Yeah everyone evacuate
Jesus
Flying like Iron Man returns the project you've all been waiting for Peter the guys convinced me that if we crack 100,000 subscribers
We should try and recreate this scene from Iron Man in three two one
Let's be honest, it's probably gonna look more like this
You know the drill I promise the internet something stupid and now we have to deliver
A big thing to everyone who's for the GoFundMe campaign in one year
We raised three thousand six hundred dollars out of our seventy-five thousand dollar goal
Unfortunately, it's become very apparent that we're not going to be able to use crowdfunding to support the flying like Ironman project and as such
We've shut down the GoFundMe campaign and will not be asking for any more donations
T-shirts t-shirts get your t-shirts here help make sure the hacks machine doesn't go under since we do really expensive projects
We don't really think about it
However we're not giving up, I promise the internet
I was going to fly and I still intend to why haven't we posted any updates on the flying like Ironman
project in over a year
Well, we have just not to YouTube there have been posts on our Instagram page and our Facebook page and even our Twitter
Which is another reason? Why you should follow us on those social platforms, but the funny thing is if everyone who commented asking
Where's this project? Why aren't you posting videos on it? Just donated five dollars?
We would have broke our goal in a matter of weeks
And then we would have been able to continue the project anyway with the three thousand six hundred dollars
We did raise from GoFundMe
We were able to buy one of the 195 millimeter Kubler etf's able to produce 24 kilograms of thrust wait a sec
$3,600 ooblar costs
$6,500
Unfortunately these ETFs have a very long lead time
We ordered one
But we won't be getting it until around February 2018 so until then we're gonna be working on different aspects of the project
But we are hoping to have about one video per month on the fine like Ironman project so if we're shutting down the GoFundMe campaign
How are we gonna afford to continue this project?
Well instead of continuing the project from a year ago
Which many of you guys were asked us to we decide to put on the back burner and?
Focus on growing our YouTube channel and our business instead and it's worked in the past year
We've grown our YouTube channel by over 1 million subscribers and over 70 million views in fact
We're in the top 50 channels in all of Canada. That's insane
We have an awesome facility and great people on a team in fact
We have four full-time employees here a few part-timers
And we even have high school co-op students what we're doing here is really unique
I don't think there's ever been a case of an engineering company that's been born on YouTube
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We'll be able to afford one of these a freaking jet engine wait a jet engine. I thought you're using ETF's well
That's the plan, but jet engines have way more thrust
Yeah, but you can't control them accurately. How are you gonna? Hover stabili?
well if we use a hybrid system of jet engines and ETFs we should be able to hover and have enough thrust I
Don't know why you're explaining this right now people have stopped watching or talking too much
You're right
So as you guys know for a while
We've been saying no jet engines don't use jet engines and that's because there's quite a few cons to using jet engines
There are pros though a jet engine has far more thrust than EDF you get a longer
Flight time because you can store more gas on your back than can lithium polymer batteries
And they're smaller than ADF's so it'll be just like flying like Iron Man rather than maybe something like flying like vulture
But there are some issues with using jet engines one you can't control them accurately like you can with an EDF if you put four
Jet engines in a square. You couldn't make it
Hover because fine-tuning each of those to be able to hover just as impossible number two
The exhaust coming out of a jet engine is over 800 degrees that means we're back to the first problem
We had using model rocket engines
We'd literally burn our skin off down to our bone probably if we got in the way of the exhaust
So that's another huge issue that we have to work around but
What if we did a hybrid system if we used a few jet engines to provide most of thrust to lift us off the ground?
Then we could use lower power ETFs around us in a drone shape and use a commercially available
Drone controller board to give a stable flight now. That's an idea
Regardless we're still very much in the engineering design phase
We're gonna have to get a jet engine and a good ETF in house to do tests to see if our design is even feasible
The jet engine we're looking at right now is by King
King Tech the jet engine we're looking at right now is called the J King 10 the K 3 10 G
And yes that stands for 310 Newtons and thrust that's almost 70 pounds of lift
That's huge, and it's only slightly bigger than the shoe blur 195 millimeter ETF's, right
Actually it might be smaller its skinnier, but maybe longer
Plus you can get even bigger jet engines that put out hundreds and hundreds of pounds of thrust that aren't that much bigger
The issue is cost we've looked at some of these and they can cost upwards of fifty thousand dollars each
Which is crazy?
But weight hack Smith hasn't Richard browning already flown successfully
Like Iron Man using jet engines aren't you just copying him now?
Well to be fair my videos came out first almost a year before his first video came out so if anything I think he copied
me
Nah he didn't copy you he's been working on this in secret for years and years
Well, maybe, but I did it first on the internet and that means I did it first
Okay there, buddy
Anyway, well it's true that Richard browning has already successfully flown like Iron Man using jet engines like we're maybe going to do
There's a few issues that we see with his design and the biggest one that sticks out to us is his lack of control
Basically it relies completely on pilot skill to be able fly which while that is really cool
You do have to be a skilled pilot in order to use this super scary system
It's not really practical especially if you're planning to commercialize it which apparently he is
What we think would work better is if you had a hybrid system like we mentioned earlier where we have?
