250,000 DOMINOES! - BEHIND THE SCENES. The American Domino Record

all right I'm ready okay you wanna show us show us what this one is yeah this is a games themed domino setup and as we walk by just be careful if you have anything that's loose like gloves like this strap or even this strap make sure it's on or it's like pull away on the bleachers stay inside of the caution tape no going over it and be aware of those cones as well okay so I'm ready over here this is a very start table you have two different sections in this part of it is dominoes and then part of it is a chain reaction machine so we have like random objects and board games moving in in a kinetic way so for example this is a very start someone's gonna pick this up and drop it and then that's gonna punch fold this board game table so this you start with a Rube Goldberg then yeah it's essentially a Rube Goldberg machine cool throughout this dominus setup and then it's gonna go all the way down to the dominoes this is a cool project where we have some dice inside of these cups and then they're gonna like fling out can I put some on put the camera over here so there's dice in there and then they fling out start that okay cool get it yeah mousetrap that's actually gonna go off the game mouse trap yeah but I mean is it's not it's not integral into the into the whole thing is it it is but we have one so in case this fails another line will okay that's important because mousetrap doesn't always work visit no we played mousetrap okay cool so so you have a so sometimes instead of having everything in cereal you'll have a parallel path okay okay cool and then most of them do so do you have one critical path yeah the main line is always in it should be in a black Domino okay those are also the backup lines as well we use the same color so try like fine if we need like follow but you can easily trace out the black dominoes okay sweet god this is awesome this is really cool alright so I notice here you have you have a small Domino that goes all the way up to a big Domino right and it topples the whole thing what do you call this type structure a cube okay and that's just a common term I mean this this this stacking is there is there is there a term for that type of stack it's just a normal 3d structure most of the xxx structures like cubes and walls pyramids they all have the same sort of technique one is just a wall is just one layer what a cube has three dimensions okay gotcha what do you have here is just Simon this is I don't know what it's called but it's a spinner and I think what happens is a mousetrap is released which moves the hammer so who sets the mousetrap Wow okay so Steve specializes in machine design so you guys combined your powers for for good right it's awesome okay and what is this transfer called this is called a direction changer so what happens is the Domino line will go this way and this will spin and hit it in the other direction it's called a direction changer okay so it's a very compact mechanism just a do you remember the simple machine that's called you remember that you remember simple machines in school right you don't for okay he's got a she's got a pivot around an axle there yeah that's pretty cool on a needle oh really yeah that's cool okay so in case this whole domino section fales this is gonna be release and spin around and take like maybe a minute to topple there's a magnet on it so eventually when it slows down and it gets to the middle it'll move up and then I'll hit the domina lion-o really that one right there and so in this black so that's the main line yeah and the reason we're using this instead of a normal back line is because this this whole section right here might take maybe like 30 seconds to topple and that would be a lot of backup lines to fill in and we don't have space so it's a fail-safe gotcha okay so you actually use the twister mat over there Wow in in Scrabble here is another one of those three-dimensional structures which side does it start from over here yep so I noticed you have these oh it does it all at once yep it'll go in a line oh so you you have a wall but you're going to start it s but but even if you start at the s with the whole thing go no they're actually not connected if you look very closely in between each they're not connected it stops like on a square so each one is supposed to be like a Scrabble piece yeah it's just a big version of it got it do you actually like games okay cool like why even call it didi that's why I've kind of baited you into that have you guys thought about like having an aerial photography when you do this um it would be really cool to have a camera crane or like an overhead GoPro but okay how do we give you the resources maybe some more sponsors that's a good idea that's a really good idea our camera crews who have camera cranes so we have done projects with camera cranes but this is like this is like our project which we started ourselves and it's more for fun so this is the like this is the heart and soul of what you do forget all the forget all the yeah so this is what got you to your roots that's awesome well thank you for letting me participate with the logo I appreciate that this is one of my favorite this is a who designed this I didn't really actually one of my favorite projects that I built probably in this whole setup really yeah that's good I really I really like that alright so I have a question about why hold on I got I got a really admire this that's really good and you documented all this photos right yeah okay that's rad okay so this right here