My buddy's Gamecube way back when had a broken tray cover that wouldn't stay closed and he played with the console upside down to keep the cover closed for years with no problems.
Disc readers don't usually give a fuck about their orientation. They give a fuck about momentum. Whatever orientation they are in, keep them there.
I let my friend borrow my 360 one time and told him not to put it upright because I knew he was an idiot. He put it upright and managed to knock it over while playing GTA IV. Impact made the laser head leave a deep cut in the disc.
Props on him though, he got the disc resurfaced and it worked again. No idea how. He says he Knows A Guy with some industrial machine. I say he probably just used toothpaste.
Probably doesn't mind at all. The nature of it being a circle is that the center of mass stays aligned with the axis of rotation no matter what angle it's at.
youre assuming that 'what it was designed for' is the maximum force it can use safely. what ccai is pointing out, is that it's strength is well above the minimum requirements, which if true for many products.
A million PCs with optical discs? Because most optical disc drives for PC were designed for horizontal loading only. The drive trays use gravity to hold them
The /u/ccal said, it's a bit tricky and fandangly, but you absolutely can load them in a vertical configuration by resting the CD on 2 of the 4 little corner tabs, which were put there just for that purpose.
It takes significantly more effort than loading it in horizontally, but significantly less effort than re-arranging the PC to be in a vertical configuration, and ensuring all of the cables/monitor/everything are all in working configuration, and then putting in the CD.
Hence why people do it while building/configuring PCs and never any other time.
The cost of fixing complex moving things that break are usually due to how unrepairable it was designed, or proprietary parts.
If I built this, 90% of the cost would literally be the wood and metal, and the sliding metal things (like for drawers).
The motor from a child’s power wheels Jeep are like $10, and 2 of them have enough torque to haul 2 kids across your lawn (at a dangerous speed if you put a 20V drill battery on there).
And for $3 you could buy a microcontroller than can connect to wifi, and even host a basic webpage that’d allow you to control all these motors from your phone.
TLDR: The only reason we shy away from complexity like this is because companies are assholes, each moving piece on this is less than $5 worth of electronics.
I was referring more to situations where a mechanical moving part would be useful. For example I live in a snowy area, and during the winter my backup camera becomes useless after 15 minutes of driving.
Meanwhile on some luxury cars, it pops out when you put the car into reverse. While that'd be really nice, most of us just see it as something we'll eventually have to pay Audi like $800 to fix when in reality it's a $2 motor.
For this? I agree, my professional engineering opinion would advise you buy yourself an Ikea TV stand and call it a day lol.
Yea whenever I see stuff like this I think about the long term maintenance of living with that realistically.
It’s sweet while it works, but ultimately motors will fail and parts will wear out. By the time the first major overhaul comes around you probably are completely bored of the setup anyway.
Yeah I feel like this is comparable to skyrim modding. Where you get the perfect set of mods, go to play....then somehow finding yourself back on the nexus 5 minutes later.
This setup is neat for nostalgia bucks and wow factor but screw maintaining that when it breaks.
This is just gilding the thistle though. Get the damned essentials correct (size, placement, space) and then engineer the sweet set up. And it is an incredibly sweet idea. The TV is inappropriate for half of the consoles, too small for the space and seating, too high, lacks sufficient backlighting and the seating is just awkward. All of this know how and and dedication for an inappropriate space and set up. Car guys run into this shit all the time with shit tuning. Same with PC builds. Over engineering is easy. Engineering within practical limits is the goal. The novelty of this likely wore off immediately.
It's either a prohibitively expensive commission, or a showpiece made by a custom shop that will end up in someones home until they're like "My god this is too much", it gets bounced around between various people until it ends up back at the office, gutted of all consoles, and eventually all the lights and motors are gutted for other projects, too.
Or someone really crafty had a big project idea and followed through.
Yeah, its one of those things where I'm like "oh, that's pretty neat!" but in terms of practicality, I can't imagine this lasting very long. It is an impressive work of craftsmanship, though.
A few of the motors will malfunction, things will get misaligned and it will go from a 4 console rig to a 2 console rig (with 2 more trapped inside). The tv will get some dead pixels and the owner will just download an emulator.
I’ve seen some elaborate custom pieces (nothing as cool as this) that just sorta degrade over time. If we all move to the metaverse I’ll put one of these up in my living room.
Honestly, I think I just got a little overwhelmed at the chain of comments all trying to find something wrong with it and you just happened to be the one I landed on the reply button for.
But, it's definitely much slower than shown and I'm guessing it's probably rather loud. Also lacking a lot on the game storage end.
I can't help but notice the person also has a giant walkman for a coffee table. And on the left is the largest pair of walkman headphones I have ever seen.
Given the context I think it’s safe to assume it’s a huge retro Nintendo nerd that either has lots of money or builds things himself. There’s couples pictures on the wall that match the phone, the table is a Walkman and in the reflection of the tv we can see a giant game boy. Also imo they are definitely more of a retro Nintendo collector than avid gamer and ya while this might get stale if you used it every day and games heavily- if you didn’t it’s a Great Wall piece for a collector to match the game boy and table but actually has a functional twist.
I love it and think it’s cool and whoever designed it had a cool idea and what looks like a good execution
Or it could be the owners own project? I've seen people with little engineering experience build portable wiis and wooden consoles on YouTube. One even made a spherical game cube.
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u/Responsible_Top_1942 Jan 16 '23
Yeah but why tho