Are they on this? I tend to write them out manually!

​@@handsonkatie not an attack on you sorry. if i use the app youtube keep turning subtitles on randomly. no way to turn it off.

@@benjaminbenjamin8392 no worries at all, I was just checking if I was doing something stupid (I do every week as I'm still learning what I'm doing!! 🤣🤣)

You definitely can!

Oh perfect, phone is useless as ID in UK, so still needed. But if you and all family have smart watches and phones, then totally agree you can get away with even less these days (of course for 20x the price!!). Ultimately, we'll get to smart rings taking over a lot of what watches do also, so this'll reduce it even further!

Oh this is a fascinating perspective - I need to do a video on this at some point. I definitely try to balance the two - ie avoiding being a luddite and irrationally ideological about the past (eg where lifespans were 40 years and people lived in abject poverty) whilst avoiding the ideologies of the modern (eg where technology fragments human relationships, cognitive focus and more). You're totally right that reducing everything to chairbound control doesn't really help, BUT the ability to do waaaay more than any light switch can increase activity (eg the ability to set scenes so the kids can press to instantly create 'dance mode' lighting and music increases activity over the traditional switch). Of course I wouldn't use biometrics to random visitors, that's for close family - to again reduce the number of devices and things they need to carry. So to summarise, your point on 'health' is the perfect point - we shouldn't be deluded that people were 'healthy' in the past, we know this from lifespans, disease instances, nutritional information and contemporary sources, but likewise we shouldn't assume that all technology or advances will increase health - as you rightly point out, they can significantly reduce it. Perfect bad example - TV has been largely negative in my view for health, whereas things like the Farmbot are super exciting to me as they allow me to increase health - ie local, self-grown food that's way beyond what I could ever produce myself - doesn't stop me gardening and manually growing even more, just increases the amount of 'hyper local' food that I consume and minimises all the shop-bought equivalents. Likewise materials like leather are something I want to play with too, so that's a good reminder! Great comment and be great to chat more on discord channel - I love creative thinkers!

Hey Bram! Oh dear, sounds like a lot of initial challenges! Few thoughts - skipping the quick start/manual.... yeah <awkward shuffle> I might have done that too... manuals are for when you have nothing better to do!! ;) This re-pairing sounds very peculiar, I've not experienced that at all - is there any issue with wifi cold spots where your waterstation or charging station are located? Certainly I can't speak for the sounds levels, I find it much quieter than my old iRobots - the emptying of these devices is always noisy, but I find him very quiet as he trundles around - that said I perhaps have a different level of 'noise' with two mad children running around, than your silent sounding nirvana!! Mopping stripes I noticed too, but that just disappears after the first few runs - I think this is just the mop getting balanced out a bit, so it's a temporary issue I'd say. Great thoughts though, I think it's great to hear all these experiences as it's impossible to get as rounded a perspective without people sharing their own experiences! I agree on some of the instructions being a little confused between what was obviously printed/filmed originally vs where the app has evolved to now - so definitely some ways they could improve (even if I probably still won't read the instructions!!) - but once it's set up, it really has been fire and forget for months and months, I can't even calculate how much mopping time it's saved me, because I'd never have done anything like this amount!!

Ps quickly checked noise levels, it's pretty much in the pack (mid lower end vs other robot vacuums) - certainly it seems there's a trade off of performance vs noise levels as you'd expect, but there's not a huge difference in performance.

@@handsonkatie thanks for the reply! I blame it on aborting the setup because the water station wasn't set up. Since everything was paired up correctly it hasn't happened again. Had it clean and mop two floors today. Not sure I have done that right as it involved picking it up and moving up and down the stairs a couple of times and it again ended it a state where it was paused when it couldn't get from the water station to auto clean station. I did enable the feature marked beta "water station not marked" so hopefully that will improve over time. On a positive note: I pointed out to their privacy team that the link to the terms and conditions on the registration page was wrong yesterday at 17:32 PM CET. And they replied after it had been fixed today at 10:38 CET. That is impressive. I also received an email that there has been an update to one of the other issues I opened yesterday but the reply itself is missing from the email and the link in it goes to their main support page. So that is less helpful.

@BramMertens hey Bram! Yes, they are actually very responsive to feedback and bugs, just naturally can't fix everything in one go. I do wonder about this odd water station behaviour. One random thought, you know how it comes with a 'non plumbed' water station too, have you tried putting this on the other floor to test? I just wonder if it might help diagnose that is the problem? The other thing is to make sure it's recognising the other floor as a separate map and you let it fully map it too. Drop me a note on my site if you want to chat though more as can share images/photos there and keen to get fully mapped!

....the answer to almost every smart home challenge!

🤣🤣 Yes, I hadn't spotted that! Glad you enjoyed!

