This is the coolest thing I've ever made!!
Hey guys the new facility is finally coming together, make sure you follow the
vlog channel for updates. One of the things I'm most excited for about this
place is that we'll actually be able to get more people in here making more
projects and making more videos for you! In fact, once we're fully up and running
we're planning on starting the Hacksmith internship program, where talented
makers from around the world can come here to work on awesome projects with us!
In fact, we've already been testing this out with high school and university
co-ops and just this past summer, we had our first international intern JT from
South Africa. He started work on our first attempt at the grappling hook gun from
Just Cause. During his time here he made the first prototype, we're only just
releasing the video now because he'll be back this Christmas break to keep
working on it. In the meantime here's the video - Ever since I first played Just
Cause, I've wanted to make the grappling hook gun and we actually started the
project a few times but it always got put on the shelf because we're doing
other things... Anyway we just got a new intern
JT all the way from South Africa he's actually from Australia originally -yeah-
Anyways, he saw that we had some bits and pieces for the Just Cause grappling hook
and asked if he could pick out that project again - oh yeah - So what do you
think? Think we can make this work? -I think so but it might be tricky, but we'll see -
Awesome! What you got there? -I have JT's life in my hands...
Nice! That should work well!
We're gonna test up in this.
About breaking that hole sweet so seven to one breaking is going to be perfect
Going to test out that this spool design is going to work for actually
letting it unspool freely - so we have our gun here and we're going to just try to
sling it out with a little metal slug. I shouldn't be doing this was loaded what
am I thinking! Hopefully I just won't pull the whole
spool off, eventually we're just going to see if it's going to un-spool nicely. Ready, and fire! It did not
un-spool nicely... that was, that was not very good -yeah- and I'm just gonna see
how far it goes without the rope. Well that wasn't half bad, must be some
problem with the spool then. That un-spooled a little bit, but no it's not good...
Back to the drawing board...
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Cool so now we have all of the pieces of the grappling winch ready to assemble
Now it's just a matter of putting them together, it's been a pretty long time
getting to this point so I'm kind of excited. We've got the motor here and
each of these aluminium plates is a mount that just holds the assembly
together. So first things first, we're going to put the motor mount onto the motor.
Okay next I'm going to assemble the gearbox part. It's actually very cool
it's a configurable gearbox so you can choose what modules you want. At the
moment we've got a 10 to 1 gear ratio and a ratchet so that as you're going up
you can't accidentally drop back down. Then once that's put together I can
add it to the assembly. One kind of annoying thing about this is that each
part has different screws so I have to have all these different Imperial and
metric hex keys for it. Now next I'm going to put this spool that I turned on
the lathe on to the shaft but to do that I actually need to fasten it with a
little key right here and that just fits into a slot right here. Beautiful, nice sound isn't it?
So the shoulder that actually keeps this spool end on to the spool is really thin
smaller than you can fit a bolt into, so I kind of just drilled in at an angle
and this screw is just gonna have to be forced in there. It's not elegant but it
should do the trick. That looks like it's screwed in pretty well now. So next is
the bearing that supports the other end of the spool this is just what stops it
from breaking off the shaft, and that's just gonna fit in right like that and
this is quite a cool thing meaning as I circle it to hold it in place on the end
there that's quite a professional way of doing it so I'm pleased with that. Look
at that that is professional right there! That's going to keep it on really well.
So then the next piece is just going to fit over the bearing here and this is
what retains the bearing in place there, so I just need to bolt them together now.
and that just slips on right like this, and now we can put that central core
assembly all together. That fits right into here.
All right, here it is. That's the main assembly altogether right there.
Cool! So now it's just a matter of putting it on this nice little handle-
majig that I made. That was sort of carefully designed to fit right on to
your arm like that, and all of these slots all the way along here - they are
what each of these plates all fit into and they keep the rotters and components
perfectly spaced apart from each other. Now I've actually got a top plate that's
going to fit along here.
