Meet Christopher, the EIGHT-GPU Robot Quagsire

[@ZackFreedman]

🐶🐄 Millie the cow-like puppy needs a Colorado home! bit.ly/3Q5YQkj Also, I've added subtitles! Some folks said Quagsire was hard to hear.

[@PigeonIncorperated]

sadly i don't live there

[@99Duds]

OMG, Millie is so cute. I'm already at my 2 dog limit but just could not help myself and had to look. Little sad knowing I can't take her, but she is so cute.

[@bubbasplants189]

How could you no-clip into bedrock if no-clipping means you can't clip into anything?

[@Vaeldarg]

Considering Brook doesn't like to be on camera, what if you had one of these kind of robots that she could remote into from a phone/laptop to checkup/say hi/deliver couple lines for a video, without the need to appear in-person?

[@lambsauce5445]

giveaway? where we at @Zack Freedman?

[@Billy.osullivan]

The best friends are always the ones we literally make along the way

[@jdatlas4668]

I'm stealing that, that's genius

[@Niohimself]

Will Robinson: Don't worry, mom taught me how to make friends.

[@EyeKnowRaff]

This feels like a Human Centipede reference.

[@markmahowald7866]

Found the necromancer

[@rrad3926]

Just like Blade Runner. "These are my friends. I made them!"

[@RuthlessMojo]

It's not that KZbin doesn't want to provide subtitles for Zach's videos. It's that their AI driven supercomputers and mountains of highly spec'd servers simply can't keep up with Zach's blisteringly fast articulation and wit.

[@playstation8779]

Essentially. Not to mention Zach built his own subtitle generator. That he can wear. Because youtube can't keep up.

[@eatcomics]

"Business lizards hissing across a conference table" is probably the best sentence I've ever heard.

[@Ritefita]

damn

[@NEEDbacon]

Corporations would be so much more fun having a bunch of angry lizards sitting on a desk.

[@owenkegg5608]

The centering bit was insanely good

[@Praecantetia]

Made me laught for sure

[@Gregatron13]

I guffawed in the middle of Harbor Freight.

[@nathangek]

@@Gregatron13 crikey, you know that's illegal right?

[@Gregatron13]

@@nathangek I did not. That explains the dirty looks from all the serious-looking bearded men.

[@itz_premium]

@@Gregatron13 The bearded women let you off the hook this go-around?

[@jR060t]

I'm honestly blown away by all of the skills on display in each of Zach's videos.

[@PaoloCaringal-ep4bu]

Zach is quite possibly one of the most self-actualized people I've ever seen. Man is in his element.

[@2degucitas]

​​@@PaoloCaringal-ep4bu He has lousy housekeeping skills, it seems. Oh well. He's only human, even if he's awesome.

[@geo-8575]

As much as it's not 'professional' I love seeing the slip ups/mistakes in the scripts, always makes me smile and remember you're reading on the glasses

[@amphibiland]

"I left too much play in the baseplate, that's why he's leaning right." Great vide as usual, keep it up!

[@Protagonist790]

Christopher's eyes are so small he looks like he doesn't have any. It make him seem more cool and terrifying at the same time.

[@thebeast7590]

how did you comment 2 days ago

[@ghostagent3552]

@@thebeast7590 probably either a follower or a patreon thing

[@kronicgaming978]

One might think it's a Ditto with those small eyes.

[@eponinesg]

I can't wait for the musical episode.

[@Blade_of_Exiled]

'Zack asks anything' Christopher: There is no definitive answer to this question. However...

[@RardSFX]

Thankfully I just changed my Alexa wake word to "computer" yesterday. Nice try Mr Freed Man.

[@robinhandelman9228]

I use Ziggy. As in Ziggy Marley

[@yeahnah6468]

@@GPOLICE oof

[@BCY]

You and Stuff Made Here need to set your assistants against one another to find the best insult.

[@_m1k0]

Wait I didn’t know Stuff Made Here made a robot.

[@JohnDlugosz]

@@_m1k0 Oh yea, it carves using a chain saw, and does haircuts (not at the same time).

[@geo-8575]

Zack is a few moral steps away from bringing to life an animatronic Pinocchio

[@lilithgaspar9484]

5:41 was absolutely terrifying. Glad nothing activated. Great video but for anyone out there, shitty and abusive parents don't deserve you and y'all are wonderful.

