Egg Drop Revolution: The Smartest Egg Ever!

[@CNCKitchen]

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[@ThompsonStudios]

Yes!

[@SweHam]

Honestly those heatsets are sooo nice, they have an amazing finish and were really easy to use compared to some cheap ones I got from Ali

[@tobias7166]

Did you compare the weight to a real one ? I mean, we want to be fair .

[@amusicalmemoirs]

Please rename it. You were so close to the perfect Japanese language joke!!! Please name it: Tamago Ochi 卵オチ 卵 Tamago = egg 落ち Ochi = a noun that can mean final result, but when written in the katakana as オチ it would mean punch line and the noun comes from the verb 落ちる ochiru that means to drop The name would be a punch line about checking the final result of the dropping of an egg, while being a wordplay on Tamagotchi because it looks like it. The tiny difference in pronunciation would be that Tamagotchi is pronounced with a small silence between tamago and chi, while for your egg you would speak the O sound twice as long without silence.

[@Pooopers]

1/2 of Mark Rober's videos feature toddlers in swim suits... makes you wonder "hmmmmmmm whats on that hard drive, Robester?" hmmmmmmmmm

[@Theprofessor1212]

That was a lot of eggcelerarion data to go through.

[@CNCKitchen]

Man, why didn't I find that play on words earlier?

[@pauljones9150]

Yeah, he wasn't yolking around Watching this video makes me want to hatch new ideas, I just don't want to shell out too much money for them, I'm cheep

[@sebastienroche100]

This is an eggcelent joke !

[@dominicwoolston9735]

These puns are a bit eggsessive

[@sky0kast0]

Oh it's home

[@XA--pb9ni]

I like how allen just chilled in the background of the video looking around xD

[@allenpan]

I walked in on them filming and tried hiding but it didn't really work

[@theboxofdemons]

​@@allenpanWhat do you mean? You were nearly invisible!

[@FPVenius]

@@allenpan Yeah, I definitely didn't come here to say that. Good job hiding 🙂

[@MasterThief117]

I was literally gonna say the same thing. Allen just chilling in the background completely cheesing it. Such appreciated!

[@MasterThief117]

​@@allenpan You were in the video? Ptfff. If you wanna be in videos, you should get your own KZbin channel or something.... /s

[@joosh.e]

as soon as you mentioned the code being open-source, my mind went to integrating it into games. could be as simple as as "gather your friends around, whoever can chuck it at the ground the hardest wins" to something more complex like making a realistic cooking mama minigame where you have to find the right amount of force to hit it against something to "crack" it without just full on breaking it. Could also maybe make a golf game where the harder you hit it with/against something, the farther your golf ball goes. EDIT cause i just thought of another idea: race through an obstacle course while trying to keep the egg's forces at a minimal level. challenge yourself or friends to minmax speed and gentleness!

[@joosh.e]

I'm gonna add more of my ideas to replies instead of continuing to edit my original post over and over. that said, of course i have another... IDEA: Egg Chicken. You read that right: Egg. Chicken. Who can exert the most force on the egg without breaking a certain threshold? designate a threshold beforehand, and everyone takes turns. you lose if your number is lower than the person who went before you, or if you go over the threshold.

[@satibel]

​@@joosh.efor egg chicken I think it's better in elimination rounds, where it gives you a score to hit, you have 3 hits, best one kept, and the person with the lowest score gets eliminated. Though doing it in reverse, with the highest score wins is interesting too, because worse players get to play more which acts as a correcting mechanism.

[@satibel]

Not using the exact force but the direction, you can fast juggle, throw the egg between your hands and see how many you can do in a set amount of time, you could also do shakes, rep counter by attaching it to a belt or barbell. Step counter is also an obvious choice.

[@Deserthacker]

Another idea: "Go around the house. Find something the egg bounces X times on". What a great idea to add games!

[@chickenbalboa]

How about a baseball shaped object that athletes use to increase their throwing speed. Could receive a lot of useful data from different types of pitches as well. I could honestly see something like this being implemented if it has not already.

[@cullumash]

This is brilliant Stefan! I'm already looking at how we could implement an egg drop competition using the smart egg in my local IMechE region as a STEM event for school children, university students and maybe even professional engineers! Being able to visualise the data and the OLED screen will be cool for children. It'll add some interesting maths for engineering students and potentially tough competition between groups of professional engineers.

[@lutzleonhardt6938]

That's a good Idea

[@satibel]

With Bluetooth or wifi you could even have the curve on a phone.

[@KelseyDrummer]

Very cool!

[@leesmithsworkshop]

Alan has never been so quite on a video.

