Simone Giertz! I'm a huge fan - thank you for spreading joy in the world. I have some really fun video concepts in my idea notebook to pitch to you one day for your channel :-)
Someone here is suggesting you should add functions to automatically select the music based on the weather! This way you make sure they dont wipe too slow😁 or too fast
Fantastic content, and production quality. I thought you had in the tens of thousands of subscribers, because you clearly deserve it. Keep up the great work!
Hey everyone - thanks for checking out my video and putting up with my humor :-) I want to make more funny invention videos, and if you want to subscribe and click the bell too, that will really encourage me. I'm trying to get to 1000 subscribers so that TH-cam will promote the video more.
@@iancharnas yes, or a reverse search where you set the speed of the wipers and then it finds a song that matches the speed. Pardon the unsolicited suggestions - I just love this idea so much!
"Like smiling a little bit more than you should for the situation." HAHAHA had me laughing. Also amazing job. I'm so glad you solved such a massive problem for us!!
Wow, this is a great invention! I felt satisfied looking at the wipers grooving to the music! Discovered your TH-cam channel today and I am excited for your new projects.
You're giving me ideas. I'm thinking maybe a circuit like the vertical hold on old TVs: an oscillator free-runs a bit slower than the target speed but the incoming sync pulses will make it trigger slightly earlier. Then the problem becomes how to convert the sawtooth signal into wiper movement. Before I nerd snipe myself, I'll just say for the quality of your production I would have expected you to have already had 100k subscribers. Hearing you had under 1000 subs when you made this just shows that some people really do it just for the art. Thank you.
Freaking cool! I'm imagining a Roomba with an attached mannequin torso with this technology on-board. The arms/head could be actuated by a similar mechanism to the window wiper motor mechanism. It could play music and dance as it cleans your floors.
This video is so awesome. Little stuff like this totally annoys me when I'm driving. Currently I'm a baby Arduino maker, hoping to one day get to your level...
Aww shucks, thank you! It seems somewhat plausible that I could get to 1k subs. I hope so, because otherwise I really dug myself into a hole here, haha :-) There's a hackaday post forthcoming, and I'm looking for other maker type websites to submit this to.
@Ian Charnas Your videos make me smile when I think I can’t even. I was so excited to see @Simone Giertz had left a comment! I can only imagine how exciting it was for you to get *that* notification!
Just another genius task by Ian! I can see this is the rainy east area but Arizona desert? We need the music timed to the in-car thermometer, as that moves too - usually above 100 degrees or so! Great video and absolutely amazing personality, not to mention how you went to the "birds". I imagine those around you wondered how that bird fit with the rainy wipers - well, it did!! What creativity ! Nicely done!!
@Maro Reps - I just checked out your channel, you are amazing! Thank you for your great sense of humor. I just subscribed. Maybe some time in the future I can send you an idea for a collaboration.
This video is amazing: hight quality content and funny presentation. Next step: hacking the rain sensor to make it change automatically the playlist to adapt to the rain intensity?
This video is awesome! It's the feature we never knew we needed! Early on I was like, "Oh.. he's gonna need some form of PLL." Then you said the words "Phase Locked Loop" and I felt so vindicated. It's kind of funny how human beings are naturally PLL's when walking with music. I do sort of worry that you may need to set a more conservative upper bound for the frequency - it was really givin 'er for that last tune. I have to admit you may have also softened my hardened stance on seagulls... And they killed my father so like, wow. I guess I should subscribe or whatever.
You are VINDICATED! Yeah it's a perfect situation for a PLL. Thanks so much for this nice comment. I think the internet has more cool and positive people than negative ones, and you are proving that.
I love it! "dry wipe" might be my fav new term. Kazoo music a puuurfect touch.And...OMG Mark Sommers....our childhood survives with your signed photo! BRAVO!
Those windshield wipers slappin' out a tempo, Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio, But I got to keep rollin' Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a better way for me Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a sunny day It happened Eddie Rabbit as well.
