Engineezy's Chrome Dino cactus machine passes 100 million views
The obstacle-recycling Short turns a simple browser-game problem into a conveyor belt, magnetic cacti and a ratcheting wheel.
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Story of Why this story? The channel passed the 100,000,000 views mark.
The Cactus Magazine - Chrome Dino IRL part 3
The dinosaur can jump. Getting the cacti back into position for another go is the complicated part.
Engineezy's "The Cactus Magazine - Chrome Dino IRL part 3" has passed 100 million views, a milestone for an August Short about rebuilding the familiar browser game as a physical machine. It is the most-watched Short on the channel, where marble sorters and mechanical displays have also drawn large audiences.
The cacti stick magnetically to a 3D-printed conveyor belt. Underneath, ramps peel them off and drop them into a ten-sided wheel, which carries them back toward the top so they can rejoin the game. An initial ramp proves too short, so Engineezy prints a longer replacement and demonstrates the return journey.
That wheel replaces a much fussier idea. The description explains that a robotic pick-and-place setup would have needed to locate differently sized obstacles, grab them and match the moving belt. The wheel handles the return with fewer moving parts.
There is a catch, which Engineezy acknowledges: recycling obstacles isn't the same as randomizing them. The description lays out a plan for three magazines working side by side, with a randomizer choosing which supplies the next obstacle.
Viewers pick up on the gap between software and hardware, suggest increasing the game's speed and joke that an internet outage has lasted long enough to justify building the offline game physically. Others focus on the small mechanical pleasure at its center: the cacti peeling neatly off the belt and onto the ramp.
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What viewers say
The way the obstacles get carried from the conveyor to the ramp is incredibly satisfying
@ComputersrockSee it on YouTubeBro lost a connection so long he built the physical version of the No Internet Dinosaur jump
@exoz6771See it on YouTubeThis is the creative stuff you do when you don't have internet
Wait@goli749See it on YouTube
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Forgot to make it speed up over time
@ZapL_1214See it on YouTubelol soon you'll need to add ducking and pterodactyls good luck with that one
@toelicioousSee it on YouTubeA moment to appreciate the magic of 3d printing and how it unleashed so much stuff into the world like this.
@ShyhaluSee it on YouTubeI deeply respect senseless machines - it is an artform in itself, if not in fact art.
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- Channel
- Engineezy
- Subscribers
- 1,370,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,323,574
- Channel views, pace per day
- 590,714 (on a normal day: 1,025,287)
- Video published
- August 8, 2026
- Video views so far
- 100,059,758 (73 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 200,000 (on a normal day: 634,460)
The numbers
The cactus-machine Short has crossed 100 million views. The milestone belongs to an older installment of Engineezy's continuing Chrome Dino build.
💡 Test your knowledge
Engineezy's obstacle wheel is a decagon. How many sides does that shape have?
A decagon has ten sides, matching the ratcheting wheel in Engineezy's build.