Fruit ninja.
"Oh!"
"In Half!"
The idea that a human being can throw a playing card with this kind of power and accuracy is insane to me.
Look at that!
And while throwing cards isn't necessarily, My strong suit
I can design and build stuff so I made the world's first deadly powerful playing card machine gun.
So I'm gonna give you a quick overview of the design and performance of my machine
And then to really test it out I'm gonna go head-to-head Man vs Machine
In a series of challenges against the best card thrower in the world. Here we go.
So to start off you load a deck of cards in the bottom right here
and then there's really two parts to the gun
First you want to slide the cards forward one at a time from the top of the deck underneath
That's what this belt and pulley are for.
And by turning this variable resistor we can adjust the feed speed
and then for the second part you've got this main wheel with oring stretched around
that's attached to this brushless DC motor
The cards are pushed under the wheel and it contacts on the left side and it spins them out underneath like this
It works because there's a gap under the spinning wheel
That's just barely smaller than the thickness of a single card and to build it as usual first
We started in CAD then machined the main body out of aluminum c-channel after that
It was just a matter of putting it together and running a lot of tests
and so this is what it looks like running in single-shot mode
And then machine gun mode
And then Robin Hood mode
And perhaps my favorite part is if you want extra stability you just push this button
I think I'm happy enough with how its performing at this point
So now it's time for the real test and to do that
I tracked down a man who could throw a playing card through just about anything
Rick Smith jr.
So how many World Records do you hold Rick?
I hold three Guinness Book World Records throwing a playing card the far that's 72 yards 92 miles an hour the highest and
considered the most accurate
All right. So in order to objectively test how good this really is
I am challenging the best the human race has to offer three rounds man
Versus machine. [Rick] Let's do this. This is like a metaphor. Yeah it is
How do you feel with all of humanity's hopes and dreams resting squarely on your shoulders? [Rick] Really worried about this? This is pretty impressive
I will say it looks I think a little more intimidating that it is this highly over-engineered. [Rick] Is it?
No, no
Let's go
Okay round one man versus machine, okay
How many cards could you do the styrofoam in six seconds?
Six seconds? Got plenty of room
I got this.
This is a machine gun.
Start!
And time!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
9 in six seconds!
I'll time you. Ready?
Well, I didn't want to introduce this yet. Just right out of the gate, but
[Rick] What is that?
Go!
8, 9, 10, 11, 12!
Oh
Even though I beat him in the first of our three rounds Rick said he'd show me a few of his trick shots.
Round two! Are you ready? Right now? I just want to say.
Machines - 1 Humanity - 0
Well, this is about accuracy as your machine accurate as it is fast
even more accurate than it is fast, but all
I'll prove that to you. I throw the olive up one chance.
One chance. slice of clean power
Got it.
Wow!
Completely in half.
Am I nervous?
No?
All right! Time for the machine.
Let's go!
"Do you know that close?"
"It's not close at all!"
"Things gonna mean something. Dude."
"You switch the olives"
"I did not"
That's fine. 1 - 1 I guess.
Oh my god! That scared me
I want you to think of a playing card any playing card on them? We've been playing with cards all day long.
Yeah, awesome
Name that card now!
That's a common card you sure you want that card. Yeah. All right. This is an ASIS play. That's my business card
I don't know why that's in there. But you really want the ASA spades. You could change it if you'd like. I don't
[Rick] What you're changing it to?
Three of clubs. [Rick] I knew he would. Look at this.
You look through the cards like this. Look look look, you'll see that one card and one card only is different
It happens to be the three of clubs
Stop! [Rick] Was that it?
So cool
My mind just broke. I hate you so much. [Rick] I'm so sorry. The world is no longer true.
It's witchcraft!
And to help calm my very troubled mind before the final showdown I decided we should blow some stuff up. [Rick] Guys ready?
And the physics at play here is pretty straightforward
If you've ever put your hand out the window of a car
You know what happens if you barely angle it up or down. So to fly fast you want to be perfectly level
there's this sweet spot right in the middle when I covered the science of the perfect rock skip in another video we talked about how
Spinning things are more stable because of Newton's first law
So Rick really flicks his wrist to maximize the card rotation
Which keeps it stable and level slicing through the air much longer than anyone else on the planet. All right, Rick Smith jr
All right Mark Rober. This is the last competition. Okay. What are we doing? First one is sticking in watermelon wins
That should be easy one. Try. There's the one catch the cool little twist is we have to shoot under the waterfall
Okay. All right. So you're gonna give us a countdown. I'll count down this is it man versus machine?
Is it this?
Over-engineered NASA piece of junk or the collegiate baseball throwing guinness world record card thrower.Place your bets in the comments below
Just don't forget to take this into consideration
When I count to three, I'm three, yep one
NOO! I'm out! [Rick]You're out?
And so while the robot uprising is undeniably marching closer everyday
At least for the time being Rick Smith jr. has our back
If you want to learn how to throw cards like Rick Smith jr. He actually put up a tutorial video on his channel
It's actually a super teachable skill because I started out like this
and less than five minutes later I was doing this so
Go check that out and sub his channel for more cool magic and card trick shots Rick
Could we go maybe a little thinner on those slices Pal?
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That's good
Thanks for watching
Hard through just about anything
And another go ahead it's do that so you dog