The Exceptionally Useless Box [ORIGINAL]

If you've seen a useless box before, this is my version that I designed and made. The idea is to take the user interaction away entirely by toggling the switch before the user can. Uses an ultrasonic sensor's length measurement as the input to a transfer function for a servo angle output.

If you'd like to make one for yourself, I host the files for free on a github repository here:

[sah]

Me: I do nothing.
This man: I build smart things that do nothing for me.

[skiggywiggy]

“Robots will take over the world!!!”
Robots:

[AhmadAhmad-juef]

Imagine archeologist trying to figure out the purpose of this machine in the future

[bearbumxx]

I love the personality in its eyes as you slowly approach the switch

[KitsukiiPlays]

Machine: is useless
Human: but how can I make it MORE useless?!

[anon-ip]

It confuses and amuses, it entertains and frustrates. And it generates YouTube revenue. Hardly a "useless" thing.

[WickedScott]

I used to work at an art museum and I made a very similar useless control box for a maker fair. People literally got angry with me for 'wasting their time'. Thank you for validating me.

[firdouz]

Them aliens gonna take years to find what it does after invading us.

[ThisIsNotMyRealSelf]

Imagine if instead of it being a Useless Box, it was an alarm clock that hits its Snooze button the moment you move your hand near it.

[animeshsharma]

0:01 man slowing moving toward machine.

Machine :-🖕🖕

[tsunamish]

Ive never seen a machine have so much personality

[abhishekanshuwali]

Mom: What are you watching?
Me : It's complicated.

[ScientistCat]

1960s: "We'll have flying cars in the 21st century"
2010s:

[strayersss]

This machine can threat nukes constantly, how is this useless

[rushi]

I love that it doesn't just trigger a single cycle when you get close. It makes it seem alive. It makes it seem... *spiteful*.

[Zin__]

I think this box allows humans to feel the same frustration anxiety felt by cats when they can't catch the laser pointer.

[neilrivera]

Robots from the future:
"Hey, it's grampa! "

[hakont.]

I love how it looks like it's just really tired of your meddling.

[AlexofZippo]

You know, I have seen so many iterations on the useless box. Dueling boxes, painted boxes, randomized boxes, boxes with 20 switches in a circle, boxes where it’s a cat that pops up and pushes the switch, but this may be the first video I’ve seen that truly *innovates* on the useless box. Congratulations, my dude, you have truly made an exceptional exceptionally useless box

[anduro]

Up next: *550 million years of human evolution flipbook*