Ironman is no longer just a comic book and a movie superhero and he lives in Kitchener Ontario
James Hobson (repeated)
created just the device to help with the task. An Exo-skeleton so unique you have to see it to believe it
The making of this device was documented and posted to YouTube just
last week as of right now more than nine hundred and seventy thousand people have
watched it so could hit a million by tonight
oh that is heavy
hey guys can you believe we've had nine million subscribers it's incredible!
I started my youtube journey when I was 16 back in 2006
shortly after the platform was created back then it was just a way for me to
share videos I made with my friends mostly about parkour and freerunning
As I grew up my interests change and I became fascinated with technology and engineering
I learned how to do things by watching videos documenting projects
that others had done and started making projects of my own recording videos to
help inspire others to do the same along the way you guys became interested in
the things I was creating and slowly but surely we've grown this audience to nine
million people that's absolutely incredible that's over 25 percent the
population of Canada as we've grown this channel together I've continued to
reinvest everything we make back into the channel and the business to be able
to continually make bigger and better projects and videos to inspire you guys
into science technology engineering and math our team now has 12 people
dedicated to continuing to push the envelope further and sharing our passion
for innovation with the world and it's all thanks to you guys
so to show our appreciation we're gonna be doing our biggest giveaway ever with over 50
prizes available including Hacksmith merch, batarangs,and even a set of
original pneumatic cylinders for my very first exoskeleton which we're gonna
revisit in this video and since this video is such a special video for the
channel I knew it was important that we find that perfect sponsor for the video
so without further ado
this video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends... wait
really just kidding well not about the video
sponsor this video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends and I know they sponsor
everyone in fact it's become a bit of a meme on YouTube but honestly that's a
good thing sponsorships are what allow youtubers to make amazing content for
you to enjoy in fact Raid sponsor us over a year and
a half ago you know before it was cool to be sponsored by Raid and they
actually helped fund the initial creation of our aliens power loader
project which is why we were happy to work with them again and honestly out of
all the mobile games we made ads for I played Raid Shadow Legends the most it's
an epic RPG where you collect train and outfit your team of heroes to go on the
adventure of a lifetime and for the first time ever it's now
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it's honestly rather addictive to level up your heroes in the tavern and upgrade
their armor and weapons plus if you face off with a plan boss
there are weekly awards waiting for you and a PvP is your thing check out the
brand new tag arena with special awards for those who dominate in this fast paced
best two out of three competitive PvP arena what I like most about Raid Shadow Legends
is building up the ultimate team of heroes equipped with all the right
armor and weapons not unlike what we do here on the Hacksmith Channel
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Now, because the channel has come so far from its original days in a little basement
apartment in Toronto I thought it would be interesting to reflect a bit about
how far we've come and revisit one of the projects that really started it all
my Elysium exoskeleton I grabbed some popcorn and I watched my
entire 16 part series and wow I was not very good at making videos some of the
videos didn't even have background music anyway I wouldn't want to make you sit
through all 16 parts so I've edited them all down into a short two-minute montage
enjoy
Gotta get some perforated square tubing for the exoskeleton
six feet of it
okay so I admit this is a really ghetto testing setup but I really want to see
but if I put another guy on the
front I think we'll have something
Think it'll pick up the battery now?
safety first
yeah
so I think we're making some really good progress with this
just a quick little concept to show it then I'm hoping to do is that some
cylinders up back of the chest
for now I'm just going to steal this webbing and in the backpack straps
so the one mounted off the shoulder with a bolt will allow the entire arm to rotate
up and down like this whereas the other one will let it rotate around
like to introduce you to my mannequin named Tony he is actually quite similar to my size
which is perfect because this means that I can actually putthe exoskeleton on
him so I can do the measurements because otherwise it's gonna be pretty hard to
make the exoskeleton fit when I'm the one whose supposed to be wearing it
better but I got the shoulders mounted it's actually surprisingly flexible
but we're almost getting ready to throw them together
there's a shoulder joint and then this is going to attach on to the frame
just have to make some straps actually pull it to my arm so I'll have like a
spacer some padding especially on the bicep I'll keep everything in place but
I'm pretty excited I think this is gonna work out quite well
so you might notice I'm kind of mixing universes here...Ironman Elysium well an Iron Man suit is
the end goal someday so you know might as well start early all right so that's
about a hundred and seventy pounds or just under 80 kilograms definitely
something I can't curl myself
170 pounds
It worked
Oh
Wow. Absolutely phenomenal stuff
so where is it now well besides showing it to fans at
various conventions and events it's mostly sat on a shelf
in the original test I use cinder blocks that weighed approximately 171 and a half pounds
or about 77 kilograms but a lot of people seem to think it was fake weights
so let's prove it once and for all and use real Olympic weights
since this is just an upper-body exoskeleton my very human legs still
have to hold the weight so I'm wearing a weightlifting belt and I got some gloves
on to hopefully protect myself
like nothing at all
I think we can do more
I think of World Record is two hundred forty nine and a half pounds held by
Dennis saplinski....?
255 pounds. More than the world record, let's see if I can do it
world record
that was pretty good let's smash the world record
let's do 275 pounds
Just gonna do one rep
that's frickin sweet
now the best part about this Elysium exoskeleton is how much it's inspired makers around the world to pick up some
tools and work on projects in their garage
I'm here with one of my fans who's been with the channel since the original Elysium Lift. This is Bogdan
and as a special sign of appreciation for coming out and seeing
us... a set of Batarangs. Thank you! No Problem. Keep on watching. Good luck with the Exo. Thank You.
Hi James I hope you and your team are doing well. I just wants to extend a formal thank you
not just the incredible feats of innovation but this platform through
which you continue to inspire millions of engineers innovators and designers such as myself
five years ago I remember watching you creating your Elysium
exoskeleton in your garage... well I don't have an engineering degree I don't know
how to weld, I'm sure as hell don't know how pneumatics work, but if that guy can do it
why the hell can't I
Hey Hacksmith, my name is Troy and I'm 11 year... he's 11??
This kids 11! Hope you like the art. Pretty awesome
Thank You Leah
it's that inspiration and awe that you instilled into me that continues to
drive my passion for going above and beyond in any design projects that I undertake
for that I'll always be grateful
and with that it's time to announce I'm retiring from YouTube who needs to hit
10 million subscribers anyways
just kidding!
don't you worry like we've said many times over the years we are just getting
started we haven't even scratched the surface of what we're gonna be able to
do in this new facility once we get everything running smoothly we're gonna
be starting to produce more videos per week expand our Hacksmith internship
program and work on even bigger projects Plus once the world settles down we'll
have more events that you can come to right here at Hacksmith Industries and
one of my next big pie-in-the-sky goals is to create an even more educational
channel to teach engineering and eventually even run summer camps so once
again I'd like to thank you all for coming along on this crazy crazy ride
let's do our biggest giveaway ever did I say 50 prizes earlier let's do 100
we're gonna be giving away two pairs of pneumatic cylinders for my original
exoskeleton, eight pairs of hacksmith sunglasses, ten metal batarangs, 25
hacksmith shirts, 25 hacksmith hats and 30 signed hacksmith prints and comic covers
to 100 lucky subscribers to enter all you have to do is fill out the
giveaway form linked in the description below plus if you download RAID you'll
get one more entry to increase your odds good luck and make sure you're following
us on instagram @thehacksmith to see if you win thanks again guys and I'll
see you at ten million subscribers
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