The Machine That Erases What It Creates 

Well... my philosophy is "There's always a way to fix your mistakes" but it kinda falls into that category

honestly, it still looks like plywood, you see all the random plaques instead of grains. Edit: it's chipboard actually, which is even cheaper

@@Ardjano234 It's not even plywood, which is at least made out of laminated wood veneers (and can look good if you only see the top surface of it). He used even cheaper chipboard.

I’m your 370th like! But yeah true, I hate modern art. It’s just a bunch of dots and stains on a canvas.

420 likes

More like how to distract anyone for months

What if kids get distracted from this distraction?

@@jamessmithers5206 make sure they get distracted by another coffee table

noice

Or Grandma

Dat do be true tho

I dont think you know what art is

@@oscarpritzker6278 Art is something different for everyone so in that meaning nobody knows

@@Jonathan-n5p i dont think you understand what art is

@@Jonathan-n5p art isnt an opinion. A person that has no sensibility to a True work of art, that didnt study and felt the deepest feeling of emotions of the artist, cant really judge what art is. Art is being able to express our rawest feelings, ignoring aspects like beauty standards (suprematism/expressionism... ) This is just a programmed machine making geometric patterns. Its cool, Its pretty. It is not art.

Could not have said that better!

So calming :)

Yes.

@@helloimnothing7954 hello nothing I'm nameless nice to meet you.

@@glidingjoy857 I wasn't talking to you I was talking to nothing and I said that cause their name said 'hello im nothing '

@@glidingjoy857 sthu not everything revolves around you and if you say no one asked me look at yourself no one asked for your opinion

@@glidingjoy857 Your name is pretty ironic.

XD

Let's see how many subs I can get from this comment... Currently: 22...

@@nexuscinematics8384 not really one comment more like seprate comments

@@nexuscinematics8384 in 2 hours

no because the eraser doesnt work duh

@@veve1401 you yourself missed the joke and you didnt even include the r/

Dang he really deleted his comment to avoid the embarrassment, to bad he said ur name

Stolen comment

@@dequavis4518 ew Reddit

Honestly i stil thought it just looked like cheap painted wood lol.

@@UltraSuperDuperFreak Same, but it looked astonishing at the end.

oak wood no oak stained chip board ... only thing worse is that sawdust board they make cheap computer desks with

Yeah that composite shit you can cut with scissors

It made me sad that he used that cheap shit for the top after all the effort he put in 😭

@tsunami of the tsunami lets not start on 5D..

@Waldel Martell our 3D brains are not ready for that

@Waldel Martell There are a lot of things you cant imagine tho, You cant imagine a new color for example, or a sound you have never heard

@@PatataEsplosiva in other words you cant imagine stuff beyond your expirience

@@Gmod2012lo1 Yeah, pretty much, like you cant even imagine new faces, only the ones you have seen

Google Sisyphus, this thing is already commercialized

@@MarzThe7 okay that us awesome, thanks

*if

@@bekambekm3200 mm, thats the difference between you and me

@@endurogod5230 sure?

Oh magic printer gives me prices

@@TheGrimbler mmmmmmmmm, £5.99

@@nexuscinematics8384 wow, i dislike you

He doesn't need to make the magnet turn, if the boat is sitting on the ball and the socket that the ball sits in is towards the front, so long as the boat can turn around the ball it will always align with the direction of travel, the sand will push on the hull just like a real boat.

So bossy!

Too big of a footprint unless you stick it on top of the ball.

@@michaelbank9686 I still have my 3cm long benchy. Thing is tiny, and printed in jet black PLA. With maybe a few model modifications, I'm sure it can be downscaled even more if needed

omegalul

why there is 110 likes but only one comment because you made other speechless

All he needs is a weaker magnet. It doesnt have to be scary strong to get a ball to move through material that thin, that would also help it roll instead of slide

hahaha But you know best engineering is trial and error.

Hey I was gonna say that

Hey I was gonna say that

@@chrisp.nugs1643 Hey I was gonna say Hey I was gonna say that

@@JustMissie Hey I was going to say that Hey I was going to say that Hey I was going to say that

@@LawOfCausality hey I was gonna say that hey I was gonna say that hey I was gonna say that hey I was gonna say that

Nice idea but by the time the magnet draws it, the time will be different. He's showing this in high speed

@@barcong6865 it only needs to show the hour. Not the minutes.

