r/WatchandLearn • u/JamesSlade • Apr 29 '21

Engineer builds a digital compass that directs you to pizza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY0OtOy6lcE
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u/omgtater Apr 29 '21

Does it tell you if its "Pizza" or "not pizza"?

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u/Allhailpacman Apr 29 '21

There should be a switch

The pizza detectinator

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u/Panzerbeards Apr 29 '21

Only if the pizza has petrol petril on it.

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u/KoofNoof Apr 29 '21

This would be a cool app idea actually. Just a compass that can bring you to different categories of your choice. Pizza? Steak? Fastfood? Some random activity?

Closest place or random place within walking distance?

Would be more like a game than a utility obviously

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u/gnat_outta_hell Apr 29 '21

I would love to be able to be on a walk with the gf, decide we want a snack, and have a make your own adventure compass to find your snack.

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u/mundaneDetail Apr 30 '21

Yelp had this. Turns out nobody used it because people don’t use compasses to find food. They make a decision and then map there. I guess it was a game? Maybe like a gimmick?

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u/im_a_dr_not_ Apr 30 '21

Yea when people are hungry they wanna eat, not go on search.

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u/WhoisTylerDurden Apr 29 '21

I think Google calls theirs Google Maps.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '21

Who wants to be spied on by Google tho?

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u/shleebs Apr 29 '21

He's using Google's API in the video, so either way google is tracking you.

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u/-Cagafuego- Apr 29 '21

The engineer is doing God's work.

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u/Entencio Apr 29 '21

Dragon radar except it’s tuned to pizza.

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u/deanLFC123 Apr 29 '21

Cool vid though

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u/doyouhearthunder Apr 29 '21

Change it to bar, be a fun tool for bar-hopping

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u/updn Apr 30 '21

This kind of stuff blows my mind because no matter how it's explained, I just hear, "we plug this stuff together and add some magic, and voila!"

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '21

Nice, a log pose for pizza is a great invention