+amholtin Thanks for your super kind words and great question! That's polycarbonate. A friend of mine mentors FIRST robotics teams and told me about cold-bending polycarb. I tried it a few times and it really worked well! The plastic "flows" or stretches around the bend really nicely, and I don't see fissures or stress cracks on either the outer or inner bend radius. I _do_ see an indentation left from the sharp tips of the brake fingers, but I believe (waiting to be corrected on this) that indentations don't create stress concentrations in the same way that fissures and cracks do. Meaning that, although cracks may tend to propagate and eventually cause a mechanical failure, I think indentations don't have that problem. So, I think I still have most of the strength that's possible. I can jump up and down on the shape and it doesn't seem to care. The polycarbonate sheet I bent was 1/4 inch thick, and it required some brute force but it did bend. I think I would try to find a strip heater if I needed to get it beyond a 90 degree bend, or if the workpiece was thicker than 1/4 inch. Thanks and please subscribe!
Hugo! You are a true gentleman. I've really been encouraged by friendly comments like yours. To be honest I was nervous to post this because the internet can be a very mean place. Thank you for reminding me there are really kind people in the world!
Kevin, great questions!! Regarding a waltz, with its classic oom-pah-pah feel, that should work. The neural net that does beat detection (great open source software, unfortunately called "mad mom") was trained on lots of different music including 3/4 music such as waltzes. I'm not sure if it will detect all three beats as a beat, or whether it will just detect the root beat (the "oom"). It might depend on the BPM of the music. I gave the "mad mom" algorithm a min and max BPM range to keep it within reason. The system has one opportunity to detect the wiper blade position. I hooked my circuitry into the "park sensor" so the computer gets a pulse whenever the wiper blade hits the bottom position. This is used as the feedback to the PLL loop, if that makes sense. Thanks for the comment!
Is there anyway you could have an analog speedometer converted to a digital one using a raspberry pi? Say taking an older car model and sprucing it up with relatively new tech?
Cool idea, but, uh... I doubt it's for everyone... My wipers would maybe last, I don't know, a few minutes? Technical Death Metal is pretty fast, you know...
@@iancharnas More like Archspire or Inferi. Archspire is pretty much full blast technical finesse all the time while Inferi tries to get more melody in the mix.
Totally - the first time I saw someone do it, I thought they were a straight up wizard. Turns out there is no trick at all. You just bend the stuff! Opens up a world of ideas since I think it's the only clear material that's easily bendable without heat.
I'm so glad you liked it! I'll see if I can find the time to clean up the code, open-source the BOM and Gerber files for the power supply, make a wiring harness diagram, and so on. No ETA on that right now.
Yay! Ted, I'm so glad you liked it! There's a costume place where I live that I rent costumes for. I try to get a lot of use out of it so I wore it to buy ice cream, go dancing, etc. I love costumes :-)
Ahh I didn’t know you could rent costumes, that makes a lot of sense! I love your dedication to the craft of your videos! You have an amazing range between technical prowess and humor, you definitely have my subscription, and I absolutely wouldn’t be surprised at all to see you become a top TH-cam channel.
Pavel Král Kafeman good question! I think this invention is just for entertainment. The Tesla vehicles have a lot of entertaining features, like romance mode and santa mode and the farting seats. So I think this would be a good match for Tesla.
@@iancharnas So good :-) When it rains, I will play Lionel Richie "Hello" and if there is a big downpour, I will have Judas Priest and their "Steeler" :-)
Great Raspberry Pi project and very well presented. By a weird twist of fate my wife might be needing a new car and a Honda Jazz is on the list. I'm sure she will love this upgrade. I'll surprise her ...
Hey thank you!! I'm really thankful for messages like yours. The Honda was surprisingly easy to work with. Whether I needed to fit some extra relays into the engine compartment, or find a place in the trunk to store the electronics, the Honda provided! :-)
Its almost there. You need to put in a multiple pole rotary switch. Have it run every other beat, or every fourth or eight beat. Speed control, but still to the music. If you could have some additional logic that tried to keep the same relative speed (when the song changes) that would also be a great feature. Setting 1 - 5-25 wipes per minute. Setting 2 15-45 wipes per minute. Setting 3 30-60 wipes per minute. Setting 4 45-100 wipes per minute. Setting 5 90 to 200 wipes per minute. I dont think it would be that hard to implement... It looks like the hard parts have already been finished.