[@oscardiggs246]

Google activated, but it didn't start listening soon enough. It did give me the definition of the word "fucker" after I realized 2hat had happened. It even managed to recognize it through my outraged l a laughter.😂

[@orbitaltrash]

Watching you nearly break at 8:25 makes my day. Great vid

[@Scrogan]

You can always solder USB wires directly to the back of the USB socket. If you peel open the metal can you should find the 4 wires right there.

[@iankelley9302]

That is the most cursed way to stop cables from falling out I've seen

[@DragRedSim]

Or you could desolder the USB port block, and tap them off to a USB breakout board. I did similar to my RetroPie case because the ports were mounted upside down.

[@AndrewGillard]

Or just solder to the pins on the bottom of the PCB :) Peeling open the USB port housing feels a little extreme when tool slippage or excess force could damage something that's probably still difficult to replace :

[@Scrogan]

@@AndrewGillard oh yeah, they’re through-hole components. There’s even test-pads down there too so you don’t have to solder directly to the leads.

[@DragRedSim]

Yep, just be sure to blank the ports off; without a hub to arbitrate, two devices into one port just will not go. Although, with the time constraints this seemed to be made under, what we saw was probably the safest solution to guarantee that the setup works.

[@noah123461]

You managed to activate Siri on my phone, my Alexa sitting on my bookshelf, and the google home sitting on my desk all in one go. Props to you sir.

[@migidid]

I was on the shitter and started yelling stop stop when i heard this :D Thank god GA will confirm after :D

[@jfieqj]

He nearly got Siri to send my mother a text. I had to pause the video and cancel it.

[@tek5358]

Thanks I needed the laugh today, love the depth you covered this in, and wow the effort. Overall outcome is awesome, Thanks and I appreciate the quality content

[@roninricker3322]

Ive been waiting for this episode! Gonna use some of the concepts for a semester project. Love the channel =)

[@PatrickOliveras]

This is the best use of cloud credits. Period.

[@_pnky]

I am new to the channel but this has very rapidly become one of my absolute favorite. The fact that this channel has only 350k subs is an absolute tragedy and just increases my disappointment with humanity. You are a stud Mr. Freedman!

[@feyntmistral1110]

I'm a LITTLE sad you didn't name him Quag Sir. Musical episode when? Also, can we get a "Daisy, daisy" short when downgrading the servers from Oracle beef to local bacon?

[@AgentAsteriski]

One year later, I think I can *almost* think of how a musical episode could work. There's a few intermediate steps that don't exist yet but sound plausible to a dumbass who dabbles in vocal synthesis, and it definitely couldn't be real-time, but I think it could be possible to make Christopher improvise insulting little ditties if we give them enough beef.

[@psychicknight7255]

As a person who only knows tiny bits of coding (just really to make videogames), that basically doesn't have the brain made to handle this caliber of technical knowledge, this is mind blowing Can't say much more because this left me kinda speechless, this is extremely impressive

[@QualityDoggo]

that is amazing and terrifying... actually I'm really happy to see that live-text-processing has gotten so good - I'm always annoyed when a virtual assistant completely misunderstands an easy question but it makes sense that they're run with fewer resources

[@ShubhamBhushanCC]

4:46 loved the Jordy Peterson joke!!

[@MisterBlack83]

Im so glad i found this channel, its sooo entertaining, I love everything about this chaos!

[@marioa6186]

This guy is just a radioactive accident away from turning into a super villain. I freaking love it

[@ghostagent3552]

you know what, your little quagsire definitely needs their musical video

[@jdatlas4668]

oh gods you actually did it. I really don't know why I ever believed you wouldn't.

[@aiiaznsk8er]

The only reason I've even considered Oracle cloud is because of your video. well done.

[@Xydail]

you can also solder to the pads on the underside of the pi. Its basically the same as the micro usb cable only that you can easier use cables with a higher diameter and save the bulky micro usb port. Also you can solder directly to the USB port. I use silicone cable for that since its way more bendy.

[@Coldfirebe]

Omg i lovd this so much...PLEASE give him some love with some hardware upgrades like more silent servos and ...rainbow LED's ? Make it into the furby we all wanted and need...

[@sabertoothanimations2912]

LMAO I love how you hid the left and right joke in there, clever way to do so lol

[@sethpolevoi4027]

I didn't really get anything from this video, but the robot manatee is so cute

[@yongewok]

Zack Freedman always arrives with amazing allocation of action packed alliteration.

