Thanks for watching, everyone! To address some comments I’m already seeing pop up: I did use a 3D printed camera that replicated the weight for testing. The two cameras that broke weren’t from testing though, but from actually trying to get the shot! After that I used one of the dummy cameras for the drop tests, which already had scratched lenses so I couldn’t use it for the final shot but it did technically still work so I figured I could at least still get some shots with it till it fully died. I used the printed camera for the rest of the drops. And yeah I put an AirTag in the final shell for the final cannon day haha. I didn’t want to risk losing it again.
I understand you are passionate, but the way you acted was very unprofessional. Patience and accepting failure (without having a tantrum) is very important in life
There’s a difference between testing and trying to get a final shot. The water park was supposed to be the end of the video originally. Also I WAS using a dummy camera after talking with Freddie! It just so happened it could technically still record. The final 2 drop tests used the print instead though.
@@SirWrender Yeah but whyyy was there a final shot, you could've atleast test-shot it from one of your smaller cannons perhaps. Are there investor deadlines to meet?
@@toastyboye There's gotta be. But even if not, I'm sure the team also had their own schedules and deadlines to meet. I think that not being able to accommodate in their schedule for the failure of field tests was the biggest issue. (can't blame them though; this project, on paper, sounds to me as a small, easy, low-effort as well)
Based on the footage at 26:35, and assuming the canon position/pressure were the same, the actual coordinates should be 34°01'21.5"N 118°04'56.0"W (about 250ft west of your estimate). Gonna go look this week. Wish me luck! 🙏🤞
If you launch test objects like this, make sure to always use really cheap speakers that emit a sound for 15-20 minutes. Start out with a continuous sound for 5 minutes after launch, then go down to 5 second intervals until you reach 60 second intervals. It makes finding these things much easier. It can work as long as 2 hours if you set the interval high and use a tiny battery.
Came to say the same... small button battery, controller and a tiny speaker or even LED would make finding it so much easier. Even an Airtag in the rocket!
A more high-tech solution would be to use a few LoRa dev boards with Meshtastic. One on the projectile, one with you, and an optional 3rd to throw on a drone to get some elevation if you can't get a ping off of the projectile form the ground.
@@stephen-torrence As he said in the comment 2 days before yours, he did put an AirTag on the final one, but yeah, he should have had it on there sooner. A bit more forethought will help him in the future.
Hopefully someone will find it, one of those 360 Cameras being lost forever with rare footage and being probably in good condition is just a sad thought Good luck to anyone who goes looking
It's likely been pulverized by the impact in that hard pack gravel, but if it clipped one of the bushes on the way down it may have dissipated enough energy for it to be intact. I hope we get an update on it that will be really cool to find out.
23:54 There’s no way someone doesn’t find this camera with as much views as this channel gets. Someone with a metal detector, a done, a ton of time, and good old fashioned luck. I just hope we hear about the story when it happens!
I’m certain they’d have thought of this, but the original cameras were launching at 180mph and that last one over 200mph with no drag from a rogue parachute and exploded shell … so it’ll have travelled way further 🙈
As engineers, I'm surprised they didn't just use kinematics to better predict where it landed. They literally found the initial velocity and know the angle it was fired at, but didn't put the two together lol.
They should have used a ballistics application such as "Strelok Pro" and created a custom "bullet" with the correct data it would have landed within feet of "Strelok Pro's" predictions. The program is now actually banned from being downloaded in the US because Russia is using it to direct mortar and artillery fire into Ukraine.
For the future: 1) Checklists 2) Actually use the dummies until everything has been verified to work reliably (I know you used the dummy a lot and it was just cut from the video, but at least 2 cameras died unnecessarily) 3) Try your hand with CNC machining after you've test-fitted a 3d-printed prototype. Machined aluminium is much more resilient than most of the materials you can 3d-print
Checklists always seem like a huge waste of time ... Until you're running through them and you have to admit you would 100% have forgotten a mission-critical step without them!
I was thinking about that while watching this video, they had multiple failures of processes. Checklists/procedures could have prevented several of the issues demonstrated in this video.
If anything, this video is a testament to the value of: - checklists - acknowledging things _will_ break - planning time for testing & iteration (how long will it take to start again from scratch? make sure you can afford to)
airtag work using other phones, they get the location by estimating distance from the nearest iphones, that means if theres no one with a phone nearby it wouldn't work, but its a good idea tho
@@Ma6ic Yeah, but they have phones on them. They just need to get within range of the airtag and their phones have a better chance of pinging it than they do with their own eyes.
