I Made My Windshield Wipers Move To The Music

[@00xero]

Holy shit when you took the grinder to the board i nearly spat out my beer 😂 This man is not afraid of commitment

[@djtopherau]

grinder to the board is commitment, what about cutting the hood of the car. Now thats commitment. ... or insanity... not 100% sure which, sometimes the lines are blury.

[@UltimateMaking]

You're the most amazingly insane dude I've ever seen, it's my life goal to be as talented as you 😈

[@hotplatelabs]

THE WIRE WHEEL ON THE PCB. just genius

[@diggleboy]

I never laughed so hard at a project as I did watching this master craftsman take a grinder to a PCB to remove SMD components. The trace cuts were made with absolute precision and detail. I will never look at an Arduino Uno the same way ever again. Your level of project detail with algebraic equations, circuit diagrams, and sheer commitment by cutting out a notch in the hood of your car and 3D printing an enclosure was what won me over to subscribe and like this video. Dude! Keep up the good work! Comedic gold combined with engineering skill and video editing genius. Made my day. 😁

[@pokeyouindaeye]

As a former DJ, I always dreamed of doing this... much respect.

[@squelchstuff]

This must be the best most useless thing I've ever seen, and it's brilliant! I laughed so hard at the PCB depopulation, then the modded scuttle panel, and then the bonnet (hood) cut-out. The piece de resistance is that the whole thing actually did exactly what was set out. Thanks for the laugh, and keep doing you.

[@G5Ckxew]

I respectfully disagree. This is probably the cheapest servo ever made at this power level. Even new wiper motors are relatively cheap and junkyard motors are almost free

[@squelchstuff]

@@G5Ckxew Respectfully, I think you may have misinterpreted my comment. Would you care to clarify what it is you disagree with? If it's the first statement, allow me to explain the joke that was intended - "The best most useless" is an oxymoron meaning that it is of the highest class of uselessness ie. The windscreen wipers will probably no longer perform their original purpose of clearing rain while moving to the beat, albeit the original modes have been reproduced in software. I doubt our friend rarely uses them for clearing rain in Arizona which is generally pretty arid. As for windscreen motors being very cheap, useful and powerful sources of motive power, especially for servos, there's no argument there, and I'm not sure how my comment leads you to this conclusion. All in all, the manner in which things are made on this channel are incredibly funny in their slap-dash construction (hot glue, clearance cut outs as an afterthought etc), but always with fundamental processes employed that achieve great results (a parody of those other "life tip" channels who's results tend to be genuinely useless click bait). Finally, the need to explain a joke often leads to the humour being lost.

[@G5Ckxew]

@@squelchstuff I agree with you on all points.

[@nicocesar]

This channel needs a lot more of promotion... is so great!

[@kinsmith6766]

This was EPIC!! Single-handedly the most educational, entertaining, insightful, nerdy video that I’ve seen this whole year! Thank you for sharing your talent. I think a funny modification of your dancing wiper motor project would be to make an “Adele Mode”, Where any time the vocal channel hits a high note above a certain octave the washer fluid motor will turn on and spray Adele’s tears onto your windshield. Thanks again!

[@G5Ckxew]

This is like the AvE channel but better because it has more practical applications. I have been dreaming up an Arduino windshield wiper servo for years but you beat me to it while adding more functionality 👍

[@pete3897]

Dude, you're a legend and you remind me of myself 10 years ago! I slapped an Arduino into my old wagon and used it to make the indicators flash out messages in morse code :)

[@chopper3lw]

BEST EVER HACK! The desired position oscillation might be caused by lash error, to fix the holding sound issue, you can create a deadband area around the desired position in the PID software. Probably better to tune the PID better too but.... Too fun!

[@Pest789]

This channel is all dinger, no finger.

[@piousminion7822]

You have such a way to take a completely technical, logical, project and make it look like you're completely nuts while you do it. The grinder to the board was the best. lol

[@stewartfrye]

I love living out of the box others are trapped in, and so do you. Thanks for sharing your imagination

[@johnandersen8999]

Fantastic

[@nonchalanto]

You are a golden person. What do I mean by this? I’ll explain. Your personhood is hewn from solid gold. You’re a genius, you’re funny, you’re humble, and creative, and it’s an absolute joy to watch your content. This was awesome, and it’s the type of stuff I think about doing but I don’t quite have your skill and know-how. You do inspire me though. I’m unabashedly rooting for you to have as much success and happiness in your life as any person can possibly have.

[@creativecraving]

0:58 Very professional! 😀

[@3th1xs]

You sir, are an absolute beauty.

