Dad helped me NOT burn down MrBeast's studio
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- Опубликовано: 14 июн 2024
- It was crazy!
We helped make Mr. Beast's 1-100 video: • Ages 1 - 100 Fight For... - and thanks to my Dad's testing, we caught a wiring issue that could've led to a fire!
And check out the whole story here: • How I almost broke MrB...
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Contents:
00:00 - Day 1
00:42 - What's up at Beast HQ
01:31 - First we Feast(ables)
01:58 - Validating the LED strips
02:49 - McDonalds ... and a frozen tea
03:19 - Day 2
04:41 - Shenanigans, and many miles of cabling
05:37 - Down to the wire
06:16 - Parting thoughts
08:53 - The longest run (325 feet!)
09:37 - Challenges ahead! 
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Or... well, at least if you want to avoid overcurrent on your DuPont connections!
6:38 Just a thought - as you are doing this 100 times (?) and using a LAN cable I would have made a small adaption PCB and get them made with rj45 plug and then solder this pcb to buttons. 🤓 But being in a time crunch - might not be possible. 🤔
Nice video with behind the scenes 🙂👍
Also saw the Mr. Beast video due to your involvement - he sels of stuff from the set, can you ask if he can list the Potatoes and buttons also? 🤓 Let's save some e-waste 🤞 #teampotato
Man that is awesome. What a great bonding time you and your dad had. Its a memory you will remember forever.
Yeah, would've been stressful but also a heck of a lot of fun... plus, ya know, getting out of the house and such :P. haha... (though us nerds only like that sometimes :P)
One of the things I’ve always really appreciated about your content is that it’s always really thoughtful and level headed. What I love about your content with your dad is seeing your unscripted interactions- they are also really thoughtful and there is a lot of warmth and kindness between you. Keep it up.
Mr Geerling. You did a awesome Job helping out Jeff. I can't wait to see more videos. Have a good one.
It was a wild experience to be there. It was also awesome to meet and work with you Jeff. Hope all is well!
Thanks! It is well, and thank you so much for helping take that thing across the finish line. All's well that ends well, they say :)
Nice one Jeff, looks like you all had an awesome day! Looking forward to the follow-up on your channel. looks like it was quite the challenge and people really don't know or see all the work that goes into things like this. Temporary or not, still gotta be safe!
The 325ft network cable should still work BTW, it's just that it's prone to more interference so you'll get more potential packet loss and latency :D, though if all else fails, just put a small switch in between and problem solved, it'll repeat the signal...
Heh, hindsight is always nice on a project like this, with the looming deadline! There are a few things we would've done different on the initial build if we had more time to think it through, oops! But luckily that network run was one of the least of our worries; the main issues were a few cables that got messed up on the home run, or had bad terminations.
Typical issues in any large build like this, but there were so many things going on that it was hard to keep up with the normal level of little problems like a bad crimp!
That was great, and I just watched Mr Beast’s video right after.. it was fun to see your work in action. Strange request, could you list the tool bag contents.. maybe toss in some links to the items.. just curious what some of your go to items would be for that kind of network project. Really enjoying the videos, thanks to both of you.. they’re great.
Definitely! Here's a list: gist.github.com/geerlingguy/61d1591e22d8c1bcc7f90ba4c72faa5b
@@GeerlingEngineering Thank You!!
Thanks for the list! Do you have a link for the goggles that your dad was using?
Getting some flashbacks, I built a low-res 32*24 “touchscreen” of those arcade buttons to read a soccer ball hit behind a projection screen as the strikes were too fast for most IR gates. So. Many. Wires!
Ha, the wiring itself can present its own problems, to mention nothing of arcade buttons getting smashed by soccer balls!
@@GeerlingEngineering like this it had to last a weekend, it was a hell of a build!
really didnt know you and your dad was behind this project, i was pretty curious while watching the original video how good of a team they must have hired to make all this happen, great work!!
You guys get to have so much FUN! - Better than a "Rick & Morty Adventure!"
Absolutely incredible - always awesome to see the behind the scenes to these large projects.
