Updating Connect 4 After 50 Years!

In 1974, Connect 4 the game was released. Now, nearly 50 years later I have created an updated Connect 4 that sorts the pieces for you, so that even old grandma can still play the game. This was designed, 3D printed, and built all by myself. The GitHub page is linked below where you can download the STLs and code for yourself so you’ll be able to build it too!
GitHub: github.com/jar...
Reddit: / jareddilley
Patreon: / jareddilley

[@RetrovexAmbient]

This feels like a video that should have millions of views, hopefully this blows up 💜

[@madeline6951]

ok but for real I thought it already does until I saw your comment and had to double check

[@RetrovexAmbient]

​@@madeline6951ikr? For memories sake, at the moment of writing this comment he has 100 subs, lets see how long itll take for him to be a millionaire🎉
UA-cam, do your thing!

[@guinea_horn]

This thumbnail could be so much clearer lmao. Took me a minute to figure out what those arrows were pointing to, only to realize that they're not pointing to anything

[@HJM9x]

When you are to lazy to sort some disks so you spent days overenginering a solution.

[@jareddilley]

This guy gets it

[@Saleca]

💯

[@dsamuel2116]

Super good video, I was surprised thousands more didn’t subscribe!! Your content is amazing

[@katyungodly]

Underrated channel, I can tell you put a ton of work into this

[@peskier-yt]

Love the video and concept. Bit hard to hear you sometimes though.

[@lordseptomus441]

I love this.
my only criticism is that the audio mixing makes voices difficult to hear over the other sounds. if I had to guess I would say that's why the algorithm isn't pushing your video.

[@machnesntsn_ind.]

Yeah that stuff is hard to figure out.

[@guinea_horn]

Yeah the audio is pretty terrible

[@RetrovexAmbient]

At least theres no annoying music over the top of it.
I think its fine for the most part, he just needs to change this into a short and itll blow up.

[@haph2087]

Awesome. Excellent design, and a much needed improvement to the classic.

[@GFXCharkk]

Welcome to the algorithm.
Enjoy your serotonin filled next days and weeks.

[@sky0kast0]

Lovely idea and quite simple

[@albanana683]

I get that it is a project for the sake of creating something. But my simple solution would be to glue a washer to all the black ones and just use a magnet to do the sorting after releasing the pieces.

[@d33p345]

sick project, i lowkey want this.

[@calvingoodall2065]

My first thought was making the geometry of the two color checkers slightly different and sorting them like coins. This is very cool.

[@Toastery7]

I mean hey, they already sell C4s at stores, you can sometimes grab them at the local grocery store
Sadly they dont give you any c4s though, only 4 C type batteries (on the packaging they label them as C4, false advertising)

[@Darockam]

I don't know why this was recommended to me. But I'm glad it was.

[@madeline6951]

What I like about the slider is that the round pieces are inherently working really well with your solution by virtue of being round. If they were any one of the more pointy shapes, it's would be harder to adapt an existing part. So satisfying.

[@ethanhart9439]

good job mate

[@markborzilleri7784]

Bro what a crazy well done video and I love the design. Please keep making videos and you’ll get hundreds of thousands of subscribers soon, rember me when you get there haha

[@Mirceabogdanstanciu]

nice one!

[@wchorski]

Episode #2, turning my Grandma into an IoT device

[@fennec8938]

Cool creation, and not bad on the camera work, although your audio set up could use some tending to. Keep up the great ideas though! I’d be interested to see more.

[@eDoc2020]

I was wondering if this could somehow be done with magnets. But then I came up something which is less fun but more practical: replace all the pieces with bicolor ones (red on one side, black on the other). Sorting is infinitely simple when all the pieces are identical.

[@theenderstar]

pretty good video, would be a lot better with good audio, background music and more dynamic editing tho

[@bruskis8685]

omg i love making homemade c4

[@jareddilley]

💀

[@jareddilley]

5:44 where the magic happens

[@lester44444]

I wonder if this could be done with a fully analog system 🤔🤔 might need to differentiate the pips by shape, and it would probably be a lot bigger

[@jareddilley]

I think you could go that route by making the pieces different thicknesses, so that visually the game looks the same

[@DavidMulderOne]

​@@jareddilley Even simpler, just have two layers on top of each other for the pieces to fall into, and have the top bend a bit to each player. Not sure how well ascii art is going to fare on UA-cam, but:
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And yes, I do understand that the point here is to overengineer something simple for comedic effect 👍

[@lester44444]

@@jareddilley oooh yeah thats way better than what i was thinking hahahaha i was imagining square pips and round pips

[@lavabirdaj]

@@jareddilley An analog version seems like an interesting design and 3d printing project. Maybe pieces with different diameters and a filter for each row - the smaller pieces could fall right through while the larger ones are just wide enough to catch ramps on the sides of the filter to kick them forward. If you want to keep the pieces the same size, maybe you could add different numbers of grooves along the edges of the pieces instead - like one groove for red and two grooves for black. Depending upon the number of grooves on the piece, it could mesh with matching ridges on either the left or right side of the filter and be kicked different ways accordingly.

[@eDoc2020]

This could certainly be done with analog electronics instead of an Arduino.

[@robspiess]

Great video! Audio could use some work -- perhaps running the audio track through a normalizing filter, or speaking louder or using lapel mics? Sorry, just trying to be helpful. Keep up the great work!

[@MetricJester]

This is cool and all, but you could have just strapped two boards together.

[@P3an0t]

id buy c4

[@Saleca]

You need to overclock that

[@zelrex4657]

:O I hope you're not like that a to your grandma :P

[@nak_attak]

great video, just next time try less "um" and "uh"