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She has a video on that too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inVvXS6gA8c
Funnily you can see some coat hingers prototype at the end of the video :).
> I spent 3 years working on a coat hanger
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But I'm sure she's patented it and amazon wouldn't want to get caught for intellectual property theft so will be diligent about policing sellers. They wouldn't want a bad reputation. And the customs office will destroy any imported product in violation of her patents.
You cannot patent a foldable coat hanger. The only thing she could patent is the specific mechanism she used to enable folding, but I doubt the copycats would use exactly the same design.
Have only had a brief look at the video but the folding mechanism looks like the standard figure-of-8 rubber things that join the various parts of folding clothes dryers (eg. [0] from John Lewis) - which makes sense! It's a proven design!
[0] https://johnlewis.scene7.com/is/image/JohnLewis/238949258alt...
I just love the maker's mind. > I want something that does not exist, I will make it. Making things has never been so accessible, if you don't know how to start, join a community and ask, if they are hostile, just ask chatgpt and start from there. 3d printers are 200$, esp32 is the same cost as arduino nano. Want to make AI things? Make them. Want to make coat hangers? Make them. Want to make a book stand? Make it. I…
cough there is a common module with an esp32-s2 you can grab for 2EUR. Its cheaper than i can get a pro micro clone. look for "s2-mini" on Ali. I cannot fathom somebody still using an arduino nano.
but now that you said that I went and bought 10 esp32-s2s from aliexpress, thanks!
I am planning to do 'advent of things' this year, where I will make something small every day until Christmas, hopefully the s2 minis will arrive before december :)
I just love the maker's mind. > I want something that does not exist, I will make it. Making things has never been so accessible, if you don't know how to start, join a community and ask, if they are hostile, just ask chatgpt and start from there. 3d printers are 200$, esp32 is the same cost as arduino nano. Want to make AI things? Make them. Want to make coat hangers? Make them. Want to make a book stand? Make it. I…
I think the best ideas come when you make something that you really want for yourself. In 2020, I really wanted an eink calendar to hang on my wall. Still, many people built one for themselves and never turned it into a commercial product. It’s a lot of work and some of it is boring. And you have to pay for certification and worry about all that paperwork that comes with a business. It took me 3 years: https://shop.i…
I just placed an order for the coworking space I run in Brighton, UK.
Super excited about all the potential applications of this. The simplicity of the developer experience [1] is exactly what I want.
Seems like it will also work wonderfully with the screenshot api [2] I'm currently working at.
[1]: https://www.invisible-computers.com/invisible-calendar/image...
[2]: https://urlbox.io
I just love the maker's mind. > I want something that does not exist, I will make it. Making things has never been so accessible, if you don't know how to start, join a community and ask, if they are hostile, just ask chatgpt and start from there. 3d printers are 200$, esp32 is the same cost as arduino nano. Want to make AI things? Make them. Want to make coat hangers? Make them. Want to make a book stand? Make it. I…
> Want to make AI things? Make them. Want to make coat hangers? Make them. Want to make a book stand? Make it. Or, you could just, you know, buy them. My beef with people who say, like you do that 3D printers are cheap or you can buy an arduino/pi/whatever, is simple. People consistently fail to value their time, and the startup cost. The startup cost because your thinking works on the assumption that people know how…
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> People consistently fail to value their time, and the startup cost. For many people, most of it is spent doing such BS, doom-scrolling, binge-watching, games, and so on, that taking time making DIY stuff would be quite an improvement with regards to value their time, outcome, and even their mental health.
exactly - I would call this the "forgetting the entertainment value" fallacy :) Also you can't turn your time into money as fungible as spending money is. So Tme is more "liquid" than cash. That said I got a 3d printer in mid-2016 and basically printed daily getting to know it until the start of 2019 - I had sooo much fan turning the wooden printer i started out with into something reliable. Nowadays i mainly print s…
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exactly - I would call this the "forgetting the entertainment value" fallacy :) Also you can't turn your time into money as fungible as spending money is. So Tme is more "liquid" than cash. That said I got a 3d printer in mid-2016 and basically printed daily getting to know it until the start of 2019 - I had sooo much fan turning the wooden printer i started out with into something reliable. Nowadays i mainly print s…
Time is not money. When you spend money - you lose money. When you don't spend time - you lose time!
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She says that there are foldable coat hangers but none fold while hanging while holding clothes. I have no idea if this is true or not but that is the problem statement.
That sounds like a solution attempt masquerading as a problem statement. Repeating it does not answer the question: “but why do you want a foldable coat hanger which can fold while hanging”.
The goal of folding something is almost always to reduce its length.
These are nine inches long when folded, ordinary hangers are seventeen inches long. [1]
[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/simonegiertz/coat-hinge...
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Worth noting this is Simone Giertz, she's a very popular maker on the internet, and her youtube channel has over 2M subscribers. A lot of her funding on KS is porbably based on that alone. It is a cool design, but 3 years? She definitely worked on other projects in that time. Ultimately the volume taken up by the clothes is the same, you either have a shallow but wide closet, or deep but narrow. If you are not worrie…
> It is a cool design, but 3 years? She definitely worked on other projects in that time. She also had multiple treatments for brain cancer. Though I think that was before this project I imagine such a thing takes a considerable toll.