Andrew great suggestion. I was thinking the same thing. Even better, if Tesla buys this, they already have a rain sensor on their windshield, so they could use that data to automatically change the multiple (whether it wipes on the beat, every other beat, twice each beat, etc).
I’d like to see you build a 3D Excavator to unearth fossils and artifacts - kind of like a reverse 3D printer. Ideally thin sections of material would be removed via drill or laser; vaporized and sent to a mass spectrometer to record the makeup of the material; as it is removed. This should provide information that is lost when current methods of extraction (hammer, chisel, and toothbrush) are used. ;-)
Ian Charnas, I'm an amateur but have been interested in science since the 1960s when I worked on a HS project at Cornell University. During my career in computer programming, quality assurance, and office automation, I worked in many fields, from business applications to analysis of electrophoresis protein. Watching hundreds of hours of archeological and paleontological digs, it seems a lot of data is lost through the extraction techniques currently in use.
Michael, fantastic question. According to the important my grandmother demographic, I am already incredibly famous. True, it's a niche audience of one person... but I won't argue with her. She lived through the great depression AND she has to put up with me.
Quality stuff! Great production values in your video as well. You should definitely get more subscribers! Is the beat detection also able to detect other time signatures? (like 3/4 or 7/8)
Thanks Jochen! Good question about time signatures. The beat detection algorithm doesn't really know what the time signature is, so it will do just as well with 7/8 as it would with 4/4. However, some beats are easier to detect than others. A 3/4 waltz with a traditional "oom pah pah" rhythm is difficult because the "oom" has more energy in its frequency bin than the "pah" does, so sometimes the beat detector will hear the "oom" but not the "pah pah" and it will sync to a slower rhythm. There are ways to fix this, and the beat detector implements some of those fixes. It is a work in progress.
Hey thanks for the super nice comment! From start to finish it was two months, although more than half of the time went to filming. The hardest part was getting good audio quality. I tried putting microphones all over the place, and often had to re-record large segments of the video when I listened to it later and found the audio was too noisy - either from wind noise or from the microphone rubbing on my clothing. Huge props to the sound people of the world - they are wizards to me. I think next time around, what I've learned from this video could help me finish the next video in less than one month. Fingers crossed!
@@iancharnas The time really shows in the quality of the video, lots of poor shot videos on TH-cam. Do you plan on selling these or publishing the parts list. Would love one on my Worn out Astro Van.
@@brandonmaddy good question! I thought about turning this into a product, or open-sourcing the design... but instead, I thought I'd try to sell the idea to someone who wanted to productize it (the rights to the idea are for sale on ebay now), and I'll move on to filming the next invention video. I've got a long list of things I'd like to make and film. Hopefully people will find the next few ideas equally entertaining, and we can raise some money for some good charities.
This seems like something Musk would put in the Tesla. Great job! You really put in the extra effort so it was automatic (I would've just had the user manually tap the tempo)!
Yes indeed! The ebay auction ended for something like $400. I've been enjoying raising money for groups making positive change in the world. Up next is a raffle for an invisibility shield. Stay tuned :-)
YES! I love how everything I order from them is high quality. They do the vetting for us so I don't have to worry about tools breaking on me during a build. Also their categories and parametric filtering are 💯- AND the customer service! Returns with no questions asked. Love it.
Hi Matt! Thanks for watching. The song is "Splashing Around" by "The Green Orbs" - I found this gem in the TH-cam Audio Library: th-cam.com/users/audiolibrary
LOL, you lost it for me as soon as you said you would use a Raspberry Pi!!! Why anyone would use one of those for any product just shows the utter lack of knowledge. For starters, they dont have the temp range to be put in any outdoor application, and secondly Not properly shutting it down is going to corrupt that uSD card if it doesn't fall out first because they stop using latches to hold the uSD cards in.