@@barcong6865 Silly you! If you time how long it takes for the machine to draw a clock, you can start that many minutes before the time you want the clock to show, and boom it'll be done right on time.

@@SolarisMusic but it'll take different amount of time to draw different numbers/times.

@@barcong6865 I don’t think it would be that different, he showed it in normal time too and it’s fast enough

Good catch. True.

Human be like: pass my pencil and eraser .

More like the machine that erases it's creator

is this supposed to be funny

@@JasonChowTV no

add a tiny magnetic rake so he can rake the garden

very zen

@Seth Gaming Oak is lighter, the dark color is more representative of Walnut. Just the wrong color.

maby you can try a circle of pushing magnets around and under the ball then... tried to reach out to Simon with that idéa but with little success. a strong magnet pulling it down is kind of a problem here when you can get it to move by being lifted and pushed...

@@makeandmodify9404 I think the only issue with that would be it isn't able to be "recovered" if the ball ever got out of the circle of magnets. In Simon's solution you can always go back and re-attach the ball with the magnet, but if it needs to be inside a circle of magnets you would need to place it back into the middle. Also the ball would need to be heavy enough to displace the sand on it's own instead of being pulled down by the magnet (this might actually produce a finer pattern with more detail).

@@TheHookUp if you make the circle so that the ball must lift like 3 cm to leave it, then it will not leave. and yes it will be less force down, that seems needed right? i don't think the force will be to small

The MPCNC guys have a very similar table, they do it a bit differently. Should check their table out.

Hey Dude!!! I have a suggestion, you should make a model rocket propelled by a punctured tesla battery.

Lol

Exactly, it's great fo... for ad.... huh, that's still going...

It's also a base nature of reality.

*sigh* r/technicallythetruth

As is life.

Thanks for the code sir...

Very handy site! I was sitting here wondering how to write a script to create that GCode for me, and then he showed off your work. Now I need to go play!

Jeff, many thanks for your effort with Sandify. I have a suggestion: when making several layers it would be awesome to be able to put in a time delay between them. You can obviously do it manually in the gcode, but it would be really neat to have it directly in sandify.

bro same, i'd love to have this in my house, but then i remember that the patterns are filmed in time-lapse :'(

@@EsequielRivas It'd be cool to see how far you can turn the speed up, because the motion of the ball going across and creating the pattern in "real time" really takes my attention

Don’t they all......

@@AT_Freak ?

@@Malikin ?

i actually thought the title was abt god for a sec

Ooh share your idea!

@@picosystem69yearsago86 was thinking of making a square/rectangular version with the electronics hidden away in square steel tubing legs, you know those legs that you see often with those epoxy river tables and such. Hiding the electronics in there should allow for this table to be relatively thin and normal looking. And probably without the leds. Will see if I make it anytime soon but it sure is a hell of cool centrepiece. Probably would have it change the pattern only every 5 minutes or so making it less distracting.

I was like ah shit that's cool, I think I could make that, then I bought about how many electronics there are along with how bad I am with that type of stuff.

you can call it your Coffee Table Screensaver

@@mousey6923 yes

Or a weaker magnet with the same amount of distance. With how intelligent this guy is I thought it was painfully obvious that this was the solution to his problem and I was really surprised he never caught on.

I thought exactly the same!

So this is a "thing," then? Remotely dragging a steel ball through sand?

Crushes the sand? Do you know how much force is required to crush sand?

@@iterumconare4258 he probably didn’t mean it😂

That's way more complicated, more variables. What I'm wondering is how he coded the machine to do the patterns and how he found out how to make the patterns in the first place.

It would be covered by the game haha I want to though

Imagine playing board games at all

Shhhh just imagine playing board games

With that i will not get bored at all why playing board games

*Imagine having a table*

I agree. Especially with spacey ambient music in the background.

Or just a livestream that goes on forever

I would absolutely enjoy a stream of this thing doing it’s thing.

nah, turning the microwave into a time machine that makes bananas a gelatinous substance, lol.

