This guy stole a package from my car and a different guy stole my package from a porch and he's about to open it in his car, hello. But what he doesn't realize is this is the fourth generation of a new home. Oh, that is recording him on four phones and just released a pound of the world's finest glitter and he's about to discover the other five new surprises for this year. Now i know what you're thinking? Isn't it a bit excessive to spend the last four years of your life trying to engineer the perfect revenge for porch pirates? Just because someone stole your package a few years ago, yeah yeah yeah, it is justified.

Porch pirates are degenerative. People who steal packages from porches are the absolute scum lords of the earth. I'm sorry, i said it. Yes, people say yeah, but no there's absolutely no justification for it.

It's this dog! You have no idea. What's in the package, it could be somebody's medicine for all. You can it could be something it could be something very important. It's degeneracy, dude come on, do anything about it.

After that i say: no and i'ma keep doing it every christmas until we can make a dent in the two million packages that are stolen from porches. Every year plus, it's become such a delightful engineering challenge for me to try and think of all the different ways that we can upgrade it each year, and so with that this is glitter bomb 4.0, and that is the first of five major upgrades this year. The lid shoots off as soon as the package thief tries to open it. Our original design to pull this off was a flywheel that spun up at irresponsibly dangerous speeds.

Then we lowered these wheels to make contact with the flywheel and they shared an axle with the gear which then used a rack and pinion to launch the lid. But that was just way too over engineered even for my lofty over engineering standards. So that's when we pivoted to a pneumatic system, but space is limited in the box, so we had to custom design these aluminum pressure and tanks with a little help from my friends at proto labs. They hooked me up and made six of these in like two hours, which is why they're mine and your best friend for quick turnaround, machine parts like this.

So the tank is filled with air, pressurized to 80 psi and it's nestled here in the base and then with the top half on this hall effect sensor. Right here can sense a magnet attached to the lid. So when the lid is lifted, it triggers the air to rush into the pistons, and the boxing gloves do the rest and the second major improvement is this car horn, because that just feels like nice, video no shot. This is exciting for everyone, so the lid first pops off.

It actually sounds a little bit more like that. Then. The third upgrade is the design of the glitter cup itself this year, instead of an open cup like this, that spins all the glitter out in one shot, we have a two chambered cup like this, which means we get to fire the glitter three separate times. So the way it works is you pour glitter in the top chamber here and it fills up both chambers and when the cup spins, the glitter in the lower chamber, flies up and out the sides, but the glitter in the upper chamber is trapped due to the Centrifugal force, then, when the cup stops spinning gravity basically loads, the next batch of glitter in the lower chamber for us, and so now, of course, it's ready to fly out on the next spin and so on.

This totally passive solution means we get to save one of our three glitter fires this year, for when we get to the end of the out loud countdown sequence. Now, of course, you'll still see the standard phones here that record the thief in all directions and upload. The footage to the cloud as well as these four canisters filled with 20, more fart spray of legitimately the worst smell you could possibly imagine, as demonstrated by the time i almost killed, macaulay culkin himself. I still smell it.

The fourth upgrade is we have a dedicated onboard microphone to record continuous audio once the package is stolen and the fifth is this: outer casing is now made from this opaque machined acrylic. That means the entire glitter bomb now glows much brighter to light up the scene. If it's open in the dark - and it just looks really dope with the whole box - pulses red and blue as we play the fake yo what's up this morning, a few minutes after being opened up to further encourage the thief. So we can recover it and then the fight in the pokemon scene.

Last year we developed these doormats that would covertly charge the box on these contacts, so it would be at full battery whenever it got stolen. That was fantastic, but a lot of boxes were being taken into account. The footage that just wasn't that great so to solve for that. This is how you design these planter boxes and when the sun goes down, the side raises up and they autonomously slide over to swallow up the glitter bomb, concealing it from any would-be themes in the night, without the homeowner needing to hassle with bringing it in and Out every day, then, of course, in the morning the process reverses and the box is ready to go.

So now, when the bad guy comes sneaking up in the day, he steals it off the porch, okay, guys guys yeah. This is one thing i also said. Yes, this has gone too far. This experiment has gone a little yeah, it's not the charge and the box knows it's no longer on the mat, so it starts.

Recording and uploading footage to the cloud. In addition to texting us that has been stolen and sending gps location updates, and so, if you compare glitter bomb 1.0 through 4.0, you can really see the design evolution and, while my lawyers have already made it very clear that i am not allowed to sell this, If i did, it might look something like this: glitterbomb 4.0 is our most advanced glitter bomb ever or complex. Yet simple, a sleek and porch-informed design now includes a car horn from a toyota corolla and twenty percent or fart spray. A completely redesigned, multi-spray glitter cup, with a pound of our finest biodegradable glitter means your porch.

Pirate will remember this moment for a very long time, but especially in direct sunlight, oh - and there is one more thing introducing the world's first self-launching lid glitter bomb for by them is a dish best served fabulously. Let's be honest. If this was for sale. If this was for sale, you know for a fact.

People would cause this to put like a bunch of crazy, dangerous stuff and like pocket some glass into some comments. That's why you can't buy glitter bomb 4.0. If you want to support more efforts like this, you can rock this stylish wireframe glitter bomb hoodie here or we've also got this cool retro pop art version for 4.0, with the boxing gloves available, of course only at markrover.com, and so now all i would like to Do was to put it out on porches all across america and wait, and we didn't have to wait long, oh, no, rid that much come on. Man wait a sec is that who i think it is and sure enough.