​@@handsonkatie do enjoy a lot of your content. It's refreshing to heard someone pronounce their 'h's too.. to our American cousins... It's herbs, not erbs.. because there is an H in it..

Heheh! Well let's not tell them, but they're more right that we are really - Herb was pronounced without an H until the 1800s (indeed many UK accents still don't), but we wanted to be more latinate and less french, so we added it artificially back in. But we didn't with honour.... or hour.... or lots of others...!

@handsonkatie the shock, the horror. Interesting none the less.

I'm going to do a short video on a 'crash course to 3d print modelling' in the nearish future, so watch out for this!

Files now in the description or: handsonkatie.com/shop/

@@handsonkatie Thanks! You rock!

Great to hear you enjoy and I can try, but I just get excited about things so I can't control it!!! But I'll certainly try to make some super engaging content and you never know, you might even grow fond of my crazy hands eventually... 🤣🤣

I'll upload on my site very shortly - or email me if you need it super quickly!!

@@handsonkatie Please upload :)

Done! handsonkatie.com/shop/

Thank you!! Huge fan of your channel too!! Some of this is actually because I make a huge list of b-roll and then shoot throughout the week (I gave up very early on trying to maintain a single outfit as I'd always have different hair, forget a necklace, earrings and that looked weirder!!). But it's fun to try and mix things up a bit!!

Thank you! I can't say I put much work into them, but all the projects I do keeps them busy!!

Hey, interesting question! There's a great little site here: filamentcolors.xyz/library/ That contains a massive index of loads of filaments, so you can search by the precise colour values you want! Hope this helps!

Well... it's written in the title! But yes, every wallet on earth doesn't come with the stuff in it, so you will need to buy cash, coins, cards or anything else to put in it! 😉 But I've designed this for any cards (smart or not), but yes if you want to be able to do all this stuff, then you'll need to have some sort of smart device.... no matter how much you tap your bank card, it won't unlock your front door!! 🤣

Oh I'll need to cover this at some point in an AMA or something, but electrical engineering, web development, analytics, data and lots more is the short answer!!

@@handsonkatie A multi-talented lady! I'm loving your videos, genuinely fascinating and very interesting content (and very well made). Thank you for all your effort! :)

Yes, that's been my experience with my Creality printer (CR10 Max) - I actually got it to print reliably after I replaced the hotend, stock fans, PSU fan, bed, extruder, firmware and a bunch of other stuff - so basically a new custom made printer! I have heard this an awful lot about Creality, I can't quite say why their printers are so much less reliable, Bambu Lab seem able to produce devices at the same price point, so as you say, it must be more about QC/engineering quality. I'm sure they've improved over the years, but Bambu Lab really are the benchmark for reliability IMO.

Like my doors...which these work perfectly with.... ☺️ Like I touched on SwitchBot seem to have nailed this!

@@handsonkatie interesting.... how does it manage the handle lift to engage the multipoint when you lock? because that's always been the problem I've had as my doors require the handle lift before it can fully rotate the key to lock the main deadbolt... the most important feature for me would be the ability to lock automatically as part of a night routine or geolocation automation if I leave my house. Doesn't seem like there would be a way around this even with the SwitchBot lock.

@@devlifedotnet ah yes, you naturally still need to do that, but I do that out of habit anyway (not least as this is what creates a proper door close to get an air seal, otherwise cold air gets through!)

Thank you!! This isn't actually the filament, check the links in the description - this is the printer bed plate!! It imparts a holographic effect onto any prints you make, which is super cool as you can print with any filament you want and it'll have a holographic sparkle, carbon fibre effect, polygonal hologram or anything else you fancy when you take it off! Highly, highly recommend getting a set - they're super cheap (£6-7) - just note you'll need a new bed plate to stick them to, so get one or two of them (you can stick one on each side!)

​​@@handsonkatie Thank you! I'm wondering if this is for the "white and sparkly" effect you mention at 8:00 and 8:17 in your video. The sparkles look rainbow colored. I'm excited to print with the textured bed plates too!

Oops! Never mind, I found it right where you said it would be. Thank you!

Well 39% of the UK no longer carry cash or coins, so maybe we're returning to the original meaning of wallet!

Oh the mechanics are quite different (except for the stepper motors and x/y axes) - laser tech is much more complex than 3d printers (which are basically very cheap heaters, melting plastic!). You can get cheaper lasers - eg xTool do some starting at around £250, so you can check them out, but I would aim for your sort of price point to get all the ease of use, features and more. Check out the links in my description and browse xTool's site, the S1 or the M1 are great lasers that are very capable, but if you were quick, the M1 Ultra is heavily discounted, so around $1000 for the next day or two

🤣🤣 the latter actually, I made it as a nightie!!

