I love ball bearings as much as the next guy but, but... but what kind of brain damage is that?
Can't Trump draft these guys into the army where they would have a lot of fun playing with ball bearings in tank engines or some such? And perhaps learn something along the way.
I love ball bearings as much as the next guy but, but... but what kind of brain damage is that?
Can't Trump draft these guys into the army where they would have a lot of fun playing with ball bearings in tank engines or some such? And perhaps learn something along the way.
That video reminds me of Jeff Spicoli. What's crazy is how fast the manufacturers ramped up and shipped such a wide variety of spinners. How long has this been a thing? I know there have been fidget things in the news since the fidget cube kickstarter, but have no idea when this spinning one became a thing. I saw the story about the alleged inventor that let her patent lapse, but that looked a lot different. I'm not sure that there's really any link with her invention.
There sure are some ideas being spun around Hackaday.
Parallax could easily come up with a promotional product featuring the Propeller, would give people all the more reason to spin.
It's fun to see different implementations of one idea.
Should be left to just the to the developer and any copies he can sell.
I'm all for keeping corporate domination out of it, it would make it old fast.
But this may draw some kids in to a rewarding hobby they may not been exposed to normally.
@ ERCO, have you filed you FDA 510Ks for the copper, gold and platinum fidgets? Gotta support the "medical" claims of effectiveness for your heavy metal fidgets.
And clackers? go back further, Did your sisters and nearly everyone of their friends have an army of troll dolls somewhere? Pet Rocks?
Fads. Lot more stuff to worry about these days....
@Potatohead, I would discuss ADHD, but offline.
As septimus points out the greek worry beads. Saw these in many places in the middle east. They were everywhere!
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Can't Trump draft these guys into the army where they would have a lot of fun playing with ball bearings in tank engines or some such? And perhaps learn something along the way.
Could be a youth rejection to a less than pleasant future.
+ 1 - 40 seconds of that was enough for me.
https://hackaday.io/project/25381-pov-spinner
https://hackaday.io/project/25372-iot-pov-fidget-spinner
Parallax could easily come up with a promotional product featuring the Propeller, would give people all the more reason to spin.
https://hackaday.io/project/25494-learn-to-code-with-this-fidget-spinner
Yeah, lets take 4 of them connected together and let them hover!
Enjoy!
Mike
It's fun to see different implementations of one idea.
Should be left to just the to the developer and any copies he can sell.
I'm all for keeping corporate domination out of it, it would make it old fast.
But this may draw some kids in to a rewarding hobby they may not been exposed to normally.
https://hackaday.io/project/25538-pov-fidget-spinner
And clackers? go back further, Did your sisters and nearly everyone of their friends have an army of troll dolls somewhere? Pet Rocks?
Fads. Lot more stuff to worry about these days....
@Potatohead, I would discuss ADHD, but offline.
As septimus points out the greek worry beads. Saw these in many places in the middle east. They were everywhere!
Honestly the generator And LED's should be on-board, would make it more interesting, IMO.
https://hackaday.io/project/27186-fidget-spinner-generator-3-in-1