@@razory7942 don't tell me he's going to accidently create a paradox El Psy Congroo

I don't think this guy is crazy enough to work with microwave parts

@@razory7942 "put the banana inside it"

@@oscarz5579 lol

No shit

captain obvious

Cringe

I had that thought too, but it looks like the sand is held in place by an enclosure, and the spiral design seems to be purposefully redistributing the sand

I think he made a script that grabs the outer edge sand if it runs out of resources (i dont think he talked about it but i’m just thinking of reasons he had alot of unused space

That's nothing a good shake of the table can't fix.

@@a8552bc There is a lot of unused space because the printer is rectangular not circular. It can't reach those areas.

I'm even quite sure he can simply unmount the top and use a brush to fix it.

R U GOD!!!!!???????!!!!!?!?

2000000 iq whaaaat!?!??better than dream confirmed?!?!?!?

Big brain time

@@biboy7620 who is dream?

@@boxbunny1344 how dare you say that to me

lol

See you soon in my next video.

You're right, this will definitely be included in one of his videos at some point.

Ah another cultured man

@@conservativechannel1549 the objects on the table moving all on their own So i ask you "did you see it?"

The ball will be stuck in the sand

@@HSelimSerdar ya, that would ,most likely happen

Maybe put EVA foam (yoga mats) under the sand so it absorbs noise?

@@MasterBlakeYT I think it needs to be balanced. A magnet too strong pulls the ball down too much and causes the crunching. Too weak and it won't move

increase distance between the magnets, you would have much more control over the strength, but I'm sure he would have explored that idea

Lol

So like thats 2 thing pencil and rubber gum/eraser

think etch-a-sketch ...

@@sothelon3894 if your gonna do it like that then it's three parts: graphite, wooden body, and the eraser. But luckily for the dude you replied to, a pencil is the combination of all three of those things.

@@paulagenereau4288 A machine with no moving parts then.

That sounds plausible!!

He said sadly his one does not roll because it was crunching. I wonder if the one from the first video he showed rolls or not

i think the issue is that the ball is also a magnet , if it isn't then maybe an electro magnet could fix it by moving the magnet while it's off then turn it on and have the ball roll towards the new location

another question is, can it makes portraits?

@@longweeeeee787 I mean, you realize that the "detail" this machine is able to achieve is like twice the size of the ball (so like an inch), not to mention there has to be a line connecting all the details. I can't imagine and portrait looking too good when you take those aspects into consideration.

That's the kind of video I expected this to be 😂

Lmao

not daily dose of internet (e)

Actually, he’s shown this kind of tech on his video before, or maybe it’s a Mandela effect on my part, but yeah

@@Orchidlettux what's a mandela effect?

L I said the same thing!

Well, you could shake the table and level out the sand. A motor with an off-balance weight, attached to the underside of the table could be connected to a momentary button. Like an "Erase" function. It would vibrate the table, leveling the sand for a new pattern. (Edited for previous redundant statement.)

Technically? Kinda yeah

Right enough! And for those don't know Sisyphus and what he stands for - look it up folks. Wikipedia is your friend! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

@@gyrogearloose1345 Wikipedia is not your friend. For general information, sure. For anything that is remotely subjective or who's truth is debated, they're absolute gatekeeping assholes who will lock down articles and make themselves the ultimate censors and decider on what is written. This is why I'll never donate to them, they are incapable of objectivity and are willing to abuse their power to be extremely biased and outright censor information. People shouldn't be able to tell what political leanings the people in charge of Wikipedia have by reading the articles they lock down so only THEY can edit it.

Same but I just think when I’m staring at stuff I have ADHD too

same

Same

Same

Same dude, same.

put a camera inside the glass too

@@sdffsdafdsfsdfsd OOFF, MEGA SIZE

@@sdffsdafdsfsdfsd i can see only 3k views per vid for 450k subs

@@sdffsdafdsfsdfsd I don't believe it's actually botted! Look into the channel more!

That's just a band-aid fix though, covering up the actual issue

he could have bought cherry, but OSB is funnier!!

Freaking plywood!

Oak OSB, this is the future! 😄

I'm just here to appreciate the Brew Crew profile icon.

Determinism is Freedom 🤙

Google sisyphus. They have been making them custom for a few years.

@@MrBcummings8521 I was making a joke.