Hi! Yes, you are 100% correct - a PI isn't rated to below 0 degrees Celsius. This is only a prototype, so I didn't bother using automotive temp rated parts. I did use some automotive MOVs and protection diodes and an automotive rated switching power supply to get the system to a "good enough" point electrically speaking so that it will work reliably for demonstration purposes. It might not work during the coldest part of the Ohio winter though, as you pointed out.
holy shit what a well-made video
Simone Giertz! I'm a huge fan - thank you for spreading joy in the world. I have some really fun video concepts in my idea notebook to pitch to you one day for your channel :-)
This is what quality content looks like people, when you don’t find yourself scrolling through the comments while you watch the video!
Someone here is suggesting you should add functions to automatically select the music based on the weather! This way you make sure they dont wipe too slow😁 or too fast
Niels Affourtit great idea! I think that’s definitely a next step for this invention. Cheers!
"Hey Siri, play my 'Light drizzle' playlist."
Can you make a computer that changes the weather based on my music?
@@justchillinout2002 lmaoo
Your sense of humor is 10/10!
Ismael you have excellent taste!!! Haha thank you so much :-)
Fantastic content, and production quality. I thought you had in the tens of thousands of subscribers, because you clearly deserve it. Keep up the great work!
Nicolas you just made my day! Thank you.
Hey everyone - thanks for checking out my video and putting up with my humor :-) I want to make more funny invention videos, and if you want to subscribe and click the bell too, that will really encourage me. I'm trying to get to 1000 subscribers so that TH-cam will promote the video more.
Yeah, this is gonna be more popular than that.
YES! LOVE THIS. Idea: how about a switch to go to half time of the beat?
Chris, great idea! If this idea went into production we'd need some way to speed it up and slow it down so people can clear the rain.
@@iancharnas yes, or a reverse search where you set the speed of the wipers and then it finds a song that matches the speed. Pardon the unsolicited suggestions - I just love this idea so much!
"Like smiling a little bit more than you should for the situation." HAHAHA had me laughing. Also amazing job. I'm so glad you solved such a massive problem for us!!
Hehe :-) 😜
Wow, this is a great invention! I felt satisfied looking at the wipers grooving to the music! Discovered your TH-cam channel today and I am excited for your new projects.
Hey Sameera, thank you so much! Welcome aboard :-)
You're giving me ideas. I'm thinking maybe a circuit like the vertical hold on old TVs: an oscillator free-runs a bit slower than the target speed but the incoming sync pulses will make it trigger slightly earlier. Then the problem becomes how to convert the sawtooth signal into wiper movement. Before I nerd snipe myself, I'll just say for the quality of your production I would have expected you to have already had 100k subscribers. Hearing you had under 1000 subs when you made this just shows that some people really do it just for the art. Thank you.
Hi! I'm super glad you liked the video :-) You're right, it's a labor of love. It's really fun to make these videos.
Wow, hidden gem of a TH-cam channel. Subbed!
Freaking cool! I'm imagining a Roomba with an attached mannequin torso with this technology on-board. The arms/head could be actuated by a similar mechanism to the window wiper motor mechanism. It could play music and dance as it cleans your floors.
This video is so awesome. Little stuff like this totally annoys me when I'm driving. Currently I'm a baby Arduino maker, hoping to one day get to your level...
Hi! Your comment really made my day, thank you so much! Arduino's and making are super fun. Keep at it!!
This is my favorite video on the internet.
Swoon!! Everyone should check out TechnoChic's channel. Quality content at prices we can all afford (it's free people. youtube is free)
Love the recommendation loop: Veritasium -> Xyla -> Ian. Subbed for sure
Awesome! Welcome aboard Parth 🤝
I'm a big fan of Veritasium and Xyla. 🥰
WOOOHOOO!! So honored to have had you as a friend and mentor. Let's get to that 1k!!!
