Hey Chris, I’m a pretty high ranking member in the Sinaloa Cartel that also browses HN in my free time.
Customers always come first in our line of work, so I’m always looking for ways to provide a high quality, safe experience with the drugs we provide and this idea sounds like it could be a game changer not just for us cartels, but also for savvy entrepreneurs like yourself.
I reached out directly to the email you provided in your bio (p.s. thanks for making it your real first and last name so there is no confusion on my end) and am eagerly awaiting your reply.
The correct way to assemble Ikea furniture is to apply wood glue (PVA or polyurethane) along every joint, in every screw hole, on every dowel, and along the edges of every backing board.
For extra points you can wipe polyurethane along any raw particle-board surfaces to seal them, like those on the bottom of a vertical unit.
It's about five minutes extra effort and $0.50 worth of glue for something like a large Billy bookcase.
This basically turns the entire piece into a single composite structure. It's incredibly durable. You cannot disassemble it to move but you can move it whole many, many times without anything breaking.
I have had to take a large sledgehammer to an Ikea entertainment center that I'd glued.
Walmart garbage does not respond the same way to this treatment. The Walmart (or Wayfair) particle board is a wooden oatmeal cookie. It crumbles from within regardless of how the joints are treated.
I put on a waterproof coat and asked them to control me as a robot filling a jug with water at a tap and pouring out glasses
It was hilariously damp. Then I talked about being more precise in the instructions to move and check and move, or specifying keeping moving UNTIL or UNLESS or WHILE.. or move FOR a number of units.. then had them do similar things with each other like move play do balls around.
You could do maze solving? Or paperts logo robot with a pen and up down and turn instructions. No robot needed! Be the robot you need to be.. or make on with an rpi and kit
With adults I've done construction problems with skewers and potatoes. The point being to teach abstract problem solving and descriptive language skills, which inform reasoning to a heuristic or algorithmic approach to a problem.
Or be the computer behind a slot and accept instructions as ordered decks of cards to do things like move and act.
Half program, half watch and wet themselves laughing as you muck up.
Binary is latent in a lot of play. Kids in lines, hands up or down. Decimating by some binary decision logic.
Customers always come first in our line of work, so I’m always looking for ways to provide a high quality, safe experience with the drugs we provide and this idea sounds like it could be a game changer not just for us cartels, but also for savvy entrepreneurs like yourself.
I reached out directly to the email you provided in your bio (p.s. thanks for making it your real first and last name so there is no confusion on my end) and am eagerly awaiting your reply.