I think he already did a video of this

i was going to write this :(

I was gonna type that lol

I was gonna say that

yeah but no you read my mind i was gonna say that

How

@@robby6382 use it to fool facial recognition software and rob a bank

@@robby6382 people pay a lot more for a lot worse

@tsunami of the tsunami wait

Stained, not unpainted

@@RetroBleck he basically painted it with that stain lol, doesnt look like he wiped any off

Stained plywood looks cheap no matter what. - owns fine finish and painting company

@@longlivelinux90 As someone who doesn't know anything about this sort of stuff I agree it looks terrible. Unless you're at a really large distance.

Yeah, that's by far the worst bit of this build, he would have been better just painting it so you couldn't tell it's plywood.

I have really high OCD so thank God I'm giving a like

@@979Gumby (draws 89° angle)

@@amemeaccount6486 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA please NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@@979Gumby SAME ! Wish you the best !

@@cloenieper7490 (laughs in evil)

How does a comment with so many likes have no replies

Cos why not

@@mercurialghoul4417 ok

3D printers have been publicly available since 2009. By technological standards, that could be pretty old.

@@Idk-do1ui the cr10s pro is like 2-3 years old

Only 5 Problems: 1. It's hard to make 2. It takes a while to make 3. He doesn't have enough money to buy a mass amount of parts 4. He doesn't have enough time to make it on-demand 5. He doesn't have the crew, the effort, or the sheer will to do it. Otherwise that's a great idea and I would buy one too. :)

ibe buying that all day

@@jxscdszx6817 There's a working prototype, and it's called preordering; then having someone else make them. There. I solved all the problems except the ugly plywood top.

@@skeetorkiftwon Yeah but all I'm saying is that it's a lot of work

@@jxscdszx6817 It is, until you're building ten at a time or so, then you can work from a template. The only question is, "can you set up the motor and assembly cheap enough to make a profit." If the servos etc can come in at $2-300, you can get a board preloaded for about $125 for the patterns and lights, then build all the rings and base out of a single sheet of plywood, or mdf, and glue stack them instead of laser cutting anything for less than $100 per table. hBN (White "graphite" lubricant powder) is cheap, maybe $20/table and may perform better. The lights might run $30. So maybe around $800-$1,000/ table plus shipping.

That's what my mother did to my unborn brother.

@@cvrrionmusic Dafuq?

@@cvrrionmusic I'm sorry what?

@@cvrrionmusic nice

@@cvrrionmusicwot?

Ah, a man of culture I see

Air gear is the best

As an air gear cosplay I cannot wait.

yessss

hmmmmm yes this floor is made out of floor

Man of culture

That song though

Old but gold

fuck you, now I gotta listen to that song again. brb

ok, done listening to the song, and it still fucks

Or just increase the distance from the table on the back... It was a 3d printer the z should be changeable...

@@cameronmcewen9553 It was probably a model where the build surface was responsible for controlling z distance, not the extruder mechanism itself.

What if it used electromagnets around the side and a magnet repelling from below but weak so it slightly floats

He just had to put a thicker type of fabric

@@yu.czennie he put foam on the ball

hmm etch-a-sketch ... a machine that erases what it draws ... yup not new ... just a new way to make one

@@0623kaboom This new machine needs no shaking. That's innovative!

no just looks like darker cheap-o wafferboard

i love how the motto of the website is literal like "create patterns for robots that draw in sand with ball bearings"

@@helper_bot is that it really? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 If it is, that's brilliant. Couldn't be more precise.

The designer has the meaning of making his vision come to life. We have the meaning of being fascinated by magnets and patterns. And some will have the meaning of being motivated to create and build other things. If we had a big flat area, brooms and rakes, and hours of time, we could do it ourselves. Most of us don't. We can watch monks do it, or a magnet. Maybe the monks will watch this and get more patterns to try?

no that's japanese doing an artful feng way ... sand design ... what this is ... is an oversized etch-a-sketch

@@0623kaboom what? I’m talking about sand mandalas specifically btw, being more vague makes it more funny though

Lmao u mad bro?

No, what you're referring to is way, WAAY more intricate than what this machine is capable of making.

look up Sisyphus

I literally heard phineas’s voice while reading this... also im 90 percent sure i spelled his name wrong...

Distractible? Me? Neve-- oh, wait, look at *that*!!

Same

same.

Ye sanme