ETFs and jet engines to provide stable flight that you don't have to control
Because the big issue we see is if he goes up too high in the air, and he loses control
He's not saving himself in fact. We've already seen this in a few of the videos that he's released
Besides hybrid systems are already tried and proven
That's how the flyboard air works, which is one of the closest things to flying like Ironman that we have right now
Have you seen it before?
What I don't understand is why hasn't someone put an Ironman costume on yet and use one of these
But wait I thought you said you're gonna do your own EDF
Well if you guys were following us on instagram. You'd see that
We've been working on one for the past half year actually and the reason we're able to do
This is because we actually got a sponsorship from SolidWorks now SolidWorks is the CAD software that both Ian
And I have been using for over a decade
It's basically one of the industry standards for a mechanical engineering CAD and they gave us the full package
We even have simulation software which will allow us to determine if our EDF design will actually put out enough thrust
Electro tape blue of
The simulation says we should get about 250 Newton's of thrust from this design
But unfortunately that is just a simulation so we're gonna have to actually test this and to do that
We're gonna have to build a thrust test jig
All right
All right just kidding
That is not our test rig so what we need to do is build a thrust test rig and is capable of measuring several things
the RPM of the motor the input voltage the input current and obviously the thrust output by the EDF blade oh
And the input throttle and we need to log it all so we can graph it later
Both Bogdan Benjamin and been working on this thrust test jig for a few months now
And we're actually going to explain it in more detail in a future video
So we're outside the shop and we're about to test our custom completely in-house designed 20 inch is it 20 or 24
20 22 honey 20 inch EDF
So we had to outsource this to auditive because in house we only have the FDM printers
Which as you saw in our previous videos gifts didn't hold up to the test that we did last time
So this is actually printed with a process called SLS or a selective laser sintering, and this is actually nylon powder
That's been fused into that shape and then we actually printed the duct ourselves
So that's eight individual pieces all screwed together and then epoxy using ecstasy
resin bobbins created this little thrust test jig and
What we'll actually be able to do is measure the thrust output from this fan blade and this motor
So the power of this we're actually using a hundred and fifty, CC gas engine replacement motors sold by hobbyking
It's roughly around 10 kilowatts. Which is a crazy amount of power in such a small form-factor
It should be fairly strong, but we're gonna test it and see if it explodes, but big shout-out to auditive for providing us with
this part
They have tons of other 3d printing technologies that you just can't get in-house
So I believe the simulations said we should be getting around 30 kilograms of thrust out of this so if we can
Get that and that means we know the saw works simulations are correct, which will allow us to redesign the blade and optimize it
Whoo
All right so our initial test is just going to spin it up to about 20 or 30 percent
we don't want to push it right away because there's a good chance this propellers just gonna explode and
When we go up to a hundred percent, I want to be really far away look
So that means if I go all the way to the top
Maximum power is still 30% if we flick it to the third person yeah third position
That's a hundred percent, so we don't want to do that so middle position
Let's do it oh
My god
Jesus you guys you guys realize how dangerous is flying like Iron Man project really it. Did you hear how loud that?
Looks good motor is gold
speaker trailer is cold I
Don't like that noise though you guys just six of these on my back
Alright, so you turn the controller on to give us full hundred-percent throttle and we're only going to go up to fifty
We'll see what happens. See how we're feeling and then continue from there. Oh
Boy, I'm not standing in front of it
Oh, it's 15 per side
I
Feel like we're building up friggin genin
She still hasn't blown
It looks fine like looking at it
Okay, ready, yeah
This is 30%
Yeah, everyone evacuate
And everyone to safe distances alright, so we're going up to 30% again
That's 30% unlocking full-throttle
My god sexy
70 80
100
The entire neighborhood can hear us the entire neighborhood
Motors hot motors Bernie a bit
Speed controller not too bad
Wires not too bad
Would include this in the video too slow a clip like we live stream
five kilograms
wow five kilograms yeah
Alright, so those initial numbers were pretty pathetic, but we've looked through the data now and plotted on a graph
So it's science time for those interested slowed down the video to 1/4
blah
blah science blah science cool stuff blah graphs blah science haha science blah blah
So the TLDR of that is we need to do a lot more testing which we'll be doing in a future video
But regardless we're actually really happy with that test because the part didn't explode which is really impressive considering. It was 3d printed
Well, that's all for this update. We're gonna try and have an update on this once a month, but big
Thank you to all our supporters on GoFundMe you guys allowed us to buy one of those sugar
195 ml ETFs to test out and a big, thank you to our video sponsor war robots
Which will hopefully allow us to buy a jet engine to test as well
And if you guys want to support the project we're selling some limited edition hacks
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