. Kickstarter/indiegogo/lockitron selfstarter page yet? :)
Yeah making just any prototype should have been much easier, i really tried to make something that looks beautiful even when its not animated. KS, maybe one day :)
Dude! You did already all that hard work; make some $$, gain more freedom, while it's hot.
If the cost of making another example (parts, time, skill) can be made sufficiently below (say 30-50%) of a reasonable sale price, it may be business. The real "hacking" done by contract manufacturers is cutting corners to make something beautiful, functional and inexpensive to manufacture.
Challenge, should you choose to accept it, if not already:
Try to assemble a similar example with mostly scrap, for the least budget imaginable. (Penny wise & pound wise.)
Another possible path:
Patenting and licensing to boutique clock makers / electronics firms, which frees you from nearly all the headaches of dealing with advertising, manufacturing and distribution (after negotiations, assuming one would usually seek advice/assistance of trustworthy, relevant partners). Also, people may not like patents, but it's a double-edge sword necessary to create a survivable business... without that, the newbie wantrepreneur is often shoot themselves, in not just one foot, but reloads to see if that stops the fail. It's nice to broadly claim "patents are evil," but good luck making money sustainably in an environment where anything & everything is knocked off, without recourse (usually legal) of any measurable kind.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah making just any prototype should have been much easier, i really tried to make something that looks beautiful even when its not animated. KS, maybe one day :)
Dude! You did already all that hard work; make some $$, gain more freedom, while it's hot. If the cost of making another example (parts, time, skill) can be made sufficiently below (say 30-50%) of a reasonable sale price, it may be business. The real "hacking" done by contract manufacturers is cutting corners to make something beautiful, functional and inexpensive to manufacture . Challenge, should you choose to acce…
Dude! Do you really think that KS is a quick and easy pile of cash, or let alone has anything to do with freedom?
Have you talked to anyone who got funded that way, or maybe read a postmortem on a failed hardware campaign?
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does vimeo have some sort of unspoken rule that all videos must have a hundred cuts a minute or something? This style of film making is incredibly obnoxious.
It's shown to increase excitement and therefore engagement.
It is also shown to decrease the information density (w.r.t. the actual subject matter) of a video. So you have engaged viewers watching a video of less substance... Reevaluate what you are optimizing for.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know, not every situation calls for belittling the achievements of children in the news.
What achievement? Buying a clock from the 70s and putting it in a suit case to bring to school?
From my understanding of American culture derived from a thorough reading of Peanuts, I thought you were supposed to bring hastily assembled items to school. You wouldn't dare say something like that to Sally Brown about her leaf collection.