[@2degucitas]

Speeding by at 80 mph.

[@MayroSMM]

LOVELY QUAGGY 💙💙💙💙💙💙

[@adammills4099]

Very epic Zack, seriously impressive software stapling

[@Ph4n_t0m]

how did you EVER keep a straight face with Christopher's snappy quips?!?

[@averybalancedbreakfast7637]

thats actually amazing, i love christopher

[@georgeboswell4319]

I love this, thanks for the great videos! I'm especially excited for the keyboard videos

[@erasethepatterns1]

I was skeptical until I heard the very last part! You sir earned a subscriber. I'll think about the bell next time.

[@retrogamingmodding2262]

That open source Voice assistant is gonna come in so handy for my extreme HUD project (think iron man style but a little bulkier) I hadn’t even thought about voice assistance but after you made me realise it I knew I’m gonna need 2 pi modules (one for the primary processing (for video passthrough) and one for the Voice assistant)

[@AzaB2C]

Nice! Welcome to the misused AI infused stuffed toy club! Recommend Raspberry PI 4 for no cloud required speech recognition.

[@brooksmatthewjohn]

I love how you decided take $50,000 worth of access to state of the art tech, and fucked it off to produce an animatronic asshole. This is the top tier content I come to this channel for!

[@donedane2269]

not having him first say "hello world" was a missed opportunity

[@Natman4000]

Zach this is exactly what we thought you would do when you grow up, bravo!

[@TheTechAdmin]

0:17 Did you name him Christopher because of what you see when you look out the window? ;-)

[@TitanTrigger]

Dude, I've not found a favourite youtuber that fast before! :D

[@craigfourie3485]

You don't have enough subscribers to truly realize the hilarity of your mind. You better milk that server fast for years of content!

[@piconano]

You have the weirdest projects and I love them all...

[@adrien2471]

Can't wait for the musical episode!

[@startedtech]

I think feeding quagsire GPT-4Chan would be fun.

[@George-ls7dd]

I love this channel. Smart, funny, what more do you need.

[@AquaticSCP]

zack theres a typo in the oracle link, accidentally added WF.

[@stratusgeret3794]

There are huge companies working on AI Assistance and there is Zack

[@briancrouch4389]

another awesome episode. thanks!

[@lorupa]

The amount of data you spew out in these videos is quite insane :D I watch you at 0.75 speed

[@bender9205]

I'm sure you've got a ton of projects but I'm working on a 3d printed fixed wing drone and thought it might be right up your alley. Super fun and interesting to delve into.

[@brendanjennings9927]

we use those mics in the studio as room mics so we can easily hear the entire live room from the studio mainly for communicating but we also used it in some mixes cant remember the brand but it was on peak

[@brendanjennings9927]

this made me miss kitting and moving nt200s for 30 minutes with this drummer and seeing what wanted a room mic with his overheads as a part of some coursework lmao

[@freescape08]

I would love to find out if that digital assistant gag actually worked on anyone's devices. If it did, I gotta say, that's probably the assistant to go with. I've never seen one pick up a voice that a normal speed without pauses, let alone a speed that left me processing for %150 of the talk time.

[@chrisvitale98]

I find the servo sounds not cheap but quite endearing. If my children made the same sounds when they were moving I could stop constantly wondering where they went and why they didn’t put out the trash and recycling.

[@overreactengine]

1:35 I appreciate this so much

[@DefaultFlame]

"A 3D printer might be the hammer that makes everything look like a nial, but sometimes you'd be better of with a rock." Words to live by.

[@Malaphor]

Thanks man, my mom loved that text you sent her.

[@cocomoejoe]

Hey, good to see an upload!

[@gordonwong2260]

quagmire is such a dopey looking pokemon, but it makes for some funny bits

[@richardepps8500]

I really wish I had the $20,000 a year to be able to run one of these year-round. It would be my best friend...

[@SuperEdiggity]

Can’t wait for that musical episode!!!!

