Here at Hacksmith Industries
we're on a never ending quest to make fiction a reality.
We've done hundreds of Make It Real projects over the years.
Crazy things like our Aliens Power Loader, a Back to the Future hoverboard
and of course, our world's first plasma lightsaber.
And while most people might think what I do is dangerous
and I don't blame them,
there are even some projects that I thought were too dangerous to finish.
So without further ado, here are our top ten projects you've never seen.
And maybe we'll let you guys vote on which one you'd like us to finish,
Number one, or is it number ten?
Flying like Iron Man.
We started that almost seven years ago now.
I was determined to fly.
We started by slapping literal rockets to my wrists.
Moved on using electric ducted fans
and even wanted to use miniature jet engines to create a real working jetpack.
Lots of testing happened and we were seeing a lot of success.
But at the time, it was still a really difficult and expensive project for us.
We tried our best, but on April 1st, 2017,
Richard Browning of Gravity Industries came out with his jet suit.
The closest thing to flying like Ironman.
Riachrd Browning: It's impossible.To put into words, but it is almost like that dream that people have about flying.
You genuinely have a three dimensional freedom
where you can just go whatever you think.
I even got to try suit out and it was absolutely incredible.
I still got to head back to the UK to master it.
Since he had already invested millions and years of his life into building such an amazing jet suit.
We didn't see much reason to continue our project.
And then just last year, Jake Laser picked up the torch I dropped
and made an electric ducted fan version and flew like Iron Man.
I'm so proud of him.
Despite all that, I still want to fly.
I just wanted to do it in a unique way.
I mean, there's no reason to reinvent the wheel.
Which leads us to project number two.
The go go gadget helicopter hat.
Go go gadget copter!
I don't think I even have to explain why this was a dangerous idea.
I mean, what could go wrong with two giant propellers
spinning at insanely high speeds just inches above my head?
The plan was to use two of these super powerful EMRAX 208 motors
and then have a whole mechanism pivot on a gimble.
The system promised to have a very high efficiency compared to EDF's or even jet engines,
easy control and over 150 kilograms of lift.
Unfortunately, running such powerful motors reliably was
more challenging than expected and a single point of failure
in any part of the system would mean certain death.
A perfect three point landing.
But I still kind of want to finish it.
The next project comes in with all the childhood wonder
of jumping off a roof with an umbrella.
But in case you haven't tried that, it does not work
For project number three.
I give you the jet engine umbrella.
We did what any reasonably sane person would do
and mounted three jet engines to an umbrella.
Let's recap.
The exhaust is over 800 degrees Celsius.
It makes over 122 decibels of ear deafening whine.
And not to mention, there's a literal tank of gasoline strapped to my back.
What could go wrong?
Well..
I jumped.
Now, how awesome would it be to punch
with 40,000 volts of electricity?
Number four is our Black Widow Taser gauntlet.
This was one of Riley's projects.
Do you remember Riley?
He strapped five 40,000 volt taser modules
to a wristband with a gravity switch that would turn them all on
at the same time when you threw a punch.
After it was built poor Bogdan had a bit of an accident.
He made a little mistake and picked it up, turning it over to look at it.
Remember that gravity switch? Yep.
He forgot it was on.
After rethinking YouTube's community guidelines around a project like this,
we decided that maybe we shouldn't post it.
However, that didn't stop Nate and Calli
from The King of Random from trying it out.
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Number five wasn't exactly dangerous,
but our sponsor pulled out and we never ended up posting the video.
The year was 2021.
Between the pandemic and ever changing employment laws.
TelePresence robots quickly became all the hype.
So we decided to build one.
The sponsor thought it would be cool to make it look like it was put together
from e-waste and junk from the scrapyard.
We said, okay, signed a contract and built our janky telePresence robot.
But when it came time to unveil the finished product, the sponsor was disappointed
that it looked like it was made from junk.
Despite that being the thing, they asked for it.
3, 2, 1!
And if you thought that project
was weird, number six gets even weirder.
Destroying giant gummy bears.
Even I thought this was kind of unusual.
The sponsor made chewable gummy vitamins, so we made and tested
giant gummy bears against our arsenal of projects.
It turns out pouring a giant vat of gelatin into a gummy bear
mold is pretty hard.
How many of these do we need? All of them.
Look at that team.
It's working.
Oh, no.
It is leaking out of the bottom.
Well, now it's going faster.
What was most surprising
is the fact that a gummy bear is actually pretty light saber resistant.
The full video of our gummy bear destruction was scheduled and ready to go,
but at the last minute, the brand canceled all ads for the month.
They hadn't even seen our video yet.
