Rock Skip Robot- The Science of Perfect Rock Skipping

“Ongoing struggle to be the favorite uncle.” My question is how he isn’t yet.

This is how you can get kids to be so engaged and maybe down the road to be future engineers :) And you get some good quality family time, loved this so much

Spotting your son in this video, and now knowing that he is your son, makes me happy

Its crazy that one of those kids is his son and we never knew it, Man is goated 🐐🐐

I can almost hear mark saying this "I used to suck at rock skipping but im great at engineering. Which automatically makes me great at rock skipping."

imagine your uncle pulling out a rock skipping robot and your immediate reaction is “I knew it”

imagine being an adult and have all the children you know just automatically assume your going to use a robot to win

Can you imagine how advanced we would be if everyone had an uncle like this guy? I don't know if those kids are into engineering or not but without any doubt he inspires creativity even beyond his family.

Be like kids go on school camp Everyone else: 5-6 skips Those kids: 50 skips

1:30 the kid saying "I knew it" lmao they just know he's going to cheat at this point

I think what's even better about Mark building the robot is the fact that he didn't came with it already perfect, he allowed the kids to be a part of the trial and error stage, to experience what it's like to try out a bunch of variables, and then experience the immense happiness when one of them finally works. That alone would probably make me inclined to start doing my own projects.

I love how they named it “Skippa”

mark rober: build robot that skips rocks perfectly michael reeves: the roomba that screams when it hits things

Fun egg drop story since you mentioned it at the very end. My dad is a retired architect, and in college one of his engineering classes had an egg drop competition. Lightest structure to have an egg survive the drop wins, yadda yadda yadda. Well, my dad asked the professor where they were holding the competition and it turns out that it was from the roof of a single story building, throwing the eggs into a grassy lawn. He then asked the professor how many tries they got and he could try as many times as he wanted. So my dad bought two dozen eggs, went up to the roof, and started tossing. Eventually, one landed without breaking, which meant he won with a structure of zero weight. They changed the rules of the competition after that....

Had a teacher back in the mists of time that said "If you don't record your results you're just messing around." Great stuff Mark!

2:58 Mark actually showed his son in this

My son yells at me from upstairs. "DAD, DAD! You won't believe this! Mark Rober is skipping rocks at Lake Cavanaugh!" My family has had a place on Lake Cavanaugh for over 50 years and not that far from where this video was shot. Our place is on South Shore Drive just across from the big island. We go there every July 3rd. My son has been a fan of yours since we were trying to gain an advantage at the Pinewood Derby three years ago. This video made my son's day. Keep up the good work.

I'm impressed he is teaching his nephews and nieces to engineer. And making it fun at the same time. And there's the fact that he's doing the same thing for us on YouTube.

I didn't notice your son the first time 😃. Can totally see what you were talking about in your more recent video but he seems to be handling the noise like a champ. Honestly, I use to consider you one of the most compassionate YouTubers I subscribed too but you continue to impress. All the best man...