[@margotfreedman8863]

Love the MOM shoutout! Taking it personally. 😘

[@kamo7293]

5:45 I wonder if that got anyone. what a wholesome prank

[@JT-2]

Hey just wanted to let you know, that those studio monitors (21:30) might need to be isolated from your desk with foam (usually there is foam that comes with it but idk) because else your desk might resonate with your speakers and can give false or bad sound impressions

[@trbdann2]

5:42 wholesome evil, I love it I am impervious, as a superior heaphone user

[@monad_tcp]

13:47 you can run deep speech in real time on cheap hardware ! only need some optimizations and manually compiling tensorflow.

[@starfire2133]

20:11 "The letter z, and i double struck it for some reason" Oh if only you knew what would happen

[@VerdASMR]

This... is... just. Amazing. I love it.

[@grayfox_yt]

@9:38 are the ideas that keep me coming back. And clean your room.

[@skulfate]

well if this is how the robot uprising starts I wont mind until they start recruiting furbies.

[@EyeKnowRaff]

The Amazon/Google/Siri voice activation troll was 🤌

[@chuckthetekkie]

I don't use Google or Alexa voice assistant and I set Siri to only listen if I press the Siri button on my devices so you failed in your attempt to take over my device. Also I was listening using headphones so my devices couldn't hear you anyway. LOL. Keep up the great work.

[@640kareenough6]

For a good few years Google assistant would actually respond even when I had headphones on. Someone would just say "OK" is a video and the fucking assistant would come up although I had headphones on

[@JarrodsTech]

ACQUIRE THE SIRE

[@GrandNebSmada]

This is your best project. Maybe not technically, but definitely in reality

[@lukeh990]

“Open shelf off the source” 🤣🤣

[@GunnerRA155]

Alexa said "I'm having trouble hearing, can you say that again?" lol

[@NyeMechworks]

With Opensphinx you can have speech recognition without relying on the cloud (if you're paranoid like me), however if you have an unusual voice, such as my deep one, it doesn't work particularly well. Could also just be my crappy microphone.

[@justinbanks2380]

You have introduced me to a whole new rabbit hole of stuff to look into and build... I thank you know (and might curse you a bit along the way, but will thank you in the end, lol) You mentioned in the beginning that you were going to use the second most powerful open source ai, which made me wonder what the first was and why you didn't use it if you knew the one you went with was not as powerful. More accessible or easy to use? Also, if you are ever planning on revisiting or remaking/modding it, while trying to find the most powerful you were referring to, I found an article talking about Hugging Face releasing BLOOM on July 12, 2022 that uses 176-billion parameters and is multilingual. Which all just sounds insane! Keep making the awesome projects and being your hilariously awesome self!

[@UKfromadrone]

jesus Zack keep your apartment as clean as your office... ah never mind, I am sure you spend more time in the office than in your apartment...

[@SirFlukealot]

Finally, a use for that ultra powerful enterprise compute server I have in the attic.

[@tonyb9785]

This content is gold, per usual.

[@cchaffin2012]

amazing!!! I love this so much wish I had time to learn how to do all this and the attention span to do it

[@daghtus]

Oracle sponsoring this episode? Great to see even corpo rats appreciate this hilarious geek lab. Zack is apparently getting noticed. Or he has friends at Oracle. 🤷

[@hansdegroot652]

Hi. Since you don't seem afraid of anything what about auto focusing glasses. Or glasses that can go from +2 to -1 at touch if a button. Or maybe a voice command? Autofocus would be cooler though

[@isaacmartinez442]

Anyone know a good video where they cover extra components to have on hand for 3D printing? There’s never a time where I am watching a 3d print video and they bust out springs, ball bearings, suction cups, and other things that I just don’t have on hand.

[@2degucitas]

Quagsire is the loyal friend everyone needs. And he'll spit mud on your enemies.

[@treeomatic]

Every one of your videos feels like an episode of xavier renegade angel with all the jokes I miss when watching it for the first time

[@FCWW87]

YES to the musical!!!

[@Zeigren]

Thanks Jreg, very cool 😎

[@awndolznmowdlzkwndznwua]

Why NOT evil? Make him evil. Connect him to the internet and let him learn. Cause the end times

[@xTheUnderscorex]

He exists to advertise Oracle, that's at least a bit evil

[@quagsire727]

I like that the Pokédex of Quagsire literally is saying it’s stupi but you made it smart

[@ZackFreedman]

OH NO HE'S GOT A KALASHNIKOV RUN

[@mindshelfpro]

This is the first video I had to run at less than 1.0 speed. Maybe I'm sleepy, are others sleepy too? But I loved the video!