I'm building the CD launcher from Far Cry 6. Hey, that one actually worked pretty well.
That's what I call a banana split!
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I'm a huge fan of far cry it's honestly one of my favorite game franchises of all time
needless to say I'm super excited for the release of Far Cry 6. I'm equally as excited that we have
been asked to do a custom build from the game in Far Cry 6 you can craft a variety of weapons using
items found in the environment so that's what I'm going to do with my build. I came across
this ridiculous CD launcher and I want to build it there are a few things I want to make sure I get
right. It obviously needs to be ultra powerful and full auto I want rapid fire and to pay tribute to
Far Cry it needs to be aesthetically accurate the first question is simply
how what mechanism am I going to use to launch the discs? I could use springs or elastic bands
or maybe some sort of pneumatic pusher. But I think our best bet would be to use some sort
of flywheel. A flywheel is a wheel that can store and release rotational energy. They need to spin
really fast and most commercial wheels will probably just fly apart
but I've got some things I want to try and I think we can make it work
Alright, first up we've got a timing belt and pulley. I'm gonna start out on low power.
well that was anti-climactic let's try the dye grinder next
Check that out
well that wasn't too bad lastly let's try the angle grinder
Hey that one actually worked pretty well
okay so it seems like flywheels are pretty promising but like I expected
in order to get the lethal power that I want we'll have to make our own as always
Okay I just made these metal flywheels and I'm going to stretch an o-ring over them to
give them a better grip with the disc. I'm going to use these drone motors to
spin the flywheels because they're small and really powerful all right 20 power.
that's working really well let's turn this up! 30 percent, 40 ah
okay so the o-ring failed me here but there's massive potential
what happened is that because the wheel is spinning so fast the centripetal force simply
stretched the o-ring and caused it to fly right off but I think I've got a solution let's try it
okay so I just machined these two new flywheels and the difference between this design and the old
one is the old one had a groove in the top of the flywheel in which the o-ring would sit the new one
actually has grooves on the inside faces so you can actually sandwich the o-ring
right in between both halves and then when you put it on the motor it tightens and
pinches onto the o-ring so I think this will work quite well let's give it a try
we have revision two of our flywheels fully mounted hopefully that means we can spin them
all the way up and the o-rings will stay on. Let's see if that's the case. You guys ready?
Alright, I'm gonna extend it just full speed right away yeah okay three... two... one...
Oh it sounds so much better too!
Awesome that looks like it worked. Okay let's launch a disc.
That was awesome the discs were super powerful and the wheels stayed together which means it's
time to make the entire magazine and work on the electronics. Like I mentioned in the beginning
as a huge fan of the franchise I couldn't be more excited for the release of Far Cry 6.
It promises a robust narrative with a fully voiced protagonist whose backstory and performance goes
head-to-head with Yara's evil dictator Anton Castillo. Other than the CD launcher there are
backpacks that offer a range of abilities you can craft jet packs that shoot flames launch
rockets provide medical aid and more. Whatever your play style is there's something for you.
Far Cry 6 is available October the 7th click the link in the description to pre-order now
We have the launcher mechanism working as expected. So the next steps are to design
a magazine that will hold discs and a mechanism that will feed the disks out
one by one into the launcher.
Solidworks? Solidworks.
Here's what I've come up with for the magazine design. Basically we have the two flywheels of the
front to launch our discs, we've got a guide rail in the middle that's the thickness of one disc
so that we can feed one at a time, and we've got an arm at the back that will push the discs out.
All together this should work pretty well but we do need some electronics to get it
to cooperate together. That's why we have all this. This looks a lot more complicated than it
actually is. Here we have the Arduino which is basically the brains of the entire operation.
It runs this LCD display which will show exactly what the launcher is doing at all times
up here we have an H-bridge which will control the feeder arm if you'd like to see the full
schematic diagram make sure to check out our maker.io link in the description below
Okay, basically the way this works is you load a stack of CDs into the top and then when you press
the trigger this linear actuator here pushes the lever and that releases one CD at a time
into our launching mechanism and that should hopefully fly right out let's see if it works
this thing is freaking sweet and it checks two of my three boxes it's ultra powerful and it's
fully automatic awesome! But, as you can tell it looks nothing like the game so let's change
that. In the game the launcher is made out of random collected junk. Let's see what we can find
James's favourite hammer, perfect.
Hey Tyler! Tyler! Hey can I borrow that for a second? Thank you.
*visible confusion intensifies*
Ian hasn't ridden this thing in weeks. I'm sure he won't mind
Thanks Alex
Okay, that should be everything we need to finish this build and to look good hacksmith.store.
Alright we're actually going to use the body of this angle grinder
in order to hold all of our electronics so we're going to take this thing apart
Next up we need the hammer.
Okay we don't actually need the hammer. We're going to use this as the handle for the launcher
to make the fenders we'll be using our brand new Peopoly resin 3d printer
It's all cured time to paint
I'm actually rubbing off some of the paint with a tissue to give it an aged and damaged style.
We need to modify the cd drive to actually be able to fit our launcher mechanism. So in the game
it seems like the CDs fly out of the disk drive and I want to have the same thing happen with ours
let's take this thing apart this thing is useless and this thing is useless
and this thing is useless there we go got an empty disk drive now. Okay so step number one
is I actually want to cut this piece to look like this. Go right into it
Now this piece can be coming out of here like this
and I've actually made a couple of templates to help us cut
the right shape out look we have a sticker on it now so we're gonna angle grind out the
top and the bottom so we can fit our launcher mechanism into the CD drive
Okay with the CD drive all modified we're ready to install the launcher and install this front piece
now that the CD launcher is all assembled we're ready to start attaching the accessories.
So this one goes on this side just like this it's all starting to come together. Next up the handle
okay so these are the handles we just painted
Okay so this is actually gonna go like that.
Okay the mechanical assembly is basically all complete finally we have to install the
electronics. This is actually our grip from the jet power snowboard and we're gonna use it as both
a handle and a trigger for the launcher and it's going to go right here. Now we've got our LCD and
our speaker mounted so we can see exactly what the launcher is doing we're using this high-powered
Gens Ace Tattu battery to run the entire thing. Okay we're finally ready to mount the motors.
In order to test this thing we're gonna need some ammo. Luckily I've got plenty
of CDs laying around. Alright let's see what we got so these hey look, Photoshop!
what do we have what do we have uh Sounds of the Power Loader, Darryl's Greatest Hits, hey look
we got a Pokeball. I can't read that handwriting hey look hacksmith.store oh we even got a Captain
America shield gotta fire that one off. Gamestop to the moon! Alright let's destroy some of these
First up, apple.
Next up, bananas.
That's what I call a banana split! Let's see what it does against red bull
These goggles should be able to hold up to a
few discs. Make sure to check them out on Hacksmith.store
Barely scratched, nice! Okay let's see if James can withstand some of these CDs
Ready??
Haha this thing is sweet it works really well so I think we should let others try it as well.
Hey guys want to give it a shot?
It is all over the place man!
This things going everywhere!
Woohoo!
That was awesome we destroyed a bunch of apples some red bull cans even a mannequin's face yeah
who knew that CDs could do so much damage. Far Cry 6 will be available on October 7th
but you can pre-order now using our link in the description below
and make sure to check out the gameplay deep dive trailer up there. I'll see you in the game