This Clock's Eyes Follow You

[@xylafoxlin]

WHY IS IT STILL WATCHING ME BECKY

[@BeckyStern]

😁😁

[@derekis1joedirt]

It's trying to kill you, all the time.

[@derekis1joedirt]

It's attempting to use it's TAILaconnectic powers but Becky lobotomized it's neuropathway to the tail, because she loves you Xyla

[@richbuilds_com]

It's got good taste. :)

[@lukedean1769]

I think it's time for Duolingo to change their mascot. To the cat.

[@ThisOldTony]

i both love and am terrified of that cat! nice work!

[@OneOfDisease]

it would have been poetic of her to give you a face tracking clock. She could have added wireless transmitter and made a fortune selling your mugshots!

[@hondamanusa]

Tony, those clamps are one of a kind pieces of art. Great job! I’m sure they will be everlasting and well appreciated!!

[@alispagnola]

Epic level of discomfortcute

[@EmilyTheEngineer]

my cat (named KitKat) was very confused when I pulled up this video and someone else kept saying her name 😂

[@BeckyStern]

OMG, I didn't think it could be any more perfect for its recipient and then YOUR CAT IS CALLED KITKAT 🥰

[@AnonOmis1000]

Ok I came here from TOT and to see just his hands off to the side when you showed everyone cracked me up

[@richnfamous59]

did you notice the 'subscribe' joke? TOT pretty much always sneaks in a 'subscribe' somewhere in his videos, usually on a label or suchlike, and that's what I thought he did with this one - except it was actually engraved, not photoshopped

[@ratinthecat]

Can confirm as an anyone who happens to not be Tony, I would have loved this.

[@obsidian....]

💯 - I actually just said the same thing, but in a more capitalistic way lol "can you imagine how much someone would be willing to pay for those ToT clamps"

[@KeefyKat]

Tony sent us here through his parallel universe!

[@tankerboysabot]

I honestly think This Old Tony and his work was the best this year.

[@854XTOY]

His work is the best every year

[@ThePhotokill]

those clamps are soo nice!

[@BeckyStern]

Right?!

[@DarkDragonPath]

That kitty clock is all sorts of creepy to being with, and now you gave it the ability to stare into your soul. Love it xD OMG, THE "SUBSCRIBE" GAG ON THE CLAMPS WASN'T ADDED IN POST BY TONY, HE REALLY ENGRAVED IT IN THERE! LOL! Excellent!

[@richnfamous59]

I noticed that too. I thought it was a really clever bit of editing on TOT's video! that's such a cool Tony joke

[@ThinkLoveClearly]

Aww I missed that, I thought it was edited as well

[@digimbyte]

those clamps are absolutely beautiful

[@mr.smallshop9787]

"It's hypoalergenic" - made me snort harder than it should have. Nice, Becky!🎉

[@richbuilds_com]

I loved your cat idea, and Tony's gift is a heritage gift! They will outlive you to be past onto your next generation of makers

[@Lizlodude]

Watching Tony open a face tracker would be pretty funny though

[@obsidian....]

Can you imagine how much someone would pay to have those ToT clamps? . LUCKY! 🤣🤗

[@KidsInventStuff]

So cool!! So funny that you had to keep it from Xyla!

[@Estefannie]

I LOVE IT!!! 😻

[@roidmongerful]

There is a pro-tip for parallell clamps: if you want to change the opening quickly, grab the clamp by the knobs with both hands, and spin it around like pedalling a bicycle. (hope that makes sense.) It will open or close in parallel, and fast!

[@Harko-]

I think you called it perfectly: The right combination of creepy and cute! Not too dissimilar to how my cute cat can stare at me, like forever. I his video, I called Tony’s parallel clamps “functional jewelry” 💎

[@wbfaulk]

The need for a reset would imply that that capacitor is part of a timer circuit that either resets or enables the CPU shortly after power-up, which is a really common circuit in computers, and are frequently timed using differing capacitor values. (Look up the classic 555 timer circuit for an example.) That probably implies a confirmation that it's not going to affect ongoing operation of the computer.

