Now, we've done a ton of Marvel projects.
But what about DC?
Well, we've actually done
more Batman projects than we have Ironman projects.
Why Batman?
Well Batman
is one of those relatable superheroes.
I mean,
not the billionaire part.
But the fact that he's just a mere mortal using
technology to be a superhero which is why we decided to make Batman's gadgets...
Real!
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Welcome to the Hacksmith Vault where we
revisit, revise and revamp some of your favorite projects from over the years.
And this is a chance for us to show you guys never-before-seen footage too.
This week's episode... Batman!
But if you're gonna do
Batman projects you better look the part.
That being said, we never really had a really good Batman costume...
Hey guys I'm the Hacksmith.
Human flesh...!
Oh wait, there was that that Halloween party
where I-I-I had a bit of a Batman costume and then I guy got hit with a flaming guitar.
Jokes aside to be Batman you need a Batarang
his most iconic gadget.
So we started with the Batman Dark Knight Batarang and this was a ton of fun.
To prove I'm a true Batman fan let's try branding flesh.
Come on baby...
And more recently we actually did an awesome collaboration with Jairus of all
where we recreated every Batman Batarang from comics, movies, video games and TV shows.
JAIRUS: I have all of the batarangs finished.
JAMES: Wow, that's a lot of batarangs!
JAIRUS: So this is the launcher.
JAMES: Three... Two... One...
JAIRUS: That was nice!
JAIRUS: That's some serious penetration. JAMES: About an inch and a half penetration.
JAMES: Alright, your turn!
JAMES: YEAH! JAIRUS: I've got one in the board!
That's winning.
JAMES: Look at that, a tie!
JAIRUS: Perfect kill shot.
JAMES: Thre, two, one, go!
RILEY: Dude, this was a bad idea.
JAMES: But it worked!
RILEY: How did you hit that?!
After the batarangs almost five years ago now, we started working on one of our
most functional Batman projects.
And that was his rappelling hook.
And no, I'm not
pronouncing grappling wrong,
this is a rappelling hook meant for going down a building.
And it's really cool how this works it's actually a four bar linkage
that opens up and what happens is,
you can connect it to say a gas pipe or
anything else and when you pull, it actually gets tighter now you can rappel
off the side of the building and when you release tension the spring opens the
back up and it falls back down.
And the cool part about this project,
this is actually the only product we
have ever sold.
That's right I actually sold about a hundred of these to some
very lucky fans over four years ago now.
and I guess it's our only official
product that we ever actually manufactured and sold.
After the repelling hook we had to make something even better
a grappling hook!
A grappling hook gun!
And you know what? It worked, really well.
Here's the main window we want to shoot grappling hook through.
And there's the access to the roof.
Stay away from the edge dude.
That grappling hook gun worked really well
but it had one big issue.
How do you climb up a rope that skinny?
So
we put our engineering thinking caps on
and we actually created our very own winch system.
It's rather complicated but uses
two 2.5 kilowatt brushless DC motors to a custom gearbox we made,
And this actually worked really well.
I still think this is one of our most engineered YouTube projects we've ever done.
Unfortunately I dislocated my shoulder during last project.
So I'm passing the bat mantle to Ian.
I'm Batman
Where did Ian go with that grappling hook gun?
Now after that project we actually started working on our very first
vehicle project here at Hacksmith Industries and that was our Batman Baja.
Basically we were trying to make a mini Batman tumbler it was actually our first
partnership with accelerated Systems Inc the company that provided those awesome
motors for our real-life cyber truck.
Anyway, the Batman Baja was a ton of fun
it was super fast, pretty powerful and we added a bunch of cool gadgets. Crazy LED
lighting everywhere and we had a ton of fun testing it.
The issue was it never
really ended up looking that much like the Batman tumbler, mostly because it was
a baja not really a tumbler but whatever happened to it?
Well, it's still my backyard.
Way back there and my tattered, tattered garage.
Why is it snowing...?
There's the PUBG Buggy too.
Should really cover that up...
Oh yeah nice sunroof letting all this snow in.
Anyway, here it is.
It has been here for at least 3 years now...
And it looks like a cat was living here look at that fur.
Oh there's the keypad from the LED lights.
Oh there's the relay box.
I truly need to fix this garage though.
Which leads us to our last Batman project that we
did just a few months ago now and this project actually almost made me lose an eye.
Seriously.
With Jairus of All we produced
a rocket-powered Batarang.
And this thing...
Well it worked quite well...
When it worked correctly.
It didn't turn on!
We tested it... It worked!
And then, James made the tiniest
of mistakes, we're both looking at the Batarang because he had just fixed it.
At this point he said maybe I should turn it on and if the LEDs turn on then we
know the circuit's still good and this happened...
James just turned the on switch on the rocket to see...
That was terrifying.
Never leave your batarang loaded.
Oh I almost forgot, there is one more Batman project that we forgot.
Nightwing's Escrima sticks.
Now, unfortunately it's not working anymore but in this video you'll see how much
fun we had with these.
And that concludes our episode on Batman!
Are there other Batman projects you'd
like to see us complete?
Let us know in the comments below.
I'll leave you guys
the rocket-powered Batarang working properly.