This is our most powerful Iron Man project ever!
A 1.5kilowatt fiber laser!
Is that actually possible?
How would you even go about creating a highly complex mobile laser
and cutter, and welder, and make it sick and stylish like an Iron Man tech?
There is no way I've made something that does all that...or did I?
With this new laser tech
we are now one step closer to the real life Tony Stark.
To this day, the most powerful, self-contained laser
that we can fit into an Iron Man gauntlet, it is still this 100 watt blue laser
that we used in our Iron Man repulsor.
At 100 watts this thing is already terrifying,
But I want more power!
Just ten years ago, a 1000 watt laser would have cost
you upwards of a quarter million dollars if you could even get your hands on one.
Nowadays, you can get a one and a half thousand watt fiber laser
shipped to your door for just about $6,000.
Let's just say we have our fair share of lasers,
Giant industrial fiber laser cutter, MoPa laser engraver, laser resin 3D printer
a CO2 laser, a new creality laser cutter,
fiber laser welder, laser etching machine, and a miniature CO2 laser.
That's ridiculous.
Our industrial laser cutter
that you've seen us use in almost all of our projects
use a 1500 watt infrared laser similar to this.
This thing is big, heavy and fragile, and it requires over 10,000 watts
of input power, as well as a mini fridge sized water chiller to keep itself cool.
But it is capable of cutting through half inch thick steel like butter.
Unfortunately, there's no way I'm getting all of this mounted on my back.
But lasers like this come with a nice glass fiber optic cable
to transmit the power.
Which means if we had the right lenses,
we could mount all of that onto my gauntlet and still use it from pretty far away.
The initial plan was to use a cutting head from a fiber laser machine.
But as you can tell this thing on an Iron Man gauntlet, it would be a little oversize.
But then we got our hands on this laser welder,
which is way more compact and simpler to use.
And in addition to welding, this can also cut through steel
and remove rust. To do the welding and the rust removal
the laser actually moves back and forth using a tiny mirror on a galvanometer
to actually point a laser in different direction.
But if this thing’s on my hand
I can just point the laser with my hand,
which means I can actually remove this entire part.
And since I've designed a custom fancier nozzle,
we actually don't need that either.
So we're left with a simpler water cooled culminating lens and our focusing lens.
So I needed to create a piece to join the two together
at the right distance and with perfect alignment.
After a bit of prototyping, I came up with a design
that we can manufacture in aluminum on our Tormach 1100 CNC machine.
And this is our final piece which actually sits right
in between the culminating lens and the focusing lens.
Keep them in perfect alignment.
This is the smallest
one and a half thousand watt fiber optics lens assembly I've ever seen.
And this is going to be perfect for our Iron Man laser gauntlet!
The build of the gauntlet consists of 66 pieces that bend
and weld together into five assemblies. Before we start making the entire gauntlet.
We have to figure out the order of operations.
We know we want to laser cut the pieces.
We want to laser paint them...wait. Laser painting?
When you get a piece of stainless hot enough it forms a layer of oxide.
And based on the thickness of the oxide, we actually reflect different colors.
This right here is our OmTech Mopa laser.
And basically what it can do is super precisely adjust the power, duration,
speed and frequency of our laser pulses to accurately control
the temperature of the stainless, giving us any thickness of oxide we want,
which means whatever color we want.
And we want to laser weld them.
But the problem is the laser engraver they're going to use to paint our pieces
doesn't really do great with non flat objects.
So I want to run a test and I want to figure out what surface finish
and what order of operations is going to give us the cleanest color
and the least amount of scratches after we're done bending all these pieces.
So we finish the entire thing.
It doesn't have a huge amount of scratches and it looks really clean
and really consistent.
So we have the painted, then bent, bent and painted, sandblasted,
painted, then bent and sandblasted bent and then painted.
And I think out of the four, the one that looks the neatest is actually
the very first one we did, which was painted and then bent.
So these three don't make the cut and I think this is our winner.
The tig welder was needed in the early stages
of connecting these thin metal pieces and getting each piece aligned.
But from there on, it was full steam ahead on the laser welder.
In true Stark Industries fashion, we're using lasers for everything.
We are inside the laser cutter.
It doesn't seem like much right now.
Once I'm done with, it’s gonna be pretty cool.
It's incredible how simple laser welding is.
To do a weld like this requires tons of training for TIG welding.
But this laser welder, it's like a hot glue gun.
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How’s it goin Rob?
Gotta turn on the ventilation.
Got to go. Turn on the air.
I got to go get my gloves, my glasses. Uhh.
This bucket is a terrible freaking work table.
Everything moves.
Where the heck are my damn nozzles?
Why? Why?
Our previous gauntlets looked straight out of Iron Man.
But to put them on and use them was so uncomfortable. With this revision
I changed that by sewing in a Kevlar glove that holds both the chainmail glove
and the air cup together.
So theoretically, it’ll all be one piece and be super easy to slide my hand in
Give it some air and I'll hold onto my hand nice and tight.
You know, this is not going according to plan.
With the shape of this being so, like, wavy.
The problem is laser engraver they're going to use to paint
our pieces doesn't really do great with non flat objects.
Gloves also not coming together as well as I'd hope so.
Obviously in order to join all the pieces
we've had to weld and grind some areas where the surface is like very inconsistent.
It's very hard to get it perfectly flat and to focus on the same spot.
Yeah, it's the issue of doing curved surface
because the focus is really important with the color.