[@billy2890]

He was quite quiet

[@brandonw7100]

Excited to see you both at OpenSauce

[@CNCKitchen]

It's going to be a blast!

[@aXelRedfield]

he did not even mention open sauce anywhere though that's crazy

[@jdizzforyou]

I think you now have some type of obligation to put on the youtube egg drop equivalent of the Red Bull Flugtag. DO IT!!!!!!

[@johnschild1503]

Good work Stefan. What a talented 3d printing youtuber can achieve! Congratulations from Switzerland!

[@JohnLattanzio98]

Tomodroppi is an EXTREMELY creative and fitting name!

[@ulaB]

Eggstremely!

[@nobleshirley2775]

There is nothing I love more than knowledgeable people unconditionally sharing their knowledge, because that’s how we really raise each other up

[@TheDonutMan3000]

I think it would be interesting to find a way to non-destructively simulate point impacts. Even if you have an overall slower fall, when the impact is concentrated onto a small point the egg will still break. I imagine a primitive version of a resistive touch screen. I think this would be a great addition to help grade low impacts

[@karigisla]

i love the fact that allen pan is squatting in the corner like he is not totally in frame 8:43

[@SimontheTinker]

I would absolutely love a handful of these for my engineering courses. I have a digital electronics class that could make them and a design class that could do the drops.

[@CNCKitchen]

Build them! I'll be release more detailed info, soon.

[@T4nm4y]

Disappointed you didn't go with "Humpty's Fall Criteria" 😂

[@dev.lockridge]

this is genuinely such a great idea! I remember doing egg drops in elementary school and been high school, and the results were obviously very binary (and hard to clean up!). This seems like such a good way to fix that, while still keeping the spirit of the challenge. Good stuff!

[@randomelectronicsanddispla1765]

The dynamics and engineering of braking an egg are so complex that an accelerometer doesn't give enough data. V2.0 needs an array of tiny strain gauges measuring the force repartition on the shell of the egg

[@Josh_Bruce]

Over the past couple of weeks I've been making a slightly similar project myself in the form of an acceleration & speed sensing baseball to improve my throw. Something I really can't stress enough is the convenience of a wireless dashboard! It's been significantly less effort just having someone with a phone watching the live graph and max values than having to take an SD card out to plug into a computer every time! Loved the video, concept, and design!

[@thenextlayer]

Great idea, but you missed the best opportunity for a dad joke... Eggcelerometer for measuring eggceleration.

[@micah2936]

As somebody who buys fertile eggs on eBay, this would be such a good idea to ship with the eggs to indicate if the shipping had any rough handling Instead of an SD card the MCU flash could just record the largest acceleration value and display it on screen Edit example: Int last_value; Int max_accel; Void loop(){ last_value = readAcceleration(pin); if(last_value > max_accel){ max_accel = last_value; } dislay.print(max_accel); }

[@ASimpleInternetUser]

Try quiet background music to fit the mood of what you're talking about. I think it would elevate your production to a whole new level. Even without, this was a great video. Keep it up :D

[@urnoob5528]

no memory for fuckin simple text data? talk about overkill processing power and bad design u dont just slap more expensive mcu just because of that for something so simple ffs

[@xelaxander]

Omg, I need this thing for my bike. I’d like to record just how bad the cycling paths around me are and a high frequency accelerometer is really what I need.

[@1.4142]

Next video: making sentient AI eggs and dropping them until they rebel.

[@evanescue6159]

Hey I am a middle school teacher in Montana, would it be possible to get the build plans for the egg to help with experiments with my students?

[@CarlMarx]

Really thought the area under the graph was going to matter

[@ephraimtimmerman4476]

But protecting an egg isnt just about acceleration. It also can rely on soreading out the force, or physically holding the eggshell together by strengthening the shell.

[@crocoped]

Any one else laugh like a psyco when legs broke on william's? was funnier than it should have been!

[@bendingsands87]

That's pretty awesome. One of those would be pretty amazing to get a kiwi crate or similar educational box that's out there. I don't know what else could come in a box, but an eggdrop challenge box would be pretty great for learning.

[@double_engineer]

Here me out for egg 3.0 To transfer the data wirelessly. You "crack" the egg over a hard surface. The action of banging the egg and doing a pouring motion measured by the accelerometer begins the wireless transfer of the most recent data or all the data. Quick Edit: I know we've moved on from the archaic world of physical storage transfer and stuff. But cracking the egg open could also eject the SD card

[@robblincoln2152]

Fascinating-this is the kind of physics lab that my dad would have loved to engage his classes in! Real problem solving with plenty of engineering and fundamental physics all bound together by math. I look forward to seeing what others choose to do with your eggsparament!

