In the video updated on February 2, He classmate explained why he had been so long: He turned on a light in 108 days.
Recall that he last updated, it was more than a hundred days ago. At that time, He made a table-sized AirPower. No matter where the device you need to charge is placed on the table, it can achieve fast charging;
In addition, it can also realize special effects animations, memos, drinking water reminders and other functions to maximize the work efficiency of users;
The most important point of the user is that this giant AirPower is equipped with a lifting table. After the user's working time is long, the table can be lifted and lowered and relieve joint fatigue.
Since the lift table is provided by Lege brand, at the end of the video, He especially thanked the brand for his help in this invention (Cheer). The video quickly became popular at that time. Netizens once again lamented that He had such a big brain and strong hands-on ability, and created the products that Apple once abandoned. What’s more important is that one day after the video was released, the stock price of Lege Co., Ltd. rose by 13.51%, and its market value soared by 546 million yuan; on major e-commerce platforms, He’s same lifting table was snatched away, and even other products of the brand were out of stock.
A professional said that the economic benefits brought by Mr. He this time saved a newly listed company.
Perhaps it was a company that saw He’s ability to bring goods. After he became popular on the entire network again, another company knocked on the door of He’s studio.
This time, He spent more than three months integrating his mind into a certain product, hoping to bring the audience a viewing experience that is not inferior to the giant AirPower video.
01. He's "useless invention"
At the beginning of the video, He briefly introduced the environment of his studio. All equipment can meet his work needs, but the only disadvantage is that the lighting switch in the studio is too far away from his seat, which is very troublesome.
For this reason, he wanted to use an invention to help him turn on the lights when he sat in his seat.
The first invention was to use the studio's 3D printer to create a basket switch. People only need to throw the ball into the basket and touch the switch to achieve remote turn on the light;
However, the students' shooting skills are comparable to those of National Football Team athletes. If they don't walk near the basket, they will not be able to shoot the ball accurately; but this approach is contrary to the purpose of remote turn on the light. To sum up, plan 1 was not successfully passed.
Then, he took inspiration from the pet ball thrower. After half a week of design and production, he specially designed a "He desktop ball thrower" with a fixed ball thrower angle and power, achieving a 100% pitching rate.
But He found that he was still too stupid because every time he needed to turn on the light with a ball thrower, he had to find the ball from under the switch first.
Although he spent another two weeks designing and creating a closed-loop system such as "automatically picking up the ball to transport the ball to the lifting platform, and the lifting platform to send the ball to the ball throwing machine" to solve the problem.
However, the helpless thing is that automatic picking up a ball cart is another invention that exceeds his ability. Because this seemingly inconspicuous car needs to have a "modeling and positioning system", a "patrol obstacle avoidance system", and an "automatic charging system" to achieve efficient remote light turn on in a complex office environment.
So, He modified a sweeping robot to have the above three systems at the same time, and solved a "century problem".
But He suddenly realized that he was still too stupid to do this.
Because all the office staff are equipped with the lifting table that made him popular again, once the desktop rises, the entire closed-loop system will fail...
In order not torture himself by this remote switch, He spent six weeks creating the "ultimate handheld automatic alignment light ball throwing machine", which is equipped with an automatic aiming system and sensor to quickly calculate the spatial distance between the ball throwing machine and the switch board;
Then he also arranged four positioning base stations in the studio to help the sweeping robot quickly locate, send the ball to the near the desktop ball throwing machine, and then throw the ball to the near the handheld ball throwing machine.
Just like that, after 108 days, several times of stupidity, cracking more than 10 difficulties, and expanding the scope to the transformation of the entire studio, He finally completed his "remote light opening mechanism".
At this point, the audience thinks that He is really stupid.
Technology is a process of simplifying traditional Chinese and simplifying life with technology, rather than using some fancy inventions to complicate life. This complex "remote light turn on" took hundreds of days to complete, but in fact only one voice-controlled smart switch can be achieved.
In the comment section of this video, there is a message from a smart lighting brand, hoping that He will cooperate with them next time he needs it, and even confidently show that they can provide high-quality services to every member in the studio.
In the eyes of many people, this video can be described as "a meal of dumplings for this vinegar". The insertion of knowledge and highlights of each part is very stiff, and it is also less practical than previous inventions.
Of course, some netizens chose to understand He’s difficulties and gave appropriate suggestions. Obviously, this video on the lights is a meal for a sweeping robot. The reason why He has to work hard to make a remote kickoff machine is to introduce the functions of the sweeping robot;
Moreover, this video is actually not as stiff as other netizens imagined. He interspersed laughs and scientific and technological knowledge points in the video. These contents are all reflected in He's video style.
And more importantly, in the video, He showed a spirit of perseverance and courage to try and error that creators should have. It was not invented simply for the purpose of turning on the lights, but for the purpose of showing the technology in life. The automatic tracking device that appears in
videos also has unlimited possibilities (such as automatic tracking of suitcases).
There are also careful netizens who summarized the creation model of He’s video:
Discover a certain point of demand from life → use your own knowledge to invent a certain prop to meet your needs → Display the difficulties and laughs in the invention process → The final completed invention has a clear personal style.
More importantly, most of these inventions that are purely handmade and purely demonstrate personal abilities are difficult to achieve mass production.
After disassembling He's video, you will feel that it has an inexplicable sense of familiarity. This is not an illusion. In the creation of another well-known UP host, we can also see similar video modes.
02. "Usual Invention" by Handmade Geng
When it comes to "useless invention", we have to mention Handmade Geng, a welder man from Baoding, Hebei, became popular on the Internet in the early years for creating "useless inventions".