is this this isn't polandball is it what is this super smash brothers I'm so sorry I didn't even know it's rad so where does this start from so the main line here so I can really yes okay so this is a junction right here this is the backup line okay so the backup line comes here and so this is a tea that comes in and so you can get back to the main line over here through either one of these routes I see what you're saying yep gotcha so how how did you design this did you design this um Steve did these designs Steve how did you do this using Excel VBA where the cells in Excel are resized to match the layout of different Domino structures so there's a field planner for 2d fields and then there's a wall planner for these walls so this is a field planner here that's for the fallout logo there we do have a feel I can show you some of the papers basically you take an image and it will go over the picture and scan the colors and it will change the cells in Excel that match up with the Domino's to whatever fix the color it finds in the image you use uh-huh so you can drop a JPEG or something in it and it'll it'll just create it so at the end you'll end up with a picture of the field and you also get field instructions so it'll say like Row 1 set up 50 white then to red then 5 black so you just like follow these options wow that is that'd be cool if you could figure some out that are over there by the time we walk over there yep Debbie rad thank you Steve this is this one right here is beautiful where do you get I mean like you have this skin tone color dominoes where do you get these and they're like the best type of dominoes for building because they're actually specifically made for setting up and knock you down if you use normal dominoes they might be a little bit too heavy or they're rounded so you can't stack them really tall really yeah so you really need like a very specific very precise like edge dominoes like a right angle like at a very specific right angle in there like a sharp edge so no no they don't knock the edge off at all but they have to do they tumble them so there's no like burrs on them or anything like that like extra plastic on the side right yeah some of them are a little bit misshapen but most of them are at least perfect right angles okay I'm sorry I'm geeking out a little hard right now you don't understand this is a conversation I'm a wanting to have for at least three years how long have you been doing your channel eight years eight years okay so I got on board about it three years ago so thank you okay I'm back with you this is Sonic okay yeah this one's cool it's called an SOS field and it starts there actually taped down so they're not gonna fall and that's so if this one falls it won't like knock down these ones early so it'll go do this and then just sweep around do you see how she leans over those like it's no big deal okay that's awesome so what's more reliable Domino's or machines definitely dominus okay Steve why are you laughing way over there so Domino's are way more reliable the what why would you say that the night before the event Steve the oh my goodness did you hear that he's got a little Domino swagger here alright so this is the Triforce I really appreciate this whoever did this I did not build this but it is a very massive diamond pyramid taller than me actually it's fantastic and I appreciate it okay what do you have Steve teach us I have megaman field which is just over there okay this megaman and then I have the Galaga wall Wow further over there okay and then this is later on this is open that's only half of the plan good talk me through Mega Man good tell me look where's it at it's right over here yeah oh man I'm so nervous you guys nervous all right all right so you got a little minecraft Yoshi action over here all right got some angry bird stuff got a little okay there's a creeper okay so all right so with Megaman first I found the image online of him and naturally video game and cartoon characters are easier design and dominoes because they can be made with fewer pixels so tell me this do you design it for the fallen state yes what's that what's the term for the the non fallen state yes of a non toppled state would be called the set up state yeah so so how do you design this is it a hybrid between the two or we design it for the fallen state so you'll notice that the thickness right here is like it's thicker than the actual thickness of a domino there dumb is actually really thin okay when they fall over this is roughly the shape that's visible okay laying in a line together so that's how you get the the size of each cell and you the program the field planner is already resized to the perfect size that you need for a field so then you take the image it overlays it and you can stretch it out to however many rows and columns and you drop the JPEG in and it just makes it happen right and it just takes the RGB code like that does it take the hex code and then it tries to match something that you can actually purchase right it it finds the RGB code of the color and it matches it to the most similar Domino color that you own the first page of the program you list out all the colors they did you write this program yeah that's cool that's red I like it when people are just so into something they're like you know what the only solution is a program here that's awesome thank you for showing us that what is this after you're done with the field plan you end up with this field protocol it's crossed out because they obviously built it already but it's basically instructions