I have automated a good amount of my job at this point, but it took years of working in my free time to build out a system that works for every contingency. Worth it, but I could have used that time to make a game or find a better job :)
ditto. we've all had our moments. I got my first shiny oddly enough when I was looking to get a female delphox for me to use in Omega Ruby. Somehow I managed to get a shiny before I got a female.
I thought this was gonna be some kind of rant about how Shinies are too easy to find or something. But then I remembered who I'm dealing with. TheJwittz, forever a destroyer of my negative expectations.
I would totally assemble the infinity gauntlet to snap shiny pokemon into existence, however I would also snap regular pokemon into this existence then go shiny hunting in real life
"You would not believe the amount of work it took to get this lazy" Friend, you've just succinctly described all effective programmers. We turn the sin of laziness into a virtue, putting a lot of work into not having to do a task ever again. ^_^
12:06 The lego model:Yeah you hear that sound??? Thats the sound i made when im being FORCED to do something YOU should have done yourself,you lazy *censored robotic language*
Douglas Adams once said, "I am rarely happier than when spending entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that it would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand." Congrats on that button pusher
@@RasMatHam02 Not really Honestly I wouldn't have used the large motor he did as you really don't need it and it's part of the reason it's so loud. I'd have used the M motor with either no gearing (gear wheels the same on both ends) , or a gear reduction (smaller gear on the motor axel, larger gear on the other side) this would have put less strain on the motor producing less noise and in general and the m motors run quieter on top of that. Since the build in the video was hitting about 4-5 time too fast, it should have still worked. Another thing he could have done was shimmed the bottom of the contraption with some plates (1/3 the height of a brick) so t was not lifting it's self and only pressing the button, that may be a little difficult though. Building a sound dampening shroud out of bricks to go over it should have helped too. This is all from my experience of playing with the old technic motors. note: you get more torque from the gear reduction, but that's not useful in this application. (Edit: Stupid Keyboard)
8:30 I started to die of laughter when the bird just stayed there from the shot glass. I can't help but image a person who can't hold their liquor drinking alcohol for the first time and then passing out. Great job on the video by the way.
Breaking news: Man discovers method of hunting down animals with slightly different colour variations than normal by pressing a button for a couple of hours
When you pulled out the Legos, I was like, “Is my mans legit going to make a custom size Lego cup for this drinking bird just so it can have enough force to push one of the buttons to trade an NPC in a video game just to get a video game that has a slightly different color palette?”
This honestly feels like this is an April Fools video. So the fact that this is a real thing youve been doing makes this better than any April 1st prank could hope for.
"How far is too far?" As an engineer, I say this is normal. I have spreadsheets at work that took days to put together that automate sections of my job. Do they make up for the time they cost to make? Eventually, yes. Just like how automating your shiny catching. It's also your effort even though it's automated, as you are the one who designed and assembled everything. The design and assembly time were merely investments that pay themselves off in due time. Always work smarter, not harder.
Nice to see you a little more active, Josh! I’ve been around since the good old days of “Prof It” and your content continues to entertain me without fail.
@@axolotlhurricane I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Bill Gates That's what he said, cut the guy some slack
Me: what are you doing TheJwittz: making a machine to press a button for me Me:Alright, but why on earth are you doing this TheJwittz: because I've lost all control of my life
Arduino for a Masters thesis? My apologies ahead of time, but feels like a low bar bro. I hope you surprise everyone with what you come up with and knock it out of the park! 👍
@@TheOneZenith That is EXACTLY what I was thinking. When I was in school, we made a bomb disposal robot using a micro controller that included 4 motors for wheels and 5 motors for a PRR arm with a rotating 3d printed rack and pinion end-effector. We did reverse kinematics and the whole nine yards to pre-program desired positions with limit switches to find zero positions. Didn't splice voltage outputs. Hooked everything up to a PS4 controller. Was just a class project, not thesis or anything. So much you can do to improve a design with a micro-controller, hard to narrow down your efforts into a nice masters thesis. My suggestion, find a simple project off the internet and do it with an improvement based on whatever field you are in.
You know, I went into this with a bit of background on robotics and microcontrollers and watching the first 8 minutes of your solutions made me think that this video was gonna be a really low effort diWHY? for something kind of minor. After seeing the rest, I gotta say that you really made a cool vid on engineering here. Like not a lot of people would have attempted that many VASTLY different solutions for this problem. Never really seen your stuff before, but consider me subscribed. Kudos dude.
That's not how the saying goes. It goes like this: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I'm mad. Fool me three times, you're officially THAT guy, you know..."
Its actually a pretty ironicy considering you put all that work and effort into a game, to just let it play by itself. But tbh, its a nice story about "overengineering" stuff you wouldnt have thought of beforehand. I mean you even went into arduino stuff just for pressing one simple button. You had the idea, researched and succeded. Thats pretty much a talent a lot of people will miss. You sir have earned a cookie.
I don't know if this will help at all, but there is this device called a Cronusmax that allows you to emulate a controller as a different controller on a console. For instance I used it to emulate an xbox one controller using a 360 controller and therefore was able to use my 360 controller on my xbox one. To my understanding, you can do a whole lot more than just that, such as: using a wiimote and nunchuck on a ps4. You need the program on your computer to change the settings around, and in the settings you can setup mods. For fps games it's usually rapid fire mods and jitter mods, but if you learn how to code the mods you can probably emulate the a button being repeatedly pressed. They also sell an adapter for the switch, so I imagine you could even use that pro controller emulated as something else. I hope this helps someone.
