Collab with Mark Rober

It would! 😀 I think the problem is coming up with an idea that would fit his content, too. Any ideas?

Hmmm, that's a stumper 🤔... I wonder if anyone else on the forum has any ideas.

Worlds largest camera? LOL

Getting package pirates with high powered LEDs? Opening a package and seeing the sun would probably dissuade people from stealing packages.

Posted by: @diyperks

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It would! 😀 I think the problem is coming up with an idea that would fit his content, too. Any ideas?

Since you asked for it...

Coming up with an idea fitting both is a fun challenge on its own.
Diy perks: useful and elegant diy devices from widely available materials(love the brass) and a intermediate tool, cost and skill requirements
Mark Rober: crazy-looking/wild engineering projects with high investment/scale/skill requirements, with occasional/incidental social usefulness

The "best of both worlds" combination would be a wild/crazy, but useful diy device with high investment/scale/skill requirements and incidental social usefulness!

Therefore something like:
1) A diy VR drone submarine shaped like a dolphin than can swim together with actual dolphins while the user is "fully immersed"(pun intended), and use AI-powered self-learning with a sonar and ultrasound clicks emitter to learn to "talk" to them and perhaps participate in their group fish hunts, giving the users a perfect being-a-dolphin experience? (AND help study dolphin communication while spreading environmental awareness of the seas, maybe the bot can be used to clean plastic from the ocean floor while at it... or train the dolphins into helping with it! Dolphin janitors of the sea...)

2) A diy wifi antenna/router that can connect to others like it without any company involved, finally getting the decentralized isp-free internet idea the publicity it needs, while connecting DIY people in their own cool, fast, free internet that's regulated by user consensus and node inclusion-exclusion. The "high scale" component would be getting the followers of both Rober and DIY perks to make these by the dozens and create a starter network. Maybe in an area with very unreliable/expensive/troubled internet service for starters. Or maybe start with the goal of making a connection with these antennas that accomplish a circumference of the world? It could be interesting to get youtube's permission to run on this network directly, by having one antenna at their HQ... they might like the publicity, and their AD partners too

3) Adapting the spot robot dog or making a whole new automatic system that can grow a whole vegetable garden on its own (maybe a fully automatic greenhouse? The robot has more mass appeal though.) Think of it: you assign it an unused area, load it with seeds and it just weeds, sows, waters and does pest control (maybe by just laser-beaming/discouraging pests and no chemicals), while charging itself with an outside outlet/charging station. This would be a little DIY food production revolution in an age of soaring food prices. I'm aware it's not so easy, but even a limited form of it, like say, "growing blueberries/strawberries/potatoes in a barrel without any supervision", could be impactful. The main idea here is turning a one-time DIY project in long-term food production somehow. Currently, even arduino aquaponics systems require a lot of chemical fiddling and oversight, for instance.

4) Maybe try to figure out a DIY way to make bio-coal in a sun oven or something to make renewable "fossil" fuels at a personal/local scale? It's not like charcoal is hard to make, but currently farmers burn their agricultural waste in such huge amounts the air quality in places like, say, Thailand is horribly impacted by it every year. In most countries the burns are time-staggered to mitigate these issues. If all this vegetal waste and even personal garden waste could be even partially turned in a vegetal pellet that can be burnt for energy in a controlled way, it could perhaps be beneficial to all involved. Lower carbon footprint, make for cheaper heating. For urbanites, maybe turn mowed lawn grass into it? I'm running low on wild ideas here!

5) Double-pane, double-LCD, sound-insulating, artificial sun mirror window. The ultimate light polarization and scattering project. A combination of many individual DIY monitor projects from youtube, many of which from DIY perks. Make a double-pane window. Instead of glass use "transparent lcds". Use two LCDs for best contrast, of course. Fill the space between them with a helium-based gas mix, sandwiched between transparent sheets with glued edges for sound and heat insulation. Use powerful leds around a transparent sheet as light source. This is where rober might come in, with some NASA-sourced high tech dynamic polarizer/nanoparticle mix to make this insanity somehow work and switch between transparent window to mirror to high contrast lcd to lcd with mirror to artificial sun on demand. You might even need to make it oversized to match Rober's showmanship needs...