whey up Furze Army,
Now continuing my sponsored project of making the weapons and gadgets,
off the prosthetic arm, from the video game Sekiro Shadows Die twice,
Now, Ive already made a wonderful job of the loaded axe,
the wrist mounted axe that you just flip down at the flick of your wrist.
You can see that video, the link is in the description and at the end of this video.
but now I'm up for more of a challenge,
Yes! I'm going to do the fold out shield or the loaded umbrella,
as it is known in the game. Essentially a massive shield that folds out from his arm.
How are you going to do that then Colin? I don't know, and I really, I really, don't know!
So Ive got some footage here from the Game developers of the loaded umbrella. So I've
got a pretty clear picture of what it looks like and how it functions.
Now, the first thing you'll notice is when its
unfolded its pretty big, about the size of a bit beach parasol!
If you look at it from when it starts, it sits on his wrist, just sticks out a little bit.
about that big, and that to be fair is pretty much the size we'll have to start with.
think we'll have to start with this on the top of my arm, and I'll probably have to hold it,
cause I think its going to be loads of stainless steel plates.
so it might be fairly heavy once it's finished. So I'll need a decent grip of this!
and then you can see it flings round and around and get bigger and bigger,
so there we are Colin, Thinking caps on people, thinking caps on.
This is mark 1 idea! clickerty patchy thing. and if you put it on the bench and unfold it,
actually looks pretty cool... but we do have issues.
It wobbles and flops off, because if any of these don't latch on,
then they just drop down and swing around.
if we could put some little grooves in, kind of a rivet thing that could hold them together,
but then we'd end up with a load of slots round it,
and also you'd need space for the rivet head, top and bottom,
and this is only half the shield and it's already half an inch thick.
and also the other problem is, as they go around they get shorter!
We'd end up with that! and we're not trying to make a fold out shell are we!
or we could have two, either side and they could go round and meet in the middle
so I did this, and then I was thinking, this is getting a bit big!
why start with all these little ones, why don't you just do,
you know, 8 or 10 of these massive ones.
no Colin, we're going off topic here. this is not good enough. It's lovely,
it's fought with problems.
back to the thinking cap!
Right, I've been thinking, and this is what I've come up with!
we've got a little stud, which I stud weld on, I then chop it off flush with the other plate.
Theres like a little kidney shaped slot, on the top one, which goes around the stud
so when you try and open them up look, it acts as like a little stopper.
Look at that! comes down, just the right place, BOOM.
now on the next plate up, rather than it just being there,
the stud on here. and this little jig I've made to hold the stud welder in place,
you do one in that one, one in that one, and then opposite, opposite, opposite, opposite.
And I did a few more and I've crudely, tacked a little motor on it, and it opens up and it shuts,
its going to need a way more powerful motor on it than that. so what I'm going g to do,
make loads more, I think im going to need about 24 to do a full revolution,
whack all them together, get a more powerful motor, give it a test, see where we're at!
this thing is so heavy!
I think if it was lighter and I could hold it properly, it would be ok.
but I mean also I need to try and hold it in my left hand, like in the game.
how much do they actually weigh?
they do weigh 10.5kg
which is quiet a lot hanging off your arm.
there is a glimmer of hope here that this is actually going to be cool!
Now I can't hold it very well at the moment,
and the fact its very heavy is making it all a bit clumsy.
but I think if I had a motor that was in line with the shaft that I
can grab hold of, that would certainly improve it.
fans out beautifully, doesn't come back in very well,
so we need to improve that but other than that, I think we're on to a winner!
this progress, its very slow at the moment.
Ok so the gears in that little motor didn't last very long. they're wreaked
but I had some tabs on the sheets that I've bent down, drilled and put a cable through.
so when you unfold it, it does look pretty cool.
If you tension it, and have it a certain
length then when the motor to the end and starts to pull it
it bends it into a shield shape. Oh Furze, we are getting close with this!
Look at that, that is FAN-tastic!
So we need a powerful motor that is inline with the shaft, need something to coils the
cable back up, and I need something to be able to hold it to my hand properly.
so I need to make a proper arm mount,
and then this bit here need stiffening up as well because it's flexing a bit!
Come on Furze!
Right, well that's a good sign, it doesn't drop down look. Is this gonna work?
haha! oh yes it does! hahahaha! back in again! oh the old washing line things
got jammed. we've got a mass of cable up here, looks like we've got to sort this out.
But that's a nice problem to have.
Yes! look at that!
oh! lighter version required, and the battery obviously hooks up there somewhere.
Yes, Colin, Yes! this has been tricky this has. but look at that!
That is a shield, Beh beh, beh, beh, beh, beh, beh!
hahaha!
really pleased with this, what im going to do,
I'm going to go away. I'm going to make another version,
get rid of all the problems that it's got. cause its too heavy,
so im going to try making it out of some thinner plates of stainless.
this top plate though need to be a bit thicker,
cause as it comes around, rather than it tensioning the cable up,
its been twisting this top sheet, which isn't doing what we want it
to do. and also, it needs a nice operating switch on it.
this one's been tricky, and there have been other versions, we've got this thing.
its basically got slots that go round to different degrees,
and urgh, I started opening it out and I was like 'oh yeah!'
oh this is going to work a treat! and you get to here and they all flop down
cause there's nothing to lock them in place.
now you can see the video of the loaded axe,
that's linked in the description, and at the end of the video.
And then you can see the full shield video, next week, you should SUBSCRIBE! Right Furze out!