{"id":22513,"date":"2026-09-21T18:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=22513"},"modified":"2026-09-21T18:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:41:06","slug":"last-cheater-standing-turns-crunchlabs-into-mark-robers-casino-where-engineers-build-devices-to-beat-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=22513","title":{"rendered":"Last Cheater Standing Turns CrunchLabs Into Mark Rober&#8217;s Casino Where Engineers Build Devices to Beat the House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21105107\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Rober CrunchLabs Cheater Casino\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"\/><br \/>Former NASA engineer Mark Rober filled his CrunchLabs warehouse with blackjack, poker, craps, and a roulette wheel, then invited a room of makers and YouTube builders to play for $10,000 destined for charity. Cheating was allowed. Getting caught was not. If a device showed up on camera or in a pit boss\u2019s hand, it left the floor and the owner had to play straight. Whoever held the most chips at the end of the night took the cash. He called the event Last Cheater Standing, and he staffed it like a real floor: Science Bob as pit boss, a security lead named Bam, and 62 cameras running computer vision over every table.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-258776\"\/><br \/><iframe title=\"Last Cheater Standing Wins $10,000!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_L1Rim7-IPo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe title=\"Last Cheater Standing Wins $10,000!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_L1Rim7-IPo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><br \/>\nThe rules were intentionally kept simple so that players could sneak in any gadget they could hide without anyone discovering them. Keep it under wraps. If you had a winning streak, an unusual hand, or a chip that began shaking as the wheel stopped spinning, it would be taken. Michael Reeves was prohibited, on paper, as a running joke, and it consumed a ludicrous portion of the face-detection budget. Official chips included concealed UV markings and other giveaways to expose counterfeits under a black light. Nonetheless, players showed up eager to test the system for every flaw.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aawp\">\n<div class=\"aawp-product aawp-product--horizontal\" data-aawp-product-asin=\"B0FMS8BW3K\" data-aawp-product-id=\"256223\" data-aawp-tracking-id=\"tec02e-20\" data-aawp-product-title=\"LEGO Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket 42221\">\n<div class=\"aawp-product__thumb\">\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aawp-product__image\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41S7jgJxIqL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"LEGO Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket 42221\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"aawp-product__content\">\n<p>            LEGO Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket 42221        <\/p>\n<div class=\"aawp-product__description\">\n<ul>\n<li>BUILD AN OFFICIAL NASA ROCKET \u2013 Kids prepare to explore outer space with the LEGO Technic NASA Artemis Space Launch System Rocket (42221) building&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>3-STAGE ROCKET SEPARATION \u2013 Young builders can turn the hand crank to watch the rocket separate in 3 distinct stages: solid rocket boosters, core&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>STEM BUILDING TOY FOR KIDS \u2013 This educational rocket kit was created in collaboration with NASA and ESA to showcase the authentic system that will&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21105042\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Rober CrunchLabs Cheater Casino\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><br \/>\nKevin Coda of Concept Bytes, a robotics builder, hollowed down a poker chip and packed a custom circuit board, an RF receiver, a coin cell, and four phone buzzers inside, each with a small rubber wheel. He could handle the chip after a roulette spin from across the room and put a bet onto the winning color before anyone had time to add up the numbers on the felt. He made a handsome profit of over $2,500 before Mark leaned over his shoulder and stole the chip off the table. Roulette, for a few minutes, had been a solved game.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21105047\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Rober CrunchLabs Cheater Casino\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><br \/>Dora from StrelkoMania took a more low-key approach to craps. Each die has a steel ball bearing buried within, covered in low-melting wax. She used gloves with 10 watt silicone heating pads and would warm the wax, let the bearing to sink onto the face she wanted to win, let it cool, and the same pair of dice would suddenly favor that number on the following roll. There was no pattern visible on the cameras, which is presumably why the floor never adjusted to her way of doing things like they did with the crawling chips and marked decks. Nate Scovill went for a low-tech approach and just reproduced the faces: one die had two 1\u2019s, two 2\u2019s, and two 3\u2019s, and the other die had two 4\u2019s, two 5\u2019s, and two 6\u2019s, so the totals that actually count in craps continued popping up a lot more frequently than would be expected.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21105051\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-3.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Rober CrunchLabs Cheater Casino\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><br \/>Card tables had their own small hardware projects going on. Christina Ernst hid a microprocessor and switches under a garter, keyed in the cards she saw, and counted using small LEDs. Davis DeWitt marked card backs in light green ink, which was invisible to the naked eye but visible through bespoke red-tinted glasses. Tom from Tom Builds Stuff inserted a pinhole camera into a sleeve and filmed the deck as it was shuffled, then used the footage to determine the sequence, ensuring that blackjack was no longer a guess. Becky Stern forewent the personal edge in favor of pandemonium, having hacked a UNO Attack launcher to dump a whole deck of cards on the table with the press of a button, as well as a nasty little remote rat and a few additional distractions, all for sale in chips.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21105054\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-4.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Rober CrunchLabs Cheater Casino\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><br \/>One finalist used the bathroom to secretly stash extra chips. After studying the tournament invitation, he realized he could bring in additional chips in a case and secretly add them to his stack during play. Those copies missed the UV star and other marks the house used, so they died under a light. Allen Pan sat near the top of the chip count and insisted he never used a device at all. Mark later called that stack dumb luck, which still counted when the night ended.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/21105101\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-5.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Rober CrunchLabs Cheater Casino\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><br \/>Dora and Allen were sitting nicely at the top of the room when the scores were finalized, and yes, the bathroom storage was involved in some way. Dora received a nod from Mark, who declared her the winner of the CrunchLabs Cheat the Casino Games competition for the dubious dice. But, of course, the true prize was a great huge cake. By the time Mark finished opening it up, Bills had already gotten out of here, albeit just to grab a drink with Becky, who was attempting to cover for him. They had a camera crew, a fancy dessert cart, and a vase spinning around 90 degrees, all of which pointed to Hank Green as the culprit, who had gone to the trouble of counting out the cash the day before to prove its authenticity, and later confessed to wanting some security in a room full of engineers. The security guards pounced, but the real money ended up with Dora, who donated it to charity.<br \/><span>[Source]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Last Cheater Standing Turns CrunchLabs Into Mark Rober&#8217;s Casino Where Engineers Build Devices to Beat the House<br \/>\n<br \/>#Cheater #Standing #Turns #CrunchLabs #Mark #Robers #Casino #Engineers #Build #Devices #Beat #House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NASA engineer Mark Rober filled his CrunchLabs warehouse with blackjack, poker, craps, and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1433,332,11974,14080,14081,1679,11739,554,967,14082,7691,1449],"class_list":["post-22513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-beat","tag-build","tag-casino","tag-cheater","tag-crunchlabs","tag-devices","tag-engineers","tag-house","tag-mark","tag-robers","tag-standing","tag-turns"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino.jpg",1280,853,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-1024x682.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino.jpg",1280,853,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino.jpg",1280,853,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-1024x682.jpg",1024,682,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/mark-rober-crunchlabs-cheater-casino-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}