Nine year old kid praised for inventing a cheap coin sorting device

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reporters went to a school in Pathum Thani after a Facebook post and video featured a nine year old boy who had invented a coin sorting device. 

 

Phurawit Thongsuksri used an old cardboard box, some acrylic and a motor and a couple of batteries for his ingenious device.

 

The nine year old impressed his teachers at Sathit Watakam or Innovation Demonstration School school in Thanyaburi. 

 

It could sort coins from one baht through to 10 baht and only cost 110 baht to make. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-10-09

 

This is really good, well done little guy.

looks like this to me

 

 

Good thing his name's not Ahmed.

31 minutes ago, SkyNets said:

looks like this to me

 

 

Not at all similar. That one only works in English.

That's obviously a horrible invention.

110B?

What is 35% of 110B?

Not even 40B "commission".

Nobody would buy such a machine in Thailand.

 

But maybe he can paint it, put some fancy stickers on it, and sell it for 100,000B. Then, with 35,000B commission, I am sure some officials will be interested.

38 minutes ago, SkyNets said:

looks like this to me

 

 

First thing I thought was I bet he's copied it off YouTube.

 

43 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

This is really good, well done little guy.

He's even better at fooling old farang.

2 minutes ago, happy chappie said:

He's even better at fooling old farang.

He copied it perfectly, should I not be impressed.

5 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

He copied it perfectly, should I not be impressed.

Please don't be so naive,his dad probably built it.his claim that he invented it is total bs and him building it will be bs too.with Thais I tend to learn they are not as clever as I think they are.

37 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

Not at all similar. That one only works in English.

And too much plastic, not allowed anymore.

Great work Purawit, let me show you mine.

38 minutes ago, happy chappie said:

Please don't be so naive,his dad probably built it.his claim that he invented it is total bs and him building it will be bs too.with Thais I tend to learn they are not as clever as I think they are.

 

If the lad was serious, it looks like he's learning deceit at an early age.

 

His classmate will be credited with inventing coins. 

 

 

If you look at the quality of his sketch and the quality of the construct they are so different as not to be from the same person. 

Well he must have watched a few youtube videos first before he started on the "invention". 

Still , just to make a Thai student do something meaningful is rare these days. So I salute him. 

 

 

2 hours ago, SkyNets said:

looks like this to me

The typical Thai "invention" ...

2 hours ago, happy chappie said:

First thing I thought was I bet he's copied it off YouTube.

 

Yes but, he is the only Thai who can understand and copy from YouTube. So he'll become famous.

4 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

This is really good, well done little guy.

+1...I'm sure that boy does well in school.

Not sure he 'invented' anything.  Reworked an old concept is more like it.  We had similar devices around when I we a kid in the 50s.  But for Thais, imitating may be the same as inventing considering innovation is in short supply.  

But nice science project for a kid his age.  The kid deserves a ribbon.

Edited October 9, 20187 yr by connda

4 hours ago, SkyNets said:

looks like this to me

 

 

Shhhhhh.  The poor kid will lose face!!!
In Thai: To copy = To invent

This kid is probably laughing his head off after pulling the wool over the eyes of these chumps. Next he will be re- inventing the wheel.

Someone is taking this "joke" seriously.

Its just Thaivisa wrongly reporting again. The kid build a sorting machine.

I don't think he would take credit for inventing it as we all can see its on Youtube already.

Don't shoot the kid , shoot the messenger!

I think the little fella needs a bigger (or, at least thicker) watch.  

5 hours ago, SkyNets said:

looks like this to me

 

 

first thing i did was do a you tube search also before even reading the story. How embarrassing for thailand. 

Claim it can also detect bombs and sell it for 1 million baht each to the Thai military.

 

Crying seems to be the appropriate response........but I can't.

 

 

Not trying to rain on his parade, but I had one of these about 50 years ago. It WAS a manual device (had to put them in the sorter yourself) but to claim this is an invention is a stretch.

The first coin machine was invented 250 years ago , back then it was a real invention . 

 

 

Edited October 9, 20187 yr by balo