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How I Almost Ruined MrBeast Squid Game

William Osman

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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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William Osman details the chaotic process of designing, building, and debugging hundreds of Wi-Fi-controlled blood packs for a massive YouTube production.

This video is sponsored by Skillshare. The first 1,000 people to use the link or my code williamosman will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/williamosman02221 MrBeast Squid Game: youtu.be/0e3GPea1Tyg Safety Third Podcast: youtube.com/channel/UC7QE72cxiBkiwnvGoFfqYOg Merch: catwarehouse.com/ Colorado PCB Assembly - coloradopcbassembly.com/ Thanks to @TheBackyardScientist @allenpan @NileRed for helping Patreon: patreon.com/williamosman Twitter: twitter.com/CrabsAndScience

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What people say. Recommended as an entertaining and realistic look at the chaos, rapid prototyping, and debugging challenges of hardware engineering under tight deadlines.

atribecalledqston Hacker News • Recommends

On “On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days”

I'm not really interested in Mr. Beast's content but there is a video from one of the engineers involved in his Squid Game recreation that I thought was pretty interesting. Seems like this guy went for three whole weeks without sleeping, just piling on hack after hack to make the event come together. link to this video
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cf1241290841on Hacker News • Recommends

On “YouTube star MrBeast rejects Elon Musk's appeal to share content on X”

IMO a lot more interesting story around mr beast: If you have a bit of patience, while very much annoying, the making off video of his squid game blood packs is really interesting from a maker perspective. > How I Almost Ruined MrBeast Squid Game link to this video or 7:30 if you know what a squib is They had 3 weeks (yes) to get 500 wifi controlled bloodpacks. And went through all stages of development hell. After technical problems, regulatory problems, supply chain problems, manufacturing problems and last but not least the obvious integration problems it started a day late (+500k$ for MrBeast) because the team with the targeting software had shit latency and drained their batteries prematurely. In…
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gregdoesiton Hacker News • Mentions

On “How Jeff Geerling almost broke MrBeast's 1-100 video [video]”

It's pretty amusing how a bunch of teams are posting videos on how they built a specific, bespoke hardware/software component or two of MrBeast videos. This one was about the ~100 hardware button sets and LED strips required for the video. And here is another one 1 that is on how another team build 456 "detonator units" for the Squid Game video: also finished in the nick of time. It seems clever for MrBeast to hire DIY YouTubers to do these bespoke jobs: it's a win-win even after the video, as they teams create their own "how we built this" video. 1 link to this video
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