I Overclocked Operation

do you love operation but you hate that you only experience mild discomfort when playing it do you pull a horse out of a man's thigh and think to yourself God I wish I could program this game to do whatever I want hi welcome to bringus Studios my name is John if you're like me you suffer from being a [ __ ] idiot and just can't leave well enough alone because of it today I'm going to take you on a journey and together we're going to make my dreams into a reality now not your dreams just mine let's get started step one is to get a copy of operation which is easy enough everything else is going to be a little more difficult cuz I mean there isn't much research being done in the field of operation modding these days so I'm going to have to come up with how I'm going to make the greatest version of operation ever played all by myself here's what that looks like to me it's got to be more powerful if Grandma sits down to play this thing and she doesn't get a heart attack it's not strong enough it's got to be programmable look at this thing a single game mode in 2024 Hasbro hasn't updated this thing one bit since 1965 the plan is to offload all the game logic to a computer which will then send commands to the game to rumble the motor the game should also be able to tell the computer when the player is a level zero bad kid and messes up but how are we going to do that cuz remember what I said about the game not being updated since 1965 yeah there's really like nothing in here I'm going to have to add all of my own Hardware to do what I've got in mind there's going to be three major components that all need to get connected together we need a motor that's much more powerful than the original one that's going to be doing the rumbling a microcontroller that can receive signals from the computer to rumble the motor as well as report back to the computer when the player has made contact with the walls of each of the object Chambers what do you call this area in here it's like a person pocket okay yeah no we're just going to call it the object chamber we also need a motor controller that will amplify the signal coming from the microcontroller the reason we need this at all is because the microcontroller is what well dude is puny they can only send out 3.3 volts of power this is what 3.3 volts looks like not too bad but what if we went higher oh I don't know 12 volts it's a lot more fun I ordered some of these large torque 12volt Motors on Amazon as well as various motor controllers for the microcontroller I'm going to use a Raspberry Pi Pico since I still have a lot of these things lying around from my GameCube miniaturizing days and I'll admit I'm a bit of a dummy with the microcontroller stuff nowadays the last time I ever played with anything like this was to make this epic little RC car when I was like 14 look at this thing we got a gigantic Lego wheel on the front comprised of smaller Lego Wheels this thing's actually sick I should make another one anyway I heard that the Raspberry Pi Pico natively runs python which is my programming language of choice I slapped some basic code together to run the motor for 10 seconds that's 50% speed want to see a 100 and after seeing the raw power of just one of these motors naturally I bought three more testing code with these is kind of a pain since they refuse to stay in one place but I persevered and after an hour of stumbling my way through python with the help of chat GPT I had reached my first Milestone the code is now finally functional look at this look at this which motor two how hard 20 how long 10 seconds hit enter look at that look at that wa that looks trippy but anyway the computer can now tell this Pico to tell this motor driver to power this motor not only that but check this out hit this button a couple times and the computer knows what you did technology is wacky we now have two-way communication between the Pico and the computer a way to sense contact and a way to drive the motors the problem though is that this is all disgusting look at this I was soldering jumper wires d directly to the Pico yeah return to monkey with that one but wait hold up what's the deal with this guy it turns out that the USB port on the pi Pico is really only good for programming the thing and not great for communicating back and forth so unfortunately to interact with python programs that are running on PC I'm going to have to go through a dedicated serial adapter which is what this Arduino Mega is acting as until the proper adapter that I ordered shows up it's silly it's very very silly and this is a serious Channel I can't have silliness like this bam proper pin headers minus 100 silliness bam the proper cereal adapter minus 1,000 silliness you know this has got to be the most serious project I've ever done never mind wow this thing is way more of a piece of flimsy crap than I thought it was going to be look at this there's like nothing to it either way we can work with this with the electronics figured out it's time to make modifications to the board game itself to make use of them huh the screw keeping this in is under under the paper which is like plasty riveted in so that's epic all right I'm going to have to do [Music] it oh my God the fumes from this are making me age 25 years oh my goodness man I need a moment here oh you know what instead of inhaling all of that toxic melted plastic air I'm going to use my new favorite flavored air device from fume what the heck is this well for one it's the sponsor of today's video and two it's just a really