It was this sort of thing I was looking for: www.sonos.com/en-gb/shop/shelf-one-play1 £59 per shelf is bonkers - once you're looking for 6-7 for around the house, you've basically got a free 3d printer for one device! You can either model it yourself or there's loads online (thingiverse, printables, makerworld) - and your print cost is likely to be around 30p...!

Hey Geoffrey! 👋 Welcome aboard my madness!! Lots more coming up!

@handsonkatie looking forward to it! Where can I find all of your awesome designs like this one??

I post anything requested on my site (www.handsonkatie.com) - I'll upload these later today hopefully (I just want to make it parametric so people can adjust to suit their number of cards/devices!)

Now uploaded! handsonkatie.com/shop/

Great to hear you enjoyed!! There's services for ordering printed versions if you are in the US too now, so there's no excuse to have no Underware!! 🤣🤣

🤣🤣 Oops ... I'm going to get taken out by the Organizati!!! Engineers Vs Organizers - the nerdiest fight in history!

Also I have not been attracted to a woman in over a year since my divorce. Lol

Great point, the S10 loyally cleans away all the time, I'll give him a pat on the back from you! And the firewood logs are fake (secret doors I made!) 🤣🤣

@@handsonkatie Damn!!! I was entirely convinced that they were real! I must return to my roots, where log and peat fires were normal at home as a child ... ummm .. 45 yrs ago? 55 yrs ago?

@@Neilhuny well the fire is real, I just hide the messy logs behind the secret log doors! 🤣

@@handsonkatie Are there dragons there? I'm not saying that I'm gullible once I trust someone I'll believe anything ...

I could neither confirm nor deny the existence of dragons....... 🤣

I don't, use cash once or twice a year these days - bank card allows payment anywhere!

This sounds great once you've got the lock developed!! I do feel for companies like SwitchBot, it must be a nightmare trying to design for completely world solutions in standards-free domains like locks! (I can see why it'd be much simpler for you to design for your specific locks, so fingers crossed it works!! )

@handsonkatie thank you. And yes, what you say is true True, though I will try to make it work for more locks other than mine (a bit more generic) . One of the challenges I have is that here in the Netherlands, you need to replace the lock cylinder for a security (longer) one. This is because, by default, if you have an inserted key on one side, you can't open from the other side, which in case the Smart lock become unresponsive, you're locked out. I plan to address this (making it really plug and play, not require cylinder swap), by making a mechanism that will both turn and pull the key. But that is easier said than done without using an extra motor, which would just make the smart lock too bulky and more expensive. By the way my other motivation to do it is to not requiring setting up account, yet another phone app or connection to the internet. No one should need to share personal information to open their doors. If everything works out, I plan to open source it, so others can build or adapt it.

Ah gotcha, it's amazing how we've been making locks for thousands of years and we still can't get to a standard across countries!! This sounds great and it'd be amazing to open source. One tiny note, the Switchbot Lock works fine without any cloud connection too - you can bounce through Home Assistant to keep entirely local if you fancied - as you say, this would reduce yet another cloud ping if that's the priority!

​@@handsonkatiethat's good to know, even better that you can do HA, with it. Specially appealing to use geeks. But I was going a little further than that by not requiring any integration at all. Make the barrier to entry as minimal as possible so grandpa and grandma can also Have one. The smart lock would be put in access point mode which you connect your phone to, then input WiFi credentials via browser to have it join your WiFi. From there you can do all setup you want without need an extra app, just the browser on your phone. I am thinking of making pluggable modules. For example, in addition to the built-in Bluetooth, WiFi and rfid, allow attaching any other form of "key", for example a fingerprint sensor. That the can also be be configured via a this tiny webserver the smartlock hosts (add/remove fingerprints). Preserves privacy, easy setup, does not depend on Internet (should be operable purely based on its flash memory, reducing failure points). Also though about doing it via BLE which would allow hosting a github page that can communicate with the device via javascript once it is Bluetooth paired with the phone.

Love the thinking!!! I know robovacuums have been working on this for some time, so it might be the case that a lot of the AI models are actually already there - must be a strange CV entry for someone somewhere: 'I created the world's most advanced dog poo identification AI'.... 🤣🤣

Erm, not sure this fits the definition of either Friday or spam, but don't worry, just watch the video in a week's time and you can pay full price for anything I've used if you'd prefer?? And of course, you can pay for the free files too if you fancy! 🤣🤭

Great example of how tech is changing things - there's really not a huge difference between a carbon fibre ridge wallet for £125 and a £0.18p 3d printed version! I might make a 'pop up' version for 5-6 cards, it'll naturally be a little bit thicker, but not much!

Of course, I'll upload later tonight - I'll make the depth parametric so everyone can adjust to suit their own needs!