for how to build it without having to so if you were just looking at this you would have to count out like how many white I need ah to start off each row this says row 170 you're at 70 why oh wow and six black then 30 white them that way you just look at this you just count it out and we have we sometimes get like an assembly line going for a larger fields like especially the Pokemon field which is 12,000 dominoes you can have one first and reading this out when person gathering the dominoes and putting them in a line one person loading the templates that's no way this is a template can I touch this can I touch this here all right it's just like this yeah it just turns out that the Legos are the perfect size to hold the Domino in between so you just fold them is it the perfect size though or do we need to use science to figure that out you think it's the perfect size okay you're the expert I'm not gonna argue with you that's cool and so so Steve what you're saying is if they say 70 why you'll get the 70 why how many is this this is got to be a unit right like 30 or something it's 40 so you'd fill it up and and what do these represent do these represent a certain number no that's just to hold it together gotcha so but you could be like you could put a little tab on there and say this is tant you could change the color or something customize oh you have a custom one Oh swagger Steve's gonna show us this custom Domino gauge okay that's the Galaga field final fantasy portal you member portal it's good you play it oh man final fantasy get the sword here that one's interesting because it's a crossing field so it's every we allow him am I allowed to walk right there yes stay here I'll be right back but you'll notice it looks kind of scrambled up and mixed up because every road is shifted over for Domino's and that way when the left side Falls and the right side Falls they'll shift over just a tiny bit to actually make the image so right now oh but once it falls and it moves it'll actually make ditty will you walk straight that way because I don't want to get close to that wall at all okay so what you're saying is we have we have some that come in from this side and some that come from that side and because of the position once they fall they create the image but right now it's jumbled up okay I'm nervous I'm leaving now all right I made it I did knock it over guys okay cool so this is software do that order you have to have a different thing to do that so it's just for you always no it's for Domino's it's weird Steve go he's going to get his swagger swagger stick you're getting your swagger stick okay all right what do we have here the small a large set is gonna hit this marble and it turns the switch on and the scoreboard is gonna count down from 10 to 1 and at 1 it's gonna make a really loud noise and then this this huge game over a wall is gonna toppled are you serious yep and this is actually the American dama record for the biggest domino structure this is right here yeah is that why there's some some scientist in there project and you worked on it then you sign your name and place it as one of the last dominoes really yeah that's a tradition in the community yeah Wow what do you call yourself in the domino dropping just tell me what are the words don't notice Darmon domino artist that's awesome that's really cool I would agree let me see your swagger stick Steve right so this is the side for building fields okay but flat Lego plates across the entire thing so that they slide easily into the slots okay and side is for walls so like the Galaga thing the first layer you need the perfect spacing use this side of it what do you mean the first layer uh the very becoming walk over there I noticed no one's wearing shoes what's the deal it helps you to have a smaller footprint so you can step in smaller areas and it also minimizes vibration so you don't like stuff too close to something and cause it to shake and topple ketchup okay so the first side is the regular feel template which you would also use for lines and you slide that out you know okay all right why doesn't this say like Steve swagger sitting on it I thought about it I thought about putting stickers under or something this is the first layer of walls gotcha notice it's the same spacing over there gotcha you have perfect spacing for the second leg art which you'll see the second leg is all staggered back and forth like that I see gotcha how long did take you to develop that this I did it and I actually did it in like a day I think but did it like did you refine it over the years yeah I well I had a I originally had a really bad like old fuel template just this part with just like random LEGO pieces that I had from sets growing up and when I really got serious I decided to design my own so I obviously drew out this entire thing out of Legos and then ordered the exact sizes and that I needed to make it that's owed the exact size Legos that's awesome okay but it did a it did evolve over time that's awesome man like any good tool that you would use for anything really right to include your visual basic program yeah how long how long have you been working on that 2014 when I had an engineering internship and I had a lot of free time because they didn't really have a lot of tasks for me so they just like are you an engineer yeah what kind of engineering mechanical dude we just became whatever we're done with you Lily have a good one are you an engineer well you're not gonna like this but I was gonna go into engineering but I decided to just do product design is that