A Robot That Picks Tomatoes Out of Your Salad

it's not as stupid as it sounds okay I love it when they put the whole red tomato you can just boom right into the garbage where it belongs plus it doesn't get its you know sticky booger tomato [ __ ] all over everything I posted that back in 2017 and for two years I've been thinking of ways to get tomatoes out of my salad and out of my life fast solution one is to just not put little red [ __ ] bombs filled with bitter garbage and my goddamn salads [ __ ] yucky locally like tomatoes yeah well some people like not vaccinating their kids it's it's whatever so what am I gonna do pick tomatoes under my salad for the rest of my goddamn life no that's it's a silly childish solution no what I did was build a robot that stabs them with a giant metal spike I think your ideas are stupid just because I made a video on them you haven't seen [ __ ] I'm you on musk of bad ideas if Elon Musk was a three foot tall Filipino and dumb before we can think about detecting the tomatoes we have to first figure out how to move a big-ass metal spike from point A to point B really precisely so that when we do detect them were able to stab the ever living [ __ ] out of them if it looks familiar that's because it's the corpse of my very first 3d printer that I made a video about way back when I used to cut my hair apparently but I rebuilt it so that now instead of a 3d printer extruder it has a big-ass metal piston spike big-ass metal piston spike the middle piston spike big metal piston spike I am so excited about this because it has enough power to go clean through my hand if I'm not careful and I missed Tomatoes how has no one stopped me from making YouTube videos well Michael I hear you ask aren't 3d printers for 3d printing objects how are you even gonna get that thing to move I could send up some special instructions and won't be able to tell the difference between us 3d printing an object and a skewering a disgusting [ __ ] tomato now for the stabbing I hijacked the fans signal on the 3d printer board itself so now when I send the command to turn on a fan from my computer instead of turning on a fan big metal piston spike god that's scary you know I've never actually seen this stabbed anything before so I grabbed this Apple from the kitchen just to test out the spike power wow it's really uncomfortable putting my hand under there I don't like that that worked way better than I thought it would I mean it's picked it off it [ __ ] picked it up as amazing as this is I was still positioning and triggering the spike manually for my computer that's duty hopefully with some fancy computer vision code will be able to detect all these bitter red landmines in my salad and it'll automatically position the spike over them and pluck them out with the might of Zeus right now we have to detect the exact positions of tomatoes within a salad or else the big metal piston spike machine that we built is gonna be useless to get a video feed I flex tape this webcam to a tripod to stare at the salad at all times saying these things out loud makes me sad I'm gonna go kind of fast cuz it's like 1 or 2 or 3 thousand lines of code and also that's that's nerd [ __ ] here's the video from the webcam pretty boring ok so then we run this color mask over that video to isolate only the red pixels on the screen but oh they kind of look like [ __ ] because tomato skins [ __ ] reflect it for some reason so it has all these black splotches so we do some more image processing over here to isolate them and close up those red splotches then you reapply that to the original image and then run blob detection over that to detect clumps of like pixels and then you reapply the detection on that back to the original mask and then bing-bang-boom that's it that was all I had to do you run that and you get the detections what does all this mean I don't [ __ ] remember the way I code is I drink lots of monster and pass out for eight hours it's kind of like alcoholism but less productive by themselves tomato detection software and Spike machine are pretty cool but you put them together put them didn't you get a machine that extracts tomatoes from my salad or a machine that explodes tomatoes all over my salad because the spike is going 50 miles an hour I hadn't really thought about I'm glossing over like a thousand or 1500 lines of code to make it easy and less born but if you really wanted to see it here is on the screen right Oh times up you missed hopes it's always okay so it's not as portable as a Nintendo switch alright but what do you [ __ ] want for me it's all put together we got tomato detection hooked into the big metal piston spike machine now there's only one thing left to do I got a salad here but it looks like scuffed rat [ __ ] I wonder why that is oh it's cuz it has yucky [ __ ] tomatoes in it let's fix that that's good enough for me it works on a cyclical detection system so it evaluates the video finds the tomatoes and then sends the spike after them then repeats the process because after you send the spike as you might have noticed you don't really know how the salads gonna look to which