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> Same as juicero, many people bash the product but the engineering is world class. Absolutely not. Juicero was absolutely terrible engineering. Any mechanical
by LASR 3y ago
> Same as juicero, many people bash the product but the engineering is world class.
Absolutely not. Juicero was absolutely terrible engineering. Any mechanical engineering intern can whip up a big chonking hunk of a juicer or any other kind of product in SolidWorks.
Filleting every edge does not mean "engineering".
The vast majority of the work and difficulty in engineering is NOT getting something to work, but doing so while also working within constraints. There were no constraints in the Juicero. It was impressively manufactured. But terribly engineered. Which is why the entire thing went down despite an absurd level of fundraising.
- CamperBob2 3y agoEh, sometimes the Nuremberg defense is valid. The engineers were just doing what they were paid to do. As I recall from the Bolt teardown [1], if it had been a useful and desirable thing to build in the first place, it would have worked well. 1: https://blog.bolt.io/juicero/ https://blog.bolt.io/juicero/
- jiggawatts 3y agoThere is a great tear-down video of a juicero on YouTube where the guy makes comments the whole way through about how every part is ridiculously over-engineered: https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ
- CamperBob2 3y agoHave to remember that this was a "give away the razor, sell the blades" scheme. If you're the proprietor of such a scheme, you really, really don't want the razor to break. The ballsy thing about Juicero was that they didn't give away the razor. It was priced at something like $400. They were awfully high on their own supply.
- duskwuff 3y ago> It was priced at something like $400. Initially $700!! They dropped the price to $400 after poor sales.
- nosrepa 3y agoI'm surprised he hasn't deleted that video yet, he has a habit of deleting his old ones. Also don't support him and his extreme right wing views.