THE VIDEO SHELF · hardware prototyping
How I Almost Ruined MrBeast Squid Game
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
Makers recommend it as a behind-the-scenes look at crunch-time hardware engineering for a big YouTube production.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- William Osman
- Topic
- hardware prototyping
- Format
- commentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2022–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 …
atribecalledqst on Hacker News · 2022-09
In On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 daysIMO 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 …
cf1241290841 on Hacker News · 2024-01
In YouTube star MrBeast rejects Elon Musk's appeal to share content on X
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