Jet engine. Jet snowboard.
Winter sucks.
It's freezing cold everything is covered in slush and ice,
the roads are terrible and you need like 50 layers of clothing just to go outside.
The only thing I like about winter is snowboarding.
I love snowboarding. It's awesome and when I'm not building lightsabers or
power loaders I try to get onto the slopes as often as possible.
This year I was super excited because I just got my new board and then lockdown 2.0.
Which means all the slopes are closed and can't really go snowboarding without slopes. Unless...
cross-country snowboarding?
Alright obviously that doesn't work but I think I've got an idea.
I do work at Hacksmith Industries after all.
Okay it should be somewhere here.
It's not there.
Hey Ben where do we put the VDF bins?
Ah yes!
Jet engine, Jet snowboard.
This should actually be pretty simple.
We've got the jet engine.
We need to make a mounting bracket put it on the snowboard and that's it.
Let's make it real!
Okay all the parts are mounted so I'm gonna take it outside and give
it a first test just to make sure it doesn't blow up or anything.
Then if that goes well it's gonna be time to ride it.
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Okay.
That's good enough for me let's hit the flats!
Okay that was a lot of fun but as you might have noticed I wasn't going
that fast and that's because this thing is insanely hard to ride.
You see this board actually has an inherent design flaw and that's the
fact that the center of pressure on the board is actually in front of the center of gravity.
What that means is the board is inherently unstable and wants to keep turning.
So as soon as I start turning it just wants to spin in circles which means
I've got to actively balance it the entire time.
The possible solution is to either move the jet engine up.
Which should either burn my leg or I need some kind of weird pull to hold it
or to put a lot of weight on my front leg which makes it really really exhausting.
So with a lot of practice there's no reason I shouldn't be able to get going 100km an hour but
I'm just not that good of a snowboarder and we don't really have that much time in the day.
Let me walk you through how this works.
Back here we've got a Kingtech K320g which will actually produce 32 kilograms of thrust the engine
actually spins at over 100,000 rpm and the exhaust is over 850 degrees Celsius. Pretty ridiculous.
In the middle here we've got our gas tank full of diesel and underneath the engine we've
actually got a pump and some electronics to allow me to control the entire thing.
This trigger here is fully proportional so when I turn the engine on and I give it full throttle
it'll actually spin up to maximum power but I can control that by letting off a little bit.
If you'd like to see the full schematic diagram
make sure to check out our Maker.io link in the description below.
I want to give it another try.
Let's go out there and see what I can do.
Okay guys I did my best but this thing has an insanely steep learning curve.
It's really hard to ride but that's the fun thing with one day builds is
everything might look good on paper but you really don't know
what's gonna happen until you give it a try and this was a really fun attempt.
So if you'd like to see us do more one-day builds make sure to let us
know in the comments and make sure to subscribe.
I'll see you on the slopes or the flats or whatever.