Mark Rober - Crunch Labs - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 16, 2022, 09:21:01 am
content: WoahMark Rober nails lab building and marketing in the same video on an epic scale. The kits will pay for the lab several times over.

author: f4eru
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2022, 10:47:06 am
content: The guy who faked the use of his "glitter bomb" with pseudo-thieves ?

author: metrologist
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2022, 03:44:27 pm
content: yeah, EEVblog needs a box, too.https://www.curiositybox.com/tinkererboxetc...

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2022, 05:31:55 pm
content: Quote from: f4eru on June 16, 2022, 10:47:06 amGot evidence to support that assertion?How about you show off one of your projects that is as impressively well engineered and entertaining? Bonus points if it does something to make the world a better place, which punishing porch pirates does nicely.

author: SpacedCowboy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2022, 05:43:23 pm
content: I mean,he admittedthat some of it was faked, but I agree with your other comments. It’s easy to criticise…

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2022, 05:59:53 pm
content: Quote from: SpacedCowboy on June 16, 2022, 05:43:23 pm"Mark Rober cut around 90 seconds from the video and reuploaded it to remove a segment in which a friend of a friend borrowed the device. As it turns out, that person recruited their own friends to pose as victims. Rober apologized for the ruse."So there was some additional staged content that was later removed, that doesn't mean the whole thing was faked. Package theft is a huge problem, there is not really any good reason to fake it when you live in an area where it is rampant.

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2022, 06:15:45 pm
content: QuoteNowt against the chap and I enjoyed some of the videos, but I wouldn't call strapping a brace of iPhones inside a box 'well engineered'.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2022, 10:25:15 pm
content: He did kiwico stuff right?https://www.kiwico.com/mlp/roberdomino?utm_source=Mark_Rober&utm_medium=INFL&utm_term=YouTubeLooks like its $300 minimum to get you 12 boxes, they have the monthly plan disabled.Quote from: dunkemhigh on June 16, 2022, 06:15:45 pmThen you clearly didn't pay much attention to the video when you watched it.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2022, 10:31:39 pm
content: Quote from: dunkemhigh on June 16, 2022, 06:15:45 pmDid you watch the same video I watched? It had cameras facing all directions, a fart spray dispenser and a very effective glitter dispersion method using custom 3D printed parts, with software to tie it all together and show the location of the package in real time and deploy the payload at the proper time. If you think you can do a better job I'd like to see what you come up with. Describing it as "Strapping iphones inside a box" is like describing a complex piece of hardware as "soldering some ICs to a board".

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 16, 2022, 10:37:07 pm
content: I saw the early ones, and he improved over time (of course).Edit: to clarify, the impression I got originally was of something that would appear on hackaday - a quick hack using whatever was available.

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 12:44:59 am
content: No matter how "clever" or "gifted" he is in engineering (and I've yet to see proof) - he's VERY immature, and craves attention too much to validate his self-righteous, erroneous attempts at "justice". Also, and I would find it more ignore-able if he was wiser - the whole cap back to front thing is just the final straw.Mark, sit down, stop shouting, put your cap back the right way and grow up.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 12:46:20 am
content: Quote from: james_s on June 16, 2022, 10:31:39 pmYes, it was quite impressive and took them almost a year working on it IIRC.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 12:46:56 am
content: Quote from: eti on June 17, 2022, 12:44:59 amYou must be new to Youtube, welcome.

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 12:47:22 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on June 17, 2022, 12:46:56 amI must be, yep, only been here since 2006 lol.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 12:49:04 am
content: Quote from: eti on June 17, 2022, 12:47:22 amThis is the point where you link to your successful Youtube channel...

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 12:49:32 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on June 17, 2022, 12:49:04 amNope. No need to.

author: Bud
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 12:50:16 am
content: At least it is a fabric baseball cap. I never understood utubers wearing wool winter head covers shooting videos in warm of their house.

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 12:54:35 am
content: @EEV - okay, finding more stats. Only because I like youIt's very much NOT a commercial channel, and I keep it off forums as it attracts morons (no offence you lot). It may be a "paltry" 3.XM views, but it's for info purposes and private use.Not sure why I even told you tbh, but as I said, only because I like you, dear DaveUnlike many, I do not value my life's "success" or "failure" based merely on something as simplistic and idiotic as whether I am "liked" or clicked; I could have ONE sub, and if that single person liked the videos, that's good enough for me, as I made them happy or helped em.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 01:00:50 am
content: Quote from: eti on June 17, 2022, 12:44:59 amThe immature view here is caring how someone dresses over what arguments/content/information they are presenting.https://www.txstate.edu/philosophy/resources/fallacy-definitions/Ad-Hominem.htmlWhere is your opinion of the topic at hand, crunch labs?