[@jmg999]

My favorite part of your videos is watching you figure out unique ways to overcome roadblocks you come across in creating your projects. It's interesting to see how your mind works in figuring out the answers to these problems. Thank you for all the great content. I hope that you enjoy your holiday season, Ms. Stern.

[@jcmaxwell5443]

Does the engraving on one of the clamps really say "subscribe"? Or did you modify that in post-production as Tony loves to do it in his videos?

[@BeckyStern]

Yes it really does!

[@802Garage]

Hahaha, I was wondering the same thing!

[@EdwardIglesias]

I love this project! So Scooby Doo!

[@noviceartisan]

Good luck on 100k Becky! ^_^

[@BeckyStern]

Thank you!

[@SimonTekConley]

I love that you get me. No internet hookups is awesome. I hate IoT's because no one thinks about security of them. ~SimonTek

[@richnfamous59]

Jack Rhysider (Darknet Diaries) has an episode where someone hacked a bank by accessing a bank employee's smart TV when they exposed info via linkedin

[@skookumbuilds3282]

crazy how much time and skill it takes to machine stuff like that

[@TheSlyMouse]

Excellent work. I love your pacing

[@ToBeeOrNotToBeHoney]

Came for ToT reveal, subscribed for the future!

[@davidwilliams1060]

Fun. I’m here from watching Xyla receiving. These clocks sold very well where I worked in the 70s. I had a real cat whose eyes followed me around the room but never knew the right time.

[@raspberrypi]

YES with the cat content for the blog.

[@BeckyStern]

Glad y'all are seeking out the RP2040 projects!!

[@JohnVance]

Ahh this is brilliant I love it!

[@jamesbraithwaite478]

Great idea for a covert security camera.

[@DaveAwesome]

Pretty cool cat I subscribed to see what you do in future

[@IanFiebigwi]

I've reached the end. Maker Secret Santa is my favorite!

[@DavidCookeZ80]

Love the cat! With machinist clamps hold both knobs and rotate them around each other (like the spool for flying a kite): the clamp faces will stay parallel and not come apart.

[@ZenSpider40]

Yep, I always found those clocks creepy, you made it more creepy. Well done.

[@mindshelfpro]

Those are awesome clamps!

[@smaggies]

Great video would be fun to make, I did enjoy the Hugging animal with Xyla. Big Thanks :)

[@aserta]

Tony went and made heirloom tools for the Stern family. :)

[@JanusMirith]

Not only entertaining but actually useful for a dumb project that I've been thinking of

[@SoerenBruunJensen]

The foreshadowing part with the extra hand was too funny/eary...

[@amisanthropicman]

I can't believe it's actually engraved with subscribe, lol. I thought that gag was always an editing trick.

[@catherinejustcatherine1778]

Wonderful job on the cat!🐱

[@FredMcIntyre]

Awesome stuff Becky! 😃👍🏼👊🏼

[@gamingglizzy]

I sooo want to steal this idea for my future house. Super cool make :)

[@---l---]

Such a great gift.

[@hondamanusa]

Me coming from “This Old Tony’s” channel. Judging my little beating heart out, as any good KZbinr would. Good classy stuff Becky, I really enjoyed this production. This really has a quicker overall approach, that you get straight to the point.

[@BeckyStern]

Thank you and welcome!

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

Looks really nice! Not sure if it would save time or just complicate things in the future, but James Bruton made an Arduino library for motion smoothing animatronics and what have you which could be useful for stuff like this - the gist of it is that the software loop has an intermediate position which is always some percentage of the set position and it moves to the intermediate position instead while constantly updating it so they converge with a nice speed ramp on either end. Thought I'd bring it up because coincidentally his Secret Santa project used the animatronic eyes from that same video

[@Maltinis]

Cool project 😁

[@jannepeltonen2036]

Oh that cat :D To add to the uncanny valley effect, that nose :D

[@cmar4076]

Super cool! 😃👏🏻

[@michaelsteinbach]

Neat! I would have it swing the tail and eyes normally when there's no face present. If possible, have the tail continue swinging while the eyes slowly fix on a face and then follow.

