My five year old son is pumped
“The first batch of selfies should be returning mid-summer and we will email you ahead of time. If you want to jump closer to the front of the queue and not wait a few months, please make sure you are an active CrunchLabs subscriber (Build Box, Hack Pack). Or, if you're an educator, send an email to help@crunchlabs.com and let us know that your selfie is a class photo and we'll take your selfie first!”
Still an amazing thing though!
My son and I watched the launch video where they sent it up to space. Highly recommend watching that with whoever you're going to take the selfie with!
If you have young kids (6-15) these are perfect educational tools. Highly recommend. Only downside is some of them are a bit “mischievous”. For example a “Bobbie trap” that launches balls at whomever tripped the wire. Good times…
Then the algorithm handed us some more recent videos and they felt like a pivot to Nickelodeon style content: We watched Mark Rober run through a green slime obstacle course with a lot of loud noises and action, but basically zero educational value.
So as someone new to this: Any tips? Should I be sticking to old videos only if I want some educational value? My kids only watch with me as an activity we do together, so I’m always looking for good videos that can keep us away from the content farm stuff.
I recommend checking out Stuff Made Here; great build videos of engineering principles in an entertaining fashion to show building cool complicated stuff.
Xyla Foxlin, a wonderful maker, also posts educational videos between her projects, like an in-depth look at how plane wings work.
Whenever I am feeling smart or particularly talented, I like watching Shane's videos. I'm swiftly reminded that I have no idea what the hell I'm doing and carry on.
I like practical engineering, but my kids aren't ready for how awesome Grady is... yet.
I got a subscription, but wasn’t super interested in the first one, so it’s still sitting in the box. Then the other boxes started showing up. I now have a full year’s worth and haven’t done a single one, because I feel like I should start with the one I’m least interested in.
They’re all good though, tbh.
Some of Mark’s cameos on other channels since Crunch Labs started have been good, though.
*SatGus is named after Phat Gus from Mark Robert's squirrel obstacle course.
A mobile app that will help you time and position yourself along the path of your "order" where a satellite flyby and take a selfie of earth with you in it. We realize that even at an expense it might not be able to make a person out of the bigger picture and the cost would be too high. Even after enhancement (our ML Model), it won't still make significant difference of value or fun.
rossdavidh•8mo ago