If I'm going to be building Mario Karts, then we should all
be looking at the Mario Part.
Well, they're going to need some upgrades and modifications.
Speed isn't your friend in this game.
Wow.
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The first thing we're going to need is some carts.
I went ahead and bought these guys online.
They've got a 0.3 horsepower motor, a 40V battery and one wheel drive.
So, how are we going to turn these go-karts into Mario Karts?
Well, they're going to need some upgrades and modifications.
Out of the box these things are somewhat quick, but we want very quick.
So I'm going to pull the motor out and put in a bigger one.
And then for good measure, I'm going to throw another one in on the other side.
And I think we have everything we need for this at the old shop.
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I'm getting garage envy.
All right. Let's find those motors.
Those are the motors.
They're a little tied up at the moment, but
let's hit the road.
These are mounted from the top.
We want this thing to be faster. To that end, we're going to
pull it the rear wheels and replace them with better motors.
We're gonna pull up the speed controller, replace it with better
speed controller, pull out the battery and replace it with a better battery.
And when you turn it on, we're going to get rid of that.
Everything in here that isn't bolted down has to go and actually everything
that's bolted down also has to go.
These are our new motors we need to install them in the spot where the old
motor and the old rear wheel were these are 350 watt motors our old
motors were 250 watts.
We're also adding a second one.
So that's total of about one horsepower considering we're going to
be running these things a lot harder than they're really designed for.
These are the new motor controls they
go up to 80 volts, 33 amps.
We've got the connectors on let's install the speed controllers.
Now that the motor controllers are bolted down,
we have to attach all of the controls.
Currently this karts only designed to send a signal to a single motor control.
Crimping is the process of attaching pins to the ends of wires by
mechanically deforming, the pin.
That's going to let us make up the connectors that we need in order to
connect the throttle to both drivers.
I'm adding a button to the steering wheel right here, that'll engage the electronic brake instead of just
having used the mechanical hand brake.
To power the modified go-kart
we're going to be using these yard tool batteries that they gifted us
last year, when we were doing the last drift trike extravaganza, these are going
to let us do quick changes for pit stops
when we run the batteries dead.
All right.
That does it for one of the carts.
Let's see if this actually made a difference.
I'm going to be driving the souped up super go kart
and Chris T here, he's going to be driving the stock go kart.
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Let's drag race.
Bring it on.
He's cheating. Let's go!
Faster, go faster, faster.
I hate this.
This sucks man.
Alright.
Those modifications definitely worked.
My cart was way faster.
I'm going to make those same modifications to Chris's cart.
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But we all know Mario Kart
isn't just about speed
I think I need a refresher.
So let's go pick an opponent.
Alright. Let's do this.
Dylan here is Hacksmith Industries, resident Mario kart expert
and he's agreed to show him the ropes.
Ready to go.
Let's do this.
When you play this enough you can do this with your eyes closed.
Ah you son of a
you just took my music box
Indeed.
Not cool. If only I had a blue shell. Well you don't you have the music box.
Hello?
Aw, come on.
Strong to the finish.
Not strong to the finish
Not strong to the finish.
Speed isn't your friend in this game.
Speed can be your friend, but you need, you need to know how to use it
and you need a cart or a bike that
you're gonna be able to stay stable with. The key to winning this game
is always going to be the red shells.
The red shells are your key to winning.
And especially if you have three, you just have to learn how to time them right.
I'm way behind here.
Not good. Because the key is also Charles, is that when you're way behind, you don't
want to just save onto any of your stuff.
You want to get rid of it because you're looking for those red shells,
the red shells are gonna be the only way that you're going to have the ability
to catch up that are a blue shell.
Cause you need to slow me down when I'm not in your view.
Yup.
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The main ways to get power ups in Mario Kart are from picking up
item boxes and hitting boost tracks.
There's a whole bunch of different items.
Most of which hurt other people.
And as much as I like hurting other people, we're going
to focus on boosts for now.
We can't exactly go about having magical floating item boxes
on the track, but what we can do
is have specifically marked portions of track that we can drive over to
trigger a boost or an item pickup.
Here's how this is going to work.
I have this color sensor that I'm going to attach to the underside of the cart.
That color sensor is going to get read by this microcontroller
if the color sensor picks up on a distinct color,
that's either going to be a boost or an item pickup.
The colours we chose were yellow for an item pickup and red for a speed boost.
So if we hit a yellow item, we get the fantastic little items
scrolling by on the display.
And eventually we wind up with our item.
We decide we want to use that
we hit the button and we get a boost
that's shown out by this bar at the bottom of the screen.
If we then hit a red speed boost patch on the road, it just
gives us a half second of boost.