Jeff, your Dad is my idol! I strive to be as good a father and son couple as you guys are. My boy is only almost 2 years old, but seeing you guys is basically all I ever wished for (not having had a dad). Seeing you also work with Chuck for Mr Beast is like my personal Super Mario Allstars - just missing Shane from StuffMadeHere and Mark Rober 😁 We always need more Geerling Engineering! Best wishes to you and your family!
That was awesome to watch, I love seeing the behind the scenes and I recently stumbled upon your channel because I was looking to automate my homelab with ansible. I really enjoy your content and I can't wait to see more!!!
Great video! I love the energy between you and your father
I panicked around 2:30 because I was testing DMX lights and had to do so much god damn testing, but very glad our findings found the same things
watched this yesterday, and knowing that you, your dad, and network chuck were behind it made it at least 5x cooler.
You got my laugh with the Mr beast chocolate bar commentary, editing
That looks like a blast! Can't wait for the main video!
geerling senior is cool and chill, no wonder why you admire him so much. would be great to see more of him
Great video! This looks like so much fun! I would love the opportunity to work in an environment like that!
I love you guys !! Thanks for this kinda of content. Seeing Jeff and dad's Jeff working together is so pleasant.
Very cool! Neat idea that they hired YTers to work on the tech, when I'm sure there are big companies who do this sort of thing.
But giving them only 2 weeks???
@@Jimmy_Jones this isn't the first time either second projects of theirs I know of with this short of a deadline for something very involved
I wish I had a dad like that!! He is freaking awesome!
It amazes me that after all these years we still have to account for button bounce. Not that I expect a solution to be built into the button, but rather the device we plug all the buttons into. And no, a software based solution isn't good enough for me to accept this situation.
I'll have a LOT more to say on buttons soon (over on my channel)-I spent way too much time working on debounce and testing a huge variety of buttons for this project :)
This was so awesome to watch! Love this behind the scenes and this perspective.
Built many projects on many schedules and, as odd as it may sound, yours looks pretty typical as far as problems are concerned. It's going well, good job! (I'm sure it all sorted out fine for you in the end)
So happy that you can work with your dad! That’s so cool! Congrats Jeff, you’re the man!
It's always cool to see RUclipsrs helping each other on projects.
This is soooo cool I kinda wondered how they made the boxes
I would have loved to work on something like this, it’s super exciting watching your video.
Not sure the reason behind wanting to use a computer (potato / pi / etc).
I thing you could have saved yourself some time using a esp32 with Ethernet running esphome.
I recommend playing with this combo if you haven’t already to add it to your toolbox for next time!
Great to see you and your dad work together
On those dupont connectors, depending on the crimper you''re sometimes better off giving the wings on the insulation part of the crimp a bit of a pre-crimp with a pair of needle nose pliers so that you can set the alignment perfect when you can see it and then you don't need three hands to make the actual crimp.
Four hands would probably still not make it that much easier haha! the crimp tool I bought is one of the best of the four I tried at dealing with those annoying little wings, so that saved some time. I was able to get about 9 of 10 crimps good by the end. but others it was like 2 of 10 😭
@Jeff, watching these videos with your dad are soooo wholesome
This is an interesting behind the scenes look at the mrbeast video I like it. THanks!
Was waiting to see how this was done.
I love working with LED strips.
Also try cookout next time after a late night 😉
I wish I could have had this kind of experience with my dad. Unfortunately the tech skills jumped generations in our family. My Dad had to call an electrician to change a lightbulb. My grandfather was like Fonzi. He could fix things by looking at them.
its just cool to see network chuck and you working toghether
I would have gone with the dads solution of 24v and a centralised control system, but instead of hard wired IO, I'd use remote IO, like IFM's IO-link which uses an AS-i bus system. But other brands and protocols are available like turck, phoenix contact, weidmuller, wago/beckhoff, and b&r.
This seems like a huge amount of compute power for such a tiny amount of computing. Something like an esp32 and wifi would have made this project so much easier. I watched the Mr Beast video and still can't see why they went with network cables and Le Potatoes for this project. That is massive overkill.
It was considered; but WiFi is always a variable when you have such a huge area to cover with a ton of human bodies to deal with. And we also considered an approach using ESP or Pico, but any kind of networking would've required some extra custom work or hardware that took too long to ship, which we wanted to keep to a minimum.
