Real Spider-Man Self Tightening Suit! - Shrinks To Fit With Artificial Muscles!!

[Music] okay so in my last video i asked you guys what we should build next like marzi said to build the self-tightening spider-man suit so about five and a half thousand likes later we're doing it and that was three weeks ago this project has been haunting my brain i've put probably an unhealthy amount of time and thought into this one so i really hope you guys like it uh and if you do you know that like button is always right down there you know right next to the subscribe button how convenient and also now we need more idea comments because clearly if enough of you want it i'll make it happen maybe hawkeye's changeable bow and arrow tips i won't got a lot of likes too alright so if we slow down the video peter's wearing a super baggy suit to start with [Music] when it hits his chest the suit shrinks down to fit but if we look closely it looks like the material itself is actually shrinking like the shrinking isn't just coming from one place it's like evenly spread all over which is really cool but it also makes it really difficult like that means we can't just have like one central point of shrinkage in the back we need points of shrinkage from all over so that's where my problem started actually for the past two weeks my phone background has just been the gif of spider-man suit moving just constantly looking at this thing was trying to figure out how i'm gonna do this so an obvious solution that came to mind was some sort of like shoelace mechanism on the back of the suit this allows us to shrink down a large area of fabric with just two control points like the shoelaces just add a couple murders and pulleys and we should be good so ordered a bunch of spiderman suits and shirts and anything else that looks useful but while we wait for that stuff to arrive i thought it'd be good to practice this lacing technique on a t-shirt so not just any t-shirt actually we made these ones and i don't mean like we're working with a third-party company to mass-produce and ship all the t-shirts i mean we literally hand printed these ones ourselves right out back we also made a fresh new website where you can go order these and i'm signing all of them so we're doing this because i got no joke thousands of requests from you guys to sell my inventions so by starting with like shirts and stuff that's pretty easy to do you know by doing everything ourselves we can learn kind of the ins and outs of releasing a product so eventually we can bring some of my actual inventions to you guys so we've got three designs first we've got the evolution shirt with the end being myself on the hoverboard then we got the superhero shirt with me and all my gadgets we got the swords we got the edith glasses got the watch shield shoulder turret black panther claws on the hoverboard you gotta love it and lastly we've got the classic logo design with a little bit of a new twist very simple very clean comes in three colors got the black white and the navy blue of course so if you support what we're about and want to help us out to eventually bring you guys real inventions and also get a sweet signed shirt check out jayla'svideo.com clothing also it's gonna be like super limited because there's only two of us doing this and you know no idea if we'll ever do this again so if you're interested order soon anyways we're gonna try and shrink an xl down to a medium so after watching a few tailoring videos i learned where to take off the material to shrink clothing like the shoulders are difficult to change but the torso pretty doable so i sewed in some thread in the zigzag shoelace pattern based out two inches on the back [Music] so now when i pull the threads it shrinks honestly not bad you know maybe one day all the shirts we make will shrink down with a push of a button we can have like a one size shirt fits all that'd be pretty cool [Applause] the only issue is now we have a lot of wrinkles in the back got a lot of string hanging off the shirt too that could definitely get tangled so i thought one way to eliminate all these wrinkles and strings is to roll the fabric so i built a roller device with the motors on each end that would fit onto the shirt and roll up the fabric [Music] honestly this kind of worked too but got this stiff tube hanging off the shirt that doesn't really like to bend that well so i'm afraid if we like have it in a tight suit definitely going to cause some problems like honestly i think i prefer the string and pulling method but so far all we've done is the back you know we still got to get the arms and legs so i figured a good way to test this motor string design on the arms was by building that back to the future self-drinking jacket this thing doesn't fit i feel like this is kind of like the 1980s version of the spider-man suit i would bet the marvel team took some inspiration from this movie but in this clip you can see there's no cgi it's clear that the only thing actually shrinking is the arms like i mean it almost looks like they attached ropes to his arms and had people behind him just pulling up to make the sleeves look like they went up oh wait that's exactly what they did anyways here's how to make it first order a replica jacket and spend far too long in the mirror with the jacket get two gear dc motors 3d model and print mounts and pulleys for the motors so the motors into the jacket attach strings from the sleeves to the motors make a box to hold the batteries and the two-way switch to reverse the polarity wire everything up and boom money mcfly at your service motors right in here attached down to the arms fancy little push button switch up down check this out quick party put these on you'll never finish those clothes oh doc this is heavy all right all right all right all right back to the spidey suit so i thought maybe to limit the chaos of the wrinkles and the string we'd have some sort of like top plate that would sit over the back of the suit and like all the fabric would slide behind it problem is like what are we gonna attach this to that's not just gonna shrink up with the suit so i thought maybe if we use magnets to kind of stick this top plate over the back of the suit and then like braced it with some like fiberglass rods so it'd be a little bit flexible so it could move with your body but not like crumple up when the suit shrunk i don't know if that's making sense uh so i built a prototype with some wood and some magnets but i ended up figuring out there's too much