i want to make a music instrument that pops bubble wrap and i'm naming the genre either bubble pop
or bubble wrap i'm still undecided this video is sponsored by qualcomm technologies inc
their snapdragon 8gen mobile platform delivers groundbreaking innovations in ai
photography gaming and connectivity they also sponsored the musical teeth wall that i made
a couple of years ago so thank you qualcomm for your continued support of my music career
so here's the idea imagine a music box but it's a lot bigger and you
feed a sheet of bubble wrap through it and i can have it play a song because of this
yeah like if i just have the pop resonate into different length tubes i can produce
a bunch of different tones i spent a lot of time thinking about this
i feel like my mind is like a swedish summer field just like vast empty spaces but
filled with the rabbit holes okay that's enough self-deprecation for now which honestly might
be an even more self-deprecating thing to say so the idea is to have some sort of barrel with
spikes that will pop the bubbles but to make that i need to know exactly where the bubbles are so
my first step is to measure some bubble wrap and 3d print my best guess at a popping barrel
oh my god it's like not popping anything almost the thing is also what i've noticed is that
there's a lot of transmissibility between the different bubbles so if you push on one bubble
instead of it popping it will just blow its air into another bubble then also like any
misalignment between the popping wheel and the bubble and it won't pop it's not
like i'm gonna take this instrument to like a stage and play a live concert or anything like
it's probably never gonna move outside of these four walls like when i run out of other options
i'll drop a bubble wrap album but not even like an album just like a christmas album where i play
christmas songs on that okay my plans are way ahead of where this project is at hold
your plan horses here and um get back to the prototyping pony so i hopped on my prototyping
pony and i applied all my skills and zip tied two pieces of pipe together it didn't work very well
okay let's try this one
that's weird i feel like this if anything should pop like every bubble but it's only popping maybe
one in three like i'm pushing
these materials as hard as they'll let me like there's no gap in between them
you know what i think might be happening i feel like the air is like seeping through from one side
of the tube to the other so instead of it popping the air kind of just goes like
i wonder
one second
so this is just my old yoga mat i mean i i cut it from a bigger piece my yoga mat is bigger
than this but anyway what i'm thinking is that maybe adding a squishy surface could help improve
pop reliability so i'm just gonna put this in here and we'll try it out oh
honestly i kind of can't believe this worked but it popped every bubble so i'm thinking
for ultimate pop reliability you don't want two hard surfaces but you want one hard surface and
one squishy surface and i have spent the last week trying to figure out the best way to mechanically
pop bubble wrap and i don't know what i've done in a previous life to deserve this but it has
to have been something really good so i took my research and called stu who is my most trusted
engineer when it comes to very specific problem solving and together we turn this sketch into this
in theory this music box can play 12 tones over 32 beats and to program your
song you just have to thread in these rubber studs into the right locations
so all i have to do now is to figure out how to turn this into this fortunately i
have a very smart machine and a very smart machinist friend her name is sammy and she
helped me assemble a rotary kit for cnceilia and just like that we're in bubble barrel business
so all of these holes need to be tapped but there's 380
of them and after a quick test i realized that if i did it all by hand it would take me over six
hours so my friend victor lent me this really fancy tapping arm to help make it go faster
this is the face of a woman who realized that she's gonna save so much time thanks victor
so i got these little rubber feet and those are what's going to pop the bubbles i just
want to double check that this barrel that i have spent so many hours into making
actually has the right like whole pattern but if there's anything i've learned it's that my math
very rarely survives the impact of reality okay there's one there there's one there
there's one there so far so good i can't wait to put this together and then start my new life
as a funeral musician let's put the fun and funeral
too much so i got all these gears and i'm just gonna mount them on the barrels and then we'll
figure out what's next i know what's next we're going to spend some time talking about our sponsor
qualcomm while we watch some barrel making b-roll that's me tapping a hole and do you know what
qualcomm is tapping artificial intelligence they are well positioned to provide superior
on-device cloud and edge cloud ai processing as they are leaders in performance per watt both
on device and in the cloud do you know what i'm the leader of nailing voiceovers on the first try
just kidding that one took me about five times to get right
this is the barrel that's going to be attached to the hand crank and make the main drum move forward
and i'm going to put this heat shrink around it just to like increase the amount of friction
and squeeziness
there's something severely wrong but i don't know what it is if there was a slogan for
this build that would be it there were just so many problems that felt like a staring
contest between me and the machine and as soon as i solved one problem a new one would pop up
it took me two days of fretting to figure out how to mount all the pan flute pipes to the machine
and halfway through the project my 3d printer broke down and i had to borrow my friend jace
printer to make these alignment wheels and no matter what i tried the bubble wrap kept
on getting tangled between the two barrels in the end i solved it by adding these alignment wheels
to make sure that the bubble wrap always kept straight but every step of the way i always feel
like i'm not going to be able to pull it together does everyone feel like that or is it just me
but somehow i fret and futz and flail my way forward and after some quick painting
the machine was ready for its big moment so we're gonna shoot a music video for the bubble
wrap music box together with my friends aj and amanda amanda drew a bunch of storyboards and aj
wrote a whole custom song for it and we're filming the whole thing on this smartphone
this video is sponsored by qualcomm technologies inc and the phone we're using is the xiaomi pro 12
and it's powered by the qualcomm snapdragon 8 gen 1 which is their fastest mobile platform to date
it has a feature called cyber focus and it can determine the outlines of pretty much any subject
like humans or animals or music instruments that didn't exist in the world just 24 hours ago we
also tested out a feature called super night that makes it a lot easier to shoot at night and
bottom line is that qualcomm has been investing in ai for over a decade and you can really tell with
the snapdragon 801 mobile platform because this thing was honestly a joy to film with
thanks qualcomm for sponsoring this video and now the music video i hope you like it
send me all your song requests and i'll play it on the bubble wrap music box
does it work perfectly no i think it generally gets maybe like 7 out of 10 tones but also i've
just been using the same roll of bubble wrap over and over again and i think it's getting a little
bit depleted i was actually planning on making a plastic glove making station so that i could reuse
old bubble wrap to make paint gloves but i ran out of time so i'm gonna save that for another day
also i feel like this video just became a long parade of me thanking all my friends but truly
so many people had part in this build i'm gonna put a link in the description to qualcomm
and to everyone who helped out with this build and um yeah just one last thing
i printed out these uh sheet music things that we use in the industry
i'm the industry it's just me i'm gonna try to transpose this song
okay bye
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