@GeerlingEngineering one good mesh wifi system with 3 or 4 routers would have likely been what I would use. A good mesh wifi system broadcasts the same ssis and seamlessly changes connection. Just need to hard wire them all together to a single switch. It just seems like a huge task to run network cables to every cube like that for just a few buttons. It was a cool project however you got it done. I'd love to be involved in such a project. I enjoy electronics and programming. Very cool, glad you shared your part of it.
The Xmas light guys would have been of some help also... they do a lot of things like this too
That's great! It's great when things are not burned down.
So. Where did you lock up RSJ?
The shot of all the Mac studios made my jaw drop
I need a couple pair of those glasses to help me when i am building a kit. Can you share the exact make/model of those?
Would also like to know more about those glasses.
I don't think I'd want the stress of a project like that as fun as it would be. Kind of the same reason why I don't want leadership roles at one of the conventions I've volunteered for.
Running an event is definitely stress-inducing!
This could have been a mini-series
My father never was into my hobbies for electronics. But he worked on cars, Build cars and I was a part of his hobby. We spent many years growing up working on cars. I'm glade to see you Jeff and your father Are enjoying Both of your hobby for electronics together.
My Dad and I used to work on our old cars a bit, back before we both bought Toyotas (which didn't quite need the same maintenance regimen!). My brother was the one most into cars though... I've always thought of them mainly as a means of transport!
@@GeerlingEngineering very cool. My dad is bed ridden as they call it. Had cancer. Beat it but the cure was worse then the cancer. Went from 320 pounds down to 97 pounds. And now he’s up to 127pounds. But it ate a little at his brain. So he can no longer do for himself.
It wasn't till you mentioned it that this was the secondary channel. I was just like "damn he went through that quick"
That part at 1:42 is so good with the editing! 😂
7:03... you could have done that with one device, you dad is correct. A central PLC (as in programmable logic controller) with remote IO to each room using like Modbus, Profibus, Ethernet/IP or similar protocol. You would just need comms (like Ethernet or RS-485) and power to each room and save yourself a lot of wiring. A Din Rail mounted industrial 24 volt power supply in each room would have cleaned up the wiring a lot. Trying to kludge together relay outputs and contact inputs from SBC stuff was just setting you up for trouble IMHO, especially with the DuPont connectors - you's be better off using terminal strips. ...I say that as someone who's done industrial automation for 3 decades in factories, electric substations, water treatment plants, etc.
The nerd inside me wants to see every single detail about that studio from the setup to the wiring to the PCs and code.
When is the full video going to be posted on your other channel? I have not seen it yet. :)
Working on getting it approved!
2:55 Is that a Flipper Zero? What kind of surely-not-malicious things are you doing with it?
Mr Beast: Hires Network Chuck
Network Chuck: hires jeff
Jeff: hires dad
Great to see your dad
6:19 interesting choice of numbers for video testing.
Glad someone got a kick out of it.
So cool to see the tech behind the Mr Beast Video
Subscribed!
I think I would use something like a esp32 for something like this
I’d love to see a video of what you do with your flipper.
Someday...
So they built a false floor under that entire set? Wow.
7:01 put some electrical tape on the plug coming out perpendicular to the orange tri plug
I swear this video used to have Ooyy, Zorro - Unravel in it, did it get edited out or am I going crazy
I noticed you mentioned "fighting the OS" other than that, how did the Potato fair for in the project? Any other challenges compared to using a Pi?
Great video. I enjoy these videos with your dad. Thanks!
The Potatoes seemed to not handle strange situations quite as well as a Pi (overcurrent in GPIO inputs, a strange networking environment at first...), but they turned out alright in the end. We had to run Armbian to get interrupts working, but that required a custom DTB compilation to get the I2C bus running, which we needed for the 52Pi relay hats we chose!
@@GeerlingEngineering Thanks for the reply. That doesn't sound too bad. Looked like there was a couple of dead ones also. Nice to see @NetworkChuck there as well. I have learned a lot from him too!
You two keep up the great videos. I enjoy the communication content, I worked at a few AM & FM radio stations when I was younger ('80's or like they now say, the late nineteen hundreds!).
