How I Almost Ruined MrBeast Squid Game
Why Hacker News recommends it
Makers recommend it as a behind-the-scenes look at crunch-time hardware engineering for a big YouTube production.
What it is
William Osman describes helping build parts of the MrBeast Squid Game event, including hacking together hundreds of wifi-controlled blood packs in about three weeks. He covers the chaos and near-failures along the way.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2022 to 2024.
What Hacker News said
Recommends atribecalledqst · 2022-09 · 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. [this video]
Recommends cf1241290841 · 2024-01 · 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 [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
Cites gregdoesit · 2023-09 · 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] [this video]