Hey guys, so we have a little interesting project this week sometimes we do things
just for fun and we don't always make videos about it but, after Riley made
this taser potato we knew we had to make a video and share it with you guys
it's... shocking to say the least
This is, one of my better ideas, it's
effectively hot potato but the penalty is you get hurt
about twenty thousand volts through your fingers so like if you were to connect
these two contacts which I'm gonna do now through the power of not touching
anything except I'm still gonna get zapped watch it's not that aggressive
right now but it'll still hurt like hell and every single one of these contacts
if you connect basically any two of them it will zap you and the more you touch
the less it hurts because it splits through channels in your hand but if
you're only touching between like two contacts it's gonna hurt a lot more
because it's all the electricity through the single connection
Want the death potato?
No
Hey Ian!
Touch it
Ian: Yeah, some of them don't I think I touched like these two initially
Riley: Yeah that's fine it's that's fine but yet yeah oh so they're round rails so these four are
connected these four are connected so you have to short between those
Ian: I thought we were gonna have like a timer that it
Riley: that's what Bogdan was gonna do right
Right now its just on, you turn it on and you're screwed
James: Is this the powerful one now?
Riley: It's not that powerful it's the powerful one but it's been
dropping we neutered it are you ready yeah okay this is only a temporary seal
*Girlish scream*
This is only a temporary seal because I just wanted to play with it right now because we need to put the Arduino in
and the charging port yeah I didn't put either of those in I just put a power button
James: Yeah, I think it'll be a lot better once it's random
because it'll be a surprise as opposed to yeah I know it's gonna
shock me when I grab it right it's a lot much more let me throw it to you you
stand here It's so menacing too
James: We need to go outside, stand in a circle and actually toss it
Riley: No no we need the circuit
Before we test it we need to add the randomizer circuit because with it
always on you just don't even want to catch it which kind of ruins the fun of
the game so Bogdan is gonna wire up a new circuit for us to turn this into
taser potato
So basically at the heart of the tazer potato is a forty thousand volt zero
voltage switching taser module which is powered by an 18650 3.7V
lithium-ion battery in order to control when the Taser module turns on
and off we're using an Arduino along with a logic level MOSFET to control the
power of going to the Taser module with a little bit of basic arduino code
we're able to make it turn on and off at random intervals and shock who
ever is touching it for more information on how electronics works please check
out our circuit diagram at maker.io there are links in the description below
Hey so I came up with a really good idea because originally we were gonna
try to do printed tabs here and the issue is that 3d printing the layers
kind of like to separate when you put too much force on them so they all
snapped off I just sand it all down and said okay we're gonna figure something
else out so what I came up with was using these little metal metal plates
they're plates that will sit like so and then they go through the center section
and into the other shell and they all connect and what I was gonna do was I
was gonna heat shrink these entire things but then I thought hey what if I
use these as my conduits which means even the attachment pins for
these will also be electrified so it's even more dangerous and has more
contacts than the original prototype version one and they are bigger and
wider for you know higher probability of you're gonna get zapped
It's really not that bad the nice thing is now it's random so like you can catch
Miranda: I told Riley I'd play if it was random all right yeah
Riley: so basically these are all
electrical contacts hooked up to each other and there's a power button here
and there's an Arduino inside of this that randomizes when it turns on and
when it will shock you so there's no real way of knowing when it's gonna
shock you and you just gotta pass around and you'll find out who gets out and you
have yet to play with one hand, because if you play with two you can get shocked through the heart and it's bad
power is on
the randomizer circuit is it's five to nine seconds between each on or off and
it turns on for either a hundred to four hundred milliseconds
Did you want to go change the circuit?
All right so for our final test Bogdan's changed the programming and now not only
does it shock stronger but it shocks more often because what we found was we
were passing around quite a bit and people weren't getting shocked that
often so it's gonna be a bit worse now let's see what happens
So the interesting thing is if you it's difficult to press the button when
you know it's going to shock you immediately but if it's going to shock
you randomly it's a little bit easier to
is it on sure
Riley: It's got a 5 or 8 second waiting period so
Ian: I've got sweaty hands
When's it gonna go?
Riley: Oh god I shouldn't use two hands
*Titanic theme plays*
Alright so that worked pretty good but let's assemble the whole team and have some
company bonding all right so be doing standard hot potato rules if you drop it
you're out and the circle gets smaller and smaller and smaller until there's
only two people left once there's two people left we will do
this whoever holds on longest wins if you get shocked but you manage to pass
it to someone you're not out shall we begin
it's our week we go in a little closer this is good okay it's definitely on it
actually makes noise every time is it so if we hear that noises is it coming
towards us gotta catch it or you're out alright toss it
AGH
I think because I suppose we have so many contacts yeah it's being spread of
so we just do hot potato
he just pawns the head
nice
all right so that was a really fun project I hope you guys enjoyed it we
might bring it with us to future conventions but I don't think legally
we'll be able to let you guys touch it but I'm not too sure why you'd even want
to but speaking of that we actually got invited to Fan Expo in Toronto end of
August which is one of the biggest comic conventions or fan conventions in
Toronto and it's awesome that we're gonna go and I'm really looking forward
to seeing you guys there so there's a link in the description below to check out
Fan Expo