friction between the magnets and the fabric so like when you try and pull fabric through the magnet the magnets just pop off magnets flying everywhere there's still a string and wrinkles and now it's even more complicated let's see what else can i think of oh yeah zippers thought zippers might be able to help like if we motorize them all we need is just a string to pull the zipper along the track pretty simple might give a nice finish but anyone who's ever used a zipper knows they like to get stuck a lot because we're trying to condense all this cloth and zip it up they kept getting stuck on that extra cloth so i thought then maybe we could use like the lace mechanism underneath the zipper so we'd like scrunch everything up and then zip it over the top but then now it's now two steps even more complicated like uh you see why this is taking me so long deceptively hard project the whole time i was doing it i was thinking there's got to be an easier way classic rule of thumb is always go with the simpler design because there's less stuff that's going to break all right let's take it back to the drawing board and look at some simpler ideas that might work better first up vacuum sealing you already know how this works just basically stick a vacuum in a giant sack and it sucks all the air out form fits to whatever's inside all right let's get vacuum sealed tape me up i was a history major this is what i'm doing now i'm lucky to be doing this now as a history major [Music] let's tape it dude we're official here otherwise you'd just be stupid look how baggy it is right now no pun intended go hit it [Applause] [Music] this is before and hit it ready all right so this is actually much simpler all we need is a tiny vacuum that's probably pretty easy to build but the main issue with this one is all the wrinkles because the suit material itself isn't contracting you get all these wrinkles the only way to avoid these wrinkles is to inflate a stretchy suit like a balloon or something and then it had it shrink down on its own to form fit over whatever was inside the problem is how would i get inside the balloon in the first place basically we're screwed either way so i started looking into materials that controllably change size it's pretty well known that most materials expand with heat but if we look at the thermal expansion chart most materials don't expand more than like a percent or so whereas ideally we would like a change of about a few hundred percent if we're going to be able to shrink the suit enough what we really need is a material that shrinks with heat or something like um so this is heat shrink used to insulate wires just out heat and it shrinks down to fit what's inside it'll shrink to a half or even a third of its original size and this is what happens when you let a youtuber shop online yeah this is two inch low temperature heat shrink the low temp part is important because just maybe i won't get third degree burns so here's a test spidey sleeve i made and i'm gonna have my associate hit me with a heat gun and the safe word is what like ow ow it's burning how about that how about that'll be the safe way i won't respond to that [Music] that is so weird does that hurt uh it like it doesn't feel good it doesn't feel great it feels hot [Music] wow nice well done all right well done so look at that did it hurt at all for the camera no camera yeah it kind of hurt a lot all right so honestly i bet this would work if you didn't have to spend an hour or so like shrinking your entire suit down yeah i know it's warm oh yeah and it also doesn't re-expand so it's like cool until spider-man has to go home and like cut himself out of the suit dude that's actually crazy it's literally a replica of my arm all right let me restate we need a material that shrinks with heat but also re-expands so i did a little bit more digging and came across what just might be the perfect solution to this problem we're having all right ready check this out artificial muscles from fishing line and sewing thread this stuff was discovered in 2014 and could be used for exoskeletons and comfort adjusting clothing that is perfect so here's how it works basically the way nylon fishing line is made aligns the polymer chains in the fibers direction allowing the fibers to experience large reversible contractions which can actually contract up to about four percent now this four percent doesn't seem like much but if we twist the fishing line along with some conductive thread in such a way that coils start to appear we can increase this stroke or contraction length by up to 20 or 30 percent potentially best of all this stuff is actually really thin too it's just like threat so it should blend in perfectly with the spider-man suit so in theory we can make the whole suit out of this stuff also another benefit is this stuff is strong not only can it contract and stretch more than a human's muscle it can also lift a hundred times more weight than a human muscle the same size so if you were to put like a bunch of these things together to form the size of like a human muscle you'd be able to lift almost 1500 pounds so in theory we could put a bunch of these fibers actually in the suit and we could get super strength too all right all right but before we get ahead of ourselves there's definitely some downsides first the efficiency of these muscles is not great it's like one percent efficient compared to like the 20 i think our muscles are so we need a massive power source to do anything like this also when i was trying this out i wasn't getting anywhere near the contractions of the paper stated most of my attempts didn't work at all and the ones that did i was maybe able to get like 10 contraction but that's nowhere near enough so as badly as i want to use this stuff i think we're gonna have to hold off until another project however your boy's got one last idea in these artificial muscle papers they're comparing it a lot to the stuff called nitinol it's basically a memory metal it's a nickel titanium alloy and its molecules are aligned in such a way that it actually remembers the shape it was in and can return to that shape when heated it's used quite regularly in the medical field for like orthodontists or heart surgeons like they can make stints that'll actually like prop open arteries which is pretty cool all because of its amazing memory properties so i'll leave links down below if you're interested in this stuff you can check it out yeah heart surgery is important but you know what's also important