Hey guys, I'm the Hacksmith on our YouTube channel we take fictional ideas
from comics movies and video games and make real working prototypes. Back in
June I took the team to see Men In Black International on opening night it
was an awesome movie true to the classics with all the aliens gadgets and more.
It gave us a bunch of ideas of some tech that we can make real and then we
got a mysterious phone call. The men in black reached out to us as it turns out
they'd like to sponsor us to make a video and your number one request was
for us to make them neuralyzer so let's make it real!
Men in Black International is out on digital today
and blu-ray September 3rd. With never-before-seen gag reel, deleted
scenes and more. Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson are the perfect duo I
loved it I know you will too. Plus make sure you watch the whole video because
we're gonna be giving away a neuralyzer to one lucky fan.
There's no men in black if there's no neuralyzer
and that was the hardest prop to redesign.
So how are you gonna make it? Well from an engineering standpoint there's two
main components to the build there's the electronics which includes the circuitry
to drive the lights and then mechanical casing and holds it all together.
Let's take a look at what kind of lights we could use and then we'll figure out how
we're going to do the mechanical case. Luckily the props Department actually
sent us some behind the scenes photos so we'll be able to make this look just
like the one in the movie. To make it flash we have two options we can either use a flash from a disposable camera.
Something I feel like a lot of our younger audience has probably never seen before.
Or we need some high-powered LEDs like these.
Now I believe the original neuralyzer probably used a camera flash
but modern LED technology has become quite impressive so we're also going to
test some of these LED modules and to do that Ben's actually whipped up quite a
few prototypes to compare the two technologies.
So this was the very first
prototype we made this is a single 60 watt LED and 45 volts of capacitors it's
relatively bright but doesn't last for very long and that's due the nature of
the capacitors the second prototype I made was also with capacitors it's 42
volts but six nine watt LEDs. So the third and final prototype that we made
was with the recycled camera flash the advantage of it is we can recharge it constantly and fire it forever.
Alright so the camera flash it's actually pretty
cool but it really doesn't show that well on camera and I think these high
powered LEDs actually look a lot more like it does in the movie. So we're gonna
continue with that design oh we're also gonna have to figure out how to make it
make that noise that doesn't the movie but we're gonna figure that out later.
Time to start doing the 3d CAD
Now let's get to machining on our Tormach CNC Lathe.
Now we'll use our Tormach CNC mill to add the finer details.
Now that we're done a machining time to get to the final assembly.
Right now i'm just soldering the heat sink pads together to get some
rigid support between all six of the LEDs.
So for the final design then we need a way to hold the batteries in the casing
and then allow them to transfer power, so exactly like a flashlight, the batteries
are gonna be inside of it we're gonna have a spring spring is gonna push down
on the batteries and then short out to the casing. So the casing of flashlights
are actually active we're gonna do the exact same thing with this. We're gonna
mount a little spring there and that's gonna and it's gonna ground the case of
be neuralyzer to the battery's nuts we're gonna transfer power.
You can see the full circuit diagram by visiting our page on maker.IO
To replicate the sound of the neuralyzer we are using an Ada-fruit sound module we
got from Digikey.
V/O: You will dress only in attire specially sanctioned by MIB special services.
You will conform to the identity we give you. you will not stand out in any way.
You are a rumor recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly.
You are no longer part of the system, you are above the system, over it, beyond it, we're them,
we're they. We are the Men in Black!
Hey you you've just been neuralyzed you're
watching this amazing Hacksmith video you're gonna subscribe and hit that
notification bell and once you're done watching this video you're gonna tell
all your friends and watch it again and again and again. Hey did I just beat
YouTube infinite views. Let's have some more fun with this Neuralyzer.
I should probably get a partner though.
I'm so glad James had me up here I get a whole month of a vacation here at Hacksmith Industries.
James: Hey Jarius.
Jarius: How's it going James?
James: Not too bad thanks for coming up.
Jarius: Absolutely
James: Can you look right here?
Jarius: yeah what is it?
James: You're working for me now
I'm gonna pay you five peanuts per week welcome to the team.
James: Hey Ian, look at this here.
James: Hey remember that time...
Ian: Neuralyzers don't work on cyborgs man.
James: Hey Evan, how's the Men in Black video looking?
Evan: Oh it's looking great.
I'm done for the day though I think I'm gonna finish the rest tomorrow.
James: Can you look right here?
James: You're going to finish this video before you leave today.
Evan: Yeah there's tons to do I gotta get back to work here.
Alright this is too much fun let's pick up some more metal
more and make more neuralyzers.
Clerk: That's 74 dollars and eight-six cents.
James: Can you look right here?
James: I think you'll find the we've already paid the bill.
Clerk: Your bill has already been paid. Have a great day.
Dave: Well that was a good day's work.
James: You look right here. It's a brand-new day better get back to work.
Dave: Well I got lots to do, better get back to work.
Well that was a fun project I think it turned out quite nicely let's try it
again once more look right here you just watched an amazing Hackmith video
you're so impressed with it you're gonna check out Men and Black International
today on digital download using the link below and you're gonna subscribe to our
YouTube channel and like we said at the beginning of the video we're actually
giving away this neuralyzer to one lucky fan. All the contest details are in the
description below good luck thanks for watching and have yourselves a fantastic day.