The AirTag would be seen by a phone searching for it from hundreds of feet away on its own. No other phone or network required. It would have pointed you straight to it. At most you’d have to roam the general area for a minute.
26:56 "I am shooting at 100 frames per second which drops the resolution down to 4k but that should still look pretty good" me, who's watching in 720p, "yea I think that should look fine"
😂 fair point, I’ll say that with 360 cams it measure the whole image, and the final result you only see a portion of the video, so 4K is relatively low if your only seeing less than 1080 image which I believe Wren was concerned about.
This was a terrific video. I love that the entire process was documented: the design steps, the reasoning, the failures, the lessons learned. Thanks for sharing it!
@@OppositeOpinion You've clearly never worked hard for a single thing in your life then if you can't understand a mans simple joy of weeks of effort and frustration turned into one glorious moment. Must be nice living in mommy and daddy's basement.
I'm a big fan of how Wren's videos are always about more than just creating a cool visual, or even the awesome engineering that goes behind it; he's always super forthcoming about the many complications and setbacks that make up both the creative process and the scientific process. It's nice to see someone reminding everyone how failure is an inevitable and inescapable part of making anything.
Ok so as someone who has previously launched several model rockets, including supersonic ones, Here are some tips: 1. Use a pyrotechnic or a gas cylinder as a charge for the parachute. Alternatively if you don't care as much putting the parachute in a side mount configuration using the "door" as a drogue to pull the parachute out is a good idea and is fairly reliable. 2. Put a GPS tracker (or as other comments suggest an Airtag) into the projectile. 3. This is a CANNON it has way more force than a normal rocket launch I'd run a few tests using the dummy cameras and the cannon together so you stop destroying cameras since it's never going to work on the first try.
HOLY NUTBALLS! I totally drove past you guys filming this! I was doing my bi-weekly commute between LA and LA that day and saw you all doing your thing and thought to myself "wow I have never seen so many people and cars over there before who looked like they legitimately were doing something non-terrible!"
Wren should have made a dummy of a dummy of the 360. 3D print the shape of the 360, fill it with something like sand to to match the weight of the 360 and then test it. Breaking so much 360 just breaks my heart too.
He made a 3D printed one and tested it out a bunch you can see it in the video The problem is even if the landing works, the force of launch and the force of landing can still jank up the internal components, like the second one they launched had it's SD card malfunction and the stabilization got all screwed, you cannot account for technical internal failure with just a shell that weighs the same
@@SevenZeroElevenof course you can’t test the impact of the internals with a dummy, but you can sure test your launch and parachute deployment without risking a camera. It’s not rocket science. …wait
Wren these point of view shots are incredible!!! Getting close to giving up is what makes the success worth it. The number of times I have a pile of "failed" prints like you had...and pushed through..more times than I can count! Great video my man!
I won't post all the math involved but I can say this; If the weight, velocity and wind speed were the same between the "failed/lost" shot and the next successful shot, the lost camera is about 18.78 feet farther. I'm assuming that the cannon was shot at the same angle but may have been slightly rotated on a Y axis. Start with where the next successful shot landed and add 18.78 feet (5.724 meters) to the radius of the new larger circle on the X axis. If that doesn't make sense, think of a larger ring circumnavigating something. The cannon is the center of these rings.
I remember in my early teens (2009) watching Backyard FX tutorials for my short films. Fast forward 15 years later watching Corridor Crew, it's so awesome seeing Erick Beck again. He was a pivotal figure in my love for diy building and creativity. Not to mention Freddie Wong too! I'm so glad you guys got together on this!
After the first time he asked if he started it, I was thinking they need a step list of exactly everything they need to do in the process. Like maintenance guides tell you to remove bolts instead of assuming you'll know you need to to get the cover off.
This is such a great video to show any engineering student. Your lesson at the end, that each step was a learning tool than a “failure” is such an important lesson to anyone. What a truly inspirational video! Thank you all for taking the time to make this phenomenal video!
I love how you can hear Wren's scream of victory in the first successful launch video, like that had to carry 600-700 feet to be audible in the Insta360 recording.
Never underestimate the power of a checklist! What an awesome project 🎉 It was really inspiring to see Wren keep refining the design and pushing through the setbacks 😊👍
Hearing you introduce Erik Beck along with the Indy Mogul intro sound-bite unlocked a core memory I had forgotten about. I used to watch their videos all the time when I was a kid. Love the collaboration.
Some thoughts if you do something like this again: 1) Keep the nosecone. It'll make things more aerodynamic, and can act as a crumple zone. 2) Use the most obnoxiously bright colored filament you have, so you can more easily spot it. 3) Maybe put an Airtag in it, or something similar that could help you locate it if you can't see it.