Handcraft Geng is good at finding demand points from life, and then using welding materials to assemble into inventions that are complex, but they are just interesting and difficult to promote in reality.
In an interview with CCTV, Geng's mother also bluntly stated that his invention was useless and she still cannot understand why her son was keen on such useless inventions.
In order to facilitate fitness while washing his hair, he made an inverted hair washing machine; in order to urge himself to lose weight, he welded an automatic running iron cage that he could not get out without running;
In order to participate in the friend's power bank " Inner coil ", he worked overtime continuously to make a giant charging fort with 27 million mAh; in order to meet the needs of "fighting at the bedside and at the end of the bed" between couples, a bed that was split and reunited came into being...
Even common daily necessities such as combs, wallets, and brooms, hand-made geng can also be welded out with steel. Because of his great imagination and exquisite invention, his love and sincerity in invention are devoted to inventions, it shows the rural boy's pursuit of creative spirit and the romance and dream of welders.
Countless netizens have dig into useful things from his useless invention---bringing happiness.
When the self-media becomes popular, advertising cooperation will come in no time. In the handmade Geng’s video, the one with obvious elements is "Homemade Piano Skewers".
One day, Geng was inspired by a netizen and planned to make a piano skewer cart that could play the piano, grill skewers, and even move. After a period of conception, Geng quickly transformed his ideas into reality.
After a series of assembly, the prototype of the barbecue truck has come out, everything is ready, only the piano is needed. Just as netizens were thinking about whether the handmade Geng could "rub" the piano, a Pinduoduo discount advertisement broke everyone's fantasy.
Although the insertion of the advertisement is so stiff that it catches people off guard, the manual Geng, who read the script, adds a lot of fun to the advertisement, so not many netizens dislike this time 号 .
With the end of "industrial and commercial time", the assembly of the piano was also successfully completed. With previous welding experience, the manual Geng quickly spliced the two together. Then after simple processing and beautification, the "Homemade Piano Skewers" was born. The handmade Geng brought the fragrant kebab with a song.
In addition to the three-dimensional business order, manual Geng has also been "two". In the updated "Homemade European Gas Detector" in June 2020, he promoted the free card drawing activity of the mobile game "Princess Connection".
In order to detect his own Ouqi, Geng specially made an Ouqi detector. Since the "Kelo joint" stalk is also called welding in this game, this invention has also been teased by netizens as "real princess welding".
03. Will He become "handmade He"?
Before "light ball throwing machine", the biggest difference between He and Handicraft Geng is that one of the former is synonyms of "high-end and development", while the latter is "rustic but not vulgar".
Of course, this summary does not mean to belittle any party. The so-called "earthy" refers to the strong local flavor and low threshold for understanding.
Both of them are devoted to their love careers, using their skills to show the charm of technology to the audience, and using pictures to tell the creation process, so that people can be influenced subtly.
As the up owner of the technology zone, while showing off his professional knowledge and skills, he also needs to consider the highlights of the video, what inventions can attract attention, and what creative process will not be boring.
For up owners who rely on data, the interestingness of invention may be far greater than the practicality of invention. Because of this, both of them will try every means to add laughter in their video creation.
However, with the development of itself and the changes in the environment, the creative styles of the two have also quietly changed. He founded a studio after graduation. When Lege shares rose, he was the best affirmation of his business ability. After receiving the meal project, he naturally could not create as he pleased;
, and handmade Geng began to carefully think about his invention after becoming popular. Although "useless" is still a beautiful business card, if he could invent some machines that seem useless but actually have hidden mystery on the basis of maintaining his previous style, can he bring different visual experiences to the audience? The transformation of
brought about various "practical" inventions of He's "light ball throwing machine" and handmade Geng.
is just that He's video style suddenly changed from "hard-core popular science" to "useless invention", and it is naturally easy to associate with handmade Geng.
Calm down and re-examine He’s new video, and you will find that there are still hard-core knowledge and popular science in it, and He’s laughter.
For example, in the video "Explaining Why 5G is Faster with Water", He also recorded the entire process of "from suddenly thinking about exploring the mystery of G, to the failure to meet the conditions for successful experiments because the size of the fish tank cannot meet the conditions for successful experiments, and then to the successful completion of popular science videos through the video later".
In the audience's opinion, He's repeated failures not only did not become a curse, but instead was a reflection of the scientific spirit. Any invention requires countless failures. Even if it is just a popular science video, He has invested a lot of time, money and energy in pursuit of the most perfect experimental results.
In the video recording the entire process of making graduation design, He also talked about his embarrassment of being unable to hand over the graduation design because he focused on updating videos during college.
In order to graduate smoothly and to fulfill the obligations of the up owner, He used his graduation design to his graduation video. In the end, He showed the audience the "Happy Graduation" star track map made using Lidar sensors and cameras.
Previous videos, He has integrated his own understanding of life and technology, and can always arouse the audience's thinking in the form of suppressing first and then promoting. But these highlights that are very unique to He’s personal characteristics were not lit up by the “light ball throwing machine”.
But in him, he still has the halo of interviewing Apple CEO and homemade AirPower. Therefore, people are looking forward to the transformation of his classmates, which can bring us inventions and creations similar to those of Handicraft Geng.
Because of the "light ball throwing machine", netizens' controversy over He has not stopped. Although in the video, He mentioned that he had learned a lot of knowledge from it, his machine, which is "killing chickens with slaughtering a ox" in ordinary people, is not only turning on the lights, but also his personal dream.
It is not difficult to see that today's student He is in a bottleneck period of "generating power for love". For this reason, he needs "business" to maintain the operating costs of the studio.
Will He, who is in a critical period of transformation, become a handmade craftsman in the science and technology area? Or is it , Jobs of B? Time needs to answer.