[@brunohassuna]

I really love this channel open source soul, thats great for the community, congratulations!

[@jannsander]

This is such a nice and cute idea with a lot of scientific and maker aspects along the way. It's a super cool idea, and the collaboration - although I didn't know William - made things much more fun.

[@Cinemaaereo]

Ok, how a 15 years old teenager boy have a 3 years old child? 🤔 😄

[@LevySkulk]

I won the egg drop at school by shoving a bunch of crumpled up plastic bags into a large oatmeal container, with the egg right in the middle. There was a single bag on the outside to make sure the cylinder always landed rightside up. That thing could have survived a drop from space lol

[@Vandy_fpv]

That opening segment was really eggciting

[@walterfindlay9982]

In the idaho potato world we use equipment called bruise balls to ditect the rough points during harvest. These eggs reminded me of these bruise balls. Look them up if your interested in seeing equipment that would have similar components as your digital egg.

[@yanfishtwig2356]

A wonderful Egsample of Eggeneering by two Eggsperts

[@purrzival]

Great video! I laught out loud when i saw the egg tray😂

[@2DragonFreak]

I love the detailed recreation of the eggdrop explanation :D up to the cracking egg :D

[@technophobian2962]

*eggsplanation

[@NKCubed]

I’d love to see you do more little project like this every now and then!

[@Beltonius]

If you ever want to try this again (which you totally should!) You could try 3 d printing the outlines instead of laser cutting them and spending all that effort to remove the color sections. You could print a single wall outline of the sections

[@underengineered_1077]

i’d like to set up some of my printers for better resolution printing with 0.2 nozzle. Do you know of any upgrades to gear up the belts to get more accurate X and Y resolution?

[@NonEuclideanTacoCannon]

Tama Droppy lol

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

Awesome work as always. Been a long time fan of William so this crossover is dope.

[@burntalive]

William osmand's egg drop challenge going over time as is tradition.

[@themaskedinventor1812]

Love your 3D content it made me get a printer myself

[@CNCKitchen]

Great to hear that. It's an awesome tool and hobby.

[@themaskedinventor1812]

Settings are definitely a struggle sometimes:)

[@steffen_kuellmer]

Haaaammmmer! Geile Aktion! Mach weiter so!

[@CNCKitchen]

Vielen Dank!

[@uujims3762]

Hi can you do a test regarding how much pla and pla+ warps (on steep overhangs) depend on printing temperature durning in high speed printing? It seems like pla+ warps more when it’s not heated enough for whatever reason. This becomes very annoying when printing fast and frequently cause layer shifts. I think I will be cool to test it out to decrease the chance of a collision and layershift and help fine tune temperature and volumetric flow rate, speed and maybe nozzle size as well.

[@MrHamsto24]

Using a 3d pen is a great personal touch on the spirit of the the challenge. This would make a great kit for educators.

[@jandastroy]

What an amazing idea of a project! I love the amount of information your design can catch.

[@staticv3570]

Awesome project! I think that an accelerometer with higher max g and a higher polling rate would make this perfect for competitions.

[@rcmaniac25]

That was fun. Egg drops was one of those "I finally got to the grade where we do this in some class" events (bridge with no fasteners is another one that came to mind) and it was always great to see what people did. I tried to make crumple zones, padding, etc. and got better as I went from grade school to high school. My favorite someone did was just paint the egg :P What better way to do things then to make a digital egg and calculate all the values for it. A ring buffer is a good choice and I wonder if streaming straight to a card would've been possible (I/O writes sometimes like bursts, other times stream, other times are random) to get more data out

[@littlesnowflakepunk855]

the first time i did an egg drop challenge in school, i got some antistatic foam that my dad had collected from electronics packaging, filled an ~8x8in cardboard box with it, and carved a hole in the eggxact center that was just tight enough to gently squeeze the egg so it didn't move at all. It'd been my plan since the first time I ever heard about egg drop challenges. My teacher was so impressed he had the school's star baseball pitcher chuck it as hard as he could against the wall. The shell remained intact but when we cracked it afterwards the yolk had broken from the force of it, lol

[@Gentoli]

2:55 none of "teensy" or "seeeduino XIAO" are microcontroller - they are dev boards. The corresponding SOC/MCU are MKL26Z64VFT4 and nRF52840. Also the charge controller on the XIAO is not part of the SOC. Please just call them dev boards..

[@plasmashears]

This would actually be an eggcellent candidate for a custom PCB (sparkfun, or maybe PCBway)... voidstar might be a good collab. I would totally buy an integrated board with accelerometer, OLED, SD card, and neopixel indicator.