[@wgenerotzky]

Now get to go with the song, What is Love, head and wipers just going in perfect harmony 😂

[@xTheDeerLordx]

Anxiety went through the roof when you got the sockets just sitting on the engine, bay open,...

[@TonyStark-ik9em]

GTFO, this may be my favorite DIY/Arduino video on planet KZbin. You go Sir!

[@electrosync]

Oh, man! The drivers coming the other way must have thought your wipers were absolutely buggered! Great vid!

[@nehopsa]

*buggered yay

[@hopetoretire]

This is fine creativity.

[@Whydisable]

Hilarious! I absolutely love this channel. Please make more videos 😀

[@hendriklubbe]

I would like to see the wipers do the "squeeky, squeeky" noise as a DJ would do on a turntable! 😂😂😂

[@paytonruth714]

Awesome

[@amitkeynan922]

best channel ever.

[@fuhkoffandie]

This is why I subbed to your channel. this is awesome. I once made a speaker box in the back of a Suburban, open the drawer showing 1000 watt amps, and at the same time, it would lift the Box up, and the speakers were face down, it would turn them 90° towards the the back, and then set the box back down on the drawer, the speaker was protected when not in use. I used the basic stamp 2, and, a wireless remote key fob. It was some trick shit. It had a little functionality, too. When the system was off it just look like you had two big, carpeted boxes in the back. But when you press the remote or turn the radio on, that's when all the fun happened. Timing all that stuff to happen, and keeping everything from crashing into each other, oh, that was a lot of fun.

[@fuhkoffandie]

It's amazing what you can do with window motors, some bicycle chain, and a microcontroller, LOL

[@ProlificInvention]

That's awesome, reminds me of my favorite movie "Flash of Genius" which is the true story of the invention of the intermittent wipers, it's very interesting and I recommend it.

[@cranktowncity]

Sounds pretty cool, I'll check it out

[@fuhkoffandie]

This shit is just straight money. What a cool idea. Now if it was raining that thing would work even quicker

[@warrenmusselman9173]

How ridiculous! That's awesome!

[@Main_Drain]

Awesome 😎😂 You should make your blinker match the rhythm of the cars blinker in front of you. I know you've noticed that momentary sink up before. 😂 Good stuff

[@TylerTwoPointO]

incredible, this made my day

[@kylem5726]

Agreed he needs promotion. After a month of watching I'm surprised not more subscribers.. I'm going to mention this channel as much as possible.

[@tomrspears]

Dude love ur videos and heres a idea what about doing a video about who u are and etc. My favorite part is ur sense of humor. It's hilarious.

[@ChrisBigBad]

Only a mad human... :D

[@gangedup1]

Brilliance at work!!

[@billing100]

That wipe is so cool. You should make selling product of it.

[@usarms149]

Dude, you are officially my new favorite channel.

[@TheRainHarvester]

You're gonna need new wiper blades! Great job!! Knight rider 2000 is jealous!

[@KieranShort]

Hehe i was thinking the same thing. I'd like to see the blades smoking when synced to some gabba techno.

[@fixarerikpersson7321]

Fantastic man! Laughing high over here. I love it 👌 Cranktown for president!

[@DolezalPetr]

dude your ideas are so cool lmao

[@prop_struck6828]

Haha i was sitting there thinking this is a tame project for Cranktown. and then the grinder came out lol

[@costantinoskitsios]

Malaka, you are amazing

[@joels7605]

I appreciate the dedication to something so stupid. Well done, sir.

[@AW-Services]

Wow, your wipers have enough settings. In the UK we have OFF, SPEED 1 & SPEED 2. If I used your musical driver my windscreen would melt listening to techno

[@0xbaadf00d]

The I is for closing the gap D is for overshoot, start small with I and D or you get a jittery mess. Looks like you could use some of both.

[@sarajefferson233]

This is tech stuff for the after person mainly because you make it funny. Someone needs to get you your own TV show. You're like a funny geeky Brad Pitt

[@SeanTaffert]

Nice! now you gotta get the headlamps involved.

[@i_am_ironman3380]

Super cool. You're a legend

[@jvon3885]

Anyone else want to see some blast beats run through there and watch as the wipers start to smoke against the glass?

[@kylem5726]

I fucking love your channel dude. Love it..

[@prozacgod]

A modification to this could be taking an fft of the music and picking frequency ranges to feed into the beat detection. Would be hard to do on an Arduino.

[@jdwolk7807]

Love your content dude. What’s the thing you always wear around your neck? Some kind of magnetic swarf collector?

[@mikemesec]

That's awesome. Good job man, you come up with some wicked ideas.

[@TheLuchono]

U r the real shit. Greeting from Argentina

[@craterinahole]

BDE living right here.