[@larrybud]

Very clever and original gift!

[@tracyalan7201]

Very nice work. I watched Xyla's channel on her gift that she made and her openning your gift. It's a great gift. I wonder if your next upgrade would be to put LED's eyes to brighten up and intensify on motion? It might be quite a spooky Halloween entrance for kids coming up to the door, having the cat's eyes brighten up, wag the tail and a voice coming when they get into range.

[@nobodynothing6551]

You guys should include Seamstressed in the fun next year!

[@lundbergspojken]

new sub, love the build merry christmas

[@nathanrichardson2524]

That is so cool, and so terrifying at the same time.

[@jasonnaubur8759]

I love that, amazing!

[@bdgackle]

Its interesting how strongly humans respond to eyes. Put googly eyes on anything and we start talking to it. Make those eyes follow us and suddenly "it's watching me!".

[@hannesvz82]

I think this is the coolest gift of this year's secret santa :)

[@CapablePimento]

Epic

[@sgsax]

I love Maker Secret Santa! Would love to help you out with your sub goal, but I already subbed to you a couple of Secret Santas ago. Really cool upgrade on the clock for Xyla. It's both fun and creepy! I didn't know they were called Kit-Cat clocks, I always thought they were related to the Felix the Cat cartoons. Thanks for sharing!

[@marcmckenzie5110]

Four generations of my family have had this clock in their kitchen!

[@djmichie]

Love it. New subscriber. Maybe a loose rubber band between the eye and tail mech would make it move when the eyes do. But would make it continue to wobble on the band without effecting the eyes

[@kairu_b]

Nice work

[@registromalplena2514]

I need to make a Bill Cypher clock!

[@thomasdickson35]

That is so creepy. I love it.

[@Rebar77_real]

Leaving the tail up to her is nuts, it will end up going to space!

[@vttechie]

wow. that is so cool

[@conorstewart2214]

If I had to guess that capacitor is likely part of a circuit that triggers the reset for a certain amount of time as it boots up. If it’s an active low reset and there is a pull-up to Vcc then the capacitor, since it takes time to charge, will hold the reset line low (active since it is active low) until the capacitor has charged enough, then when the capacitor charges above a threshold voltage the MCU will no longer see the reset line as low and hence the reset line will then be inactive. So essentially the reset line of the MCU would have a capacitor connected to ground and a resistor connected to Vcc and the button probably connects the reset line to ground too. Since the capacitor is missing the MCU probably powers on near instantly when connected and starts trying to do things before it is ready, so then it needs manually reset via the button to get everything setup and started right. These kind of circuits on reset lines are to give the voltage time to settle and allow all parts of the MCU to switch on and stabilise so that when the reset goes inactive all parts are ready to go and start running the program. It is more complicated on more complicated processors or especially FPGAs, requiring Power Management ICs (PMICs) and requiring certain timing and ordering on the voltage rails. Like if the chip needed 3.3, 2.5 and 1.8 V then it may need the 1.8 V on first and then the output signal from that would tell the 2.5 V supply to turn on and so forth. Similarly these more complex processors and FPGAs can have requirements for the ordering switching it off too.

[@PhilXavierSierraJones]

Another idea! Use a small worm gear based linear actuator for moving the eye. No more jittery movement! Also, for the weird non-reset issue, I tried everything to fix it to no avail and I just ended up making a small Arduino board (like, extremely tiny. With ATTiny13) that resets the board after few seconds.

[@rlaxton666]

Full of hot glue? You are talking Xyla's language!