smart way to break bad habits fume doesn't have any Electronics look it's it's just a flavor core in here this one in particular is white cranberry and it tastes fantastic and if you're a big mint person they have a crisp mint pack with a really nice and strong cool mint flavor it definitely ended up being my favorite here's the clip from when I first tried it wao crisp mint flavor is wild wo I have it on about halfway airf flow I don't even need it that high the flavor comes through like crazy there's no vapor and no harmful substances with fume it's just you the housing and the allnatural flavor core I've personally been trying to limit my caloric intake lately and instead of reaching for a snack I just leave my fume on my desk and I use this instead head to trif nume.com bringus or scan the QR code on the screen then enter code bringus to get 10% off when you get the journey pack today all right this has actually been a really nice break from dissol in my lungs with ABS plastic fumes so uh let's get back to it bada bing bada boom it didn't stand a chance what's inside operation one of these but tinier okay I kind of just want this Dome thing hold on let me get the MRSA off I also want this wire thank you and this led which is once again like plasty riveted on oh that's gross that's nasty oh my God the fumes all right thank you for the LED and I guess up yours to everything else okay so now I actually have something tangible to work with here for figuring out where all the components are going to go this is what I'm currently working with so we've got this little magic man that communicates from the computer computer sends commands to this guy it sends them to the P Pico Pico sends them to the controller Pico sees a button press in the form of this it sends that to the serial adapter serial adapter snitches to the computer so it's actually pretty simple but now it's just a matter of kind of fitting everything in places and putting the motors and all four corners so I'm going to do that just like I did in the secretly gaming in public video I took a top- down photo of the game and then imported it into Fusion 360 by tracing around all these extrusions that the object Pockets make here on the back of the board I can make a 3D printed piece that fits between all of them and uses them kind of like an anchor to keep all the components in place this one here is for the motor controller and the Pico and then this one is for the USB serial adapter due to the sheer girth of both the motors and the motor controller I'm going to have to raise the game up a little bit these walls around the corner of the game will give us the clearance that we need to mount everything and they're also a convenient place to put all the motors with the board complete all I have to do now is finish up the code which took way longer than designing and building the whole thing I really really wanted the PC to be running the game logic and getting everything to talk back and forth over serial was really not as trivial as I was hoping but since I put in the work to do it that way you can now integrate the board game into literally any Python program you can think of I made a whole library for it everything is finally working well enough to give it a test drive wait what is this one what the heck is this supposed to be okay that's going in last this is a whole this is a mammal this is a mammal this is an actual [ __ ] an actual animal inside of this dude oh and it's a horse oh I wonder if this guy's ever been to enum claw wait and there's a rubber band okay this is apparently the ribs I got scammed I got scammed out of the rubber band Hasboro come on man how am I supposed to play Operation without my rubber band this is this is my own rubber band B yo RB I got to Loop it around twice cuz it's too big all right I don't have a title for this thing yet but this is the first game of cracked out operation here we go okay doing good oh found the rubber band I'm sorry Hasbro I'm so sorry okay one down [ __ ] dude I I know it's coming I built this thing and it still surprises me little apple bottom bastard I'm spooked I'm big spooked switching to right hand no two down there we go Wish Bone easy enough broken heart oh I should make a sequel where I hook this up to a t unit I'm twitching in anticipation now I'm being oh my I'm being conditioned by the game this is only at 80% power too oh dude I I don't know how this is going to look on camera if my reactions seem exaggerated I swear they are not God I'm just that jumpy all right spare ribs butterfly down no no okay I just need to do it I need to get it over with to get in here look at that they weren't lying when they said bread goes straight to your waist no what's happening why why did that happen you guys saw that you guys saw that it was just popping off I wasn't even touching it look at that I got the water [Music] bucket all right let's get the horse out this man enough horsing around ah no where'd it go you dude oh it's way in there no it's not coming out [Music] no so loud the Y [Music] dude hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey no horse removed just like an num claw [Music] wrench no stop no I'm not touching [Music] it oh you I'm going to have to just put up with it for a second M okay not bad not bad no wrench removed now it's just a pencil oh D dude absolutely sick that was calculated rubber band rubber Band Man rubber Band Man how is this one supposed to be hard that was so easy hold on let me use the OEM rubber band okay the correct rubber band is installed