[@haakonness]

If you are thinking of doing a PCB, I would recommend switching to the ESP32. It has multiple MB of storage space built in, bluetooth/wifi built in, if you want to do a mobile app for it for downloading data, seeing live status or resetting it. And if you do PCBA with jlcpcb, it would be cheap to source and have the chip placed on the pcb in pcba. I think you will find a suitable accellerometer, and ws2812 leds in their stock too, so everything could be presoldered by jlcpcb, so you only need to attach battery and casing. And the jst plug for the battery can even be added in the pcba. so no soldering required if designed properly :)

[@andybrice2711]

I like the precise data. But it's not as visually appealing as something which risks physically shattering. So I'm thinking the device could just be a bright yellow TPU 'yolk'. Which you could encase in a segmented hard 'shell' that separates given enough impact. More annoying, but more fun.

[@b1tw0nder]

But the teensy 4.0 is way faster. 600mhz and up to 1.024ghz with enough cooling.

[@kamurashev]

Nice stuff man. There’s a man in KZbin foolling people around with wind powered cart that can go faster than the wind speed. I know it’s not your profile but he challenges anyone 10000usd to prove him wrong. For me it’s a clear case. I know that’s not your profile but I thought what the hell, you might be interested. I’d watch such a content like 100% sure

[@pr0xZen]

First day at engineering college we got divided into groups of 4, each got an egg, (equiv.) €5 and 1 hour to device a solution for a 2 level (about ~5 meter) drop. Those in my group had pretty much the same idea from the start. We were the only ones that spent our money on more eggs. We got a carton of 18 cheap eggs, and a small roll of tape. Figured (paper pulp mash) egg cartons are probably designed the way they are for a reason. We cut the carton into segments, stuck them together around those eggs in different configurations, and by the time the hour was up we had about 10 of the bought eggs left and an carton-segments arrangement by which the last trial egg had already survived 2 drops. Come competition test some of the remaining carton segments were getting rather soggy so we managed to argue our way into going early (2nd). The "exam egg" was actually a little bit larger and heavier than the cheap ones we got, but it did survive the drop 😃 Maybe this somehow relates to why I appreciate 3D printing so much. Very rapid prototying 😂

[@personalaccount7958]

Hey just wanted to say, I love this video. I’m currently in Germany (Bayerische) which is maybe why I got recommended this. Been a fan of William for a while, keep up the good work!

[@CrimsonDoveKarting]

That seemed nrf52840 is absolutely amazing and so full of power, I've been using one to build a GPS based laptimer due to just how damn fast it is thanks to having an FPU.

[@mirrortestant1796]

The thing is: chickens are killed specifically for egg production. Most male chickens in the egg industry are killed early in life (most often on their first day of life) since they don't produce any eggs and these breeds are not producing enough meat to be profitable. The female layer hens are in most cases also killed after one egg laying period (about a year). They are not killed because the meat would be profitable. (The farmer only gets a few cents for the entire body.) Instead, they are killed because the hens would produce less eggs the next year. So the ehole flock of hens are killed in order to get new hens who lay more eggs. Not to mention all the cruelties done to chickens beside the killing in factory farms were more than 98% of chickens in Germany and USA live. Them thinking vegans would avoid eggs because it would harm the unfertilized egg was pretty cringe to me. I guess they had no ill intentions and it is most likely just ignorance or misinformation 😩.

[@seanoconnor1905]

Is there an STL file available for the egg? This would be a fantastic resource for technology teachers!

[@nickconklin]

Is it possible to buy this product somewhere? I'd like to use something like this in my physics labs, and I'd rather not do all the work of building it myself. (I could, I just don't want to if I can avoid it.)

[@iteerrex8166]

The Mythbusters could have use this egg a million times.

[@Tait3rtot]

You should work with Lewis from Everything Smart Home to develop the PCB. I think that would be a fun collab opportunity.

[@cooperhiggins4554]

Anybody else notice like halfway through when they show William the egg Allen pan in the background just nodding his head, waving it back-and-forth and smiling

[@mr.goochthethird1222]

Eggcellent video my friend 😂

[@ayoCC]

The digital egg takes away the realism of having an egg crack or stay whole. It can be a good item in addition to an egg but the messy nature of an egg and realism of seeing a real egg might be better for content and needs less explanation. Using the digital egg, you'd need to have a 1 minute section every egg drop video to explain what the egg does. That might be 10% of the video

[@woundedmonk1884]

9:34 wait until Will realises that the name tamagotchi is the combination of the Japanese word tamago (egg) and the Japanese transliteration of the English word watch ⌚️ the more you know.