what you like yeah then I love it yeah that's awesome what do you mean by product design well they call it design innovation in society so you're designing like everyday objects and just it's kind of like it's also a humanities course so they figure out people's needs and what they need to need to do so they put that into the design it's not just making something that looks visually appealing it has to work have you read the book the design of everyday things not okay you love it yeah think about yeah I totally get what you're saying and I totally respect it it's a big deal I told it you know yeah it's a good one okay let's continue alright so you weren't joking that's literally on a needle isn't it can wind not set that off um air conditioning can actually twist that but when there's Domino's on either side it's not strong enough to not come over so if the dirty shooter was removed from the line standing on its own air conditioning could actually twist it around gotcha okay all right I'm game let's let's move along to the next thing so that's the game that's the very end right came over we didn't catch that that corner over there can we go look at that watch the cone everyone okay hold on just one second but are your shoes tied okay tie your shoes real quick I don't want your shoelaces to hit anything okay we've been dealing with the shoes thing today we want to make sure that we don't mess this up what is what is this right here yeah I mean no the one two three obviously it's like a are they going the other way hey Steve when you're over there will you pan that camera point to point this way leave it running please just pan it okay I'm with ya so this trigger right here is a Hot Wheels track yep and release the car to shoot out this way gotcha so you're not gonna load the cars till the end right safety caps okay have you ever set up a big field like this and you go to set up the safety gaps and he accidentally set something off if it's like before the fall down and it's live then you can't really rebuild it but if you're doing a project on your own then you could rebuild it but it's very risky doing the safety gap so it's always like the most high pressure thing really so do you load the safety caps before people come in we'll do most of the hard ones to reach now the day before and then as people start coming in we'll start doing the harder ones gotcha that's cool I noticed these clear these clear dominoes here so these are all your colors right how many variations in color can you purchase 38 different colors do you have a favorite can I see one yeah the normal bloom the normal boy like that one right there that's actually a darker blue I like this color blue Steve do you have a favorite colored Domino that one right that's tricky right there that that little edge this is your favorite old light orange there's two different light oranges there's two there's many different versions of a lot of different colors because the Domino company we buy from the shades have changed over the years so if you were to purchase old dirt sorry you were to purchase light orange from their website right now they're very different from the original light orbs that I bought many years ago where is the Domino company that you purchased these from they're based in Ohio really that's interesting have you thought about starting your own Domino company yeah what's the deal because you're all about designing products you're mechanical engineer do you know what cast urethane processes the cast urethane process cast see AST we'll talk about it later you can do some prototyping with that cool anyway you guys should do it alright I'm with you I'm back with you I'm sorry and this is another machine trick so this Domino is gonna hit next lever which does the mousetraps and the rackets gonna flip and hit the Brody meet up Thomas Wow yeah just as a backup this is pretty risky that's gonna pull out the bloopers on top of it and then they're gonna fling this way and hopefully knock down the white dominoes underneath if not we have another backup right here so two backups so you really want that that Tower to fall yeah okay so I have a question about this one I noticed that the racket is already loaded back on the side even then the mousetrap isn't loaded right now is that trees is the mousetrap ready to spring at this moment I don't think so so how is it so what's the deal with that the racket is too heavy for the mousetrap Hey so to be safe I've left it like this hey the way it's actually set as it leans up against this lever here okay which holds that right at the right angle so that when this and it just barely has enough force okay so you're right at that cam over point yeah Wow okay I believe you don't have to you want to play with fire anymore that's awesome that is rad that's cool okay so I'm gonna I'm gonna go on this side of the cone because that's the rule all right yeah because you're a little you can do whatever you want okay this technique in general is called sauna Maude say that one more time sauna mod which is Domino spelled backwards Domino spelled backwards okay and if you take out the first one it'll make a chain reaction go all the way down this way so because it's leaning up once it falls flat the one before it will no longer have a support so then the next one falls flat and then it just keeps going a chain that is a really interesting physics problem it's just like the brick domino effect if you've seen that the one that went viral the brick domino effect double domino effect so the bricks fall over and then there's a