what the heck that's the easiest one I saved it for last cool well now the next step is after working through some more of the bugs in the code and then creating some game modes for it it's finished I present to you operation except it has four 12volt Rumble Motors and it's fully controllable via serial and can easily be controlled by any existing python script the project is finished the code is done I have on my Sunday Best let the games begin for round one the power level is going to be increasing every single time I remove one of the objects and by the last object which is the horse we should be at 100% power speaking of our object our order today is the rubber band I wrote down tweezers but this is the wishbone the pencil the bucket the Apple the bone the ribs the wrench the bread the heart the butterfly and finally the horse starting off at 10% this one's easy then band is easy easy ain't nothing to it all right increasing we are now at 17.5% Power Wishbone oh easy it's like it ain't even rumbling I didn't feel nothing 25% pencil [Music] time oh almost got me there we got him we got him 32 and 12% bucket time the bucket is easy 40% Apple time oh the apple is in there okay we're starting to get into spooky territory yeah we sure are dude it's so in there how how am I supposed to get this no I'm G to have to just endure it all right here we go almost we got it we got it 47 1/2% bone bone easy sorry 47 1.2% we'll never know what you feel like cuz we're on to 55% ribs easy oh easy it's sorry 55% we're on the 62 1/2% wrench ooh wrench is going to be a little tricky little icky tricky little icky sticky tricky Oh Come here little guy hey little guy I just want to get you out of this man's foot ah how are you supposed to get this one no yeah you can pick it up like that okay M we're not no no okay okay we're not playing nice anymore apparently okay dude I know thank God okayo rad time 70% I hate the bread it doesn't even look like bread looks like a tooth easy bread easy 77.5% we're getting close to the initial test that I had done earlier now at 80% heart wow yep that's what I remember oh the heart sucks they make you think there's an easy way to pick it up but there's not there's not oh yo yo okay it got kind of wedged in the thing all right I'll take it I'll take it we have reached 85% no man has played this game at this power level before and I'm getting the butterfly that was very easy looks like we're going oh it's only at 92 I think I did my math wrong okay going to 100% my Nemesis the horse I don't like the horse I really don't like the horse Christ that smells like burning whoa oh my God it unplugged itself all right we're back when the wires come loose this thing is built to fail on unfort fortunately and it would take a lot of work to make it not do that but it would probably be worthwhile dude that really doesn't smell good can I shake the game like a you know like when you're trying to get a soda out of the vending machine oh I can shake the game just like this um I'm going to have to glue down some of these cables yikes [Music] y let's go let's go that's right operation I bested you that's game mode one there's another one I want to try but first I need to glue down the cables in here so they don't come out we do a little bit of gluing all right the board has been glued now we're playing time attack I have 60 seconds to complete the game every 5 Seconds you're going to hear this which means the power level it's going to go up let's play all right ban done Wish Bone yikes yikes yikes at least it's not that bad all right which one done uh what is it pencil pencil done bucket oh oh [ __ ] it done Apple oh we're really getting up there Apple done bone bone oh Bon's already out nice ribs yikes wrench wrench Wren how much time do we have 23 seconds no dude this one's really tough wrench done bread oh come on dude bread bread done heart oh I'm so lucky oh I got so lucky on the heart all right butterfly ow ow holy crap how much time 4 seconds horse horse get the horse now get the horse I had seconds run it back all right ban done [Music] Wishbone easy enough uh what was it a pencil easy bucket easy apple oh not so easy not so easy apple done bone bone done ribs ribs done wrench oh yikes dude oh that's usually where I choke all right bread done heart heart oh I'm going to get [ __ ] up I'm going to get no heart no no heart no heart no no heart no heart done do I even have enough time butterfly no dude I the butterfly no butterfly done horse I don't have any time oh it bugged whatever I had 3 seconds to go I wasn't going to make it okay well clearly I'm not skilled enough to play this game but you know what's great about this thing is that you don't have to play just this game you can program the whole freaking thing in Python maybe even like integrate it with other games on like a stream you know who sounds like they'd have a lot of fun doing something like that am I am I just do I just not know python the scope is fine in Python okay I guess the be Factory Works in Python cuz python doesn't make any sense if it's heads and then went up spawning Dragon you know what never mind we're going to start running huh anyway [Music] [Applause] [Music] gaming

Channel: Bringus Studios

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Keywords: bringus, bringus studios, jon bringus, bringus operation, pi pico projects, raspberry pi projects, pi project ideas, diy, maker, 3d printing, modding, hacking

Id: X2btNF_O6hE

Length: 22min 23sec (1343 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 20 2024