I love that RU-vid people are awesome and I am pretty sure someone will eventually find the camera and provide the footage. Btw, it was INSANELY wholesome to see the joy from Wren, when he finally succeeded. Awesome storytelling, guys.
“The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.” ― Adam Savage Fits neatly here I think, Wren is definitely the kind of dude who keeps records.
I'm a software engineer. People who just bash something together and then see if it works, stepping through in the debugger to see what goes wrong exactly, are the lowest on the totem pole. We teach _against_ doing that. Instead, plan and understand up front. Your "print and fail" approach is inferior to *doing engineering* , with numbers on paper. Why were you surprised that the launch forces destroyed the fairing? Just what were the launch forces -- do you even know?
Rapid Prototyping: Ideate, Design, Test, Learn, Improve. When working at the edge of one's knowledge, the first few prototypes are bound to fail. The skill is in quickly finding the error and quickly working out how to fix it in a way that isn't going to hamstring future progress. Numbers: The 100m/s exit from an 8 foot barrel suggests an average acceleration of about 200G and about 50ms in which to apply that acceleration. The maximum force from 100PSI in a 3 inch bore would be about 700 pounds, which assuming 7.2 ounces for the camera, a few ounces for the tail, fairing, etc, and a couple of ounces for the air it's pushing out of the way would be approaching 1000G (assuming the valve is able to open in a fraction of a millisecond, and ignoring the inertia of the air applying that force).
Almost the whole video I was thinking,"Why don't they have a checklist? 2 cents of paper would've eliminated half their failures" - so I was happy to see it near the end :D
Yes, I love Wren, this was almost uncharacteristic of them. Forgetting the most important part? Not putting simple trackers in them. Seemingly simple mistakes, even the pros make them!!
As someone who lived in the area, and has been following you guys for years, but never quite understood some things... I'm honestly just floored at the fact we just watched Wren shoot a camera over the Sandy Shores Skatepark. I can't be the only one that noticed?
I watched Indy Mogul from the beginning of Erik Beck, to the ending of Zack Finfrock. That channel opening throwback hit some serious nostalgia. Miss their build videos heavily. Probably the reason Wren's prototyping, and crazy build videos have been so appealing to me. Love that I got to see them work together on this!!
Same dude. I remember BFX and building my own lightsaber from Eric's tutorial or Captain America shield from Zack's. Gave me skills and hobbies I still use today. What a throwback.
@@samwise_t Same! That's awesome!!! In fact, the Lightsaber was the only build I ever actually made from the show xD Had it up until 2 years ago when I had to downsize, so I gave it away.
Wren is the filmmaking mythbuster. Absolutely amazing work! I’m sure Adam Savage had numerous times where his build wasn’t working, but he never gave up! Filmmaking is problem solving and Wren is definitely the problem solver!
These kinds of videos are actually a huge life lesson on how to overcome obstacles. Of course they are entertaining and technically interesting, but also teaches how to persevere in the face of failure. Love it!
@@Simon-zu2rb Exactly. He lacks rigor. And concentration. Fucking up cameras worth $700 a pop is fun when you get them for free ! I'm sure Insta360 is proud of the results of that demotion derby !
Flying!? has always been a childhood dream for many for me included. Seeing these 'Impossible shots' not only tell a story but also realizes those dreams of being the Hulk leaping across hills and valleys. So high up with every jump almost feels as if flying. These videos of perseverance are essential.
I think I can speak for everyone here when I say we all love Wren's experiments as his reactions to success are super wholesome and funny 😊 awesome project guys!
ERIC!! Omg I used to watch Indy Mogul religiously. The first time I saw Eric was actually the Key of Awesome channel with some of the original music videos.
shout out to whoever edited these sections of the video "20:32 - Wren's Still Not Giving Up" "22:25 - Testing Wren's Resilience". refreshing to see a RU-vid video go 20 seconds without a cut
I can't tell you how excited I was to see Eric Beck. Big fan of his work!!!. Nice work to you and your whole team! Great video incredible project and process. Cheers!!!
I won't lie, seeing Erik in this video made me super happy and a bit nostalgic. Indy Mogul and BFX were instrumental in my passion for filmmaking. It's really cool to see that he's working on big time projects. Making a Chucky animatronic for the show??? Killer! This whole video just shows Wren's incredible dedication. That ending with the successful drop was so cathartic and inspiring. Love this one a lot!
I recognized that super jump tutorial video!! Somewhere on my old PC is mine! Action Essentials 2 VFX Tests were the best, haha. Awesome video! Glad you got the shot in the end, it was worth it!