second wave that goes okay no I haven't seen that okay you should see I think numberphile did a video on that one oh really yeah Brady no we don't talk about Brady and numberphile and smarter every day do you watch numberphile good stuff good stuff alright so son Ahmad son Sanne my dominoes backwards okay what is this over here I notice you have a tennis court okay and this technique is called a turtle field and essentially we have Domino's that are stacked on top of each other yeah and once the bottom layer falls it'll have a wave effect so the top will crumble and just go this way is that a more advanced technique because I noticed I noticed the top Domino's are one-half on that edge you have to yeah mini dominos they're 1/4 the size of a normal domina huh yeah it's it's a more difficult technique you need an actual template made for the turtle technique to build this if you see underneath the spacing is exactly one half of a domino okay and that allows you to do the Domino's on top of it because it has to be resting exactly like halfway on either side to hold up that's awesome the the turtle technique reminds me of the roman shield method is that is that where gets its name do you know turtles have shells so the guide to the next guy next door would next door the guy beside one soldier would cover the guy beside him that makes sense that's what I was thinking about when I was thinking about that that was pretty cool that in it you're scared to talk around these dominoes aren't you there's a lot going on I could tell you a little nervous all right also designed using the field planner the football was designed that's interesting because you're mimicking a three-dimensional image with the two-dimensional plane with three-dimensional objects that's interesting yeah that's really interesting what do we have here I don't understand this I'm supposed to recognize this logo but I don't the turquoise and the blue those are waves and in the back is a swimmer OS see it I can see it mystic man yeah okay got it I just had my brain had to be calibrated for it sometimes it's hard to see if you're like up close but from the back you'll be able to tell so to connect sponsor thank you very much for letting me do that so this you did that last year too right yep you know I'm actually changing the logo on smarter every day after this video this video is like the last video using this logo it's gonna be something similar but are you guys going to do this every year this is actually the last incredible oisin event but he will definitely host more domino events in the future really be called something else really that's awesome well I would love to continue to support in any way I can I really like it so Zeile credit union is the one that really makes this happen for you and they provide really so you guys come from all over the country to do this and are they located here in Michigan yep really that's awesome so thank you to Zeile credit union for making this happen for the team that's fantastic there's a couple of things out in the middle that we didn't talk about you have the game of life Settlers of Catan do you like you haven't played it yet have you we should play it's it's it's really a good game oh it's great so oh wow Domino is out of dominoes I like that so whose so you get the the jersey over here what's it say gotcha sweet yeah what else in operation oh I saw I saw you flinch whenever you hear dominoes sound everyone like looks and thinks something that like knocked down by accident so when we're building if we need to do a test to make sure something works will scream test and then knock it down so people don't freak out and think that it might all by accident really yeah because I mean people get really upset yeah it's not a joke okay so what have you found your blood pressure checked yeah are you pretty chill person very low stress okay cool is there anything else you want to tell us about Domino's in general or the event I'm gonna I'm just going up with this huge video I think because it's really fun well news is like a new I don't care do whatever you want all right well don't is like a new type of and all I'm trying to do is spread this awesome art form because it's it teaches you like patience it teaches you physics math engineering like so many different things and I really want it to be recognized as an actionable art form and to get it out there more in the world so that is yeah this is right now like right this moment right now you were getting people to recognize domina as an art form I do I recognize enough where I got on a plane and came up here to hang out with you and my kiddos wanted to come up here with us they're tired because we've been flying all day but this is a big deal this is yeah that's also people like kids especially they love watching it fall so what's your what's your YouTube channel my youtube channel is called heaven five Bevis five okay cool and Justin Steve did something as well yeah his channel is called a space machine what's it called Steve sprites machines Steve price equals spice fantastic well I appreciate your time it's a big deal thank you for letting us come up here and I'm gonna calculate the speed of dominoes as a function of those four things okay cool anyway I'm Destin you're getting smarter every day this is Lilly Hamish five and that's Steve sprites machines you get smarter every day have a good one thank you this was awesome dad

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Length: 34min 12sec (2052 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 30 2017