You guys have been asking for it and believe it or not we've been listening.
This is the way.
I with the help of my team are going to create our very own Mandalorian Suit.
We're not just stopping with the suit itself but over the next few months
we'll unveil individual chapters outlining the process of making the flamethrower,
the blaster, the grapple gun, the jet pack, and the armor.
Along with a few other builds as well.
When we're finished I'm going to don the suit in its entirety for the first time
for what promises to be one of our most epic and unbelievable tests of all time.
Of course a project of this scale
can't be completed without a great team so we'll be splitting up the workload.
Each person brings a unique skill set.
Where one of us is weak, another is strong.
Together there isn't much we can't accomplish.
You know Bogdan.
He'll be hosting some of the Chapters and leading the build for the blaster and the spear.
Ian my best friend and trusted business partner
will be building the grappling gun since it's dangerous you know, to protect his investment.
Ben's been building and flying drones for over six years.
That's gonna come in handy.
Caleb is our new co-op.
He'll be working behind the scenes on design and maybe chipping in on a build or two.
And Darryl.
Wait what are you doing here Darryl?
You're just on the video team get out of here!
This promises to be a series you won't want to miss.
Now let's get started on Chapter 1.
Oh and get this!
Chapter 2, where Bogdan makes the blaster and spear.
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Now Mando's Flamethrower is built into his gauntlet.
Fortunately we have quite a bit of experience building gauntlets.
Now Mando's gauntlet's quite a bit different than this but we learned
a lot about stainless steel fabrication with this project.
So I think we won't have any problems.
I had one of our co-ops throw together a basic concept in Solidworks using reference
material from the show and images he found online.
The trickiest part in building armor like this is actually making it form-fitting to the human body,
because as you know the human body is... well we're not a Minecraft character.
Everything needs to be curved and shaped just right.
We now have new equipment in the shop that allows us to roll sheet metal into a pipe format.
Right here is actually where a little PCB is going to go with a whole bunch of buttons and that's
actually going to control a whole bunch of the features on the suit for future projects as well.
Then we've got some detail pieces like this and of course we've actually got
a whistling birds holder right here.
Then we've got the armor piece for the back of the glove and finally have the side bracket.
Which is where the flamethrower assembly is actually going to sit.
Man I wish building stuff was easy as designing it.
I'd love to make the whole suit out of Beskar but unfortunately this stuff's pretty hard to find.
We had to travel the whole galaxy just to find this little piece
and we definitely don't have enough for the whole suit.
So we're gonna have to use the next best thing, stainless steel.
Specifically 304L.
It's super strong durable and readily available, so let's start laser cutting.
Alright so we have all the parts laser cut.
Before we start welding this together, we're actually going to do quite a
bit of sheet metal bending and to do that we're going to be using a mini vice brake.
I love these little brakes because they're very inexpensive way to
get into sheet metal fabrication and as long as you have a nice big beefy vice.
Like we do.
You can literally install it and start bending your sheet metal.
Not bad!
That was the easy piece let's try one of the harder ones.
There's one!
Next part we need to bend is this part which actually wraps around my arm
so let's head over there.
That's probably the hardest part of this whole build.
So we've got all the pieces folded and rolled and
that means we just have to weld it together. Let's get started!
I've got quite a bit of welding left on the gauntlet so Bogdan is going to
start working on that flamethrower mechanism while I finish this up.
I get to do the fun part!
The first thing that comes to mind is to use propane.
Propane is relatively cheap, easily accessible, and we've used it before on multiple projects.
This should work pretty well.
It does work.
It gives us about a two foot flame but the flame color is actually blue.
That means the flame is actually hotter than an orange flame but
it doesn't really match the aesthetic of the Mandalorian.
So by taking off this nozzle here we should be able to get an orange flame.
Flame is orange now but uh it's not very impressive and it blows itself out.
One thing we can do to get a larger flame is actually flip
the tank over to give us liquid propane and liquid propane means a bigger flame.
Not bad but I think we can do better.
Most real flamethrowers use a fuel similar to gasoline.
However gasoline is extremely dangerous and we might be able to get a long
big huge bright orange flame we really don't want to mess with the stuff.
Corn starch.
Now cornstarch doesn't normally burn unless you get it well dispersed.
Luckily powder dispersal systems are pretty common
in the form of fire extinguishers. So theoretically if we just empty this
and fill it with cornstarch we should have a working flamethrower.
Three, two, one.
So cornstarch worked really well but it is a bit difficult to ignite. Propane
is easy to ignite but it doesn't give us a huge flame.
I want to try what happens when you put both of these together.
We can fill this with cornstarch hook it up to propane to pressurize it and then we've
got a nozzle on the end that can be mounted onto the gauntlet far away from the tank.
Lets
give it a shot. Alright Dave.
Well I think that this is our winner.
We got a huge orange flame, it's relatively safe, and it's quite compact.
Now we just need a PCB to control it.
To design the PCB I'm using Altium Designer.
You can take a closer look at these using Altium Viewer this PCB that I'm
designing will allow us to control the flamethrower directly from the gauntlet.
I'm going to future proof it.
There are a bunch of unused buttons that will give
us the option of adding more gadgets in future chapters so stay tuned for that.
I can use Altium to export a 3D model that way we
can see if the PCB integrates well with our gauntlet design.
I think it'll fit nicely right over here.
If you want to see our entire electronic schematic check out our page at Maker.io
PCB's are still something we outsource
and there isn't a better faster more affordable place to go than JLCPCB.
They offer great boards at a quick turnaround.
Alright I think that's it for the welding so now we just have to sandblast this,
polish it up, and then we'll be ready to assemble it.
Before we assemble the little pieces, let's start on the costume.
Now Mando's gloves are kind of interesting they have
yellow brown fingertips and then black on the palm and the back of the hand.
I bought a whole bunch of different gloves over here and I think we're going to use
cowhide glove, with a fingerless glove on top.
Now the only issue is this is a brand new glove. Mando's gloves are worn.
With leather like this if you add mineral oil you can actually turn it into a nicer light brown.
After it dries out a bit more it's gonna look a bit more like this glove.
Which I think is perfect.
It looks like a nice worn glove that isn't actually worn out yet.
Let's add the armor to the fingerless glove now.
I'm
starting to feel like Mando.
Bogdan's prepared all the flamethrower components and
Caleb just got our final PCB to control the whole thing.
Step one, we add the hose.
Now the lighter and our flamethrower nozzle are securely fixed in the bracer.
We got fire really close to your hand
we might want to add a small deflector plate there at some point.
All right now it's time to add the PCB.
I actually made a little laser cut metal plate, 3D printed button covers
so you can easily press the buttons with a glove.
I think that's everything which means it's time for a quick test.
Alright this flamethrower is a really good start but we certainly have a long way to go.
I'm gonna move on to making the helmet,
but first in chapter two Bogdan and Caleb will be building a blaster and spear.
That video is available right now to members!
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This is the way. I have spoken.