Aww shucks, thank you! It seems somewhat plausible that I could get to 1k subs. I hope so, because otherwise I really dug myself into a hole here, haha :-) There's a hackaday post forthcoming, and I'm looking for other maker type websites to submit this to.
@Ian Charnas
Your videos make me smile when I think I can’t even. I was so excited to see @Simone Giertz had left a comment! I can only imagine how exciting it was for you to get *that* notification!
Oh totally, Simone is the best!
10/10! Fantastic idea and great production value!
10/10 comment! Thanks for those super kind words :-)
Maybe Honda should buy this! I want dancing wipers in my Fit!
Just another genius task by Ian! I can see this is the rainy east area but Arizona desert? We need the music timed to the in-car thermometer, as that moves too - usually above 100 degrees or so! Great video and absolutely amazing personality, not to mention how you went to the "birds". I imagine those around you wondered how that bird fit with the rainy wipers - well, it did!! What creativity ! Nicely done!!
Hi Jay! I'm really glad you liked it :-)
awesome!
@Maro Reps - I just checked out your channel, you are amazing! Thank you for your great sense of humor. I just subscribed. Maybe some time in the future I can send you an idea for a collaboration.
I hope this gets picked up by major car companies! If not I'll use your invention in my cars!
Totally. I would love to see this feature on my next car!
@@iancharnas With matching lights 👀👀👀
Reminds me of those public television science programs. Love it.
This video is amazing: hight quality content and funny presentation.
Next step: hacking the rain sensor to make it change automatically the playlist to adapt to the rain intensity?
Guilhem wow thank you so much! I really appreciate the kind words and hack suggestion
This is amazing and so hilarious. Such a well made video. Well done Ian!
Benji! Oh that's so nice to hear. These take a ton of work and comment like yours are big-time encouragement.
This video is awesome! It's the feature we never knew we needed! Early on I was like, "Oh.. he's gonna need some form of PLL." Then you said the words "Phase Locked Loop" and I felt so vindicated. It's kind of funny how human beings are naturally PLL's when walking with music. I do sort of worry that you may need to set a more conservative upper bound for the frequency - it was really givin 'er for that last tune.
I have to admit you may have also softened my hardened stance on seagulls... And they killed my father so like, wow. I guess I should subscribe or whatever.
You are VINDICATED! Yeah it's a perfect situation for a PLL. Thanks so much for this nice comment. I think the internet has more cool and positive people than negative ones, and you are proving that.
So fan!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for great video :)
Yeah Adam savage collab would be pretty neat I’m here from Giz you’ve gained yourself another subscriber
I love it! "dry wipe" might be my fav new term. Kazoo music a puuurfect touch.And...OMG Mark Sommers....our childhood survives with your signed photo! BRAVO!
Hehe thanks Cassie!!!
This video is way too amazing.
I'd pay extra for this on my next car! Nice work!
OMG thanks Jos!
Putting some Speed Metal and this thing goes crazy.
"a flock of sea gulls playing" lol classic
Hehe I think few people got that joke so kudos to you on your music knowledge!
Those windshield wipers slappin' out a tempo,
Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio,
But I got to keep rollin'
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a better way for me
Ooh, I'm drivin' my life away, lookin' for a sunny day
It happened Eddie Rabbit as well.
Hi Ian, great build! Is that acrylic or polycarbonate that you fold on the press brake? and did you just skip showing us the heating step?
+amholtin Thanks for your super kind words and great question! That's polycarbonate. A friend of mine mentors FIRST robotics teams and told me about cold-bending polycarb. I tried it a few times and it really worked well! The plastic "flows" or stretches around the bend really nicely, and I don't see fissures or stress cracks on either the outer or inner bend radius. I _do_ see an indentation left from the sharp tips of the brake fingers, but I believe (waiting to be corrected on this) that indentations don't create stress concentrations in the same way that fissures and cracks do. Meaning that, although cracks may tend to propagate and eventually cause a mechanical failure, I think indentations don't have that problem. So, I think I still have most of the strength that's possible. I can jump up and down on the shape and it doesn't seem to care. The polycarbonate sheet I bent was 1/4 inch thick, and it required some brute force but it did bend. I think I would try to find a strip heater if I needed to get it beyond a 90 degree bend, or if the workpiece was thicker than 1/4 inch. Thanks and please subscribe!