[@acf2802]

as if I am not already forced to buy enough appliances with cameras and microphones embedded in them

[@ThinkLoveClearly]

A trick with the parallel universe clamps is; if you have it closed and hold a handle in each hand, do the cha-cha hand roll, they move universally. No wait parallelly and fast. But be careful, knowing @ThisOldTony he did make them universally compatible with his time-traveling lathe.

[@ThinkLoveClearly]

And I loved the creepy clock

[@TrainString]

Use PID control to animate the eyes! (If there is ever a next time)

[@mrsaizo0000]

I would do the same thing. But with an old painting..

[@Cobyc5150]

That cat will forever have sleep paralysis....

[@joesmith1574]

That is one cool cat! Could it be used as a security camera if someone breaks into the house? The eyes following the person around the house is a dead giveaway for what it is, though. Cool idea, nonetheless! I watched Tony’s video on how he made those clamps, it was awesome!

[@kameljoe21]

I quite like the clock. Something creepy is always cool!

[@redwaller1]

Rather than computer vision I think having it track heat signatures with a thermal camera would have made a lot more sense.

[@BeckyStern]

There are thermal camera modules out there but they are more expensive than the setup I used, and don't include the onboard object recognition capability. For instance www.digikey.com/short/jd5pvzq5 It could be done; I'd love to see it!

[@redwaller1]

@BeckyStern it was sort of my point, lol. With thermal imaging, I figured the object recognition wouldn't even be necessary. It's interesting that your solution was still cheaper, though. Good job.

[@nick15727]

I have real cats that sit there staring . This is a cool gift for someone that can't have a cat , just as cut with a loving stare but you don't have to feed it or clean a stinky cat box every 5 minutes

[@delxinogaming6046]

Clock doesnt work, AND the tail doesn’t work?! We need a follow-up build!

[@DavidWRyan]

I want to build one! I have to learn how to code though...

[@Matthedoubleyou]

Too late I know but what about some sort of proximity sensor that made the tail wag faster the closer you are? I love it regardless.

[@CharlieFlanagan]

i always assumed that they were supposed to be felix the cat

[@bence.gabor.slezak]

He had to sneak in a "subscribe" somewhere. 🤣

[@My_Engineering_Projects]

I need one

[@RealBLAlley]

A spacer at the top of the tail section with a weighted arm to replace the original eye section of the arm would allow the tail to wag.

[@skrame01]

What type of nail polish did you use exactly? What is it good for gluing? Can you say more about it?

[@BeckyStern]

UV gel! This is the exact product: www.beyondpolish.com/products/cnd-shellac-top-coat-0-25-oz and I made a video about gel manicures: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5rYonamps-SeLc but I used it bc I already had it, if you're buying new, i'd suggest UV resin or other epoxy

[@djsmokey1180]

I want one! 🐱

[@althejazzman]

There's something deeply disturbing about drilling into the cute nose of a cartoon cat.

[@joels7605]

Capacitors are like sprinkles on cookies. You don't really need them and everything is just fine without them. Just like flossing and changing your oil. It's all a conspiracy propagated by Big Capacitor.

[@SOMERANDOMDUDESomething]

I have one of these

[@AndyCallaway]

Lol. I don't know how many times I've seen that Taylor Swift video... I'd never noticed the clock. 🙄

[@jackolson9845]

fjkfjdjkkk omg i had one of these in my basement as a kid and it used to terrify me. Now ik what they’re called and it wqtches you? omg its actually real

[@BeckyStern]

😆

[@kensmith5694]

I think the cat would be slightly better if along with tracking a face, it would look at anything that moves. This way, it would look at someone even if it didn't get the face.

[@BeckyStern]

It's running the object-tracking example code, so it'll recognize more than just faces.

[@bigron761]

3:19 Seriously??? You called it a "step-drill", I honestly can't think of a better time to call it a "Christmas Tree bit". -5 points from the house of Stern.

[@martinhaile853]

Taylor swift

[@kentowakai1234]

Nope. Just nope.