[@eonoire]

9:30 They make fun of no chicken had to die for this butt it's important to know that a lot of chicken do die for the production of eggs. In hatcheries all the male chicks are ground up right after birth because males can't lay eggs. Egg laying henns often either die at some point in their life due to brittle bones or other health issues or they are slaughtered when their productivity drops. It's a cruel industry

[@Jkauppa]

3d print cheese at 280C (edible casein protein plastic, also bio-compatible)

[@MeriaDuck]

10:45 Hmmm, I think I'd just hover the 3d pen relatively high in the air and create a plastic nest by drooping the plastic in the air... might be time for an eggdrop challenge at home 🤔

[@scottrussell8465]

Alan knows you guys can see him, right?

[@aspidoscelis]

I wonder what the relationship between accelerometer readings and egg breakage is. It’s definitely not as simple as a threshold value above which an egg would break.

[@intellectualiconoclasm3264]

Vegan egg drop, dumb. Scientifically repeatable and greater data collection, SUPER SMART!

[@maxhuber161]

Hi Stefan could you make a video how to get the best abs results which kind of support is the best and how to provide layer separation. It would be so cool if cold make such a video 😊

[@Sttreg]

The issue I see here is the sampling rate. It feels like the peak is only determined by a single data point, meaning the real peak could be way higher. So one room for progress would be to find an mcu with a higher sampling rate

[@dumbtex6107]

Haha worlds most over engineered egg! Really liked the episode with you on safety third by the way, cant wait till they have you back.

[@aspuzling]

Did you consider using Bluetooth to stream the data from the accelerometer to your phone so you wouldn't need an SD card? Maybe it would be too unreliable?

[@BurninGems]

Ok, now drop it from space! Yes, it was done but not with the sensor egg!

[@Burn77oas7]

Already this is a completely different type of experiment, you're not using an egg for one, you can not program a fake egg to simulate an egg shell , sorry, it's not the same.

[@kevinleee3408]

I guarantee there are kids that would want that egg just as a pet. You could add a little program that if the egg is kept safe long enough it hatches and then there's a little chick live on the screen. And then the accelerometer data could be used to let you know if you're keeping the chicks safe until they grow into an adult

[@WalnutWarrior7]

Great idea! You should do this again with more time and real 3D printer and various filaments allowed, from rubber to hard plastic

[@Elstarda]

So a flaw that I could see from a like for like replacement is that there didn’t seem to be a buffer between heavier components such as the battery. I’m 6 minutes in so I hope this is either addressed or you address in future drops

[@Sarif98]

I wish his accelerometer was good enough to measure a naked egg drop for comparison! Maybe in a follow up video. . .

[@polarsingularity]

Wait! Are you using AutoCAD to calculate the graph at 1:32 ? It looks like it, but I am not sure if it just has a similar interface.

[@samuelzackrisson8865]

doesn't that score heavily favor lower impulse? like the most important thing is to have it strike the ground slow rather than have it within a survivable force range for the egg shell?

[@Pestsoutwest]

A proper egg drop doesn't just limit the breakage of the egg... also, the drop time and weight of the device matters... lower the better.

[@patrickryan7829]

Nope I built a way smarter egg back in 2020 while working for a poultry comtrols company.

[@oak_lef8408]

It’s funny the outside portion is filmed like a William Osman video, but color coded like a cnc kitchen vid

[@Boldcheesecake1029]

This is why the world gave us egg heads To make eggcelent and eggonomic Eggstream Gravity Grippers

[@nutellasoos2298]

Hi i recently rewatched your video for printing to fast,are u gonna make a video about the ratrig v-core?

[@zackmarkham4240]

Thank you for saying STEAM, so many creators still say STEM, leaving out Art.

[@BakeBakePi]

the best protection for a raw egg would probably be to just keep the egg in the chicken and through the chicken off!

[@HerbProductions]

Only someone like him could bring an improvised electronic device into an airplane

[@DoggMatik]

This is so cool. Such a great and surprisingly useful project. I've never participated myself, but ive often seen references to projects that revolve around "Egg Care", or whatever. Think about these scientific eggs being used in those parenting projects where students are tasked with taking care of an egg over the weekend. Again, very cool idea. Nice job!

[@witheraway.6562]

oh yeah... T T i remember when i did it in hs. i had undiagnosed adhd- u can imagine what happened to the egg..... having an unspoilable "egg" would have been great

[@Incendium87]

I don't think you mention in the video... How does the mass of the digital egg compare to a real egg?

[@TheGrowOp]

Yo this crossover is amazing!!! I would love to see you on Mark Robers channel!