All right that's a done deal, now we're gonna just pop the handle on - should take
two seconds. Cool so just turn to pull the out of
high density polyethylene and put a bearing in there, I think it turned out
pretty well. Now we can put a bolt through there, tighten it up with nuts
cool and this is our grappling hook launcher, it uses co2 and that fits right
into these cool little slots that I made for it right here. Alright so the
assembly is now complete and I must say it's looking pretty darn cool. There's that.
And yeah so now it's a matter of adding straps, putting the electronics on and
doing the string onto the spool and we'll be good to go.
Cool so now we set up the electronics and plugged it into the computer. It's just a matter of using
this Vesper tool to programming currents and stuff like that to make sure the
motor will run the way we want it to. I've got it hooked up to the controller now.
When you spin this, it spins. Now the real question is when I unplug
the computer is it still going to work... and the answer is yes! Now you might be wondering,
what parts the JT use and how exactly did he wire it? Well if you head to our
page on maker.IO you can find a complete parts list and circuit diagram
explaining just how this grappling hook gun works. Let's go see if we can get
some straps to this.
All right well, now this mounting is done.
Feels pretty comfy actually. Now all that's left to do is to make it real...
Alright, well it's not pretty, but should do the trick so let's go try it out. Let's rock
and roll...
There we go let's pull it up. It's a bit uneven but it shouldn't be a
big deal. Alright that seems to work pretty well, so at the moment we've got
it hooked up to this little RC trigger there, and it's adjustable so small pull,
small speed fast pull, fast speed. Now let's go test it out a little bit more,
See if we can go up pretty fast or what sort of things gonna happen
there and you know what I think this can only go up from here.
Cool so I've got these buckle systems so I can clip into my harness, take a bit of
the load off my arm and I'm just gonna zip on right up there
James wants to try and catch me but we've also got Riley there with a ladder
Just in case anything goes wrong. I guess that was sort of expected wasn't it...
We do have power cords, I guess we can re-spool some power cord right we
still know there's unlimited power cords so, take two
Good grief! We added a ratchet so that you can go up but it
means you can't go back down which is a good safety feature, but uh Riley. Cool well
let's do some more testing outside now.
Okay, I just need to tension it... oh gosh okay, that ones in the tree I suppose.
Hey, that works pretty well! I'm facing the wrong way but hello. Let's see if it'll
allow me to keep going up because that's I think where the motor struggled last
time. Right into the branches! Grab this for me I'm just gonna do a little bit of
tree trimming for you James... um a little bit of trimming, hey you should keep your
garden in better order. Oh there we go, very nice! We didn't bring the ladder
outside so I just have to climb. You know what this was unwise, ladder please James.
Hey Owen. It was actually a little better than I was expecting after the indoors
test. Look at that! The braking works beautifully! Yeah look
at that. That's actually working I feel it's speeding up a little. It's speeding
up a lot. Sweet, no that was good actually. Well now you can try doing
it quick. How am I gonna come down? We'll worry about that "ladder"... and pull up. Goodness gracious!
That was great! this is the coolest thing I've ever made!
That looks great. I like you Owen, just you and I hanging around.
Well, that was pretty damn promising. Unfortunately this marks the end of JT's
internship here at Hackmith Industries and he's got to head back to South
Africa to finish his engineering degree! But, that doesn't mean the project's over
JT's actually gonna be taking the prototype home to continue working on
the design in parallel with us, and across the world, we're gonna try and
make the world's first Just Cause hook shot. You ready? World's best.
World's best. and I've got one more thing just to present to you on your
successful completion of the Hacksmith Internship Program. -Why thank you Mr.Hacksmith!-
Lucky for you it's been a few months since JT was here and he actually already has an
update video on his YouTube channel and you can check it out using the links
below. If you want to become the next Hacksmith intern make sure you're
following us on social and watching all our videos. We'll be opening up the
application process in early 2020, good luck! Oh and I'm having announced JT