Coding Challenge 172: Horizontal Directional Drilling

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Check out Practical Engineering!
1:04 Diagramming and planning
3:26 Coding the scene
4:50 Animating the drill
6:22 Drawing the drill bit / bias
7:23 Adding interaction to flip the bias
9:33 Rotating and steering the drill
10:02 Playing the game!
10:32 Next steps!

Editing by Mathieu Blanchette
Animations by Jason Heglund
Music from Epidemic Sound

[PracticalEngineeringChannel]

Choo choo! This makes me so happy! Thanks for teaming up with me, Dan. I think it rivals other titles in the "mundane simulator" category. I can't stop playing it.

[karm]

I ran one of these drill rigs for 10 years.15 yeas overall experence with them. the starting angle should be 10 to 22 degrees. it can be more but that creates problems and can gratly increase the length of the bore. fast rotation with slow push goes more or less state. push with no rotation is for steering. you should never change direction more than absolutely necessary usually 4 inches over 10 feet on avrage the drill stem can take more but odds are whatever your pulling back can't. you can only rotate most drill stem to the right (clockwise down hole) turning the other way will unscrew the drill string. some systems have ways to prevent this but they don't work very well IMO.

[BPEKSupraInteractive]

Here from Practical Engineering! Glad he recommended us to you!

[anj]

I love both Practical Engineering and Coding Train. This colab is match made in heaven.

[willemkossen]

Great to see a collab between two of my favourite youtube channels. Nice!

[Mysda_]

I love that drilling is actually turned into games. That's litteraly the concept of my current game

[adityasriram]

The collab I didn't know I needed

[ChokyoDK]

You helped me through 3 years of programming classes.
Thank you!

[glenneric]

A directional drill is a small, slightly off camber drill, on the end of another drill. You can turn them each independently. Very cool. You drill with the end(little) drill while not drilling with the stage 1 drill and you end up making a curved path since the end drill has a small kink in it(out of alignment slightly). If you want to go straight you just start turning the main drill and the end drill just wallows out a little bit (since it is slightly wobbly) but still drills through your rock. So varying proportions of your main drill and end drill are how you steer.

[JordanMSeverns]

You've been getting so much better at making your programs look good

[Hermaniac]

Hey Dan, just FYI, the red line on brown dirt was pretty difficult to distinguish with (my kind of) colour-blindness.

May be worth considering avoiding this colour combination in future.

💕

[Woryed]

Been watching you for over 4 years now and i LOVE your videos!

[valuedhumanoid]

Just down the road from me Comcast is drilling under an 8 lane intersection to install a new feeder to a new neighborhood. I actually stopped and asked questions about the project. The guy told me their going 26 feet down and 140 feet across. Not a huge project, but it's not disrupting traffic at all.

[tomaszmarczak]

I'm just looking at videos from channels I subscribe and I started wondering if its Horizontal Directional Drilling month or something

[Didactb]

Practical engineering sent me here and I happen to be interested in coding so... I just subscribed! I'll check if you have any Python and SQL which are the ones I need to learn for my job :)

[VisioGuy]

This Superfriends Team-up is really inventive--a really great use of the internet! School curriculum designers take note! Also, FYI, I watch Coding Train more than Practical Engineering, but I actually watched the "boring video" first. :)

[SamuelHauptmannvanDam]

As a programmer, who unfortunately don't have the time to watch, it still warms my heart that you exist and we'll certainly be trying it out with my kid when they are old enough. Because you are the light of the world. So affectionate. Love it, love it, love it.

[motbus]

hey this kind of colabs are exciting! people can learn to code and about something more! this is so cool!

[guidiasmacara]

Very cool, I feel like this is gonna boost my interest and practice in coding!

[weamers]

3:36 gave me a good chuckle, keep up the good work! 👍