Can wait to see the real life challenge of deploying a setup like this ,anyway good jon
finally watched the Mr Beast video, very impressive work, Geerlings 👍✅ it’s impressive how much money Mr Beast spends making a single video, $500K to the winner, and appears he handed out $10K stacks to each of the 99 losers, that’s $1.5M in prize money alone, never mind paying for all of the setup/parts/help he had, well over $2M invested in making one video.. but he does have 22 million subscribers 😳
A few more than 22M subs! But yes, an impressive outlay, but the end result nets millions and millions of views!
22 million, ha! When did you last check? He has 155 million subscribers right now.
@@desmond-hawkins was probably looking at views.. Mr Beast is too big, imagine what will happen when RUclips/Google goes tits up
So what magnifiers was your dad using. Im of a similar age and am looking for new ones.
I'll have to ask!
Bro y'all should have called Dave from Dave's garage He's a LED monster
at 0:31 is that a doctor who poster!?!?!
Yep! TO VICTORY!
I wonder if em arr beast often needs last minute stuff like this. Does he at least pay well?
Wouldn't it have been easier to use like a esp32 custom Ethernet Board to these booths? Power them with poe and you have power and controll in every box?
Yes, but trying to design, source, and build 100+ custom PCBs of them together in less than a week was something nobody on our team wanted to attempt, especially after seeing William Osman's experience with that!
@@JeffGeerling but it wasn't guaranteed that your solution would work eighter, was it? It least I was tempted to sketch something together 😅
When part two?
;)
Hands down this beats going fishing with dad. What a great time. Can't wait to see what this is. I subscribed as soon as the channel was started... can I still have a cookie?
Here are TWO cookies! 🍪🍪
What is done with all the hardware after the event? Trown in the trash?
When will the code and scripts for this be released?
Working on that still... I hope I can release all that once my (Jeff Geerling's) video's ready
"That was Friday night"
Been there. Why did I choose this profession?
What are the aluminium boxes @ 08:06 ? They look like Mac Studio knock-offs ...
Those are little boxes that I believe sit under a Mac Mini with hard drives inside? They were setting all that up for footage offload + transcoding and then sending it off for editing.
@@JeffGeerling
Sure there are thin hubs for under a Mini, actually both are in the same view, or mini-sized HDD enclosures, but Ive never seen anything like these Studio-sized enclosures
Father and Son to the Max!
Looks like a lot of work but some fun too. 👍
This is extremely cool
Mr Beast is a menace on tech youtubers. I saw what William Osman went through and I imagine its not gonna be any easier for you.
Used axle grease is better than Hershey's.
Dude. Amazing!❤❤❤
My question would be. Who gets all of that when it's done?
How does ANY of that stuff work properly without vaccum tube rectifiers? - sheesh
Not a single pentode in sight either - pretty low-tech stuff if you ask me :)
Ha! that would've increased the fire risk substantially!
VERY COOL to see that you guys were involved with the making of the video. :-) :-)
At this point, all of the RUclipsrs that I sub to are going to somehow end up involved with MrBeast somehow and I am not disappointed about that one bit. Hope to see the rest of the video soon!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
I would have used a PLC instead of 100 different computers
My Dad discussed this a bit later in the video; we talked a bit about architecture options, but I will address this more in a blog post later!
PLC or central controller is a viable alternative, but carries its own challenges (just like anything wireless would, too).
@@GeerlingEngineering for sure. Everything has his pluses and minuses. Interesting video. I hope there's an update
And this Jeff Geerling guy does all this with no colon and a smaller than average small intestine! (Yes, I follow his Crohn's videos!). How amazing!
Boy I hope you guys were paid well for this...
I knew this guy looked familiar. He is the raspberry pi RUclipsr! I saw his surgery video. Glad he is doing good!
What is your laptop at 03:57 seconds?
That's an M2 MacBook Air, I love it but would rather have an 11" if they still made one!
Would you be able to open source the code? Or would that not be allowed?
Working on that currently!
your dad is a pretty cool dude.
Can i have one question?
Why not ethernet esp32? Smaller, easier to setup, cheaper.
If it was just IO I would agree, not sure if they was also running the screens through them though.
Gracias 👋👋👋👍
Only 2 weeks notice?
Never heared of MrBeast before Jeff mentioned him.
This is such an awesome video love seeing bts stuffs
man, im excited already. haha..😅
Cloutgoblins 😂