The Springlock Suits are Stupid, so I Fixed Them. (FNAF)

a couple of weeks ago I purchased a real life spring lock to better understand how the infamous spring lock suits from Five Nights at Freddy's actually work look look there's one this one right here a real life that real life spring lock to recap for anyone who hasn't seen it I found that on their own spring locks really aren't that dangerous I mean it's basically it's basically just a big pen however if you try and build a Chuck E cheese Gundam suit out of them and for some inexplicable reason decide to invest in Springs with enough strength to crush bone then you're probably in for a bad time like seriously I cannot stress how bad of an idea this is only a true idiot would conceive of something this dumb you would have to be a certifiable if you ever attempted anything remotely close to this so being the smart and logical people that I know you are there was one comment that I got over and over and over again when are you gonna build one Richard hit that intro [Music] just as a quick refresher for those of you who aren't an expert in all things Five Nights at Freddy's which is everyone these spring lock suits are a special type of animatronic designed for the fictional Chuck E cheese inspired restaurant Freddy Fazbear's pizza and were designed by a dude named William Afton who also happened to be a serial killer L the gimmick of these suits is that they can work like regular animatronics up on stage dancing around but they have a bunch of these spring locks in them and if you attract them you can make enough room for a person to fit inside and wear it like a regular mascot costume that can more freely interact with the kids at the restaurant seems simple enough except for the slight issue that if these spring locks fail while you're inside you get stabbed by a million knives and are instantly and brutally killed oops the main point of these suits in the universe of the games is that they are supposed to be a cheaper alternative to having both a regular animatronic and a matching mascot suit now there are a couple glaring issues with this design first of all it does not do that spring locks are pretty expensive this one right here costs about 10 bucks which on its own isn't too bad but in order to have enough to build a whole suit you would need 30 40 I'm not sure plus the hardware to attach them to the frame whatever you're putting on the end of the spring all of that adds up pretty quick to the point where without knowing exactly how these suits are supposed to be constructed in the games I can guarantee you that it would be far cheaper to just have a regular animatronic and buy a separate mascot costume and I'll be honest YouTube on real life functional animatronic spring lock suit in my one bedroom apartment in the span of a week sorry what I can do though is take you through the entire engineering design process and come up with a comprehensive plan for how to build one of these suits in real life and crucially design it in a way where it won't murder the person inside if it's a little bit humid out first let's recap exactly how these suits are implied to work in the games because I actually made a slight mistake in my first video originally I thought the spring locks were used to pull all of the motors and supports and stuff out of the way so that you could get in with all of those mechanical bits still inside the suit sitting in the place between your body and the actual costume so when the spring locks fail all of that stuff gets pushed back towards you and again it's a bad time however a bunch of you let me know in the comments that this isn't entirely correct instead the spring lock suits have a solid endoskeleton basically just a Bare Bones skinny robot these spring locks are all attached to the inside of the costume and have pins on the end of them so when the spring lock unlocks the spring pushes the pin into a hole on the endoskeleton which holds the suit in place seems like you could accomplished the same thing with I don't know a screw but whatever then when you want to turn it back into a suit you pull the Springs back activate the locks and pull the whole endoskeleton out so the same basic principles apply you'll still definitely die if the spring locks fail just a small distinction that will become important later that was the only mistake from that video other than that everything I said was 100 correct just that one thing also something else that I've learned since that video I always assume that these spring lock suits were made of cloth and foam so you know they're like soft and Squishy and kids can run up and hug them but apparently they are actually made from a series of hard plastic shells sure maybe they put like fake fur over the top or something it's hard to tell but that means that canonically spring trap stalking around in FNAF 3 would sound like this okay now an understanding of how the original spring lock suits work and why they suck it's time to fix it so here's the plan first I'll lay out the requirements for this suit then I'll go through the basic conceptual design for how to make the thing safer and finally I'll create an actual engineering grade 3D model to show the whole thing in action and you can do with that information what you will we begin with the first step in every engineering project defining the requirements before we start designing our spring lock suit we need to have a good idea of what we are designing it to do as one of my college professors once put it if we don't know where we're going how will we know when we get there that's right Gandalf taught me engineering for our case I've settled on three major requirements first of all it needs to be able to function as both an animatronic and as a costume that's kind of the whole point second it needs to use spring locks to accomplish this normally you want to avoid requirements like this saying it has to use this specific mechanism that's just not a good practice and you're limiting yourself unnecessarily but this is a video about how to make a spring lock suit it'd be a little weird if I just said don't hen III and let's be honest most important requirement is safety no matter what happens whether the suit is functioning normally or malfunctions in some catastrophic way the people operating it shouldn't have to worry about being skewered from every angle and then turning into a ghost haunting the very robot that killed them and spending the rest of Eternity haunting various pizza places while people continually try to set them on fire even though it's been shown time and time again that that doesn't really do anything which I mean seems like a pretty basic ass to me you know what seems like a pretty basic ass to me asking you to help me take that subscribe button to slam tone that little bright red devil has been running in its mouth it's been flapping its gums I even heard it insult your local sports team so I think we need to hit it with a classic tag team double decker finger jab Mega slam combo on the count of three I need you to give that red subscribe button cowering below this video a nice solid poke send it real