News from the Odd Side of Technology
ClankerVids is a site that collects large numbers of robot-failure videos into categories such as Fails, Humanoids Eating It, Robot Dogs Being Weird and Factory Chaos. It also runs a daily Robot Digest and trending sections.
Instead of treating robot fails as clips you happen to encounter on social media, the site organizes them as a video genre to search, categorize and browse intentionally.
Details： ClankerVids ↗
If an alarm sound is not enough, why not have the clock play a 720×720 video when it's time to wake up? The Video Alarm Clock uses an ESP32-P4-based Waveshare module and can store plenty of clips on an SD card.
The futuristic part comes with some very old-fashioned requirements: AVI with MJPEG and PCM, plus classic 8.3 filenames. The display feels modern; preparing the files suddenly feels like an earlier era of computing.
It's a video alarm clock from the future, quietly asking you to respect 8.3 filenames in the background. Nice little time warp.
Details： Hackaday ↗
Go looking for robot fails and discover the genre already has something like its own channel. Apparently the audience is real.