Luckily, the contract stated that
we'd still get paid for the sponsorship.
We just never needed to post the video.
We've posted it for our YouTube channel members to watch and enjoy.
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Number seven, a radioactive arc reactor.
Iron Man's Arc Reactor is one of the most recognizable
pieces of Marvel technology
And we do have real world nuclear generators,
such as the one on the Voyager spacecraft or on the Perseverance Rover.
It should be possible to just size one down
small enough to fit in my chest cavity, right?
So even if all it could do was keep your phone
charged for a couple of years, that would be pretty cool.
So we started designing. When we started actually developing the project
we realized that the problem wouldn't just be the insane cost of tritium.
At about $30,000 a gram.
But actually the availability of it.
It's actually extremely rare and there's only about 500 grams
of it produced per year.
And most of the tritium you find online is fake.
The entire world supply is only about 25 kilograms.
Now we'd only need about a gram of it, but to put that in perspective,
that's enough tritium to make over 10,000 Rolex
watch dials glow. The main use of tritium in the industry.
We could use some other radioactive sources,
but I didn't really want to end up like the radioactive Boy Scout.
Now, number eight comes from one of the greatest Spider-Man villains of all time.
Doctor Octopus.
Think about how awesome it would be to throw
someone ten feet away with your snake like robot arms
and toss them across a parking lot or have an extra set of hands to help you.
We tried multiple ways of actuating and controlling the unique limb motion,
including flexible pneumatic actuators and even nitinol wire tendons.
The same material we use for our self-healing wolverine claws.
As epic as the idea sounded, it became clear that achieving a system
powerful enough to lift any kind of useful weight while having accurate
enough control and being light enough to even wear on your back
was a little more difficult than even anticipated.
Even if it was light, just having something ten feet long
hanging off your back would just tip you over.
Number nine involves one of my favorite dark heroes.
Venom, I mean, Venom.
I'm so sorry about your friend.
Are you gonna eat nybody else?
Most likely.
Imagine having a containment vessel
of your very own symbiote, a glass tube
with an alien like creature inside that moves as if it's alive.
The plan was to use
Ferrofluid and Electromagnets to cause the fluid to move in an alien
like manner inside of the tube or even crawl around on a magnetic bed.
However, Ferrofluid is really hard
to work with and stains everything.
We spent months trying to figure out a suspension fluid or a coating
that would allow the sterile fluid to not stick to the glass.
Unfortunately, our attempts were futile.
When the second Venom movie came out.
We tried revisiting the project again,
but hit the same roadblock.
It's just too frickin messy.
Luckily, Jake Laser took a bullet for the team and covered
himself in the stuff.
An awesome display
but one he never wants to do again either.
If $1,000 was on the line,
do you think you could beat a robot at dodgeball?
Number ten is our undefeatable dodgeball robot.
We had this grand vision of making a revolutionary robot
that would throw dodgeball at lightning fast speeds with pinpoint accuracy.
We enlisted the help of our friend Dave, an expert in robotics programming
to bring this idea to life.
Using his industrial robot from the Carbonite project.
We had hoped to add a camera system that would detect people
and launch dodge balls at them with precision and speed.
But it turns out throwing the ball fast enough was a challenge.
And finally, number 11.
Wait, I thought we only had ten.
I guess you guys get a bonus.
Number 11, the Winter Soldier arm.
Imagine being able to punch through a solid wall
and smash cinder blocks like sandcastles.
I made an extremely strong arm sleeve out of layered Kevlar
rubber composite and titanium reinforced.
The arm should offer some serious protection
and be strong enough to cause a vast amount of damage there.
But right before we tested it, I broke my hand
testing another completely unrelated project.
Actually, it wasn't even a project.
It was a baseball.
Between a rather long recovery
and a newfound realization that I am, in fact, not invincible.
We just haven't found the time to test this arm out.
On the plus side, I do have some real titanium in my hand now.
Nice.
We also might be doing a collab very soon with an epic company
that makes real bionic limbs
capable of epic destruction.
So consider subscribing to see that and so much more.
Like I always say, we're just getting started.
Thanks for watching.
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It's not just another merch store.
It's the starting point for phase two of our master plan,
with the goal to create and sell technologies to better mankind.
We sell quality products we actually use,
and we reinvest everything back into supporting that goal.
My personal favorite is the mini saber.
It's currently backordered, but we're getting more in a couple weeks.
And hopefully our patent pending
flame changer will be available in a couple of months.
This is our retract-a-bit screwdriver, which lets you effortlessly
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We have the full size and precision drivers
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Now, if I were to travel back in time and only bring one thing, I would bring
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