As a general rule, if you're given a price for something by a company that specializes in that thing, and you think you can do better, you're wrong.
The creator alludes to this when he says not to ask how long it took him to build the machine.
As a corollary to this rule, if you've estimated your costs to do a job, and a company says they can beat it, you should probably do the job yourself. I bought a 3/4 ton jointer four hours from my shop, got a quote to rent a lift gate truck and a quote from a moving company/rigger. They were about the same. There's no way they can pay someone for a minimum of eight hours of time, plus cover their truck and fuel costs for what it costs me to rent a truck. The delta on their truck costs can't possibly be enough to pay someone good for eight hours.
I think paper-folding machines are something of a lost art. They’ve been around for literally centuries at this point, but there are so many interesting and useful things that can be made out of paper. Everything from packaging to envelopes to origami.
I wish there were smaller, cheaper versions on the market.
Animats 2 hours ago [-]
This is very good work.
Those guys are very good, well funded, and have access to good CNC machining capabilities. They probably also know people who do automated assembly machinery. This was apparently about two years of work for a small team.
SpicyUme 9 minutes ago [-]
I like the part: "You might ask 'Isn't folding by hand faster than building all this?' Please don't ask that."
Showing a few of the crashes was a nice touch.
Having gone too far in trying to automate some projects of questionable value I can relate. I'm also impressed by what they are able to do, knowing people must help. Same with easy access to buying the parts they need.
arealaccount 2 hours ago [-]
Oh man how do you get a job doing this, it seems like the joy of programming but with haptic feedback
analog8374 1 hours ago [-]
this video makes me feel broke
jiveturkey 3 hours ago [-]
pretty cool. the first few minutes bored me, looked like a really standard industrial automation. then they got to the origami.
The creator alludes to this when he says not to ask how long it took him to build the machine.
As a corollary to this rule, if you've estimated your costs to do a job, and a company says they can beat it, you should probably do the job yourself. I bought a 3/4 ton jointer four hours from my shop, got a quote to rent a lift gate truck and a quote from a moving company/rigger. They were about the same. There's no way they can pay someone for a minimum of eight hours of time, plus cover their truck and fuel costs for what it costs me to rent a truck. The delta on their truck costs can't possibly be enough to pay someone good for eight hours.
I wish there were smaller, cheaper versions on the market.
Those guys are very good, well funded, and have access to good CNC machining capabilities. They probably also know people who do automated assembly machinery. This was apparently about two years of work for a small team.
Showing a few of the crashes was a nice touch.
Having gone too far in trying to automate some projects of questionable value I can relate. I'm also impressed by what they are able to do, knowing people must help. Same with easy access to buying the parts they need.