We hit another yellow patch
we might get the super mushroom that gives us 10 shots of 250 milliseconds of boost.
The star power that gives us five seconds of boost.
And if you hit it again, you might get the third item, the normal mushroom,
which gives you 500 milliseconds of boost
as though you hit a boost pad on the floor.
If you want to see the full schematic diagram, make sure to check out the
project on maker.io, link in the description below.
Off-camera I went and soldered up the circuit board that has the microcontroller
and connectors for all the other parts we need.
Now we just need to throw that on into the cart and we're off to the races.
Now that the mechanical upgrades and power-ups are in place,
the only thing missing is aesthetics.
We want this thing to look like a Mario Kart.
There've been 14 different games since Super Mario Kart for SNES in 1992.
Obviously the design has changed somewhat.
So looking online here
it seems like there's really one most popular and
iconic design, which is this one.
This should be pretty easy to replicate.
It just has a cowling over the front steering column, two
side pods and a front fender.
We should be able to 3d print all those parts vinyl wrap them to get the color
and slap one of these on there as a Hacksmith logo instead of the Mario Kart logo.
Let's see if anybody has already made a design of this.
This is great.
Someone's already done all the hard work for us
for four bucks
We can get the .stl scale it up, and get it printing.
It's probably a good time to check on how our 3d prints are doing.
So we're 29 hours into this print and we're only about halfway done, but
it's actually looking magnificent.
I can't believe it's working this well. Now you might be wondering
How do 3d printers work?
Well, here's a brief rundown on that.
We start, I take care of 3d models and importing them to a piece of software
called a slicer. That slicer, it takes our 3d model and decomposes it into
a bunch of short instructions that this robot right here called the 3d
printer can follow the machine, follows those instructions and takes this
filament, which is a thin strand of plastic
As the filament is extruded through the nozzle, it gets pushed into
layers upon layers upon layers, 0.2 millimeters at a time in this case.
And as those slowly accumulate, it builds up the entire model that we put
into the slicer in the first place.
In this case, it's going to keep doing that for about 56 hours
straight burning through 800 grams of filament for each one of these.
And we're going to wind up with the part about yay big.
Now 56 hours may sound like a long time,
But it would take way longer if the slicer wasn't smart enough
to make it kind of hollow.
You see, if you look in the top here, we have this honeycomb pattern.
If we just printed a solid block of plastic, well, first of all, there
wouldn't be enough material on a real, this size to fill the whole thing.
And second of all, it would have to paint that entire area with a 0.4 millimeter
wide brush, every 0.2 millimeters.
And that would take about forever.
Luckily, all it has to do is just make a stripe every inch or so
as it goes across and then it can drop to the next level that's
called infill. These are looking great
so let's just not touch it for the next 24 hours and they should turn out fine.
These prints both finished and they look fantastic.
These are going to form the front bumper of our Mario Kart.
We have a whole bunch of holes along this front edge
so that we can get the two halves, the lineup exactly
In form this looks like a Mario Kart bumper, but the color could use some work.
So we're going to need to paint it and then apply some vinyls
so that it looks perfect.
Alright let's paint this thing.
Alright paint's dry and they look great.
Now let's hand them over to our vinyl expert.
Okay these guys turned out great.
Now we just gotta bolt them on and we'll have ourselves some Mario Karts.
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All right, James, we finally got the boost system working on the go-karts.
Are you ready to give it a test drive?
I was born ready.
let's a go!
James, you see that red square there
I want you to drive right over it.
Alright.
That's fricking awesome.
So the red squares are speed boosts.
What about the yellow square?
Well, the yellow square gives you a power up.
Alright. Oh I got a star.
Well that worked perfectly.
I'm really glad I took my shoes off.
They absorb the impact much better without shoes.
Well James.
Now that you know how they work, what do you say
we just take them for a rip.
Let's a go!
Wow!
Boost boost.
Yes!
Huh.
Where are you Charles?
Spun out!
It's a bit slippery around that corner.
That was close.
These boosts are dangerous.
That's my phone.
Oh my God.
My phone got stuck between the wheel.
I was breaking, using my phone.
Charles, I found a replacement brake pad.
Oh, no.
My phone slipped out of my pocket and landed in between the wheel.
And it was actually braking. Alright these things work fantastic.
And we learned that cell phones can be used as breakdown, which is super handy,
but I can't wait for the Hacksmith Cup.
Once we have four of these made.
It's going to be crazy.
Oh yeah, it's going to be Mario Kart madness.
Awesome work with this, Charles.
I can't wait to see the next two and getting racing.
Oh yeah.
Bye!
Get back here.
Well, guys there, you have it.
Mario Kart in Real Life.
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