@@iancharnas I too was amazed my this sorcery. All I can think of is all the project boxes I could have made! Wow.
@@iancharnas I was wondering the same thing! Cool that you can cold bend polycarb...I know acrylic is not so forgiving!
Ian- Fun video, great invention! I'd rank this way more delightful than some of Tesla's other whimsical features, for sure.
Thanks Dad! I knew there was one "like" I could count on :-)
this is cool, awesome 🤗
Thank you so much Mayank!
Brought here by Alex Bate on the raspberry pi team’s weekly newsletter! What an amazing channel you have! I hope you and Simone will do a collab!
Hugo! You are a true gentleman. I've really been encouraged by friendly comments like yours. To be honest I was nervous to post this because the internet can be a very mean place. Thank you for reminding me there are really kind people in the world!
Heyo also from Cleveland. I love Will Osman, Simone G, and Michael Reeves and I also LOVE this. Keep on keepin on.
Adam, that's super nice of you! Those are some of my favorite youtubers. Thanks friend!
What happens if you play music that isn't 2/2 or 4/4 like a waltz or tango?
Seriously, though, how does the system detect the wiper blade position?
Kevin, great questions!! Regarding a waltz, with its classic oom-pah-pah feel, that should work. The neural net that does beat detection (great open source software, unfortunately called "mad mom") was trained on lots of different music including 3/4 music such as waltzes. I'm not sure if it will detect all three beats as a beat, or whether it will just detect the root beat (the "oom"). It might depend on the BPM of the music. I gave the "mad mom" algorithm a min and max BPM range to keep it within reason.
The system has one opportunity to detect the wiper blade position. I hooked my circuitry into the "park sensor" so the computer gets a pulse whenever the wiper blade hits the bottom position. This is used as the feedback to the PLL loop, if that makes sense.
Thanks for the comment!
Is there anyway you could have an analog speedometer converted to a digital one using a raspberry pi? Say taking an older car model and sprucing it up with relatively new tech?
Cool idea, but, uh... I doubt it's for everyone... My wipers would maybe last, I don't know, a few minutes? Technical Death Metal is pretty fast, you know...
Haha love it :-) Are you talking Dream Theater, or what are you into?
@@iancharnas More like Archspire or Inferi. Archspire is pretty much full blast technical finesse all the time while Inferi tries to get more melody in the mix.
I know what you mean, put some Cryptopsy and watch how your windscreen gets obliterated.
Never knew polycarbonate could bend with a press brake.
Totally - the first time I saw someone do it, I thought they were a straight up wizard. Turns out there is no trick at all. You just bend the stuff! Opens up a world of ideas since I think it's the only clear material that's easily bendable without heat.
Is the code for this available somewhere. This would be an awesome project that I want to try doing in my own car
I'm so glad you liked it! I'll see if I can find the time to clean up the code, open-source the BOM and Gerber files for the power supply, make a wiring harness diagram, and so on. No ETA on that right now.
This was so awesome! I love the funny parts as well! Also, did you buy a bird suit specifically for the cut-away clip in this video?
Yay! Ted, I'm so glad you liked it! There's a costume place where I live that I rent costumes for. I try to get a lot of use out of it so I wore it to buy ice cream, go dancing, etc. I love costumes :-)
Ahh I didn’t know you could rent costumes, that makes a lot of sense! I love your dedication to the craft of your videos! You have an amazing range between technical prowess and humor, you definitely have my subscription, and I absolutely wouldn’t be surprised at all to see you become a top TH-cam channel.
@@tedz2usa SQUEEEE!! Thanks Ted, you're the best - your comment really made me happy.
So glad Ian, can't wait to see your next content!!!
I love this thing!
