Summary
As any science YouTuber or first-year physics student is quick to point out, the universe is mostly empty space. Not just space itself, but the amount of “empty” space between nuclei and their electrons is also huge. Getting rid of this empty space results in all kinds of interesting phenomena like degenerate matter and black holes. But the concept can be extrapolated into our daily lives as well; many things are so filled with air that we can get a lot more usable storage space by compressing them down a little bit. [Super Valid Designs] took this concept to a coat closet, building one that can hold an impressive number of coats. He started by looking at an existing closet, which could hold around 21 coats but only if someone used two hands to cram the coats into the space. After a trip to a store which sells rugs, he saw a much better design that lets all the rugs pivot like the pages on a book, and took this idea to his closet using a similar mechanism designed for storing large blueprints instead of rugs. The closet he built around this mechanism has two hinged doors which allow a person easy access to the coats, and when opened the blueprint hangers pivot out like a book, allowing the coats to not only be easily accessed without disrupting the other coats, but also allow them to be compressed down by the closet door for storage. For comparison, the original closet could only hold 10 coats when restricted to single-hand operation and 21 when using both. The new closet design is smaller, and can hold 24 coats with a single hand and over 30 when using both, a dramatic improvement of closet efficiency. To top it off, a set of cupboards on top and bottom allow for storing shoes and hats as well, and there’s even a garage for a robotic vacuum cleaner. Surprisingly, we don’t see many closet optimization builds around here. The closest we can come is another traditionally small space, a college dorm. Was the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? Did he discover how to pack it full of higher dimensions and use those to stash his tweed? Shouldn’t that have been developed to look more like a police box? Must be a JPL smallsat guru i’m sure some of you have had the experience of buying a house and then obsessing about ways to increase or improve storage. for example, in my adirondack cabin, the internal walls all use two by sixes, meaning the wall voids are unusually massive. so when i put in an in-wall medicine cabinet, i was not happy with any of the ones i could buy. so i built a custom one to use all six inches of that space (yes, it is six inches, not five and a half, because you have the thickness of a sheet of drywall as well). other things i have done include putting pull-out drawers in the riser of every step of a staircase, various ways to access space under roofs too low for conventional human use in an attic space, and even voids under a platform supporting a woodstove. another thing i like to do is to fill stud voids of internal walls with time capsules of various things that happen to be worthless at the time, such as Palm Pilots or DDR2 memory sticks. it’s a good way to declutter while giving the retrotech people of the future unexpected goldmines. I like that idea, thank you! Just don’t leave one open… Alternatively: give half of your coats to charity. That frees up space and the world would have one over convoluted utub maker video less. Well, he is more a talker then a maker, I blame the utub algorithm. I think that you might be on the wrong website. “Well, he is more a talker then a maker” Then you haven’t checked out his other videos. I don’t blame you, you seem more of a commenter than a maker. you raise a good point. does anyone need more than one or two big coats and maybe a handful of jackets? it’s uncompressable shoes that are the problem, especially if your name is Imelda Marcos and you are fluent in Tagalog Use two hands.. That’s 34 more that I really need