No i've not said run out of walnuts. Trying to make an honest, squirrel's living fat gus that apparently turned to a life of christmas, and i can quickly point out that whether squirrels are stealing your birdseed, so you build them an obstacle course or humans are stealing your packages, so you go full home alone. The beauty about being an engineer is, you can come up with clever solutions for your real life challenges. It's like a power, but a super power.

You can learn and i'd love to see other people catch. That spark, which is why, a few times a year, i teach a month-long creative engineering course and enrollment for the new year session is open, started if you're finishing three creative builds of your own. So, whether you're, a complete beginner or an experienced engineer class, has been designed to meet you wherever you're at and level up your skills so go to monthly.com, markrover or use. The link in the video description then go sign up as a new year's resolution goal and, let's hang out making some cool stuff and now for the sparkly karma.

Well, let's see it dude holy, so he hides it under some clothes and a few minutes later he brings in a consultant it's a tracking device. This guy wins the award for our most contemplative thief ever what he's waiting for i've sped this footage up to double time, so we hope to make up his mind with a third round of glitter fart spray, and then the countdown is he's gon na. Take it 15 14. he's as if stealing a glitter bomb wasn't a bad enough choice.

Already this guy doubles down and decides to open it in his car. What the? Of course, we have to make multiple glitter bombs because sometimes they do take a beating and yet they battle through the pain like champs and they're, referring to our dead giveaway shipping label. Here, with harry and marv on wet bandit way: oh okay, dude and apparently they landed heads because a few hours later, this happened. What the she says says you, this guy, stole it and took it straight to a pawn shop to try and negotiate a deal.

No, no give me one more hundred, then we're good one more brand new. The wrapping looks kind of weird, no, that's 2021., open it and see if it's just in there and this one's hilarious to me, because if he wouldn't have got greedy, he could have walked out of there with 400 bucks and instead he gets zero dollars and a Bedazzle jack, i know dude, i know, have you had a deal dude? Oh my god. Oh yes, i'm surprised. These deals yeah.

How about these videos are people, don't know for a fact that these are like baits and they don't take them and put them in a room for or some somewhere for a good amount or try to, i don't know, do some put some some foil on it Or something like that right, so it doesn't, it doesn't broadcast where it's at and let the battery drain and get four free phones. No, they eventually threw it away and then went the extra mile to help us rinse off all the glitter. Follow it up with a light dusting lady last year, if you might recall, we went up to san francisco aka the car breaking capital of the world and got a glitter bomb taken in a matter of minutes, and while we never got them to actually open the Box, it did have an interesting conclusion, so this year, naturally we went back and at the end of day one we had no takers, but then we stopped for like two minutes to get some snacks for the trip and when we came back he did what. In conclusion, he shot the bucks so this year, naturally, we went back and at the end of day one.

We had no takers like two minutes to get some snacks for the trip home and when we came back to the car we saw this. They took the backpack with the gopros but left the freaking glitter bomb. So now it was definitely on. So we went back to that exact spot the next day and within 10 minutes.

This happened and you can see here just how quickly they work. You can literally hear them doing another smash and grab here, not four minutes after they smashed our window, come on and, unfortunately, in all the jostling of stolen goods, the glitter bomb had a false trigger and they were on to us boss, boss. So if you keep a track at home, that's car thieves with three points and me with whatever what the is you guys, some sort of leader boss without a single ounce of glitter being fired. Now, i'm not proud of that.

But there is a silver lining here, because the police rolled up on us after this break-in and let's just say they are both familiar with - and fans of the work being done here. In fact, they were actually tracking the guys that smashed our window, but then they lost them so next year, i'll be joining forces with them in some capacity and i'm giving a mark rover guarantee that i'm gon na get some points on the board and perhaps uncover How these guys run their whole operation in the process so make sure you're subscribed. If you don't want to miss that, but it wasn't just the police who'd heard about the glitter bomb this year, just like before. We also put some glitter bombs by a few group.

Mailboxes and i'm happy to report that the overwhelming majority of people do the right thing and either don't take it or even go out of their way like this nice lady. In fact, they were stolen, approximately half as often as last year, so either people are getting more honest, or perhaps i don't know enough. People just yeah yeah fat is on the back there. These videos that it's the devastating power of glitter, that's encouraging more civil behavior and i'll.

Just leave you with two pieces of evidence that kind of seem to support this working theory. Oh lucky yeah he's like this guy's lucky. I see that on tv. That thing has a tracer on it too.

The cops are going to be right outside the raiders. It's one of those package speed things that spread out farther. So just don't steal packages, because it's not nice, but if you do need some extra incentive just know you might be opening next year, yeah guys. What is one of these people guys like she suspects? Something is, is a tracking device and they decide to open it.

On their porch, like here's glitter bomb, what the and trust me you don't want to meet version 5.0. If you twist the bottom of this contraption, you will never have to reach into a pringles can again, and this motorized fork means eating. Spaghetti has never been easier. This is a ferrous wheel for organizing your spices and this device will save you if you're the only one in the house who likes your oj pulp free the way god intended.

That's a good video man. I enjoyed watching this a lot that was really fun. Oh i'm getting games tonight.