Thanks Eric! It really makes my day to see a nice comment like this.
Excellent idea! Is it irony, or does it have any practical use ...?
Pavel Král Kafeman good question! I think this invention is just for entertainment. The Tesla vehicles have a lot of entertaining features, like romance mode and santa mode and the farting seats. So I think this would be a good match for Tesla.
@@iancharnas So good :-) When it rains, I will play Lionel Richie "Hello" and if there is a big downpour, I will have Judas Priest and their "Steeler" :-)
@@PavelKralKafeman love it!
OMG, that seagull caught me offguard!
Haha thank you for putting up with my "humor"
Great Raspberry Pi project and very well presented. By a weird twist of fate my wife might be needing a new car and a Honda Jazz is on the list. I'm sure she will love this upgrade. I'll surprise her ...
Hey thank you!! I'm really thankful for messages like yours. The Honda was surprisingly easy to work with. Whether I needed to fit some extra relays into the engine compartment, or find a place in the trunk to store the electronics, the Honda provided! :-)
I love everything about this video! Especially the format
Cam with the Camera thank you so much!!
Its almost there. You need to put in a multiple pole rotary switch. Have it run every other beat, or every fourth or eight beat. Speed control, but still to the music. If you could have some additional logic that tried to keep the same relative speed (when the song changes) that would also be a great feature. Setting 1 - 5-25 wipes per minute. Setting 2 15-45 wipes per minute. Setting 3 30-60 wipes per minute. Setting 4 45-100 wipes per minute. Setting 5 90 to 200 wipes per minute. I dont think it would be that hard to implement... It looks like the hard parts have already been finished.
Andrew great suggestion. I was thinking the same thing. Even better, if Tesla buys this, they already have a rain sensor on their windshield, so they could use that data to automatically change the multiple (whether it wipes on the beat, every other beat, twice each beat, etc).
Wait, isn't this a standard feature in a Volkwagen Jetta? 😁
Good memory!
th-cam.com/video/x4GCq56bq_k/w-d-xo.html
@@iancharnas Whoa, Thanks! Seriously, ever since that CM I've daydreamed about that. Cool to see it made in real life👍
@@Rouverius hey thanks for the super kind words! It means a lot to me to get a nice comment like yours. :-)
I’d like to see you build a 3D Excavator to unearth fossils and artifacts - kind of like a reverse 3D printer. Ideally thin sections of material would be removed via drill or laser; vaporized and sent to a mass spectrometer to record the makeup of the material; as it is removed. This should provide information that is lost when current methods of extraction (hammer, chisel, and toothbrush) are used. ;-)
Steve this is a really interesting idea! Are you in this field?
Ian Charnas, I'm an amateur but have been interested in science since the 1960s when I worked on a HS project at Cornell University. During my career in computer programming, quality assurance, and office automation, I worked in many fields, from business applications to analysis of electrophoresis protein. Watching hundreds of hours of archeological and paleontological digs, it seems a lot of data is lost through the extraction techniques currently in use.
Great Video! Love how one of the biggest problems of cars has finally been solved!
- Anna O
Hehe thanks Anna!
I don't understand how you're not famous yet.
Michael, fantastic question. According to the important my grandmother demographic, I am already incredibly famous. True, it's a niche audience of one person... but I won't argue with her. She lived through the great depression AND she has to put up with me.
Quality stuff! Great production values in your video as well. You should definitely get more subscribers!
Is the beat detection also able to detect other time signatures? (like 3/4 or 7/8)
Thanks Jochen! Good question about time signatures. The beat detection algorithm doesn't really know what the time signature is, so it will do just as well with 7/8 as it would with 4/4. However, some beats are easier to detect than others. A 3/4 waltz with a traditional "oom pah pah" rhythm is difficult because the "oom" has more energy in its frequency bin than the "pah" does, so sometimes the beat detector will hear the "oom" but not the "pah pah" and it will sync to a slower rhythm. There are ways to fix this, and the beat detector implements some of those fixes. It is a work in progress.