you might ask Michael why do you need such a big spike to which I'd say shut the [ __ ] up have you ever thought about that have you ever just till it's just constantly checking for tomatoes right now it doesn't see anything but if I add if I add my at I don't want to put my hand in there I add one it should look for it and then summer sucks I love it so much it doesn't matter how many tomatoes there are either because my code sends special instruction packets containing every single detection to the printer flash bike yeah big metal spike Melton spike car but that's not it no one cares this is one of the greatest inventions in human history this is this generations fire or running water or Minecraft I can't keep it all for me I have to share it with someone else I will have it gone you hungry you look pretty hungry let me get you some cereal alright let me get you some cereal here you go well I'll get you your cereal don't worry here you go here you go oh god it's Tomatoes that's not cereals don't worry you know I can do something about this we'll come with me come with me and I can help you with it come on up into my hobbit hole come on up come on up and get those tomatoes out of your carbon monoxide yeah yeah it really does all right William Osmond you wanna fix your fix your cereal be really fast about it though hell yeah oh you look surprised you look surprised that's something I made work be quick the camera has some automatic white balance but I can change it I have on the fly like that's why I different don't worry it'll adjust the white balance changes the [ __ ] you want to get a salad from Costco my machine kind of messed up the last one I have it's completely different yeah it's also daytime we'll have a follow my god alright let me get a salad please thanks for the pizza [ __ ] you [Music] finally after a hard day I can relax with the salad tea and a good book put that there that there Oh No the Costco lady was trying to poison me there tomatoes in it if only we had a toaster no maybe it's a rice cooker on time I am half Filipino but I don't think that'll help if only we had something oh is that a sharper image big metal piston spike machine for removing Tomatoes what did we get that that's pretty good there yet they remained muffled till they instinctively picked at his ear and pulled out a log sighs wax the size of a date part of the ceiling opened like the wet towel pulsing and it buried it [Music] now Frank lived across the back street from a morbidly obese lady called Miss Montez who pretended to be a widow widowed pole dancer but was quickly a PETA agent oh my god [ __ ] reading got all of them I mean it buried some of them so I picked somehow thanks for watching the video if you liked it and subscribe or don't it doesn't matter we're all gonna die someday anyway what does matter is that I finally get to eat my salad without tomatoes in it hope you guys have a good day it still tastes like [ __ ] here's the part of the video or asked a random rhetorical question and you get that feeling in your stomach that I'm about to transition to a sponsor segment but you know what doesn't taste like [ __ ] honey like that oh the smooth transition into today's sponsor honey you know what else is a smooth transition is getting honey in your browser now we're gonna pretend you haven't already heard what honey is from 60 other youtubers what is honey honey is a free shopping tool that sits in your browser and scans the internet for the best promo codes when you checkout online it's really simple honey works on over 30,000 sides but personally I use it on sites like these to buy I don't know if you'd call it dirt cheap Chinese electronics but it's it's dirt cheap Chinese electronics you just got to go to join honeycomb Slattery's ad and browse or bing bang boom add that to Chrome 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Channel: Michael Reeves

Views: 11,555,884

Rating: 4.9502792 out of 5

Keywords: robot, funny, spike, metal spike, 3d printing, tomatoes, salad spike, code, programmer, hacking, stupid robot, arduino, raspberry pi, pneumatics, IT, electronics, satire, tomatoes are bad, IOT, computer vision, blob detection

Id: c2gq4IwIc_s

Length: 11min 37sec (697 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 06 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/killmongersusamuru]

Micheal reeves is the shit

[u/drkensaccount]

I grew up hating raw tomatoes and thinking I was the only one because they're on fucking everything. This is the greatest invention ever!

[u/fireballkhan]

Ayyy Michele reaves is my dad

[u/theshutterninja]

Not shitty, this is a need.

[u/GoldFishPony]

Woah I never expected Michael Reeves to be this relatable, he’s a true hero, never have I seen a robot with such an important use.

[u/Kurdonthego]

I hate tomatoes this is perfect

[u/ShrimpToothpaste]

Is Monster energy drink considered tea in US?

[u/Rawrination]

This is the king of shitty robots. Him and that girl that survived brain cancer should tag team for something amazing(ly shitty)

[u/randomizeplz]

As a person that hates raw tomatoes this is relevant to my interests