self-drinking spidey suits so i think this stuff could work so i ordered up a bunch of it and uh it's not cheap by the way so again that like button right down there so while we're waiting for the stuff to get here let's complete our spidey fit luckily you know this ain't my first spider-man project i've been making web shooters since day one from cheap lighter web shooters to ones you can actually swing on i don't think we'll have any problem in this area oh that reminds me if you've been following me on tik tok i actually made a new version of a web shooter that's just a dart with a string attached to it and a magnet on the end so you can like stick it onto metal stuff and with the press of a button it's got a little motor that reels everything in pretty fun and cool like this is the type of projects we can make and definitely get to you guys pretty soon eventually maybe even ones that we can swing off of but first again we gotta start with the shirts also i built a little coved web shooter too basically it's snap activated but hand sanitizer is the web fluid um so basically every time you snap it dispenses a little bit of hand sanitizer right on your hand or whatever else you pointed at so yeah definitely follow me on tick tock now you might be hoping i use my spider-man wall climbers with the suit and to that i'm gonna say which one which is a pretty baller answer in my opinion but now probably gonna use the suction grabbers because uh there's a lot more buildings and trees in la oh lastly we can't forget the mask so let's make one with those moving eyes that everyone wants so i downloaded and 3d printed a spiderman mask and this took about like a day to print and came out terribly which was a real bummer but we might still be able to save it because uh all we really need is that front plate which actually ended up coming out pretty well we just need that so your nose doesn't stick out like have you ever seen someone in a spiderman mask with a nose that's weird like he doesn't have a nose so to make the eyes move i cut out some dark plastic and line the eyes with it and then using some elastic i rigged it up so when you pull the string the eyes squint just like in the movies all right all right so now i think we have all the parts for the spidey shrink suit except we haven't finished the suit yet so let's wrap that up no pun intended so i thought it'd be easier to make a small suit expand versus a large suit contract so i got a suit and marked out areas to cut to make a bag then using the other spidey gear i got i sewed in fabric that matched the suit pretty well i mean you can definitely tell it's a different suit if you look close up but remember this is the fabric that's going to be hidden when the suit contracts so i'm not too worried about it also the nitinol springs finally arrived so i first did some weight tests to see how much we could lift with them looks like each spring can lift about a pound and a half so not bad at all so obviously we can't use like water or blowtorch to heat them so i think we should be able to heat it up with electricity if we dump enough current into it so i tested it with my power supply and figured out that basically the more current we put into this thing the faster it heats up you know surprise surprise so now we just need a battery that can do that so then i figured out all the points to attach the springs to to get the best shrink cut all the springs to length then i ran some wire after each spring and sewed them all in place and we put the activation button in the chest and i'm using some really high discharge small lipo batteries to get the best effect we spaced them all around the suit this way we get a lot more equal spread of the electricity because like if we had one giant battery all the current would probably go through like one of the springs it gets super hot but the rest wouldn't shrink so i think this way we'll get a better result dude you're smoking i am yeah oh god so in total we have 26 springs controlled by 13 batteries and ended up being very complicated to do but uh honestly less complicated than my other original plan just goes to show how complicated this project is so before i test this out let's look at some projects that you guys built and sent to me on instagram actually there's a video check it out [Music] awesome stuff guys i really like to see what y'all are making very inspiring to myself and everyone else who's watching these videos so if you've made anything cool definitely send it my way actually laser video or on email works too all right now let's test out the suit [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good evening peter hello hello congratulations on completing the rigorous training gaining access to your suits full [Music] capability [Music] so basically i've got switches in my chest that trigger the relays to heat up the springs which causes them to contract i can control each limb individually because areas like my back take longer to heat up than my arm so it just gives us a little bit more control so obviously it's not perfect but i say it definitely looks decent for a first version and i'd love to hear how you guys would have gone about this and in the future i might try and like flatten out these springs and get rid of some of the kinks because this metal stuff you can actually like program it to memorize its shape and that could definitely smooth out some of the rough edges oh and also just being better at sewing would have helped too i think oh and for the mask i could also add like a heads-up display like the one he has in the movies like my edith glasses i think that would really complete the whole spider-man suit so there you have it guys self-tightening spider-man suit web shooters wall climbers and moving eyes you know we've done it all so don't forget to comment your future ideas send me your awesome projects like and subscribe and of course you know buy a shirt if you want so thank you very much for watching and we'll catch you in the next one

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Keywords: Jlaservideo, DIY, how to, tutorial, Spider-man, spiderman, spider-man suit, self tightening suit, spider-man shrink suit, spider-man web shooters, spider-man mask, formfitting suit, superhero suit, spider-man in real life, working spider-man suit, nitinol springs, artificial muscles, EDITH glasses

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Length: 18min 53sec (1133 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 13 2020