Physically, I'd say this looks way better than last ones. It was a cool try.
Like the laser works great for painting flat things.
Painted properly I think this will look really legitimate.
So other things.
So these fingers. Same thing with even a way it did weld.
It would just like have pieces of wire sticking in and it was just like,
can you even get your finger in there? No.
Even my broken finger has more, more flex.
Yeah, that's my other finger.
Why don't we get a really small stainless steel flathead screw?
And that way you can push it through the chain mail through one of the links.
And then I could stick through the slot or change those.
So it's a hole. And then that way,
really, you just need to tack weld, that screw in place.
And it’ll hold everything there.
It's weird. Like this is our third one and this one has not gotten easier.
Linus spent almost two weeks of this time painting all of these individual pieces.
He’s going to be very upset when I tell them I'm going to get rid of this entire finish.
What do we say when we fall down?
It’s a Bruce Wayne...an Alfred quote
something about getting back up.
It's pretty logical.
Are you going to tell Linus? Yes.
I think we’re going to take a break with the laser painting..
I mean, we're going to sandblast this whole thing
and then we'll get rid of this finish and then just go with traditional paint.
I know. You put a lot of heart into this.
I understand. It does look messed up.
The quote was, Why do we fall?
so we can learn to pick ourselves up again.
Why do we fall Bruce?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Some rope in here
Why is there rope in there?
That's what I was using.
to hold the finger open.
Oh, that's why you couldn't fit your finger in it Bogdan.
We ruined everything. No, no.
Did you sprinkle Kevlar in my Red Bull?
So what do you think Bogdan? Like, 50 bucks?
That's like $8.
Not even like $5.
But it’s a collectible. It’s a one of a kind. $100.
Less than the mini saber.
$35. $700 someone can make of themselves $500. $40.
That's more reasonable. 40,000.
Ah we’ll just let Jose figure it out.
After hours of adjustments connecting the fingers, painting
and setting up the electronics.
Which by the way,
you can view the full schematic diagram using the maker.io link below.
We finally finished the laser gauntlet.
I'm nervous. We’ve got a little bit of a leak.
You can see there's
one of the hoses a little loose, but it's not too major right now.
So I think this will work for this test.
This is the most powerful
Ironman laser we've ever built, and I cannot wait to see what it can do.
Let's get straight into it.
That was so fast!
We're moving onto a mannequin head! Lasers on!
Meet your maker!
There is a hole straight through that mannequin head.
Look at that.
We saw what this can do to one mannequin head.
But what if you're fighting an entire army?
You can see the beam!
That was awesome!
The amount of heat that came off that helmet with all this oxygen
Ridiculous!
So compared to the previous lasers we've done,
it takes a little bit longer to get going because it's an infrared laser.
But as soon as the material
becomes a little bit charred, the whole thing just melts instantly.
How do you feel about Mike?
Well, it's a little scary. That thing's got a lot of power.
You saw the range that it fired at.
I mean, he went right through all three foam heads,
and it started burning the door like ten feet behind it.
The thing's scary.
It's awesome.
Logan thoughts?
This thing...it's a little scary, Darryl.
That laser is kind of like the bad boy you should be worried about.
You know, be worried about or be inspired to be
Here's the right way to light a candle
using a Hacksmith mini saber.
Easy.
But I don't think it's overkill enough.
You guys are finding like the weirdest stuff for me to burn.
But I guess this is how you de-pit an avocado.
precision.
I should have picked it before it started raining.
And now it's now it's not lighting.
And, you know, like, I got this. It's okay. It's.
I'm sure I got this.
I'm sorry, man.
Our Hacksmith shop coats are fire resistant, But are they laser resistant?
They are not laser resistant.
What about some of our other Hacksmith products like our safety glasses
or a stone paper notebook?
Oops, that's why I'm wearing these.
Honestly, this thing is scary, but if you need to protect yourself
against Iron Man, it's might be a good choice.
Light them up
Not as good as my TIG skills, but that is a solid weld.
I think we're through.
Oh, yeah, we're through.
Okay, you order some rust removal.
We got that perfectly clean piece of metal.
No more rust.
We've got a variety of items that we stole from our coworkers.
To help test stuff.
set up on a couple of different sizes of rope and metal chain.
Let's see what it can do.
Next up, we've got some metal chain and metal cables!
And that was with a long distance lens.
So now we have the short focus lens and the high pressure oxygen nozzle
to be able to cut through metal.
Let's do this.
Nice.
No problem.
Look at that.
Look how well that cuts
Thicker metal cable.
This thing is sweet!
I just lit a metal cable on fire.
The thickest metal chain we have.
Perfect.
We managed to cut everything
from two millimeter rope all the way to one inch thick rope.
And even 3/16 inch steel chain.
This is a metal door that I am going
to cut through.
Look, this is literally cutting straight through that door.
The doors in on fire on the inside.
This literally feels like Iron Man.
look at that.
That's just a piece of spaceship.
We cut through a 1/16th thin steel door.
Well, what about 1/8 inch steel plate?
There's molten steel flying everywhere.
Holy crap.
This is basically like the lightsaber all over again.
Except this time I'm Iron Man.
I just got a piece of metal in my mouth
That is 1/8th inch steel plate.
I mean, look at that.
That's so hot. This thing can burn.
This thing can engrave this thing can cut through steel.
And there you have it, a 1500 watt Iron Man laser gauntlet.
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