in my way and I'll finish it off with a slam all right one two three [Applause] [Music] so with those three requirements in mind let's get on to step two designing the idea of the costume basically being a shell over top of a fully functional endoskeleton that you can pull out is actually as much as I hate to give Afton any sort of credit a pretty good idea the endoskeleton itself can have a pretty basic instruction you don't have to worry about pulling it apart and putting it back together and it means that none of the motors or beans or anything will be inside the suit at the same time as the person wearing it the fact that they have a robot capable of walking upright in the 80s is insane that sort of tech costs a fortune today so a far more realistic design would be one where the legs are bolted to the ground and only the upper body moves you know doing a doing a little bit of this this action you know what I'm saying I'm saying don't tell me you don't want some pizza right now I know you do I know you do I know you do the main problem of course comes with the spring locks we need them to be able to hold the outer shell in place over the endoskeleton while it's in animatronic mode and we need them to be able to retract the pins so we can pull the shells off so someone can wear it but no matter how you slice it having spring locks lining the hole inside of the suit pointing directly at the person is bad that that's real bad like I mentioned earlier you totally could just use some screws to hold the shells onto the endoskeleton and then just take out the screws when you want to wear it that's probably the simplest answer but I guess you could argue that it would take too long to take all the screws out and anyway that's far too logical this is Freddy's damn it give me Spring locks or give me death actually you know what I think it's the same either way so if we are insisting on using spring locks in this suit then we have to come up with some other solution some way that eliminates the risk of unwanted acupuncture but but I mean I'll be honest I don't see how that's possible we need these pins to hold everything in place and this is the only way I mean no matter what you do these spring locks are gonna be pointed at the person wearing the suit it would take nothing less than a certifiable genius an act of God to come up with a solution that is as effective while remaining perfectly safe I am but a mere man how can we possibly use a spring lock in a manner such as this while eliminating all the risks done instead of matching the spring locks on the inside of the shelves and having the pins slide into the endoskeleton why not just have them mounted on the endoskeleton and the pins slide into holes on the shells I mean it accomplishes the exact same thing except now the spring locks come out with the rest of the endoskeleton leaving just the mascot costume behind no sharp metal bits no mechanisms that could fail no risk of death easy as that took me like 30 seconds to come up with if you're not sold yet or having trouble visualizing what I'm saying don't worry because we're moving on to step three where yeah I made a whole 3D model using real life professional grade engineering CAD software it's actually not as hard as it sounds it I mean it's not super pretty but I had a day coming some slack so we start off with the endoskeleton this is a pretty simple model just to give you an idea of the shape a real one would have to have Motors and all the joints a power supply somewhere and probably a lot more support but you get the idea and then the suit consists of a bunch of shells that just go around it now if I were making a real suit I would probably have one solid foam and cloth costume with plastic parts embedded into it that give it some structure and selling for us to hold on to but you can't really model stuff like that in here so for now I'll just show the plastic parts and you can use your imagination say we're trying to attach something onto the shoulder here all we would need to do is take a spring lock and mount it on here with some nice heavy bolts or something instead of a needle thin sharp pain on the end I would probably use something a bit thicker with a rounded or even flat end because why would you use a razor sharp pin why would you do that you didn't have to do that but you did were you trying to do a bad job because you did positioned over that is this plastic shoulder piece which has this hollow round part protruding out here the cylinder from the spring lock can extend fit into that hole and boom you're good to go you would then presumably fill this part here with foam or something like that to make it a bit more comfortable to wear maybe add in some more supports or something I don't know as for the actual spring I would probably use a tension spring the ones in the game and the ones that I have here are both compression springs so you push the spring in to lock it and then when you want to release it the spring pushes the cylinder back out you could use the same thing here it's probably not that dangerous because even if the spring locks did fail it would probably be while the endoskeleton is sitting off to the side not in use and if you use a reasonable strength spring even if your hand was I mean like right in front of it like you probably wouldn't get hurt if you went with tension Springs that would mean mean that you would stretch them out and lock them in place when you're putting them in the suit this would probably be better for more firmly holding the shells in place if these Springs are locked when they're extended they won't be moving around while the animatronic is in motion and if they ever did fail it would pull the pins inward not shoot them out which is always safer this does mean that in the event that these spring locks failed while in animatronic mode the suit would fall off the endoskeleton while on stage which obviously isn't ideal but honestly if you get real good spring locks and not whatever crank BS William was using I mean like this thing ain't failing then all you have to do is rinse and repeat that design for all the shells and you're done when you want an animatronic you put the endoskeleton inside the suit and you push all the cylinders out if you're smart you could probably Design This in a way where all the holes and cylinders are self-aligning so you have to worry about like positioning everything exactly correct I mean the original design would have had to do the same thing anyway when all the cylinders are out the shells will be held in place ready to go when you want to wear it as a suit you retract all the cylinders you pull everything out of there and you are left with a simple cloth foam and plastic costume that will not crucially turn you into a meat Kebab so with that in mind let's get the rest of those shells on there people of the internet I am proud to present my completed model of a real life spring lock suit step aside William Acton the big boys are here to show you how it's done hmm I've made a terrible mistake [Music] foreign [Music]

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Published: Sat Jul 15 2023