[@Erliortmejurur]

Amazing! Next thing to do is use a bpm detection algorithm and delay it a little bit while accounting for wipe delay until the next beat

[@davidbeer]

Loved it man!

[@hultaelit]

"Oh man, that has a waterproof coating all over the PCB, how is he going to remove it to get at the pads?" 4:57 I.. don't know what I expected

[@killfrog]

aahahahahahahahah :D "IT S SUPERGLUED! AND HOTGLUED! AND SILICONED! hope it all works in there" :D

[@jayjomofro]

Just play sandstorm during a torrential downpour.

[@ozguragcakaya9017]

Well done mate!

[@julias-shed]

That is so awesome I was giggling at the end. Brilliant job. 😀

[@jjhack3r]

That’s quite elaborate...

[@KM-oi9ks]

Judging by those trees....I thought you were in Big Bear at first, but my final guess is Flagstaff AZ

[@guitchess]

That was great.

[@aaronale5]

If that is a normal encoder, A channel, B channel, there should be a Z channel that is a marker pulse. You can rotate the shaft to align it with something. Goo d to use as a reset or check for the other pulses.

[@RkRk-xi7wi]

"Eww" says the dude with the famous dirty hands and a hand washing machine we saw once...

[@dontnormally]

this is stupid and i love it

[@Reth_Hard]

4:55 "Tutorial - How to carefully remove components on a circuit board with a single tool." :P

[@camcompco]

love it. . .curious, 2 questions, what is your background and where do you live . . very scenic

[@cranktowncity]

I've basically just worked shit construction jobs on and off my whole life hahaha and I live in northern Arizona

[@dotway486]

Now you need to put an LED on the end of your wiper blades

[@petarjovicic3311]

you should be the messiest tesla advisor

[@thequickestfox6106]

I really want to see it sync to Scarlet Fire.

[@robwgeorge]

The biggest VU meters in the South West...maybe the world!

[@cranktowncity]

I love this

[@KieranShort]

That is simply AWESOME man. Love it. How are you gonna sort the hood? Gotta say, btw, I've been wanting to do this for 25 years. 👍👍

[@SomeGuyInSandy]

THis made me smile, thanks :)

[@ozb2006]

wow i love your channel and i can't believe you spent time one this stupid thing to make it work lol.... i must know, how many hours did this take you from idea to end of editing?

[@cranktowncity]

I don't really log the hours I spend on these things mostly because I dont want to know hahaha but yeah it took some time

[@ozb2006]

@@cranktowncity i try to do practical projects on my KZbin channel, i am currently working on a 10 gallon silent air compressor, that can double as a refrigerant pump and a vacuum pump. i find that finding the time to work on my projects and filming it is the most challenging thing, how do you find time?

[@NGYT40]

Awesome!

[@francoussi1081]

Hi congrats! Brilliant idea, really original, and great video. May you share the Arduino code? Many thanks

[@hammerfix7241]

i kinda wanted to see some fast pace metal wiping.

[@custos3249]

May be fine, but probably should've waited for the JB to set before tightening the set screw to avoid pushing the shaft off center

[@Badge124]

Elon needs to see this! Licensing!

[@dustinfocus]

Here to put you in the doobly do

[@bobuilt10]

Totally pointless, I love it. This is what separates us from the animals, doing stuff because why the hell not.

[@russianotter]

Nice!

[@seatac9365]

I never took that cover out so I didn't leave those screws out. Haha

[@cranktowncity]

Hahaha I thought it was a safe assumption

[@Awaken2067833758]

I totaly saw that 😅

[@joesask857]

Sweet

[@JoelsVideoJunk]

.... DONT MIND ME.... HOLY SH*T.

[@nickbaddorf2673]

With the PID loop, add a little bit of KI which will make the motor slowest speed up to get to the set point. Also if you add a simple if statement which checks if the motor is +- a value from the set point have it turn off. Something like this: if (abs(set point - motorPosition)

[@WeBeGood06]

Everybody is going to what one of these. Let me get first in line. Could you make me one?

[@Nasenmann80]

I see problems with death metal and overheating of the wiper motor :-)

[@stpstudios]

Windshield wiper VU meters!!!

[@Stepdaddy8969]

Man, you were too fucking awesome

[@brandondone2888]

DINGER!

[@hassiaschbi]

Maybe just calculate the beats per minute and let them wiper do that? That should work fine with your setup.

[@CriminologistRWorst]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 flippin cool!!!

[@augustwest01]

You're using your crescent and channel locks backwards man. And yet you seem to be a some sort of mad genius, so I feel like maybe I'm dumb for telling you that 😂