YOU GO GIRL
Melina's here! Now it's a party :-)
Beautiful... Yea, subbed.
Thanks Phil!!!!
Good work amigo!
Kalimera cousin!
Awesome! How long did this take you?
Hey thanks for the super nice comment! From start to finish it was two months, although more than half of the time went to filming. The hardest part was getting good audio quality. I tried putting microphones all over the place, and often had to re-record large segments of the video when I listened to it later and found the audio was too noisy - either from wind noise or from the microphone rubbing on my clothing. Huge props to the sound people of the world - they are wizards to me. I think next time around, what I've learned from this video could help me finish the next video in less than one month. Fingers crossed!
@@iancharnas The time really shows in the quality of the video, lots of poor shot videos on TH-cam. Do you plan on selling these or publishing the parts list. Would love one on my Worn out Astro Van.
@@brandonmaddy good question! I thought about turning this into a product, or open-sourcing the design... but instead, I thought I'd try to sell the idea to someone who wanted to productize it (the rights to the idea are for sale on ebay now), and I'll move on to filming the next invention video. I've got a long list of things I'd like to make and film. Hopefully people will find the next few ideas equally entertaining, and we can raise some money for some good charities.
This seems like something Musk would put in the Tesla. Great job! You really put in the extra effort so it was automatic (I would've just had the user manually tap the tempo)!
Jesse Moody hey thanks for that really nice comment! It brightens my day to hear that.
This is wonderful. 😀
Dude! You need to do the same thing with the turning signal lights so that if you turn them on the blinkage syncs with your beats.
I love it! That'll be in the next revision :-)
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I just wanna do this while listening to the box.
Cool
This is stupid! And I love it!
Haha thanks Christian!!! I hope you were entertained. :-)
@@iancharnas Couldn't help it 😄 thanks
So.... did anyone buy the patent?
Yes indeed! The ebay auction ended for something like $400. I've been enjoying raising money for groups making positive change in the world. Up next is a raffle for an invisibility shield. Stay tuned :-)
I don't even want to drive my car again until I have these installed. Thanks Ian, for ruining my car!
Michael Arcuri haha so sorry
You had me at mc Master
YES! I love how everything I order from them is high quality. They do the vetting for us so I don't have to worry about tools breaking on me during a build. Also their categories and parametric filtering are 💯- AND the customer service! Returns with no questions asked. Love it.
Tesla could probably implement it as a software upgrade if you pay an extra $500.
Totally!
I get more bothered when it doesn’t sync with the turn signal
You should team up with Michael Reeves some time😂
Thanks Tim! I'll give him a call :-)
Hey Ian
Hey bai! So good to see your name Pradeep :-)
what is the song at 0:33?
Hi Matt! Thanks for watching. The song is "Splashing Around" by "The Green Orbs" - I found this gem in the TH-cam Audio Library: th-cam.com/users/audiolibrary
the beef is probably a slow jerk maybe
Plays new Tool album...computer self-destructs.
Now test it with death metal!
Your wish is my command. th-cam.com/video/zjS2AxlZpj8/w-d-xo.html
I hope Tesla buys this!
Prior art: th-cam.com/video/kOCpIA_D6nU/w-d-xo.html
It's all fun and games until someone gets run over.
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LOL, you lost it for me as soon as you said you would use a Raspberry Pi!!! Why anyone would use one of those for any product just shows the utter lack of knowledge. For starters, they dont have the temp range to be put in any outdoor application, and secondly Not properly shutting it down is going to corrupt that uSD card if it doesn't fall out first because they stop using latches to hold the uSD cards in.
Hi! Yes, you are 100% correct - a PI isn't rated to below 0 degrees Celsius. This is only a prototype, so I didn't bother using automotive temp rated parts. I did use some automotive MOVs and protection diodes and an automotive rated switching power supply to get the system to a "good enough" point electrically speaking so that it will work reliably for demonstration purposes. It might not work during the coldest part of the Ohio winter though, as you pointed out.
Lot waste of water 😕