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 01:02:33 am
content: Quote from: thm_w on June 17, 2022, 01:00:50 amI feel you are willfully cherry-picking the part which suits ya. If he was a nice chap, humble, someone like Destin Sandlin of "Smarter Every Day" or the suchlike, a chap with humility, and not one out to RAM "justice" down our throats in his exceptionally juvenile, poorly-reasoned, self-righteous tone, I'd be more inclined to pay him attention. The guy is a silly boy dressed like a grown up, and you can't escape the fact that he loves to come across as "doing good". He's a schmuck. Simple

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 01:12:34 am
content: Quote from: james_s on June 16, 2022, 05:31:55 pm"Diversion, your honour"You are (transparently) attempting to distract and divert away from the valid points made. If you can address his point, maybe he will be more likely to address yours... but then, I can see right through your attempt to shoo away his points.Never presume to think that others think on such a level as oneself.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 02:22:12 am
content: Quote from: eti on June 17, 2022, 01:02:33 amHe's a successful schmuck that will be responisble for getting more kids into engineering than practically anyone else on the planet.We talked about this on today's AmpHour in fact, and Chris positied that in the future people will ask how you got into engineering, and a huge number will say Mark Rober. Same as people would say Bill Nye, or the Curiosity Show, or *insert other influence here*You can hate his guts, but it won't change that fact.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 02:26:01 am
content: Quote from: eti on June 17, 2022, 12:54:35 amYep you will not extend that thought to Mark Rober who without question has and will continue to influence probably millions of kids to get into engineering.Instead it's "he's a schuck" therefore bad.

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 02:32:57 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on June 17, 2022, 02:22:12 amThere’s a vast array of ACTUAL engineering channels that don’t talk to the viewers like dolts, and who display QUIET confidence and humility, instead of the “LOOK WHAT I DID! I FIXED THE INJUSTICES!” blah blah friggin blah. He can be as good at engineering as anyone else, but his whole schtick is arrogant and smacks of a know it all.I’d go with any number of ACTUAL engineers before him. Not that he’s a bad old boy, and yeah maybe “schmuck” was harsh… but he’s disingenuous and an attention seeker.Humility wins over arrogance and I know this first hand. I am often arrogant and don’t pretend that I’m not. I’m not proud of it but I don’t feel condemned, we are all only human.As he stands, he SHOUTS to his viewers and comes across as an attention seeker with little “engineering” ACTUALLY TAUGHT.This is “engineering” in as much as MacDonalds is a prime Angus steak.It’s fine that you don’t Agree with me, I don’t need need you to agree with me to “validate“ my Views any more than you need Me to reciprocate the same to you regarding yours.The Internet is a very strange place where everyone has to “prove” or “validate” themselves and their views to random strangers, who don’t know them and don’t care about them. Maybe you are right, maybe I’m right, either way my opinion still is my opinion… I don’t fall out over opinions, That is very insecure and pointless.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 03:18:11 am
content: Quote from: eti on June 17, 2022, 02:32:57 amMy "view" is based on the almost certain fact that he has a huge influence on kids getting into enginering. How he does that is not my point, it's yours. You seem to refuse to even acknowledge that he's getting kids into engineering.I'll repeat: Instead it's "he's a schuck" therefore bad.

author: eti
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 03:22:21 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on June 17, 2022, 03:18:11 amExcellent. Possibly I’m wrong then, I don’t mind admitting it. Thanks Dave

author: PlainName
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 09:06:16 am
content: QuoteThen why are you continually arguing your view if not to say that it's the right view?

author: f4eru
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 10:19:26 am
content: I enjoy some of the things from Mark Rober, like his Squirrel race...But quite some of his videos are much too far on the clickbait side for my taste.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 17, 2022, 08:01:49 pm
content: Sadly, the competition is only open to those in the US.That said, I do find him a bit grating, and while I've enjoyed some of his work, he does have a very ... youthful energy, and I feel like I'm young enough that I should be in sync with that, but I just am not.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 20, 2022, 04:10:26 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on June 17, 2022, 02:26:01 amFunny to see people latch onto guys like Rober with so much hate when YouTube is full of schmucks who do nothing more than destroy things for entertainment. Rober is creating things and making life just slightly more difficult for a group of people (common thieves) who I despise. Getting kids involved in engineering is icing on the cake.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 21, 2022, 12:10:08 am
content: Quote from: james_s on June 20, 2022, 04:10:26 pmHere it's called the Tall Poppy Syndrome.

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 21, 2022, 01:10:50 am
content: Quote from: james_s on June 20, 2022, 04:10:26 pmCould not say better. Back in my day what I had was curiosity and books with science experiments.Nowadays with things like YouTube and Arduino's, kits like Boolean's Box, SmartLab Smart Circuits, Elenco Snap Circuits Jr, Osmo's, and websites like Sparkfun is so much more easy to get a kid interested in science, programming and engineering. And their heroes will be people like Mark Rober and Adam Savage.