Self-Kickflipping Skateboard!

Hey Hacksmith, do a kickflip! Hey guys, on this episode of Mak- On this episode of Make It Real we made a fully electric skateboard that can kickflip on command which means... All I have to do is press this button Man this game takes me back I used to play Tony Hawk's pro skater all the time back in grade school When I heard activision was coming out with Tony Hawk's pro skater 1+2 remastered I almost had a nostalgic heart attack and then when activision reached out to ask us if we could build a self kick flipping skateboard for the release of the game well my 10 year old self would not believe what i'm doing today Now I never could do a kickflip back in the day I wonder if I can do one now Go skater James! Alright if I want to kickflip anytime soon I'm going to need this board to do two different things Number one: it needs to drive by itself Number two: it needs to be able to kickflip now making it drive by itself that's the easy part you can get DIY electric skateboard kits online quite easily you need a speed controller battery and then we've got this micro controller The challenging part here is we want to be able to control it with a playstation 4 controller which means we need to communicate with the board over bluetooth- Hey Ben, you think you can do that for me? - What...? Alright now the fun part I need to figure out how to make this thing kickflip Alright test number one let's prove that we can do a kickflip by putting some amount of force onto one of the bottom edges of the board so hopefully if I go like this triple kick flip first try all right that's good let's see what else we can try Oh it's getting more power let's try something a bit more explosive oxyacetylene balloon perfect, safety first guys Alright that's not gonna work either we need some more serious firepower so this g-class rocket engine is the largest rocket engine you can buy without needing a professional rocketry license I strapped two of these to my wrists to try and fly like Iron Man so I think it might cause this to flip I think for this one we should probably go outside because uh- yeah rocket engines It's armed now which means when I press this big red button that rocket and hopefully the skateboard is doing a kickflip 3... 2... 1... Fire! HOOOOLY- That's a world record right there that was like uh- I don't even know what you call numbers that high Alright we've got the airbag now 3... 2... 1... I mean I guess that worked it flipped but I don't know how we're gonna mount that to the bottom of a board I've got it! Springs! Alright Ben what do you have for me so I have the hub motors communicating with the electric skateboard speed controllers and they're being commanded by an arduino that's been paired to this ps4 controller here give it a shot Maybe not that hard - Okay yeah Yeah! Alright I can work with this i'm gonna take this put on a skateboard in the meantime I need you to make a giant mousetrap -What? Awesome Alrighty I got all the parts now we just need to build an electric skateboard so the deck is actually a Birdhouse official Tony Hawk deck made for the game which is pretty cool so let's start assembling it [DING] Huh that must be the 3d printer Alright we've got our electronics enclosure straight off the 3d printer which means we're ready to install it Now we can install the electronics so we'll start with the charging port For more information on how the self kick-flipping circuit works check out our page on maker.io [Disclaimer Hacksmith industries digi-key and activision are not responsible you build your own self-care flipping skateboard get hurt using it the team here are professionals who often get hurt and trust me it sucks getting hurt] We didn't actually have a switch that was high enough current rated for the battery so we're actually using a battery connector as our main power switch and it plugs in right over here all right so we've got some lights blue light, blue light, green light it's gonna work Ha-ha! It's done let's try it out! Mad air! Alright that was awesome now we just need to make it flip I gotta go check on ben and see how my mousetrap idea is going Alright so ben sent me a design for his metal mouse trap let's take a look Alight well that looks like a skateboard here's the uh kick flipping mechanism we've got two really big springs oh look at that, I think that's actually the archery trigger release we used from the spider-man web shooter project with JT which didn't work so well Hopefully we have better luck this time when you pull these back it should do a kickflip but wait how do you even do a kickflip well it's a good thing I have Tony Hawk's pro skater 1+2 remastered edition let's try it out! There are links in the description below if you want to try it yourself Alright so to do a kick flip in Tony Hawk's pro skater all you have to do is hold down the jump button and then press the flip button as you're holding left and bam kickflip 360 flip! So that's exactly how we're gonna make our skateboard kickflip as well but let's get serious Alright let's go build this thing So this is the largest torsion spring that you can buy off the shelf and it's not big enough so we're gonna make our own to do that we're gonna use this spring steel which is incredibly difficult to bend so we're gonna use this mandrel on the lathe and then power feed Alrighty time to assemble our steel mouse trap Alright it's built, let's test it out Oh god this is terrifying I got it! Say goodbye C4 can We're doing it! Wasn't that bad this one might send shards of plastic at people And that kids is why you don't make a metal mouse trap Alright we've got the kick flipping mouse trap mechanism done which means we just have to install it plug her in... Alright that's the last screw which means, test it out This thing is terrifying! Alright let's see if it kickflips That was freaking sweet! It works perfectly Now we just need to put some grip tape on here and be ready for the big test Alright today is the day I learn how to kickflip using a self kickflipping skateboard It should be as simple as jumping in the air pressing the button and then landing on the board again OOOOHHHHHH! WHAT?! My first kickflip at age 30! My first kick flip at age 30! Two for two Hang on, I'm getting a call Dude it's Tony Hawk! Hey James it's Tony Hawk I just want to congratulate you on your very first kickflip at age 30 I know that you didn't necessarily do it yourself but you kind of did because you designed a board that would do it for you so I am impressed Um- I never thought I'd see the day that a board would be self kick flipping so congrats on that um it actually kind of sounds scary but you did it, I saw it, congrats! Thanks Tony! That was Tony Hawk! So we test it in the shop let's see how it does in real life Alright let's try a double kickflip Yeah!!! Hey Hacksmith, do a kickflip! Alright this is an awesome build huge thank you to Tony Hawk's pro skater 1+2 remastered edition for sponsoring this video check it out in the links in the description below Let's see if I can kick flip right here

Channel: Hacksmith Industries

Views: 4,998,999

Rating: 4.9359384 out of 5

Keywords: thehacksmith, hacksmith, tony hawk, tony hawk proskater 1 and 2, proskater, make it real, kickflip, how to kickflip, tony hawk pro skater remake, skateboard, real life tony stark, stark industries, mark rober, tony hawk cameo, do a kickflip, do a kickflip tony hawk, activision, electric skateboard, boosted board, electric skateboard 2020, best electric skateboard, skateboarding, how to skateboard, kickflip tutorial, braille, braille skateboarding

Id: 1g5nzRINaPQ

Length: 15min 13sec (913 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 03 2020

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