One thing kept ringing in my head: why use the actual camera for drop tests and launches? 3D print a facsimile, load it with sand, glue, fishing weights... Also, all stunt work or FX that has mechanical devices like air cannons that are controlled remotely: checklists! Not optional, they need to be implemented and there needs to be one person who is responsible of safety. Once you make them responsible, they will make sure that the checklist is followed thru meticulously.. It has all the steps in a list required to get your shot, and the safety person knows when things are not safe, where it is not safe and why it is not safe. Large pressures are very dangerous, well, to be more precise when lots of pressure is released very fast that makes it dangerous. When things go wrong, shrapnel is often generated in the process, and if you are sufficiently close, just the air alone can rip your arm off.
If he had a checklist and everything went fine the video would be 4 minutes long and also relatively boring. When RU-vidr are doing "mistakes" like this it really boost the engagement because everybody start commenting about potential solutions. Just look at the amount of people commenting about checklists, there's probably at least 400 of them. I wouldn't be surprized if they had a checklist for steps they need to forget... lol You'd be surprized to see all the tiny things like this that RU-vidrs have to do to get the maximum of views on this platform. Trust me, these guys are not idiots, they know what they are doing.
@@poochyenarulez Yes I agree with you with Smarter Every Day, but he is one of the minority of RU-vidrs that really put a lot of effort in his videos and seems to respect the viewer's intelligence. He probably could use dirty shortcuts and cringe tactics to boost his views but the guy is too honest, with himself and the viewers... (I suspect SED to be religious and fearing God's punishment lol)
This was just a big guide to anything you do in life. You're going to fail at least once, not everything is going to go your way first try, but it's when you get to that pushing point of giving up and still move forward through all the doubt and flaws, Is when you truly make magic happen. Good work Wren
Words cannot describe the sheer amount of childlike joy that I experienced just from seeing Erik Beck making something crazy in his garage. It's like a day hasn't passed since 2007.
Seeing Eric again was wild! I loved watching Indy Mogul when I was growing up. He was a huge reason I loved making short films with my friends. Great to see he’s still doing well
I remember watching your Onewheel videos years ago, then riding with you in person when my board bricked out of nowhere. Yeats later I'm still seeing these random videos pop up on my feed full of such cool stuff. I'm got the drone, the X3, the same Bambu printer, and this makes me want to go out and actually use the stuff! Thanks for the cool inspirational material!
Great video with a great lesson in perseverance. I am an Electrical Engineer and Software Engineer. Next time you do one of these projects, alongside your altimiter release you should add a GPS module to the subot / projectile so you can track it down with your mobile device after it lands. This has been done for the high dollar model rockets for a while. Keep up the great content.
Seeing Eric again as a longtime sub of Indy Mogul was the craziest surprise collaboration I’ve ever seen. Dude is an absolute legend and I’m so happy to see him sharing his knowledge and experience. When you’ve got Freddy and Eric in the same video you know it’s always gonna be an awesome watch!
Seeing Wren lose his mind with relief at the final success was amazing. So much toil and frustration and failure, all to finally pay off at the end. And what an amazing shot you got out of it, too. 💪 Do let us know if anyone ever finds that missing camera!
I love it when FreddieWong just randomly shows up in a Corridor Crew video. It's like George Lucas showing up on the set of "The Mandalorian" randomly.
Hi Corridor team, quick bit of critique: First of all, awesome video, I cried tears of joy with and for Wren. However, from a storytelling perspective, I was a little disappointed with the choice of using the camerafootage form the 360 ( 25:23 ) before showing the successful launch. It already gave away that it had likely worked somehow and to me personally, took away from the impact of revealing the achievment (Even tho I was obviously still moved, as mentioned before
RU-vid was made for guys like you. Incredible shot. Congratulations! Man triumphs over machine again. BTW I'm a mechanic from the golden years of early American drag racing. I love a good build.
Wren you single-handedly make this channel so much more fun. Don’t get me wrong everyone at corridor brings their own special flavor of crazy to the table and I love you all, but your video ideas are just so entertaining in practice!
Bro why did you waste all those perfectly good cameras on testing when you had dummy ones to use 😅 can't really complain about breaking them when you did it completely unnecessarily
Dude… that was FUCKING INCREDIBLE!!! Seriously though thank you for persevering through this. Otherwise my eyeballs would have never witnessed this shot. But also in the future don’t forget to take a break when possible if it’s getting too stressful. Take your wife out to dinner, watch a movie, hangout with an old friend but above all else keep being yourself. I can’t wait to see what’s next!
