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QiYi clock August 25th

Qiyi‘s. new video on their clock:

I don‘t do clock, but this seems pretty nice, right?

 

[Tabe]

Well, let's hope they put as much quality into the clock as they did the video.

The thing is you can't make cubes new colors, which can't easily be done at home, even with dye.

I think you kinda missed my point.

Dunno where to post this, but did anyone see r/cubers? A person posted a screenshot of a post daily puzzles made of a person removing the watermark on a cube picture, using editing, and awning it to SCS!!
This will plummet SCS reputation!

It will blow over in no time. Definitely not a good look for Cam and SCS but not a major catastrophe at the end of the day. That said, Daily Puzzles set this up so they clearly thought someone - whether it was SCS or someone else - had done this before.

 

[One Wheel]

Qiyi‘s. new video on their clock:

I don‘t do clock, but this seems pretty nice, right?

It's just a rendering so hard to tell much, but it looks like maybe they have magnets in the gears, not just the pins?

 

[Sion]

It's just a rendering so hard to tell much, but it looks like maybe they have magnets in the gears, not just the pins?

I see exactly what they did, and it was an idea I had in the back of my head too, so I know the logic.

essentialy, the clicking mechanism for the gears in the clock are magnet alignments.This results in a quieter but still tactile clock.

I’m excited for this one.

 

[Deleted member 51471]

I see exactly what they did, and it was an idea I had in the back of my head too, so I know the logic.

essentialy, the clicking mechanism for the gears in the clock are magnet alignments.This results in a quieter but still tactile clock.

I’m excited for this one.

Wow! I'm looking forward to this too!

 

[Tabe]

It's just a rendering so hard to tell much, but it looks like maybe they have magnets in the gears, not just the pins?

Yeah. They said there's 204 magnets in their clock.

 

[One Wheel]

Yeah. They said there's 204 magnets in their clock.

That's a lot of very small magnets. As strongly as I don't care about clock, it's actually pretty exciting.

 

[Deleted member 51471]

Yeah. They said there's 204 magnets in their clock.

It'll probably cost a fortune then.

 

[One Wheel]

It'll probably cost a fortune then.

$28

 

[Deleted member 51471]

$28

That's like 38 CAD

 

[xyzzy]

It'll probably cost a fortune then.

The raw cost of the gear magnets is probably on the order of $5. Cube stores that sell magnet kits at $10 are selling them with insanely high markups and you shouldn't be using that as a reference point for the price.

 

[One Wheel]

That's like 38 CAD

It's also strictly a guess: I really don't know.

 

[Deleted member 51471]

It's also strictly a guess: I really don't know.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was even more expensive tbh. It'll probably be the only clock of it's kind on the market, so people wouldn't really have a choice.

 

[zslane]

I wish this sort of R&D effort was spent, by someone, on improving FTO hardware.

 

[qwr]

I wish this sort of R&D effort was spent, by someone, on improving FTO hardware.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- qwr original quote

 

[Spacey10]

Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- qwr original quote

Pretty dang sure that's from Mahatma Gandhi

 

[zslane]

And I would follow that lovely aphorism if I were in charge of MoYu or QiYi or GAN or Yuxin. Alas I am not.

 

[qwr]

And I would follow that lovely aphorism if I were in charge of MoYu or QiYi or GAN or Yuxin. Alas I am not.

Just wait for @cyoubx to do it then

 

[zslane]

Does cyoubx (still) have a manufacturing partner for his designs? Has he mentioned an interest in the FTO since last month when he unboxed the LanLan puzzle?

 

[Josh_]

Does cyoubx (still) have a manufacturing partner for his designs? Has he mentioned an interest in the FTO since last month when he unboxed the LanLan puzzle?

He was designing one on stream a while ago but he stopped streaming it because iirc he didn’t want to show the files on stream. No idea if he is still working on it though.